Tropical Hurricane Ian

[WES1023]

I'm 90 feet up on a garage in Mt. Pleasant.

 

[WeatherNC]

Tornado Watch imminent for eastern NC, phone just went off, waiting for it to show up on the SPC.

 

[SENC]

Bouy about a few miles south of Me,,

Wind Direction (WDIR): NNE ( 30 deg true )
Wind Speed (WSPD): 35.0 kts
Wind Gust (GST): 40.0 kts
Atmospheric Pressure (PRES): 29.58 in
Pressure Tendency (PTDY): -0.13 in ( Falling Rapidly )
Air Temperature (ATMP): 70.9 °F
Water Temperature (WTMP): 73.0 °F
Wind Speed at 10 meters (WSPD10M): 36.9 kts
Wind Speed at 20 meters (WSPD20M): 38.9 kts

 

[Thor]

Think we are trying to fit an extratropical peg into a tropical hole. This probably won't look normal for the duration now. Lots of elongation and displacement.

 

[Cary_Snow95]

This center is impossible to track. Look at obs and where they recently had it I’m not convinced what we see on radar is the true center

 

[Belle Lechat]

Bouy about a few miles south of Me,,


Air Temperature (ATMP): 70.9 °F
Water Temperature (WTMP): 73.0 °F

That water temperature, so cold.

 

[Stormsfury]

Pressure definitely below 980mb now. My goodness

 

[WeatherNC]

Extending a little further inland than I would have expected.

 

[Chazwin]

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Pressure definitely below 980mb now. My goodness

This deepening right before landfall and hitting the coast at perpendicular angle is gonna add to that storm surge to the right of where the center comes ashore. That happened two years ago at Oak Island with Isaias… I was there on vacation and we literally went in a matter of 8 hours from not even being in a hurricane warning to seeing the storm surge equivalent of a category 2 storm

 

[lj0109]

 

[BullCityWx]

Starting to see wind damage reports in the pee dee

 

[thunderwolf]

Got one cell offshore that looks interesting

 

[Henry2326]

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Pressure definitely below 980mb now. My goodness

Icon and Nam forecasted 973. Let's see if that verifies.

 

[thunderwolf]

Got another looking good at the moment too. We will see what happens as they move closer to the coast

 

[Sctvman]

James Island getting slammed. 6-8“ of rain on most of the island and heavy wind bands. Gusting 60+

 

[Rain Cold]

Hhhrrr still pretty rock solid bringing the system into NC tonight just west of the Triangle. Could be out to lunch idk

 

[jackendrickwx]

Much more consistent 30+ gusts here in the last half hour

 

[lj0109]

 

[weather bubba]

I was looking at wind gust graphs for several of the weather models for Raleigh/Durham and all of them showed peak gusts for the storm over 50 miles per hour with the NAM and a couple of the other models over 60 MPH. Things could get interesting here if these models verify.
Many of the local forecasters are showing peak gusts at around 50 MPH. Whatever happens, things will be rocking and rolling some for the next ten hours or so in this area.

 

[Metwannabe]

Hhhrrr still pretty rock solid bringing the system into NC tonight just west of the Triangle. Could be out to lunch idk

Looks decoupled, mid level rotation over land, surface still hasn't made landfall. Am I seeing that right? Tracking a hybrid is annoying almost as annoying as seeing gust that make the trees sway and my PWS recording a 14 mph gust ?