Much of FL Peninsula is Getting Hammered

[gatorcane]

Here in Boca Raton, a wind gust of 60mph

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

The wind field must be very large. Maybe another thing cuba did to this storm.

[mf_dolphin]

Very gusty winds here in S. St Petersburg Fl this morning. We already had a tornado sighted 5 miles south of me. Game on....

[jlauderdal]

Here in Boca Raton, a wind gust of 60mph

60k without power in dad and broward. i have the scanner fired up and can tell you its just constant reports of power lines down. This is more than everyone expected. Also ficus trees down all over broward and dade.

[Terry]

We had that same feederband hit here, Marshall. It went from almost dead calm to strong winds in a matter of seconds. Very strange experience at it came over Scott Lake. (Thought I had the video running but I did not. Dang.)

[tampastorm]

The whole SouthEast side of Dennis, which is a complete Mess and large will effect FL worse then I think most expected.

[DelrayMorris]

Yeah, that band just woke me up. Well, more specifically, the dog jumping on my face because he's scared of thunder woke me up (he's actually not our dog. We are just fostering him for our neighbors till they are able to have him back.). It's kind of weird that I really wasn't expecting thunder. There wasn't much of it during Frances and Jeanne that I remember, but then again, I was listening to transformers blow most of the time then, so maybe I just missed it.

Ah, well, good morning all. It's quite the ugly weather out there today.

[rainydaze]

Things are really picking up here in west palm beach. Huge wind gusts and rain. I just hope we can escape without any tornados around here.

[Weatherboy1]

looks like the bulk of the rainbands are still south and west of here. One potentially large one is making its way through Palm Beach County and closing in. But I'm not sure if it'll get all the way up here. So for now, just watching and waiting. Good luck to those of you in the path of the real part of the storm. Looks like Dennis is regaining his punch after spending quite a bit of time over Cuba. Deep convection refiring, etc.

-Mike

[abajan]

The wind field must be very large. Maybe another thing cuba did to this storm.

Actually, it had a large wind field long before striking Cuba. People in Tortola were getting wind gusts of 40 - 50 mph when Dennis' center was quite far from them.

[Nimbus]

Looks like Miami is getting sustained winds in the 20's with some 40 mph gusts in the feeder band squalls.

http://tinyurl.com/bx64n

Way out on the end of the keys they are getting tropical storm force winds with a gust to 63 knots earlier this morning.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=SANF1

[sprink52]

Dead calm here in Royal Palm Beach. I must have slept through the rain. Got up at 5:30 to let the dog out and we still had 20mph maybe and dry..have not had much rain here.

[jlauderdal]

Dead calm here in Royal Palm Beach. I must have slept through the rain. Got up at 5:30 to let the dog out and we still had 20mph maybe and dry..have not had much rain here.

power report...palm beach 23,000 without..broward 57k without...dade 151k without. you dont need the eye folks to make your life miserable. no ac in this airmass, no thanks. numerous ficus trees with 20+ ft wide trunks down in fll one blocking a1a right now.

[sprink52]

Add to my last post. Went out and surveyed. Standing water in low areas. My rain gage is holding 1.2 inches since dry at 5:30 AM. A few small pine limbs blown onto ground and 1 large 15 gal nursery container with plant blown over. My neighbors hammock and frame are turned upside down. I need to set up a weather station. My guess is we had a squall with a brief gust to 40-45 mph. There is a light breeze now and over cast.

[mf_dolphin]

Highest offical winds I've seen for here was a 50mph gust at St Pete Airport. Other than that 15-20 steady with some higher gusts. Rain intermittent but occasionally heavy as bands move through.

[Scorpion]

How on earth did you guys get a 60 mph gust in Boca? Here in Jupiter its calm.

[JPmia]

I woke up last night thinking Broward should have been under a TS Warning when all the trees in the yard were bent sideways...that sqaull at 4am was quite strong and woke everyone up in the house....CBS4 reports approx. 165K without power in Broward/Miami-Dade.

[sprink52]

Wow!! Now that Miami-Dade county had some wind, FEMA will probably send them $50 million this time!!

[gatorcane]

I can't believe S. Florida is seeing power outages an minor damage from feeder bands coming from a storm that is more than 250 miles away. To me it's ridiculous.

I fear the day a major hurricane with 150+ winds barrels through S. Florida

[jdray]

I can't believe S. Florida is seeing power outages an minor damage from feeder bands coming from a storm that is more than 250 miles away. To me it's ridiculous.

I fear the day a major hurricane with 150+ winds barrels through S. Florida

That is what happens due to plant growth.

When Frances affected us here (while not a direct hit, still affected us tremendously) we lost power for 4 days, phone over a week. Couple hundred thousand lost power in NE Florida.

When Jeanne came around the same path (pretty much) we actually had high winds/gusts but less damage due to the fact that Frances had already cleared quite a bit up.

Same thing with forest fires. If an area has recently been torched, it wont be near as bad.