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Snow is mixing in with the rain in Point Pleasant Beach right now.

Is this worse than swamp people storm?

Any mention of Sandy outside a tropical system making landfall somewhere between ocean city md and block island should necessitate an immediate 72 hour ban during storm mode. Please? One can hope?

Does the one still have it as a 2 boarder line 3?

Best of both worlds. I, too, couldn't deal with the math but still get to play outside in storms here and get paid, and once in awhile fill in (although it's been a few years)

There was also a serious upwelling episode last weekend before the storm hit. Water went from 80-81 degrees into the 60s by Sunday night.

Amazing how many people came up to us between 6 and 9 am and said "fake storm". Definitely the strongest sustained winds I've stood in with gusts in the mid 60s. What stood out was the difference in temperature. Once the storm got going it was warm and humid then halfway through the temp dropped 10 degrees in a few minutes and when the winds shifted back to the west it rose again. The freakiest thing and I mentioned this on air was the smell of trees and vegetation in the air. Since we were on the beach we didn't have a lot of vegetation around. But the winds out of the west brought the smell of trees all the way to the beaches, something I smelled only after Irene and Sandy and in tornado damage in Florida.

Winds gusting just under 20 mph at Manasquan inlet. That's up from calm when we first arrived at 5 am.

This doesn't deserve a weenie emoji. This is legit. I am concerned about wind damage at the Jersey Shore. We tried to talk up the potential for 70+ gusts today. Media has been all over this - but some folks I spoke with this morning for my reports didn't even know there was a storm coming.

Are you kidding me no media coverage? We've been on this for days.

A random 60 miles per hour wind gust is manageable. When you start getting in the 70s you have issues. I hope hope hope this is overdone but we will see.

From my eyes the storm looks about as good in satellite as it has in awhile yet. Those wind projections are eye opening for sure. especially considering last July when we had that thunderstorm Squall line move through the Jersey Shore with 75 mile an hour winds I think we had hundreds of thousands without power for at least a couple of days.

An 80 mph gust on LI and 70 on the Jersey Shore is a good possibility. I'll be covering this one from manasquan (as usual) and certainly emphasize the tornado threat.

That's Irene. This isn't an Irene.

Just got placed in a warning here in Wall for 80 mph wind gusts! - this is serious.

Fun storm. Great cloud formations from my front porch, but damage and trees all over just up the road.

Was out grilling some chicken and had wet snowflakes hitting me here in Point Pleasant Beach with a temp around 48.

We are about to changeover to sleet or freezing rain in the NW Philly burbs where I am now in Phoenixville. That line is rapidly advancing east. It's still about 25 degrees outside.

Ocean is 46 degrees in Belmar. That's above normal for this time of year.

It's only my second one. Got a deal for my birthday. But at least Royal Caribbean is already pledging to help. I know exactly what you're talking about though.

My friend (who lacks a soul apparently) says if the workers are homeless or worse they'll just staff it with crew from the ship.

How badly will I be internet shamed if I post my Nassau and CoCoCay Perfect Day cruise photos we are supposed to be on in 2 weeks??? All kidding aside honestly I hope they change the itinerary.....

Getting nothing but spam on my iPhone again trying to browse the forums. Can someone please help

Mike Rizzo (news 12 met), his GF, Noni Hodges (News 12 met) and myself chased from NJ to Seneca, South Carolina to the Duke Energy facility in the upstate. I just threw this little video together of our experience. If I said I didn't cry when it happened I would be lying. If I said I didn't cry assembling this video, again, I would be lying. We had 2 minutes 30 seconds of totality. It was the greatest single nature moment of my life. I find myself even getting choked up when trying to describe to friends back at home what it was actually like.

I am covering what was probably an EF-0 tornado in Luzerne County, PA today for my news. It's so shocking to see the southern death toll so high. When I got home from work yesterday, I was watching TWC and ABC 33/40 coverage simultaneously. It was the best wall-to-wall severe coverage I have ever seen. But I got a sick feeling when the debris started raining down in Birmingham. It was a sick to my stomach feeling, and those fears are realized. We had quite a bit of damage in our coverage area in NEPA and Central PA...but it really makes you take one step back when you're covering a couple hundred trees snapped off and then look at the areal shots from Tuscaloosa and see how many innocent people--who woke up that morning ready to live their life, had theirs taken away from them so suddenly, so horrifically, and so tragically.... Anyone negatively commenting on the media's coverage during the storms yesterday needs to just take a step back and understand hundreds/thousands of lives may have been saved from advanced warning the on-air mets were providing--from TWC to ABC 33/40 to all the affiliates in the south that were running wall-to-wall coverage. Negatively charged comments toward the media should be aimed and centered to the stations that aired regular programming during the time of the southern outbreak...