Weather Service: no damage reported in Bering Sea storm - WARNING for L48

[Blue_In_AK]

http://www.adn.com/article/20141108/weather-service-no-damage-reported-bering-sea-Storm

The National Weather Service says there have been no reports of injuries or serious damage in the monster storm that smacked into the western Aleutians on Friday.

The worst part of the storm, forged from the remnants of Japan’s Typhoon Nuri, hit over the open water of the Bering Sea and the largely uninhabited islands of the far western Aleutians, where there is very little infrastructure. Hurricane-force winds of up to 96 mph pummeled the U.S. Air Force installation on the island of Shemya, where about 120 civilian contractors were in lockdown on Friday.

The winds battering Shemya peaked at 11:02 a.m. Friday, said Shaun Baines, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage. A high wind advisory for the region was lifted at 9 a.m. Saturday morning. A preliminary assessment of the Air Force installation, Eareckson Air Station, revealed only minor damage, said Tommie Baker, community relations chief with the Alaskan Command Public Affairs Office. The National Weather Service says there have been no reports of injuries or serious damage in the monster storm that smacked into the western Aleutians on Friday.

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From north to south, the storm stretched all the way from 68 north latitude to 40 north latitude -- a distance of nearly 2,000 miles.

In his 12 years in Alaska, Baines said, he’s never seen such a low central pressure, which packed more of a punch than 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. The Bering Sea storm’s pressure was recorded on a floating buoy and bottomed out at 929.8 millibars, just east of the low center.

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From what I've been reading, this storm is still going to bring on some unseasonably cold weather to the Midwest and East, as it is diverting the polar air down to you guys.

[Warpy]

1. Of course not, that stinker is still off Kamchatka

In another day or two, it'll be in a position to do damage.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. All the fishing boats and crabbers out there have given it a wide berth.

It's kind of hard to imagine being on a fishing boat with 50-foot seas.

Our forecasts are saying that it will lose strength as it gets closer to shore, and we shouldn't expect much over here in Anchorage except some rain or snow, but Lower 48 will probably get hit hard because of the polar vortex.

[malaise]

3. I heard one of the crabbers saying that anyone who was stupid enough

to stay out there would be killed.
Great news.

[Warpy]

4. I can't imagine anyone stupid enough to go out in that

Sometimes you need to hunker down indoors until it passes even when there isn't much to eat in the house.

I'm hoping it does bring waves of moisture onshore, California needs it desperately. NM isn't in bad shape so far, we had a decent monsoon season this year.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. This just popped up on my FB feed

Michio Kaku joins CBS This Morning to warn 250 million Americans that “we are in the bullseye” and by midweek, “all hell’s going to break loose” as America prepares to be pummeled by something sounding almost Biblical, ‘BomboGenesis’. Kaku warns that air, train and vehicle traffic could be paralyzed next week, and schedules disrupted: “A massive disruption that will peak around November 13th to November 15th” Kaku informs us, before telling us that we could feel the ‘ripple effects’ throughout November. Kaku also warns “the Earth is changing” and we need to get used to seeing more “violent swings.”

Maybe hyperbole, but I would certainly want to be prepared if I lived in an affected area.

[Bosonic]

6. The damage may be its knock on effects

Big freeze coming for millions

FARGO, N.D., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A blast of frigid Arctic air is about to give 200 million people a wake-up call that winter is coming.

The polar vortex — the coldest air in the Northern hemisphere which usually sits atop the globe — is about to become dislodged by what's left of Super Typhoon Nuri as it heads for Alaska, and sweep south, plunging great swathes of the US and Canada into the big chill.

"When a typhoon curves away from Asia it causes the jet stream farther to the east across the Pacific and into North America to buckle and amplify days later," pushing Arctic air into the lower 48, explained a meteorologist.

The cold will stretch from the Dakotas to Texas and the Interstate-95 corridor by the end of next week and could hang around until the middle of the month.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/11/07/Big-freeze-coming-for-millions/2241415406253/#ixzz3IWQ4wWEB

[Downwinder]

7. Read that it was going to bring you some warmer weather.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. Yes, it's supposed to be in the upper 30s here

with rain, possibly snow.

Lower 48 will take the brunt of this. It reminds me of last year when my friend in Baton Rouge couldn't believe it was warmer in Anchorage than it was down there.