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Showing posts with label Weather hurricanes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weather hurricanes. Show all posts

Thursday, November 01, 2012

Sandy – The Historic Unwelcome Guest


Sandy – The Historic Unwelcome Guest


The last thing we expected, in a year full of the unexpected, was a late tropical storm, with a friendly moniker like Hurricane Sandy, making an unwanted appearance on our calendar.

For too many, it was an uninvited guest in our living room. For others, it came and went, leaving us in the dark, with fewer trees, and in return, left behind plenty of water – as in water, water everywhere.

You know, in Maryland, once the trees have begun to show-off their fall season colorful display, the days have started to get shorter, and the temperature leaves a nip in the air, one begins to think snow, ice, and winter – but not hurricanes.

We often associate hurricane season with unpleasant weather events that ruin the best of plans during the summer and fall months of June through November. Those of us who enjoy visiting the south during the summer have learned, in some instances the hard way, to keep an eye on the weather. Nothing can ruin a rare vacation – or even a writing assignment – worse than coordinating your schedule with the random vagaries of a hurricane.

We usually endure the wrath of hurricanes and tropical storms during the months of July and September. Once Labor Day comes and goes, we usually think that we’re in the clear; well, except for “nor’easters,” storms that resemble ‘winter-hurricanes,’ that form in the southeast and travel north.

The storm quickly caught the eye of many seasoned hurricane scientists who dubbed it Frankenstorm… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5433


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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Anchorage Daily News Daily Briefing


Saturday, August 27, 2011 7:26 am

Daily Briefing

Cloudy49°L:49° | H:63°
statewide forecast 


Weakening Irene blasts ashore in N. Carolina

Hurricane Irene battered North Carolina's coast this morning, wreaking havoc in the 
form of power outages affecting hundreds of thousands of customers, scattered 
flooding and splintered piers as it began a potentially catastrophic run up the East Coast.
Alaska Air National Guard to aid hurricane relief effort
100 Alaskans sought to help hurricane cleanup
Photos: East Coast braces for Irene

top stories

Teacher gets 12-year term for sex abuse
A local music teacher who admitted to having sex with two teenage students will serve 
12 years in prison, a sentence recommended in a plea agreement and accepted Friday 
with some reluctance by an Anchorage judge.
 Fair vendors await word from fire marshal on log booths
 Linehan drops request for medical leave before retrial

alaska

 Police locate shooting victim after he vanishes from scene
 Cruise ship plans vampire fest

money

 BP shareholders' suit halted
 Alaska business people

sports

 West picks off win from Lynx
 Wolverines wear down East in second half

life

Fair vendors await word from fire marshal on log booths
Vendors in the log cabin concession booths at the Alaska State Fair are 
wondering whether next year will be the last for the booths. The state fire marshal 
wants the buildings brought up to code.

opinion

Sullivan, Coffey ignoring citizens' hard work
A few years ago when I was an Assembly member, I asked a local developer 
why he wasn't more active in the Title 21 process.

outdoors

 This week should be hot for trout
 Popular public use cabin in Tongass refurbished


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Friday, August 29, 2008

National Geographic: Hurricane Gustav to Become Gulf Coast Monster?

National Geographic: Hurricane Gustav to Become Gulf Coast Monster?

Willie Drye for
National Geographic News (Willie Drye is author of Storm of the Century: the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, published by National Geographic Books.)

August 27, 2008
See more recent Hurricane Gustav coverage >>

The once and future Hurricane Gustav—currently a tropical storm over Haiti—could attack the U.S. Gulf Coast as a major hurricane this weekend. Or not.

The Gulf Coast's fate depends largely on a developing high-pressure system, whose southern edge extends roughly from the eastern Gulf of Mexico to the western Atlantic Ocean. (See a
map of the region.)

High-pressure "ridges" repel storms, so if the developing ridge north of
Cuba is strong, Gustav could be deflected westward and into the central Gulf of Mexico, where vast stretches of warm water could supercharge the storm as it heads for the U.S. coast.

[…]

(Related:
"Hurricane Bertha's Burst of Strength Stumps Experts" [July 8, 2008].)

[…]

Gustav is expected to turn toward the U.S. sometime Friday or Saturday, and the high-pressure system will decide how sharp Gustav's turn will be.

[…]

There is "no way of knowing" at present how the high-pressure ridge is going to evolve, Waddlington said. The present long-range forecast says Gustav could come ashore anywhere from the central
Florida Panhandle to the Texas-Mexico border.

[…]


Read the entire article here:
National Geographic: Hurricane Gustav to Become Gulf Coast Monster?

20080827 Hurricane Gustav to Become Gulf Coast Monster?

20051005 Three Tentacle columns on Hurricane Katrina

2005 Aug 23-30 2005 Hurricane Katrina

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082803165.html?hpid=topnews

20080829 Washington Post GOP Considers Delaying Convention

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2008/08/washington-post-gop-considers-delaying.html

National Geographic: Hurricane Gustav to Become Gulf Coast Monster?

20080825 Hurricane Gustav formed Aug 25

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/search/label/20080825%20Hurricane%20Gustav%20formed%20Aug%2025

20080827 National Geographic: Hurricane Gustav to Become Gulf Coast Monster?

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2008/08/national-geographic-hurricane-gustav-to.html

Washington Post GOP Considers Delaying Convention

Thursday, October 06, 2005

20051005 Three Tentacle columns on Hurricane Katrina

Three Tentacle columns on Hurricane Katrina

October 5, 2005
Kurosawa's History of Hurricane Katrina
Kevin E. Dayhoff
American Anthropologist Ernest Albert Hooten once said: "History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened." How will history record Hurricane Katrina? …

September 14, 2005
Katrina – Who Did What and When?
Kevin E. Dayhoff
The intemperate criticism directed at the Hurricane Katrina response – the rescue and recover efforts – is more polluted than the floodwaters of New Orleans and contributes nothing to a noble American tradition of coming together at a difficult time and helping fellow Americans in a time of need…

September 9, 2005
Shut up and call the cavalry
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Compassion exceeds all else in importance on the Gulf Coast in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy. Only the truly heartless can be left untouched. Our hearts and prayers go out to the victims and the rescuers…


2005 Aug 23-30 2005 Hurricane Katrina

20051005 Three Tentacle columns on Hurricane Katrina

2005 Aug 23-30 2005 Hurricane Katrina