Wow.
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These cloud top temperature (which correlate to cloud height) are nearly at the top of the chart. The pink is extremely high, extremely cold, and indicates a very powerful and healthy hurricane…
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Beautiful looking but UGLY through and through. 
Well hell… hurricane Michael is looking to be a monster for the panhandle part of Florida, missing Naples, great weather here.
I’m going to Road Atlanta for the final sport car race of the IMSA season, North of Atlanta. Plan was to leave today North on 75… 6 hour ride, hotel for the night, then 6 hours tomorrow… but due to the storm today, going the full 12 hours tomorrow… hope I can find gas on my way up past the effected area.
Good luck to any living in that area. Stay safe.
That looks dangerous indeed.
Stay safe over there!
Without commenting on amateur or semi-professional storm chasers, the last 20 minutes of this video is pretty damn amazing when you see just how quickly things turn to crap as the eyewall approaches:
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They cancelled school here in Cleveland County, NC. Probably a good call with the ground pretty saturated and some winds starting to pick up. It probably didn’t hurt that it was already scheduled to be a half day for parent/teacher conferences.
Do they forecast a lot of precipitation for SC and NC again?
Yes they do. We’re under tropical storm and flash flood warnings across the state here, and schools are closed from the SC border all the way out to Beach’s neck of the woods. Oh, and there’s also a tornado warning now in Burgaw, about 25 minutes north of Wilmington up I-40.
Crap, you’re in for it this season… 
Yeah…it’s been raining all night and positively pouring right now. The storm is moving really, really fast now though (25 mph +) so it won’t linger.
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We were lucky and didn’t have to evacuate, like our neighbors who had gone to Panama City. The storm is passing us to the West, and headed more or less toward @BeachAV8R and @Navynuke99. High tide is in about 15 minutes and the storm surge is supposed to be only about 2 ft above normal. Winds are sustained 31, but hearing the house shudder a bit feels like stronger gusts. We were lucky and didn’t get a lot of precipitation.
On the creek side it’s churning with the tide flowing in S, but the wind blowing from the S/SE. There are trees and furniture passing every now and then. We brought our deck furniture in last night.
The inlet is also churning with a bunch of debris washed on the beach last night.
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Glad to see y’all are safe. Storm is further west and south of me right now, and I imagine @BeachAV8R is about to get it pretty good. We’re looking at getting hit with the remnants here this afternoon ourselves.
Friend of mine works for the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, and has been holed up at the station since yesterday, but from what she’s been able to see out, the destruction has been pretty massive, with boats on land, buildings completely demolished, and cell service intermittent. Looks really bad down that way.
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…and just got word from Dr. Girlfriend that East Carolina has shut down effective 1500 today, as the Tar River has already risen past the level it was at following Florence, so Greenville is expecting to flood.
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Poor North Carolinians! You guys have had an incredibly rough couple of months.
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Honestly, it’s been a rough couple of years for the eastern part of the state. My Facebook timehop reminded me that two years ago I was still without power from Matthew, and we still got off easy. I’ve JUST wrapped a handful of Matthew-related refurb and repair jobs in Fayetteville, Pembroke, etc, and those areas are getting hit again.
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current weather report at the house
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Yeah, same thing here at NC State.
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Tyndall took a beating… are those QF-16s?
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