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If it is going to be so bad, how come I am not hearing the dire warnings like I did before Irene?
Is it more likely to be a bad noreaster or an actual hurricane?
It's a category 1 hurricane now somewhere around Florida, so you can expect it won't be a hurricane when it lands. I think Irene was a category 2 or 3 at this stage, so that's why you hear less about this one. But, when it's all said and done, this one could hit us harder because Irene hit at 65 mph max winds, while the most recent projections have Sandy as a category 1 when it makes landfall anywhere from the Delmar, middle NJ, NYC, or NE.
It's a category 1 hurricane now somewhere around Florida, so you can expect it won't be a hurricane when it lands. I think Irene was a category 2 or 3 at this stage, so that's why you hear less about this one. But, when it's all said and done, this one could hit us harder because Irene hit at 65 mph max winds, while the most recent projections have Sandy as a category 1 when it makes landfall anywhere from the Delmar, middle NJ, NYC, or NE.
Ok...thanks.
I tend to not buy into all the doom and gloom and panic, but I always get a bit nervous before these things. I do live by the beach and last time the store surge reached the houses that were only about a block away from me.
Is it more likely to be a bad noreaster or an actual hurricane?
There can be overlap. For example THE STORM OF THE CENTURY in 1993 started as a very early tropical cyclonic hurricane, then threatened the Northeast as a 'noreaster and finally scourged the Northeast as a massive blizzard.
So whatever it was, it isn't called the STORM OF THE CENTURY for nothing.
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If it is going to be so bad, how come I am not hearing the dire warnings like I did before Irene?
Just turn on the Weather Channel, Jen.
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