..Irene lashing the Virginia Tidewater region and southern Delmarva
Peninsula with heavy rains and hurricane-force wind gusts...
summary of 900 PM EDT...0100 UTC...information
watches and warnings
the Hurricane Warning has been discontinued south of Cape Lookout
North Carolina.
Summary of watches and warnings in effect...
a Hurricane Warning is in effect for...
* Cape Lookout North Carolina northward to Sagamore Beach
Massachusetts...including the Pamlico...Albemarle...and Currituck
sounds...Delaware Bay...Chesapeake Bay south of Drum Point...New
York City...Long Island...Long Island Sound...coastal Connecticut
and Rhode Island...Block Island...Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket
a Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for...
* Chesapeake Bay from Drum Point northward and the tidal Potomac
* north of Sagamore Beach to Eastport Maine
* United States/Canada border northeastward to fort Lawrence
including Grand Manan
* South Coast of Nova Scotia from fort Lawrence to Porters Lake
interests elsewhere in eastern Canada should monitor the progress of
Irene.
For storm information specific to your area in the United
States...including possible inland watches and warnings...please
monitor products issued by your local National Weather Service
forecast office. For storm information specific to your area outside
the United States...please monitor products issued by your National
meteorological service.
Discussion and 48-hour outlook
Maximum sustained winds are near 80 mph...130 km/h...with higher
gusts. Irene is forecast to remain a hurricane as it moves near or
over the mid-Atlantic coast and approaches New England. The
hurricane is forecast to weaken after landfall in New England and
become a Post-tropical cyclone Sunday night or early Monday.
Irene is a large tropical cyclone. Hurricane-force winds extend
outward up to 85 miles...140 km...from the center...and
tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 290 miles...465 km.
A wind gust to 76 mph was recently reported at the Williamsburg-
Jamestown Virginia Airport. Tropical storm conditions will
gradually spread northward into northern portions of the Delmarva
Peninsula and southern New Jersey.
A storm surge height of about 5 feet has been observed at Oregon
Inlet North Carolina...and a storm surge height of about 4 feet
has occurred thus far at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The
preliminary water level at the Chesapeake Bay bridge Tunnel has
recently peaked near the record level that was established during
Hurricane Isabel in 2003.
Rainfall amounts of 10 to 14 inches have already occurred over a
large portion of eastern North Carolina and extreme southeastern
Virginia...with the highest amount of 14.00 inches reported at
Bunyan North Carolina thus far.
The estimated minimum central pressure is 951 mb...28.08 inches.
Hi FRiends! Thoughts with everyone tonight in the path of this thing, from here in Rita & Ike landfall country...hoping it continues to weaken.
My boyfriend & family are out in Howard Co MD (sort of by Columbia), hopefully most of this skirts on by them - but they have a chainsaw somewhere in case they need to cut themselves out of their neighborhood in the morning lol!
They haven’t had too much bad yet, some gusts & heavy rain, some blips but still have power. Guess worst will be there in a few hrs though.
Hope the Bay will be okay - they have a bit of family down in Cambridge on the water (though I think they may have got out.)
We have been shaking heads at the drunk nuts in VA Beach making cameos behind the weather guys on TWC, if they were smart they would quit drinking and go in, ditto all the ppl driving around there in the weather!
Everybody batten down the hatches and get the candles ready, may be a long night. Thinking of yall in TX.