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SNOW UPDATE UK 15th JAN
SNOW UPDATE
15th January 2013
12Z is an absolute beauty! Plenty of heavy snow nationwide on this run, with a beast from the North East looking possible next week.
The colder air never really leaves the country!
Could be some very heavy falls of snow this Friday and in to the weekend. Even for Western areas! 
Chart showing the cold snap lasting well in to next week with more colder air coming from the North East/ East.
I would also like to thank those of you that donated towards yet another server, we hit the desired amount and I have purchased the new server, it’s currently being setup at a different host and there will be downtime later on tonight whilst I move the website over.
Feel free to share
Lewis
Update 11.00pm 15th January 2013
18z is a snow fans dream!
Widespread snow and disruption across the West and SW at times.
Frequent heavy snow showers in the East with the colder air putting up a fight with the first Atlantic system that wants in, saying no! bugger off.
Then the Atlantic try’s again, and fails miserably bringing more heavy snow, then after that a reload from the North East.
Perfect!
It means those of you getting sick of my cold ramping will have to get use to it for a little while longer
Lewis – UKSTORMCHASERS
UK Snow Update
SNOW UPDATE UK
14th January 2013
Heavy snow still falling across parts of Eastern England, we have had 1.5-2 inches of snowfall in parts of Hull.
We are keeping an eye on the wrap around later tonight across East Anglia and the South East, which could bring a period of heavy snowfall to the same areas, but this time for those that witnessed sleet/rain today, further accumulations likely.
Further North in to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, we are keeping an eye on a “sting” in the low pressures tail, which could bring further heavy snowfall with more accumulations likely.
4-5 inches reported in parts of Lincolnshire to.
Tomorrow/Wednesday will be a day of snow showers for the Eastern half of the United Kingdom.
Looking further ahead the potential for a snow storm later this week with gale force winds and blizzard conditions this weekend.
Friday is looking cracking for Eastern parts with very heavy snow showers blown North Westwards by a gale force ESE wind.
Chart is from the 12 GFS showing very cold upper 850′s moving in to Eastern areas again.
Western areas look like they may get in on the snow action towards the end of the week when a low pressure system moves up from the SW, hitting the colder air with colder air getting wrapped around the system, gale to severe gale force winds, heavy snow = Blizzards.
Feel free to share.
Lewis
Source: UKSTORMCHASERS
Power Outages US Updates
| EDIS Code: | PW-20121030-37038-USA |
| Date&Time: | 2012-10-30 04:07:47 [UTC] |
| Continent: | North-America |
| Country: | USA |
| State/Prov.: | State of Maryland, |
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At 11:00 p.m., Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. reported nearly 200,000 customers without power. Baltimore County has the largest number of customers without power — about 51,700 — though Harford and Anne Arundel counties was not far behind, with about 49,000 customers without power each. Pepco, which serves Washington and its Maryland suburbs, was reporting about 31,500 of its customers without power. Delmarva Power, which serves the Delmarva peninsula, was reporting about 50,000 customers without power in its Maryland service areas at that time. Choptank Electric Cooperative was also reporting about 6,300 customers without power in the Maryland portion of the Delmarva peninsula. Potomac Edison was reporting about 52,600 customers without power in Western Maryland. Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, serving Southern Maryland, was reporting about 8,700 customers without power.rnrnSince BGE’s storm operations began at 10 a.m. Sunday, power has been restored to about 44,500 customers. BGE has requested 3,000 additional field forces from outside the service area to assist with power restoration. So far, 1,900 extra workers have been confirmed, meaning they are either already working in the service area or are en route, said Rob Gould, a BGE spokesman. Shortly after 4 p.m., BGE suspended work for crews using elevated bucket trucks because winds were becoming too intense for work to be done safely, he said. “We can’t safely do overhead work with bucket trucks when the wind exceeds 25 miles per hour,” said Jeannette M. Mills, BGE’s vice president for customer operations and chief customer officer, in a statement. Crews will continue to respond to “true emergencies,” such as downed wire situations, Gould said. BGE has established five staging areas for its crews: M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport and Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro, he said. From those locations, the crews will be dispatched to the communities where they will be working, Gould said. |
