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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat if Irma doesn't turn and heads into the gulf?
It's such a huge storm, what force will make it change direction?
madaboutharry
(40,248 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,021 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,893 posts)Of weather events. If they say it's heading hither, it will not go yon.
malaise
(269,352 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)pansypoo53219
(21,016 posts)malaise
(269,352 posts)maxsolomon
(33,473 posts)We'd deal.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)MLAA
(17,376 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,207 posts)The highs, lows, and jet streams steer them.
NotASurfer
(2,157 posts)Power sitting Presidents have. But the deep state got to him and now he's buying into alt-left propaganda that he lacks the power to personally redirect hurricanes. Even told him Obama did it but no action. Sad.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)It's pushing the storm away from here
Gothmog
(146,012 posts)4139
(1,894 posts)Surface level wind
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-83.11,23.96,1608/loc=-94.603,18.291
Mid level
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/850hPa/orthographic=-83.11,23.96,883/loc=-94.603,18.291
Jet stream
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/250hPa/orthographic=-83.11,23.96,1147/loc=-94.603,18.291
No block until Irma is in the Gulf
roamer65
(36,748 posts)It would become a solid Cat 5. It would make Camille look like a picnic.
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)I'm still worried it will turn back toward southeast Florida.
Tonight I'm driving to Orlando. It's possible I could get hit worse there than by staying in Miami.
ecstatic
(32,808 posts)the storm surge is what will f*ck things up for most of Florida, regardless of the specific path. If that makes sense.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Over the last day or so, every time I've seen a storm track, it gets more and more westerly. Yes, there are a lot of educated guesses about where it will go, but they're still guesses. Right now, I think the eastern shore of Florida will not have as severe a situation as I thought they would two days ago.
I don't think it will go as far as Texas or Louisiana, but Alabama and Mississippi folks should be at least a bit fearful.