Yes. Dust devils are like mini-tornados. They can get fairly large and cause damage. One whipped through a parking lot in Gallup some years ago and overturned a car.
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Once you're evacuating Hatteras, aren't you effectively evacuating the entire outer banks?
I remember driving the northern part of the Outer Banks, once, as part of an aviation homage road trip that included Kitty Hawk. It's incredibly flat, and the actual banks - the entire islands, basically - look like they could wash away in a decent storm. At least evacuation routes are very, very well signposted.
Earlier today, I was thinking about the storm track and how unusual it is. Hatteras reminds me why - because the gulfstream basically tracks the coast up to Hatteras, which means there should normally be windshear across this track, either breaking up the storm, or pushing it northwards and the east into the Atlantic. It's very odd that a storm can move directly westwards straight at the coast. "Normal" Carolina hurricanes come from the south, not the east.
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Yikes
Maximum sustained winds are near 130 mph (215 km/h) with higher
gusts. Florence is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson
Hurricane Wind Scale. Florence is expected to begin re-
strengthening later today and continue a slow strengthening trend
for the next day or so. While some weakening is expected on
Thursday, Florence is expected to be an extremely dangerous major
hurricane through landfall.
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RAINFALL: Florence is expected to produce total rainfall
accumulations of 15 to 20 inches with isolated maximum amounts to 30
inches near the storm's track over portions of the Carolinas and
Mid-Atlantic States from late this week into early next week. This
rainfall could produce catastrophic flash flooding and significant
river flooding.
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Live ships map makes for interesting viewing. Look at the hurricane sized hole as ships skirt around it:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais...ry:28.3/zoom:5
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What Inca said.
I see that the predicted track has drifted slightly south which may help AHC on the wind front, but might make things worse on the storm surge (the cyclone rotates anticlockwise, so on the northside the winds are towards shore and push the water westwards). I'm still seeing scary numbers on the storm surge front. A stallout on the coast - which seems to be in some forecasts - is potentially worse yet, even if it means the wind damage is reduced, because it can mean that the water pushed in on the first high tide doesn't get a chance to recede.
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Sounds like it's weakened a little:
Data from the aircraft and Doppler weather radars indicate that
maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 105 mph (165 km/h)
with higher gusts. Little change in strength is expected before the
center reaches the coast, with weakening expected after the center
moves inland.
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