Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n
Irene certainly made some news the last couple of days.\u00a0 I think the one thing that lacked in forecasting Irene was its\u00a0intensity.\u00a0 In my thinking, I thought she would be a category 4 by the time it hit eastern North Carolina.\u00a0 But several issues developed with the system that prevented it from doing so.\u00a0 The biggest concern with Irene was the type of track she was going to take, which was right up along the coast.\u00a0 If she were able to fully strengthen, the amount of damage we could have seen from the wind could have been far worse than what was observed.\u00a0 So, the good news that she did not get too strong.\u00a0 I don’t think anyone is complaining\u00a0about why she didn’t strengthen so much.\u00a0 Still,\u00a0she was a large hurricane that impacted many from North Carolina to Maine.\u00a0\u00a0I still think we will eventually have a\u00a0major hurricane that some day will hit the Carolinas and then impact points further\u00a0north.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As far as the preparations for Irene, I thought the evacuations that were conducted\u00a0in North Carolina, Virginia, Marlyand, Delaware,\u00a0New Jersey and New York City was excellent.\u00a0 I\u00a0thought Emergency Management, along with State and Federal did an excellent job in gettings to move out\u00a0of harms way.\u00a0 Although some folks\u00a0stayed behind, luckily the storm didn’t cost their lives.\u00a0 You can’t force\u00a0folks to leave, so you can only\u00a0do so much. Its really up to that person to make that decision.\u00a0 Hopefully, their decision is one to head out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, thats a brief overview of Irene.\u00a0I’ll pass along\u00a0any post-mortum discussions on Irene from NOAA in the weeks..\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now as we head onto into the future, whats\u00a0ahead for the tropics? Right now, there are no tropical threats for this upcoming week.\u00a0 The European and the GFS model do show a new system that maybe a hurricane in the coming days and track across the Atlantic.\u00a0 But the system is so far east near Africa, that chances are it could recurve by the time it nears the US.\u00a0 Still, its too far to say\u00a0 that maybe the case.\u00a0 The one thing we do have to watch is what will the pattern be as we go into September.\u00a0 Plus what does it favor interms of whether more landfalling tropical systems we may have.\u00a0 Time will tell, but for now, things will be on the quiet side.\u00a0 I think we all could use some down time for now.<\/p>\n
As for the audio videos I tried to put together.\u00a0 Due to several issues, they will not be posted.\u00a0 In the coming weeks, I plan to launch a new webcast video series that will focus on forecasting hazardous weather for the next two weeks.\u00a0\u00a0Stay tune for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For now, have a great week.\u00a0 Definitely enjoy the final week of Summer, but we still have till September 20th..<\/p>\n
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Hi Everyone, Irene certainly made some news the last couple of days.\u00a0 I think the one thing that lacked in forecasting Irene was its\u00a0intensity.\u00a0 In my thinking, I thought she would be a category 4 by the time it hit eastern North Carolina.\u00a0 But several issues developed with the system that prevented it from doing … <\/p>\n