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Official Hurricane Irene Live OBS/Discussion Part III


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I know those graphics are meant to just be a guide, but that's incredibly misleading. Sustained winds have been in the 20-25 mph range (and occasionally even less) on the Delmarva coast and Cape May recently. While they have been higher further north, most places aren't exceeding 30 mph right now. That graphic is way off from the ground truth at each data point.

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KWWD, in the center of it, is only gusting to 29 mph as of 2:55 am. For whatever reason, only rainfall rates seem to be intense in that band. The bands further up the NJ coast are producing stronger winds.

Does a red tagger care to maybe explain why this is? I would usually expect in a storm with a band like that hurricane force wind gusts?

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Does a red tagger care to maybe explain why this is? I would usually expect in a storm with a band like that hurricane force wind gusts?

Yeah, that's why I've been bringing attention to it. It seems to make no sense at all.

Hopefully, the lack of intense conditions there is at least preventing significant damage.

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Wow! We just had the strongest gust of the night. Things were blowing everywhere--including relatively big branches. It's calmed down in the last minute but that was really intense.

I felt that as well, and I definitely heard something plop on the roof, maybe a larger branch.

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Wow! We just had the strongest gust of the night. Things were blowing everywhere--including relatively big branches. It's calmed down in the last minute but that was really intense.

John I am literallly 5 miles east of you, and the winds are by far the strongest of the night, power is flickering here....

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The eyewall is not organized, and as such, it isn't transferring the high winds from above the surface to the ground.

Based on the ground obs, you would think Irene is a tropical depression now

I think this points very clearly to a storm in that grey transition area - something between tropical and extratropical. The point of "landfall" is not particularly important, save for wind direction differences and the potential for actual stronger winds just E of the eye.

You guys have alot of wind to go through, in case you're wondering how nasty the backside is, the peak winds in DC topped those of Isabel a few hrs ago. Prepare :P

What I like to hear!

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