Hurricane Irma: now a tropical storm, moving into Georgia today

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Storm will strengthen back up once it gets back over the warm waters of the Florida straights. Also you really couldn't expect people to wait until now to decide where to evacuate, but Tampa was always in danger of taking a severe hit, not sure why people thought that was a good idea.
 

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They just issued a curfew in broward
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Hey can yall Florida fam please amplify this shyt on your social media?

Y'all know 12 is stressed and was already scarey as fukk and they gonna be looking for a reason to fukk with y'all. They love curfews so they can lock black folks up, locking y'all up during weather emergencies is even more fun for them.

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I'm saying like why not go straight in the path it's taking heading towards Texas?

Is it because the gulf got winds that pushes it east?? I'm just trying to get some basic knowledge.

Everything explained right here.




Chief Meteorologist Craig Setzer Explains Why Hurricanes Turn North

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Hurricane Irma is moving over Cuba, and everyone wants to know: when will it change directions and head toward South Florida?

CBS4 Chief Meteorologist Craig Setzer spent a year working on a model that explains why hurricanes turn north.

If you’ve ever look at a topographical map, it shows high mountainous terrain that you would hike, and low valleys.

In the atmosphere, you will find the same thing: valleys and mountains. The winds in the atmosphere flow around the valleys and mountains.

Setzer’s model shows off the steering currents in the atmosphere. Using Irma as the example, Setzer pointed to a “strong blocking high pressure” in the east.


Strong Blocking High

The spaghetti-like strands of currents wrap around each other, pushing down on Irma and keeping the storm on its forecast track.

The edge of the eastern strong blocking pressure sits across from another blocking high that isn’t as strong.


Blocking High

The gap where the two meet is what meteorologists call a “break in the block.”


Break In The Block

That break provides an opportunity for Irma, or any hurricane for that matter, to turn north.

The difficult thing about forecasting a hurricane’s path is that the storm isn’t moving on a fixed map – all of this stuff is moving. There are waves in the jet stream coming down, pushing against the block, and the block sometimes retreats, so patterns are changing and evolving. Meteorologists then try to predict what happens near the break in the block.

Basically, the hurricane is a stick in a current or stream. Meteorologists then try to predict what happens near the break while the shape in the “river” changes.

When Setzer puts his model into motion, the block opens up, giving the hurricane a chance to move north.


Break In The Block Opens

As the storms moves north, going through Florida, it begins creating its own big “low pressure” area in the atmosphere.


Storm Creates Own Low Pressure

Really, Setzer says, the skill is trying to predict how the storm will go through that block.

For us, living here five miles, 10 miles, 20 miles, 50 miles – all of that makes it a big difference. It is the intense part we want to keep away.
 
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Everything explained right here.




Chief Meteorologist Craig Setzer Explains Why Hurricanes Turn North

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Hurricane Irma is moving over Cuba, and everyone wants to know: when will it change directions and head toward South Florida?

CBS4 Chief Meteorologist Craig Setzer spent a year working on a model that explains why hurricanes turn north.

If you’ve ever look at a topographical map, it shows high mountainous terrain that you would hike, and low valleys.

In the atmosphere, you will find the same thing: valleys and mountains. The winds in the atmosphere flow around the valleys and mountains.

Setzer’s model shows off the steering currents in the atmosphere. Using Irma as the example, Setzer pointed to a “strong blocking high pressure” in the east.


Strong Blocking High

The spaghetti-like strands of currents wrap around each other, pushing down on Irma and keeping the storm on its forecast track.

The edge of the eastern strong blocking pressure sits across from another blocking high that isn’t as strong.


Blocking High

The gap where the two meet is what meteorologists call a “break in the block.”


Break In The Block

That break provides an opportunity for Irma, or any hurricane for that matter, to turn north.

The difficult thing about forecasting a hurricane’s path is that the storm isn’t moving on a fixed map – all of this stuff is moving. There are waves in the jet stream coming down, pushing against the block, and the block sometimes retreats, so patterns are changing and evolving. Meteorologists then try to predict what happens near the break in the block.

Basically, the hurricane is a stick in a current or stream. Meteorologists then try to predict what happens near the break while the shape in the “river” changes.

When Setzer puts his model into motion, the block opens up, giving the hurricane a chance to move north.


Break In The Block Opens

As the storms moves north, going through Florida, it begins creating its own big “low pressure” area in the atmosphere.


Storm Creates Own Low Pressure

Really, Setzer says, the skill is trying to predict how the storm will go through that block.

For us, living here five miles, 10 miles, 20 miles, 50 miles – all of that makes it a big difference. It is the intense part we want to keep away.

Thanks breh!
 
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