HURRICANE OPHELIA-update in initial post

[JimMIA]

Anyone at, or travelling to, Hilton Head this weekend should pay close attention to Hurricane Ophelia.

The 5 AM Sunday advisories and discussion indicate the Hurricane is stopped, and will remain stopped until some other weather features move out of her way. The projected track looks like it will hit the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and most of the computer models indicate it will then move along the eastern seaboard northward.

All of the guidance has been creeping northward for several days, and I would not be surprised if this system moved NE and just wandered out into the Atlantic. That's not what NHS is predicting at this time, but it would not surprise me.

Since the hurricane no longer seems to threaten HHI, I am going to discontinue these posts unless something changes.

The best place for accurate information is the National Hurricane Center website: www.nhc.noaa.gov

 

[cruise-o-matic]

JimMIA - Thanks. You've must have read my mind to post one of your Hurricane updates.

 

[JimMIA]

JimMIA - Thanks. You've must have read my mind to post one of your Hurricane updates.

I doubt it...I have considerable difficulty reading my own mind.

 

[JimMIA]

bumping the 5 pm info

 

[JimMIA]

bumping for 5 AM Sunday update

 

[kathleena]

The 5 AM Sunday advisories and discussion indicate the Hurricane is stopped, and will remain stopped until some other weather features move out of her way. [/B]

We had a nor'easter stall for a few hours off the coast of Maine back in April 1982. The predictions in the morning when I left to drive my 45 miles to work was 1-2 inches of snow. So I didn't take my boots, hat, mittens, shovel, window scraper etc, which were already put away.

Left work at 3pm - turnpike had about 1/2" of snow. While driving south - they closed the pike. By the time we got to Portland - at 6pm - we had 19" of snow and I couldn't get my car out of the car pooling parking lot. I was stranded in Portland for 3 days.

All because it stalled off the coast.

What I'm trying to say is - being stopped of the coast - could be worse than moving onto the coast!

 

[cruise-o-matic]