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NOAA says that the wind speed is 90 MPH.

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=harkers+island

http://www.wunderground.com/US/NC/Wilmington.html

Two thunderstorms in Mexico are taunting her.

Obama declares emergency for New York in anticipation of Irene

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has declared an emergency for New York state in anticipation of Hurricane Irene, which has New York City in its sights as it storms up the Eastern Seaboard.

The declaration means that the Homeland Security Department and the Federal Emergency Management Agency can coordinate disaster relief efforts. It also means the state can receive federal aid to supplement state and local emergency and cleanup assistance.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

The fifth law of climodumbnamics

What is the greenhouse effect?

The greenhouse effect is when the temperature rises because the sun’s heat and light is trapped in the earth’s atmosphere.  This is like when heat is trapped in a car. On a very hot day, the car gets hotter when it is out in the parking lot.  This is because the heat and light from the sun can get into the car, by going through the windows, but it can’t get back out.  This is what the greenhouse effect does to the earth.  The heat and light can get through the atmosphere, but it can’t get out.  As a result, the temperature rises.

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/global_warming.htm

Soon, the Earth will turn into a boiling cesspool of carbonic acid.

He is upset that people are going to the beach.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHy6S5u7M3w]

http://news.google.com/newspapers

That will be Romm’s lead story this weekend.

Every weather event now is a 100 year event or a 500 year event.

More than 200,000 New Yorkers are under orders to flee a once-in-a-century hurricane, but many in the famed City That Never Sleeps are brushing aside danger — and heading to the beach.

Hours after Mayor Mike Bloomberg ordered the evacuation from the low-lying Rockaway Beach, the sun-kissed coastline was packed with sunbathers and surfers as city dwellers took the dire warnings about Hurricane Irene in stride.

Roberto Luzuriaga, who was making a brisk business selling Italian Ice desserts to swimmers straight off the sand, echoed the views of many when he said that authorities’ warnings were at times self-serving.

“It definitely is a concern, but sometimes things are blown out of proportion. Sometimes the people who make the calls just want to save their asses,” said Luzuriaga, who is still debating whether to leave his nearby home.

http://news.yahoo.com/

New York has had five major hurricanes in the last century. Enough mindless alarmism, please.

I got this E-mail from Pat Michaels yesterday around lunchtime

As of mid-afternoon on Thursday, recon and satellite data indicate that Irene is currently in decline. I doubt it is a cat 3 any more but the Hurricane Center will keep it there, at least for now, for what they call “continuity”, given the fact that it could re-intensify tomorrow when it gets in the coastal bend of FL GA SC, a favorable region for that for a number of reasons.

The Infrared image is singularly UN-impressive this afternoon. Further, it looks like a dry slot is going to wind around the center (the eyewall is already pretty much opened up to the south), and that will reduce maximum winds. Whether or not it comes back will probably be known in 24 hours.

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