Sunday, September 14, 2003
The latest, on Hurricane Isabel from the AP.
Hurricane Isabel weakened slightly Sunday but still was a powerful Category 4 storm as it plowed across the Atlantic Ocean on a course that could slam it into the central East Coast late this week. “It’s looking more and more likely that this is going to be a big event for the eastern United States,” National Hurricane Center meteorologist Eric Blake said Sunday.
COMPUTER MODELS predict that weather conditions over the East Coast should prevent Isabel from turning back out to sea and missing land, hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart said.
“Landfall along the U.S Mid-Atlantic coast somewhere between North Carolina and New Jersey between 4 or 5 days (Thursday or Friday) is appearing more and more likely,” Stewart said. “Little or no significant weakening is expected to occur until after landfall occurs.”
At 11 a.m. ET, Isabel’s maximum sustained wind speed had fallen by 5 mph to 155 mph — 1 mph below the minimum for Category 5 — apparently a fluctuation in strength common to major hurricanes, forecasters said. Experts had said it would be extremely unusual for Isabel to maintain Category 5 strength as it moved north over cooler water.
The storm was centered about 370 miles east-northeast of the Turks and Caicos Islands, or about 320 miles north of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hurricane-force wind of at least 74 mph extended 85 miles out from the center.
It was moving toward the west-northwest at about 12 mph, and was expected to continue on that path into Monday, then turn toward the Carolinas, possibly making landfall Thursday or Friday. Forecasters note that hurricanes can be unpredictable, and long-range forecasts have large possibilities for error.
For the rest of this story, click here for MSNBC. Copyright, 2003 by the Associated Press.
I've put the first iteration of the Hurricane! page up on Southstation.org today. It's full of links to current information on the storms, including up to the minute forecasts and tracks. The page also will link to historical information on past storms.
It's a beautiful Sunday here at this blogger's domain. I'm thinking ahead to the Hits of Yesterday special on Wednesday, September 17 when the sounds of the Top 40 hits in 1962 will be played all day, all night. Some great music came out of America that year, with just a trickle of English hits. Check it out.
À la prochaine,
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Hurricane Isabel weakened slightly Sunday but still was a powerful Category 4 storm as it plowed across the Atlantic Ocean on a course that could slam it into the central East Coast late this week. “It’s looking more and more likely that this is going to be a big event for the eastern United States,” National Hurricane Center meteorologist Eric Blake said Sunday.
COMPUTER MODELS predict that weather conditions over the East Coast should prevent Isabel from turning back out to sea and missing land, hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart said.
“Landfall along the U.S Mid-Atlantic coast somewhere between North Carolina and New Jersey between 4 or 5 days (Thursday or Friday) is appearing more and more likely,” Stewart said. “Little or no significant weakening is expected to occur until after landfall occurs.”
At 11 a.m. ET, Isabel’s maximum sustained wind speed had fallen by 5 mph to 155 mph — 1 mph below the minimum for Category 5 — apparently a fluctuation in strength common to major hurricanes, forecasters said. Experts had said it would be extremely unusual for Isabel to maintain Category 5 strength as it moved north over cooler water.
The storm was centered about 370 miles east-northeast of the Turks and Caicos Islands, or about 320 miles north of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hurricane-force wind of at least 74 mph extended 85 miles out from the center.
It was moving toward the west-northwest at about 12 mph, and was expected to continue on that path into Monday, then turn toward the Carolinas, possibly making landfall Thursday or Friday. Forecasters note that hurricanes can be unpredictable, and long-range forecasts have large possibilities for error.
For the rest of this story, click here for MSNBC. Copyright, 2003 by the Associated Press.
I've put the first iteration of the Hurricane! page up on Southstation.org today. It's full of links to current information on the storms, including up to the minute forecasts and tracks. The page also will link to historical information on past storms.
It's a beautiful Sunday here at this blogger's domain. I'm thinking ahead to the Hits of Yesterday special on Wednesday, September 17 when the sounds of the Top 40 hits in 1962 will be played all day, all night. Some great music came out of America that year, with just a trickle of English hits. Check it out.
À la prochaine,
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