The top photo was created and bottom photo taken Nov. Geological Survey showing Fire Island and Ocean Beach, N.Y. Photo credit above: “ These photos provided by the U.S. So when the lights go out in New York - or on the storm-savaged Jersey Shore or in tornado-hit Missouri or wherever - the orders come pouring in like a tidal surge…” This Milwaukee suburb, once known for its curative spring waters and, more recently, for being a Republican stronghold in a state that President Obama won on Election Day, happens to be the home of one of the largest makers of residential generators in the country. And, lately, there have been a lot of disasters. But the fact is, disasters are good business in Waukesha. They didn’t pray for Hurricane Sandy to come grinding up the East Coast, tearing lives apart and plunging millions into darkness. Here’s an excerpt from The New York Times: “ FOLKS here don’t wish disaster on their fellow Americans. Forget jewelry and clothing – people want some assurance the power will stay on the next time a wild storm strikes. The hottest gift for the holidays out east? Emergency generators.
Hurricane Sandy And The Disaster Preparedness Economy. $50 billion in estimated damage in the New York City area alone from Sandy. Yet another Nor’easter may cause (relatively minor) coastal flooding along the east coast next week. The biggest, sloppiest storms continue to detour well south/east of Minnesota and Wisconsin. No big storms brewing here into Thanksgiving, the way the maps are setting up. Monday’s icy coating of snow melts today highs in the 40s this week – near 50 (above!) next week. Moral of the story: never let your guard down – when skies turn threatening head for the basement, even in November. With our expanding autumns maybe we shouldn’t be too surprised. What happened? The greater the contrast in temperature the stronger the winds have to blow and there was just enough wind shear aloft to spin up small, brief, 75-80 mph tornadoes SPC had parts of southern Minnesota in a slight risk, but there were no watches or warnings in effect when severe storms spun up these small, brief tornadoes. November twisters are exceedingly rare with Saturday’s outbreak there have been only 4 tornadoes in November in modern-day records. I just got back from a two week Panama Canal cruise with my wife and 82 year old dad – studying tropical weather – and the buffet table.Ħ9 F on Saturday, followed by 20s Sunday and a howling wind of Siberian origin? This extreme cold front whipped up a few small EF-0 tornadoes Saturday night near Burnsville & Eagan. I may be showing up on Doppler the next few weeks. Details here.Ĥ tornadoes reported in Minnesota during the month of November (2 of them were Saturday night). November 16, 1931: latest tornado ever observed in Minnesota, east of Maple Plains.
As of yesterday 31.5% of the USA had some snow on the ground, according to NOAA, up from 2.1% on October 12, 2012. It’s something you should do once in your life, if possible. PS: I highly recommend seeing The Big Ditch. My thanks to meteorologist Todd Nelson for filling in while I was gone. With frequent visits to the buffet line I fear I may be showing up on Doppler for some time to come. I think I spent $500 on satellite internet WIFI to keep tabs on Sandy and last week’s Nor’easter for our corporate clients – talk about lousy timing. My goal is to be able to look back and not have serious regrets (“could have, should have, would have.”). It was a once in a lifetime experience, and I wanted to do it now, with my father in relatively good health. It’s something we’ve been talking about for a few years, and so we took the plunge and reserved the 14 day cruise on Princess, leaving from L.A., stopping in Cabo, Nicaragua and Costa Rica before pushing thru the canal on Election Day (which took about 7 hours).
I just got home from a 2 week Panama Canal cruise with my 82 year old father, my wife and some good friends.
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