and devastating rains. Same impact as a higher category storm due to its large size and the amount of rain it will drop. https://weather.com/safety/hurricane/news/2018-09-12-hurricane-florence-forecast-southeast-us?cm_ven=wu_videos

Any good news is welcome

The wind slowing down is great news but the storm surge can still be very dangerous

It was a much less reported story than New Orleans but the Mississippi coast was devastated by Katrina. The storm had been a monster when out in the gulf but wind speeds dropped before landfall. Nevertheless, the storm surge continued as if it was a cat 5. It was like a snowplow that had built up momentum. Even when it slowed down, it still had all that water pushing landward. There were miles of beach front neighborhoods that were wiped out completely down to the foundation.

Stay safe all

Folks should not drop their guard

It says that a small amount of southern shear has slightly degraded the inner core, but that the intensity is likely unchanged. That shear is expected to dissipate today. In other words, still a large, dangerous storm. They're sending a plane in today and will know more later.

But they aren't predicting that it's any less dangerous.

will as well.

And, Limbaugh will say that it's another example of fake news about climate change.

Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005, Mississippi Gulf Coast.

http://4christe.tripod.com/WavelandDamage

just dumped 8 inches of rain on Pittsburgh over the past weekend. Back in '72, Agnes, which never even achieved hurricane status, meandered through Pennsylvania for days and caused what was then called
"500 year" flooding.

I don't think I'll ever forget that storm.

Please get out if you can, folks.

Prolonged heavy rain, huge storm surge,
and wider storm in general.

with wind and rain. Plus, 110 mph is only 1 mph under a Cat 3 designation.

It's going to be bad.

We've had several tornadoes come through Michigan in the last month, F0 and F1. A lot of damage and power outages. Some communities are still cleaning up. 110 mph is like a strong F1 Tornado almost F2, and in the case of this hurricane it's like a strong F1 tornado 175 miles across that will last for 12 hours before weakening.

Appalachians and back east over the mountains into Virginia.

Anyone who's read about what 1969's Hurricane Camille did when it came over the Appalachians from the west won't forget it. All attention had been focused on what Camille did to the gulf, with great relief as she dwindled into a tropical storm heading north. They didn't have satellites in those days, so Camille's morph into an inland monster went unnoticed. Many people were still in their homes and businesses near creeks and rivers when billions of tons of water dumped at once on the mountains as she came over caused giant rivers of debris to rush down and sweep them away.

There'd be plenty of warning today if anything even close to like that might happen, of course. Death rates from storms themselves have become remarkably low considering their enormous power.

Hurricane Camille, Part 1: When the rain came

https://pilotonline.com/news/local/weather/storms/article_fbaca3c1-8077-5aac-8d62-a236ada8e133.html

The flooding looks to be horrific.