Hurricane Irma Watch

[Misplaced Texan]

Interesting time right now.

 

The regional models (HMON and HWRF) are have shifted right and now predict a landfall pretty much the center of SFL.

 

GFS continues to lead the predictions eastward and now shows the eye missing mainland FL.

 

The Euro model is westerly and shows a Naples landfall and then diagonal crossing of the state.

 

It will be interesting to see what the 0Z Euro and GFS runs bring us and whether Euro shifts right, GFS comes back to the middle, or they continue to diverge.

[perditax]

Agree with u....who was the storm chaser we followed during Harvey? Any webcam links to the carribean islands being impacted? I can't find any worth a hoot, they are all at the level of Mr fleet...

 

 

Anguilla shut down their power and took down the cell towers (intentionally).

[spleenstomper]

Agree with u....who was the storm chaser we followed during Harvey? Any webcam links to the carribean islands being impacted? I can't find any worth a hoot, they are all at the level of Mr fleet...

 

OMG lol. I don't know if I could watch him again :eek::D:D:p. Let me find his name: Jeff Piotrowski. Follow him on twitter.

[spleenstomper]

We will know Euro at 2am

[perditax]

OMG lol. I don't know if I could watch him again :eek::D:D:p. Let me find his name: Jeff Piotrowski. Follow him on twitter.

 

 

His name is CAR WARSH

[dswallow]

I thought it'd be interesting to see current ship locations overlaid with the hurricane track/forecast...

 

[Jordan's Mom]

Captain just made an announcement on the Adventure that rather than leaving Aruba tomorrow and getting to St Kitts Friday, we are going to Bonaire Thursday then at sea Friday back to San Juan.

 

 

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Safe travels back! We are on Adventure departing Saturday. Hopefully we will travel as planned.

[A&L_Ont]

OMG lol. I don't know if I could watch him again :eek::D:D:p. Let me find his name: Jeff Piotrowski. Follow him on twitter.

 

His name is CAR WARSH

 

I shared his Harvey Periscopes and he did a review of Irma tonight which I shared on Twitter. I have a great respect for Jeff and have been following him on Periscope for almost three years. He also chases tornadoes and that gets pretty crazy.

[sheilb4]

OMG lol. I don't know if I could watch him again :eek::D:D:p. Let me find his name: Jeff Piotrowski. Follow him on twitter.

 

Jeff was amazing. I didn't sleep all night watching his coverage!

Wonder if he will be going to Florida?' I think is was periscope/video wasn't it?

[perditax]

I shared his Harvey Periscopes and he did a review of Irma tonight which I shared on Twitter. I have a great respect for Jeff and have been following him on Periscope for almost three years. He also chases tornadoes and that gets pretty crazy.

 

 

I watched hours of his feed live on that Friday night, and came to two conclusions:

 

1) That I was possibly about to watch someone choose to die live on the internet.

 

2) That if I were his wife, the divorce papers would have been in the mail the next day after that one phone call.

[Coopdog08]

His name is CAR WARSH

I thought it was blue shed...lol

[cflower04]

Just heard Disney have cancelled three cruises - wonder if RCI will follow suit?

[lbjen]

Van Fleet said the other day that he doesn't cancel cruises, he just advises the company. It's not his call. People should take some comfort in the fact that RC's head office is right in the middle of all this so they can't really ignore the fact that this is serious. I felt like they weren't really familiar enough with Houston weather, or the logistics of how cruisers get to port to understand how Harvey would impact passengers, which was why they made the decisions they did.

[spleenstomper]

Jeff and co saved that wal mart trucker's life most likely.

 

That was too stressful and nerve-wracking. I hear his Moore, OK tornado chase was much worse.

[perditax]

Just heard Disney have cancelled three cruises - wonder if RCI will follow suit?

 

 

I'm admittedly not following this week's cruise news well, but I thought RC already did cancel a few.

[Ken at the beach]

Just heard Disney have cancelled three cruises - wonder if RCI will follow suit?

Both EN and MJ cruises leaving on Friday have been cancelled. Harmony has already been confirmed that it will be at least a day late arriving to port for her scheduled turn around day.

[AshleyDillo]

I should say larger than Ohio.

 

 

** Florida is 160 miles wide at its widest point.

Pensacola to Jacksonville across I-10 is about 350 miles. But the panhandle isn't really Florida, I suppose ;)

 

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[Jarmo]

Just heard Disney have cancelled three cruises - wonder if RCI will follow suit?

Suit? No, not these days. Nice shorts are more likely.

[spleenstomper]

Pensacola to Jacksonville across I-10 is about 350 miles. But the panhandle isn't really Florida, I suppose ;)

 

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The dangly part that is going to get hit. I vacation often in the panhandle; I am aware it exists ;p

[AshleyDillo]

The dangly part that is going to get hit. I vacation often in the panhandle; I am aware it exists ;p

I am up in Tallahassee and they are freaking out back home. Meanwhile I am scheduled to walk off Anthem in NJ on Saturday to fly down to Orlando and drive home. Not sure how that's gonna happen yet.

 

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[Misplaced Texan]

Interesting tidbit, the first 9/6 00Z models to be released (the three Trajectory and Beta models and some of the consensus models) are all showing big right shifts. That, along with the slow slide of GFS eastward, might be further evidence that the ridge that has been holding this down is weakening and it might escape east of FL.

 

Euro and the official NHC forecast aren't there yet, but it's at least an encouraging sign for FL.

[Ocean Dancer]

Carnival has canceled

 

 

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[BoundForSea]

So NCL cancelled Escape 7 day and Sky 3 day on 9th, offering full refund plus 50% refund on next reservation. RCI only offering 25% off and a one month booking time limit ??? Why isn't RCI offering the same?

 

 

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[OnCampus2k]

So NCL cancelled Escape 7 day and Sky 3 day on 9th, offering full refund plus 50% refund on next reservation. RCI only offering 25% off and a one month booking time limit ??? Why isn't RCI offering the same?

 

 

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Carnival isn't offering ANY future cruise credits!! Like I said on another post, I'm not looking for a handout by any means, but the difference in how the companies is handling this is making me raise an eyebrow.

 

 

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[BoundForSea]

Carnival isn't offering ANY future cruise credits!! Like I said on another post, I'm not looking for a handout by any means, but the difference in how the companies is handling this is making me raise an eyebrow.

 

 

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Says a lot. NCL has been penny pinching, raising costs and cutting back on the product and compensation for the crew contracts, so I'm a bit surprised. I'm hoping RCI follows suit.

 

 

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