Sandy

[Leon Roskilly]

Getting really serious now.

 

All Starbucks in NYC have closed, and most Dunkin Donuts too!

[Newt]

Also hope he's got plenty of batteries and food in his apartment).

 

Most of the folks I know who live in Manhattan consider a 2 day supply of food and other essentials to be plenty and an additional 2 days to be an adequate emergency stock. I'd also guess that by now, pretty much everything is closed so what they don't have, they won't have.

 

Sandy now has sustained winds of 90 mph with gusts to 115 mph and a central pressure of 940 mb which is the lowest ever recorded for a location north of Virginia. Tropical storm force (39 - 73 mph) winds now extend for about 500 miles to either side of the storm center so a 1000 mile wind field. That may be a new record too.

[nick]

Most of the folks I know who live in Manhattan consider a 2 day supply of food and other essentials to be plenty and an additional 2 days to be an adequate emergency stock. I'd also guess that by now, pretty much everything is closed so what they don't have, they won't have. Sandy now has sustained winds of 90 mph with gusts to 115 mph and a central pressure of 940 mb which is the lowest ever recorded for a location north of Virginia. Tropical storm force (39 - 73 mph) winds now extend for about 500 miles to either side of the storm center so a 1000 mile wind field. That may be a new record too.

 

It's certainly shaping up for a major weather event.

 

Having experienced a storm with sustained wind speeds of over 75mph and gusts of over 100mph in January 2005 I wish the folks of New York, and the rest of the North Eastern USA the very best of luck, they're going to need it!

[Leon Roskilly]

Fishing pier gone

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/oce...276a_story.html

[Chris Plumb]

The stats on Sandy are truely awesome - great graphic on the Beeb superimposing the storm over Western Europe - to give us this side of the pond some idea of the scale!

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20123703

 

C

[big_cod]

The perfect storm cold front meeting the warm tropical air perfect combination nasty to say the least.

 

paul.

[Ken L]

Atlantic City..Erm In the Atlantic.

[Newt]

To add to the New York City woes, the latest Hurricane Hunter aircraft reports that winds aloft are much stronger than those at ground level so a 70 story building could have 50mph at the base and 70 mph at the top. The last bit I read said that in parts of the storm, ground winds were 90 mph with gusts to 115 mph.

 

As all that nice warm, moist air from Sandy moved further inland it is meeting several strong cold fronts moving east which is causing sharp temperature drops and snow, lots of snow, and enough wind to class the snowfall as a blizzard. If you look at a trip report I posted in the photo section (autumn colours) a few days ago, much of the area shown in the photos will have well below freezing temps tonight with the likelyhood of 1-2 feet of snow in places being driven by 50-60 mph winds..

[nursejudy]

lets hope everyone manages to keep safe,

the 1,000 miles across Sandy would i guess be the length of the Uk

[corydoras]

lets hope everyone manages to keep safe,

the 1,000 miles across Sandy would i guess be the length of the Uk

With a couple of hundred to spare