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Maybe someone has already commented but I'm curious: what does it feel like for a hurricane to go over your head, as in, the change in atmospheric pressure? I hear dorian dropped to 915 milibars, but what does that mean and what is the effect of that on body? Does it give you a migraine?
I never experienced any pressure effects other than my ear popping occassionslly. I've had 2 eyewalls go directly over me (Class 4 on landfall and Class 2 on landfall, not sure what class they were when they were over the house I was in) and had 1 eyewall graze me (Cat 3).
Last edited by Backwoods Baptist; 09-03-2019 at 11:00 AM..
Maybe someone has already commented but I'm curious: what does it feel like for a hurricane to go over your head, as in, the change in atmospheric pressure? I hear dorian dropped to 915 milibars, but what does that mean and what is the effect of that on body? Does it give you a migraine?
After Hurricane Andrew I remembered people saying they went outside during the eye and their ears were popping.
So what exactly are y'all suggesting people *do* besides the obvious common sense things of having supplies on hand, water, non-perishable foodstuffs, gas in cars, etc, etc?
Apparently going on about one's life isn't it. So spill and provide details.
I DO like the Dennis '97 example as it relates to the angles and dangles a storm may do.
Am I wrong, or didn't Dennis do his little dance off the OBX in 1999?
As for the pressure and how it affects people, I will say that my hands and feet swelled when Fran came through. I've never had a reaction like that again with any other hurricane.
Am I wrong, or didn't Dennis do his little dance off the OBX in 1999?
As for the pressure and how it affects people, I will say that my hands and feet swelled when Fran came through. I've never had a reaction like that again with any other hurricane.
Yup. Dennis angled and dangled and came back around with a bit of a vengeance.
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Originally Posted by MikeJaquish
Models predict a non-event in the Triangle.
Why I don't trust the models:
Hurricane Dennis, 1999.
I was outside in the eye of Hazel. I don’t remember ears popping. I remember climbing up the trunks of fallen pines. Then the backside of the eye wall
You're as old as a rock like me. I was living in Norfolk, Va when Hazel came through. I remember climbing a tree in my front yard well before the hurricane hit, and just gusty winds, thinking it would be fun to be up there when the 'storm' hit.
We lived in Ocean View and had to go downtown in a very bad part of the storm and get my aunt. She lived on the 2nd floor of one of the old homes right downtown (all long gone). The one level painting car garage right next door had a metal roof that had been halfway blown off and it was going to slam right into her home with just a little more wind. We arrived and that thing was lifting way up and then slamming back down. Unreal noise ! That was a sight that has stuck in my mind for all these years.
Yup. Dennis angled and dangled and came back around with a bit of a vengeance.
I remember Dennis bouncing back and forth on the coast. I thought the storm was still out there, and went out to play golf. To my surprise, the outer rings came through Durham and drenched me and the golf course on the back nine. (Made me slow down my swing so I wouldn't lose the club; ended up playing better than usual! )
On a serious note, the constant rain from Dennis saturated the ground down east, so that when Floyd came through the following week, the flooding was much worse than Fran. Similar conditions for Florence last year (although no one specific storm happened in advance).
Those conditions are not present right now, so that Dorian, even with as much rain as Florence, is unlikely to do as much damage if it comes inland. Of course, the "F" storm is still out there.
I think we're safe from that one...Fernand is a weak one in the Gulf due to come ashore in Mexico tomorrow and quickly dissipate.
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