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Fed-up Reporter Gives Honest Weather Report

jtotheizzoe:

Here’s a website you’ll want to keep an eye on for the next few days: Visualizing America’s Wind Patterns.

I’ve always thought the live, animated wind maps there were beautiful, one of my favorite science visualizations. But Sandy’s swirling, massive footprint of stormy chaos (in that map view I just captured) is turning the whole eastern half of the country into “Starry Night”!

Whoa.

climateadaptation:

That blue band to the west is why this storm is so gnarly. The band is a combination of cold storms that will collide with a hot-weather Hurricane Sandy, thus the name “Frankenstorm.” Not to mention the very high-tides due to tomorrow’s full moon. These elements are why everyone is freaking out.

The band was a normal storm creeping across the U.S. from the Pacific Coast. But along the way it picked up a blast of wintery arctic air that swooped down from Canada. Sandy is pushing a lot of water towards the coastline, causing mega-damage to many properties. The tide is already high, making it worse.

Once it mashes into Hurricane Sandy over the coast, there will be mega-damage to many many properties. Frankenstorm indeed!

nevver:

Update, Sandy

Tornado touches down in Brooklyn and Queens. (The storm as seen on Flatbush Ave.) [via]

Last night’s super storm that ripped through NYC. [via]