The official tropical weather thread 2017

[matix]

Trinidad met office ever got anything right?

[shake d livin wake d dead]

if they talking about the effects of the heat I could understand that.

http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,249183.html

Last Friday, Seigonne say prepare for real rain yesterday evening

[pete]

What's the problem with a rain forecast being wrong? There's a hurricane to the north, it MAY cause rain as far south as Trinidad.

[Monkey Man]

Trinidad met office ever got anything right?

People need to understand how to perceive weather forecasts. key word being forecasts. its an estimate/prediction. There ares usually percentages which accompany these conditions that are the likelihood of such event occurring.

And you guys living in Trinidad. you should know by now the weather here changes by the second.

[hydroep]

Maria has intensified into a Cat. 3...just as she's about to hit the islands oui.

[meccalli]

Rain will be here tonight, don't worry. Maria looks like she'll clip the eastern point of the dominican republic and turn into a fish storm, heading northeast.

[Drea]

I'm pretty sure I heard 'may' or 'chance of", meteorologists are not psychics...

[Toyopet]

I'm pretty sure I heard 'may' or 'chance of", meteorologists are not psychics...

While you are correct, how is it that our meteorologists get it wrong this much? I've experienced foreign forecasts that are accurate down to the quarter hour for rain, snow etc.

[toyolink]

The direct hits by hurricanes this year are becoming mind-boggling.
The level of losses are transcending just issues of dollars and cents.
Nature is ensuring that we know our place in the 'order' of things.
.......Having to start our lives over, for us not so young people can be really a heart breaker.

[sMASH]

I 'lowing the weather men thus rongs cause the region is so volatile that it may be difficult to say if the heat we get may or may not result in rain.

All in all, is a real sh!z storm we going through.


Usually the Pacific to tends to have a lot of typhoons.


But if u think about it, many of the gaseous planets has extreme cyclonic weather bands along their latitudes... Earth my finally be catching up.

[pete]

I'm pretty sure I heard 'may' or 'chance of", meteorologists are not psychics...

While you are correct, how is it that our meteorologists get it wrong this much? I've experienced foreign forecasts that are accurate down to the quarter hour for rain, snow etc.

Easier to predict weather when there is land all around.

[hydroep]

Maria is now a Cat. 4...

[redmanjp]

Maria is now a Cat. 4...

yep.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT5+shtml/182048.shtml?

On the forecast track, the center of Maria will move near Dominica and the adjacent
Leeward Islands during the next few hours, over the extreme northeastern Caribbean Sea the remainder of tonight and Tuesday, and approach Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Tuesday night and Wednesday.

Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 130 mph (215 km/h) with higher gusts. Maria is an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

according to that Dominica going and get wipe out tonight

[bluefete]

Winds really high in Dominica.

https://www.facebook.com/DominicaNewsOnline/

[MaxPower]

CNN reporting that Maria will NOT cross Cat 3. We looking on average at something like 118mph maybe less.

It is currently Cat 1.

I thought they said it wont cross Cat 3??

damn fake news.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Puerto Rico in for it

[X_Factor]

read that its the first time in 85 years a hurricane's eye make landfall there

and maria's core is worse than irma as well as it is moving slowly as well meaning more destruction

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Cat 5 we

[The_Honourable]

Well that escalated quickly...

[X_Factor]

crap
those islands in for a pounding, her slow pace of only 9mph will make things worse
more time to pull strength from the ocean and more time to let it all out as she passes

[shake d livin wake d dead]

them b*tches different this year

[sMASH]

Durex

[hydroep]

Forward motion has slowed as well to 9 mph so it'll spend more time over the islands.

[X_Factor]

jose on real teef head yes check his present speed

[brickman]

Place is really warm tonight,not not even a little breeze to help.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Maria winds at 160mph

[hustla_ambition101]

Place is really warm tonight,not not even a little breeze to help.

Nights real warm these days, no rest for d ac

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

[matr1x]

Cat5.....dayumm

[Witch Doctor]

Dominica PM roof get ripped off

https://www.facebook.com/SupportRooseveltSkerrit/