We have a fascinating and potentially dangerous situation on hand for the Northeast U.S. and one possessing considerable uncertainty. Sandy is now a category 1 hurricane with estimated maximum sustained winds of 85 mph and central pressure of 970 hPa (see picture). My community is all aflutter about this storm, particularly since our forecast models […]
Month: January 2019
A More Perfect Storm Will Strike the Midlatlantic Coast
There is now a high probability that an historic storm will strike the mid-Atlantic states next week. A storm far more intense than the Perfect Storm, of book and movie fame. One of the most intense landfalling cyclones in several years and perhaps the equal of the great Columbus Day Storm of 1962 that brought 100 […]
