Sandy is going to move out west Saturday and reconsolidate, then its the inevitable hard left turn. Right now the models have it right over Delaware Bay at 75 mph colliding with a cold front. This will cause a rare October Noreaster, causing possible feet of snow inland. Tropical Storm Winds are now 400 miles wide.
These are the things you need to purchase if you are in the storm's path:
10 cases of water
4 cases of Beef Jerky (it's non perishable). You can trade it for other things if power goes out for weeks
5 Flashlights with a month long supply of batteries (here again, tradeable and also re-gifting after the fact)
A weapon (I personally prefer the Chinese Star from Escape from New York)
Sandy to feed off near-record warm waters off the mid-Atlantic coast
During September 2012, ocean temperatures off the mid-Atlantic coast in the 5x10° latitude-longitude box between 35 - 40°N, 65 - 75° W were 2.3°F (1.3°C) above average, according to the UK Met Office. This is the 2nd greatest departure from average for ocean temperatures in this region since reliable ocean temperature measurements began over a century ago (all-time record: 2.0°C above average in September 1947.) These unusually warm waters have persisted into October, and will enable Sandy to pull more energy from the ocean than a typical October hurricane. The warm waters will also help increase Sandy's rains, since more water vapor will evaporate into the air from a warm ocean. I expect Sandy will dump the heaviest October rains on record over a large swath of the mid-Atlantic and New England
"the storm is expected to vent the worst of its fury on New Jersey and the New York City area, which could see around 5 inches of rain and gale-force winds close to 40 mph"
so 40mph is fury now eh?
this will happen
Last edited by limitles; 10-27-2012 at 06:25 AM.
that looks like a Bespoken body suit
Was Weiss going back to volunteer in Haiti?
I just saw some video on the news and it looks like they got pounded pretty hard by storms.
Pressure is collapsing which means Sandy has become larger. Went from 970 to 959 in a few hours. The GFS has Sandy coming right into New Jersey. You don't need to be a weather expert like myself to see this is a monster.
Latest visible presentation is here:
http://mapmaker.aos.wisc.edu/scr3/sa...8visflash.html
You'd have a point if this was not going extratropical. This is not August in the Gulf. It's basically November on it's was to the NorthEast. Pressure looks like its going to be 949 at landfall and some models have it 935. The "perfect storm" which basically remained off shore was 970. The storm is getting huge. And it's poised to hit the most densely populated region per capita outside of Hong Kong.
Irene was dangerously close to flooding the Subway system in NYC. Irene weakened at the last minute and came from the south. This appears to be strengthening and coming virtually due west when it comes to shore. There is going to be a huge push of water in Delaware Bay and LI Sound. We'll see soon enough. Oh, there will be a full moon for good measure.
Hurricane, Tropical Storm Sandy is now being described a government "inside job". Look for Obama to profit off of the death and destruction they planned in the first place.
When does this bad boy hit land?
2:00AM EST Tuesday.
Word around the campfire is that the current media hysteria over this storm is a direct response to the total lack of media hysteria leading up to Irene.
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