Tatamy

9 minutes ago, STxVortex said:

There's been all kinds of debris floating by for hours, thought I even saw a dog...  The beachhouse across the channel [or road] has been doing some wild contortions on it's pilings for a while. With the eye just about to touch GI, it may be gone soon. 

At the rate conditions are going downhill at that location I doubt it will be on for more than another 30 minutes or so.  I give a lot of credit to who ever set it up. That feed ranks with the overnight footage seen from the eye of Gonzalo in Bermuda in 2014.  Perfectly calm, pitch black conditions with frogs.

http://Www.wwltv.com

For those of you who are interested, I am providing the above link to a NOLA TV station with live local coverage:

18 minutes ago, uncle W said:

I go over that bridge routeenly since 1972...My son has a home in Wild Acres...before that me and my uncle had one...it has a one dollar toll collected by the owners of the bridge...its been one dollar for a long time...

Yup - that’s the one.

Just now, LibertyBell said:

Just dont want to see a microburst, one of those damaged my roof and balcony there by dropping a bunch of trees on it.  The media is ridiculously bad out there, no one even reported it, I had to find out through the power company what happened.

 

Where you are located is at elevation high up in the Poconos.  Orographically induced storms are common there.  Because it’s rural you won’t get much media information.  Is there Nextdoor out there?

Just now, JonClaw said:

Cell just popped over me. Heavy rain and some good thunder too.

Same exact weather going on here.

5 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

So they skipped over that area or formed east of there?

They formed east of there.  No worries as there are others popping up all over the place around here.

1 minute ago, donsutherland1 said:

No. Dingmans Ferry actually referred to a bridge.

They have an old narrow truss bridge across the Delaware River at that location.  No EZ pass there.  They hire senior citizens to stand in the roadway and collect the tolls from motorists.

14 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Interesting, I wonder if they'll make it to Jim Thorpe-Albrightsville-Lake Harmony-Lehighton area.  Just found out Jim Thorpe has a heat index of 105!

 

These storms are already east of there.

14 minutes ago, hudsonvalley21 said:

Looks like a few more storms are now popping up around the Scranton area too.

They are popping around me as well.  Outflow boundary passed me about 10 minutes ago and dropped the temperature about 8 degrees in a few minutes.

Active convection day in NE PA especially in Monroe and Northampton Cty’s near Stroudsburg.  These storms are severe warned and are moving into Warren and Sussex Cty NJ at this time.  211 lightning strikes in the past 3 hours with these storms.  Use caution if you are driving out west on I80 in NW NJ this afternoon.

1 hour ago, LibertyBell said:

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)

From a meteorological perspective Sandy was a hybrid storm for a good part of its existence outside of the Caribbean.  It comes down to the realization on the part of the NHC that both subtropical and tropical storms can be highly destructive.  At the end of the day the public needs to be warned in advance of a system that can bring high winds, storm surge, and heavy flooding rains.  Both of these types of storms can do that.  Up to about a decade or so ago only tropical systems were named and subtropical ones weren’t unless they became tropical.  Now both are and the process/experience with how Sandy was tracked and the agencies responsible to do so were crystallized.  A true hurricane is defined by its scientific/meteorological characteristics and the definition is not going to be changed for the sake of issuing warnings.  That is why we have the current system in place.  Regarding the Saffir/Simpson scale, this was developed by pioneering tropical meteorologists back in the 60s and 70s. I believe it serves its purpose well.  To relate the scale to wind increments of 5 mph makes no sense.  The purpose of the scale is to relate the wind speeds and overall intensity of it to the potential damage and it can and does cause.  

1 minute ago, Brian5671 said:

once in a lifetime there.  That sting jet was nuts...many around me were without power 7-10 days.   (got lucky here-only out 6 hrs)

I was outside of my house that night listening to it roar overhead.  I have never heard anything like that before or since.

2 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

I remember waking up that morning , checking the radar and seeing a sub 940 low about to pull west.  It was the most fascinating thing I ever witnessed.

I also remember people calling bust during the day when nothing was happening.

It’s amazing how short people’s memories are.  Numerous wind gusts to hurricane force across LI including 90 mph at Islip.  Just about Every road and train tunnel to Manhattan flooded out.  53 people dead in NY.  $40 billion + in damages.  Massive damage along the NJ shore.  With regards to its status at landfall I think that had to do with politics.  Insurance companies had to pay more due to it being classified as other than a hurricane (my opinion).

12 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

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?

 

How about Sandy in 2012?

No full moon out here.  The moisture from Henri has circled all the way around from CT, SE NY, and northern NJ and found it’s way to eastern PA.  It’s been pouring out here tonight after a drizzly day.  2.01” on the day so far.

The attached photo is of the ferry dock at Cherry Grove on Fire Island.  The dock is typically at least 3’ above the mean water level.  In this shot it’s almost even with the dock.  It looks like the storm surge warnings verified.

22 minutes ago, Tatamy said:

Pressure at BID down to 992 mb.  Recent wind gust to 68 mph.

Pressure now down at SE light to 989 mb.

11 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Alright…just wanted to be clear since when we use the station ID we usually are referring to the official airport station (ASOS/AWOS).

I am sorry- I was referring to the location of the station as being on Block Island and using BID as an acronym.  My bad.

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

Those are not obs from the AWOS.

No - they are from a station on WU at Southeast Light at Mohegan Bluffs.  It’s a Davis Vantage Vue mounted on a pole on a roof top.

Pressure at BID down to 992 mb.  Recent wind gust to 68 mph.

BID just gusted to 66 mph.

Just now, wdrag said:

WXunderground.  52-56 MPH on BID.  will add graphic soon.  Also 44017 s of MTK gusts 43 kt and increasing.  Mesonet gusts e LI are getting into the mid 30s now.

Just reached 61 mph at BID.  

You have to go out to eastern Suffolk to find strong winds.  I found a station out in Baiting Hollow at Reeves Beach on WU overlooking the Sound with a recent gust to 49 mph.

Following two WU stations on BID as the NW eyewall of Henri approaches.  Highest gusts are 54 and 56 mph.

Following two WU stations on BID as the NW eyewall of Henri approaches.  Highest gusts so far are 54 and 56 mph.