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WHOA: The Weather Channel Meteorologist Just Completely Freaked Out About Hurricane Sandy
Business Insider ^ | October 28, 2012 | Henry Blodget

Posted on 10/28/2012 5:45:39 PM PDT by lbryce

Hurricane Sandy From Space

NASA

Just in case you thought the Hurricane hype couldn't get any louder, check out this dispatch from Weather Channel meterologist Stu Ostro:

- History is being written as an extreme weather event continues to unfold, one which will occupy a place in the annals of weather history as one of the most extraordinary to have affected the United States.

- REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE OFFICIAL DESIGNATION IS NOW OR AT/AFTER LANDFALL -- HURRICANE (INCLUDING IF "ONLY" A CATEGORY ONE), TROPICAL STORM, POST-TROPICAL, EXTRATROPICAL, WHATEVER -- OR WHAT TYPE OF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER -- PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM NEED TO HEED THE THREAT IT POSES WITH UTMOST URGENCY...

- With Sandy having already brought severe impacts to the Caribbean Islands and a portion of the Bahamas, and severe erosion to some beaches on the east coast of Florida, it is now poised to strike the northeast United States with a combination of track, size, structure and strength that is unprecedented in the known historical record there...

- A meteorologically mind-boggling combination of ingredients is coming together:

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanesandy; perfectstorm; sandy; sandybeaches
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Loved your comment. LOL....but I believe you....me too!


21 posted on 10/28/2012 6:03:41 PM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: All

We never had such hysteria. It’s all a play for ratings. A two inch snow forecast has news alerts breaking into regular programming. Yes, it’s hype and over-the-top histrionics. It’s the way the media works these days.


22 posted on 10/28/2012 6:03:42 PM PDT by lbryce (BHO-"Now, I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" by way of Oppenheimer at Trinity, NM)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’d walk through a combination Category 5 huuricane/tornado/earthquake/air raid to vote for Mitt Romney and get rid of Barack Obama.

I'll walk right with you. Crawl, if I have to.

23 posted on 10/28/2012 6:04:18 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Izzy Dunne
The barometric pressure sounds like what was in the Midwest for the Blizzard of 1978. (same idea, just colder) The snow wasn't exactly coming "down" is was blowing sideways.

The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic blizzard which struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes from January 25–27, 1978. The 28.28 inches (958 millibars) barometric pressure measurement recorded in Cleveland, Ohio was the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the mainland United States until the Upper Midwest Storm of October 26, 2010 (28.20" measured at 5:13PM CDT at Bigfork Municipal Airport, Bigfork, MN). The lowest central pressure for the 1978 blizzard was 28.05" (953 mb) measured in southern Ontario a few hours after the aforementioned record in Cleveland Star Tribune

24 posted on 10/28/2012 6:05:52 PM PDT by madison10
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To: thecodont

Make that Three!


25 posted on 10/28/2012 6:06:40 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Sorry we aren’t buying all this hyperbole. Some of have lived through category 4 or category 5 storms. So this aint nothing.


26 posted on 10/28/2012 6:06:41 PM PDT by o2bfree (All us minorities got us an Obamaphone!!!)
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To: nascarnation

Yeah, and they also have the worthless Al Roker. He has no business being on The Weather Channel,


27 posted on 10/28/2012 6:07:13 PM PDT by Capt_Hank (btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is still high.)
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To: lbryce

28 posted on 10/28/2012 6:07:52 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Worst. President. Ever.)
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To: lbryce

There are frequently typhoons in the Pacific that are bigger than this... some, much, much bigger!

Of course after the power goes out and the election is cancelled and zero declares himself King of the World it won’t really matter, will it?


29 posted on 10/28/2012 6:08:41 PM PDT by djf (Political Science: Conservatives = govern-ment. Liberals = givin-me-it.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Oh, it’s the water.

The size of this thing is impressive.

The media will hype it, fine.

The lnly way it’ll affect the election will be to recreate what was once known as broken glass Republicans into Hurricaine Rpublicans, and variations from that.

These are solid blue states x Penn and NH, neither of which seem to have hurricaine Dems.

It’ll keep Benghazi off the view for a few days, but THAT is NOT going to go away.

The ambassador was killed in-country. It won’t go away even if BO gets back in - ptu-ptu.


30 posted on 10/28/2012 6:09:33 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Izzy Dunne

The buoys and stations at NOAA and wunderground aren’t showing sustained winds at that point, at least 10-15 miles less for the max.


31 posted on 10/28/2012 6:10:38 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: EinNYC
Accuweather is calling it "category 1 tropical rainstorm." Storm surge predictions lowered to "5 to 10 inches." Latest map shows storm is moving slowly back northeast, off the coast.

It will still be a rainy windy week but no apocalypse in the forecast.

33 posted on 10/28/2012 6:14:51 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: lbryce

If Man should live another 100,000 years, let it be known from this time Forward!, that ‘Storm’, Sandy, is the biggest not only in ALL known history, but for ALL history hence forth!


34 posted on 10/28/2012 6:15:14 PM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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To: GeronL
75mph winds is barely technically a hurricane

According to the 5pm forecast discussion (NO SFMR-ADJUSTED SURFACE WINDS OF HURRICANE FORCE WERE DETECTED IN ANY QUADRANT ), the winds aren't even that high.

35 posted on 10/28/2012 6:15:20 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: lbryce

I mentioned on another thread that as I (a complete layman on this) look at the satellite and radar animations, I think the BAMM tracking prediction (Where it continues out into the Atlantic) looks to be what is happening.

I got a lot of grief for suggesting it. :-)

I guess time will tell if the experts are better than a complete hack like me. :-P


36 posted on 10/28/2012 6:16:05 PM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: tomkat

A most excellent response!


37 posted on 10/28/2012 6:16:30 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Romney is my choice.)
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To: madison10
Predicted for Frankenstorm from the above article: As of Saturday afternoon, the surface and precipitation model valid for Monday afternoon, Oct. 29 predicts a center of low pressure with a value of 949 millibars crossing the coastline in the vicinity of Newark, New Jersey, not far from New York City/Long Island/Queens.

Midwest's Blizzard of 1978 was 956 millibars. IF this all makes land it will be NASTY. Don't think they are crying wolf.If cold met warm like this over Kansas or OK we would be saying HUGE tornado.

38 posted on 10/28/2012 6:17:59 PM PDT by madison10
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To: lbryce

My favorite quote on the Sandy coverage today - a weatherman pointing at a map of Staten Island, and saying, “Staten Island is virtually surrounded by water...”


39 posted on 10/28/2012 6:18:00 PM PDT by dead (It ain't over until the phone lady sings.)
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To: Random Access
Obama should have appointed Ray Nagin as head of FEMA.

Now there's a set of twins for us!

40 posted on 10/28/2012 6:18:01 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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