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Something that has bothered me today for impact is the forward speed, it is still very possible this gets picked up and shunted.

Yeah a crawl from NC doesn't scream big hit to me lol. Things can definitely change... and who knows if the thing is over HSE moving at 15 knots with good conditions for strengthening overhead I think we can still get hit.

With such a small sample size of SNE hurricanes... never say never for a given synoptic setup... especially in late August when SSTs are at their peak.

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Yeah a crawl from NC doesn't scream big hit to me lol. Things can definitely change... and who knows if the thing is over HSE moving at 15 knots with good conditions for strengthening overhead I think we can still get hit.

With such a small sample size of SNE hurricanes... never say never for a given synoptic setup... especially in late August when SSTs are at their peak.

I just don't really see how SNE gets a big hit out of this unless the trough digs more. But if you're saying there is a chance and you're a met, I'll believe you.

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haven't ventured into the main tropical thread...sure it's been posted 1000x times there - but funny that if you use the hurricane database and plot a storm with irene's current coordinates...you get one storm into New England since 1930...only bertha. LOL. and out of 32 systems, looks like only 8 hit the U.S.

I think the plots were shown and someone chimed in how without knowing the Synoptics they are meaningless.

Such class shown by some in there.

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I think the plots were shown and someone chimed in how without knowing the Synoptics they are meaningless.

Such class shown by some in there.

The main threads suck....there are so many posters now that folks have become overbearing....I was called out for thanking a guy for posting his obs from St. Croix.....called it "crap".

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This storm will drive the media into a new level, if this hits the East Coast. The media is totally going to be out of control. This will only add to the "year of extremes" theme that has been going on. It's going to be something else.

Yeah, TWC has been itching for a chance to cover a legitimate storm. I guess this could be it.

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The main threads suck....there are so many posters now that folks have become overbearing....I was called out for thanking a guy for posting his obs from St. Croix.....called it "crap".

Well, there is a lot of good info in there, and I won't post there (sheesh, even had some dude bringing up a post I made in here in the Irene banter thread...get a life dude), but they are ready to pounce on seemingly innocent stuff.

Anyhoo... an eastern NC track could still be "good" for SNE (not sure I want it to make landfall anywhere... different argument)

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haven't ventured into the main tropical thread...sure it's been posted 1000x times there - but funny that if you use the hurricane database and plot a storm with irene's current coordinates...you get one storm into New England since 1930...only bertha. LOL. and out of 32 systems, looks like only 8 hit the U.S.

wait...just did that again...not even true. it's some pos Doria in 1971. Bertha wasn't quite close enough to the current position of Irene to make the cut.

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I learned of the media hype from this college kid's status update on FB...I don't even bother with the news or much TV for that matter......he made an update something to the effect of "so I guess me may get raped by a hurricane this wknd".....and when I commented, he went on to state that his mother relayed to him that ch 7 was flipping out. :axe:

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yeah must have been. it made landfall in the carolinas as a rather mediocre TS too. nothing amazing.

that's interesting though - where did you get those numbers?

Meant 4th largest tropical outage. Floyd, Bertha, and the rest didn't make the list. Still 200k in 1971 would probably be doubled today.

http://www.cl-p.com/stormcenter/stormresponse.aspx

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But by that time, the storm is becoming extra-tropical, no? Phasing with mid-latitude systems can definitely enhance the conditions (I agree), but I was assuming he was talking about purely tropical processes.

I don't think any "tropical" system doing the Long Island express routine is purely tropical by the time it gets to our latitude.

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I'm amazed at the amount of hype (particularly in the national media) right now for New England impacts. A true SNE hurricane is going to be really hard to get up here in this setup without much of a big/digging trough to our west.

I could see a strong/damaging tropical storm with a coastal hugger moving NNE if things worked out perfectly. A Doria or a Belle kind of setup?

It's a business, and there are a lot of wealthy viewers who live in New England who buy expensive products and you want them to tune in.

This is exaclty why TWC has referenced the East Coast of Florida so much up until this evening despite all evidence to the contrary...because there are a lot more wealthy viewers in Fort Lauderdale than there are in Wilmington, NC.

MSNBC specifically targets the I95 corridor from DC to Boston...they don't care much about Fly Over Country.

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