Hurricane Earl

[PhilDernerJr]

Currently category 3, 125mph sustained winds, moving WNW at 15mph, pressure 955mb. To touch US coast midday Thursday near North Carolina.

St. Thomas (TIST) is currently closed.

This hurricane's projected path is very similar to that of 1985's Hurricane Gloria, which beat up the Carolinas and Long Island quite a bit... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gloria

Earl:


Gloria:

[AirtrafficController]

Found this guy on the FlightAware map when looking for the TIST METAR:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA817

[MarkLawrence]

That's the DC-8 that is currently stationed at FLL for hurricane information flights. What you won't see is the two Global Hawk drones that are stationed out of Homestead that are also being used for hurricane information flights - wish I could get them!!!

[PhilDernerJr]

Don't they file flight plans for the drones also?

[moose135]

I'm sure they do, but it depends on who owns them - if they are military, they won't show.

I remember when Gloria hit - I was a recent arrival at Grissom AFB in Indiana, and we had a gaggle of F-15s out of Langley spend a few days keeping away from the storm.

[Gerard]

I remember when Gloria hit - I was a recent arrival at Grissom AFB in Indiana, and we had a gaggle of F-15s out of Langley spend a few days keeping away from the storm.

Speaking of keeping away I see the DirectTV blimp is at FRG. I gather for the US Open. If this storm does head this way how long will they wait before they head for the hills?
Or are there any hangars around here to accomodate a blimp?

[Zee71]

For those of you whom like to track storms, etc., this is one site I like. Check it out!

http://www.spaghettimodels.com/

[NLovis]

Well lets hope this cold front moves through. It will push Earl out to sea and we wont see it. Earl is also now a cat 4 hurricane.

[AirtrafficController]

Airports closed as of 00:51Z
-TFFG
-TFFJ
-TIST
-TJIG
-TUPJ

[Matt Molnar]

Hurricane Earl as seen from the International Space Station:

[Fighting_falcon_51]

Thanks for the link Zee.

It would totally suck if the AAM weekend gets canceled because of this storm.

[Derf]

Allot of people agree with you

[AirtrafficController]

Airports closed as of 15:38Z
-TFFJ
-TNCM
-TUPJ

[puckstopper55]

Thanks for the link Zee.

It would totally suck if the AAM weekend gets canceled because of this storm.

I am hoping that this thing misses us totally, however if it does hit us, I am hoping for nothing worse then those 2 nor easters we had back in march .. Also, everything should be gone by Saturday morning, so we may still have 3 good days of flying.

[Matt Molnar]

The forecast track seems to be moving further west with each new advisory...I don't like it.