The Weather Thread

[SciFiFisher]

And now Milton is headed towards Tampa and is a category 5 hurricane. Where are thou now climate deniers?

[Rommie]

Yeah

Hans Solo voice "I have a bad feeling about this"

[pumpkinpi]

The 2020s are going to be looked back on as a really disastrous time period...

[Thumper]

Everybody I know that lives or has property in FL is safe. Can't say the same for their property. Friends that live near Tampa evacuated. Won't know how their house fared until they are allowed back in. Could be a while. Our favorite beach, Siesta Key just got hammered twice. Haven't seen anything specific about damage there, but it has to be significant...

[Rommie]

The 2020s are going to be looked back on as a really disastrous time period...

Homer Simpsons voice "the most disastrous time period- so far!"

Parents came out fine as Naples got even less surge than with Ian two years ago. A friend whose mom up in Tampa already had 2ft of water in her house a few weeks back from Helene (enough to lose all the furniture), and not sure how things fared this time. She had just paid the insurance premium, but her kids are trying to get her to move back north to be closer to them. Fair enough- how can you get insurance for something you KNOW is going to happen?

[Thumper]

Glad your folks are safe. Here in Ohio, we have had just glorious weather for the last two weeks. I was walking the dog last week on a beautiful morning and we both decided that all things considered, Ohio ain't too bad...

[SciFiFisher]

Brite was sharing with me that Florida is starting to actually see more people leaving than are staying due to the crazy hurricane seasons. I did read recently that places like Florida and Texas are also not nearly as cheap as they used to be thanks to rising real estate values and taxes that go up with that. Which is also a factor apparently.

[Rommie]

Today is officially the last day of summer. By which I mean if you look at the weather forecast, today is still sunny and 70s but starting tomorrow I get a little rain icon on my weather app and the only thing that appears to change is the % probability of rain for the next 10 days after it.

I mean, I was just waiting for the other shoe to fall, but we are 3 months in and I think it's rained 3 times. So far it's by far the best weather climate I've lived in- the question is how much the next 6 months averages out that opinion!

[Thumper]

You will definitely get some rain and clouds there in the valley in the next 6 months...
But probably no hurricanes.
Temp drops here highs in the 50's for the next few days, even a frost warning. Nothing unusual for October in Ohio.
As for FL, I don't know how people can afford to own or build down there anymore. Flood insurance costs have to be absolutely astronomical. Heck, you have to jump through all kinds of hoops HERE to build in a designated flood plain. It appears that ALL of FL and soon most coastal regions will be in perpetual flood plains if not altogether underwater.