Frankenstorm Sandy

Here are various links and pictures from the megastorm Sandy.  We hope you are safe...  

In any case, here's a quick update on "Frankenstorm" Sandy.  The megastorm swept up along the entire US eastern seaboard and it's huge radius impacted everywhere from North Carolina to Maine -- eventually making landfall near Atlantic City, NJ and crossing almost directly over Philadelphia.  Almost 10 million are without power -- and many without water.  

The storm has really been a crazy one.  In addition to the heavy winds, rain, and flooding, a combination of storms and arctic winds from the north and west -- have also dumped up to a few feet of snow in areas as widespread as W. Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Pittsburgh (and sleet in Virginia)...  Many major roads in the area are closed.      

Here's a scary video of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel getting flooded.  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50134146n&tag=api

Dr. Jeff Masters has some of the best information on hurricanes on his blog:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2281

Additional pictures:

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/at201218.asp

Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2012/10/29/millions-across-east-coast-brace-for-uperstorm-sandy/

NYC Pictures (Pics of subway floods; power outage)
http://www.policymic.com/articles/17532/hurricane-sandy-path-live-hurricane-tracker-and-damage-report-on-nyc-power-outages

Other Photos:
http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/hurricane-sandy-pictures-photos2-20121025

Hurricane Season

Hurricane season is getting underway -- and Wunderground.com has some good coverage and easily clickable (findable) computer models for tracking various storms.  Currently, we are keeping an eye on Isaac, which has the possibility of hitting Florida or the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201209_model_intensity.html?MR=1

Hurricane info

One of our contributing blogs posted links with hurricane info.  We thought we would add a few links:

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Observation.aspx?location=USNY0996 (Past Weather Observations)

http://gis.nyc.gov/oem/he/index.htm (NYC Evacuation Zone -- enter your address)

http://abcnews.go.com/US/hurricanes/page?id=14381208 (NYC Hurricane Evacuation map)

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/27/live-blog-irenes-heavy-rains-strong-winds-lash-n-c-coast/ CNN live blog

From z-techie blog:
http://z-techie.blogspot.com/2011/08/tracking-hurricanes.html

With Hurricane Irene bearing down on the east coast of the US, here are some links we are keeping an eye on -- to track the predicted path of the hurricane. 
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?5day?large#contents 

http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/hurricanes/latest-news-map.html

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/