8/13/04 NOW: Charley [Florida]

[Bill Hamilton]

Not to go outside the boudaries of the "NOW" rules, but for those wanting to hear live reports from ham operators on Echolink or IRLP.......

www.voipwx.net

I had to use WinAmp to listen in as MediaPlayer wouldn't work.

Tim

Thanks for the link Tom!!

 

[Mike Johnson]

Wild live feed

WBBH in Ft. Myers has a wild "live" feed going on the Internet.

Good quality and good reporting.

http://www.nbc-2.com/

Mike javascript:emoticon(':shock:')

 

[Zach Bailey]

For some reason, I'm having a terrible time with pulling up any kind of weather on the internet...

I think in this situation a lot of weather sites are overloaded with all these people trying to keep up with the storm. Some good sites are:

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/tropical.html (basically a mirror of all of NHC's data)
http://weather.cod.edu/analysis/ (great weather site in general, the radar section is what i've been using to track Charley)

Those two have generally been pretty good for me as that's all I'm interested in.

As for forcasting the path of the storm, I'm in no way experienced either but what I've noticed is that once a storm and a front come together, the storm tends to want to "stick" to the front and move up with it. Usually this is because (I think) fronts generally have very strong mid/upper level winds with them which tends to grab the hurricane and steer it along with wherever the front lies. This is my rudimentary understanding - I'm sure someone else could set us straight.

 

[Jeff Snyder]

Re: Wild live feed

WBBH in Ft. Myers has a wild "live" feed going on the Internet.

Good quality and good reporting.

http://www.nbc-2.com/

Mike javascript:emoticon(':shock:')

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Here's the straight-to link .... good video and reporting indeed! http://www.nbc-2.com/News/stories/040813_charley.shtml

 

[Zach Bailey]

Latest hurricane hunter info:

min. central pressure down to 945mb
flight level winds of 138kt reported 1nm east of center
eye diameter down to 5nm

 

[Robin Tanamachi]

Ft. Myers Ch. 7 has a pretty good live feed too, in spite of having an evacuated studio:
http://www.abc-7.com/
Click on "Watch our live broadcast now"

 

[Edward Ballou]

Tornado warning in Polk County

Report just came across of a tornado warning in Polk County... I'm watching a stream at

www.tampabays10.com

Just a news station but it's good enough for me.

 

[Zach Bailey]

Charley looks to be veering to the east a little bit again and it looks like the center will be going right up through Charlotte Harbor. Pretty much a worst-case scenario for the Punta Gorda/Charlotte Harbor area. The storm surge and flooding alone will be devastating.

 

[rdale]

Ch 10 has done horrible in this event... Go to http://www.nbc-2.com for some incredible live footage from Ft Myers, including schoolnet obs of 90mph winds!

 

[Scott Gridley]

Storm Surge at Charlotte Harbor

They have got some amazing video on those webcasts...simply amazing!
Thanks for sharing the links.
sg

 

[Tim Vasquez]

A good detailed map as it makes landfall (moving on a 030 deg track)... not very legible but it does have all of the geographic features. The eye is coming right up the bay.

I'm not up on whether the storm has a closed or open eye, but it would be awesome to FINALLY get some good pics from the eye from somebody. These darn things are always too weak or come onshore at night.

[Broken External Image]:http://www.stormtrack.org/hurrchar.gif

 

[Zach Bailey]

A good detailed map as it makes landfall (moving on a 030 deg track)... not very legible but it does have all of the geographic features. The eye is coming right up the bay.

Excellent overlay. How'd you do that? Where'd you get the base map?

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Digital Atmosphere Workstation -- www.weathergraphics.com . If there are further questions, go ahead and start a thread in the Equipment section and I'll be glad to reply.

 

[Greg Stumpf]

This is the area that's about to get hammered. Big expensive homes on canals at sea level.

http://images.google.com/images?q=punta%20...F-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Also, Scharfenberg has this going right now:

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~kscharf/w2live/

 

[mrobinson]

major structure damage is being reported in Punta Gorda FL.. Sadly my grandparents live there and they can never be convinced to evacuate during a Hurricane.

I'm rather worried right now