Atlantic - Irma forms August 30, 2017 (climate, record, days, storm)

[jp03]

Originally Posted by jp03

Yep, Cuba took one for Florida essentially. Took a catastophic storm and chiseled it down ...

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Cuba effectively throttled this storm fortunately for west coast. Sadly, I would be willing to bet this storm will create a situation down the road where people let their guard down. If Cuba was not involved this would have been a whole different story. The next one may be just that. This was NOT the ONE for Florida...the next one might be and sadly with the apocolyptic predictions of our wonderful media, people may not be as prepared.

[tar21]

What has happened with the storm surge near tampa? Did the water come back in yet? If it did did it rise above normal levels?

[Piney Creek]

Add me to the list of people extremely thankful for Cambium and Psychoma's posts. Very helpful, indeed. You two rock!

[ads94]

Originally Posted by Piney Creek

Add me to the list of people extremely thankful for Cambium and Psychoma's posts. Very helpful, indeed. You two rock!

Indeed. Cambium is great. Love all of the weather posts Cambium does over in the Connecticut forum. I'd be at a loss without them half the time.

[Taratova]

My Cape Coral neighborhood next to Ft Myers did good. No homes damaged,but fencing and trees,bushes did not. My metal fence was not damaged but the wood and plastic fences all were damaged. I thought my fence would be the first to go. I am glad none of us lost our roofs. Everybody had thumbs up that the homes had no damage. It was bad. The winds continued for hours and hours . It was a huge storm.

[Psychoma]

Flash Flood Emergency as surge travels down the St. Johns River in NE FL from downtown Jacksonville way down through Putnam County:

[AJ1013]

Massive tree damage here on Key Biscayne.

My street:

[Cambium]

3:20pm map. Those blue icons are showing all Tropical storm force wind reports and damage or flooding from Irma


Clearing out in SE Georgia now but heads up on more wrap around rains.


The center of the storm is in SW GA


Tornado warning in SC near coast

[pbmaise]

Charleston’s historic downtown area flooded Monday, as now-Tropical Storm Irma continued churning northward from Florida. The Post and Courier said the storm had generated a 9.9-foot tide, the third highest on record for the city,

photos at
Incredible New Video Shows Irma Flooding Downtown Charleston – Mother Jones

[pbmaise]

Originally Posted by tar21

What has happened with the storm surge near tampa? Did the water come back in yet? If it did did it rise above normal levels?

Here is link to Tampa level station

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/st...tml?id=8726520

Yes it rose above normal level by about 2 ft at peak.

It is still about 1.5 ft above normal at time of this post.