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Hurricane Category 4 Hurricane Helene

Another rather remarkable yin/yang water vapor image from this system as former Helene and the upper level low continue their dance.
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34 total Flash Flood Emergencies issued since September 26th in association with Helene.
 
Is the tropical thread becoming more popular all of a sudden?

I just now noticed there’s 50 pages of replies here, more than double the previously most popular thread of Dorian which was a cat5 monster threatening southeast Florida and existed for more than 14 days.

While Helene was a struggling storm that didn’t get going until a couple of hours before landfall in the middle of a swamp with it only lasting for 3 days.

Not even beryl in this same year had much interaction here.
 
JPWX said:
And the main reason why you have more FFE with this is because the moisture is hitting up against the Appalachian Mountains creating a sponge type affect where the mountains are helping to squeeze out as much moisture as possible.
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I had no idea orographic lift could do that to a hurricane like this. In just hours.

There are some landslides and mudslides in the news already. I'm concerned about one near Asheville that reportedly affected some houses, and there are reportedly people missing there.

Also it sounds as though mudslides are what cut I-40 in a few places.

We might be hearing about more of those mass ground movements, hopefully without casualties, over time.
 
jiharris0220 said:
While Helene was a struggling storm that didn’t get going until a couple of hours before landfall in the middle of a swamp with it only lasting for 3 days.

Not even beryl in this same year had much interaction here.
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Helene had a lot of potential on the models, once it appeared there, which inspired a lot of discussion. It also has impacted places more than a normal hurricane long after landfall. It may have made landfall "in the middle of a swamp," but it remained at hurricane strength far inland, and tropical storm strength even further inland. This storm has impacted a significant portion of the southeast in ways that are very, very uncommon. Just look at the road closures, flooding, and other impacts still ongoing in Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.
 
notsoencrypted said:
Helene had a lot of potential on the models, once it appeared there, which inspired a lot of discussion. It also has impacted places more than a normal hurricane long after landfall. It may have made landfall "in the middle of a swamp," but it remained at hurricane strength far inland, and tropical storm strength even further inland. This storm has impacted a significant portion of the southeast in ways that are very, very uncommon. Just look at the road closures, flooding, and other impacts still ongoing in Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.
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There was a lot of discussion of it in online spaces like Twitter well before formation, even before it was designated as an area of interest by the NHC, so perhaps that spurred greater interest. Seemed to be a lot of public engagement with this storm as well. Either way I can't say I'm complaining, happy to see more folks paying attention to the weather.
 
notsoencrypted said:
Speaking of which, poweroutage.us most recent info:

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The fact that over 1/3rd of SC is without power is bonkers. Southeastern regions of Georgia are also critically impacted, and might take a week or more before Georgia Power can really put a dent in that.
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Another important note: Southern Georgia is an area with high historical and contemporary levels of social vulnerability; these are already critically-underserved areas and the toll of the storm will be further emphasized by poverty, lags in housing quality, inability of many folks to maintain house insurance and limited medical & social services infrastructure.
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CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) | Place and Health | ATSDR

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jiharris0220 said:
Is the tropical thread becoming more popular all of a sudden?

I just now noticed there’s 50 pages of replies here, more than double the previously most popular thread of Dorian which was a cat5 monster threatening southeast Florida and existed for more than 14 days.

While Helene was a struggling storm that didn’t get going until a couple of hours before landfall in the middle of a swamp with it only lasting for 3 days.

Not even beryl in this same year had much interaction here.
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I think the RI from Cat 1 to Cat 4 in less than a day as it was nearing landfall along with davastating impacts well inland caused a lot of people to keep up with it. I also think storms in the Gulf are for some reason more popular to keep up with than Atlantic storms.

I also don't have the numbers, but I assume this site is a lot bigger now than it was in 2019.
 
TornadoFan17 said:
I think the RI from Cat 1 to Cat 4 in less than a day as it was nearing landfall along with davastating impacts well inland caused a lot of people to keep up with it. I also think storms in the Gulf are for some reason more popular to keep up with than Atlantic storms.

I also don't have the numbers, but I assume this site is a lot bigger now than it was in 2019.
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I’m almost certain this sudden spike in interaction is because a lot of people this year are more tuned in to the weather.

You have YouTube channels like Ryan’s that have over 2million subscribers and multiple other weather related videos regularly garnering millions of views.

During Helene, multiple weather websites like Tropical Tidbits, CyclonicWx, and even Weather Nerds had server overcapacity issues to the point I couldn’t even enter, which had never happened before.

I think that meteorology is experiencing a major boom in popularity, on twitter, there’s multiple post (disregarding how aids inducing) that have tens, to hundreds of thousands of likes.

I think from now on the tropical weather section here will have more replies to threads.

Otherwise I can’t explain why a storm that lasted only three days has more than double the interaction of Dorian and Irma.
 
Kds86z said:
Heard from my buddy . Been a day. He is in Asheville. Having to evacuate to Charlotte to his grandparents. He’s 19. His whole family lives there. Sounds like his home is …
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That's so sad.
 
Clancy said:
Wind damage from Helene all the way up into Ohio, with substantial power outages.

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a locally enhanced band of 50 - 60mph wind gusts situated along the ohio river around the 3:30p - 5p timeframe yesterday put most of Hamilton county (where cincinnati is located) in the dark. I was starting to get flashbacks to the remnants of hurricane Ike - during which I lost power for a full week - but thankfully, power was restored for me just after midnight today. More than half of the county's outages have been fixed since last night as well. The area hasn't had verizon cell service since about 11pm last night though...
 
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