PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1035 AM EST FRI NOV 13 2009
…PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT…
…POWERFUL STORM SETS RECORD WAVE HEIGHT AT NOAA BUOY 44009…
THE POWERFUL EAST COAST STORM CONTINUES TO GENERATE LARGE WAVES
ALONG THE COAST AND ACROSS THE LOWER DELAWARE BAY. THE NOAA BUOY
44009…DELAWARE BAY BUOY LOCATED 26 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAPE
MAY…RECORDED A HEIGHT [...]
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1000 PM EST THU NOV 12 2009
…INTENSE COASTAL STORM CONTINUES TO BRING AREAS OF RAIN AND STRONG
WINDS TO THE MID ATLANTIC REGION…
AREAS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS EASTERN AND
CENTRAL VIRGINIA. EXCESSIVE WIND GUSTS OCCURRED OVER PORTIONS OF
SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA…REACHING IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH AT TIMES.
LOW PRESSURE [...]
The hurricane season lasts through the end of this month and there is still activity in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico to monitor.
The image above shows that tropical waves continue the move off the west African coast. These disturbances are often the first phase in the development of a tropical storm or hurricane.
The image [...]
The Baltimore area hits a seasonal benchmark today. The sun sets before 5:00pm for the first time since January 6. Not counting twilight, the area will receive only 10 hours and 18 minutes of sunlight today. The earliest sunsets will occur between December 2 through 11 when darkness sets in at 4:43 each evening.
Speaking of [...]
Friday night Tom Tasselmyer pulled together some preliminary statistics on October rainfall and subsequent winter snowfall. The final October numbers are in now and here are some of the conclusions.
October 2009 ties with October 1995 as the 12th. wettest on record with 6.24 inches at the official recording station at BWI-Marshall Airport.
Records date back into [...]
The wild weather associated with a poweful storm tracking through the middle of the country Thursday evening is the result of a clash of seasons. The cold of winter made an early arrival on the west side of the storm, producing blizzard conditions in the Rockies. The remnants of summer’s warm and humid [...]
Strong low pressure over Utah has pushed the jet stream deep into the southwestern U.S., allowing unseasonably severe cold and snow to develop over the Rocky Mountains. Snowfall of up to 4 feet is forecast in the Colorado mountains west of Denver.
The same storm, however, is pumping unseasonably warm weather into the eastern U.S. The [...]
With temperatures stuck in the 40s again today, it looks like we’ll rewrite the October record book for the 4th straight day. Normal highs this time of year are in the mid to upper 60s, so a day with highs in the low to mid 40s is quite a bit cooler than normal…in fact, it’s [...]
So far the 2009 Hurricane Season has fallen far short of outlooks for activity in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Only six named storms have developed so far with two depressions. Back in May the outlook was for 14 named storms.
The season is not over and forecasters are monitoring developments in the Atlantic. Two weather systems [...]
An interesting map came to the weather office via Storm Center Communications.
The map below shows the various paths the “tsunami waves” followed as they moved away from the epicenter of the earthquake. Of interest is how much of the remnant “wave energy” is channeled toward the U.S. and Mexican coastline. Also note how the wave [...]
