Delaware here, evacuating myself due to very close distance of the C&D Canal that is expected to flood my entire area. Good luck to you all!
[QUOTE=KingKombat;31939202]OH FUCK IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR ME
(new york city)[/QUOTE]
It's been an honor knowing you, my friend.
[QUOTE=faze;31952164]Can you bribe the Jersey Shore cast to go stand on the beach for the next 48 hours? I'll love you forever if you do.[/QUOTE]
God I wish- They give New Jersey a bad name... Not like we need an emphasis on it...
The storm has weakened a bit and the path has shifted east.
im chilling here in south carolina
school was canceled today
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[QUOTE=Bubz;31947077]At least you don't live in ghetto ass North Charleston where the project leaders come together and sing songs
about the tough life they got and work around it by driving no child left behind faggots to super wando academy of the great lord hand high,
instead I sit here looking out my window, school canceled, feels good.[/QUOTE]
also this
[QUOTE=faze;31953059]The storm has weakened a bit and the path has shifted east.[/QUOTE]
It will be interesting to see how the storm reacts as it makes landfall later today.
[QUOTE=Arachnidus;31952849]It's been an honor knowing you, my friend.[/QUOTE]
/Titanic
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[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;31953100]It will be interesting to see how the storm reacts as it makes landfall later today.[/QUOTE]
It will react like a hurricane.
[QUOTE=Delta616;31953102]
It will react like a hurricane.[/QUOTE]
Smartass :v:
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;31953129]Smartass :v:[/QUOTE]
:D heh, I am interested too.
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. Of course my Netflix needs to be renewed this weekend.
[QUOTE=OvB;31949501]Hurricanes are a rotating tropical weather formation. They start out in central Africa and make their way due west into the warm summer Atlantic ocean. The warm water evaporates making the storm bigger. Still moving west it gets to the size where the coriallis(spelling?) Effect makes the storm rotate counter clockwise. As it continues to assimilate the warm ocean waters into it it gets larger and faster. The eye begins to organize and forms the vacuum like eye-wall.(the worst part of the system) water is evaporated the most in the wall. The system eventually makes its way to the Caribbean where it will intensify unless the eye passes over land. As soon as the eye makes land fall the system loses its fuel supply lines and rains out in hours. Their birth and organization make them significantly more dangerous than most storms. In the north Atlantic they're called hurricanes, in the south pacific they're called cyclones, and in the north pacific they're called typhoons.
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Long story short, its impossible for a hurricane to form over land.
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It should also be said that they start in Africa as insignificant little storm systems. You can track storm systems that the NOAA National Hurricane Center believes has potential to form into a tropical storm (called invests) on wunderground.com[/QUOTE]
Very informative, thanks. I guess those other clouds I've noticed are just that, clouds.
It begins.
Hmm...overall, the storm is weaker than they were expecting it to be. It will be interesting to see if the hurricane will hold together as it moves up the coast.
I've been looking at weather maps a lot lately now and I've noticed that clouds seem to travel is a ripple like pattern. Sure they spiral too, but they seem to look like ripples. It's like someone poked the atmosphere and the clouds are the water. Kind of cool.
Looking to track further east...
[url]http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/152238.shtml?hwind120?large#contents[/url]
[QUOTE=faze;31954966]Looking to track further east...
[url]http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/152238.shtml?hwind120?large#contents[/url][/QUOTE]
Oddly, I actually think I'll be disappointed if it misses.
Then again, I don't need trees falling on the house so *shrug*
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;31955017]Oddly, I actually think I'll be disappointed if it misses.
Then again, I don't need trees falling on the house so *shrug*[/QUOTE]Yeah, me too. I was looking forward to hunkering down for 48 hours and doing nothing.
[QUOTE=faze;31955030]Yeah, me too. I was looking forward to hunkering down for 48 hours and doing nothing.[/QUOTE]
Not sure if serious :v:
Realistically though, I'm just interested to see what a hurricane is like, even if it's just a weak category 1. After all, a Cat 1 would still be the strongest storm I've ever been in.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;31955072]Not sure if serious :v:
Realistically though, I'm just interested to see what a hurricane is like, even if it's just a weak category 1. After all, a Cat 1 would still be the strongest storm I've ever been in.[/QUOTE]Where do you live? I'm in Maryland, so we get them every now and again. Invest 98 may be coming right for Maryland actually.
[url]http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201198_model.html[/url]
[QUOTE=faze;31955087]Where do you live? I'm in Maryland, so we get them every now and again. Invest 98 may be coming right for Maryland actually.
[url]http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201198_model.html[/url][/QUOTE]
I live in Connecticut. All the weather stations are still predicting Irene to be a Category 1 storm by the time it hits us, but it's hard to say. Hell, there's still the possibility that Irene might intensify a bit in the next 6-12 hours, or it might fizzle out.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;31955108]I live in Connecticut. All the weather stations are still predicting Irene to be a Category 1 storm by the time it hits us, but it's hard to say. Hell, there's still the possibility that Irene might intensify a bit in the next 6-12 hours, or it might fizzle out.[/QUOTE]It keeps drifting more east. They didn't predict that.
I live in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Lets hope that my computer doesn't get crushed by a tree.
[QUOTE=faze;31955121]It keeps drifting more east. They didn't predict that.[/QUOTE]
How can they? The predictions for this storm are changing every 10 minutes it seems. Hell, the storm had drifted westward yesterday.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;31955144]How can they? The predictions for this storm are changing every 10 minutes it seems. Hell, the storm had drifted westward yesterday.[/QUOTE]Exactly. They don't know where it's going. Fuck, it could take a right turn right now.
[QUOTE=faze;31955153]Exactly. They don't know where it's going. Fuck, it could take a right turn right now.[/QUOTE]
Indeed. Though, looking at its current position...Irene doesn't appear to have even reached the warmest waters of the gulf stream yet.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;31955298]Indeed. Though, looking at its current position...Irene doesn't appear to have even reached the warmest waters of the gulf stream yet.[/QUOTE]It's going to hit land in the next few hours. It'll lose tons of steam then.
The school district decided to let us out early. It's seriously no worse than a regular thunderstorm here.
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;31955309]The district decided to let us out early. It's seriously no worse than a regular thunderstorm here.[/QUOTE]I lived in York PA when back in 2003 Isabel came through. They canceled school and it ended up being a perfectly sunny day.
Damn, hard to believe I graduated that long ago...I feel old now.
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;31955309]The school district decided to let us out early. It's seriously no worse than a regular thunderstorm here.[/QUOTE]
The storm hasn't really impacted land yet. You're probably just feeling the outer rain bands.
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[QUOTE=faze;31955308]It's going to hit land in the next few hours. It'll lose tons of steam then.[/QUOTE]
True, but I imagine a good portion of the inflow will be picking up warm water from the coast to help fuel it.
Gotta love how weak this storm is turning. All the hype of "OMG WE'RE FUCKED" and here we're talking about how it's going to commit suicide when it hits land soon.
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;31955377]Gotta love how weak this storm is turning. All the hype of "OMG WE'RE FUCKED" and here we're talking about how it's going to commit suicide when it hits land soon.[/QUOTE]
The truth is that we flat-out don't know what's going to happen. It could weaken to a tropical storm by the time it hits the Tri-State area, it could make an abrupt turn out to sea, or it could do the complete opposite by intensifying this evening and continuing along its path.
From the looks of things, it's nearly 100% guaranteed that the "danger area" will still be experiencing a potent storm. Whether or not it will still be a hurricane in the next 24-36 hours is very uncertain.
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