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At 11:00 p.m., Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. reported nearly 200,000 customers without power. Baltimore County has the largest number of customers without power — about 51,700 — though Harford and Anne Arundel counties was not far behind, with about 49,000 customers without power each. Pepco, which serves Washington and its Maryland suburbs, was reporting about 31,500 of its customers without power. Delmarva Power, which serves the Delmarva peninsula, was reporting about 50,000 customers without power in its Maryland service areas at that time. Choptank Electric Cooperative was also reporting about 6,300 customers without power in the Maryland portion of the Delmarva peninsula. Potomac Edison was reporting about 52,600 customers without power in Western Maryland. Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, serving Southern Maryland, was reporting about 8,700 customers without power.rnrnSince BGE’s storm operations began at 10 a.m. Sunday, power has been restored to about 44,500 customers. BGE has requested 3,000 additional field forces from outside the service area to assist with power restoration. So far, 1,900 extra workers have been confirmed, meaning they are either already working in the service area or are en route, said Rob Gould, a BGE spokesman. Shortly after 4 p.m., BGE suspended work for crews using elevated bucket trucks because winds were becoming too intense for work to be done safely, he said. “We can’t safely do overhead work with bucket trucks when the wind exceeds 25 miles per hour,” said Jeannette M. Mills, BGE’s vice president for customer operations and chief customer officer, in a statement. Crews will continue to respond to “true emergencies,” such as downed wire situations, Gould said. BGE has established five staging areas for its crews: M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport and Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro, he said. From those locations, the crews will be dispatched to the communities where they will be working, Gould said. |
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Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant NYC Event
Source: RSOE EDIS ALERTMAIL
2012-10-30 07:31:16 – Nuclear Event – USA |
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Part of a nuclear power plant was shut down late Monday while another plant – the nation’s oldest – was put on alert after waters from superstorm Sandy rose 6 feet above sea level. One of the units at Indian Point, a plant about 45 miles north of New York City, was shut down around 10:45 p.m. because of external electrical grid issues said Entergy Corp., which operates the plant. The company said there was no risk to employees or the public, and the plant was not at risk due to water levels from the Hudson River, which reached 9 feet 8 inches and was subsiding. Another unit at the plant was still operating at full power.
RSOE EDIS ALERTMAIL
Hurricane Turned Superstorm Sandy – Situation Update
Following Landfall of Hurricane Sandy / Superstorm Sandy – Update No1
Posted:2012-10-30, 03:56:56 [UTC]
Ref.no.: SE-20121030-37034-USA
Situation Update No. 1
On 2012-10-30 at 07:56:31 [UTC]
Event: Storm Surge
Location: USA State of New Jersey Funtown Pier Seaside Park
Number of Deads: 4 person(s)
Number of Injured: 0 person(s)
Number of Evacuated: 0 person(s)
Number of Infected: 0 person(s)
Situation:
Hurricane Sandy sent crippling floods pouring onto New York streets Monday, provoking a power plant explosion, blacking out much of Manhattan and leaving widespread storm devastation. The so-called “Franken-storm” left at least one person dead in America’s biggest city, while emergency services staged many rescues of people trapped in their homes and in a hospital which lost power. Seawater burst the banks of the East and Hudson rivers, submerging road and subway tunnels. Power was cut to about 500,000 homes across New York City’s five boroughs, including 250,000 in Manhattan. Gale force winds pushed over a crane on a skyscraper and tore off the facade of another building. A falling tree killed a man in the Queens borough, firefighters said. But many people had to be rescued from the upper floors of their homes after ignoring pleas to flee zones at risk from floods, officials said. “I am seriously concerned for people’s lives,” said Vincent Ignizio, a Staten Island councilor. Police appealed for boats to conduct rescue missions in Staten Island and at Coney Island in Brooklyn.
