Posted on 10/28/2012 10:33:41 PM PDT by brityank
Why Sandy Has Meteorologists Scared in 4 Images
She's huge. She's strong and might get stronger. She's strange. She's directing the might of her storm surge right at New York City.Hurricane Sandy has already caused her first damage in New York: the subway system will be shut as of 7pm tonight. Meteorologists are scared, so city planners are scared.
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Dr. Ryan Maue, a meteorologist at WeatherBELL, put out this animated GIF of the storm's approach yesterday. "This is unprecedented --absolutely stunning upper-level configuration pinwheeling #Sandy on-shore like ping-pong ball," he tweeted. It shows how cold air to the north and west of the storm spin Sandy into the mid-atlantic coastline. (Nota bene: his models also show very high winds at skyscraper altitudes.)
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Wow, this storm is so BAD that it currently is wrapping around the earth 3 TIMES!!!!!
I don’t take that kind of storm lightly!
BTW, on youtube there are eight videos (parts one through eight) of a History channel broadcast about the Nor’easter that wiped out many parts of the northeastern coast of the US.
It is a good dose of reality to those in the path of this storm. Our weather services have been such a boy who cried wolf that when the wolf is really here, not enough people are taking them seriously. Though this storm has a different personality than the 1928 storm, it could be just as devastating, but in different ways. e.g. rain, rather than wind speed.
That’s EXACTLY what my fear is ... those huge office (or apt) building windows just flying thru the air, crashing below. Walking around NYC or any city in Sandy’s path, will be dangerous. Hope everyone just stays put.
I always wondered how the subway tunnels were kept dry...
Hey, those pumps are wind and solar powered...right? ;)
"The World's Tallest Plywood Building?"
You weren’t the only one.
Dec 21, had to think about that a few seconds. lol
My grandpa worked on it and he was scared sh*tless.
I lived in Manhattan when Donna struck. Remember it well. Main effect - traffic lights were out pretty much everywhere and water backed up through the street drains which went straight to the East River (lived on the East side.)
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