Posted on 10/25/2010 5:05:09 PM PDT by FromLori
The National Weather Service has upgraded the high wind watch to a high wind warning which runs from 7 a.m. Tuesday-7 p.m. Wednesday. It appears we could establish a new record for the lowest October barometric pressure in this storm. Models put Chicago's barometric pressure at 29.05" Tuesday morning. If true, this would break the old October record low of 29.11" set Oct. 19, 1937, Oct. 19, 1947 and Oct. 24, 1959.
The storm's minimum central pressure of 960 millibars (28.35") Tuesday in northern Minnesota is below the 980-millibar reading in the Edmund Fitzgerald storm on Lake Superior in Nov. 1975. It's the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane.
The curl visible off the West Coast on this CIMSS UW-Madison satellite time lapse in riding an extraordinary 220 mph speed maximum in the jet stream will become the storm expected to explode as it rides across the Dakotas and Minnesota Tuesday.
Wind gusts could reach mid-60s
Frank Wachowski of the National Weather Service reports Chicago's strongest October wind was 70 mph recorded Oct 28, 1892. Model wind profiles put sustained winds 2,000 feet above local terrain here at 63 mph by Tuesday afternoon. Subsidence in the region of the storm under which Chicago will be positioned after the passage of a squall line early in the day (6-9 a.m.) threatens to bring these winds down to the surface as damaging non-thunderstorm wind gusts.
Check out this animation of the spin-up of Tuesday's mega-low in the nation's mid-section. This is a time-lapse of the National Weather Service's high resolution GFS model. It puts the storm's minimum pressure at 957.5 millibars which translates to 28.28".
YIKES...that sounds like a heavy storm on the California coast ....
Losing TV signals here in N. IL this morning. Its blowing hard
Losing TV signals here in N. IL this morning. Its blowing hard
I don’t believe it. I am still up at 3AM my time. Hope things do not get much worse in your area. Global cooling within the Pacific is going to change for the worst our weather patterns. Stay safe E. I gotta hit the rack.
It was 68 when I took the dogs at at 5:45am. We have a tornado watch and are in a high risk area for severe weather. Crazy!
It’s warm here, feels like a spring shower right now. 62 degrees at 6:10a, winds are light, occasionally to 13 mph.
The winds are already picking up here....nothing spectacular, but a sharp contrast from an hour ago...
This is going to bite for my brother. He drives truck locally picking up and dropping off dumpsters at building sites, etc. It’s just going to be a couple nasty days for him.
Yeah, wouldn’t want to be driving around in any high profile vehicle....
Raking the leaves, now that's funny!
I already lost my front yard pin oak along with my awning, gutters and part of my roof when that tornado came thru my area back on Aug. 19.
Now that everything's fixed, watch my neighbor's big tree get blown down in my direction.......
The insurance company is already paying for the siding. We were hit with large hail in July. I sure was looking forward to finally getting the job done. Oh well.
The lights keep flickering on and off this morning. We lost power for a good hour last night, which is odd as it wasn’t that windy then. It sure is blowing now though and the temp is dropping rapidly. This will be an interesting day.
“BUILDING TO 5 TO 8 FEET TONIGHT. WAVES 10 TO 14 FEET BUILDING TO 16 TO 21 FEET TUESDAY.
YIKES...that sounds like a heavy storm on the California coast ....”
The good news is they probably don’t have Great Whites under those waves.
Thanks for the link! Looks like the waves are getting larger and larger...
Light rain all day. Steady. Winds have picked up some, maybe 20 mph tops. MSP has cancelled at leasst 40 flights so far. Not sure why, it’s just not that windy.
The barometer.....
I work in a climate controlled (temp, humidity) environment. What we can’t control is the barometric pressure. We actually have several precision imaging tools that will not run at these low pressures. It’s just weird....
What a crock of BS this one was. This storm has topped the news here in S.E. Michigan since 5 this morning. There was a tornado warning issued for Monroe county about an hour ago but that's it.
This monster storm (cyclone) blew through my area about 45 minutes ago, you should have been here to see it! It must have poured rain for at least 10 to 15 minutes and the wind was howling and gusting between 25 to 30 MPH.......... This was a storm of epoch proportions, it must have blown off at least 2% of the remaining leaves from my neighbor's tree........
This storm reminds me of the snowstorm of the century forecast for my area a bunch of years ago when I was still working. All evening long we kept getting "a winter storm warning in effect until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning." Metro airport was closed down in anticipation of this storm.
The next morning I got up expecting to see at least a foot of snow and there nothing. zip, zero, nada!
So as I was driving into work to Troy the next morning at about 7:30 a.m., I spotted a weather truck from The Weather Channel parked in a restaurant parking lot off I-75 and Metro Parkway. They had been sent up here to cover the storm! So I turned around and drove into the lot and pulled up beside the truck and yelled out to a couple of the crew who were standing around drinking coffe and yelled "Where the heck is the snow you morons!!!" They just shrugged their shoulders and laughed as I drove away.......
Today's non-storm is a typical example of the MSM will focus on a natural phenomenon and then blow it totally out of proportion in order to create viewership..........
Great post!
Here in Indiana it was a 15 minute event.
And the media is still hyperventilating.
The wind is starting to pick up here.
Drama Queen syndrome...trying to create news rather than report it...these “we’re all gonna die!” storms rarely bare fruit...
The second wave of the storm should be getting to you soon.
I’s a pretty steady 30-45mph wind here in Wisconsin. Should keep blowing for 24-30 hours.
6,000 homes without power in the Milwaukee area and a tornado took the roof off the JI Case plant outside Racine.
The forecast here is for winds rising to 35 and 40mph overnight with gusts of 60mph or more tomorrow.
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