|
10-25-2012, 03:37 PM | |
Be Kind To Your Pets
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Glorious Independence, MO
Casino cash: $17686178
VARSITY
|
NOAA Warning of "Frankenstorm" for NYC
Next week, hurricane winds with snow. I'm sure NYC will handle that well...
Story is here: http://news.yahoo.com/noaa-east-bewa...171317994.html WASHINGTON (AP) — An unusual nasty mix of a hurricane and a winter storm that forecasters are now calling "Frankenstorm" is likely to blast most of the East Coast next week, focusing the worst of its weather mayhem around New York City and New Jersey. Government forecasters on Thursday upped the odds of a major weather mess, now saying there's a 90 percent chance that the East will get steady gale-force winds, heavy rain, flooding and maybe snow starting Sunday and stretching past Halloween on Wednesday. Meteorologists say it is likely to cause $1 billion in damage. The storm is a combination of Hurricane Sandy, now in the Caribbean, an early winter storm in the West, and a blast of arctic air from the North. They're predicted to collide and park over the country's most populous coastal corridor and reach as far inland as Ohio. The hurricane part of the storm is likely to come ashore somewhere in New Jersey on Tuesday morning, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecaster Jim Cisco. But this is a storm that will affect a far wider area, so people all along the East have to be wary, Cisco said. Coastal areas from Florida to Maine will feel some effects, mostly from the hurricane part, he said, and the other parts of the storm will reach inland from North Carolina northward. Once the hurricane part of the storm hits, "it will get broader. It won't be as intense, but its effects will be spread over a very large area," the National Hurricane Center's chief hurricane specialist, James Franklin, said Thursday. One of the more messy aspects of the expected storm is that it just won't leave. The worst of it should peak early Tuesday, but it will stretch into midweek, forecasters say. Weather may start clearing in the mid-Atlantic the day after Halloween and Nov. 2 in the Northeast, Cisco said. "It's almost a weeklong, five-day, six-day event," Cisco said Thursday from NOAA's northern storm forecast center in College Park, Md. "It's going to be a widespread serious storm." With every hour, meteorologists are getting more confident that this storm is going to be bad and they're able to focus their forecasts more. The New York area could see around 5 inches of rain during the storm, while there could be snow southwest of where it comes inland, Cisco said. That could mean snow in eastern Ohio, southwestern Pennsylvania, western Virginia, and the Shenandoah Mountains, he said. Both private and federal meteorologists are calling this a storm that will likely go down in the history books. "We don't have many modern precedents for what the models are suggesting," Cisco said. It is likely to hit during a full moon when tides are near their highest, increasing coastal flooding potential, NOAA forecasts warn. And with some trees still leafy and the potential for snow, power outages could last to Election Day, some meteorologists fear. Some have compared it to the so-called Perfect Storm that struck off the coast of New England in 1991, but Cisco said that one didn't hit as populated an area and is not comparable to what the East Coast may be facing. Nor is it like last year's Halloween storm, which was merely an early snowstorm in the Northeast. "The Perfect Storm only did $200 million of damage and I'm thinking a billion," said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private service Weather Underground. "Yeah, it will be worse." But this is several days in advance, when weather forecasts are usually far less accurate. The National Hurricane Center only predicts five days in advance, and each long-range forecast moves Sandy's track closer to the coast early next week. The latest has the storm just off central New Jersey's shore at 8 a.m. on Tuesday. As forecasts became more focused Thursday, the chance of the storm bypassing much of the coast and coming ashore in Maine faded, Cisco said. The hurricane center's Franklin called it "a big mess for an awful lot of people in the early part of next week." |
Posts: 40,830
|
10-25-2012, 06:34 PM | #16 |
YOU take YOUR seat
Join Date: Nov 2007
Casino cash: $2275105
|
I'm here in Boston, I hope the shit hits the fan!!!!
lol, that's my only hope
__________________
|
Posts: 32,162
|
10-25-2012, 06:45 PM | #17 |
Back again, again.
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: York, PA
Casino cash: $9583357
|
I moved back just in time!
|
Posts: 8,179
|
10-25-2012, 06:47 PM | #18 |
Cheaterlover*
Join Date: May 2009
Location: RI
Casino cash: $10010716
|
Calls for some tunes! One of the best instrumentals ever.
|
Posts: 12,916
|
10-25-2012, 06:49 PM | #19 |
Back again, again.
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: York, PA
Casino cash: $9583357
|
That it does!
|
Posts: 8,179
|
10-25-2012, 06:50 PM | #20 |
BOOM!1!
Join Date: Aug 2004
Casino cash: $9505541
|
The Day After Tomorrow????
|
Posts: 18,765
|
10-25-2012, 06:53 PM | #21 |
Guest
Casino cash: $
|
Nice knowing you, Dylan. Get your affairs in order.
|
Posts: n/a
|
10-25-2012, 07:13 PM | #22 |
GO CHIEFS!!!!!!
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Kansas City
Casino cash: $7928717
|
It sounds like everything is coming together for that. Very odd.
Well...good bye, New York lol
__________________
Don't be fooled by my username, I'm white. |
Posts: 26,629
|
10-25-2012, 07:18 PM | #23 |
"You like to drink?"
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "I like to drink."
Casino cash: $3266869
|
Somewhere an NYPD turned DEA cop is grimacing and popping painkillers.
Nicole Horne better watch her ass.
__________________
Chiefs 2016 Opponents: Home: JAX, TEN, NO, TB, NYJ. Away: HOU, IND, ATL, CAR, PIT Chiefs 2017 Opponents: Home: BUF, MIA, PHI, WSH, AFC North. Away: NE, NYJ, NYG, DAL, AFC South |
Posts: 42,675
|
10-25-2012, 09:37 PM | #24 | |
Supporter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: In a shotgun shack
Casino cash: $9965202
|
Quote:
That's what Agnes did in 1972. Not good. |
|
Posts: 14,931
|
10-25-2012, 09:45 PM | #25 |
The Lede
Join Date: Aug 2007
Casino cash: $10016591
|
__________________
|
Posts: 33,643
|
10-25-2012, 09:52 PM | #26 |
stax of wax
Join Date: Feb 2004
Casino cash: $10004900
|
I don't know about you but I feel fine.
__________________
courtesy of BoneKrusher "Baseball? It's just a game. As simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, a business and sometimes a religion." Ernie Harwell |
Posts: 34,865
|
10-26-2012, 03:53 PM | #27 |
That's Right
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Bluefield, Virginia
Casino cash: $9976645
|
this storm will leave me w/o power for weeks. (so many huge trees in this area)
__________________
"MaHomes/MaAuto" |
Posts: 7,333
|
10-26-2012, 04:05 PM | #28 |
DT CARD COLLECTOR
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: ManCave
Casino cash: $10005837
|
It could leave some towns without power into election day.
Hanging chads anyone...
__________________
667 Different DT cards and counting |
Posts: 7,574
|
10-26-2012, 04:08 PM | #29 |
Chiefs
Join Date: Feb 2009
Casino cash: $3686009
|
Here in Maryland look's like a direct hit.
|
Posts: 23,752
|
10-26-2012, 04:09 PM | #30 |
That's Right
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Bluefield, Virginia
Casino cash: $9976645
|
stay safe man, they say the outerband of wind could reach over 350 miles from the center.
__________________
"MaHomes/MaAuto" |
Posts: 7,333
|
|
|