The Weather (2024)

[Count Walewski]

If I'm reading the charts correctly, the Fort Myers area is expected to receive 10+ foot of storm surge from the southern bands of Milton, which is what the area got from a direct hit by Hurricane Ian a few years ago. Insane.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Milton swept ashore in Siesta Key near Sarasota along Florida’s west central coast at 8:30 p.m. eastern time. The Category 3 storm struck with peak winds of 120 mph and is heading east-northeast at 15 mph.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/10/09/hurricane-milton-florida-landfall-live-updates/

[JCA-CrystalCity]

and it's far enough south that Tampa Bay is getting and anti-surge with an outflow from the bay.

Surge is clobbering towns to the south as far as Fort Myers and Naples.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/10/09/hurricane-milton-florida-landfall-live-updates/#link-YUIFW36ZGZFINLQ6YQQQNDZWRE

[Natsinpwc]

Tampa caught a break again. Looks like anyway.

[imref]

Tampa caught a break again. Looks like anyway.

Tropicana Field is now an open-air stadium.
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/the-roof-of-tropicana-field-was-ripped-off-by-hurricane-miltons-winds

The trop was being used as temporary housing for first responders and utility workers.

St. Pete has no water after a major water main break. The city is shutting off the water system until it's repaired.

[Count Walewski]

The pictures of the Trop without a roof are truly mind-blowing. The Rays picked a good year to not make the playoffs, that's for sure.

[Natsinpwc]

We survived but no power in our apartment.  Daughter says they have power which is good.  Just a few small trees down. 
Long live the Trop.

[imref]

The pictures of the Trop without a roof are truly mind-blowing. The Rays picked a good year to not make the playoffs, that's for sure.

rough day for buildings named Tropicana

[JCA-CrystalCity]

We survived but no power in our apartment.  Daughter says they have power which is good.  Just a few small trees down. 
Long live the Trop.

good to hear from you. Conserve your batteries!

[Natsinpwc]

good to hear from you. Conserve your batteries!

Power is back. Other than our internet.

[imref]

Drone footage of Tropicana Field damage:

https://x.com/Ry_Bass/status/1844367980249178396

[machpost]

I keep wondering if they'll decide that it's too expensive to repair and just not worth it for a facility that's more or less condemned to demolition anyway.

[nfotiu]

I keep wondering if they'll decide that it's too expensive to repair and just not worth it for a facility that's more or less condemned to demolition anyway.

Or leave it an outdoor stadium for a couple years??

[imref]

It looks like it’s just the roof fabric that got destroyed. I assume they’ll fix it. It’s probably insured as well.

[imref]

Anyone see the Northern Lights tonight?

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Anyone see the Northern Lights tonight?

probably somebody in the Trop could

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

That would probably be a welcome break from looking up at the soles of the Red Sox 

[wj73]

Anyone see the Northern Lights tonight?

Got a magnificent display out here in the boonies, on South Mountain at the Frederick/Washington County line. Pinks, oranges, and greens across the sky. Breathtaking.


I’ve never seen them before. Bucket list item - checked off!! And a lot cheaper than a trip to Iceland or Alaska.

[imref]

Horrific flooding in Valencia, Spain from a massive storm that dropped around 20" of rain in ~4 hours, along with massive hail. Reports are that at least 60 are dead/missing. Videos showed a river of cars washing down streets.

https://wapo.st/40nKUtU

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Didn't Valencia have terrible fires not so long ago?

[imref]

34 days since it last rained in DC, tying a record. Rain is forecasted for Thursday morning.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

34 days since it last rained in DC, tying a record. Rain is forecasted for Thursday morning.

dang.  So much for my bike commute.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

saw my first flakes of the winter just now when I stepped away for a break.

[1995hoo]

Extremely light snow flurries falling here. I mean "extremely light."

[varoadking]

saw my first flakes of the winter just now when I stepped away for a break.

We ran into quite a snow storm on the way from Ohio to Chicago yesterday...took 9 hours to drive from Dayton using back roads part of the way as Interstate 65 was shut down in one stretch...