Thursday, June 06, 2013

Tropical Storm Warning Issued for Virginia and North Carolina


While the Republicans at both the state and national level continue to deny that climate change is happening at all, six days into the 2013 hurricane season and here in Hampton Roads we already have our first bout with tropical storm weather about to move in.  And that's not even mentioning the growing number and intensity of tornado in the Mid-West.  Thankfully, it looks like this first round locally will be minimal.  Nonetheless, I'm glad the boyfriend and I installed a whole house generator and three large industrial sump pumps last summer.  Here's the forecast locally:

A tropical storm warning has been issued for Hampton Roads and northeastern North Carolina as Andrea heads northeast this morning.

At 5 a.m., the storm was packing winds of 60 mph and was located about 800 miles southwest of Norfolk, according to the warning from the National Hurricane Center. It was moving north-northeast at about 13 mph.

The warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected within the next 36 hours, although we could see just the remnants of the storm on Friday

 Welcome to summer on the Virginia coast!



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