Hurricane Michael
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Mexico Beach, FL looks like it will be ground zero.
Pressure is down to 928 mb and still falling... There's a big difference between a strengthening vs. weakening cyclone at landfall....
Pressure is down to 928 mb and still falling... There's a big difference between a strengthening vs. weakening cyclone at landfall....
NWS Tallahassee has issued its first-ever Extreme Wind Warning. Hope people riding this thing out make it through.
Yes it does have to do with the extra warm Gulf water temps but also there is no wind shear coming in knocking down any further intensification. Pretty much like a rolling snowball gathering more and more snow and nothing preventing it from slowing down.
Maximum sustained winds are currently at 150 mph (157 would make it a Category 5 storm). Couldn't find what the gusts were. Panama City looks to be on the left side of the eye, so could be spared the worst of the storm (which is generally the right, front quadrant, or to the right of the eye), but will still see a lot of wind and water damage. This morning, I saw a video clip of Panama City Beach and there are several cranes attached to new high-rise construction that will be in danger of collapse in the extreme winds. Hopefully people got out, but I'm sure there are plenty who remained behind to 'ride it out,' thinking "it's never as bad as they say it will be."
I think you're asking the wrong people...plus it hasn't happened yet so....
Somebody needs to tell God that when he sends these hurricanes to punish the South that sometimes it affects innocent people like you. Michael is God's archangel. I think the name is no coincidence.
Already seen some new construction get wiped out in PCB in some Twitter videos. Any cranes still up are not going to be up when the storm passes through.
I'd be wetting my pants if I had decided to try to ride this ************ out. I was watching the Weather Channel a little yesterday over lunch, and the meteorologist was talking about how it was probably going to make landfall as a Cat 2, but then she said kind of eerily that she would err on the side of it being a Cat 3. You could tell she was a concerned about it meating out over the gulf.
The ONLY good news is that this is moving so fast that it won't drop as much rain as the last one as it cuts across the south to the Atlantic. It won't be the slow crawl drench bucket that that Flo was. People get obsessed with wind speed but total rain and surges do so much damage.
