CAT 5 Hurricane Lee

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Pressure is up and the storm is catching some low level shear that is slightly weakening it.

 

A friend just sent me this and asked me if she is suffering from having too much Trump on the news to see him in this image from one of the forecasting sites

 

My dad just left NYC on a cruise ship headed for Iceland.

 

I'll put it on the list.

Have you read Isaac's Storm by Larsen? It's about the unnamed Galveston storm at the turn of the century. What a disaster. It was really spooky watching the cams of Ian come through ft. Meyers after reading that book.

 

I read that, too. Really good.

I recommend Storm Kings by Lee Sandlin for anyone interested. It's about tornadoes rather than hurricanes. Available on Audible.

Lee Sandlin - Storm Kings

A riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster — the super cell tornado — that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.


While tornadoes have occasionally been spotted elsewhere, only the central plains of North America have the perfect conditions for their creation. For the settlers the sight of a funnel cloud was an unearthly event. They called it "the Storm King" and their descriptions bordered on the supernatural: it glowed green or red, it whistled or moaned or sang.

In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin retraces America's fascination and unique relationship to tornadoes. From Ben Franklin's early experiments, to "the great storm debates" of the nineteenth century, to heartland life in the early twentieth century, Sandlin shows how tornado chasing helped foster the birth of meteorology, recreating with vivid descriptions some of the most devastating storms in America's history, including the "Tri-State tornado" of 1925 and the Peshtigo "fire tornado," whose deadly path of destruction was left encased in glass.


Drawing on memoirs, letters, eyewitness testimonies, and numerous archives, Sandlin brings to life the forgotten characters and scientists — like James Espy, America's first meteorologist and Corporal John Park Finley, who helped place a network of weather "spotters" across the country — that changed a nation, detailing the almost invisible history of The National Weather Service, the settling of the Midwest, and how successive generations came to understand and finally coexist with the spiraling menace that could erase lives and whole towns in an instant.

 

I haven’t read that, or ever thought about reading a book about storms until this thread. (Well to be honest, I actually just read The Perfect Storm last week, but that was more because I’m into the author).

However, last year I did read The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, which described that storm. It was chilling and really makes you appreciate the awesome power of nature.

 

Also, east coast surfers dream storm.

 

Own it but have not yet gotten to. Must. aw him speak - interesting guy

 

Here are additional weather related books in my Audible library that I don't think have been mentioned yet.

Reading the Glass: A Captain's View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships|Hardcover

Into the Storm: Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-Defying Adventures in Extreme We ather|eBook

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938|Paperback

The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras|Paperback

What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley

Weathering Life - Crest Publishers

America's Deadliest Twister | siupress.siu.edu

I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 (I Survived Series #12)|Paperback

 

Bet it's cooking on the north shore of Tortolla right now.

 

You are a weather acionado!

 

A book about the scariest Hurricane when I was a teenager

 

Me, neither. I can sit around and natter about the weather all day.

(And play with emojis.)

 

Me, too

 

The man made Climate change hoax is difficult to accept.

 

Please keep your comments informative about the storm.

 

We have a flash flood warning this afternoon w/o a hurricane. Still looking like it's going to go north

 

no thank you stranger. You do you, and I’ll do me.

 

Why's that?