Hurricane Dorian

[Jaclyn]

Dorian is forecast to come ashore near Indian River Shores, FL around 9 am on Monday, 2 September. That’s roughly 60 miles south of where we’re prepared to hunker down to ride it out. Here’s the official poop from the US National Hurricane Center.

All y’all on the southern US Atlantic seaboard and all y’all in Florida, plan for the worst and be safe.

[Jaclyn]

As of 8 am Eastern Saturday morning, this is the situation. Dorian’s predicted track has moved out to 100 miles offshore. If the track holds, we’re near the eyewall so winds are sporty. Here’s a zoom on the 8 am graphic from https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ where the red line is generally where we are, on the middle barrier island and directly west from the point of Cape Canaveral. We’re currently under an evacuation order that we plan to ignore beginning Sunday. Traffic is more dangerous than the weather.

[Jaclyn]

Now under a bona fide hurricane watch. Dorian has gone Cat 5 and might be taking the Bahamas well past Brexit into the Bermuda Triangle.

Today we put up hurricane shutters and brought in anything that might fly. Sometime during daylight tomorrow Monday, we expect the beginnings of storm force winds. Crossing the Bahamas, winds to 185 mph (295 km/h) with higher gusts.