from Jeff Masters last evening "At the time of landfall, an Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft measured surface winds of 160 mph and a central pressure of 924 mb. Maria likely did catastrophic damage to Dominica."
im with those who are calling the bluff or agenda on the MS media and kooks hyping up climate change because of this. looking like another solid weekend of groundswell for rhodey, yew.
Climate change or not, people are going to lose their homes, people are going to die. Best wishes and good luck to all those in it's path.
Like I said in the Jose thread, this looks to be taking the same path as Hurricane Bill in 2009 which is great for you and I. Folly and IOP were going off for a solid week.
I hope you all get great surf in the coming week or two. I doubt if the roads will be clear enough to drive to the surf here. Plus it'll be little blown out. Maria turned southward, we're now expecting a near direct hit, don't know if we'll get 75 mph winds, which should be no problem, or 150mph+ which will really be a problem. Kinda depends on how much of your property, outbuildings, fruit trees and cars will be left! Seaweed calls Wilderness swell 30'@13 seconds tomorrow, with wave height at 14-22" and winds of 73-91mph! Anyone in?
Godspeed bro. Watching the WAPA news and it doent look good for anybody on PR. It's going to land in my wifes hometown of Guyama as a cat 5 exiting in Isabella as a cat 4.
i'm gonna go ahead and say Rhode Island is going to get knocked by Maria. Like 90% if not all of Rhode Island is going to get a beating
I must say the tropics have been super active this year,i cant remember this many storms ever,maybe 95 idk I didn't surf then
The most Atlantic basin tropical cyclones ever was 2005 with 31. They ran out of names and had to start using the Greek alphabet calling them Alpha, Beta, etc with the last storm, Zeta, coming at the very end of December that year. 1995 wasn't even close with 21. Many other records were set in 2005 as well. There have been 17 storms so far this year and many records have already been set. We've still got over two full months to go in the official hurricane season. I am saddened to hear of the devastation in Puerto Rico from Maria.
wow that's crazy 2005 I started surfing 2006 and had no idea.pr got it bad I seen some crazy footage from there
Update on Maria " Maria is moving away from the Bahamas, but has expanded a bit in size, it is forecast to move generally north to north northwest over the next few days and be at its closest approach to Cape Hatteras on Wednesday, landfall is not expected, but portions of the outer banks may see some outer effects of Maria. Those along the coast in North Carolina and northward should continue to watch Maria, but direct landfall is not expected. Its too soon to tell how much impact may occur, however."--flhurricane.com
