LibertyBell
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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 -
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?
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We have a chance for 10" from this storm alone
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maybe drop density.....
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What would happen if a Cat 2 Hurricane like Sandy was before it transitioned took a track like that and stalled out (or even worse, a track over Central Long Island and stalled out?)
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It looked like there was a moonbow! I could see all different colors.
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that was training storms I believe we got 10" in southwest Nassau too! Do you have JFK totals for that storm?
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looks like an inland snowfall map with lesser totals as you go east and south lol
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Moon and Jupiter look spectacular together, they're also lighting up clouds nearby.
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Stars are out now! and a really bright planet in the SW must be Jupiter which is the brightest it will be for 13 months!
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wasnt that in a tropical system? there was a sandy like storm in 1903
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one of my favorite summers, those 90s summers were something.....91, 93, 95, 99 all the way to 2002.... rain usually held off until after summer like 1999 when Floyd hit in September
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It would've been even more extreme had it made landfall in Long Island but it never got as strong as it was supposed to get otherwise the western solutions would've verified
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the qpf queens still have their crowns lol but it might be rust after all this rain
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Wow I see that here too. Why is that part of the sky an electric blue? It's pretty amazing, no haze even with all this humidity.
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Lee Goldberg just said "we're playing by different rules now with our extreme events" We all know what he's talking about. Close to 8 inches now in NYC, at least they measure rainfall well! Lee also said that the tornado in NE PA is a warning shot for what could happen in our area tomorrow.
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We should have just gone with climo, heaviest rainfall totals for those more than 100 miles west of the eye, progressively lesser as you get closer to the point of landfall and even less further east.
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I saw blue patches and the skies got bright but that was it
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Yeah we had 10" here in one day before Irene came along