'Rapidly Intensifying' Hurricane Irma Barreling Straight Toward the East Coast
By Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has just updated its forecast for what it is now referring to as a “rapidly intensifying” Category 2 hurricane in the Eastern Atlantic ocean and the results look disastrous for a large swath of the Caribbean and Southeastern United States. Here is a brief summary of Hurricane Irma from the National Hurricane Center released at 11AM EST:
Satellite images indicate that Irma is rapidly intensifying. Very deep convection has formed in the central dense overcast, which is now displaying a small and clearing eye. Dvorak estimates were up to 77 kt at 1200 UTC, and since the cloud pattern continues to quickly become more organized, the initial wind speed is set to 85 kt.
At 1100 AM AST (1500 UTC), the center of Hurricane Irma was located near latitude 16.9 North, longitude 33.8 West. Irma is moving toward the west-northwest near 10 mph (17 km/h). This general motion is forecast through early Friday, followed by a generally westward motion on Saturday.
Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 100 mph (155 km/h) with higher gusts. Irma is forecast to become a major hurricane by tonight and is expected to be an extremely dangerous hurricane for the next several days.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 15 miles (30 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 80 miles (130 km).
A 50% chance that the northern Antilles experiences a Hurricane landfall next week; topography may cause models some issues with intensity.
Irma is expected to grow into a “major hurricane” within the next 24 hours with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph before growing even stronger throughout the weekend and eventually becoming a Category 4 storm.
The storm is moving west at roughly 10 mph and isn’t expected to pose its first threat to land until next week.
That said, longer term models suggest that Irma could make a turn to the northwest towards the middle of next week and head straight for Florida.
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Meanwhile, other computer models predict that Hurricane Irma will move through the Gulf of Mexico and make its U.S. landfall in Texas just 2 weeks after Hurricane Harvey devastated the state.
Major development: The best ECMWF EPS members via initialization score are west of ensemble mean track, taking #Irma into the Gulf of Mexico
That said, a lot could obviously change over the next week and, as the NHC notes, Irma is currently tracking further south than models predicted as of yesterday.
Irma has moved somewhat south of and slower than all of the model guidance since yesterday. Consequently, it stayed longer over the warmer ocean temperatures away from the drier air to the north, possibly allowing the rapid strengthening. Irma should move over cooler waters tomorrow with some increase in mid-level dry air, so hopefully the hurricane’s intensity will level off by then. In a few days, the hurricane will be moving over warmer waters with light shear shown by all of the model guidance. This should promote further strengthening of Irma, and the NHC forecast shows an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane next week, similar to the solutions provided by the HWRF and the ECMWF models. The intensity forecast is raised considerably from the previous one due to initial trends, and is on the high end of the guidance at long range.
Of course, with FEMA resources already stretched thin by Hurricane Harvey, another U.S. landfall of a Cat 4 hurricane could be devastating blow.
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Government weather terrorism via HAARP & Chemtrails. They got TX now the East Coast. Yes, dummies they can create hurricanes and direct them.
Who created and directed the huge hurricane in Texas in 1900? Was there an antique HAARP?
Yes they can, most people are in the dark…
They are made by pink unicorns who were summoned by the Gays. We all know that God smites them with weather.
Just as plausible as those Man made weather machines that no one has proof of
I wish whoever decided that they could create hurricanes with HAARP, would have
been bitch slapped.. Now, every natural hurricane in the world will be a creation
of HAARP right? Like Mitch said, who to blame for the gazillion that have happened
in the days before haarp..
Remember that we have not had any hurricanes for at least nine years down here.
That is an unusual stretch of time to go without having anything.. So did haarp
keep them all away by some guy sitting with a joystick somewhere steering them all away?
Why does everything have to be a conspiracy now days? Can’t we just have a hurricane
and major floods without all of the bull crap? WE just want our hurricane to be
what it is and we will get over it soon enough..
Reporting from the middle of the hurricane and flood, I have to go outside
and watch all of the helicopters now. They are streaming over one after another
on their way to Beaumont for rescuing people.
It is only a HAARP hurricane when it effects America.
Any disaster, natural or man made, that happens in America is either a government conspiracy or a false flag.
Because people can’t believe that America #1 can have disasters.
Any other Hurricane not hitting the US… of course natural.
It is a form of collective dissonance
So this Irma storm? Also created by Haarp?
What about Hurricane Gert mid August, was that not controlled by Haarp?
And Hurricane Franklin begin august didn’t count because it hit those illegal immigrants in Mexico?
What about tropical storm Cindy that hit Louisiana on june the 13th?