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“no reliable evidence of hurricane-force winds at any time”

When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? On Sunday morning Anderson Cooper of CNN was asking about the strong winds that were being forecast and this brings up something that has really bothered me about the storm:  there is really … Continue reading

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Strongest Recorded Hurricane Occured At 350 PPM

Gilbert Said to Be Most Destructive By THOMAS C. HAYES, Special to the New York Times Published: September 18, 1988 Hurricane Gilbert has cut a 2,500-mile swath of devastation through the Caribbean and Gulf Coast since it formed a week … Continue reading

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Texan Thinks Hurricanes Are Worse Now

Last week, Hurricane Irene focused attention once again on climate change. Irene was only a Category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, which rates storms by wind speed, but it carried a lot of water and dumped it on places … Continue reading

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All Hurricanes Now Bring Certain Death

In 2008, The National Weather Service told Galveston residents that they faced certain death if they didn’t evacuate from Ike. Obama said that hurricane tropical storm Irene would be an historic storm, and Bloomberg ordered everyone to evacuate. Few people … Continue reading

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Anderson Cooper : “It’s an annoying rain but it isn’t even a sideways rain.”

CNN’s Anderson Cooper was quoted telling a weather expert after learning that the peak of Irene’s mild fury had passed Manhattan. “It’s an annoying rain but it isn’t even a sideways rain.” Today, some experts are wondering whether Irene media … Continue reading

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Surfing And Cycling At Destroyed Rockaway Beach

A few days ago, Joe Romm told us that this beach (and all nearby humans)  were going to be destroyed by an unprecedented storm surge from a category four global warming induced hurricane. Time Magazine says that Joe is the … Continue reading

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Weird Behaviour At NOAA

The blink comparator above compares the August 26 GFS/WRF forecast for yesterday morning, with the Weather Underground radar for yesterday morning.  Note that the forecast was almost perfect. I got the GFS boundary conditions from an NOAA web site. The … Continue reading

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“Con-Ed says Lower Manhattan flooding less than expected”

No doubt Joe Romm will apologize for shouting fire in a crowded theater. Aug 28 (Reuters) – New York power utility Consolidated Edison (ED.N) said on Sunday it hasn’t made a final decision on whether to cut power to Lower … Continue reading

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CNN : “New York City seemingly spared”

Live blog: New York City seemingly spared as Tropical Storm Irene churns on [Update 10:22  a.m. Sunday] CNN’s Anderson Cooper, reporting from Battery Park in New York, says that the flooding there is receding and it is no longer raining. … Continue reading

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Comment From Reader Jeff B

Jeff B says: August 28, 2011 at 1:35 am Are you using the maximum value for the entire storm system measured at 10m height from an unobstructed location? That’s the textbook standard for the Saffir-Simpson Scale. I was in Hurricane Rita … Continue reading

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