Take Cover, Take Precautions As Hurricane Earl Swipes The Territory
If the forecasters are correct, the brunt of Hurricane Earl will stay north of the Virgin Islands, but high winds and heavy rains are expected to be with us through the day on Wednesday.
At 1:30 p.m. Monday, the National Weather Service reported that the eye of the storm was located at 19.0°N 64.0°W, just northeast of the British Virgin Islands, moving WNW at 15 MPH and packing maximum sustained winds of 125 MPH.
The Category 3 storm is expected to intensify to a Category 4 as it moves away from the Territory and into the Gulf of Mexico.
High winds and frequent heavy rain is expected and at the time of this report, Puerto Rico was already starting to feel tropical storm force winds as the eye moved closer. Stay tuned to local media for the latest updates on the storm.
Links to the NOAA weather website and to local radar are in the sidebar just below the Countdown Clock.
Here’s hoping Hurricane Earl bypasses the territory and the people of the Virgin Islands (both British and U.S.)will be spared the ravages
a storm of that category can inflict.
Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
Same from here Soldier. Everyone please be careful.
The radar looks pretty bad. How is it on the ground?
Stay safe!
here on east end its not so badlots of rain and some gusts.
Thanks. Hope it doesn’t get any more serious!
Be careful!
As far away as the storm is from the mainland,parts of South Florida are reportedly overcast and getting rain.
Remember this refrain?
June= Too soon.
July= Stand by.
August=You must.
September=Remember,and
October=All over.
Well,hurricanes have developed and struck in later months and as early as in January.
As Max Mayfield himself would tell us,there is no telling as to when and where as storm may strike……although forecasting has come a long way since the 50s.
Hang in there guys!!
@ Soldier -
well, it looks like a quiet one on cif today – i’ve tried to get the radio to get some updates but it seems that everything is down.
We just have to send good wishes to our friends in the VI that everyone remains safe, that damage is minimal and recovery swift.
Nervous about some of the really low lying areas like Nadir and Williams delight. The forecast now says there could be 4-8 inches of rain – hope they’re wrong because those communities will cannot sustain that level of rainfall.
Take care.
@ windy city and SC
We are out of the woods as far as the hurricane side, but we just got the update that we are on the rainy side of the hurricane. We will have tropical force winds, with lots of rain. The feeder bands of this storm are really big and will give us localized flooding. I will keep you posted on the flooding in NADIR, on stt. I hope someone on stx could give you an update over there. The problem really is, Fiona is right behind Earl. Earl will drop lots of rain and will not leave until wednesday morning and fiona will be moving in wednesday afternoon! so we will try and hold steady down here.
@ Insider:
thanks so much for the update – that double punch is going to be hard to take.
you’re right – the radar on earl looks huge so please everyone just stay inside.
we are thinking of all of you.
@ ‘Insider’:
We certainly appreciate your keeping us posted as I’m unable to pick up 1620 and WSTA.Good to hear that hurricane winds are not going to be a problem.Let’s hope Fiona will be a dry weather system and not dump as much rain on you guys.
Wishing you well.
Okay – STT reporter Erica Bivens was on the weather channel by phone reporting that St. Thomas had lots of wind damage, trees down, roads blocked and, of course, power out.
She had no report on injuries or flooding.
Then later very short video from STX saying 40-50 mph winds but no details.
@ ‘Windy City’:
Good job.I was able to hear yesterday (via a garbled report on WSTA) before the power outage,that between 15-20 transformers were knocked out on St.Thomas.
The rest of the week,assuming Fiona doesn’t do as much damage,is going to be mop-up and clean-up time for the folks in the V.I.
Looking forward to hearing from ‘The Clock’,'Enough’,’1620 Woman’and others when they get back on stream as we’d like to hear their reporting.
Thanks,mate.
…..oooooops,forgot to mention ‘Insider’.How are things faring on the east side,my brother? The Red Hook area must be a mess.
@ Soldier’
You think they’ll have things back up and running for the primary? I can just see deJongh trying to have a George W moment atop the wreckage of the World Trade Center to exploit this.
Bad timing.
WSTA is back on
WSTA was the best storm reporting. Kudos to Addie, Lee Carle and john Tohey. The facts and nothing but the facts.
Leslie on AMG (WVWI, KISS and JAMZ) as well as Sam Topp a real pro.
1620 was a joke wihtout adequate staff to give any coverage.
WSTX was a disappointment with Redfeild, his funeral music,self deprecating attempt at humor always point to himself “look at me” “look at me”. “Bring your little ones around the radio and let me hold their hands” nonsense.
People want information….just the facts and nothing but the facts. the constant prattle could should be replaced by little cheerful music if the former Senator runs out of important information. He always turns a weather event into a self promotion of his normal malapropisms link into a endless stream of verbage. It ends up being a tune out.
@’Windy City’:
Bad timing indeed,and the primary,depending on the extent of the damage and length of time it will take for things to get back to norm (and of what Fiona may have in store for the territory),may well have to be postponed.
The governor,for sure,is going to try and use this to his advantage but you’ve also got to believe CIF and others will be on the lookout for any and all devious moves by deWolf and his gang.
We’ll see how this all plays out.
The governor controls the weather now?
…..did someone suggest that he does?
@ Anonymous @ 11:47
He won’t claim it when its bad – but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear an ad giving Himself credit for the next sunny day!
Hey SC Hey Windy
Well, the electricity is back on for now. It is weird some houses have it and others dont. Myself and my neghbors have but the rest of the neighborhood is still black. There are many down trees and polls(mostly cable and phone). I hd a big Genip tree fall on my generator house, but everything is well. The gov came on and said there were no casualties or injuries, thats a damn lie. I know for a fact that there were at least 5 deaths during the course of the storm and in the early morning hours. The next road over from where I am another large tree fell on a house injuring 3 people. I got to work and 2 of my coworkers were a little battered and bruised and had to go home. If that happened in my little corner of the world, I know there must have been more somewhere else on the island!