9:20 PM – first thunder, noticeably heavier rain. This is the first “outer band” – how dare it interrupt my Angey Birds update
10:15 calm, sporadic rain, oppressive humidity
Time for sleep, hopefully not to end to the sound of breaking glass. My windows have fake storm shutters
3:10 – weird – the storm is all around us, but it is completely quiet here. The center of the storm appears to be along the coast of Delaware and increasingly diffused
3:30 – it’s increasingly clear that the NWS is lying. Their description of the storm says hurricane strength “gusts” exist in only a “small area” – east of the center of the storm. There is no “eye” left. If they downgrade the storm, all the TV cameras go home
3:50 – latest NWS projection maps (very old) now show very small chance of 60 mph winds… top sustained winds are likely to be only 40 mph – just a big storm
7:15 – tornado watch until 11:00, Flood warning in Housitonic River (Same area that flooded this Spring – same people living right along the river will whine they weren’t given enough warning? Power and Internet stll on
7:30 – I guess I slept through it – the Microwave shows “Reset” and the stove clock shows 4:54, which means power was out for 2+ hours unless I didn’t change it for DST. It’s worth knowing power companies will often turn off power on purpose to protect equipment even if nothing has gone wrong – to prevent fires, transformer damage, shock hazards from standing water….
8:15 – the trees are getting noisier
8:50 – totally weird. The radar and satellites show essentially no storm South of the “Center of Rotation”. Western NY looks like it will get a ton of rain. Back to playing Angry birds
9:05 – “eye” of storm hit Manhattan at 9:00 AM… storm is no longer a hurricane. 2 cars stuck in flooding on 10th Avenue.
10:05 – small gusts of wind, rain is ending… Sun will likely be out in a few minutes… A few cars going by (I live on a busy street half a block from a major highway)
10:40 – I just read that the Mayor of Derby has ordered “All Non-essential” vehicles off city streets from 11 PM last night “until the storm passes”. Our mayor is supposed to be a part time job, but he doesn’t take the hint. The Parking Lot at City Hall is also closed on Sunday Morning, so it can hold all the Emergency Response vehicles.
4:20 PM: The End.
“..it’s increasingly clear that the NWS is lying.”
I stopped trusting the NWS when the female director declared ‘any meteorologist who did -not- accept man-made global warming should have their certification revoked’.
We now have ‘media meteorologists’ who are hooked on sensationalizing it.
Weather.com seems to be the most accurate. NOAA.gov has some of the worst forecasting, I use their NOAA radar and satellite data to do my own forecasts.
Back in the good old days before satellites and radar, it’s interesting to see how hurricanes used to be tracked. Mostly it was from pressure and windspeed readings from ships at sea radioed back to land.
Now we have specialized airborne radars looks for the smallest possible area of a storm that just barely has winds that meet the required strength. In 1938 (the huge hurricane that washed over Long Island and destroyed the Connecticut coast), there was no radar. We’re not having more or stronger hurricanes – what has changed is our ability to see them in excruciating detail.
“We’re not having more or stronger hurricanes”
The global warming extremists who are allied with the black helicopter folks aren’t going to be very happy when they see you making hate speech like that!
I live close enough to the black helicopter factory I can see them coming.
John Batchelor’s science guest tonight is reporting that AlGore is now saying if you deny his global warming, that’s the same as racism.
Weather Channel is now defending the mass evacuation of New York for something that was never going to be a serious threat. Power has not gone out anywhere on Manhattan. The sun is about to come out.
You know, it’s odd that the downgrade of the hurricane happened at the very moment it arrived in New York City. The suspicious side of me thinks that the way FEMA funds are handed out, that delay in downgrading might have been motivated by reimbursement rates.
Friends! Brethren and cistern, be calm! Be at peas. The Bamaw, peas be upon him, has calmed the turbulent seas. The Bamaw, peas upon him some more, hushed the susurrant winds and set dark and billowing skies to docile sleep. He verily stretched forth his mighty Hand o’ Bamaw and murmured the weather stimulus chant. And the Forth Estate, peas all over them, saw that it was good, and praised Him … even as they should. Amen and amen.