Hurricane Irene

[SteveHFC]

I hope everyone is safe :aok:

[greenlex]

What did the Hurricane say to the Palm Tree?






Hold onto your Nuts this is no ordinary blow job.

[Sir David Gray]

It's predicted to hit New York tomorrow night so clearly there's still a lot of potential for a lot of damage/fatalities.

The one saving grace is that it has lost a bit of its intensity over the past few days, being downgraded from a category 3 to a category 1. It's still obviously a hurricane though and it must be quite a frightening experience for everyone that is in its predicted path.

The one real surprise for me was that I heard the other day that Irene is the first hurricane to hit the USA in 3 years. I actually had to check that when I heard it because I really thought they had made an error. Sure enough, though, Irene is the first hurricane in the USA since Ike in 2008.

I know we complain about our weather over here but when you consider that the east coast of the USA has had a hurricane and a relatively strong earthquake in the past week, the climate in Scotland really isn't all that bad after all!

[Haymaker]

Currently just north of NYC and it is a bit cloudy but nowt else yet. Lockdown in my room with a load of beers, food and water, just hoping that the power stays on so I can keep motoring through my Football Manager save as there is bugger all else to do.

[Jay]

Currently just north of NYC and it is a bit cloudy but nowt else yet. Lockdown in my room with a load of beers, food and water, just hoping that the power stays on so I can keep motoring through my Football Manager save as there is bugger all else to do.

Keep yer heid doon and be safe :agree:

[Haymaker]

Keep yer heid doon and be safe :agree:

Will do! Cheers! :agree:

Seems strange but I am quite excited.

[hibsbollah]

It's predicted to hit New York tomorrow night so clearly there's still a lot of potential for a lot of damage/fatalities.

The one saving grace is that it has lost a bit of its intensity over the past few days, being downgraded from a category 3 to a category 1. It's still obviously a hurricane though and it must be quite a frightening experience for everyone that is in its predicted path.

The one real surprise for me was that I heard the other day that Irene is the first hurricane to hit the USA in 3 years. I actually had to check that when I heard it because I really thought they had made an error. Sure enough, though, Irene is the first hurricane in the USA since Ike in 2008.

I know we complain about our weather over here but when you consider that the east coast of the USA has had a hurricane and a relatively strong earthquake in the past week, the climate in Scotland really isn't all that bad after all!

Scotland has 80 mile an hour winds most years. I accept that the US-centric media are usually obsessed with the eastern seaboard, but even so, why is this minor storm the main item on the BBC news?

[twiceinathens]

Scotland has 80 mile an hour winds most years. I accept that the US-centric media are usually obsessed with the eastern seaboard, but even so, why is this minor storm the main item on the BBC news?

I trust that this is a case of a missing emoticon indicating a joke and not just ignorance of what a hurricane actually is?

[Mon_the_cabbage]

Scotland has 80 mile an hour winds most years. I accept that the US-centric media are usually obsessed with the eastern seaboard, but even so, why is this minor storm the main item on the BBC news?

Are you confusing gusts with wind speed?

From your age I assume you were not around to have experienced the storm on 15th January 1968?

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-app/reports?ARCHIV=0&LANG=en&MENU=Extra&JJ=2008&MM=01&TT=21&FILE=extra_ne.tit

I was fairly young at the time but the memory of that night and the damage it left is still vivid even although here in the East it was not as bad as Glasgow. Notice the wind speeds in the article.

[hibsbollah]

I trust that this is a case of a missing emoticon indicating a joke and not just ignorance of what a hurricane actually is?

No, i know what a tropical cyclone is. There are about a hundred of them in a normal year across the globe, and this one is a relatively minor one in terns of predicted wind speed.

[twiceinathens]

No, i know what a tropical cyclone is. There are about a hundred of them in a normal year across the globe, and this one is a relatively minor one in terns of predicted wind speed.
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Apologies for my slipshod use of technical terms. Perhaps the fact that a few weeks ago I had two sons and three grandchildren suffering close exposure to multiple tornadoes(correct term this time) as they swept through North Carolina makes me somewhat sensitive to flippant remarks about mere tropical storms

[hibsbollah]

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Apologies for my slipshod use of technical terms. Perhaps the fact that a few weeks ago I had two sons and three grandchildren suffering close exposure to multiple tornadoes(correct term this time) as they swept through North Carolina makes me somewhat sensitive to flippant remarks about mere tropical storms

Point taken. Im sure its very upsetting for those involved...my point was about the saturation media coverage.

[twiceinathens]

. Im sure its very upsetting for those involved...my point was about the saturation media coverage.

Your point equally taken. As I said current circumstances make situation somewhat personal for me. No wish to overreact.

[Gatecrasher]

Scotland has 80 mile an hour winds most years. I accept that the US-centric media are usually obsessed with the eastern seaboard, but even so, why is this minor storm the main item on the BBC news?

