Monthly Archives: September 2024
Helene’s historical impacts: Crazy wind gusts ON THE ATLANTIC COAST from a GULF storm
Helene was a gulf storm that normally would not have even raised winds to 25 MPH on the east coast. But the monster wind field delivered some incredibly high wind gusts hundreds of miles from the storm’s center and lashed the east coast of the state with sustained tropical storm winds for 12 hours. Here […]
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Hello everyone! Voting Trend will be working with St. Pete Polls to conduct a poll of Florida’s 13th Congressional District, a race that could possibly determine the tilt of Congress. We are currently providing a GoFundMe for the poll. Those who contribute will be acknowledged in the release of the poll, and will be given a […]
Helene “Once-in-a-Lifetime” impacts: Storm surge on Gulf Coast and Big Bend – sea level rise and climate change are the reason
For years those of us in Florida have been told that “Storm Surge is the biggest killer” in Tropical systems. Helene proved a once-in-a-lifetime event for this. We’ve had lots of once-in-a-lifetime events in Florida recently. So without getting too preachy, why exactly would all this happen within a two year period? Climate Change and […]
EMERGENCY FLORIDA HISTORY POD: Helene – Historic statewide event which was possibly the Tampa Bay area’s Katrina
Emergency Podcast to discuss Helene which brought major wind and storm surge impacts from Miami to Apalachicola and all points in-between. While Florida’s capital city was spared what was feared the Tampa Bay area, long on the “clean” side of Gulf hurricanes has experienced an event potentially unrivaled in the modern history of Florida Hurricanes. […]
Horrific Historic Helene: HUGE impacts on the peninsula without a peninsular landfall- where historically does this rank in modern (post 1990) Florida? (This isn’t even considering the more serious Big Bend impacts yet)
I have been watching and tracking Hurricanes since the 1980’s. We constantly hear about “the big one” or the “Storm of the Century” etc for those of us here in Florida. First it was Andrew, then Charley, then Wilma, then Irma, Michael and Ian. While Andrew and Michael were stronger storms in terms of winds, […]
Helene now a major Hurricane; Sunshine Skyway closed
The NHC has indicated Helene had reached Category 4 strength with maximum winds around 120 MPH as of 2:25 Eastern. The storm has blanketed the state with heavy winds, incredibly putting ALL of the peninsula into TS force winds as of 2pm. In addition to the heavy winds, Tornadic activity has blanketed the state from […]
Latest Helene impacts: Tornadic activity in Manatee, Brevard and Volusia; storm surge impacts in Collier, concern for Tampa Bay and about that “shift” (really wobble) east.
The latest satellite activity shows a slight wobble to the east of the center of the storm. This has raised concern in the Tampa Bay area of a shift to the east and potential direct impacts among residents there. DO NOT PANIC. The shift appears to be a mere wobble which does potentially shift the […]
First impacts from Helene: 64 MPH wind gust at FLL Airport in Broward; Tornadic activity in Collier, Glades, Hendry, Martin, St Lucie and Indian River
While the worst of Helene is certain to impact the Gulf Coast and Big Bend areas of the state, we already have some limited but surprising impacts on the east coast and in the interior of the southern part of the peninsula. Below is graphical information from the NWS Stations in Miami and Melbourne.
Helene: Trust local news and local meteorologists
We live in an era where people are tuned into cable news and getting information from non-local sources. As someone who spends lots of time in every major media market in this state, Kartik Krishnaiyer are in floors who are impacted by Helene to trust the local TV meteorologists in Florida. They understand tropical weather […]
Helene Wednesday AM update- entire peninsula under a Hurricane or Tropical Storm Warning. Entire panhandle under a Hurricane Warning except Escambia, Okaloosa & Santa Rosa
 Helene’s central pressure has dropped under 980 mbar this morning, indicating a strengthening storm. Model Guidance has been fairly consistent in steering the storm toward the big bend region with a few outlier models taking the storm a little further west the Wakulla or Franklin counties However, it is important that Florida residents not […]
The Florida Squeeze 