Tag Archives: weather

FDR Drive: Before & After

The top photo was taken around 8pm last night. I took the bottom photo at 11:15am today.

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Live Superstorm Coverage

If your power or cable (or both) is still out, the Weather Channel is continuing to stream live storm coverage on their YouTube channel.

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Quote Of The Day – Bill McKibben

“New York is the city I love best, and I’m trying to imagine it from a distance tonight. The lurid, flash-lit instagram images of floating cars in Alphabet City or water pouring out of the East River into Dumbo, the reports of bridges to the Howard Beach submerging and facades falling off apartment houses – it all stings. It’s as …

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Live Wind Speed Map

I don’t know how accurate this is, but it’s interesting to look at. (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

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Tonight In Manhattan

Gothamist reports: There are multiple reports of flooding across the city due to the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy that is now upon the city. There have been reports of people trapped and cars floating in the middle of the streets. We’ve also received reports that many subway lines throughout the city have been flooded as well. The city has …

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Tweet Of The Day

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Hi-Rise Crane Snaps In Manhattan

A crane has apparently snapped on the under-construction One57 building, which when completed at 90 stories will be the western hemisphere’s tallest residential skyscraper. Sometime this afternoon, the boom of a crane atop One57 snapped back and now hangs precariously from the cab of the crane. So far nothing has fallen from the structure. “Can’t talk now but we don’t …

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Frankenstorm Coverage Live-Stream

For those West Coasters who don’t have today off, the Weather Channel is live-streaming their hurricane coverage on their YouTube channel. (During the commercials you’ll just see a map.)

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Hurricane Sandy Becomes The Largest Atlantic Storm In Recorded History

Bloomberg News has the update: Hurricane Sandy has become the largest tropical system recorded in the Atlantic as it makes the transition to a superstorm that threatens to push a wall of water ashore in the Northeast and smash the eastern U.S. with wind, rain and snow.  Drenching rains are soaking the mid-Atlantic states, 3 feet of snow may fall …

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HMS Bounty Sinks Off North Carolina

The replica tall ship HMS Bounty, which was built for the 1962 movie Mutiny On The Bounty, has sunk off the coast of North Carolina. Rescuers fear that two passengers have drowned. The Coast Guard is searching for two people off the coast of North Carolina who had been passengers aboard the tall ship HMS Bounty, which lost power in …

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New York City Live Cams

Storm junkies might enjoy the New York City Harborcam.  The cargo ships and tankers left yesterday for who-knows-where it might be safer. Upriver?  The top shot is from Times Square, where tourists are milling about with nowhere to go.  You can also drop in at SandyCam 24/7 for more live shots of the airports and highways.

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Seawall Breached In Lower Manhattan

Hurricane Sandy is still about 12 hours away and already the seawall has been breached in lower Manhattan. CNN’s reporter described the water rise as a “slow creep” with little wave action yet.

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Monster Waves Pound New Jersey

And the wind is really picking up here in NYC.

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Bloomberg Orders Mandatory Evacuation

Mayor Bloomberg has just ordered the mandatory evacuation of the lowest-lying areas of New York City.   Residents of Zone A are to immediately begin making plans to leave their homes. Zone A covers much of downtown Manhattan and the blocks bordering the Hudson and East rivers.   Hospitals in the affected areas will be moving their patients to other facilities …

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Saturday Frankenstorm Tracking

Here’s the latest on the Frankenstorm: Forecast models show Sandy will have all the ingredients to morph into a so-called “super storm”, stirring memories of the 1993 ‘Storm of the Century’, whose impact in the United States was particularly destructive. Governors in states along the U.S. East Coast declared emergencies on Friday, with officials urging residents to stock up on …

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Frankenstorm Tracking

At the moment Hurricane Sandy appears destined for landfall at the southern tip of New Jersey around 2am on Tuesday. Hurricane Sandy will probably grow into a “Frankenstorm” that may become the worst to hit the U.S. Northeast in 100 years if current forecasts are correct. Sandy may combine with a second storm coming out of the Midwest to create …

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Frankenstorm!

Just in from the Associated Press: An unusual nasty mix of a hurricane and a winter storm that forecasters are now calling “Frankenstorm” is likely to blast most of the East Coast next week, focusing the worst of its weather mayhem around New York City and New Jersey. Government forecasters on Thursday upped the odds of a major weather mess, …

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Hurricane Sandy

Details.

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Weather Channel Names Winter Storms

The Weather Channel announces: During the upcoming 2012-13 winter season The Weather Channel will name noteworthy winter storms. Our goal is to better communicate the threat and the timing of the significant impacts that accompany these events. The fact is, a storm with a name is easier to follow, which will mean fewer surprises and more preparation. In addition to …

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Fallen

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