Four other dead were reported in New York state outside the main city. The hurricane whipped up a record storm surge of 13.7 feet (4.15 metres) and seawater inundated the key Queens Midtown and the Battery Park-Brooklyn tunnels which take traffic from Manhattan Island to nearby suburbs. The water threatened to engulf the building site at the World Trade Center where the September 11, 2001 attacks were staged. Many cars in the financial district were swamped, some in New York suburbs were swept away. Debris crushed some cars. The Con Edison power company said 500,000 homes in New York City were without power. Company vice president John Miksad told reporters it could take a week to completely restore power. He blamed floods or flying debris for an explosion at a sub-station on the east side of Manhattan’s Midtown at the height of the storm. Film of the explosion has been widely viewed on YouTube. Much of lower Manhattan was blacked out after the explosion. New York University hospital had to move patients to other hospitals after it lost power and a back-up generator. “We went up to 14 foot tides, which no-one was forecasting,” Miksad said.
Howling winds of up to 95 miles (150 kilometers) an hour battered the city, pushing over a crane atop a 1,004 (306 metre) luxury apartment skyscraper overlooking Central Park. The boom of the crane swayed in the fierce gusts and police evacuated surrounding buildings and streets because of the risk that it could fall. In another spectacular demonstration of its power, the hurricane pulled off the facade of a three-story building in the Chelsea district. No injuries were reported however. Tens of thousands of people ignored appeals by the New York mayor to leave districts at risk where police had toured the streets calling for inhabitants to take special buses to safety. Authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order for 375,000 people at risk, but the majority decided to brave it out.
New York state called up 2,100 National Guard troops on Sunday and Monday to patrol threatened districts. “If water is coming into your home, go to the highest area,” New York mayor Michael Bloomberg told a press conference amid the worst of the carnage. Bloomberg said the public was making 10,000 emergency 911 calls every 30 minutes and appealed to New Yorkers to not just to report power cuts. “It means that genuine emergencies are not being answered,” he said. He also called for taxis to stay off the roads to give priority to emergency vehicles. New York authorities closed the subway train system and nearly all tunnels and bridges that take traffic off Manhattan as the full force of Sandy hit America’s biggest city. The subway was to remain closed on Tuesday, along with schools, public buildings.
More….
Source: RSOE EDIS ALERTMAIL
2012-10-30 13:29:27 – Fire – USA |
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A huge fire has destroyed at least 50 homes in a flooded neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. More than 190 firefighters were trying to contain the blaze in the Breezy Point section and two people have suffered minor injuries, a fire department spokesman said. The fire was reported around 11 p.m. Monday in an area flooded by the superstorm that began sweeping through the city earlier, officials said. Firefighters told WABC-TV that the water was chest high on the street, and they had to use a boat to make rescues. They said in one apartment home, about 25 people were trapped in an upstairs unit, and the 2-story home next door was ablaze and setting fire to the apartment’s roof. Firefighters climbed an awning to access the trapped people, and took them downstairs to the boat in the street. Video footage of the scene shows a hellish swath of tightly packed homes fully engulfed in orange flames as firefighters hauled hoses while sloshing in ankle-high water. Many homes appeared completely flattened by the wind-whipped flames. The neighborhood sits on the Rockaway peninsula jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. |
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More in NYC…
The incredible winds that Hurricane Sandy brought into New York were really something last night. They pulled a 712-ton, 168-foot-long water tanker more than a mile from its mooring onto Front Street on Staten Island. A third of the tanker (which thankfully no longer carries oil) made it onto the Front Street, just over from Bay Street, in Clifton. Luckily it appears that nobody was on the ship or hurt along the way to short.
Then the snow came…
| EDIS Code: | SS-20121030-37047-USA |
| Date&Time: | 2012-10-30 18:22:07 [UTC] |
| Continent: | North-America |
| Country: | USA |
| State/Prov.: | State of West Virginia, |
| Location: | West Virginia-wide, |
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Superstorm Sandy buried parts of West Virginia under more than a foot of snow on Tuesday, cutting power to at least 264,000 customers and closing dozens of roads. At least one death was reported. The storm not only hit higher elevations hard as predicted, communities in lower elevations got much more than the dusting of snow forecasters had first thought from a dangerous system that also brought significant rainfall, high wind gusts and small-stream flooding.
