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  • August 23, 2011 | 12:36 PM ET

    Eyes on Irene

    Hello everyone!

    It’s going to be a busy week/weekend in the Fox News Extreme Weather Center as all eyes are on Hurricane Irene making an extremely dangerous trek through the Bahamas, and quite possibly affecting the coastal areas from the Carolinas up into New England!

    Right now Hurricane Irene is  SE of Grand Turk Island moving west-northwest with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph, a CAT 2 storm.

    Irene will have a huge impact on the Bahamas and surrounding islands. They will start to feel hurricane force winds this afternoon and tonight. Some locations will see 5-10 inches of rain, and storm surge of 9-13 feet.

    Irene is expected to move NNW passing over the Bahamas by Thursday night…then start to curve North. The center of the storm is forecast to make a landfall around Wilmington NC Sat evening HOWEVER, this is still several days out and the average forecast error of the “cone” is over 200 miles. Just 24 hours ago we were thinking South Florida, so things can change. Im not ruling out a Midatlantic or even a Northeast/New England landfall either. There’s also a chance this storm could curve out to sea and not affect anyone. One of the reliable computer models skips the Carolinas and instead makes a bee-line for Coastal New England. We are watching several troughs move across the Northeast, and the timing of these will co-inside with the exact track of the storm.
    Given the current track of the storm, take a look at the widespread impacts we’re going to see from Irene this weekend:
    Obviously if you live anywere along the East coast from the Coastal Carolinas and New England, you need to pay close attention to the storm’s path, and make your plans accordingly.
    We’ll keep you posted!
    JD

    Janice Dean
    Meteorologist

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Frank Boni

Weatherman's sleeves rolled up? How contrived and unoriginal! I thought Fox News was innovative!

August 28, 2011 at 10:20 am

Larry Draffen

there's droughts in the heartland where crops are not growing and cattle dying and farmers losing thier lands and your reporting 24/7 on this baby storm thats barely a tropical storm at best~ its a crime that there are no real journalists left!! you clowns over sensationalize this bs story and ignore real tragedy!! its absolutely DISGUSTING!!

August 27, 2011 at 1:37 pm

mom-o-three

To all the Far North Coasters; current forecasts have Irene at a Cat 1 or lower by the time it reaches the Conn/New York area. Don't let the sensationalism of the news scare ya'll too bad. I have seen pictures and videos of some of ya'lls blizzards that were WAY worse! The biggest difference is the water is thawed this time. The best thing to remember is that ya won't have to dig your way out of the house the next day, and the sky will be completely cloudless.

August 25, 2011 at 8:31 pm

rtbusdrvr

Janice was just giving an overview with Harris and mentioned they had bought a generator. Please include a repeating warning for folks in the NE – Never, ever, Never start or run a generator inside the house. Never, ever, Never run a generator in the garage. Never, ever, Never point the generator’s exhaust towards the house. We in Fl go thru this more often than most and we always have cases of “experienced” people dying from CO2 and homeless due to house/apt fires. Stay safe.

August 25, 2011 at 3:49 pm

art

i hear its going to miss us in conn

August 24, 2011 at 3:40 pm

Margie Gacki

Hey Gwen, thanks for the chuckle! Indeed, everything is Bush's fault lately. I wonder what else they'll try to blame him for! We live in a society where no one wants to take responsibility for anything. They always try to find someone else to blame. Hey to everyone else out there. It's a beautiful sunny and cool 68 degrees in Cumberland. I work from 1-9 today so I'm taking it easy this morning. I do have to get my body in gear since I need to go to the bank before work. Take care, all! Margie

August 24, 2011 at 11:06 am
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DoninRichmond

Bush fault Line...VERY FUNNY Gwen

August 24, 2011 at 10:49 am

Gwen

Morning guys! Glad all are okay. One of my facebook friends posted "The current administration is blaming the DC area earthquake on a rare and obscure fault line known as 'Bush's Fault'...Conservatives however have proven that it's just the founding fathers rolling over in their graves." HA! I am trying to re-post on my facebook, but am having problems. Thought some of y'all might get a chuckle out of that. Don, good to know that you can still text in a crisis like this. TTFN! Gwen :)

August 24, 2011 at 10:30 am
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DoninRichmond

Learned something this morning on Fox radio I never knew or understand but worth sharing. When cell service is out as it was here you can still send text messages.

August 24, 2011 at 8:03 am

DoninRichmond

As of 5:00 am there have been seven quakes. Six so far are after shocks.

August 24, 2011 at 5:06 am

Margie Gacki

Hey Dawn, I'm sorry you're having such a rough year on the farm. Hopefully the hurricane will turn out to sea more than they think at this point. Or maybe it can wash away all the spammers on the blog! I hope everyone on the east coast keeps an eye on the hurricane and plans accordingly. Margie

August 23, 2011 at 9:55 pm

Libertarian89

Hopefully this storm will take out a lot of the northeast so they lose even more people and seats in Congress.

August 23, 2011 at 9:39 pm

wenchie

Earthquake:we at the farm didn't feel it (gotta be the bedrock) but many of our customers came in saying they did. Apparently anyone near the CT river felt it. (Im in the Hartford CT area)

August 23, 2011 at 9:03 pm

wenchie

Any significant amount of rain will devastate our already devastate tomato crop (last rains has Buckeye Rot everywhere)This time of year we normally pick 100-125 baskets of tomatoes per picking. We are lucky if we are getting 30. Irene may just kill off the rest of it. :(

August 23, 2011 at 9:01 pm
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Margie Gacki

Adam Weiss, this is a weather blog and not a place to advertise your business. We don't like spam here. To everyone else--I want to wish all the regular bloggers a good evening. Margie

August 23, 2011 at 8:58 pm

Margie Gacki

Hey Don, I'm glad you're ok. I had such a crazy day & I'm just getting a chance to check in. I was wondering how you were doing. I'm glad you're ok even if it did scare you! We felt the earthquake out here in Cumberland, although I did not feel it myself. It's really weird because others in the library did feel it. A gas station caught fire but they're not sure if it was related to the earthquake. What a crazy day! Margie

August 23, 2011 at 6:52 pm

SAL MAURO

This was my first time experiencing such a thing. I thought I was going dizzy for a minute. My Mom was sleeping in bed and woke up when the bed moved a bit. All OK here in Queens, NY. Watching the activity of Irene. I grew up in New England...take it from me, those storms can be a might fierce. Thanks for great coverage, Janet!

August 23, 2011 at 6:40 pm

A.J. De Young

Hmmm I wrote a while back but it didn't go through, any hew, just saying glad all of us are safe, just scared out their wits aka Don, guess Ca doesn't have the whole deal on earthquakes locked down...hope there are no aftershocks and hope the hurricane doesn't hit the east coast, what a week for JD..busy, busy, now if only rain and cooler temps could come to Texas. AJ

August 23, 2011 at 5:17 pm

doloresfromOK

Earthquake taking over for a few hours. All seems to be well. No major damsge or injuries.Thank God. My family in New York (upstate),felt very little.Phone calls went right through.Hopefully,some nut won't take advantage and try to do a terroist attack and blame it on the earthquake!!!!!

August 23, 2011 at 4:36 pm

DoninRichmond

The sidewalks at University of Va dropped 6"

August 23, 2011 at 3:38 pm

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