Hurricane Ian: SC - NC Edition

good morning, what's the odds of this slowing down and then getting to cat 2 status?

I don't think it will do that. I think it will stay at 1 and quickly downgrad to TS when it hits land.

Everything looks copesthetic on our end unfortunately we are having trees come down not due to the wind but the rain, living in a swamp it happens making sure we don't get hit by a Widowmaker, did help the sheriff last night direct traffic took 25min to get another unit out so I can watch the game last night,

Going to my buddies bar downtown Beaufort, see how it's looking

Ryan Hall will have a live stream in about an hour.



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I'm going to Myrtle Beach on the 2nd for a week, how do you ppl see the weather being?

It's always nice after should be okay won't look pretty but still will have a good time,

LOL stay away unless you want to see bloated fat bikers drifting by in the floods.

The infrastructure will be obliterated for weeks, idiot.

Flash-flood warnings are up and Charleston's about to get rain slammed.



Long day ahead for coastal Carolina. I suspect considerable beach erosion around Hatteras, out on the barrier islands, as more homes become beach front property.

Storm Surge and Hurricane warnings still up in NE FL.

Last Edited by Humanitarianlike on 09/30/2022 10:09 AM

Water is still warm.

Just raining so far in Raleigh, with a few random gusts here and there.

Usually on the Atlantic side the water temps are at their
warmest this time of year.

That should keep USA distracted from the European news for a while.

Last Edited by bob uk carethnoto on 09/30/2022 10:37 AM

Warm water has nothing to do with hurricanes.
They're electrical.

Waste of a vacation. I would reschedule it.

And the Sun has been unusually quiet for the past ten years so likely man-made.

Charleston will escape the storm surge, because they are on the side of the hurricane
where the wind is pushing the water away from the coast.

There's a component of both.

There are parts of the Caribbean Sea that are warm hundreds of feet down (primarily the western end). The one place in the Atlantic basin like that.

That means that as the tropical storm moves over that water it doesn't pull cooler water up, rather it feeds the positive cycle and why this region sees so many rapid intensifications. That's not a coincidence.

The electrical component would be in play everywhere in the Atlantic basin.

Not if it hits at a cat 1 or less. And it's looking like hitting between MB and Charleston.

I've been to the beaches just after smaller hurricanes have hit and it never was bad. Just a lot of debris from trees and such. But good for finding shells.

Last Edited by The Empress on 09/30/2022 10:56 AM

Ryan Hall is live. Best coverage on the internet.

He has six stormchaser cams in the SC area.



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Heard from my kiddo a bit ago andnshe said it was windy but not too bad. Didn't seem like a lot of rain.

Latest advisory just released - 85mph cat 1

Might be good time for shelling.

Thank you!

Be safe!!

Speaking of shelling. There's an ancient Shell Mound near Cedar Key FL that seems resistant to tropical storms. The last Ice Age or any number of ones before that formed a U-shaped sand dune that aligns to Solstice.

What's peculiar about that is solstice sun moves along the horizon over the wobble period of our planet - but is aligned right now to that Shell Mound. Interesting!!

And fascinating how it's still intact - although it sits 20-some feet above current sea level.

https://imgur.com/eSWdbfr

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