[OFF TOPIC] Weather Thread

[heywoodu 14,889]

Dorian has slowed down even more, it's now moving with 1 mile or 2 kilometers per hour...which means passing Freeport alone would take 5-10 hours and that's just for the eye, not the wall around it.

 

[dezbee2008 809]

5 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I highly doubt he actually made his prediction with a simple ruler

 

No meteorologist has anything to answer for by the way, there's a gazillion factors involved in what happens with a hurricane. I mean, a week ago it looked highly unlikely Dorian would even come close to category 5 and now it's been totally destroying the land it hit.

 

Then gaze your eyes on this. He made that prediction hours before Charley made a direct hit at my town

 

 

I knew a week ago we were gonna get Dorian, but only as a tropical storm or even a Cat 1, and now I'm here awaiting a hit (mostly indirect since I'm inland)

[bestmen 2,785]

Dorian is not going to hit Florida , looks like Tommy Lee Jones did his job

 

 

[heywoodu 14,889]

Dorian has been stationary (yeah, it's not moving away...at all!) for 7-8 hours now. This is just ridiculous and pretty much never seen before. Poor, poor Bahamas.

[dcro 10,210]

I doubt it's as bad as Irma on Antigua and Barbuda in 2017.

 

Antigua and Barbuda should really be just Antigua these days, because nobody lives on Barbuda since then.

[heywoodu 14,889]

25 minutes ago, dcro said:

I doubt it's as bad as Irma on Antigua and Barbuda in 2017.

 

Antigua and Barbuda should really be just Antigua these days, because nobody lives on Barbuda since then.

If a category 5 monster has been pounding the same island for over 24 hours (which in itself is unheard of) while barely moving, I really don't think it'll be much better than the scenes on Barbuda..it might have been if it had moved in a somewhat normal pace, then it would have been long gone now.

[dcro 10,210]

Apparently it very quickly dropped to category 3.

[heywoodu 14,889]

Just now, dcro said:

Apparently it very quickly dropped to category 3.

Yep, warm water is running out because it's been more or less in the same position for so, so long. Still looks like it's gonna be several hours before the Bahamas are going to be free of devastating winds and rain and after that it's time to see what's still left standing and if anything is still habitable.

[heywoodu 14,889]

Meanwhile, the senile old fool is being a senile old fool.

 

 

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Edited September 3, 2019 by heywoodu

[Griff88 1,949]

19 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

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In Indonesia, we'll say "digital footprints are cruel" to this situation