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Hurricane Irene - Discussion Part IV


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I looked at a Gloria IR image as it Crossed LI and it was getting real ragged and dry air intrusion etc, virtually no precip left south of the eye.... But you expect that up at 41 north. Not down where Irene is now....

The latest microwave pass already shows a very lopsided storm from north to south.

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I looked at a Gloria IR image as it Crossed LI and it was getting real ragged and dry air intrusion etc, virtually no precip left south of the eye.... But you expect that up at 41 north. Not down where Irene is now....

it's still pretty symmetrical, to be honest

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The jet streak to the north, and the large circulation is the real story in my opinion, the two will combine to produce a very large wind field, question will be how strong it is tom night into Sunday. I think solid tropical storm force winds in all coastal locales, with perhaps a few gusts to hurrican force in coastal sections of ri and mass.

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The jet streak to the north, and the large circulation is the real story in my opinion, the two will combine to produce a very large wind field, question will be how strong it is tom night into Sunday. I think solid tropical storm force winds in all coastal locales, with perhaps a few gusts to hurrican force in coastal sections of ri and mass.

Nice. I think a lot of people are forgetting the bolded.

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Cloud tops have once again warmed and dry air is evident nw n and east of the circulation

I think they're cooling. I think it looks a lot better in the last 2 hours. It could be poised to at the very least get back to a formidable 945-950mb cane versus what it was becoming.

I looked at a Gloria IR image as it Crossed LI and it was getting real ragged and dry air intrusion etc, virtually no precip left south of the eye.... But you expect that up at 41 north. Not down where Irene is now....

Yes, that's my point. If it fails to regroup it looks a lot like a northern storm already.

Irene is just battling a ton of dry air being entrained into the circulation, otherwise this would have been a devestating and historic major...in my opinion.

I believe it was dry air to some extent and maybe some shear on the SW side. I tend to think dry air because it rotated into the storm and is now breaking up/being cycled out.

The latest microwave pass already shows a very lopsided storm from north to south.

Yeah it was ugly, as Rick said looked like a northern storm.

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The jet streak to the north, and the large circulation is the real story in my opinion, the two will combine to produce a very large wind field, question will be how strong it is tom night into Sunday. I think solid tropical storm force winds in all coastal locales, with perhaps a few gusts to hurrican force in coastal sections of ri and mass.

The story is that there is a freaking cat 2 hurricane barelling up the coast and it will slam into SNE for a 20 year storm..

And yes the storm is battling dry air.. is it necessary to keep posting dry air updates every 5 minutes?

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More concerned about surge

I am as well, I see Malloy said a surge of 4-5 ft in his news conference, that may be a bit misleading and on the low end. Combination of fresh water flooding/high tide/ and water piling up in the western sounds is what is making me nervous. Sub pump is ready to go, but of course without power and a generator its irrelevant.

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More concerned about surge

Yes, great post...with places like far southeast Stratford being accessed by two roads (one through Great Meadows saltmarsh and another that floods over in a thunderstorm), I sure wouldn't want to be stuck down in that end. I'm wondering when or if they'll be told to leave. Some may be OK in their homes but will be cut off.

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I would except I wasn't out here until Dec 06....:P

My bad. There are several bouts of wind, not much with the PRE bands or outer bands.

If you are on the coast , esp exposed south coast, winds will pick up way out ahead of the storm but die quickly once you go inland.

It'll probably be gusting 50-70mph over most of Boston area for several hours, in several bouts. The wind will pick up and die down subtly in some cases, about 5 times in 5 hours.

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My bad. There are several bouts of wind, not much with the PRE bands or outer bands.

If you are on the coast , esp exposed south coast, winds will pick up way out ahead of the storm but die quickly once you go inland.

It'll probably be gusting 50-70mph over most of Boston area for several hours, in several bouts. The wind will pick up and die down subtly in some cases, about 5 times in 5 hours.

Cool thanks.

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