I feel bad for my conservative brother who moved to just outside of Tampa the end of August from Michigan. He's already had three storms since moving in. When he moved in he put on a new roof and has had to replace that new roof after Milton He had water from roof leaks all in his walls of the house. And had to replace the exterior cage over his pool. And had some flooding into his home from standing water.
And this storm will undo all that damage. Add to this he is still working and is the executor of my sister's will (She just died in AZ the end of October)
I'm sorry to hear about your sister fren. My prayers are with you and her.
Sorry your brother has been having to go through all this as well. I've been down here since 2001 and this is by far the worst year for hurricanes that I can remember. Maybe 1 or 2 a season and never so many in a row, hitting the same spots over and over. This year has definitely been crazy.
Edit: The rogue "Hurricane On Demand" seems to have been removed from the projections for the 20th. This is checking at 15 hours from the original comment, below --
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Here's a fun exercise...
Go to Ventusky.com and get Florida and the GoM set on the map. Choose "Wind speed" to display hurricane action. Along the bottom go to the date section and choose Wednesday, November 20th. Set the time around 4:00am or so then press the "Play" button.
Sometime between 7:00am and 10:00am - with no supporting wind patterns in that area - a powerful hurricane just pops on the scene. You can press "Pause " then "Previous" and go back in time a few times if you want to replay that. Almost looks like "Hurricane On Demand". Maybe that's "normal", but I've been watching Ventusky for over a year and haven't seen that before. There's always been some rotating air that strengthens, forms and picks up speed. Going from a southern wind with no rotation whatsoever in that area to a powerful hurricane within three hours seems strange, but then these are strange times we live in.
I feel bad for my conservative brother who moved to just outside of Tampa the end of August from Michigan. He's already had three storms since moving in. When he moved in he put on a new roof and has had to replace that new roof after Milton He had water from roof leaks all in his walls of the house. And had to replace the exterior cage over his pool. And had some flooding into his home from standing water.
And this storm will undo all that damage. Add to this he is still working and is the executor of my sister's will (She just died in AZ the end of October)
I'm sorry to hear about your sister fren. My prayers are with you and her.
Sorry your brother has been having to go through all this as well. I've been down here since 2001 and this is by far the worst year for hurricanes that I can remember. Maybe 1 or 2 a season and never so many in a row, hitting the same spots over and over. This year has definitely been crazy.
Edit: The rogue "Hurricane On Demand" seems to have been removed from the projections for the 20th. This is checking at 15 hours from the original comment, below --
.
Here's a fun exercise...
Go to Ventusky.com and get Florida and the GoM set on the map. Choose "Wind speed" to display hurricane action. Along the bottom go to the date section and choose Wednesday, November 20th. Set the time around 4:00am or so then press the "Play" button.
Sometime between 7:00am and 10:00am - with no supporting wind patterns in that area - a powerful hurricane just pops on the scene. You can press "Pause " then "Previous" and go back in time a few times if you want to replay that. Almost looks like "Hurricane On Demand". Maybe that's "normal", but I've been watching Ventusky for over a year and haven't seen that before. There's always been some rotating air that strengthens, forms and picks up speed. Going from a southern wind with no rotation whatsoever in that area to a powerful hurricane within three hours seems strange, but then these are strange times we live in.
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https://www.ventusky.com/?p=30.2;-84.0;5&l=wind-10m&t=20241120/0900