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[Kelly]

Tired of 10 second news spots?
Weather links with information on Hurricane Sandy.
Rain potential
The rain potential is quite high as it has captured equatorial energy – hence the definition of the term hurricane.
The loop shows the water amounts – in this case leaving the equator and passing over Cuba then going towards the East coast of North America.
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This loop shows the rain fall possibility compared to what is normally expected at this time of year – the East coast might see .10” in one day…the expected amount is now past 200% of a normal Fall rainy day.
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Amount and potential loops: http://amsu.cira.colostate.edu/gpstpw/
Jet Stream Interaction
The red arrow shows the North American jet stream path today
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Forecasters concern
Jet streams have the affinity to attract or “pull in” low pressure areas,
- they also have even higher potential when the jet has high winds at its center
-and when they make large turns as seen across Georgia
A triple whammy…and in this case the jet stream is pulling the center of the hurricane towards New York. One TV station used a magnet to illustrate this idea. The common jet stream is typically located further north so Fall hurricanes usually miss North America.
Red arrows show the pulling effect
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Jet stream maps: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/obswx/maps/
Weather Underground has easy to understand prediction maps of: wind, rain, locations, surge, radar and past tracking.
http://www.wundergro...1218_radar.html
National weather service with the same -
http://www.nhc.noaa....5.shtml?5-daynl

[Andy1962]

additional links very much appreciated. Even up in Ontario Canada, we know (as of Sunday night before the hurriacan even reached the US coast) that the storm is going to kick the shit out us. The weather forecasters here talk about the 3 to 4 days of rain, but rarely include the fact that sustained winds will be above 50 miles per hour on Monday, and who knows how high after that.

thanks Kelly for the links

This post has been edited by Andy1962: 28 October 2012 - 11:35 AM

[Kelly]

Animated wind map shows intensity and direction – flow pattern is always moving. Click on any region to zoom. The award winning map was created by two google engineers by using NOAA hourly data. The screen shot was taken at 9 AM Eastern Time showing higher wind intensities now running across New York.
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Map link: http://hint.fm/wind/

Snow forecast
The forecasts call for colder Canadian air to contact the system near higher elevations in West Virginia creating possibilities for large snowfalls. The latest prediction is for 48” in three days in those elevations. Map from Unisys Weather shows snow predictions - rain predictions are omitted.
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Unisys Weather webpage: http://weather.unisy...inv=1&plot=snow

[SkiLiftsRock]

Google has some sort of map that updates its progress: http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy

[Kelly]

Taken on Tuesday morning, notice the well developed low pressure center and the flow of colder air coming from the Great Lakes area feeding the backside of the storm with snow.
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Quote

Do hurricanes hit the West Coast?

Not often – in 1997 hurricane Nora (one of 20 that year) originating from the Eastern Pacific worked its way into Utah.
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Wiki Nora: http://en.wikipedia....cane_Nora_(1997)
Typhoons originating from the Western Pacific hit North America about every 10 years. The largest happened in 1962 striking California Oregon Washington Idaho Montana and Canada. That storm is a benchmark for all other Western storms; showing peak winds well past 100 mph in the interior portions of those States.
1962: http://tdn.com/speci...19bb2963f4.html

[Peter]

I can't imagine the skyride double chair on the beach in Seaside Heights, NJ fared too well.
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http://www.youtube.c...d&v=sRAdgh9VH0o

Edit: found a picture
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[Keymech]

I hope those tower foundations are a little deeper than the ones that I have seen in the mountains.

This post has been edited by Keymech: 31 October 2012 - 03:26 AM

[teachme]

Cool, all the chairs going one way are blue and the other way are red. How do they change the colours at each end?? ;)

[Razvan]

Direction-sensitive paint. Falling chairs get white -- to match the occupants.

[Lift Dinosaur]

teachme, on 31 October 2012 - 04:21 AM, said:

Cool, all the chairs going one way are blue and the other way are red. How do they change the colours at each end?? ;)

Looks like the chairs are painted alternating colors in groups of 5.
Dino

"I can't imagine the skyride double chair on the beach in Seaside Heights, NJ fared too well."
I saw some NBC aerial coverage this morning and it appeared that the towers were still in place- couldn't see chairs or cable, but on the lift line it looked like the terminals might be partially buried by sand.
Dino

This post has been edited by Lift Dinosaur: 31 October 2012 - 12:34 PM

[Kelly]

Taken on Wednesday morning this shows surface wind rotation around the low pressure – measured with google maps the rotation influence is from Florida to Quebec - diameter is about 1900 miles!
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[Kelly]

Pictures and screen captures of Seaside Heights boardwalk chairlift from: Google Earth, NJ.com, New Jersey governor’s office media page, Yahoo News. Red arrow indicates terminal locations.

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[Kelly]

Video link with best shots of chairlift
http://screen.yahoo....-054209609.html
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[william b]

Kelly, on 01 November 2012 - 06:02 PM, said:

Video link with best shots of chairlift
http://screen.yahoo....-054209609.html
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Looks like the chairlift is one of the only things left standing.
The return terminal design is interesting... typical concrete foundation, supported on wood poles.

wbl

[Lift Dinosaur]

More likely concrete caissons. Hard to tell from the photo.
Dino

This post has been edited by Lift Dinosaur: 02 November 2012 - 09:55 AM

[Kelly]

before shot

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[Emax]

Looks like the sky ride may be a survivor! Stout engineering, that.

[Kelly]

Screen shot taken from the first news videos – shows overhead of drive terminal.
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Return terminal
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