Heck of an image.

Damn, I really wouldn't want to live in Florida this year.

I miss the Caribbean.

What's really cool about this as well, is if you look at the Port Charlotte/Punta Gorda area, you can see a big brown area around the bay....the stripped foliage from Charley.

I drove through that area a few days after it went through...some scary powerful shiat there.

Heh. Try the higher resolution versions.

I'd hit it. ;-)

/me survived a Cat 4 hurricane in Mexico a couple years ago. Those thatched roof huts on stilts can take a lot of weather abuse! I was in one.

More images here:

http://www.noaa.gov/

I've got the high res image of ivan of over grenada on my desktop (Thursday). It's awesome quality


please excuse the lack of html

Heh, you can bet your arse that up here in New England, I will never complain about a snowstorm or a 15 degree day in January ever again.

Wake me when it hits something again...if I don't pull up the other pic from yesterday or whenever the hell it was, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference...

/Drunk and Beligerant(sp?...ah who the fark cares)

Everyone is talking about florida, but it looks to me like it's making a b-line for lousiana.

I would like to see high resolution photoes of that crator in North Korea...

I like how if you look at the super high resolution pic, you can see all the "city" parts of Florida.

And yes, Just Ignorant, we here on the Texas coast have been watching it, too. I hate to say it, but I've sometimes found myself saying, "Dangit, go north! Quit coming west!"

I'd also like to see North Korea's forest fire cloud.

For a really cool pic set it to 250 meter resolution.

Also, I have no more faith in the predictions of weather stations anymore. They said Claudette was going to go north. It didn't. They said it wasn't going to be a hurricane. It was. And while it was weak, the damage--largely due to the gusts, we think--was much more extensive than some of the more powerful ones that have come through here. We're still cleaning up, actually (live on a ranch--big place).

I'm about to head back home to Chicago, and my parents are going with me for the weekend. I'm thinking about cancelling the trip and staying home to help my parents in the storm if it hits, regardless of the consequences I may face if I go back late.

omg i can't believe it, a hurricane headed for florida?! someone call art bell, the world is ending...

lets see...every year hurricanes hit florida, every year some moron is on the news crying that they lost everything they own

whats that you say? move out of florida to avoid the hurricanes? i think not.

Ever notice how the satellite photos make hurricanes look like a giant asshole on the surface of the planet? Or is it just me?

/yes, I know I'm sick.
//no, I don't want help.

if it actually follows the track they're predicting, the remaining 50% of western north carolina is about to join its other half downstream.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0904W5+GIF/030853W5.gif

link to current noaa prediction

if it goes like they say the carolinas where im at could be in for it...

Ho-lee shiat...

Ivan sings 'Sweeeet home Alabama'

if it hits Bama expect flying trailers.

A big FARK YOU to the asshats that think this storm is cool. It's killed a number of folks, and will kill more. And given the predictions, it has a good chance of destroying my home.

yeah...real great track...see that last "D" in the track....that's my house...swell

cenotaph
Storm is not cool..but the pic really is

Aside from the impressive size of the storm, and the energy involved, it is interesting (to me) how quickly the image loads, and that you can download a world file to orient the image in a GIS (Geographic Information System).

Whistling in the dark, maybe?

/hang on to your butts

Its not going to hit Orlando!!!! Doo - dah!!!!

Oh wait..........

Have you seen the central pressure in that thing?

Man if it does not wipe Cuba we are in for some very bad shiat. So far, with the exception of Grenada, it looks like it is skipping its way around Islands. Like its on a mission....

/paranoid.

I think earthquakes are cool. Even though I live where I could get creamed by one from several different faults. It's Mother Nature's way of saying "You get mountains and continents instead of a planet worn down to a single large island and a big shallow sea".

Just like hurricanes/typhoons are Her way of saying "too much heat differential between the tropics and temperate zones. Let's transfer some energy and mix things up a little so things don't toast and freeze so much."

The kilotons of TNT per second is cool, the damage it does ain't.

/lessen it drives a straw through a Buick's bumper or something.

29 inches of snow at a pop can put a damper on things.

Damn I've become jaded to internet porn. Two links with boobies on the main page, and all I want to click on is pictures of Ivan.

