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It was windy as yesterday but today it's just torrential downpour so far. Horrible day to be working.
Nail it all down, east coast...looks like it's going to be a rough ride.
Hurricane Sandy slogs toward U.S., kills 31 in Caribbean
It was windy as yesterday but today it's just torrential downpour so far. Horrible day to be working.
Could wind up a pretty major event depending on the track. Still lots of uncertianty.
Not a good situation for the residents up there.
rather have earthquakes than that
Have family in the Annapolis area and this is headed straight for them. They didn't have power for days last year when a lesser version of this thing went through.
that's a big storm. Much like Irene it's not as much of a wind threat as it is a surge threat.
Battery Park mandatory evacuation in progress. I'm 4 miles off the coast, hope I don't have to evac...
stay safe
My bro lives in Hoboken. They just got the call to evacuate.
Over a thousand miles across. Get the out of the way.
Roger that
Stock market will be closed today...first time since Sept. 11 and the first time for a weather related event since 1985.
I fear this is the real deal. Praying for all of those involved.
Wind won't be a big deal but the storm surge + rain will be a . The flooding is gonna up good.
Is this as bad as it is being advertised? don't know about weather, so can't really tell. How big a storm is this? and how bad could it get?
The big question will be how big the storm surge is. If they really get a 10' storm surge plus all that rain the river waters back up and spread out because they can't drain to the sea.
Looks like New York City will get the worst of the surge.
still, I've read its a Cat 1 hurricane still, isn't it? that's the least dangerous one right?
It's hooking up with other weather to create a giant sandwich.
Category just measures wind speed. The wind isn't what will make this thing dangerous, it will be the flooding. This thing technically isn't even a hurricane anymore since it's not being fed by warm ocean water anymore...It's a bad ass noreaster that got a lot of moist air sucked into it from the hurricane.
aah got it
...and its a full moon.
No I am not being mystical. The tide is at its highest point, so add 2-3 feet to the expected storm surge from the storm itself.
water levels around NYC are already past the max level from last year's Irene which flooded some subways, and to be much higher between now and Tue morn.
The storm is undergoing really big strengthening this morning. Its being fed both by the warm gulf stream since its a warm core (tropical) system but also by the energy from the jet stream off to the east. Its the best of both worlds which is why when this happened before it was termed "the perfect storm".
But just to give you some perspective on how much stronger Sandy is, the pressures that are currently being measured are sub 940 mb. The Perfect Storm had a lowest pressure of 971. Sandy has the largest wind field of any tropical cyclone I've ever seen and that includes a storm like Ike which was huge. Its windfield is bout 4 times larger than Katrina right now (which was also a large storm).
So while surge will be a large impact, do not discount the wind at all. There are going to be some long times of very strong winds and that will do a lot of damage as well. There will be flooding due to high rain amounts and there will be incredible amounts of snow dropped in spots (first time I've ever seen the NHC even mention snow much less issue a forecast for 3 feet of it). This is likely a once in a life time storm and the impact is going to be gigantic.
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