Measurement choice is destiny, case zillion. The popular hurricane scale, Saffir-Simpson, is based on highest sustained wind-speed—only one kind of risk, and often not the most important one. Florence is now larger, but with slightly slower winds at the center. So "weakened".
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Chapel Hill/Carrboro is juuuuust on the border of Florence bands—don't even have rain where I am. Maybe later. All thoughts with coastal NC/SC communities who are experiencing brutal flooding and the first responders. Also, we really should stop using the Saffir-Simpson scale.
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In SE North Carolina, there is massive rain, occasionally record-breaking storm-surge, ongoing river flooding in river basins dramatically worsened due to massive rain more upstream. "Maximum wind at center" is not a good indicator. Choice of indicators always have big effects.
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Also, USPS just delivered. And Chapel Hill Public Library is keeping regular hours today.
The conditions here are still okay but almost everything is shut down. They are not. #Florencepic.twitter.com/EeasseZmvd
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no evacuation here. the area may well have been in the path but florence decided to take a southeast turn after landfall! spared, mostly.
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