Irma. The biggest ever Atlantic hurricane......

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I think she's going to deserve her own thread.

Listening to reports, the island of Barbuda took a direct hit and there has been no comms from there in the hours since the eye has passed.

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LimaDelta said:

In the Science Forum...

Nope, no idea what that is....

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Barbuda took a direct strike, and a satalitte picture shows the island completely in the eye of the storm, so they got the winds in both directions. Double whammy.

Still no contact from there.

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Hurricane Jose also looks like it will take a very similar track.

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Barbuda "totally destroyed"
St Martin "uninhabitable".

So sad. So sad. More to come as well.

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If the storm stays on track between Cuba and the Bahamas, without making any other landfall, I think its going to have a bad affect on Southern Florida.

The waters between it and Florida grow warmer and warmer. Its not a great sign for it dissipating much. Although the forecasters seem to think it will drop back to a 4 before impact with Florida.

I wouldn't want to be in the Bahamas in the next couple of days....

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Puggit said:

Today versus 7 years ago. Uncanny.

There's a lot of weird on this. Storms H, J , K from both years. Also, the furthest west in both is the youngest hurricane. How odd.

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The ocean / sea around the Bahamas is very shallow. If the eye runs straight through the bahamas, how will this very shallow water affect the strength of the storm, and how will it affect the storm surge it will be pushing towards Florida? Anyone have any info?

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They seem to think the storm will make land fall near the tip of Florida now, not a direct strike on Miami....

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The Cayos in Cuba must be getting a battering now, the eye has headed right for them. Guess where I'm going I two weeks time....Cuba!


Anyone else think it might do a trick shot and sail past Florida and head into the gulf?

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CNN just showed a short clip of the BVi. OMG they looked terrible. Absolute destruction.

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hornetrider said:

This Key West cam is covering a marina.

https://youtu.be/TYEXQdUFha8

I'm surprised some people have left their boats to the mercy of the storm and haven't hot footed it up the coast out of Dodge.

The hurricane was initially forecast to run up to he east coast so there was nowhere you could have sailed to avoid it.

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I notice that the eye of the storm has now left the coast of Cuba. So I think it's going to follow the latest forecast route....

It will be interesting to sea if it intensifies again.

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Latest storm tracks predict that it won't turn in overland but will instead roll all along up the coast.

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They were interviewing an old guy that wasn't leaving earlier on the tele. He said he was prepped for anything, opened his fridge and he pointed out the Chinese takeaway food and Coors Lites beer! I kid you not.

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Chris Stott said:

Surviving it isn't really a problem in a modern building. I'm sure it would be pretty cool to sit in my wife's 30th floor Brickell condo, overlooking the ocean, watching & hearing the violence.

But the lifts were switched off yesterday, likely the power will be off by now, so no hot food, and once it passes, there's several feet of flood water to cope with and no shops open to buy food.

I don't expect she'll return until back end of next week. And ill wait and see the final damage before confirming my trip out there at the end of October.

They were showing some high rise places in Miami earlier and some of the windows on the higher floors were popping open due to either the wind or pressure. These were windows not designed to open as well.....

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loafer123 said:

johnxjsc1985 said:

CNN reporters are brilliant bravo chaps you deserve and award for being Pros in extreme conditions.
But please CNN get the GMT time right.

What is wrong with their GMT time?

We are currently in BST...

Eh? GMT is a global constant and still in effect as a reference time all over the world. Even in the U.K. we are still in GMT even when we are using BST.

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The hurricane itself is also a massive low pressure area. Therefore there is literally less pressure on the surface of the water at the eye of the storm and the water levels rise. The winds drive the water moving it in a circular fashion. When the hurricanes go up the east coast the surge of water occurs ahead of the storm. We saw that when that storm hit New Jersey a few years ago.