PENINSULA HURRICANES

WHY HURRICANES DON'T MAKE IT TO DELMARVA OFTEN

Early on Hurricane Florence looked a lot like she might make

it to the Delmarva beaches but forcasters anticipations fluttered out while she was still three days out. We have had some mighty close brushes with hurricanes but landfall is uncommon on this part of the east coast.

University of Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean and Environment,

has explained this has to due to the warmer water of the Gulf Stream

out of the Gulf of Mexico and as it approaches the cape of Hatteras area

veers off to follow the continental shelf going northwest . The storms will

folow that warm water.

What we get are the nor'easters , every year, maybe up to twelve

which are as damaging as hurricanes. These are the words of Arthur

Trembanis, a proffessor at UDEOE .

September 2003, Isabel, category 2, hit on North Carolina's Drum

Inlet, funneled winds and waves up the Chesapeake, also Floyd, another

category 2, reduced to a tropical storm, in 1999, brushed the Delmarva

and Jersey coast after landfall on Cape Fear.

In the northern hemisphere a storm carries the bad winds, waves

and great storm surge in its right hand quadrant. The hurricans bring along

lots of moisture that causes devistation even where the winds don't hit.

Camille in 1969, made landfalll on Mississippi coasts, killing 256

residents, many of the deaths of flooding in Virginia. 31 inches of rain

reported in Virginia.

The 2012 Sandy made landfall at Brigantine, New Jersey, but also

caused Cristfield, Maryland first responders proplems with high water

rescuses.

Abstract: 09/19/18 by HARRISON H., from; 09/19/18 Delaware

Coast Press, a Salisbury Daily Times article by Rose Velazquez,

through USA TODAY - Delmmamrva.

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