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Anne Royal says:

August 27, 2011 at 8:59 pm

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]

http://www.wunderground.com/

http://www.weatherstreet.com/irene-wind-forecast.htm

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Danielle_(1980)

Christie and Bloomberg have made fools out of themselves by listening to alarmists.

Maybe not. FSU has a very different forecast for hurricane force winds

https://realclimatescience.com/

OLR as the storm passes New York.

NOAA achieves category five status for unsupportable alarmism.

http://www.visitob.com/outer_banks/trip/outer_banks_webcams.htm#

Complete bull excrement

http://news.google.com/

[Update : NOAA has lowered their initial estimate of wind speed due to a “sharp discrepancy” between airplane and surface data. http://weather.herald.com/]

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NOAA claims the winds are 85 MPH, but none of the Weather Underground stations in the area report higher than 33 MPH winds. By definition, this is not a hurricane – and is just barely a tropical storm.

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SUMMARY OF 800 AM EDT…1200 UTC…INFORMATION
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LOCATION…34.7N 76.5W
ABOUT 5 MI…10 KM NNE OF CAPE LOOKOUT NORTH CAROLINA
ABOUT 60 MI…100 KM SW OF CAPE HATTERAS NORTH CAROLINA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…85 MPH…140 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NNE OR 15 DEGREES AT 14 MPH…22 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…952 MB…28.11 INCHES

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http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/

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It seems very unlikely that there will be sustained hurricane force winds recorded at any of the weather stations along the North Carolina coast.