Earl and the East Coast

Methow Ken says:
August 31, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Just a SLIGHT drift to the west of latest projected path by the eye, and this one could be a direct hit on a whole bunch of people.

Tell me about it. I live just outside Ocean City Md and we have already got a “go bag” ready, the dog kennels staged in the bed of th pickup and non perishable food ready to go.

Could make for some soggy football this weekend

Snow, then heat, then a hurricane. Proof of global warming. None of these things ever happened before.

Looking awfully “Floyd-like”. I’m spending today replacing my sump pump and stocking the pantry. Should be an interesting coupla days for the east coast.

This is pretty much a glorified nor’easter for New England…nothing they haven’t seen before. Definitely headed for the beach to see some of the wave action!

Strongest hurricane to make it this far north in nearly 20 years. Coincidence that sea temperatures off the east coast are running about 8dF above “normal”? Oh, I forgot, that’s a hoax, right?

Earl and the East Coast
Lord Christopher Monckton is an “EARL” I think – lol!

Justin Time says:
September 1, 2010 at 9:36 am
Strongest hurricane to make it this far north in nearly 20 years. Coincidence that sea temperatures off the east coast are running about 8dF above “normal”? Oh, I forgot, that’s a hoax, right?

And he completely misses the logical fallacy in his statement and postion….
According to Warmists 2010 is THE WARMEST YEAR EVER!.
So explain why 20 years ago when the temperatures were lower then now; you got a Hurricane stronger this far north when CAGW says that Hurricanes are suppose to get stronger when the temperatures are higher from CO2?

Jaye Bass says:
September 1, 2010 at 2:16 pm

Maybe we shouldn’t tell Justin about Hurricane Hazel back in 1954 that was a Cat 4 hurricane when it hit land in North Carolina with winds of 140 MPH.

Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed as many as 1,000 people in Haiti before striking the United States near the border between North and South Carolina, as a Category 4 hurricane. After causing 95 fatalities in the US, Hazel struck Canada as an extratropical storm, raising the death toll by 81 people, mostly in Toronto. As a result of its damaging effects and high death toll, its name was retired and will never again be used for a hurricane in the North Atlantic basin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Hazel
And there is the Great Hurricane of 1944 which might confuse him since it too was a Cat 4 with 140 MPH winds.

A hurricane was first detected on September 9, northeast of the Lesser Antilles. It likely developed from a tropical wave several days before. It moved west-northwestward, and steadily intensified to a 140 mph (230 km/h) major hurricane on the 12th, northeast of the Bahamas. Around this time, the Miami Hurricane Warning Office designated this storm The Great Atlantic Hurricane to emphasize its intensity and size, which appears to be the first time a name was designated by the office which evolved into the National Hurricane Center.[1] The hurricane turned northward and hit the Outer Banks later that day.
Moving rapidly to the northeast, the hurricane maintained its strength somewhat at the time of its Long Island landfall on September 15, hitting as a Category 3 hurricane[2]. Shortly thereafter it crossed the Rhode Island coastline, and after emerging into the Massachusetts Bay it hit Maine, just before becoming extratropical. The non-tropical system continued northeastward, and merged with a larger extratropical low on the 16th south of Greenland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Great_Atlantic_Hurricane
And the Hurricane of 1938 we definitely need to with hold since it reached Cat 5:

The New England Hurricane of 1938 (or Great New England Hurricane or Long Island Express or simply The Great Hurricane of 1938) was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869. The storm formed near the coast of Africa in September of the 1938 Atlantic hurricane season, becoming a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale before making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane [1] on Long Island on September 21. The hurricane was estimated to have killed between 682 and 800 people,[2] damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at US$306 million ($ 4.72 billion in 2010).[3] In 1951, damaged trees and buildings were still to be seen in the affected areas.[4] To date it remains the most powerful, costliest and deadliest hurricane in New England history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Hurricane_of_1938
And we have to keep this most secret, the Cat 4 storm of 1821:

For those who live in the Garden State and the New York City area, and think that a major hurricane isn’t possible here better think again. This weekend commemorates the 185th anniversary of the Great Hurricane of 1821. On September 3rd that summer, a Category Four Hurricane rapidly moved up the east coast. As a matter of fact, the storm moved from North Carolina’s outer banks to the New York City area in just ten hours. This storm struck the Cape May area of extreme South Jersey, and moved up along a path that is covered by the Garden State Parkway today.
Like the major storms of today, this hurricane caused a lot of damage and devastation, but it also served as an important moment in the study of hurricanes, particularly early ones. Data collected from this storm was researched thoroughly by an amateur meteorologist, who used his work to publish an article in the Journal of Science that would lay the foundation for our understanding of these storms. The most important lesson learned from this storm though is the fact that despite how rare it can be, hurricanes can happen here.

http://www.hurricaneville.com/1821_hurricane.htm
We need to keep this on the Skeptic Down low

A tip to the west and we are looking at another Hugo here in Charlotte. 100 mile an hour winds. The city looked like it had been bombed. One of our oldest golf courses, the one where the Womens’ US Amateur was played a couple of weeks ago, lost 600 mature trees. No power for two weeks.