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Posted on 10/28/2012 5:45:39 PM PDT by lbryce
Hurricane Sandy From Space
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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:
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Loved your comment. LOL....but I believe you....me too!
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.
I'll walk right with you. Crawl, if I have to.
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
Make that Three!
Sorry we aren’t buying all this hyperbole. Some of have lived through category 4 or category 5 storms. So this aint nothing.
Yeah, and they also have the worthless Al Roker. He has no business being on The Weather Channel,
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?
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.
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.
It will still be a rainy windy week but no apocalypse in the forecast.
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!
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.
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
A most excellent response!
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.
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...”
Now there's a set of twins for us!
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