The official Hurricane Charlie is heading directly for my house thread!

[Brenthoven]

Originally posted by Rimbaud
I'm sorry, we can take this into HG. For I have a statement that may or may not make your head explode. Look for it, in 1 minute.



Good luck Florida and the SE, rain and wind is a comin'.

[TA Jen]

Good luck and safe wishes for our hockey buds in FL...I hope you all behaved and evacuated if asked.

Love,

Mom

[UConn4Life]

I tip a Mug to 'Sota from Whalerland. It stunk to lose them, but it would have hurt less if they moved to Minny in 1997.

[Bruce Ciskie]

To: Anyone in the path of Charley
From: Me

Leave. Now.

Godspeed and good luck.

[Bruce Ciskie]

It looks as if the northward turn has taken place, and Charley is heading straight for Tampa/St. Pete. Might be Cat 3 by the next advisory.

[Nick]

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p19r0/si.kbyx.shtml

970 mb
110 MPH

110 MPH is the upper limit of Category Two, so any strengthening will make Charley a "major" hurricane.

[BadgerAlum@WMU]

Originally posted by Eagles
Thanks to the storm, I will be cutting fairways tomorrow all day in the rain :(

And thanks to the storm, I am freezing my arse off! The tropical air is keeping a cold pocket sitting over the midwest, and it is not going to get to 70 today. Come on, this is August!

[Section96]

... STORM INFORMATION... AT 11 AM EDT... THE CENTER OF HURRICANE CHARLEY WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 25.2 NORTH... LONGITUDE 82.8 WEST OR ABOUT 145 MILES SOUTH OF SARASOTA FLORIDA. CHARLEY WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTH AT 18 MPH... AND THIS MOTION IS IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY WITH A GRADUAL TURN TO THE NORTHEAST. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 110 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS... AND CHARLEY COULD STRENGTHEN A BIT MORE BEFORE LANDFALL.

[ScottK]

124 mph gust near Havana when it went by last night.

[mehcky]

windspeeds now at 145 making it a cat4 hurricane...perhaps my choice of going to sarasota was ill advised...yikes

[dropthatpuck]

Originally posted by mehcky
windspeeds now at 145 making it a cat4 hurricane...perhaps my choice of going to sarasota was ill advised...yikes

I have friends who are in the process of building a house (on the water:eek: ) in Sarasota....they are staying put in their condo. (2 mi. inland) for now. They're son and daughter-in-law just moved in with them.....from their house on the water that they just moved into 2 weeks ago. That sucks.

[Wardy]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT03/refresh/AL0304W+GIF/131633W.gif

[Bruce Ciskie]

Yikes.

AT 115 PM EDT...1715Z...A U.S. AIR FORCE RESERVE UNIT RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT MEASURED 10000 FT FLIGHT LEVEL WINDS OF 162 MPH AT A DISTANCE OF 8 MILES FROM THE CENTER OF THE HURRICANE. THIS GIVES AN ESTIMATED SURFACE WIND OF 145 MPH...CATEGORY FOUR ON THE SAFFIR SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE.

[Bruce Ciskie]

If any of you guys live in the Carolinas, watch this thing closely.

It can't be ruled out as a possibility that Charley will cross Florida and restrengthen over the Atlantic/Gulf Stream and slam into the mainland U.S. again.

Again, I am not an expert, but the more southerly track it's taken today has me a bit concerned about this.

[Wardy]

Originally posted by Bruce Ciskie
If any of you guys live in the Carolinas, watch this thing closely.

It can't be ruled out as a possibility that Charley will cross Florida and restrengthen over the Atlantic/Gulf Stream and slam into the mainland U.S. again.

Again, I am not an expert, but the more southerly track it's taken today has me a bit concerned about this.

Trust me, we who are just above the Carolinas are keeping a close eye on this thing. Especially after Hurricane Isabel last year relocated my dock to Bermuda.

[dropthatpuck]

Originally posted by Bruce Ciskie
If any of you guys live in the Carolinas, watch this thing closely.

It can't be ruled out as a possibility that Charley will cross Florida and restrengthen over the Atlantic/Gulf Stream and slam into the mainland U.S. again.

Again, I am not an expert, but the more southerly track it's taken today has me a bit concerned about this.

This is the Weather Channel's track.....appears you could be right; but no one has talked about that option on the tube yet.

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/strm3_strike_720x486.jpg

[UConn4Life]

G-d seems to be voicing his displeasure with Tampa winning the cup.

In all seriousness, this has gotten very nasty, very quick. And it seems like it's tracking further east, which is bad news for Florida and for New England later this weekend.

[UConn4Life]

They had on this program that simmed what it would look like along the shore with a 12-18 foot storm surge.

It looked very bad.

[Bruce Ciskie]

Originally posted by dropthatpuck
This is the Weather Channel's track.....appears you could be right; but no one has talked about that option on the tube yet.

I'm sure it's coming. The track it's taking right now takes it right across Florida unless that trough gets a hold of it. It'll be the story now that the point of landfall is about as pinned down as you can get.

I'll leave further speculation to actual meterologists. :)

I'm looking at the pictures of the storm right now, and I'm seeing more of an easterly track than was forecast even a couple hours ago. Hurricanes are incredibly unpredictable in their movements, hence what's practically a last-minute change in the landfall focus from Tampa to Fort Myers.

[Wardy]

Originally posted by UConn4Life
They had on this program that simmed what it would look like along the shore with a 12-18 foot storm surge.

It looked very bad.

Florida is also flat as heck along the coast so that surge can go a long ways inland especially tidal bays and rivers. I'm sure citris commodities traders are selling short right now.