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Recap: Special AMS Town Hall on Superstorm Sandy

The session was very well attended and went about 30 minutes over... among the first formal discussions of Sandy by meteorologists. Description of panelists: http://bit.ly/106DWGT

  1. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Dr. Louis Uccellini is stepping up to the mic now, first speaker. Director of NCEP. 1.usa.gov/ZiZLgd #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:31:10
  2. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Uccellini on forecast accuracy: "It's amazing compared to where we were just 10 to 15 years ago" #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:35:08
  3. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Uccellini: "TS force winds from the coast all the way to Lake Michigan" in #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:32:40
  4. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Uccellini: "This was the first time that blizzard warnings were put out during a hurricane" in West Virginia. #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:35:35
  5. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Uccellini: Storm accelerated twd NJ coast "we underestimated that by about 6 hrs." Diff btw low tide and high tide landfall. #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:42:35
  6. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Uccellini: This is the first time we launched 4 weather balloons per day across all USA for any reason. Helped fcsts alot. #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:44:49
  7. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Uccellini: A lot of work needs to be done in surge forecasting for NYC area. We underestimated by 3 feet. #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:45:59
  8. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Uccellini: "We feel very strongy that the forecasts saved lives." #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:47:51
  9. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Uccellini... when I was a student, it took two years to get to this point of analysis. Amazing how far we've come. #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 18:48:27
  10. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Next up, director of the National Hurricane Center, Dr. Rick Knabb. #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:48:40
  11. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: "It's not every day we have a storm like this." #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:49:50
  12. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: "We are still doing the post-storm analysis of this", but we don't see any evidence to say #Sandy was hurricane at landfall. #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:53:34
  13. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: "We knew this was going to be a likely unique forecast and warning situation" #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:56:35
  14. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: "We wanted to issue the most attention-getting warning, and one that would remain consistent all the way to landfall" #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 18:00:10
  15. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: Switching between tropical and non-tropical warnings was not an option, per advice of EM's and public officials. #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 17:57:49
  16. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: "Intentionally misprepresenting #Sandy as a hurricane would have severely damaged credibility of NWS for years to come" #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 18:01:46
  17. DDwx
    Daniel Dix@DDwx
    RT @WxComm: Knabb: "The meteorology drove ..decision operationally." #AMS2013 We need to have impacts drive process along side meteorology.
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 18:09:47
  18. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: We were afraid our warning systems would "break" if we issued Hurr warnings for #Sandy when it wasn't a hurr. #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 18:04:01
  19. WxComm
    Gina Eosco@WxComm
    Although I respect NHCs decision, we need to communicate to save lives not maintain policy. Just my $.02. Give NWS/NHC flexibility #AMS2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 18:00:04
  20. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: We focued on storm surge. "We knew that would be a huge deal." #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 18:04:38
  21. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: "We were on the phone with New York City OEM all night" on Saturday evening. #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 18:07:35
  22. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: My briefings to the president continued from Thursday to Wed after landfall. #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 18:07:12
  23. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: "Deadliest northeast US cyclone since Agnes 1973" #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 18:11:03
  24. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: We have a new proposal for future post-tropical cyclones: allow NHC to issue hurricane warnings for systems like #Sandy. #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 18:05:51
  25. WSJweather
    Eric Holthaus@WSJweather
    Knabb: We are working on storm surge warnings for 2015. This will be a new product by NHC. #Sandy #ams2013
    Mon, Jan 07 2013 18:11:41

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