Thursday, April 11, 2013
Names are usually re-used every six years
The world has seen the last of Hurricane Sandy – at least in name only. The World Meteorological Organization on Thursday retired the name and will replace it with "Sarah" in 2018, the next year Sandy would have appeared in the rotation. Sandy is the 77th name to be retired from the Atlantic hurricane name list since 1954, the National Hurricane Center said in a statement Thursday. "If a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of the name would be insensitive or confusing, the WMO hurricane committee, which includes personnel from NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, may retire the name," the hurricane center said in the statement. Sandy was technically considered a post-tropical cyclone when it made its landfall in Brigantine Oct. …
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
The National Hurricane Center released its report on Hurricane Sandy Tuesday.
Hurricane Sandy was the second costliest storm in this country’s history and directly responsible for 147 deaths – 72 of them in the U.S. alone – according to a recent report released by the National Hurricane Center. The report, released by the organization Tuesday, provides details about the start of the storm, its evolution as it made its way through the Caribbean up through the east coast, and its impact on the region. Though the number is still tentative, owing to incomplete data, the report puts the total damage incurred by the storm at $50 billion, noting that the actual tally could be much higher. Even just factoring in its initial estimate, the storm is more expensive than any storm other than 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. To read the…
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
New Jersey is in the 5-day cone of uncertainty for the season's first hurricane
“It looks like it will affect us one way or another." That is how the National Weather Service in Mount Holly is describing the potential impacts of Hurricane Irene on the Jersey Shore. Meteorologists are advising coastal residents to plan ahead for a nasty weekend, but not to panic, just yet. As of 2 p.m. Tuesday, Irene was situated about 55 miles south of the Grand Turk Island. The Category 2 hurricane's maximum recorded wind speed by a Hurricane Hunter plane was 100 mph. The National Hurricane Center is currently predicting that the storm will make an initial landfall off the southern North Carolina coast by late Saturday night, but New Jersey is not out of the woods. In the updated forecast track at 2 p.m. Tuesday, New Jersey remained …
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Emergency management workers encourage residents to be prepared
The Atlantic Hurricane basin is highly active this weekend, and perhaps no one is more worried than the employees of the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management. Late Friday, Tropical Storm Harvey was upgraded from a Tropical Depression by the National Hurricane Center. While Harvey is forecast to remain in South America, there is plenty of other tropical action waiting in the wings. At least two tropical waves in the Atlantic have more than a 40 percent chance of tropical development, according to the National Hurricane center this weekend. Back at home, we've seen plenty of record setting heat waves this summer. So with over two months left in the Atlantic Hurricane Season, it's no wonder that some are nervous about what the remainder …
KC
11:12 pm on Monday, April 22, 2013
Sandy was one evil bioch! more ›