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Hurricane Dorian Slams Bahamas, Approaches US East Coast

posted by martyb on Monday September 02 2019, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the be-safe-out-there dept.

martyb writes:

At the time of this writing, the National Weather Service's National Hurricane Center reports Eye of category 5 Dorian moving little while over Grand Bahama island. That page also contains several other views and forecasts of the storm.

Though it no longer looks like Florida will get a "direct hit", the storm's currently-predicted run up the US Atlantic coast promises storm surges, very heavy rain with potential flooding, and of course high winds.

For those who lie in the path of this beast, please accept my personal best wishes for you and your loved ones making it through safely.

What sites have you found to be the most informative, timely, and useful? Special credit for those which are minimally sensationalistic. Any webcams to recommend? How are things in your area? What preparations are you making?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Monday September 02 2019, @06:35PM (3 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Monday September 02 2019, @06:35PM (#888914)

    wunderground was my original "go to" source for weather info, but they have gone
    so far downhill that it isn't even worth the effort.

    If you think that is bad, www.accuweather.com recently started demanding that people disable their ad blocker security to see content.

    Intellicast.com was much, much better before they became weather underground. Somehow an animated GIF radar loop that looked exactly like the radar maps they used on TV just wasn't good enough, so they had to screw it all up.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @07:27PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @07:27PM (#888929)

    I'm not seeing any nag messages on accuweather. My local paper does something similar. No messages but the site just won't load. I'm sure its doing wonders for readership.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @09:12PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @09:12PM (#888976)

      There's still plenty of morons that don't know what an ad-blocker is.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @09:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @09:41PM (#888989)

    Norwegian weather service yr.no is best.