Good afternoon.
At 4 pm Hurricane Dorian was moving out to sea with peak winds of 90 mph. Last night and this am Dorian brought Cat 1 conditions to coastal North Carolina from Wilmington to Cape Hatteras with peak sustained winds recorded on land (reported so far in Hatteras) of 77 mph with gust to 89 mph.
Fortunately it remained approximately 70 miles off the Florida coast and Florida only experienced minimal tropical storm conditions. (See Wind Field Analysis below.)
Unfortunately Dorian was a life changing and history changing event for those with in its eye wall in Great Abaco and Grand Bahama. When it made landfall the eye was 10 miles wide and the eye wall only 2-3 miles thick. Unbelievably many areas remained 12-20 hours within that 15 mile wide zone of destruction. It was unprecedented and hopefully we'll never see anything like it again. It will likely take decades for them to really recover.
I hopefully will not need to write further about Dorian.
Until next time, Matt.
At 4 pm Hurricane Dorian was moving out to sea with peak winds of 90 mph. Last night and this am Dorian brought Cat 1 conditions to coastal North Carolina from Wilmington to Cape Hatteras with peak sustained winds recorded on land (reported so far in Hatteras) of 77 mph with gust to 89 mph.
Fortunately it remained approximately 70 miles off the Florida coast and Florida only experienced minimal tropical storm conditions. (See Wind Field Analysis below.)
Unfortunately Dorian was a life changing and history changing event for those with in its eye wall in Great Abaco and Grand Bahama. When it made landfall the eye was 10 miles wide and the eye wall only 2-3 miles thick. Unbelievably many areas remained 12-20 hours within that 15 mile wide zone of destruction. It was unprecedented and hopefully we'll never see anything like it again. It will likely take decades for them to really recover.
I hopefully will not need to write further about Dorian.
Until next time, Matt.