Rapidly developing storm ... or not? Heading for the coast ... seems almost certain, maybe? Updates are rolling in!
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I wasn’t discounting hurricanes but posting that Atlantic storms can be just as bad for coastal areas and actually more frequent.
Normally, you could count on a nor’easter or two every winter and it’s ironic how it always seems to happen around Halloween until December.
By far Sandy was the worst in 50ish + years.
Gloria wasn’t all that bad Long Island wise, I think the best they could do at the time was was up to a 84 ish MPH gust at Islip/Mac airport.
One must remember that my experiences and references are to the Northeast not the mid Atlantic.
I was around for Gloria It was actually fun still remember the calm of the eye pass by and then the wind pick up on the back end as it passed. Being on Long Island for five decades, it was the only one of any significance. The rest were always nor’easter’s. Besides Sandy, there was another unnamed double barrel low stationed off Long Island that wrecked havoc for quite some time pumping in water.
My post had to do with someone discounting todays storm.
I’m just posting this from recent memory as I lay on my sofa with my phone
When we talk about death rates from storms decades ago, there was no early warning system like there is now, nor flood mapping and building codes and standards. Not satellite images
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Well, we’ll know tomorrow how much flash flooding took place.
I don’t watch the news and I don’t watch weather forecasting, or anything to do with mass media.
I just watch National, Hurricane Center and NOAA, and for the most of the coast, it’s just showing a minimal risk.
By the way, it’s pretty windy here on the southern coast of North Carolina moderate rain, but nothing heavy. We are at the very southern edge of the storm.
I’m telling you though that red area on this map is meaning something. . Even the broad yellow area does too… I have noted in the past 4 years when my area is in the yellow area we have had some significant flash flooding events.
That red area barely west of me had a flood advisory just a week ago… That is why it’s red now… Prime and extremely wet ground that won’t hold hardly any additional rainfall.
That red area barely west of me had a flood advisory just a week ago… That is why it’s red now… Prime and extremely wet ground that won’t hold hardly any additional rainfall.
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I’m like you… in that I don’t watch tv weather… And haven’t watched local tv weather in over 22 years.
Not saying the people on there are bad. I really do t know. Used to be a few of them were really, really good in fact. But that was 22 years ago.
Not saying the people on there are bad. I really do t know. Used to be a few of them were really, really good in fact. But that was 22 years ago.
I wasn’t discounting hurricanes but posting that Atlantic storms can be just as bad for coastal areas and actually more frequent.
Normally, you could count on a nor’easter or two every winter and it’s ironic how it always seems to happen around Halloween until December.
By far Sandy was the worst in 50ish + years.
Gloria wasn’t all that bad Long Island wise, I think the best they could do at the time was was up to a 84 ish MPH gust at Islip/Mac airport.
One must remember that my experiences and references are to the Northeast not the mid Atlantic.
I was around for Gloria It was actually fun still remember the calm of the eye pass by and then the wind pick up on the back end as it passed. Being on Long Island for five decades, it was the only one of any significance. The rest were always nor’easter’s. Besides Sandy, there was another unnamed double barrel low stationed off Long Island that wrecked havoc for quite some time pumping in water.
My post had to do with someone discounting todays storm.
I’m just posting this from recent memory as I lay on my sofa with my phone
When we talk about death rates from storms decades ago, there was no early warning system like there is now, nor flood mapping and building codes and standards. Not satellite images
I’m going from just memory too. I read all hurricane history when I was in 3rd and 4th and 5th grades.
The reason the 1938 Long Island express Hurricane was so dangerous was its amazingly fast forward speed at 60 mph. It literally produced a tsunami type waves way, way ahead of the actual storm really hitting.
If a storm of that strength and power hit Long Island and Connecticut and Rhode Island today the damage was be north of 200 billion.