Source: RSOE EDIS ALERTMAIL
Hurricane Sandy’s arrival has begun
Superstorm Sandy intensifying, bringing record storm surges
The final countdown to Hurricane Sandy’s arrival has begun, and this extraordinary and historic storm is already causing havoc all along the U.S. coast from North Carolina to Massachusetts. The scale of this massive storm truly earns Sandy the title of “superstorm”. Sandy’s tropical storm-force winds span an area of ocean 940 miles in diameter, and both North Carolina and the island of Bermuda, 700 miles to the east, are under tropical storm warnings. The region of ocean covered by 12-foot high seas spans an area of ocean an incredible 1560 miles in diameter. Winds near hurricane force are expected to affect waters from Virginia to Massachusetts today. Record storm surge flooding has already occurred in regions along the New Jersey coast this morning, and the highest water levels recorded in over a century of record keeping are expected over much of the New Jersey and New York coasts this evening during the 8 – 9 pm EDT high tide cycle. Sandy brought sustained winds of 60 mph and waves 30 feet high early this morning to the buoy east of Cape Hatteras, NC. A wind gust of 58 mph occurred at New York City’s La Guardia Airport at 9:51 am EDT, and a buoy at Robins Reef, NJ recorded sustained winds of 42 mph, gusting to 55 mph. As of 8 am EDT, Sandy has dumped heavy rains of 7.87″ at Cape Hatteras, NC; 4.01″ at Ocean City, MD; 3.12″ at Dover, DE; and 3.22″ at Virginia Beach, VA. As of 9 am EDT, peak storm surge values of 5″ were observed at Lewes, Delaware, 4.2′ at Cape May, NJ, 4′ at Atlantic City, NJ, 2.9′ at Philadelphia, and 3.9′ at New York City.
Latest data from the Hurricane Hunters shows that Sandy is intensifying as its core traverses the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. At 8 am EDT, an Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft found top winds of 98 mph in the heavy thunderstorms to the southwest of Sandy’s center, at a point about 150 miles east-northeast of Cape Hatteras, NC. A dropsonde released in the eye measured a central pressure of 945 mb, but observed winds of 19 knots at the surface, so Sandy is probably a 943 mb hurricane that is very close to Category 2 strength. The Hurricane Hunters did not observe an eyewall, and saw very little temperature difference from inside to outside the eye, so Sandy is not going to be able to undergo rapid intensification. The storm could still see an increase of 5 mph in its winds before landfall tonight between 6 pm – 10 pm EDT, due, in part, to interaction with the low pressure system to its west that is pulling the hurricane towards the coast. The new, higher winds of Sandy don’t have a lot of time to pile up additional storm surge water, so the NHC storm surge forecasts will probably not change today. But it is clear that Sandy is not going to pull its punch, and this superstorm is going to deliver a punishing multi-billion dollar blow to a huge area of the Eastern U.S.
A roadway in NYC earlier this afternoon. 29th October 2012
Sandy already producing a record storm surge
The National Weather Service in Atlantic City, NJ said that isolated record storm surge flooding already occurred along portions of the New Jersey coast with this morning’s 7:30 am EDT high tide cycle. As the tide goes out late this morning and this afternoon, water levels will fall, since the difference in water levels between low tide and high tide is about 5′. However, this evening, as the core of Sandy moves ashore, the storm will carry with it a gigantic bulge of water that will raise waters levels to the highest storm tides ever seen in over a century of record keeping, along much of the coastline of New Jersey and New York. The peak danger will be between 7 pm – 10 pm, when storm surge rides in on top of the high tide. The full moon is today, which means astronomical high tide will be about 5% higher than the average high tide for the month, adding another 2 – 3″ to water levels. This morning’s 9:30 am EDT H*Wind analysis from NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division put the destructive potential of Sandy’s winds at a modest 2.9 on a scale of 0 to 6. However, the destructive potential of the storm surge was record high: 5.8 on a scale of 0 to 6. This is a higher destructive potential than any hurricane observed since 1969, including Category 5 storms like Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Camille, and Andrew. The previous highest destructive potential for storm surge was 5.6 on a scale of 0 to 6, set during Hurricane Isabel of 2003. Sandy’s storm surge will be capable of overtopping the flood walls in Manhattan, which are only five feet above mean sea level. On August 28, 2011, Tropical Storm Irene brought a storm surge of 4.13′ and a storm tide of 9.5′ above MLLW to Battery Park on the south side of Manhattan. The waters poured over the flood walls into Lower Manhattan, but came 8 – 12″ shy of being able to flood the New York City subway system. According to the latest storm surge forecast for NYC from NHC, Sandy’s storm surge is expected to be 10 – 12′ above MLLW. Since a storm tide of 10.5′ is needed to flood the subway system, it appears likely that portions of the NYC subway system will flood. The record highest storm tide at The Battery was 10.5′, set on September 15, 1960, during Hurricane Donna.
