Hurricane Maria - Sept 2017

[Tabirey]

We're still waiting. Everyone is on full panic mode buying everything they can get their hands on. There are even seats at Home Depot for people waiting for hours for the supplies. There's still people without electricity and people who's Irma winds destroyed their homes.

Maria is the strongest hurricane since San Ciprian and San Felipe II. My great grandparents were able to ride it out during the times were most cities were rural areas,and they lived well into their 90's, I'm sure we can make it again.

Sending love and light to protect you and your loved ones Angel! I have friends in PR that are in our thoughts and prayers too!

 

[margarita25]

Article about Puerto Rico/Bankrupt/Financial Crisis:

Bankrupt Puerto Rico Faces Direct Hit From Hurricane Maria
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bankrupt-puerto-rico-faces-direct-hit-hurricane-maria-n802431

 

[Henry2326]

"Maria is back to Cat 5 160mph after hitting Dominica yesterday. VI/PR look to still be in her direct path. Modeling becoming more confident on Jose sticking around long enough to pull Maria north... east of the US mainland. Still many days away to be sure but at least its a trend keeping her over the Atlantic. I would keep watching... just not worrying. Eastern Bahamas will be close."

http://spaghettimodels.com

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[JazzTune]

Hey, I owe everyone a deep apology. I didn't mean to come across as insensitive with the 'My Maria' song.

This Hurricane Maria is such a scary situation, it was my ( ill-advised ) attempt to cope with some of that fear. Sort of my version of 'whistling in the dark.'

It was not intended to make light of the seriousness. I have loved ones in it's potential path too, and I'm really scared.

This one just HAS to stay out in the ocean...

 

[Spellbound]

All is good, JazzTune. We have to have some breaks from the scary nature of weather.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Hurricane Maria has pounded Dominica with "widespread devastation" as it barrels toward St. Croix and threatens catastrophic damage to Puerto Rico. Hurling winds of 160 mph (257 kph), Maria shredded the Dominica Prime Minister's house overnight Monday into Tuesday and left much of the island -- population 73,000 -- in ruins.

Maria is now the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in Dominica, a former French and British colony with an economy heavily dependent on tourism and agriculture.

Hurricane Maria battered Guadeloupe and flooded a street in Pointe-a-Pitre.

A hurricane warning is in effect Tuesday for Guadeloupe, Dominica, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, the US and British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Culebra, and Vieques.

After crossing St. Croix, Maria will head toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Tuesday night and Wednesday as "an extremely dangerous Category 4 or 5 hurricane."

One bit of good news emerged from the Caribbean: The French island of Martinique suffered no major damage,

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/19/americas/hurricane-maria-caribbean-islands/index.html

 

[JerseyGirl]

How this expert believes Maria and Jose will merge (starts at about the 7:00 mark)

[video=youtube;LwE8wIVDMlo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwE8wIVDMlo[/video]

 

[turanna25]

How this expert believes Maria and Jose will merge:

[video=youtube;LwE8wIVDMlo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwE8wIVDMlo[/video]

Well that's scary.. hopefully this doesn't happen. [emoji53] Sigh.

 

[Gardener1850]

How this expert believes Maria and Jose will merge (starts at about the 7:00 mark)

[video=youtube;LwE8wIVDMlo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwE8wIVDMlo[/video]

hwow: He said Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands could see the same kind of destruction that Barbuda saw from Irma. Barbuda is now uninhabitable. anic:

 

[JerseyGirl]

hwow: He said Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands could see the same kind of destruction that Barbuda saw from Irma. Barbuda is now uninhabitable. anic:

I know, and in future models it appears the eye passes over San Juan. :scared:

 

[Henry2326]

How this expert believes Maria and Jose will merge (starts at about the 7:00 mark)

[video=youtube;LwE8wIVDMlo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwE8wIVDMlo[/video]

Levi has made quite a reputation for himself concerning weather. He has a bachelor degree in applied physics from University of Alaska and is working on a doctorate at Florida State concerning the interaction of tropical cyclones.

I love his site.

Goods news that Jose did jog east and is having less punch. We have an opportunity that Maria doesn't hit the East coast. I'll take both for today.

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[Henry2326]

Maria continues to intensify at CAT5 level after hitting Dominica and reducing to a cat4 for a short period of time. Puerto Rico expected to see landfall as a cat5 and 18-25 inches of rain. Significant surge expected.

The models are beoming more aligned to an out to sea scenario....although all depends on Jose. Watching....

http://spaghettimodels.com

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[BetteDavisEyes]

Hurricane Maria Devastates Dominica on Path to Puerto Rico

Hurricane Maria left a trail of destruction as it hit the Caribbean island of Dominica as a Category 5 storm and then battered Guadeloupe with powerful winds early Tuesday.