I dunno like, we have some very windy days but this seems to come with a whole load of other stuff, they are talking about 12-14 inches of rain, tornadoes, low lying land and cities like NY in the path it cant be like a typical stormy day in scotland

[NYHibby]

Scotland has 80 mile an hour winds most years. I accept that the US-centric media are usually obsessed with the eastern seaboard, but even so, why is this minor storm the main item on the BBC news?

I'm sorry but this post is absurd. You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

[Sir David Gray]

Scotland has 80 mile an hour winds most years. I accept that the US-centric media are usually obsessed with the eastern seaboard, but even so, why is this minor storm the main item on the BBC news?

Perhaps it's because the hurricane is heading towards one of the most populated areas on Earth, causing tornadoes to form, massive amounts of flooding and storm surges?

It may be a minor storm in comparison with a lot of other hurricanes that the USA has had to deal with in previous years but it's the biggest storm to hit the New York area for 20 years. For that reason, I can fully understand why it's being covered by the news channels.

[The_Exile]

No, i know what a tropical cyclone is. There are about a hundred of them in a normal year across the globe, and this one is a relatively minor one in terns of predicted wind speed.

Ever experience hurricane force winds? I'm not talking 80mph gusts that we get, I'm talking 80/90mph constant sustained winds, storm surges which can reach many metres in height, the reason it got so much coverage is because millions of people were affected by this and there was a very real chance that this thing could have strengthened to category 4 in the warm waters off florida, then we're talking Katrina type of death/damage/destruction, thank god it weakened, there's another tropical storm forming over the bahama's as we speak named Jose, but is expected to weaken and break up.

[HibsMax]

Phew! Lucked out this time around. Last major storm that affected me was in 2008 (ice storm). Lost power for 4 days. This time we only lost power for about 1 minute but we have friends who are still without power.

[Haymaker]

That was a bit crap. Lost power a little but it was just a bit windy.

[Sir David Gray]

Luckily, I think the intensity of the storm had died down by the time it hit New York. I certainly don't think it was anywhere near as bad as they feared it might be at one stage.

I'm hearing of another storm that is currently developing in the Atlantic at the moment. Right now, it's a tropical depression but it is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm and, over the next four or five days, the experts believe it will gain hurricane status, possibly as strong as a category two. One it gets to be a tropical storm, it will be named Katia.

It's certainly one to watch as it approaches the Caribbean and the USA over the next few days.

[Haymaker]

Luckily, I think the intensity of the storm had died down by the time it hit New York. I certainly don't think it was anywhere near as bad as they feared it might be at one stage.

I'm hearing of another storm that is currently developing in the Atlantic at the moment. Right now, it's a tropical depression but it is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm and, over the next four or five days, the experts believe it will gain hurricane status, possibly as strong as a category two. One it gets to be a tropical storm, it will be named Katia.

It's certainly one to watch as it approaches the Caribbean and the USA over the next few days.

While it was over stated in strength up here I honestly believe that it was better to over prepare than under.

Hope that ******* doesnt get close before wednesday, I am not sleeping in JFK airport! :greengrin

[Sir David Gray]

While it was over stated in strength up here I honestly believe that it was better to over prepare than under.

Hope that ******* doesnt get close before wednesday, I am not sleeping in JFK airport! :greengrin

Absolutely agree with that.

I actually heard someone from some weather centre in America at the weekend on Sky News saying that, in his opinion, Irene had already reached tropical storm levels by the time it had hit the New York area but that the authorities didn't want to downgrade it until afterwards because it was hitting such a populated area and they didn't want anyone to get complacent.

I can completely understand why they took that approach.

You should be alright with this new storm. They reckon it won't be hitting the Caribbean until the end of the week and then the USA at the weekend/early part of next week.

[Sylar]

While it was over stated in strength up here I honestly believe that it was better to over prepare than under.

Hope that ******* doesnt get close before wednesday, I am not sleeping in JFK airport! :greengrin

A common problem when such climatic phenomena make big news.

Suddenly EVERYONE'S a climatologist...

[LamontHFC©]

I am in Flushing, NYC.

The storm was pretty bad on the Saturday night. Not quite hurricane level up here I'd say, but I know some places did get hit quite badly. It was extremely windy and torrential rain, but nothing extreme. Supposedly the power was meant to go off Sat night/Sunday morning, and the only thing I was worried about was it going out and not being able to watch the derby in the morning. (wish it had gone out now!) but it was fine.

Our game was cancelled on Saturday and all of campus shut down completely for the whole weekend, but as it turns out we could've played our game on Sat afternoon as it didn't start to get wild till Sat night. And classes were cancelled on the Monday, cos the subway and bus system was down until teh afternoon so we were happy. :greengrin

Our uni gym was used as an evacuation centre for people on Long Island who had to get evacuated so I guess they weren't expecting it to hit as bad up here anyway.

Just thought I'd share my experience of it..