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UPDATED: Media Briefing: FEMA & NOAA to discuss preparations for Hurricane Sandy and potential storm impacts
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and NOAA’s National Weather Service are actively tracking Hurricane Sandy as it continues moving northward over the eastern Atlantic. It is predicted to curve back toward land early next week. This large storm could bring a range of dangerous weather to a large part of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Experts from NOAA will provide an update on Sandy potential impacts and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate will provide an overview of federal efforts underway to support state and local partners as they prepare for the storm.
What: Media teleconference on Sandy’s possible impacts and preparations
When: TODAY; 3:30 p.m. ET
Who: Craig Fugate, administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Dr. Louis Uccellini, director, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction
James Franklin, branch chief, NOAA’s National Hurricane Center
How: 1-888-790-3563, passcode: 5444021#
Resources:
NOAA’s National Hurricane Center: http://www.hurricanes.gov
NOAA’s National Weather Service: http://www.weather.gov
NOAA’s Environmental Visualization Lab: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php
Federal Emergency Management Agency: http://www.FEMA.gov
Preparedness Information: http://www.Ready.gov
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They’re besotted, and the response proves it:
“Blogoshpere”
<;P
It’s sort of a hurricane sandywich.
My local weather station says NINE straight days of rain, minimal winds and the obvious cause —
stalled storm, held together by a cold trough at the perfect spot to siphon moisture from the atlantic.
N.B. Canada
This will cut voter turnout in the NE.
Best of luck folks.
Paul in Sweden says:
October 26, 2012 at 11:33 am
“Last year I made back to America and was in D.C. for the earthquake aftermath and NYC for the tropical storm hit and then in Vermont for the flooding. What actions have been taken to improve civil infrastructure to better mitigate the havoc caused by periodic storms? I am not aware of any.”
All that… each time you visited the States? I know coorelation isn’t causation but maybe their action should be to stop letting you enter the States. [just kidding!]
Oh good, the NHC rainfall maps show New Hampshire now. Overall, doesn’t look too bad except for southeast MD with around 10″. A stretch from WV to northeast PA gets around 4″ (the mountains should get some wet snow, could be a problem), Scranton PA (for those of us who remember Agnes) gets about 2″ as do I in NH.
John F. Hultquist’s post of October 26, 2012 at 2:00 pm has the following link to Atlantic SSTs:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/maps/sst/2012102600_sst_AB.png
That map is flat wrong. It would have one believe that the SST is near zero at the equator! The *pattern* of warming is plausible, with cold water at the North & South extremes, but it’s misregistered with the landmap and latitude grid. The map at http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/oisst/amsr-sst-bb.gif is somewhat out-of-date, but at least sensible.
Anthony, perhaps you could get your friends at NOAA to fix the ERH map.
As a postscript to my comment of 9:33 am, http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/oisst/navy-sst-bb.gif is a fairly current SST map.
Harold W says:
“That map is flat wrong. It would have one believe that the SST is near zero at the equator! ”
Umm…..did you ever hear about degrees Celsius?
tty –
Before resorting to snark, did you even click on the link to look at the map? And yes, it’s zero Celsius (=32 F) at the bottom of that map. I consider zero Celsius to be an implausible value for equatorial sea surface temperature, don’t you?
It’s just a simple mistake made on that graphic. It’ll be easy to fix.
The message that EVERYBODY should heed is the “Cry Wolf” syndrome.
Consider Darwin Australia 1974.
There had been previous years with dire warnings of impending destruction which came to nothing.
There were several incidents in late 1974 when warnings of impending doom turned into false alarm – And so for a few days leading into Christmas Eve 1974 the people of Darwin were again subjected to alarming forecasts which all promptly ignored because it seemed another BS news story – the difference this time Tracy formed and destroyed in less than a week.
Google Tracy 1974 Darwin to see a major small City blown away – major tornado type destruction.
How safe was CO2 in 1974 ?
Any time I read “FEMA gearing up”, my fight-or-flight reflex kicks in like an angry mule.
Here’s what gets me about the coverage of natural “disasters”:
“This could result in a devastating storm surge in the range of 5-10 feet, possibly flooding their subway system among other things.”
Sure, ‘devastating’ to a lot of man-made crap, but we all know that weather can be dangerous, we just choose to block it out (like those fools who keep rebuilding their luxury homes on sand bars off the Carolina coast). If you dig an enormous amount of artificial caves, and a hurricane comes along (as they have for millennia uncounted), you probably going to have some flooding issues, but it’s always stated in terms that make it sound unforeseen, unprecedented, and somehow unnatural. These people aren’t “friends of the planet”, they’re hopelessly myopic, self-absorbed control freaks.
Not everything that humans do matters to nature, not everything happens in nature hjas a human cause, and most importantly, not everything needs a human solution. If you really love the earth, learn to live with its many moods, cause even though you live together, she ain’t changing for nobody.
tty says:
October 27, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Umm, perhaps you should look at the map. The magic decoder key says blue is 0°C/32°F. While the numeric part is right, and perhaps the blue is right on some overlay map, the map really is trying to say the equatorial water is 0°C/32°F. In my estimation, Harold is right to question it. 🙂
Either that, or Hurricane Sandy is going to be cat 4-5 soon.
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kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
October 26, 2012 at 12:36 pm
I’m awaiting for better agreement among the models, as I would like to know if Sandy will be curling upwards to New England or COMING STRAIGHT AT MY HOUSE.
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Me too — well almost. Western MD is close to the center in the models. 4-5″ rain will turn my border stream into a raging river. Wet snow could blanket the highest mountains. Not looking forward to the power outages either.. 🙁
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Ric Werme says:
October 26, 2012 at 2:16 pm
OTOH, a meteorologist acquaintance on Facebook posted “Epic fail by the European model. (Apparently …nothing set in stone yet.). FYI… that means threat stays high north.” If that means the GFS model has the better solution, things become a lot worse for New England.
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The latest GFS model here:
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/psu_gfs-sfc_flan.html
shows it wobbling around the PA area for several days, tho it “rains out” fairly dramatically.