Hurricane Irene
Hi everyone! I apoligize to all of you for not being very consistent with my blog lately. I believe last time I wrote a weather update was back in March!!! Yikes! However, alot has happen and I just have not had time to write anything. I will give you a full explanation very soon and update you on all that has occurred over the past months. For right now, I would like to focus on Hurricane Irene.
Hurricane Irene finally moved onshore near Cape Lookout between 7:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. EDT with sustained winds of 85 mph. It has weakened from its previous category and is now a Category 1 hurricane according to the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale. Even now at this current hour,however, it still remains a rather large tropical cyclone with a wind field spanning 260 miles outward from the center of the storm. It is still moving in a NNE direction at 14mph and is about 438 miles from New York City.
Possible tornado damage has already been reported across Eastern North Carolina from embedded storms in the Irene's rain-bands. I got up to watch the weather channel this morning and you can tell that the winds were very strong due to shingles being ripped apart off from homes and buildings. According to msn.com, around 200,000 customers throughout coastal North Carolina were without power now. Let's continue to pray that lives will be safe and minimal damages occur. More information to come later.
Check out these images:
Hurricane Irene is very impressive looking. Check out the structure and formation. A very well-define hurricane!
Look at all the warnings and watches the East coast has currently. From a tropical storm watch to a flash flood watch
Check out the bottom two images. Both were taken at 9:40a.m. The one on top is an visible image while the bottom one is an infrared.
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