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| Posted by: Dr. Jeff Masters, 12:58 PM GMT on July 24, 2010 | +3 |
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Andrew was reevaluated in 2002 to have struck S Fla as a Cat 5.
From Wikipedia
In 2002, as part of an ongoing review of historical hurricane records, National Hurricane Center experts concluded that Andrew had sustained winds of 165 miles per hour (266 km/h) briefly before and during landfall, making it a Category 5.
again the NHC officially classifies Andrew as a Category 5 landfall in S Florida
Andrew is one of only 3 hurricanes to make landfall in the US at CAT 5 intensity
The description there didn't even acknowledge Andrew's first Category 5 status.
On Monday, July 19, I was admitted to JPS Hospital in Ft Worth, TX.
After an angiogram of my heart and kidneys, 2 cat scans of my head and neck, plus a sonogram on my heart & neck, they found a blocked cataroid artery in the right side of my neck. I just got home at 12 NOON CDT today.
I have surgery on 8-11-2010 at 8AM to unblock that artery, it's 80% blocked. I am on Plavix, painkillers, 3 different blood pressure medications anti-anxiety medications and Lipitor. I am finally feeling decent after 10 days of misery. Man I turned 49 on 7-16-2010 and all heck broke loose!!
That is according to the current pattern. If the pattern shifted to the way it was in the mid to late 19th century, Savannah would be hit more often. I remember edit (YOU) posting something about that as well.
Pretty cool to watch.
According to the chart if we don't get hit with a cat 1 this season, we will be overdue for one. LOL!
Bordonaro I was wondering what had happened to you. I hadn't seen you on the blog in quite some time and now we know why. I certainly wish for a speedy recovery for you. In my thoughts and prayers definitely!
Hope you get to feeling better. Glad they caught it in time.
Hey Ike? We're gonna recall those gauges so give it up.
Man we sell like 10-14 of those a week, sometimes more. But we've got the best price on the net, and a discount if you sign up for CoCoRAHS.
Me too. I watched Bonnie go pfft, and watched CNN/FOX and drove my DR's and nurses crazy!!
You'd better get one of'm to learn how to sign on here, so they can tell us how you're doing.
Thanks a million. I am feeling human again after feeling dizzy for 15 days.
Andrew was a small and ferocious Cape Verde hurricane that wrought unprecedented economic devastation along a path through the northwestern Bahamas, the southern Florida peninsula, and south-central Louisiana. Damage in the United States is estimated to be near 25 billion, making Andrew the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history1. The tropical cyclone struck southern Dade County, Florida, especially hard, with violent winds and storm surges characteristic of a category 4 hurricane (see addendum on upgrade to category 5) on the Saffir/Simpson Hurricane Scale, and with a central pressure (922 mb) that is the third lowest this century for a hurricane at landfall in the United States. In Dade County alone, the forces of Andrew resulted in 15 deaths and up to one-quarter million people left temporarily homeless. An additional 25 lives were lost in Dade County from the indirect effects of Andrew2. The direct loss of life seems remarkably low considering the destruction caused by this hurricane.
Addendum to NHC report on Andrew written by Ed Rappaport Feb. 7, 2005
In their 2004 paper, Landsea et al. (Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85 (11), 1699-1712 document a reanalysis of the intensity of Hurricane Andrew. Their paper discusses the reasons for the reanalysis, the process used, supporting references, and the resulting changes to the "Best Track" estimates of the hurricane's maximum sustained wind speed. In particular, Hurricane Andrew is now indicated to have made landfall on the lower Florida east coast with Category 5 intensity on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. The revised best track table for Hurricane Andrew appears below.
Go to this website to see the full report:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1992andrew_add.html
Sorry I don't know how to post links here.
lol, yea I have noted that before. I just hope the pattern doesn't change.
BTW, the last hurricane landfall, Category 1 or higher, in Savannah or Georgia will be 31 years ago this season... way overdue.
Best of luck.
Thanks, hydrocodone and low dosage of xanax are my new friends!! Oh, I must not forget a beta blocker, a calcium channel blocker and a ace inhibitor to control my blood pressure.
Still beautiful, but I bet you wont recognize half of it.
Thanks, I was also going through WU withdrawls this week. It was BAD!!
I am, God is in control, I am calm, my kids are all freaking out, but I believe I will be ok.
Yep. Hurricane David 1979. That storm rode all the way up the east coast of FL staying offshore only 30-50 miles the entire time right on up to landfall in Savannah. I rememebered tracking David. We stayed on the weaker side of the circulation in Jax but still had wind gust well over tropical storm force and heavy rain squalls as he passed by offshore.
The wave is easily depicted on visible satellite imagery as cyclonic turning within the mid-low level dry and stable airmass associated with SAL. This is not the typical mid-level waves found near the axis of the AEJ further south. Rather, it is a complex association between a mid-level wave that interacted with the thermal trough over the Saharan Desert.
During the passage of the wave near Dakar, Senegal just shortly before 12Z today, classic wind shifts were noted. First, actually wind obs depict winds turning abruptly from the northeast to southeast, almost in a cyclonic fashion. The wave was accompanied by a jet max at 500-600 mb (AEJ) and below the wave at the surface, monsoon south-westerlies dominated.
The second image depicts the northerly (blue) and southerly (red) component of winds. It helps because we can assess whether a wind has a northerly component to it (NE - blue) or a southerly component to it (SE - red).
Other depictions include - mid-level infrared winds suggest cyclonic turning
Strong 850 mb vort
Pronounce turning on TPW
If your interested in looking at things like the advisories, recon missions, radar fixes, etc... you can access them here in Andrew's "wallet".
Thanks, how is the area of disturbed weather off of the Mexican coast, off the BOC Has that moved inland yet?
If you were on here during Bonnie, you would have needed xanax anyway!
Miami was "grazed". It would of been disasterous had it made a direct hit.
Tampa (Bay) has not been hit since 1921...and I think it carved out new islands, that storm was so strong.
The city of Miami was grazed thank heavens but Andrew was still devastating on a number of levels. Thanks to Andrew our schools in Broward County maxed out for several years due to families with nothing left and moved north.
All the "caters" must have been out in full force :O)
Lat: 35.86 Lon: -77.88 Elev: 164
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Barometer: 29.88" (1011.6 mb)
Dewpoint: 74 °F (23 °C)
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Visibility: 10.00 mi.
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Glad you're back home feeling better. Will include you in our Friends prayers.
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