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HURRICANE IRENE INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 30ANWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL 092011 700 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 2011RENE IS A LARGE TROPICAL CYCLONE. HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 85 MILES…140 KM…FROM THE CENTER
The highest I see within 80 miles (red circle) is 45 MPH
The Cedar Island Ferry Terminal measured sustained winds of 90 mph, gusting to 110 mph at 7:19am, and a trained spotter on Atlantic Beach measured sustained winds of 85 mph, gusting to 101 mph at 10:35 am. The Hurricane Hunters measured 80 mph winds over water at the time of landfall. Winds at the Cape Lookout, North Carolina buoy, which the eye passed directly over, peaked at 67 mph as Irene made landfall.
Dixxy says:
I am in Wilmington. This was NOT a big storm
Joe Bastardi says:
There are winds gusting to near 120 mph. The storm may destroy every boardwalk up the coast. Please, you are doing a disservice to our side of the debate by downplaying this. ITS A 951 MB LAND FALL… 6th strongest on record in NC.
This is not a fight you should be fighting with these people. Lets not resort to the tactics they have ( warmingistas) by twisting examples. The exposure of some of the ob sites is leading to some of the reports, but other areas are getting hammered in the way this should 951 mb is similar to the pressure of IKE which was ridiculed before hand cause it was downgraded to 2
I beg of you guys. Make fun of me after if this is not a 5-10 billion dollar storm , but wait till the game is over because we are setting ourselves up for problems if we find the boardwalks destroyed and people without power for a week like I think.
LETS FIGHT THEM WITH TRUTH on the facts .. Hurricanes are not caused by global warming, but lets fight them on the merits of the issue, not with examples, whether I am right on how this turns out or not!
LESS THAN FLOYD OR FRAN
An agent for State Farm, the country’s largest property insurer, said he was surprised at the intensity of the wind and the duration of the storm, but he added that Irene so far seemed to have done less damage than 1996’s Hurricane Fran or 1999’s Floyd.
“There’s a lot of trees down, a lot of power outages, a lot of shingles missing but I didn’t see any huge structural damage as we saw in Fran,” said David Hull, whose Jacksonville, North Carolina home had already been without power for 14 hours. He said utility company crews were already out in his neighborhood assessing damage.
Anne Royal says:
I live one hour west of Wilmington, NC. I checked weatherunderground.com which said the winds in my city were 4 mph with gusts of 12 mph. All this while I watched the pine trees in back of the house practically bent over to the ground and shingles next door snapping off. I kept thinking, “If this is 4 mph, I surely don’t want to see 40 mph! Perhaps weatherunderground was having technical difficulties today.
During the last half hour, Weather Underground has removed the station data from their Wundermaps.
[update : looks like it is just running dead slow now]
Tropical storms can be very dangerous.
Danielle produced heavy rainfall across eastern and central Texas and much of southern Louisiana. A record 17.16 inches (436 mm) of rain was reported near Port Arthur, setting a new 24 hour record.[1] The heavy rainfall resulted in moderate flash flooding and two fatalities Damage estimates from the storm is unknown.
