It poured in and around downtown Savannah today. Much of the area that experienced street flooding sits well above sea level — it’s some of the highest land in the county. But we have longstanding drainage problems when the rain…
Thanks to my friend Mariela for alerting me that the fountain in Savannah’s beautiful Forsyth Park had partially frozen over in last night’s “polar vortex.” I guess the temp dropped to under 20 for a few hours. All the jets…
UPDATE, 6/7, about noon: Most of the rain from Andrea stayed on the west side of the storm as it came up the southeast coast last evening and night. It looks like we had something less than 2 inches of…
Tim Samaras received 18 grants over the years from National Geographic to further his research on tornados, but also played a role in selling the storms as entertainment on the Discovery channel. His final tweet and a tense video of an EF4 from 2003 are embedded here.
Exactly 7 years ago tonight, Hurricane Katrina was gaining strength just off the Florida Keys.
1. Dangerous storms can form very close to the coast.
2. The National Hurricane Center was spot on in its forecasts.
3. Some Savannahians spend way too much time watching TV.
Now weakened Tropical Depression Beryl appears to be making its expected turn northward to be followed by a turn northeastward. It will bring a lot of rain to some areas.
Beryl officially became a tropical storm in the last couple of hours, and it’s now a fairly impressive storm in satellite imagery.
Beryl is headed for landfall late Sunday or early Monday somewhere along the Georgia/Florida state line.
The National Hurricane Center’s 8 p.m. update contained little new from previous updates all day. Beryl is still expected to hit the southeast coast somewhere near the Georgia/Florida border late Sunday night.
Beryl has not yet become a tropical storm (merely subtropical right now) and is not forecast to become a hurricane. But it could have some significant impacts on the southeast coast over the next few days. Landfall is expected late Sunday.
I’m not going to be posting about this with every official update, but all folks along the Georgia coast, the southern portion of South Carolina, and the northern part of Florida should be preparing for a potentially serious storm. Beryl is NOT currently predicted to reach hurricane strength, but tropical storms and depressions can be pretty nasty.
