Re: Hermine wrap up show
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Chris in Tampa on 9/5/2016, 9:21 pm
I didn't know Joe Bastardi thought this would be worse than Sandy. Yikes. I didn't think anyone, well a meteorologist at least, was comparing this to Sandy. It having been a hurricane and transitioning, being blocked from normally moving away, at least for a bit, sure, there are comparisons, but as for damage, no. I have other issues with him, but this was wrong. I don't see how anyone, models or not, could get Sandy from this. That's how you get people to stop trusting weather professionals. One does something like this and then somehow it ends up blame the NHC. The NHC has done pretty good with this storm, and already I've seen some meteorologists seeming to blame the NHC for a blown forecast in the northeast. (not talking about him) It was known that the movement off the NE would be complicated to forecast and because it moved a bit further east, there is already blame. It is actually bending back more westward tonight.
I just took a look at Bastardi's Twitter feed tonight. The storm is actually getting closer to the coast tonight, and he is trying to make himself right about that at least.
As for the cruise ship. I've seen screenshots supposedly from a channel on the ship that showed current info about the ship, such as speed, and had the high wind on there. It could be wrong, a malfunction, if real. But, these cruise ships are very tall, so I could see a gust at the top of the ship being 100mph in the open ocean. Not sustained. I don't know how tall the waves are. That person filming could have been pretty high up. Plus, maybe not filming during the worst conditions. I would not be outside during huge waves and would think twice about being next to a window for very long either. |
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