2006 Hurricane season

 High water mark Wickford village, RI

 

Up here in Rhode Island we have been having a really cool may for some reason, I don’t know why, but I do know what the meteorologists are saying; that because of these unusually conditions with the unusually warm Aprial and unusually cool May the conditions are similar to those which produced a very damaging hurricane back in September of 1938.  In addition, they are saying the waters in the North Atlantic are very warm, and warm waters contribute to hurricane growth is a 7 percent chance of a hurricane making landfall somewhere between New York City and the southern suburbs of Boston this year, according to meteorologists at Colorado State University, and although that is not extremely high it is still worth taking into consideration.  “The Northeast is staring down the barrel of a gun,” said Joe Bastardi, Chief Forecaster of the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center. According to accuweather.com “The Northeast coast is long overdue for a powerful hurricane, and with the weather patterns and hydrology we’re seeing in the oceans, the likelihood of a major hurricane making landfall in the Northeast is not a question of if but when.” With the La Nada conditions in the Pacific, as some forecasters jokingly call it the calm conditions of neither El Nino (unusually warm waters) or La Nina (unusually cold waters), there is likely to be more power or unusually activity in the Atlantic ocean, because there always has to be some crazy weather going on right?  If it is not in the Pacific then where-else, but the Atlantic. 

 

This however could spell disater for the East Coast, especially if it does come up and hit New York City; they are much more densely populated now, as is the whole East Coast.  Everyone of course seems to want to live on the water or as close to the water as possible, which will make evacuation coastal areas very difficult.  Then when we consider just how destructive the 1938 hurricane was we can see the potential for lot of damage on the East Coast if we do get hit. The 1938 hurricane killed 700 people and destroyed 63,000 homes throughout New England, just imagine what kind of damage a hurricane like that would do today.

Waves striking a seawall,

1938 (NWS Historic Collection)

 

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