Link to Video
Hurricane Sandy will probably grow into a Frankenstorm that may become the worst to hit the U.S. Northeast in 100 years if current forecasts are correct.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-1...ane-sandy.html
Quote:
|
Sandy may combine with a second storm coming out of the Midwest to create a system that would rival the New England hurricane of 1938 in intensity, said Paul Kocin, a National Weather Service meteorologist in College Park, Maryland. The hurricane currently passing the Bahamas has killed 21 people across the Caribbean, the Associated Press reported, citing local officials. What were seeing in some of our models is a storm at an intensity that we have not seen in this part of the country in the past century, Kocin said in a telephone interview yesterday. Were not trying to hype it, this is what were seeing in some of our models. It may come in weaker. The hybrid storm may strike anywhere from the Delaware- Maryland-Virginia peninsula to southern New England. The current National Hurricane Center track calls for the system to go up Delaware Bay and almost directly over Wilmington, Delaware, just southwest of Philadelphia, on Oct. 30-31. The hurricane center warns the track is subject to change. Sandys Impact Users are reminded to not focus on the details of the track forecast late in the period, as Sandy is expected to bring impacts to a large part of the U.S. East Coast early next week, the center said. A tropical-storm watch was issued from Savannah River northward to Oregon Inlet in North Carolina, the NHC said in an advisory. A tropical storm warning is in effect for Floridas east coast from Ocean Reef to Flagler Beach. A storm watch means tropical storm conditions are possible within the region, a warning means tropical storm conditions are expected. As of 8 a.m. New York time, Sandy was a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 80 miles (129 kilometers) per hour, down from 100 mph earlier, according to the hurricane center in Miami. It was 15 miles east of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas and 480 miles south-southeast of Charleston, South, Carolina, moving northwest at 10 mph. If the storm follows the current hurricane center forecast, we are looking at over $5 billion in damage, Chuck Watson, director of research and development at Kinetic Analysis Corp. in Silver Spring, Maryland, said yesterday. |