Forecasters warned that the storm could leave some parts of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands uninhabitable for months.

Roosevelt Skerrit, the prime minister of Dominica, wrote on Facebook that his roof was gone, that his home was flooded and that he was "at the complete mercy of the hurricane" after Maria made landfall Monday night. A few minutes later, the politician reported that he had been rescued...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/hurricane-maria-loads-another-blow-caribbean-n802511

 

[Archangel85]

Angel- are you staying at home or going to a shelter? We are all thinking about you and praying for a jog North.

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At least in the area of where I live, I can stay home, but the people living near the beach have been advised by the government to leave to the nearest shelter.

 

[Archangel85]

Hey, I owe everyone a deep apology. I didn't mean to come across as insensitive with the 'My Maria' song.

This Hurricane Maria is such a scary situation, it was my ( ill-advised ) attempt to cope with some of that fear. Sort of my version of 'whistling in the dark.'

It was not intended to make light of the seriousness. I have loved ones in it's potential path too, and I'm really scared.

This one just HAS to stay out in the ocean...

No apologies needed, people here in Puerto Rico have done worst parodies for the hurricane, they even did a Facebook page and have used the "Maria" song from Ricky Martin to make memes. People here in Puerto Rico make fun of every nature catastrophe that hits us.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Maria is the seventh hurricane of an unusually active Atlantic hurricane season, making this only the ninth year on record with seven hurricanes by September 17. There have been 13 named storms so far — the average by September 18 is 7.6.

Colorado State University's Tropical Meteorology Project issued a two-week forecast of above-normal cyclone activity for the Atlantic basin.
https://webcms.colostate.edu/tropical/media/sites/111/2017/09/2017-0915.pdf

http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-maria-path-track-update-2017-9

 

[JerseyGirl]

By late this week, Maria should be located near or just north of the Dominican Republic. Instead of a continued west-northwest motion like we saw with Irma, Maria will likely begin to turn more to the north-northwest.

The forecast for a more north than west motion later this week is due to a weakness in the steering flow over the western Atlantic that a stalled Jose well off the East Coast has a hand in creating.

If Jose stalls as forecasted, it will temporarily block an area of high pressure over the eastern U.S. from moving farther east. If that high were able to build east faster, it would likely send Maria on a more west-northwest path toward the U.S.

Instead, Maria will gain latitude in between that eastern U.S. high-pressure system and another area of high pressure located to Maria's east in the Atlantic Ocean.

This does not mean the East Coast of the U.S. is off the hook from a potential impact from Maria, however.

It's too soon to determine how close Maria will move in relation to the Eastern Seaboard as it turns north, and therefore, all residents should continue to monitor Maria's progress. Any potential impact from Maria in the mainland U.S. would not be until early next week if it occurs at all.

At the very least, Maria could be another high surf and rip current generator for the East Coast much like Jose has been.

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-maria-steering-interaction-jose

 

[JerseyGirl]

Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Central Interior, Culebra, Eastern Interior, Mayaguez and Vicinity, North Central, Northeast, Northwest, Ponce and Vicinity, San Juan and Vicinity, Southeast, Southwest, St. Croix, St.Thomas, St. John and Adjacent Islands, Vieques, and Western Interior.

At 11 AM AST the Hurricane Hunter Aircraft showed that hurricane Maria maintained its Category 5 status with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph. Maria is expected to continue at this strength until it encounters Puerto Rico.

Hurricane conditions are likely to begin Tuesday night across the USVI, Vieques and Culebra; and across Puerto Rico Wednesday morning. Hurricane force winds will likely continue across USVI, Vieques and Culebra through Wednesday afternoon; and across Puerto Rico through Wednesday night. These winds will bring catastrophic damage. Severe injury is possible in less than a strong structure.

Wind speeds atop and on the windward sides of hills and mountains and on high-rise buildings could be much stronger than the near-surface winds indicated in the forecast.

Rainfall accumulations across the local islands will depend highly on the forward speed, but based on the latest forecast, Maria is expected to produce storm total accumulations of 12 to 18 inches with isolated amounts of 25 inches or more.

https://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=2f0ad0883f1535d3&hl=en&gl=US&source=web

 

[Jax49]

Per weather channel:

165 mph

920 mb

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane-central/maria-2017/AL152017

 

[JerseyGirl]

Per weather channel:

165 mph

920 mb

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane-central/maria-2017/AL152017

geez, she's getting stronger.