Over 3.5 million remain without power this morning.

at this point i think “harris needs more details” is just the way, refracted through consumption of punditry, that these voters are saying that a) they don’t pay much attention and b) they don’t want to vote for a woman www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/u...

We're seeing news of 1 in a 1000 year rainfall events, and of rivers reaching record height from Helene For a while, something has worried me about estimates of flood and precipitation return levels in the South and Southeast US, and (for once) it's not climate change. 1/

What a terrifying image.

54 people rescued from roof of Tennessee hospital due to floodwaters from Hurricane Helene

At least 54 people are trapped on the roof of a hospital in Tennessee on Friday after floodwaters due to Hurricane Helene quickly surrounded the medical center.

Just catching up on some of the water level data from late last night. At its last report, the Steinhatchee River was at 9.63 feet, having risen 11 feet in just 1 hour (!). Lots of other stations on Florida's NW coast stopped reporting during the surge spike. #flwx#Helene

Seriously impressive forecasting for #Helene, even before it had even formed.

BMbmcnoldy.bsky.socialSep 27, 2024 12:32pm

Inland impacts continue from #Helene, but its time as a tropical cyclone is winding down. Here's a look at the NHC's history of track & intensity forecasts for the storm. Track forecasts were very good, and the intensity forecasts just missed the rate of rapid intensification.

More than 2.5 million customers without power FL to NC this morning from Helene.

Helene’s Cat 4 landfall gives the U.S. a record eight Cat 4 or Cat 5 Atlantic hurricane landfalls in the past eight years (2017-2024), seven of them being continental U.S. landfalls. That’s as many Cat 4 and 5 landfalls as occurred in the prior 57 years.

Tallahassee radar now measuring winds exceeding 170 mph at approximately 1.6 km ASL as the eyewall of #Helene begins moving ashore. 😳

Clearwater Beach sets all time record water level from a storm making landfall over 100 miles away

Wweathermatrix.bsky.socialSep 27, 2024 12:59am

Current #Helene Storm Surges (MHHW Height Rank, POR) @ 8:30 PM Clearwater Beach: +6.09 ft (#1, 1985+) East Bay: +6.01 ft (#2, 2019+) Old Port Tampa: +5.68 ft (#2 1996+) St. Petersburg: +5.34 ft (#2, 1950+) Fort Myers: +5.11 ft (#2, 1974+) www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane...