Hurricane Sandy may be unprecedented in East Coast storm history

[phantom power]

NOAA should stop shouting.

With computer models locked in on the eventuality of a punishing blow for East Coast from Hurricane Sandy (with the latest model runs favoring the northern mid-Atlantic), analyses suggest this storm may be unlike anything the region has ever experienced.

Model simulations have consistently simulated minimum pressures below 950 mb, which would be the lowest on record in many areas.

“MODELS SHOW PRESSURE WELL BEYOND WHAT HAS EVER BEEN OBSERVED NEAR THE NJ/NY COAST (EVEN EXCEEDING THE 1938 LONG ISLAND EXPRESS [HURRICANE])”, writes NOAA’s Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC).

Connecticut meteorologist Ryan Hanrahan noted there has only been one tropical storm with the pressure below 960 mb in the last 60 years in the Northeast.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/hurricane-sandy-may-be-unprecedented-in-east-coast-storm-history/2012/10/26/4f6660e6-1f6e-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_blog.html

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European model simulation for Hurricane Sandy - on its approach to the mid-Atlantic - with a minimum pressure of 934 mb. (Weatherbell.com)

[Old and In the Way]

1. I can't wait to hear what Romney and Ryan will propose to address such a national calamity.

Privatizing the complete infrastructure rebuild? Can't have a public/socialist plan, can we? This from the climate deniers....

[NoOneMan]

2. Tax it. It will go Galt.

Will Obama's solution be much better? Don't mention its cause (in a debate) and maybe well forget our roofs are being blown off.

[AverageJoe90]

3. The Randians & the deniers are deluded. All of 'em. n/t

[pscot]

4. Puts me in mind of the great Columbus Day storm of '62

And that's not good. Forturately there was nobody living up here then. Something like that coming up Chesapeake Bay is scairy as hell.