Hurricane Matthew threatens the East Coast...

Being reported that it could grow into a Cat 5 tonight and hurricane force winds 60 miles wide and the eyewall could reach Orlando. Gonna be a wild night on the east coast!

Got bored at work today so decided to code a route graph and then make a gif for Hurricane Matthew in Python using the following data (Hurricane Matthew : Storm Coordinates). Playing meteorologist is fun.

Yeah, I have aunt's and uncles down by the Orlando area and they are now having curfews and mandatory evacuations all around the area. My prayers and thoughts are with the everyone down there.

Palm Beach Pats Fan said:

Yes, the worst of it now looks to affect the Space Coast region. The models are converging at least a bit, and in Palm Beach County where I am it looks like the eye will pass 25-35 miles offshore, with hurricane winds extending some 40 miles. I'm 8 miles inland. On the edge like that I will likely see 75-80 mph winds, but not the insane 145 mph winds. After passing us though it looks like it will go near the coast or onto it up near Melbourne or Titusville.

You're in Jacksonville, right? It's a little too early to tell up there how bad you'll get it.

CNN makes it sounds like everyone has to evacuate, but in our area the mandatory evacuations are just the coastal communities.

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Yes we are lucky it veered east but this is a massive Cat 4 storm, should be hitting Palm Beach from 4 to 8. We are also lucky we are to the west since the worse part appears to be E-NE of the eye. Nevertheless we'll get massive amounts of rain but what worries me the most are the wind gusts that no one can predict. It also looks like it is headed straight to Daytona where I came from yesterday afternoon. All shuttered in with wife and kids we should be fine.

FourierSeries said:

Got bored at work today so decided to code a route graph and then make a gif for Hurricane Matthew in Python. Playing meteorologist is fun.

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nice. gotta fix the y-axis range of the max wind graph, though.

bbobbo said:

nice. gotta fix the y-axis range of the max wind graph, though.

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Done.

Patsfanin Philly said:

It's not always the wind but water damage. After Katrina I was down in Mississippi and there were house 3 miles inland that had water damage that required ripping out drywall and replacing floors and appliances and wreaked havoc ...... I appreciate the fury of Mother Nature...

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You got that right, the most destructive part is the storm surge. Being a complete idiot, I had this pre-conception of what a storm surge was like, I thought it would be water damage up the walls and drywall damage and so forth, maybe ruined TV's, waterlogged paintings. That was before Ivan.

I had a sister that lived in an apartment in Navarre Beach that had a storm surge to about 5 feet above the floor, she evacuated and after the storm I tried to help her recover what we could with other family. It was completely different than I pictured. It looked like a giant had picked up the apartment and shaken it vigorously. Refrigerator in the bedroom, all the furniture and everything else completely destroyed. I just had no idea what the power of a storm surge was like, it was unbelievable, it broke up everything. Plus, there was this horrible smelling sludge that covered everything in the apartment, evidently some type of backed up sewage. Just complete destruction, nothing was recoverable on the ground floor.

I hope nobody in in the path of this hurricane and its storm surge tries to tough it out, it is extremely dangerous.

IllegalContact said:

with my buddies, I climbed to the top of Blue Hills during hurricane Bob.......I was not impressed

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We played football in it. The passing game was one sided.

Stay safe Florida Pats Fans!

AzorianPats said:

I really dont know which one is worse dude..

Winter of 2015 was brutal, but no one was ever forced to evacuate..

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Hurricanes are potentially much worse and less predictable. I'll take a blizzard. You have more control of your outcome.

Tony2046 said:

Hurricanes are potentially much worse and less predictable. I'll take a blizzard. You have more control of your outcome.

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Blizzard over Hurricanes and it's not even close

For you people in FL, GA, SC and NC. The Accuweather Track for Matthew as of 30 min ago showed it going up the coast, out to sea and looping back in as I had mentioned that only a local station had been posting earlier.

With it already at a class 4 with gust in the class 5 range, this is going to do some serious serious damage. Please get out while you can. Don't stay there. Your life is more important than anything else..

In Gulfport after Katrina, I saw churches where the steel girders were the only thing left on the first floor while the choir loft was untouched. Churches with rounded walls survived with flood damage while those with 90 angles were destroyed. Looking at a boat 30 feet in the air with the sensory overload of dead animals mixed wth ruptured sewer lines percolating n 90 degree weather stays with you... That and all the friggin pineapples. A container ship full of pineapples was destroyed and spread its cargo all over. People put them n doorstops as ornaments..
The only places open were Walmart, Home Depot and liquor stores. Walmart and home
Depot brought trailers of employees from outside the area in to work knowing th locals were preoccupied... Hopefully I won't need to be deployed this time....

Praying for no injuries or deaths ... hope everyone gets a chance to get out.

Hearing reports that of the 450,000+ residents in Jacksonville that were under mandatory evacuation orders, only about 150,000 have left.

My God. Was Katrina that long ago that these people can't remember?

Zeus said:

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Is that real? If so that guy should be fired.

venecol said:

Is that real? If so that guy should be fired.

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That would be getting off easy...

Zeus said:

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Florida, not like the rest of us.