Hurricane Sandy Threatens To Slam Northeast U.S. Monday-Tuesday 29th-30th

ednwireland

Some neighbors have put up a sunshade in their car's windshield ahead of #Sandy. Somehow, I don't think it'll have much of an effect today.
by ErnestScheyder via twitter

off the reuters site

some people live in hope

Spindle

Looks like Atlantic City is being swamped at the moment. And there is a very long way to go yet. The storm is still around 265 miles to the south east according to the last reports at 12pm Irish time.

https://twitter.com/aubreyjwhelan/status/262885138474606592/photo/1

https://twitter.com/JitneyGuy/status/262891072693358593/photo/1

jamo2oo9

SnowDrifts wrote: »

Here is the Harbor
http://www.nyharborwebcam.com/

Cheers mate! Looks good (the view I mean not the weather..)

jo06555

Just got this stream off Twitter :

http://new.livestream.com/breakinglivenowdirect/sandycam?&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=follow&utm_campaign=breakinglivenowdirect&utm_content=sandycam

maquiladora

nkay1985

A walk around Mandatory Evacuation Zone A this morning. Interesting to get a feel for what it's like on the ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhwAwQnuGbA

leahyl

SnowDrifts wrote: »

Here is the Harbor
http://www.nyharborwebcam.com/

Great webcam, cheers :-)

maquiladora

Best Track Data upgraded Sandy to 80 knots, so we should see winds up to 90/95mph on the next advisory.

pegasus1

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

All crew have already been rescued after abandoning the ship.

They are in two 25 man covered life rafts...they have to ride it out in them...

Spindle

maquiladora wrote: »

Best Track Data upgraded Sandy to 80 knots, so we should see winds up to 90/95mph on the next advisory.

This one got my attention. There is going to be a lot of stress on the sky scrappers.

Nick Wiltgen, weather.com Meteorologist:
The latest run of the American GFS model is predicting winds over New York City to peak at about 4pm EDT (+/- 2 hours). Ominously, at that time it predicts sustained winds of 107 mph only 1,000 feet above ground, which is below the tops of several Manhattan skyscrapers.

Deep Easterly

Small animation of Sandy's progress between the 26th up to 05z today.



Animation is from ZAMG (Austrian Met Service), who have a nice archive of animated satellite imagery of current and previous cyclones on their website:
http://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/wetter/satellitenbild-animation/wirbelstuerme

Iancar29

Shes Starting to turn left now...

fits

Holy crap. re HMS Bounty. Not a pleasant experience. And id have to agree, sounds higly idiotic that they were in its track in the first place. So what if ship gets damaged in the dock. This was forecast SIX days ago. Captain and owners have questions to answer.

gbee

Spindle wrote: »

http://www.visitob.com/webcams/sea-ranch-kill-devil-hills/

This has stopped working for me, is it my piddilinngly slow Eircom connection?

Mech1

gbee wrote: »

This has stopped working for me, is it my piddilinngly slow Eircom connection?

Not only you check my sig for my connection speed.

notnumber

gbee wrote: »

This has stopped working for me, is it my piddilinngly slow Eircom connection?

no,its up and down constantly-too many connections one assumes.

Iancar29

Hudson river has breached its bank...

James74

This would not be fun :eek:
http://instagram.com/p/RXdtwdlDnS/

Spindle

fits wrote: »

Holy crap. re HMS Bounty. Not a pleasant experience. And id have to agree, sounds higly idiotic that they were in its track in the first place. So what if ship gets damaged in the dock. This was forecast SIX days ago. Captain and owners have questions to answer.

Looks like she is gone

The replica HMS Bounty we reported on earlier has now sunk, according to CBC.

rc28

Scroll down this page, updates automatically - the boardwalk in Atlantic City has already come down:

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Tracking_Storm_Sandy

jamo2oo9

James74 wrote: »

This would not be fun :eek:
http://instagram.com/p/RXdtwdlDnS/

Someone open the window please, it's a little stuffy in here :pac:

tommyboy2222

This might be a silly question but could this affect us Ireland ?

Didn't we get hit with the tail end of a hurricane before ?

jamo2oo9

tommyboy2222 wrote: »

This might be a silly question but could this affect us Ireland ?

Didn't we get hit with the tail end of a hurricane before ?

Unless Sandy decides to turn directions to east, then we would be affected. As far as I'm aware, I think the last one affected Burmuda and then moved in our direction as it slowed down and it was in it's dying phases by the time it hit Donegal.

Mr. Manager

Holy fück

http://twitter.com/efitz6/status/262858534457311232/photo/1

bnt

Regarding Integrated Kinetic Energy, NOAA are currently getting an IKE figure of 239 TJ from their analysis: see the maps here. That is about double the IKE of Hurricane Katrina (120 TJ) and well above the previous record holder (Hurricane Isabel, 2003 at 175 TJ).

Spindle

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Holy fück

http://twitter.com/efitz6/status/262858534457311232/photo/1

That was from a storm in 2011, it is time to start taking with a pinch of salt what you see being posted on Social media. People will post anything to get attention.

Just wait for pictures for movies showing New York under 10 foot of water/snow/ice/lava

leahyl

I know of people living in Geneva, New York near Rochester and Buffalo - how are theylikely to be affected? Hopefully not as bad inland?

Sierra Oscar

My brother is going to be riding this one out in lower Manhattan - I don't envy him!

M.T. Cranium

Geneva NY will have 2-3 days of steady rain with moderate winds mostly from the north or northeast, and perhaps a storm total of 100 mm -- I've been through that region (Finger Lakes) and I don't think flooding is much of an issue locally, it might be a few miles to the south in the NY-PA border region.

So just a very unpleasant three or four days. The rain has already started there from the front that is being merged into Sandy.

Looks like Sandy is now borderline cat-2 and not much above 940 mbs central pressure. The main impacts are 12 hours away for the coast, but already tides are near other storm levels. Dire.

leahyl

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Geneva NY will have 2-3 days of steady rain with moderate winds mostly from the north or northeast, and perhaps a storm total of 100 mm -- I've been through that region (Finger Lakes) and I don't think flooding is much of an issue locally, it might be a few miles to the south in the NY-PA border region.

So just a very unpleasant three or four days. The rain has already started there from the front that is being merged into Sandy.

Looks like Sandy is now borderline cat-2 and not much above 940 mbs central pressure. The main impacts are 12 hours away for the coast, but already tides are near other storm levels. Dire.

Thanks MT! indeed the Fingerlakes Region! My friend is American, living here with her Irish husband but all her family are still in Geneva - cheers for the info :-)