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

Wolfe_IRE

BREAKING -- WABC-TV: Atlantic City official says most of the city is under water; damage could be worse than 1962

leahyl

Wolfe_IRE wrote: »

BREAKING -- WABC-TV: Atlantic City official says most of the city is under water; damage could be worse than 1962

Dear God...

leahyl

Wind speed in New Jersey around 55/60 mph at the moment - hours away from the main storm yet....

fits

gbee wrote: »

Typically it should weaken rapidly soon.

Lets hope it does.

Right?

jo06555

Wolfe_IRE wrote: »

BREAKING -- WABC-TV: Atlantic City official says most of the city is under water; damage could be worse than 1962

Wow and has the worst not even come yet?? How bad could this really get?

RGM

Latest track has the eye passing within a half-mile of my house.

RGM wrote: »

Sponge Bob

These weaken once the core is onshore...IE tonight our time. It could intensify for the next 10 hours as it appears to be doing.

gbee

Losing webcams by the bucket load, live feeds getting erratic.

SEPT 23 1989

8pm high tide:(

leahyl

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2012/10/29/news/doc508e9d826ef4b641919439.txt

:eek::eek:

Mr. Manager

Few different CNN live streams on one page -

http://edition.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=1

cherryghost

Wolfe_IRE wrote: »

BREAKING -- WABC-TV: Atlantic City official says most of the city is under water; damage could be worse than 1962

Some videos on the Weather Channel. Also a lot of coastline beach houses are already washed out to sea.

Saganist

http://www.nyharborwebcam.com/

Still up.

Sponge Bob

1ft of water for now. Atlantic City.

http://blogs.atlanticcityweekly.com/ac-central/files/2012/10/sandy-bwalk-ac_450.jpg

Spindle

Sponge Bob wrote: »

These weaken once the core is onshore...IE tonight our time. It could intensify for the next 10 hours as it appears to be doing.

Is it still over the gulf stream are high enough SST there to help it deepen. Hopefully once away from those high SSTs it will not be able to deepen anymore.

Ponster

Ok. I woke at 9am (about 3 hours ago) and the weather was ok. A little breezy but calm compared to a typical Oct. day in Ireland.
The wind has picked up a lot more now and it's begun to rain more.

Here's a quick vid of the East River from 2 hours ago (10 am) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_QU1er6pYM

nkay1985

Pictures from Atlantic City. Jaysus. :eek:

Sponge Bob

937.5mb extrapolated.

http://www.tropicalatlantic.com/recon/archive/storm.cgi?year=2012&storm=Sandy&product=URNT15

MJohnston

JFK airport:

km79

I know it has probably been asked many times before but here goes
How come America gets such severe storms but Ireland which is an island in the Atlantic Ocean does not ?

MJohnston

km79 wrote: »

I know it has probably been asked many times before but here goes
How come America gets such severe storms but Ireland which is an island in the Atlantic Ocean does not ?

Simplistic really, but it's all about where they are born:



Think of the movement of weather patterns generally in terms of a flowing river and you'll basically understand why they follow a relatively predictable path.

gbee

km79 wrote: »

ow come America gets such severe storms but Ireland which is an island in the Atlantic Ocean does not ?

We are an island on a Continental Shelf.

Weather comes off Africa and crosses the Atlantic and mixes up alone the US coast to arrive at us from the North mostly. We get as severe weather as anywhere, just maybe not as often.

geetar

km79 wrote: »

I know it has probably been asked many times before but here goes
How come America gets such severe storms but Ireland which is an island in the Atlantic Ocean does not ?

i think most of the hurricanes emerge form the gulf of mexico and tend to go towards southeast america due to currents. the odd tail end of a hurricane can eventually get to ireland. im sure soneone who actually knows what theyre talking about will chime in tho :cool:

Ponster

If the Earth spun in the opposite direction would it be Ireland getting hit by hurricanes ?

gothwalk

km79 wrote: »

I know it has probably been asked many times before but here goes
How come America gets such severe storms but Ireland which is an island in the Atlantic Ocean does not ?

There are two factors - first, they're on the western side of the Atlantic, and big storms tend west from the tropics, before they tend east later. That's not always true, but it happens more often than not.

Second, they're further south than we are by quite a bit, so storms still have a lot of energy from crossing over warm water, whereas by the time they get over here, they've crossed a big area of colder water, and lost some energy.

nkay1985

Some amount of pictures of flooding coming in already and it hasn't even hit land yet.

What time is it expected to make landfall at actually?

And people are saying 8pm high tide. I presume that's East Coast time so midnight here, is that correct? If that's the case, I can't imagine how high the waters are going to go.

gbee

Mayor Bloomberg receiving complaints about lack of facilities at the shelters.

cherryghost

Ponster wrote: »

If the Earth spun in the opposite direction would it be Ireland getting hit by hurricanes ?

No, we'd get warm easterly summers and cold easterly winters.

Sierra Oscar

nkay1985 wrote: »

And people are saying 8pm high tide. I presume that's East Coast time so midnight here, is that correct? If that's the case, I can't imagine how high the waters are going to go.

Apparently so. NYC Mayor Bloomberg was stressing that the next high tide was to coincide with far higher water levels naturally when compared to earlier, so who knows what way the flooding will go.

cherryghost

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Apparently so. NYC Mayor Bloomberg was stressing that the next high tide was to coincide with far higher water levels naturally when compared to earlier, so who knows what way the flooding will go.

Up to 12 feet with high tide combined with surge according to some experts. Hurricane movement is now about 18mph, they expect it to make landfall around 8 now, not 7.