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Hurricane Irene and the mid-Atlantic (Pre-game show)


Ian

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I'm sure they're on it. While perhaps the track is getting better known the intensity part is still a question. I do think the upper air environment should be unusually ideal for a storm this far north but it's also going to battle the usual suspects of drawing air off the continental u.s. and potentially going too slow over cooling (if warmer than normal) waters as it heads north. Gears are turning...

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Umm no brotha I don't think we'd need to evactuate, not way up here. No surge to deal with, non-tidal potomac, and I'm on the river.

what are you talking about? non-tidal Potomac? If, as depicted by the Euro, and the center of a dying hurricane or strong tropical storm came up or just of the Bay, there would not be a surge up the Potomac?

The Potomac is tidal until Georgetown, and all city storm planning is based on the assumption the perfect track of a Cat 1 or 2 hurricane to the west of the District would have an alarming storm surge, which is one reason they built a new levee on the mall after Katrina.

Not saying that would happen now, especially with track to the East, but the Euro seemed to me like it would cause a surge to rush up the bay if were to track like that verbatim, which we all know is extremely unlikely

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Channel 11 certainly not sounding any concern yet for Baltimore. Pann steadfast with a forecast of the storm 50 miles or so off the coast as it bends NE and running graphic of "little to no storm surge" up the Chesapeake. Also said no rain into western MD and only some rain into Baltimore.

The only thing he didn't say was "climo, bitches", but it was implied. I think he should have shown a pic of a fish with arms while he was at it.

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