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POST TROPICAL STORM HERMINE STRENGTHENS AND BECOMES HURRICANE AGAIN September 3-?, 2016 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,

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1 POST TROPICAL STORM HERMINE STRENGTHENS AND BECOMES HURRICANE AGAIN September 3-?, 2016
Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA lecture by Walter Hays Uploading date: September 4, Updated September 5, 2016 More lectures at Disasters Supercourse -  PPT original - URL:

2 2016 ATLANTIC BASIN STORM TRACKS (Hermine inc. SEPT 4)

3 HERMINE BECAME HURRICANE AGAIN; SEPT. 3

4 SHORT HISTORY OF HEWRMINE; 8TH NAMED STORM OF 2016
HERMINE – TD 9 became Tropical storm Hermine on August 31; Hurricane HERMINE on Sept 1; Post Tropical storm on September 2, and Hurricane Hermine again after strengthening in the warm waters of the Atlantic.

5 HURRICANE GASTON (far right): HERMINE (TD 9--far left)

6 HERMINE MADE LANDFALL IN FLORIDA AND LEFT BEHIND A TRAIL OF POWER OUTAGES AS IT MOVED ALONG ATLANTIC COASTAL STATES

7 HERMINE’S FORECAST

8 SEPT. 3: ...HERMINE, NOW MOVING EAST-NORTHEASTWARD AS A POWERFUL POST-TROPICAL STORM HURRICANE IS DANGEROUS AGAIN, PUTTING MILLIONS AT RISK FROM STORM SURGE ALONG THE EAST COAST FROM VIRGINIA TO NEW JERSEY

9 SEPTEMBER 4: HERMINE, NOW MOVING A LITTLE MORE EASTWARD THAN EXPECTED, WHICH LESSENS THE RAINFALL THREAT TO NEW JERSEY

10 AND - - - If the easterly track holds up on Sunday, New Jersey will still face dangerously high seas and strong rip currents, tropical storm-force winds near the coast and a large storm surge that will likely cause coastal flooding.

11 SEPT 5: BAD NEWS Hermine is stalled in the Atlantic Ocean

12 SEPT. 5: STALLED

13 SEPT. 5: INCREASING POTENTIAL FOR A RAIN MAKER

14 THE FEAR: ANOTHER STORM LIKE HURRICANE SANDY

15 IF HERMINE REPEATS HURRICANE SANDY’S IMPACTS:

16 SANDY– A Super Hurricane; October 22
NAMED STORMS IN 2012 OSCAR – Tropical Storm; Oct. 4 PATTY – Tropical Storm; Oct. 11 RAFAEL – Hurricane; October 12 SANDY– A Super Hurricane; October 22 TONY – Tropical Storm; Oct. 24

17 SANDY: A $300 BILLION STORM; OCTOBER 24, 2012
Sandy, 2012’s ninth hurricane, became a huge storm with wind and rain bands reaching out 500 km or more from the storm center, producing cm of rain and flooding in Jamaica, Bermuda, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, New Jersey, and New York

18 CAT I HURRICANE SANDY: OCTOBER 24

19 SUPER STORM SANDY: OCT. 29-30, 2012

20 NEW JERSEY: ATLANTIC CITY UNDER WATER

21 NEW JERSEY: OCEAN FRONT FLOODING

22 NEW JERSEY: STREETS FLOODED

23 FLOODING IN BROOKLYN, NY

24 $360 MILLION STORM SURGE, NEW HAVEN, CT: OCT. 30

25 LIKELY NEXT STORM COR-RIDOR (Credit ACU Weather)


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