‘Catastrophic’ Hurricane Dorian Builds
to Category 5, Closes on Bahamas
Breitbart Environment,
by
Simon Kent
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
9/1/2019 9:42:32 AM
Hurricane Dorian has continued to build in strength over the past 12 hours and now has maximum sustained winds of 160 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
This puts the storm in the highest category on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
Dorian will be capable of catastrophic damage as it tracks towards the Bahamas during Sunday and into the early hours of tomorrow.
The NHC has confirmed Dorian’s strength and direction:
NEW: #Dorian is now a category 5 #hurricane with 160 mph sustained winds. The eyewall of this catastrophic hurricane is about to hit the Abaco Islands with devastating winds.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/1/2019 9:44:14 AM (No. 168453)
The place to go for updated Dorian information - the National Hurricane Center:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 9/1/2019 12:04:31 PM (No. 168590)
I have spent a good bit of time sailing and diving in the Abacos, and I hope they all fare well, but some of those islands are 400 yds wide from the windward to leeward and maybe 25 ft high. This is going to be very bad for the easternmost chain of the Abacos, like Green Turtle Cay. Marsh Harbour is behind it, with a wide, very shallow bay to slow down incoming waves, and is a far larger and wider island, so will do much better. But there will still be a lot of wind and water damage, I am afraid.
And tiny places out by themselves like Chub Cay will be in deep trouble. One half a mile SE of Chub, it rolls off to the 6,000 ft deep Tongue of the Ocean, and there will be nothing much to stop the big rolling swells approaching Chub from the southeasterly direction.
Best wishes to all in the area, hope everyone survives.
Best wishes
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Grounded 9/1/2019 12:37:16 PM (No. 168619)
Evidently the storm track of Dorian has it swinging away from Palm Beach no doubt to the delight of the Trump haters who were jiggly with glee at the notion of the storm flattening Mar-a-Largo.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/1/2019 1:03:22 PM (No. 168645)
Hurricane Dorian Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL052019
1245 pm EDT Sun Sep 01 2019
...CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY 5 DORIAN MAKES LANDFALL ON ELBOW CAY IN THE
ABACOS...
Data from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft and
satellite data indicate that Dorian has made landfall at 1240 pm
EDT (1640 UTC) in Elbow Cay, Abacos. The winds have increased
to 185 mph (295 km/h) with the minimum central pressure falling to
911 mb (26.90 inches).
This is a life-threatening situation. Residents there should take
immediate shelter. Do not venture into the eye if it passes over
your location.
Hazards:
- Wind Gusts over 220 mph
- Storm Surge 18 to 23 feet above normal tide levels with higher
destructive waves
These hazards will cause extreme destruction in the affected areas
and will continue for several hours.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT5+shtml/011644.shtml?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 9/1/2019 1:25:33 PM (No. 168671)
Thanks, #4. VERY bad news. Elbow Cay has Hopetown, and due west is Marsh Harbour, the two largest and prettiest towns in the Abacoes that I have visited. Parts of Elbow Cay, which are heavily covered with homes and businesses are 200 to 300 yards from the east coast to the west coast of this narrow cay.
The adjecent larger cay has a bit of elevation, and there is a wonderful old lighthouse. I hope people got over to the high ground west of the light house, although there is not much there on the high ground, just
trees, mostly. At least above the water levels, but no protection from wind.
Best wishes, but I think that things in Hopetown and Marsh Harbour will be very bad. I hope the loss of life is minimized.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/1/2019 1:32:24 PM (No. 168679)
Re #5, Janice Dean, the excellent Fox News meteorologist, just reported on the latest situation. She is not given to hysteria, but the outlook for the northern Bahamas is not good. The winds are very powerful, Dorian’s swath is very wide, and a storm surge of 20 feet or so (above high tide) is expected. And it will affect that area for several days, not just hours, as Dorian is at times moving as slow as 5mph. Her outlook for our southeastern coast is not great either. Reminds us to look at the outer limits of Dorian, not the eye. This broad storm is very near our SE coastline and it could move up that area for days.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 9/1/2019 1:34:30 PM (No. 168681)
Elliott Key, just south of Key Biscayne, and part of the barrier islands which form Miami's Biscayne Bay, is a park, undeveloped. In the 90s, we gathered wild key limes there from large mature trees, entirely covering every foot of the island, dense enough to make walking thru it difficult. When hurricane Andrew hit it, we visited a couple of years later. Elliot Key was a bare, naked sandbar without a trace of vegitation where a dense forest of trees up to 10-12 inches in trunk diameter had been.
I fear that this is what will happen to Elbow Cay. I really hope that people were able to evacuate the islands.
http://www.coldwellbankerbahamas.com/images/islands/HopeTownElbowCayaerial.jpg
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/1/2019 3:23:17 PM (No. 168746)
I am afraid that some of the smaller islands and cays will just disappear entirely. This is one, giant lethal storm.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Grounded 9/1/2019 4:58:34 PM (No. 168813)
The barometric pressure is 26.9? Heck it's at 24.8 where I am. At one mile above sea level.
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