[pf] Re: Storm Floyd aimed at Raleigh, NC.

At 07:30 15/09/99 -0400, tully wrote:
>Thank you David.  Yes, I will leave the area if by this afternoon it still 
>looks like my area will be hit.  They say this one is worse than Fran and 
>Fran did terrible damage in my area and my house was lucky to have 
>survived.  I have 3 massive trees that would seriously damage the house ..

**  At ~200 miles in from the coast, it shouldn't be anything like what
it's been out at sea, though I don't know how it'll compare with Fran.

**  That webpage I gave you: 
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_astorm8.html
    has NOAA's prediction of wind-speed:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT08/AL0899I.GIF

**  and from 5:00 PM EDT 14 Sept. :-
 0 hrs: 140MPH
12  "   140 "
24  "   140 "
36  "   140 ", at which point they say it'll be Inland (for the first time)
48  "    75 "  Inland
    |
72 hrs:  50MPH Inland


**  I've found some good satellite photos:
http://usacitylink.com/blake/tropical/p3.html 
    (can't actually get that one this morning, NZ time);
    particularly:
http://sgiot2.wwb.noaa.gov/COASTWATCH/GOES/G8CWNCVS.GIF
    {called: 
Visible or Infrared or Water Vapor of W. Atlantic & Mid-Atl. US Coast (NOAA)
    but the visible one is only seen between sunrise and sunset, EST.}

David.
(David MacClement) d1v9d @ bigfoot.com (remove nospam spaces)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3142/Pg1-AD11.html#top
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