Sandy Now a Hurricane, and a Serious U.S. Threat

[WestVirginiaRebel]

PJ Media:

Tropical Storm Sandy was upgraded to a hurricane at 11:00 AM Eastern Time, and its central pressure has dropped another 5 millibars in the 90 minutes since the last reading, indicating a rapidly strengthening storm. Thankfully, Sandy will soon run out of time to strengthen further. Unfortunately, the reason for this is that Hurricane Sandy is nearing landfall in Jamaica, where the impact will be worsened by the storm’s ongoing intensification — all else being equal, strengthening hurricanes are more damaging than weakening or steady-state hurricanes of the same stated intensity at landfall.

After Jamaica, Sandy will briefly re-emerge over water, but will then hit eastern Cuba. By the time it emerges from its passage over Cuba, the upper-level wind shear will have increased, likely preventing much further strengthening — at least as a pure warm-core tropical system. (More in a moment on what I mean by that.) All things considered, it is unlikely Sandy will, in its purely tropical phase, ever be worse than a Category 1 hurricane.

However, after Sandy crosses Jamaica and Cuba, things get really interesting — and dangerous — because the atmospheric setup is uniquely conducive for Sandy to become a bizarre and, possibly, extremely destructive hybrid storm, injecting its tropical moisture, warm core, and low barometric pressure into a dynamic atmospheric situation involving a diving upper-level trough, driven by the jet stream, and the resulting clash between warm and very cold air. We could end up with a “subtropical hurricane” — a category that isn’t even supposed to be able to exist — bashing the U.S. East Coast with fierce wind, rain and surge, while its back side produces extremely heavy snow over the northern Appalachians. It would be like a nor’easter on steroids.

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Will Sandy turn into an election-eve superstorm?

[Pepper]

Sandy Now a Hurricane, and a Serious U.S. Threat

 

Let me fix that

 

Obama Still a President and a Serious U.S. Threat

[nickydog]

Could 0 somehow turn this into an October surprise?

[Pepper]

Could 0 somehow turn this into an October surprise?

 

Well, seeing as how Obama did not lower the sea levels yet i doubt it.

[Pepper]

Could 0 somehow turn this into an October surprise?

 

 

PS But @nickydog you can be sure that any thing that can take Benghazi and Obama's bloody fingerprints off the front pages will be handy for MSNBC and CNN

[clearvision]

Not much forecast of it. Is supposed to be off the New York/New England coast Monday night.....