Am I the only one who thinks Ivan will hit Houston or New Orleans? it seems that a turn up towards the Florida panhandle is a bit sudden

As a pharmacy tech, I'd just like to say that I completely hate hurricanes. I hate the news stations for telling everyone to go get their prescriptions filled. Sure, the news channel is saying you should get all of your medicine, but your insurance company is telling us that they won't pay for it -- federal law is telling us you can't have it for a few more weeks as you just picked it up four days ago.

Quit yelling at us, stop taking all of your xanax -- don't panic, just bring a towel.

Every hurricane, which has been every week. I don't understand why, when this is the third to hit in a month or so, everyone is still rushing out to get plywood and such for their windows. Why are you morons taking your plywood off when we're having a busy season?

Every week, my dad wakes me on my day off to prepare the house for another hurricane, every week I tell him he's an idiot for taking the last preparations down when he knew another one could be on the way.

/sick of hurricanes.

Granted, what we got last week wasn't nearly as bad as what those poor folks in Florida got last week, but it looks like Ivan the Terrible will be making its way not only towards the Panhandle, but towards western North Carolina, where we got our asses kicked by the hurricane formerly known as Frances. Go ask those folks in Asheville just how much of a biatch Frances was last week, and just how much of a bastard Ivan will be should it pay a visit as well!

Now, if you will excuse me, I gotta call some guy named Noah about getting on board some sort of boat to ride out the coming storm.

From Art Bell's "webcam," as of this thread entry's timestamp.

Am I the only one who thinks Ivan will hit Houston or New Orleans?

Houston's certainly overdue. Got a direct hit from Alicia in 1983, and then nothing since -- even the "near misses" didn't raise more than a light breeze.

I can see my house!

/kendall, south miami
/paid $5553 cash for goddamn hurricane shutters

I think I finally understand Orwell's 1984. Now that Ivan looks like it's heading west of Florida, I'm actually happy it'll hit somewhere else on the Gulf coast.

"Do it to Mobile, do it to Nawlins'!"

Am so tired of this shiat. It's not the actual experience of the storm but the runup to it that really wears you out.

gilmoure

... It's not the actual experience of the storm but the runup to it that really wears you out. ...

Yes! -- And the aftermath. While you are going through it, you're just plain too scared to get ground down.

Last Sept. (9/18) we got to experience Isabel here in Tidewater Virginia. Every time one of these "Weather Events" goes through - be it hurricane or snow storm or whatever, we get a great deal of "pre-event hype" (sort of like the buildup before the Super Bowl. Everybody gets all worked up into a tail-chasing frenzy ("Must get bread. Must get milk"). The event comes and either lives up to expectancies and anticipation - or not (as is - fortunately - usually the case). But Isabel here was quite impressive. There were areas around here without power for over 2 weeks. Lots of downed trees and damage. For quite a while afterwards, there was sort of a community numbness - we had become zombies. Mother nature had left a fairly impressive calling card. And you get really tired of "doing without" those things you had come to take for granted (like ice!). There are still some coastal shore areas (Poquoson and Seaford) where folks didn't have / couldn't get flood / storm insurance and are still in the process of recovering a year later.

My heart goes out to everyone in Florida who has been going through all of this, is and is going to go to have to go through it all over again!

xarlos, i was reading about the cayman islands last night...they have a population of between 30-50k but they have supposedly over 6000 banks and over 40000 corporations based in the caymans..... their economy is in the billions and they dont really export anything....

its just crazy...
but glad to hear the smaller islands will miss a direct hit, hope all are well in grand cayman...

Yet again, damn the bastards who are under the misguided assumption that hurricanes hit Florida every farking year. They DON'T!

Anyway...I think Ivan's been bypassing Jamaica, the Caymans, and Cuba in order not to lose too much strength before it hits us in the Florida Panhandle. Why will it come here and not anywhere from Fort Walton Beach westward? Because the Miami Hurricanes beat Florida State on Friday and they've sent Ivan to pound the campus, adding further insult to injury.

Any idiot who lives in Florida should be shot. I wouldn't move to Florida if you paid me. What an idiotic place to live. Why don't you all go live someplace safe, like Manhattan?

(had to be said)

(see my bio b4 flaming)