Links for Sandy
To find out if you need to evacuate, please contact your local emergency management office. They will have the latest information. People living in New York City can find their evacuation zone here or use this map. FEMA has information on preparing for hurricanes.
People with disabilities and caregivers seeking information on accessible shelter and transportation can contact portlight.org
An impressive 1-minute resolution satellite loop of Sandy today is at the CSU RAMMB website.
Our Weather Historian, Christopher C. Burt, has an excellent post on Late Season Tropical Storms that have affected the U.S. north of Hatteras. He also has a post, Historic Hurricanes from New Jersey to New England.
Hurricane Sandy info from NASA.
Joe Romm at climateprogress.org has a thoughtful piece called, How Does Global Warming Make Hurricanes Like Irene More Destructive?
For those of you wanting to know your odds of receiving hurricane force or tropical storm force winds, I recommend the NHC wind probability product.
Wunderground has detailed storm surge maps for the U.S. coast.
The National Hurricane Center’s Interactive Storm Surge RIsk Map, which allows one to pick a particular Category hurricane and zoom in, is a good source of storm surge risk information.
Storm Surge prediction model from the Stevens Institute of Technology, which use a highly detailed 3D ocean model and even includes rainfall and tributary inflows.
Research storm surge model run by SUNY Stonybrook for New York City.
Climate Central has a nice satellite image showing which parts of New York Harbor are below five feet in elevation.
I’ll have an update this afternoon.
Jeff Masters
Source: weatherunderground
Important Links to keep you up to date with Hurricane Sandy
Here is some of the best
HURRICANE SANDY LINKS I COULD FIND
To all those who are in the path of this storm
Please Evacuate if you are asked to – This Storm has Life Threatening Potential and the risk is real.
LATEST PUBLIC ADVISORY 26A – The National Hurricane Centre - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/cyclones/
LINKS
LIVE COVERAGE – The Weather Channel LIVE STREAM - http://www.weather.com/tv/tvshows/live-stream
BREAKING HURRICANE SANDY NEWS – The Weather Channel.com – http://www.weather.com/
HURRICANE CENTRE – The National Weather Service -http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
MARK SUDDUTH – Hurricane Track - https://twitter.com/hurricanetrack
WEATHER UNDERGROUND – Twitter Realtime Updates - http://www.wunderground.com/twitter/
The Weather Channel
Everything in one place
/ Pressure / Direction / Wind Speed
State Preparations | Status Maps | Live NYC Water Level Threat
A personal message from newlynweatherview.co.uk
Thoughts and prayers to everyone in the east coast. Stay safe through Hurricane Sandy.
Hurricane Sandy – This is Scary Stuff
HURRICANE SANDY
History is being written as an extreme weather event continues to unfold, one which will occupy a place in the annals of weather history as one of the most extraordinary to have affected the United States.
REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE OFFICIAL DESIGNATION IS NOW OR AT/AFTER LANDFALL — HURRICANE (INCLUDING IF “ONLY” A CATEGORY ONE), TROPICAL STORM, POST-TROPICAL, EXTRATROPICAL, WHATEVER — OR WHAT TYPE OF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER — PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM NEED TO HEED THE THREAT IT POSES WITH UTMOST URGENCY.
TAKE COASTAL FLOODING EVACUATION ORDERS SERIOUSLY; PREPARE FOR DOWNED TREES AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE BY OBSERVING TORNADO SAFETY GUIDELINES, I.E. STAYING INSIDE AND GETTING INTO THE LOWEST, MOST-INTERIOR PORTION OF THE BUILDING OR ANOTHER DESIGNATED SAFE PLACE; BE KEENLY AWARE OF YOUR LOCATION’S SUSCEPTIBILITY TO FLASH FLOODING (URBAN AND SMALL STREAM) FROM RAINFALL AND RIVER RISES; KNOW THAT YOU COULD BE WITHOUT POWER FOR A LONG TIME BUT ALSO UNDERSTAND THE DANGERS OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING FROM IMPROPER USE OF GENERATORS.
