Ronald Pry
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A week ago today, Hurricane Helene made its way across the southeast United States, including here in central Georgia. It was a long and busy week of weather coverage from live streams a couple days before landfall to wall-to-wall coverage during the heaviest impacts. We narrowed down the timing and range of impacts steadily in the days leading up to Helene, but one thing we kept seeing disagreement on was the path the center of circulation was going to take through central Georgia. The cone was saying more west through Macon, but our Futureview model (GRAF) held its ground that Helene would track farther east. In the end, we continued to show our GRAF model throughout our coverage, which ended up being very accurate for Helene's track as a Category 1 hurricane through our area. I'm very proud of our Weather Team for remaining confident in this model for Helene and hope it ended up giving our viewers a better picture of where the most severe impacts would go. In the end, we continue to see widespread devastation with the number of lives this storm claimed and the crippling of many communities in southern Appalachia. Throughout this coverage and the past week, it has only reassured my passion for meteorology and helped me understand the importance of keeping people weather aware in tragic times like this before, during, and after the storm.Helene unfortunately claimed 6 lives here in central Georgia along with over 200 more and counting elsewhere. My thoughts and prayers continue to go out to all those who continue to recover from this unprecedented storm.
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And they're going to continue to track to the north through the state of Georgia, maybe eastern Alabama. Obviously still a lot of fine tuning to see which side of the storm is going to come here in central Georgia, but expected to weaken into a tropical storm. This timestamp is Friday at 8:00 AM. So it very well could maintain hurricane status as it does trek through central Georgia here. And then overnight into Friday, that's when the heaviest rain and the gustier winds really starting to become more prominent here in central Georgia. Right now, the center of Helene is tracking through our eastern corridor, so. This is definitely pushing the severe weather risk further over to the east. But like you saw the cone, it did extend further over to the West in Alabama. Also noting this cone, you can see the middle of it, that red line going right through here in downtown Macon. And then the eastern most portion of that cone may be taking a little bit of a eastern track here in central Georgia. Well, if I pop it over to our current satellite picture, our graph model and the cone have been deferring ever so slightly the past couple of days. That's what we've been telling you. Still trying to determine what side of the storm we are going to be. On what side of that center of circulation? Definitely see that center of circulation is just to the east, maybe southeast of Tipton right now. So I want to note that if I drag it on up here, you'll see Macon and Warner Robins. Really if you take a straight line down there, which is kind of the path that the cone is really trying to have us take with the center of circulation, maybe go directly through Macon. We're going to definitely need to see a little bit of a northwesterly direction with Hurricane Helene if it is to take that path. So right now it is looking like. Is continuing to track dead N into our eastern corridor, which would check out more with our graph model that we have been monitoring over the past couple of days. But in terms of timing on out when that rain, when those gusty winds are really going to get out of here in Central Georgia. Let's take it through our future view model And I have been bragging on it because the resolution is very, very similar to what our live radar has been. The National Hurricane Center has put that or had that cone further over to the West really coming straight through here in Macon. But future view has been correct so far. Have you seen that? Center of circulation go through our eastern half year in Central Georgia.
Bill Pearlman
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It was a tough storm to cover and an even tougher one to recover from.If not for thorough coverage by trained meteorologists, loss of life would be much higher.So to all the meteorologists out there, thanks for the long hours, the dedication, and the perspectives.
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Courteney Jacobazzi
NWA Sealed & Emmy Nominated Meteorologist | Journalist| MS state & UCF Alumn | South Florida native turned Georgia girl
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Very well done!
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Wanya Reese
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Great job !
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