We're close to 80 and muggy at my Wall Township office now. Had full sunshine for about 2 hours now here. Don't know if that will help the storms as they typically weaken crossing NJ but it's juiced at least here.
Posted a clip on my Facebook page. Sunshine was visible. Trees are down all over though from this mornings burst of wind.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EMczqQcta/
Got cold out here in a hurry as the winds are now approaching 60 mph gusts. Lots of transformers lighting up, zapping noises, and light tree stuff blowing down the streets. It's pretty wild.
I can tell you no one is calling this Sandy in the respected media. I don't know what the clickbate Facebook-ologists are saying but this idea of the media hyping this as a Sandy is simply not true. (You're not doing that but I'm seeing many angry posts from people telling us stop hyping)
I'm at the Manasquan Inlet prepping for a 5pm live and it's not too bad here yet. The Stevens tide model is showing major here for Saturday morning, a bit higher than the NOAA guide which keeps it just at moderate/minor levels.
Barnegat Bay communities are going to get whacked pretty good. Mystic Islands, Tuckerton, etc. Regardless the surf and erosion on the shore this is going to be significant for the bays.
I'm more bothered by backdoor action than late season polar vortex drops. Today is probably in top 5 miserable day of the winter.
Looking forward to mist and 48 into May.
Mixing with snow in western Monmouth in Millstone according to my friend who moved there from by me literally to see more snow than the immediate coast.
there...are...no....words.
HOWEVER, I am concerned about flooding. Even though we're in between moon phases this water will pile up in a hurry.
Besides that, lots of plans going into place in the newsroom today.
Blizzard watches were discontinued about 10 years ago. While winds could be strong along the beaches, we are in the middle of the moon phases so that will help a bit.
Middletown Township just purchased another 800 tonnes of salt after the January storm.
IF this happens, we're in mid moon phase to limit coastal flooding. I would like to see what the max wind potential is of a bombing storm this rapidly.