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[Ed note: for up-to-date info, see also: NOAA National Hurricane Center, Mike's Weather Page, windy.com, NWS - Hourly Weather Forecast Graph - Tampa, and NWS - Hourly Weather Forecast Graph - Miami.]
At 8:28AM September 5, Zero Hedge reported
Irma is now the [strongest] hurricane [ever] in the Atlantic basin, outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, in [US National Hurricane Center] records.
[...] meteorologist Eric Holthaus writes that Hurricane Irma is now expected to *exceed* the theoretical maximum intensity for a storm in its environment, or as he puts it "Redefining the rules".
[...] Irma's current path--headed straight for Florida--has prompted the state to prepare for the "catastrophic" system.
Unlike Harvey, which caused widespread damage, power outages and flooding and taking almost a fifth of U.S. oil refining capacity offline, Irma is a bigger threat to agriculture, with orange juice futures surging.
[...] Florida is the world's largest producer of orange juice after Brazil. About two-thirds of the state's citrus crop is located in the lower two-thirds of the peninsula.
[...] Airlines have canceled flights across the Caribbean and are adding planes to evacuate tourists, while cruise-line stocks have tumbled.
[...] Only three Category 5 hurricanes have hit the contiguous 48 U.S. states, [said Bob Henson, a meteorologist with Weather Underground:] The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 that devastated the Florida Keys, Hurricane Camille in 1969, and Hurricane Andrew that cut across Florida in 1992. Andrew was originally classified as a Category 4 storm only to be upgraded years later after further analysis.
"It is obviously a rare breed", Henson said. "We are in rare territory."
At 12:37PM September 5, Heavy.com reported
The Florida governor has declared a state of emergency as Hurricane Irma reaches a Category 5 storm. The Florida Keys are currently in the hurricane's path, although the storm remains unpredictable.
[...] Irma has [...] maximum sustained winds [of] 185 mph. It was moving west at 14 mph and is about 270 miles east of Antigua. The Florida Keys are in the projected path of the hurricane, according to September 4 late evening forecasts.
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Saturday September 09 2017, @02:14AM (5 children)
Brace for Jose and Katia, they follow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 09 2017, @02:18AM (4 children)
Sweet. My local lake's still like six or eight feet low from when they half drained it to do some work on it.
Really though, multiple storms in a season isn't anything special. If they all turn out to be Cat-3+ that'd be unusual but anything less and it's just another year on the coast.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday September 09 2017, @05:30AM (2 children)
That's right, three hurricanes together happens a lot. Haven’t we all had a threesome? Are we babies? In 2010 it was Karl, Igor and Julia. Right now it's Irma, Jose and Katia. Lucky Jose! It happened in 1967, 1980, 1995, 1998 with the hurricanes. I happens a lot, a lot more often with me. Which I love. Let me tell you, I'm in great physical shape. #NatlPrep #PlanAhead 🇺🇸
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:38PM (1 child)
Four simultaneous hurricanes in the Atlantic happened in 1893 and 1998 [wikia.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:44PM
link for 1893 [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by deadstick on Saturday September 09 2017, @02:36PM
Perfectly reasonable analysis -- but since the right invariably declares that "This is not the time to talk about it", you don't get to communicate it very widely. So until somehow, magically, the time comes, you're fucked.