ATL: SANDY - Remnants - Discussion

[windnrain]

12.93.

13+ feet next.

[Evil Jeremy]

12.93 feet at The Battery. Nearly 13 feet, with more to go.

[curtadams]

I'm ready to eat my words, the surge and damage looks extensive. Just the fact the power might take days to come back and is being flooded underground is really bad. The best live feed is at ABC7, some extreme stuff on there:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/livenow?id=8857235

The weatherman on that feed really knows his stuff. Clear discussion of warm-core storms, ET transition, etc. - impressive especially for a local weatherman in the Northeast.

[tolakram]

Still rising



8518750 20121029 19:48 4.41 12.93 7.16

[MiamiensisWx]

So far heights (10.3+ ft) at Bridgeport, CT, are below the 13-14 ft originally forecast...I expect that they should increase somewhat, right?

[karenfromheaven]

12.75!! And look at the rate of rise of surge! It is the fastest rise all day!! WOW. Pressure now on the rise.

[Hogweed]

Have you looked at the vdms?

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Yup. the center is expanding as it is rapidly converting to extra-tropical. There are probably lower pressures well to the northeast of there. This is not tropical anymore. It's like sampling a nor'easter.

We will see where they place the official landfall point then.

[brunota2003]

Okay, I think Cantore might be in a spot where the wind direction is knocking his surge down just a tad...but as soon as the winds shift just a little, it'll flood quickly? At least that's how I understood it.

[lilac]

Lee Goldberg is great. He was talking about the storm a week before it was coming. Sam Champion was our old local weatherman.

[Terry]

Weschester County, CT - worried about surge at high tide several hours from now. Per http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/livenow?id=8857235

[jlauderdal]

I'm ready to eat my words, the surge and damage looks extensive. Just the fact the power might take days to come back and is being flooded underground is really bad. The best live feed is at ABC7, some extreme stuff on there:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/livenow?id=8857235

The weatherman on that feed really knows his stuff. Clear discussion of warm-core storms, ET transition, etc. - impressive especially for a local weatherman in the Northeast.

biggest city in the country for a big event, he better know his stuff

[midnight8]

12.93 at Battery http://tidesonline.noaa.gov/plotcomp.sh ... ttery,+NY#

[tolakram]

So far heights (10.3+ ft) at Bridgeport, CT, are below the 13-14 ft originally forecast...I expect that they should increase somewhat, right?

It depends. Most of the heights were expressed in overall terms, surge + tide.

Bridgeport http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/geo.sh ... on=8467150


4:21 AM low 0.4 ft.
10:29 AM high 7.6 ft.
4:54 PM low -0.1 ft.
10:57 PM high 6.9 ft.

[GoneBabyGone]

That's a fence...at least 6' high.

[ROCK]

44065 Buoy

31ft waves!!
43knts sustained 58knts gusts

[opticsguy]

KJFK METAR 53 MPH sustained with 79 gusts, out of the East. Even without the rain the 925 mb winds are mixing down.

[curtadams]

So far heights (10.3+ ft) at Bridgeport, CT, are below the 13-14 ft originally forecast...I expect that they should increase somewhat, right?

Certainly possible, but because Sandy came in faster and to the south of forecast she probably didn't cram as much water into Long Island Sound so they may get off less badly than expected. We'll see soon.

[windnrain]

13.04.

1 inch rise, may be slowing down. I predict it will even out at around 13.5.

[vbhoutex]

So far heights (10.3+ ft) at Bridgeport, CT, are below the 13-14 ft originally forecast...I expect that they should increase somewhat, right?

I would expect them to since the fetch will still be out of the SE or S for them. In fact their winds will probably continue out of the S or SE for the next 24 hours or more if the storm continues on the current predicted track.

[ROCK]

So far heights (10.3+ ft) at Bridgeport, CT, are below the 13-14 ft originally forecast...I expect that they should increase somewhat, right?

Certainly possible, but because Sandy came in faster and to the south of forecast she probably didn't cram as much water into Long Island Sound so they may get off less badly than expected. We'll see soon.

we are still getting RECON fixes....she hasnt came fully on shore yet....last RECON fix was NE of the prior one....