Frankenstorm

[prowlersfish]

Boaters on the east coast ,are you preparing for Sandy ? I find this a strange storm .

[boatsnbars]

Yep, hauling on Saturday, per club schedule.

[Stripermann2]

I'm preparing by doing some boating this weekend. Paul, (you) have already got a head start on me! Nice day to be out...gotta take it when you can.

[prowlersfish]

In 30 minutes the water changed. won't be any boating on the lower bay this weekend I believe . Lets hope it keeps well of shore

[k9th]

Boaters on the east coast ,are you preparing for Sandy ? I find this a strange storm .

Paul -

I'm very curious about how the water changed and your statement about it being a strange storm. I'm a closet meteorologist and love to study things like that on the Great Lakes. Can you expand on that some?

[jaahmez@hotmail.com]

Couple extra springlines and some zip ties on the canvas zippers. Little boat up on the trailer. Fall fishing just took off this week for me in the Bay, so my fingers are crossed that it 's not disrupted for too long.

James

[Torcan]

An unusually nasty mix of a hurricane and a winter storm that forecasters are now calling “Frankenstorm” is likely to blast most of the U.S. East Coast next week, focusing the worst of its weather mayhem around New York City and New Jersey.

U.S. government forecasters on Thursday upped the odds of a major weather scare, now saying there’s a 90 per cent chance that the East will get steady gale-force winds, heavy rain, flooding and maybe snow starting Sunday and stretching past Halloween on Wednesday.

The Canadian Hurricane Centre has also issued a weather watch for southern Ontario, southern Quebec and the Maritimes.

Meteorologists say the coming storm is likely to cause $1 billion in damage.

The storm is a combination of Hurricane Sandy, now in the Caribbean, an early winter storm in the West, and a blast of arctic air from the north. They are predicted to collide and park over America’s most populous coastal corridor and reach as far inland as Ohio and up into southern Ontario.

The hurricane part of the storm is likely to come ashore somewhere in New Jersey on Tuesday morning, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecaster Jim Cisco. But this is a storm that will affect a far wider area, so people all along the east have to be wary, Cisco said.

Coastal areas from Florida to Maine will feel some effects, mostly from the hurricane part, he said, and the other parts of the storm will reach inland from North Carolina northward.

Once the hurricane part of the storm hits, “it will get broader. It won’t be as intense, but its effects will be spread over a very large area,” the National Hurricane Center’s chief hurricane specialist, James Franklin, said Thursday.

One of the more messy aspects of the expected storm is that it just will not leave. The worst of it should peak early Tuesday, but it will stretch into midweek, forecasters say. Weather may start clearing in the mid-Atlantic Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 in the Northeast, Cisco said.

“It’s almost a weeklong, five-day, six-day event,” Cisco said Thursday from NOAA’s northern storm forecast centre near Washington. “It’s going to be a widespread serious storm.”

With every hour, meteorologists are getting more confident that this storm is going to be bad and they are able to focus their forecasts more.

The New York area could see around 125 millimeters (5 inches) of rain during the storm, while there could be snow southwest of where it comes inland, Cisco said.

Both private and federal meteorologists are calling this a storm that will likely go down in the history books.

“We don’t have many modern precedents for what the models are suggesting,” Cisco said.

It is likely to hit during a full moon when tides are near their highest, increasing coastal flooding potential,

[prowlersfish]

Boaters on the east coast ,are you preparing for Sandy ? I find this a strange storm .

Paul -

I'm very curious about how the water changed and your statement about it being a strange storm. I'm a closet meteorologist and love to study things like that on the Great Lakes. Can you expand on that some?

Went from calm to a nasty chop , waves coming in from the ocean . strange , see Torcan's post . and the tracking info seems harder to find and kind of vague

[Lawman]

I'm glad i'm out. I just hope it doesn't rip my cheap tarp !!

[prowlersfish]

Lawman you may get a break , looks like the latest land fail will be in the upper MD , Delaware or NJ area .

[Lawman]

That's true. No matter where it hits, I wish everyone safe passage. Prepare,Prepare,Prepare.

[aaronbocknek]

and there will be more severe storms in the coming years. each more destructive than the other.

as for me, i'm hoping for the best. sealed around the sliding cabin windows with shrink wrap tape and plastic tarp, extra lines, will disconnect the power and water tomorrow in case she moves too much in her slip. hope to get some assistance tomorrow afternoon to remove the bridge enclosure and lay down the frame and put on the 'fast back' winter cover. at least it will be less windage. she did weather irene okay though and i think it's going to be more of a rain event than a wind event, at least here in the baltimore area.

[rossjo]

Good luck all!

At least its only 75mph & not a hurricane. The Viva Mahia has ridden out several worse than that right here at the house. Worst I've seen here was around 85mph with the boat in - prior to that 90mph+ at the house. I had 3 pilings added to the dock last year - and have screw-in anchors to bury in the marsh to tie off to (as well as neighbor docks) if another comes this way.

Rain over here - a little breezy (and cool - 61deg).

Good luck ... be safe ...

[aaronbocknek]

back at ya buddy. ENTERPRISE is ready and so is the house. i hope. maccabee, well, we shall see. he's ridden out worse in his 7 years.
aaron

[~DarkNemesis~]

Good luck folks. Been working in the garage since 4 am when the winds started to pick up in VB. Gotta get as much work done as possible before the power goes and I have to use caveman tools....