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Just found out that Hillsborough County Schools are closing for Thursday (already were shut for Friday Vet Day), and our agency will do the same. I am curious how much damage a TS will bring to Tampa since it will be coming across the state. I am not putting up shutters (which I did put up for Ian). All other power, water, and food preps are in place in my home.
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It has actually became a hurricane as of the 7pm EST update by the NHC.
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Yeah I agree I didn’t hear anything on the Florida keys with Ian, except as it was hitting. Levi is usually right on (also the nhc track too). Jesus loves you (John 3:16).
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Thanks Levi. No worries with the quality, it was good. Kinda of weird for Florida to be getting a hybrid storm or extra tropical like storm . The wind field is massive like that. Dangerous storm nonetheless. Jesus loves you and saves (John 3:16; John 14:6). He is the Way!
It may have a massive wind field but it has been fully tropical for about 24 hrs and is now a hurricane that is going to be making landfall within the next 8 hrs. It will go post tropical after it reaches the eastern sea board and will go to the northern atlantic within the next 7 days.
Oh yeah thanks Owen! I’m surprised that it had and still has a well defined eye on radar.
It had a lot of time to churn in fairly warm waters to get itself organized, so it was probably likely to develop an eye in more entropial scenarios than most.
Your Welcome Dave! It was a hurricane on the 7pm EST update on Nov 9. It has now reached the eastern sea board and will be in the atlantic within the next 72 hrs. If you want to see more updates on Nicole, you have to go to the WPC since the storm has now moved in-land and have made the decision to stop making advisories. I thought that when it first went fully tropical, I thought it still looked sub-tropical but I looked at the coordinates and saw that the low had moved into an area of convection where it was on all sides but had very little convection on the southern side.
At 6 pm E.S.T. Nicole was upgraded to a category 1 hurricane sustaining winds of 75 mph, it also made landfall on Grand Bahama Island. Thank you, Levi, and I wish for the people in Florida, Georgia, The Bahamas, and South Carolina to stay safe.
6pm update brought it to cat 1.
The update read the following:
000
WTNT62 KNHC 092258 CCA
TCUAT2
Hurricane Nicole Tropical Cyclone Update…Corrected
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL172022
600 PM EST Wed Nov 09 2022
Corrected header
…NICOLE BECOMES A HURRICANE WHILE MAKING LANDFALL ON GRAND BAHAMA
ISLAND…
Recent observations from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate
that Nicole has strengthened in to a hurricane. The maximum winds
are estimated to be 75 mph (120 km/h) with higher gusts.
SUMMARY OF 600 PM EST…2300 UTC…INFORMATION
—————————————————
LOCATION…26.6N 78.4W
ABOUT 25 MI…40 KM ENE OF FREEPORT
ABOUT 105 MI…170 KM E OF WEST PALM BEACH FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…75 MPH…120 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…W OR 275 DEGREES AT 12 MPH…19 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…980 MB…28.94 INCHES
$$
Forecaster Roberts
Windfield is huge.
Levi, what is going on with the Model Track Graphics. They are covering such a huge area that it’s very hard to distinguish detail, for example, as it crosses FL. It wasn’t like this until today.
There’s the NAM 3KM, which seems to be the best there is for detail through 48-60 hours (but not for intensity, of course.) So that might help if the macro models are a bit strange.
Lanfall in Florida is likely going to come between the hours of 2-10 am E.S.T. in Palm Beach, Broward, or Martin counties.
10PM Track is estimating landfall at the very N end of St Lucie County or the very southern end of Indian River County. And those Model Graphics are horrible now. Like it shows such a large area (the combined model graph almost all of the Americas and western Europe and Africa), that tracing the line over small areas is impossible.
Boom. Landfall almost exactly on the St Lucie/Indian River County Line.
Nice Prediction.
I think Tampa Bay was actually in the eyewall of a storm for the first time in 101 years with Nicole! That’s something, huh?
I looked close at the tracking map and to me, it looks like the “eyewall” moved from the Lakeland area towards Zephryhills in Pasco, then diagonally across Hernando, from around Masyrktown, towards Chassahowitzka, passing between Spring Hill & Brooksville (I live in Spring Hill). So neither the City of Tampa or Tampa Bay had the core pass over it.
No, but the eyewall (the bands of rain around the ‘eye’, I mean) tracked over Tampa.
So, wait, you got to see the center of Nicole? What was that like? I’ve never been in the center of a tropical system before.
{‘the center’ meaning in the eye rather than on its edge}
Oh, didn’t realize you meant that and yes, the center (core or normally eye) did get very large in area. Since Nicole weakened so much by the time it got to Pasco and then Hernando, the “eye” wasn’t much to talk about. We got a bit more gusty than normal (that must have been the “wall”), then it got real calm for a good while. I went out/looked out a couple times, and even though light rain was falling, leaves on trees were eerily still (no wind). Then later it got a little windy again, but I think that side was even weaker.