Well, as nice as good as the weather’s been the last two days, there’s a forecast that you need to be aware of for the coming weekend. Hurricane Irene, currently harassing Haiti and the Dominican Republic looks to be headed for landfall the middle of the weekend in North Carolina. NOAA suspects it may well be a major hurricane when it hits land, and that by the time it reaches the Chesapeake it would still be at hurricane strength.
To some forecasters, this storm is reminiscent of Hurricane Floyd, which dropped 14″ of rain on the DC area in 1998, left 500,000 without power thanks to its 70mph winds. Be on the lookout, DC, this one might be the first big storm since Isabel hit DC in 2003.
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Don’t mean to diminish Floyd’s impacts for the region, but this graphic does not indicate 14 inches of rain on the DC area.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Floyd1999_accumulations_bilingual.gif
If I am looking at it right.
NOVA 1-3
DC to 20 miles to the east 5
There to the Bay 7
Western Half of Delmarva 10
Eastern NC got 14 and more.
I’m hopeful that NBC 4’s Tom Kierien will jump in here and explain, he’s the one who made the comment… But you’re right that rain load does look a lot less…
Sometimes the media, when talking about rainfall or snowfall, or the effects of weather, will broaden what we usually consider the DC region or our area.
I usually don’t say anything but this I remember how bad NC got it with Floyd, and how lucky we were here, in relative terms.
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