The Hyping of Hurricane Irene

[BP]

If the storm would have moved a little faster it could have hit Manhattan as a category 3 or maybe even higher. Lots of factors come into play when predicting storm strength but the main ones are barometric pressure and temperatures. Get a storm with low barometric pressure and let it idle over warm water for a while and you end up with very strong storms, take the same storm and put it over colder water and it'll weaken.

Irene was a category 3 with 950 or so millibars at one point, that's very low and it was still gaining strength. Katrina was around 930 at it's peak and hit as a category 4, after weakening considerably before impact. Storm predicting is exactly that, predicting. There is no exact science to any of it.

Luckily for everyone the storm weakened considerably as it was over the colder waters in the Atlantic.

[GhostTX]

Original link Matt? (Google came up with more than I'd like to sift through.)
Great post.

Found it:

http://www.outsideonline.com/blog/the-manufacturing-of-hurricane-irene.html

[Big Dad]

Don't know if it was overhyped but ..

I have a friend that lost a home in Vermont and his close friend of 20 years drown in the flood that followed

Kevin Davis

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20110830/NEWS07/110830028/Ludlow-drowning-victim-identified-local-real-estate-broker

LUDLOW — The body that was found in Lake Rescue in Ludlow on Monday in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene has been identified as a local real-estate broker, Selectboard Chairman Howard Barton Jr. said Tuesday.

The circumstances of how Kevin Davis, 50, drowned during the storm are not known, and an investigation is continuing.


Davis, a lifelong Ludlow resident, took over a long-running real-estate firm operated by his mother, Mary Davis, following her death, said Barton, who is the victim’s cousin

[90GT50]

My cousin lives in NYC and she was freaking out friday because she thought she was going to die, and because Manhattan was entirely locked up. I asked her how the weekend weather was on monday, and she said, oh the weather was fine.

[CWO]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[Unicorn Jeff]

My cousin lives in NYC and she was freaking out friday because she thought she was going to die, and because Manhattan was entirely locked up. I asked her how the weekend weather was on monday, and she said, oh the weather was fine.

Pics of cousin?

[Frank]

all throughout this I kept thinking of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" and how NY flooded then froze.

[Strychnine]

Original link Matt? (Google came up with more than I'd like to sift through.)
Great post.

http://www.outsideonline.com/blog/the-manufacturing-of-hurricane-irene.html

[SS Junk]

Just heard a CNN bubblhead ask if Irene could be compared to Katrina.

[Tyrone Biggums]

This is why I haven't watched the news in about seven years.

Exactly. I used to enjoy watching the weather, then Harold Taft died. Makes me glad I paid zero attention to the whole Irene debacle.

[SVT Lurch]

Very true. I've got friends in North Carolina and New York and they all laughed at me when I asked if they "survived" Irene. They got a little rain and that was it.

[GhostTX]

Very true. I've got friends in North Carolina and New York and they all laughed at me when I asked if they "survived" Irene. They got a little rain and that was it.

Buddy of min in NJ who lives 2 blocks off the coast said he's seen worst thunderstorms.

Thoughts to the folks further inland that got flooded, though.

[90GT50]

Pics of cousin?

I'll trade you for pics of your ex.

[Geor!]

Where's my quote on the hurricane from last week? Something along the lines of assholes making a big deal out of a storm that is weakening by the minute.

I also love how Obama declared a State of Emergency two days before the tropical storm even struck, yet with half of our great state on fire and the Governor asking Obama to declare a state of emergency, he never did. Fuck you, Mr. President.

[talisman]

Exactly. I used to enjoy watching the weather, then Harold Taft died. Makes me glad I paid zero attention to the whole Irene debacle.

Yeah, I still kept it on in the background for awhile, but I really tuned out when after 9/11 they were saying duct tape and saran wrap would help in the case of a chemical weapon attack. It was being talked about for WEEKS. Idiots.