Oh, the weather outside is...

[Disgustipated]

I wish autumn would come here. I am so sick of the heat at this point. Obviously (because of our records broke) I have never seen this hot of a summer in my lifetime.

Makes me want to move up north. But then I remember when I was in the military getting annoyed when it's May and still cold in the mornings.

 

[Zardnaar]

Bit damp.

Live: Red heavy rain warning issued after downpours cut power

Emergency Management teams will work through the night amid Otago's first ever red alert rain warning.

www.rnz.co.nz

 

[Zardnaar]

Worse now. Rail lines closed, surface flooded but 18 more hours of heavy rain apparently.

'Worst is over': MetService downgrades rain warning for South

In what will be a huge relief for Southerners, MetService has just announced that its red rain warning for parts of Otago has been downgraded to a...

www.odt.co.nz

Didn't make it to D&D.

 

[Zardnaar]

Hasn't peaked yet.

Supposed to start clearing in around 9 hours.

 

[stfoskey12]

We've had a warm late September and early October. But the humidity has been low and it's been cooling off at night, so I can't complain too much. I would like some more clouds however; it's been sunny every day for the past two weeks it feels like.

 

[Smellincoffee]

This morning was lovely -- cool, even, maybe in the sixties (F). Currently watching Milton footage with dread.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Yesterday it rained a little and I got my feet wet.

 

[Birdjaguar]

We've had a warm late September and early October. But the humidity has been low and it's been cooling off at night, so I can't complain too much. I would like some more clouds however; it's been sunny every day for the past two weeks it feels like.

We have 320 or so sunny days a year. Lovely weather.

 

[Sommerswerd]

I visited Tampa this summer to get on a cruise ship. It was a nice city. Scary to imagine the city being destroyed by the incoming hurricane.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I visited Tampa this summer to get on a cruise ship. It was a nice city. Scary to imagine the city being destroyed by the incoming hurricane.

From what I've been watching & reading, the topography of its bay will make things worse. I'm sorry I haven't seen it before, as I suspect it will look very different for the foreseeable future.

 

[Kaitzilla]

I visited Tampa this summer to get on a cruise ship. It was a nice city. Scary to imagine the city being destroyed by the incoming hurricane.

Ugh, it's headed right at Tampa Bay currently.

Here is the local radar:
(Everything past 'now' is computer imagined nonsense. The radar also gives up the ghost southwest of the hurricane eye with Earth curvature and returns nonsense in that area)

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/tampa/33602/weather-radar/347937

Hopefully it passes south of the bay and not north of it.

It sped up and is 6 or 7 hours from landfall?

I think faster might be better with low tide tonight and high tide in the morning?

**Edit**
Low tide is ... right now.
High tide is 6am in about 15 hours.

Tide Times and Tide Chart for Hillsborough Bay, Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay

Hillsborough Bay, Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay tide times and tide charts showing high tide and low tide heights and accurate times out to 30 days.

www.tide-forecast.com

3 feet of difference?
Maybe it makes a bit of difference combined with 12 feet of storm surge.

 

[thetrooper]

Any CFC regulars affected by this?

 

[Kaitzilla]

Eye wall is starting to touch the coast now I think.

 

[Samson]

looks like Tampa was lucky, they lost their water rather than getting flooded

https://twitter.com/x/status/1844170710102704585

 

[Smellincoffee]

Looks like it hit in southern Tampa Bay instead of directly. ~ 15 or so tornados reported so far . I've got a friend in Orlando, haven't heard from him since yesterday when gas stations were already being drained.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Winter's here. My home care person told me earlier that there was a little bit of snow this morning, though it would have melted immediately.

As for tonight, wind chill is -6C, it's foggy tonight, and I'm freezing.

Time to go put on a couple more layers.

 

[stfoskey12]

Summer is still here in the southern part of the Plains. It got up to 90°F (32°C) today. We've had a warm October, with only a brief cool snap in the middle where we got some patchy frost.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

32C would be insanely hot here for October. I don't recall it happening in my lifetime. We had that in September one year, which was bad enough. It's just plain nuts that in September I should have had to make up beds in the kitchen for the cats so they'd have somewhere to sleep that wasn't in a room with direct afternoon sunlight, while I took myself off to the air-conditioned mall because it was like a sauna in the apartment - in the second week of September!

Temperatures here are routinely in the negative single digits now.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Welcome tp global warming!

 

[Zardnaar]

Got to 24/25 Celsius here yesterday. Heading into mid spring not super unusual but first "hot" day post winter.