On Weather & Climate Through the Eyes of Mark Vogan
MARK VOGAN EXPECTS HURRICANE EARL TO RIDE ALONG THE BEACHES OF THE OUTER BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Going by the vast number of varying ideas on the impact Hurricane Earl may have on the US East Coast, I believe it's simple. An impact of hurricane intensity WILL effect the Outer Banks and very likely the Cape Cod area of Massachussetts. I believe that Earl's eyewall may come ashore and ride those barrier islands northwards producing 120-mph winds and higher gusts as well as bringing shore 20 to 3o foot waves as well as 6-12 inches of rain. This may not have quite as much of an impact in terms of flooding like we saw with Isabel back in 2003 but this system I do see coming ashore, but only just and unfortunately those winds within the eyewall may produce serious damage to beach homes, roadways etc
The slight coming ashore would make for an official landfall of course and likely as a category 3 storm. The system is relatively small, will produce a smaller core of heaviest rainfall, wind etc but of course the system over the final 24 hours prior to landfall may spread out as is often the case, spreading out, the uniform 2-4 inch rains over a region from New Jersey, into eastern PA and up into central and eastern New England as the system tracks off to the north and east along the coast.
Drier air from the continent almost always get wrapped into th center of an incoming hurricane, therefore we may see a weakening to a minimal cat 3 storm, however there are also instances of intensification and unfortunately it really could go either way in this case.
I shall provide you with more tomorrow, stay right here!
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Mumbai Rainfall Record within Reach
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Residents volunteer to monitor the water-logged areas in a boat as it rains heavily in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
Rainfall in Mumbai, India, has soared well beyond the 100-inch mark and could reach the all-time record yearly amount before the end of seasonal rains in late September.
As of the end of August, rainfall for June, July and August rose to 121.3 inches at the Mumbai Santa Cruz airport, following several days of cloudburst.
Normal rainfall for the whole year is 96.9 inches, nearly all of which falls during the rainy summer monsoon between the start of June and the end of September.
Colaba, another Mumbai climatological site and one predating the Santa Cruz airport, has had 118.6 inches of rain for the year (and for all intents and purposes, the season) compared to a normal yearly rainfall of 75.6 inches.
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What's Reaching Today's Blogs?
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Earl Will Scrape from Cape to Cape
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Mumbai Rainfall Rises Still Higher
Jim Andrews, International Expert, AccuWeather
Today's Extremes here at my house
High: 67 degrees
Low: 43 degrees
Thanks for reading.
-Mark
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