ugh really...of course I hope this thing fucking thing would fizzle out...I don't want anyone to get hit by a hurricane; With that said FL has gotten lucky lately, we are normally the punching bag for hurricane season.
Hasn’t stopped raining for two days. Golf course behind my house is completely flooded. Managing partner hasn’t closed the office for tomorrow yet.
Damn dude. That sucks. And this thing is moving slow as hell. We are actually having decent gusts in Jax right now and are expected to all week, along with rain.
You should get a boat. Also is this the slowest moving storm ever? Just saw something that it’s projected to hit land again late Friday early Saturday.
Got quite a few neighbors canoeing in the streets. and naw, that storm that sat over the abacos last year was much slower.
I definitely defer to you, you live in that region. Just saying this fucker has been looping around for a few weeks now.
The reason it slows down over the next few days is you'll have the main ridge of high pressure off to the east of Florida, but a second ridge of high pressure also developing near Mexico. The ridge east of Florida wants to direct Eta north, but the ridge near Mexico wants to move Eta more southerly. While the eastern ridge is stronger and does generally win out, thus the eventual northward turn, the western ridge is strong enough to slow it's motion down to a crawl. But yeah, there have been slower storms than this, though this certainly is not a typical storm track. As CF3234 said, Dorian last year when it was in the Bahamas did not exceed a storm motion of 2 mph between 2am Monday 9/3 and 2pm Tuesday 9/4, and was stationary for a large portion of that time period. This one wasn't as slow, but Joaquin in 2015 had a path where it essentially did a U-turn over the central Bahamas.