Hurricane Irene

[bobalong]

Getting increasingly cloudy in New Hampshire, it's actually been a very still and muggy day so far. Here on the VT border the biggest concern is 4-8 inches of rain with widespread flooding, and possible trees down because of saturated ground. Even if the storm weakens wind-wise the rain/flooding threat won't diminish.

[WeatherWitness]

Although effects from Irene are certainly spanning over a wide range of land, Irene took a directly north track through the overnight hours, making the center now even closer to the shore.

[toxictwister00]

Here's the picture from NC of the flooding reaching near the roof of a beachhouse I mentioned on the last page.

[Mr. Rainman]

Irene has weakened again as of the 5 PM advisory. Winds are 80 mph, as the hurricane continues its path to the NNE at about 13 mph. The NHC stated that in high-rise areas, wind speeds are increased by 20% upwards of 30 floors, and up to 30% or higher at 80-100 floors.

Assuming that Irene arrives in New York as expected (strong tropical storm), here are the wind speed forecasts by altitude.

Ground speed: 70 mph.
30 floors up: 84 mph.
80-100 floors: 91 mph or higher.

[gt1racerlHDl]

Here's the updated Estimated Precipitation from Irene so far.

http://water.weather.gov/precip/

[toxictwister00]

2 million in the dark in Virginia, adding in the other outages on the East Coast, I would estimate were from 3.0 - 3.5 million.

[Localonthe8s]

The tornado sirens are going off here and a tornado warning has been issued 3 counties south. Don't know if I should head to the basement yet as Bergen county is not under a warning yet

[beanboy89]

Landfall made in New York City at 9:00 AM EDT.

000
WTNT64 KNHC 281302
TCUAT4

TROPICAL STORM IRENE TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL       AL092011
900 AM EDT SUN AUG 28 2011

...CENTER OF IRENE MOVES OVER NEW YORK CITY...

REPORTS FROM AN AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT AND NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE THAT THE CENTER OF IRENE
MOVED OVER NEW YORK CITY AROUND 900 AM EDT...1300 UTC.  IRENE HAS
WEAKENED TO A TROPICAL STORM AND THE ESTIMATED INTENSITY AT
LANDFALL WAS 65 MPH...100 KM/H.

SUMMARY OF 900 AM EDT...1300 UTC...INFORMATION
--------------------------------------------------
LOCATION...40.7N 74.0W
ABOUT 0 MI...0 KM N OF NEW YORK CITY
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...65 MPH...100 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNE OR 20 DEGREES AT 26 MPH...43 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...965 MB...28.50 INCHES

$$
FORECASTER PASCH

[Nathan]

As of 9 AM EDT, Hurricane Irene weakened enough to become a very strong tropical storm.

[Trevor]

Why did you make a whole new topic? A new post in the Irene thread would do just as good...

[Nathan]

Why did you make a whole new topic? A new post in the Irene thread would do just as good...

Oh. I didn't know there was one.

[gt1racerlHDl]

Irene already caused a Major power outage here in Fall River, New Bedford, and all of SE Mass as of 10:30am as far as I know the New Bedford/Fall River IS and the Brockton MA Weatherscan are both down.

[phw115wvwx]

Nathan, please browse around the forum more when you make a topic as there's a good chance we already have a thread running for your subject such as this one.  I've already merged your posts here.  Irene is down to 60 mph now as of the 11 AM EDT advisory.  It actually tracked over New York City at 9 AM EDT, so we certainly dodged a major bullet here as it could have been disastrous if it was still a major hurricane.

[Localonthe8s]

Yup, there was minor flooding and little wind damage here in Atlantic City, but a tornado did touch down 5 miles northeast. We certainly dodged a major bullet, but I'm  sure Irene was a wake up call to those living on the east coast though

[gt1racerlHDl]

total outage up to 201, 213 in MA without power as of noon (via cell phone)