With Sandy having already brought severe impacts to the Caribbean Islands and a portion of the Bahamas, and severe erosion to some beaches on the east coast of Florida, it is now poised to strike the northeast United States with a combination of track, size, structure and strength that is unprecedented in the known historical record there.
Already, there are ominous signs: trees down in eastern North Carolina, the first of countless that will be blown over or uprooted along the storm’s path; and coastal flooding in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia, these impacts occurring despite the center of circulation being so far offshore, an indication of Sandy’s exceptional size and potency.
A meteorologically mind-boggling combination of ingredients is coming together: one of the largest expanses of tropical storm (gale) force winds on record with a tropical or subtropical cyclone in the Atlantic or for that matter anywhere else in the world; a track of the center making a sharp left turn in direction of movement toward New Jersey in a way that is unprecedented in the historical database, as it gets blocked from moving out to sea by a pattern that includes an exceptionally strong ridge of high pressure aloft near Greenland; a “warm-core” tropical cyclone embedded within a larger, nor’easter-like circulation; and eventually tropical moisture and arctic air combining to produce heavy snow in interior high elevations. This is an extraordinary situation, and I am not prone to hyperbole.
That gigantic size is a crucially important aspect of this storm. The massive breadth of its strong winds will produce a much wider scope of impacts than if it were a tiny system, and some of them will extend very far inland. A cyclone with the same maximum sustained velocities (borderline tropical storm / hurricane) but with a very small diameter of tropical storm / gale force winds would not present nearly the same level of threat or expected effects. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. This one’s size, threat, and expected impacts are immense.
Those continue to be: very powerful, gusty winds with widespread tree damage and an extreme amount and duration of power outages; major coastal flooding from storm surge along with large battering waves on top of that and severe beach erosion; flooding from heavy rainfall; and heavy snow accumulations in the central Appalachians.
Sandy is so large that there is even a tropical storm warning in effect in Bermuda, and the Bermuda Weather Service is forecasting wave heights outside the reef as high as 30′.
There is a serious danger to mariners from a humongous area of high seas which in some areas will include waves of colossal height. Wave forecast models are predicting significant wave heights up to 50+ feet, and that is the average of the top 1/3, meaning that there will be individual waves that are even higher. The Perfect Storm, originally known as the Halloween Storm because of the time of year when it occurred, peaking in 1991 on the same dates (October 28-30) as Sandy, became a part of popular culture because of the tragedy at sea. This one has some of the same meteorological characteristics and ingredients coming together, but in an even more extreme way, and slamming more directly onshore and then much farther inland and thus having a far greater scope and variety of impacts.
Source: Weatherunderground
Hurricane Sandy Zone A Evacuations Ordered NYC
Breaking News
mandatory evacuation of Zone A in NYC. Find your evacuation zone here.
NYC Public schools have been closed for Monday, and mass transit in NYC will be suspended starting at 7 PM tonight.
1:30 PM:
NJ Transit will begin a system-wide shut down of its bus, rail and light rail services starting at 4 PM, with a full shut down by 2 AM. No decision has been made yet regarding resumption of services. Read the full article here.
5:20 PM:
If you have not prepared or evacuated, NOW is the time to do so. Mass transit is beginning to shut down, and tunnels and bridges in and out of NYC are likely to be closed as well. Conditions will only worsen tonight and throughout the day on Monday, with the peak in the evening and early overnight hours. Sandy is expected to be worse than Irene, with a longer duration, a significant storm surge of 6 to 11 feet for coastal areas, and widespread wind gusts between 60-75 mph across the area, potentially getting as high as 85-95 mph for coastal areas.
To Keep up to date with
HURRICANE SANDY STORM DEVELOPMENTS
Live updates are being posted throughout the day in the NYC Area Weather Twitterpage.
The final forecast discussion on Sandy will be posted late this evening.
Live storm updates will be posted throughout Monday afternoon and evening unless I lose power, in which case updates will be suspended. Posted by NYC Weather at 12:28 PM 0 comments
