Hurricane Igor

Hurricane Igor 9-13-2010

AT 1100 AM AST...1500 UTC...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE IGOR WAS LOCATED
NEAR LATITUDE 17.5 NORTH...LONGITUDE 49.7 WEST. IGOR IS MOVING
TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 10 MPH...17 KM/HR. A TURN TOWARD THE
WEST-NORTHWEST IS EXPECTED TONIGHT OR TUESDAY.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS REMAIN NEAR 150 MPH...240 KM/HR...WITH
HIGHER GUSTS. IGOR IS A CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE ON THE
SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE WIND SCALE. SOME FLUCTUATIONS IN INTENSITY
ARE LIKELY DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS...AND IGOR IS EXPECTED TO
REMAIN A POWERFUL HURRICANE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 45 MILES...75 KM...FROM
THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 175
MILES...280 KM.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 933 MB...27.55 INCHES.

Hurricane Hazel

Hurricane Hazel (1954) - Morehead/Beaufort  causeway

Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed as many as 1,000 people in Haiti before striking the United States near the border between North and South Carolina, as a Category 4 hurricane. After causing 95 fatalities in the US, Hazel struck Canada as an extratropical storm, raising the death toll by 81 people, mostly in Toronto. As a result of its damaging effects and high death toll, its name was retired and will never again be used for a hurricane in the North Atlantic basin.

Hurricane Isabel (Hatteras Inlet to Avon)

These images are a few of the results of a collaboration between the North Carolina Geodetic Survey and NASA.  A survey of damage inflicted by Hurricane Isabel on the coast of North Caroline on September, 2003. The images were taken by a NASA high altitude recognizances aircraft on 09/23/2003 (my birthday)  Note the overwash of the island in several places.  

Hurricane Earl

HURRICANE EARL LOCAL STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC

235 PM EDT THU SEP 2 2010

...DANGEROUS AND LARGE CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE EARL CONTINUES TO POSE

A THREAT TO EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...

Fractals

Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Tsunami

Tsunami Detail

Tsunami Detail