Gloria weakened has it moved northward and due to westerly wind shear. It was a 150 mph hurricane at one point. Which I heard the EMS tones go off and I remember running inside and reading that on the tv. That was spooky. Though it did drop down to 120 mph as it neared Cape Hatteras, then veered more northeast which it put my area in the weaker western side of the storm Still a significant event as my area in Gloucester county saw winds of 50-60 mph.
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We lost power around 4 am.
Nothing here but we were on the southern edge of the storm.
Lots of wind for a while yet only 2 inches of rain.
Coastal flooding was slightly less than forecast, but still a couple feet in our street. Glad we moved the cars. Didn’t need to, but if the forecast was off in the other direction, we would have been caught.
I had a family member on with a home on the water on Long Island. Yeah, the question was always should they or shouldn't they.
Well the one time they only moved one car because they didnt think it was going to be a big deal but did it anyway ... you know what happened to the one they didnt move? Based on your post you know the answer. The water went over the door jams and flooded the interior..
Are you really done with the tide cycles? Meaning its not hanging around as a threat to you?
We are done tonight…at least, until Tuesday…
We will leave only the truck in the driveway that day. The SL600 is at the airport parking garage. My wife’s Volvo is at the shop. The S600 will be with us on vacation.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is the datum that I prefer.
However, many of my neighbors use the Sewells point station.
Sewells point prediction is more affected by the wind, while the CBBT is not. Flooding on my street is affected by the wind as well, but differently than Sewells Point, so I make my own guesses to adjust for that.
The prediction yesterday was for 4.5 feet at high tide this morning. It was revised down to 4.0 feet last night.
7.0 feet puts it at our garage door, that’s when I start filling the sand bags and getting worried…
OMG ... I remember the sand bag talk from my brother all the time(same one as the car story), he since moved to the Carolina area... but used to live on the Great South Bay and buy bags of top soil to stack in front of his garage and sliding doors.... . It was a larger type house but built back in the late 50s or early 60s and not that much higher than mean high tide.
Tri-level would flood the family room garage level not more than a handful of times in those decades. But once in many decades did it ever get more then lets say 2 feet on th slower level. Super Storm Sandy took it up (guessing 10 feet) and flooded that main level to the ceiling and the second floor kit, dining, living room with 2 feet of water.
New storm guidance has it off the Jersey and Long Island Coast... I wonder once a depression if there will be winds that can still push water to the north. Meaning do depressions still have significant wind field?
Yes I know but that is not what I was referring to. It does not matter where a hurricane is or who it hits or doesn't hit anyone, its about number of named storms and hurricanes.
There are two agendas driving the enhanced naming from two different sources. One is the insurance industry. They use raw number of named storms and hurricanes to justify raising rates. More named storms and hurricanes, higher profits for them.
The other is the green activists. They use more named storms and hurricanes to try to justify their well known climate agenda. Both have put enormous pressure successfully on NOAA and the NHC to name more storms and name more hurricanes. Marginal storms are very apt to get a name, and hurricanes are likely to "juuuuuust reach" Cat 1 (wink-wink) before landfall somewhere. This is not my opinion, it was told to me by a veteran meteorologist in SE TX.
lets everybody know when u get that power back.
personal record for no power for my house is around ten days after a storm..
17 days for Rita
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17 days for Ike
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Hurricane Rita - Wikipedia
17 days for Ike
Hurricane Ike - Wikipedia
To the best of my knowledge, tropical storms typically are given names, and this was at the high end of tropical storm readings
I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist.
I’m not sure if you’re aware posted in NOAA research papers that one of thier scientists state a major contributing factor to more powerful Atlantic storms is the lack of air pollution. The air in the Northeast has been cleaned up so much particulates are no longer reflecting the amount of sunlight from the ocean. This results in the sun hitting the oceans more and creating more energy for the storms.
So that would throw out some of the greeny thing.
This particular storm had solid tropical storm wind speeds.
I get what you’re saying and I’m definitely an anti-media person but I don’t know if I’m seeing anything funny other than advanced technology, satellite, imagery, and stuff, like that, which may be finding storms out in the middle of the Atlantic that typically would not be named?
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