[Nfbf-l] Hurricane Sandy

Fri Oct 26 17:58:39 UTC 2012

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> From: REPCODDS at aol.com
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:42:41 -0400
> To: nfbf-l at nfbnet.org; nfbf-leaders at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] Hurricane Sandy
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> Hurricane Sandy is beginning its slow exit from the  northeastern Bahamas 
> and will be out over the open Atlantic later this  afternoon. Its western 
> flank is brushing the Florida Atlantic Coast as it  passes. Sandy`s hazards 
> include potential power disrupting wind gusts, bands of  heavy rainfall and a 
> dangerous storm surge and increasing rip currents. After  that, the storm 
> will march toward the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S.
> A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect for the  Florida East Coast from 
> Ocean Reef to Flagler Beach, while Tropical Storm  Watches surround the 
> tropical storm warnings along Florida`s East Coast from  Flagler Beach to 
> Fernandina Beach, and from the Savannah River along the  Georgia/South Carolina 
> border to Oregon Inlet, N.C., including Charleston, S.C.,  and the North 
> Carolina Outer Banks.
> Preparations to protect life and property should have been  completed 
> across Florida, and should be started along the Carolinas coast. Gusts  reaching 
> tropical storm strength, those in excess of 39 mph, have already been  
> measured at several Earth Networks Live Tracking Stations along the southeast  
> Florida Coast. The highest thus far is a 49 mph gust in Miami, Fla. Sandy`s  
> Florida other impacts include a storm surge of 1 to 2 feet, gusts up to 50 
> mph  and significant beach erosion and repeated bands of downpours. Click 
> _here_ 
> (http://weather.weatherbug.com/weather-news/weather-reports.html?zcode=z6286&story=14158)  for possible impacts across the Northeast.
> Other warnings in effect across the Caribbean include a  Hurricane Warning 
> for the Great Abaco and Grand Bahama Islands. A  Tropical Storm Warning is 
> also in effect for the northwestern Bahamas. A  Tropical Storm Watch has been 
> issued for Bermuda.
> As of 11 a.m. EDT, Hurricane Sandy is centered near 26.7 N  and 76.9 W, or 
> 200 miles east of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and 480 miles  south-southeast of 
> Charleston, S.C. Maximum sustained winds are 80 mph, and  Sandy is moving 
> steadily northwest at 6 mph. Sandy`s minimum central pressure  has climbed to 
> 970 mb, or 28.64 inches of mercury.
> Sandy, now a Category One hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson  Wind Scale, is 
> steadily tracking through the northwestern Bahamas. It has  weakened a bit as 
> it is fighting dry air and increasingly hostile upper-level  winds in its 
> western flank, but Sandy remains a hurricane. It has also started  to expand 
> outward, and its tropical storm force winds extend outward 275 miles  from 
> the center.
> After leaving the Bahamas and Florida behind, Sandy will  likely hang 
> around Category-One strength on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale while  paralleling 
> the East Coast this weekend. Latest forecasts are still conflicted  on 
> Sandy`s exact track. One scenario merges Sandy with a Midwest upper-level low  
> pressure, tracking it sharply into the Mid-Atlantic. Most others merge it with 
>  the same upper-level disturbance off Cape Cod early next week, flinging it 
> back  to the southern New England Coast and New York City area.
> Regardless, all interests along the East Coast need to pay  particularly 
> close attention to the progress of this hurricane during the next  several 
> days. 
> The Atlantic Hurricane season has been busy so far this  year with 19 named 
> storms in the Atlantic basin, eight of which were hurricanes.  Luckily, 
> only one has reached major hurricane status. By comparison, a typical  Atlantic 
> hurricane season averages only 11.3 named storms, of which 6.2 become  
> hurricanes and 2.3 of those become major hurricanes.
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