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Here we go again! Now we have the
4th named storm of the season and this one's a douzy! Hurricane Dennis
the menace. The anxiety level here in Tampa was to put it
mildly, almost panic. A cat 4 storm edging on cat 5, (see the
saphir-simpson scale).
Every one was heading to Home Depot again for plywood. But it has
skinned by us, all we are getting is tropical force winds and rain. I
woke up at 6:30 am, July 10th, to 4 tornados all within 4 miles of me.
I kept glued to the TV and satellite images on the internet, praying.
But we only suffered the feeder bands.
I feel so sorry for Pensacola and Alabama. I have tryed all morning to
get a live webcam of that area, but everyone has shut the power and
evacutated. All I have access to is the Dopplers on local news stations
and NOAA. I went through Andrew in Delray Beach, and that was bad
enough. I would get out too.
In Tampa the bucket trucks have been rolling down the highway in
caravans headed to Pensacola. All the power companies have assembled
and are inching as close as they can to help.This is going to be
horrible. The wave height in the storm is up to 43 feet right now,
according to the buoys. And that is combined with a tide that
cannot exit because of the storm.
This is going to be major. I can 't help but wonder if we have such a
strong one so early in the season, just what are we really in for
this year? At any rate I'm going to load pics I have captured to show
the progress of the storm.
Below I have searched for pictures and graphs on the web so you can
track the storm. Some pictures I tryed relentlessly this morning to get
more of , as the local webcams, but power to the buildings on the
beaches has been shut down, and mostly evacuated.
At any rate there are still some photos from yesterday, from live
webcams in pensacola, that you can look at to see the aftermath in a
few days.
As soon as the cams are up & workin ...(although I ran across a few
that have been down since last years storm) I will load "After "
Pics.
In the meantime I hope no one is going to try and "ride this one out"
In my opinion, a foolhearty move. Although I know from the surf website
located there, the surfers are hoping for the wave before the wind
hits.
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July 9th 2005
Satellite july 9th, 2005
Pensacola Current Conditions
July 10th, 2005 10:56 am
10:56 am July 10th
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One of the last cam shots,
pensacola... yesterday
pensacola pier, yesterday
On the beach, Pensacola yesterday
Panama Beach, Penacola Cam ,
Yesterday
FORT WALTON BEACH,
Fla. (July 10) - Hurricane
Dennis closed in on the Gulf Coast early Sunday after strengthening
into a dangerous Category 4 storm, plowing toward a region still
recovering from a hurricane 10 months ago.
With nearly 1.4
million people under evacuation
orders, some towns in the projected path were left almost deserted.
Landfall was expected Sunday afternoon somewhere along the coast of the
Florida Panhandle, Alabama or Mississippi.
After weakening to
a Category 2 storm over Cuba,
Dennis regrouped in the Gulf on Saturday and became a Category 4 storm
again early Sunday, with sustained winds of 145 mph.
''Category 4 is
not just a little bit worse -
it's much worse,'' said Max Mayfield, director of the National
Hurricane Center in Miami. ''Damage increases exponentially as the wind
speed increases. And no matter where it makes actual landfall, it's
going to have a tremendous impact well away from the center.''
Current Wave Heights
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Station 42039 - PENSACOLA -
115NM East Southeast of Pensacola, FL
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Owned and maintained by
National Data Buoy Center
3-meter discus buoy
DACT payload
28.79 N 86.02 W (28°47'38"N
86°01'17"W)
Site elevation: sea level
Air temp height: 4 m above site
elevation
Anemometer height: 5 m above site
elevation
Barometer elevation: sea level
Sea temp depth: 0.6 m below site
elevation
Water depth: 291.4 m
Watch circle radius: 474 yards
Effective
June 2, 2005, wave measurements are one hour older than the indicated
observation time. This will be corrected in a subsequent service visit.
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Click on the graph icon in the
table below to see a time series plot of the last five days of that
observation.
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Wind Direction (WDIR): |
SE ( 130 deg true ) |
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Wind Speed (WSPD): |
46.6 kts |
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Wind Gust (GST): |
58.3 kts |
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Wave Height (WVHT): |
32.8 ft |
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Dominant Wave Period (DPD): |
13 sec |
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Average Period (APD): |
9.1 sec |
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Mean Wave Direction (MWDIR): |
ESE ( 102 deg true ) |
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Atmospheric Pressure (PRES): |
28.91 in |
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Pressure Tendency (PTDY): |
-0.31 in ( Falling Rapidly ) |
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Air Temperature (ATMP): |
80.2 °F |
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Water Temperature (WTMP): |
81.1 °F |
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Dew Point (DEWP): |
77.7 °F |
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Heat Index (HEAT): |
86.7 °F |
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