Subj : Re: Hurricane Idalia
To   : Mike Dippel
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Wed Aug 30 2023 16:28:00

Mike Dippel wrote:
> I live about 15 miles from the western coast of Florida near the Tampa Bay
> area.
> Idalia made landfall in Florida's Big Bend near Keaton Beach just before 8
> a.m. ET., with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph.
> 
> For us in Sun City Center, it presented pretty much as a Tropical storm,
> giving us some much needed rainfall.  I haven't been outside yet but I don't
> see any downed trees, so we were very lucky.

By the time it made landfall, it was already breaking up. It was 
technically no longer a hurricane. (However it was an unusually large 
area of low pressure, for that part of the world.)

Compare the distinct center on Franklin, out in the Atlantic.

https://classic.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=mean_sea_level_pressure/orthographic=-85.32,29.68,2704/loc=-70.425,30.625
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