Pic related is current track and the latest update is included below:
ZCZC MIATCPAT5 ALL TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM
BULLETIN Hurricane Maria Advisory Number 23 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL152017 500 PM AST Thu Sep 21 2017
...TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS BEGINNING TO SPREAD OVER THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS...
SUMMARY OF 500 PM AST...2100 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- LOCATION...20.8N 69.8W ABOUT 90 MI...145 KM NE OF PUERTO PLATA DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ABOUT 95 MI...155 KM ESE OF GRAND TURK ISLAND MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...120 MPH...195 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 315 DEGREES AT 9 MPH...15 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...960 MB...28.35 INCHES
Carson Lewis
So I guess it might be a nothingburger after all.
Brayden Anderson
Maybe, we will have to see if she restrengthens at all. Keep in mind that this is the same hurricane that made a random jump from a Category 3 to a Category 5, surpassing Irma, out of nowhere. Still, something would need to happen to significantly change the current pattern and it might not happen this time. A conspiracy user argued that the expected solar flares on the 22nd and 23rd would super charge Maria, but I doubt it.
Easton Price
Some reports in spanish that 6 people dead so far in Puerto Rico. 3 because of a mudslide in the western portion of the island, far from the eye, Can't reach most of the island yet. 15 dead on Dominica, 20 missing. Expect deathtoll to climb. Damage? Extensive. Very, very extensive.
James Morris
I don't think so. I got this picture from San Juan International Airport a few hours ago.
Elijah Parker
But the path is really far off from hitting something. Or would the path potentially change if it strengthens?
Ryder Sanders
Gigantic if genuine.
Evan Stewart
>Can't reach most of the island yet You mean the cell towers are out or the roads are blocked? I'm guessing there were a lot more than 6 deaths on PR.
Not sure. My guess is a change in the wind environment on the coast would have to change the path of least resistance. Currently, Maria is on the path of least resistance and will continue in that direction unless that path gets obstructed. Tropicaltidbits.com mentioned that Jose could possibly act as a block and either lead Maria further out to sea or force her closer to the Eastern shore. Of course that would require Jose not to disappear before Maria arrives.
Alexander Jones
Looks pretty devastated. Wonder how high the water got at its peak.
Christopher Brown
Happening status for US landfall: Not likely, but Maria has surprised us before. Still, unless there is a sudden change to the path it's not happening.
Matthew Thompson
That's just some of the areas. Very hard to get an overview over all the small communities. News of a bridge collapse in Lares, in the west. The flooding really hit the areas in valleys the hardest.
Andrew King
the sensors were saying 30-50 feet ABOVE floodstage
Josiah Allen
Hard to get any real info atm. Only fram what I have heard, FEMA is going to have a tough time.
Carson Taylor
Pretty crazy, wonder what the rainfall totals were. They were predicting 2 feet in some spots.
Carter Flores
Can anyone explain the conditions that caused Jose to do the drunken loopty loop that he did back when he was a young hurricane and if they could happen again in the case of Maria? I want to know so I know if anyone on the East coast should even be alert anymore.
Charles Morris
I feel like that prediction is off. Right now it's going straight for turks and caicos, looks like it'll hit cockburn town again, same one irma hit.
Though looking at hurricane tracks a lot of them head straight north around there.
Sebastian Evans
THEY PUT CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FRICKIN' HURRICANES GAY
Connor Butler
All in favor of finally giving Puerto Rico it's independence?
Jacob Lopez
HAARP AND DARPA
Matthew Long
checked for kek
Levi Sanders
Enormous if authentic.
Bentley Allen
large amounts of flooding reported
Parker Stewart
You are fine though.
Robert Turner
yes thanks user
Justin Rodriguez
Faked LaGuardia shoop
Carter Gonzalez
some flooding but just a comfy storm
Liam Jenkins
the island Cockburn town is about to get fucked hard!
Eli Butler
>>WHY WE CANT JUST NUKE THE HURRICANE Is this a thing people suggest?
