Hurricane Sandy and resulting Frankenstorm may impact . . . freakout![thread]

[Stan In FL]

wear your big girl pants, NYers.  20 states deal with this crap 5 months out of every year, and you don't give a sh*t.  BUT, some wimpy little hurricane goes to the north of virginia, and the entire MSM (headquarters : NYC) instantly wets it's damn dress.

'Dangerous' Hurricane Sandy and resulting Frankenstorm may impact LI, forecasters say

Amid dire forecasts for a cold front combining with Hurricane Sandy, state and Long Island officials urged residents Thursday to prepare for potentially punishing rain and high winds in a "Frankenstorm" that could hit as soon as late Sunday.

The main culprit is Hurricane Sandy, which could potentially "gel" with a cold front and a weather system from the west late Sunday or Monday along the East Coast, resulting in "a once in lifetime storm," said Tom Kines, AccuWeather meteorologist in State College, Pa.

Showers could start as soon as tomorrow night, with wind picking up by Sunday night into Monday, said Samantha Augeri, News 12 meteorologist. If all the elements merge, this storm could be stronger than Tropical Storm Irene, which struck the Island in August 2011, she said.

Coastal flooding is possible by late Sunday on Long Island as the storm's effect combines with higher tides brought on by the full moon, said Michael Silva, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Upton.

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[GeronL]

Oh noes

Panic time

Might rain and snow and be windy at the same time

Worse disaster ever according to the NY-based media

[Stan In FL]

CNN is losing it.  their headline is "Hurricane Sandy to ravage New England".  puhh-leeeeeeze.

[apples]

Hurricane Sandy forces mass transit closure

MYFOXNY.COM/AP -

Transit officials in New York are preparing for a total shutdown of subway, bus and train service as Hurricane Sandy continues to bear down on the metropolitan region.

All service will be suspended at 7 p.m. on Sunday.

COMPLETE COVERAGE AND TRACK SANDY

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to start planning for an orderly suspension of service.

New York City subways and buses will start phasing out service at 7 p.m.  Metro-North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road will suspend service at 7 p.m. Sunday.

The city's mass transit system is the nation's largest. The subway alone has a daily ridership of more than 5 million.

Rainfall is expected to start late Sunday or early Monday in New York. Hurricane Sandy is headed north from the Caribbean to meet a winter storm and a cold front. Experts say the rare hybrid storm that results will cause havoc over 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes.
Bridges and tunnels will be closed on a case-by-case basis.

On Saturday, the MTA had workers nailing plywood cover

Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/story/19933026/mta-subways-ready-for-hurricane-sandy#ixzz2Abr0c5kl

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New Earth Photo Just Shows Sandy’s Massive Size

If you had any doubts about the scale of frankenstorm Sandy, check out NASA's latest image to see its size compared to the entire planet. It was taken by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite this morning, October 28 at 9:02AM EDT.

This thing is really gigantic now. According to NASA, "Sandy's western cloud edge is already over the Mid-Atlantic and

http://gizmodo.com/5955575/earth-photo-shows-sandys-massive-size

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How will this storm affect the voting on Nov 6th?   

[Stan In FL]

I guess the power could still be out in some areas on election day.   Of course, the election guys have had plenty of time to prepare, so its not like they will have an excuse

[GeronL]

Haven't the winds slowed to the point where its not technically a hurricane anymore?

[Stan In FL]

In the 5pm advisory, it had 75 mph winds.  a category 1 hurricane should have winds of at least 74 mph.  So, yeah, it's barely a hurricane.

depressing turnout in philadelphia won't help Obama, by the way.

[GeronL]

WeatherActon.com says storm will track eastward and not hit the US

http://twitpic.com/b76ckr

[GeronL]

How wrong will that guy be?

[Stan In FL]

the big left turn has happened/is happening.   I'm not poo-pooing a hurricane, but if this cat 1 storm was headed for alabama right now, no one would give a sh*t.  but since it is headed for MSM headquarters, everyone is wetting their dress.

[GeronL]

yep.

Heavy rain is terrible for people in the NE I guess

[apples]

Hurricane Sandy Rapidly Intensifies As It Nears South Jersey Landfall; Severe Flooding Already Underway

It’s looking bad out there, as the above photo of Atlantic City, NJ indicates. Any hopes that Hurricane Sandy had been “overhyped” — that its storm surge would underwhelm, like Irene’s did in many places; that computer models’ forecast of last-minute deepening was implausible and wouldn’t happen; or perhaps that Sandy would simply turn away and go out to sea — have now been dashed. A disaster is underway. The only question is how severe it will end up being.

What’s happening is precisely what the computer models have said, consistently for days now, was going to happen. Sandy is strengthening in the hours before landfall — down to an incredible, record-setting 937.5 millibars, according to the most recent reconnaissance data, a drop of 6 millibars in less than 2 hours (!). At least one buoy, about 100 miles south of Montauk, NY, is reporting extreme wind gusts equivalent to Category 3 strength, although I have some doubts about that data. Regardless, the recon planes flying over the storm have measured increasing wind speeds near the center, prompting the NHC to estimate that Sandy now has 90 mph sustained winds at the surface. That suggests we could see a few 100+ mph gusts right on the coast. This is presently closer to a Category 2 hurricane than it is to a tropical storm.

Even more significantly, and also precisely as expected, Sandy is pushing an enormous storm surge toward the heavily populated coastline, well ahead of its center, as it makes the long-forecast sharp left turn that will force the full brunt of this uniquely destructive storm directly into the mid-Atlantic coast. More specifically, it now appears that Sandy will hit South Jersey or Delaware Bay this evening around 8:00 PM local time. Check out the NCEP NAM model forecast from WeatherBell:

http://pjmedia.com/weathernerd/

[GeronL]

This is barely a hurricane

If it weren't threatening Rockefeller Center would it even be a news story?

I noticed it has taken Libya off the top news of many conservative sites.