LibertyBell
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Only because it came in at low tide right? It hit Cape May as a Cat 4 and was a Cat 3 right up to NYC that's amazing Low tide was the only reason why it wasn't a bigger deal than Sandy. -
Ginny was a big snowicane in Maine!
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Cat 2 can happen once a decade, but Cat 3 are ultra rare up here. It could happen with the aforementioned Irene track as long as the storm is really strong in NC and moves really quickly. 130 mph Hatteras Cane moving 40 mph on an Irene track could do it.
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Imagine if Irene had been stronger down south it would've been stronger up here. I think the strongest we can reasonably expect for a Hatteras Cane to be is 130 mph.....I wonder if Irene was that strong there how strong it would have been up here on that track and make it move quicker, like 40-50 mph
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was Ginny the one that made it snow in Maine?
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Hartford is going to see the center of the storm twice lol
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I would like to hear some eyewitness reports, although the ones I have seen show the surge was really high and the pressure near the center was really low even when it was going over Manhattan. Do you have any windspeed reports, did any part of our area have 100+ gusts?
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Yes I loved that a lot more than the October 2011 snowstorm lol, this was a real snowstorm and all snow lol
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Some of those totals seem a little off..... 7 inches at JFK and just 3 east of there? From Saturday night onwards no one in the local area should have less than 6...hey Walt can you add one more map from Sat 8/21 thru Mon 8/23 because we had a whole lot of rain Saturday evening starting here around 6 PM
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I was saying that yesterday, it's like all the rain cleaned out all the pollution. Maybe a lot of that haze was from air pollution that has now been cleaned out, oooooh this is how the sky is supposed to look!
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I think the 1821 Hurricane if it happened again right on that track and maintained that intensity (which was greater than 1938) would be the ultimate storm.
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But even authorities like Rick Knabb has said that SS scale isn't an impact scale and a separate scale needs to be developed for impact that includes IKE and storm size. Makes a big difference especially with surge where storm size really matters. Wind speed isn't everything. Also we have hurricane wind warnings for a reason, if you look at the Beaufort scale, it defines any storm with 75 mph winds as a hurricane, I would go with that. The reason for wind speed increments is because of how information is reported....you never hear about 74 mph Cat 1s or 96 mph Cat 2s or 111 mph Cat 3s or 157 mph Cat 5s.....each should be rounded either up or down to the nearest 5 mph increment which is how the data is reported to the public. Cat 4 avoids this mess because that has been revised to 130 mph (I suggest such a revision for each category, and TS should be 40 mph not 39 mph too)
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reminds me of squalls we see in the winter this area where I live never gets any convection lol
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wow the sun is blindingly bright, how are you getting rain lol
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it was Cat 2 and strengthening, just another doesnt make sense, the sheer size of the storm gave it more energy than any other hurricane other than Katrina SS scale doesn't describes hurricanes like this well
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it was probably sub 940 and a Cat 2 just before landfall
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good keep it there lol I'm enjoying my bright sunny skies
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it's bright and sunny here hopefully this storm is getting the boot now, it needs to go, it's overstayed its welcome and now it's time for sunshine and dry
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Sandy was definitely the most powerful storm that ever hit up here, which is another reason why I dont like the SS scale. Measure total energy and use that to define power.
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fwiw NHC will never make that mistake again. It should always have been a hurricane right up to landfall. I have major issues with these definitions (same with blizzards.) First of all I absolutely hate the Saffir Simpson scale for various reasons (not the least of which is that a lot more than just wind goes into how much damage is caused in a storm), but putting that aside for a second, the scale should be in 5 mph increments, so to have Cat 1 at 74 mph is pointless when measurements are rounded to 5 mph, make it 75 mph.....on top of that ANY storm with winds of 75 mph should be a hurricane not just one that is fully "tropical". People on the ground care about the wind speed not where the storm came from or what it turned into, if you really want a separate definition for the truly tropical ones call them tropical hurricanes. Hurricane needs to STAY in the definition because thats what people pay attention to, so a storm like Sandy shouldn't be called a "Superstorm" because that isn't a real thing, there is no scientific definition for one. It should ALWAYS be called a hurricane. With blizzards I think it's ridiculous that we dont have a snowfall component to it. Those things that happen in the midwest with little or no snowfall actually falling should be called ground blizzards, while we should have a separate definition for ours that also has a snowfall component to it (10 inches in 12 hours or 20 inches in 24 hours.) /rant(s)
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where did the water flowing down your block come from? It sounds like you lost power around 6 PM too You didnt have power for 2 nights?
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you didnt have any damage from the wind or lost your power with Sandy? No power here for 25 hours from right when it made landfall at 6 pm to 7 pm the next evening
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meanwhile bright skies here
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Not a hurricane at landfall but I would put it in the close call category because it was right up until about 3 hours before landfall- so it goes in with Bob which missed us just a little to the east, both were Cat 2s too.
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haven't most of our Cat 3s been overturned with new research? We've actually had far fewer strong hurricanes get this far north than we did in the 30s-60s period. As a matter of fact we had at least one hurricane make landfall here every decade from the 30s through the 80s, but none since then. Even if you allow for Bob barely missing us in 1991, that still means that since 1991 no hurricane has made landfall in the northeast. Like, anywhere in the northeast.....whats going on?