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Kennedy Space Center Braces For Hurricane Matthew (cbsnews.com)
Hurricane Matthew, one of the most powerful storms to hit Florida's Space Coast in the last 50 years, is expected to pummel the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Thursday night and into Friday. "Kennedy Space Center is now in HurrCon 1 status, meaning a hurricane is imminent. Hurricane preparations at Kennedy were completed early last night, and remaining employees were then sent home," NASA spokesman George Diller said in a blog post today. CBS News reports: The National Hurricane Center is predicting heavy rain, dangerous storm surges and winds gusting up to 140 mph along Florida's east coast with the eye passing just off shore or directly over Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center. Satellite observations of Matthew show the hurricane features "a distinct eye surrounded by very deep convection," the National Hurricane Center reported in its 11 a.m. EDT update. "Data from an Air Force reconnaissance plane traversing the eye of the hurricane also indicate that Matthew has strengthened. Members of a 139-member "rideout" team will be stationed at various facilities across the space center to monitor critical systems "and report any significant events" to emergency operations personnel in the Complex 39 Launch Control Center where space shuttle launchings were once managed. "After the hurricane has passed, and winds have dropped below 50 knots, areas around KSC will be assessed and the damage assessment and recovery team will report for duty," said Diller. You can view satellite images of the storm here.
With storms like Matthew happening now, it's truly remarkable to me that anyone can deny that global warming is occurring and that humans are causing it. The climate models predict more hurricanes and that hurricanes will be stronger. We're seeing just that with Matthew. With this in the news, set to hit the entire coastline of eastern Florida instead of small areas like past hurricanes such as Andrew, I can't understand how anyone would still deny global warming.
hi the latest image is at http://www.goes.noaa.gov/brows...
We call it "HurrCon 1 status", because we don't have time to say, "There's a goddamn hurricane coming, head for the hills".
On a related note, 300 people died in Haiti.
And this storm has really been a whole lot of nothing (obviously I still have my power).
You can make it through a little rain and wind. The postal service can do.
That's because the eye and eyewalls of Matthew has stayed offshore. The outer eyewall will probably touch Cape Canaveral and it may actually make landfall in northern Florida, which will result in far worse conditions for those areas. The concentric eyewalls and the large outer eyewall help to keep the winds down a bit. The pressure isn't that low for a major hurricane, so any broadening of the low pressure will bring down the winds. I suspect that 120 mph may be a bit generous for the winds based on the data from the KMLB radar. Nonetheless, if the eyewall replacement completes and if the core can tighten up a bit, that could increase the winds. Also, if landfall occurs, that would bring the stronger winds onshore, though weakening the storm fairly quickly afterwards. Just because it didn't hit south Florida that hard doesn't mean it won't be quite a bit worse for northern Florida.
Spent two days preparing, and lucked out... (I'll take it) Good luck to my neighbors up north.
Windy, and some scattered rain by the Beach
Thank you for this explanation.
Millions of human beings are going to be impacted. Multiple countries are being hit hard. Why give focus to just one small piece of what lays on the storm's path?
She blames it on Global Warming. You knew that was coming from some Asshat. I'm a bit surprised it was her because she presumably has smart people on her team...but not that surprised. After all, never let a crises go to waste...ya know?
If not for the storm, it would have been double that.
I've really been enjoying this. It's like the news is all abuzz about me being such a badass that people flee as I approach.
I understand the importance of getting everything locked down but if they were sending the employees home last night that's going to delay their evacuation and make it a lot more difficult (gas stations frequently sell out of gas during evacuations, etc). I'd think NASA management would tell families to go somewhere safe (inland Air Force base maybe?) and then fly the employees who weren't riding it out there.
On a side note I had an ex who was a lifeguard at Disney world, I went to help her when they were prepping for a hurricane one year and I admired they way they secured the pool furniture so it wouldn't blow away. They just threw it all in the pools, sometimes the simple solutions are the best ones.
Its not likely to shift westward as it moves up the coast. It is more likely hit up in South Carolina if anywhere, but should be significantly weakened by then.
maybe it washes Citrix away? we can hope
This would make for an interesting thriller movie premise. There's a murderer among the ride-out team picking off the other members one by one.
It's bitztream, the autism-hating, Slashdot-story-hating Slashdot troll!
With storms like Matthew happening now, it's truly remarkable to me that anyone can deny that global warming is occurring and that humans are causing it.
Looks to me like, though Global Warming / Climate Change disaster theory has not done a very good job at predicting weather problems, this editorial cartoon was dead-on at predictimg your posting.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Not sure about your numbers, but you can rest assured that once the danger to US citizens pass all sorts of aid will be sent to Haiti.
...none of it will likely reach any of the needy victims.
Haiti.