This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, 1:45 a.m. EDT shows a large swirl of clouds associated with Extratropical Hurricane Noel as it moves parallel to the eastern seaboard. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
November 3, 2007
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UNYSIS Water Vapor Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
That is an enormous vortex. Here again there are three. One off the northwest coast of the USA, the one named "Noel" and the thrid in the middle of the Atlantic. Just imagine if the entire length of Noel were compacted into one small storm with an eye. We would be looking at a far more dangerous storm. Noel is like a Cat 4 spread out over thousands of miles. The Carribean Sea is looks as though it is reorganizing as Noel moves to the Arctic Circle.
Remnants of Atlantic Storm Drench Haiti (click here)
By JONATHAN M. KATZ – 21 hours ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.N. helicopters were waiting out driving rain that lashed Haiti on Friday before they could assess flood damage from Tropical Storm Noel, which killed at least 48 here and left thousands homeless.
The new showers from Noel's outer bands raised fears of further deaths in a country prone to catastrophic flooding. In the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, the rains largely let up, allowing flights carrying urgently needed relief supplies.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic confirmed 82 deaths and said at least 62,000 were left homeless by the storm.
U.S. Southern Command officials said Friday they would send rescue teams to Dominican Republic over the weekend. Two helicopters from the U.S. Coast Guard have already been deployed. The United States has contributed more than $1 million in aid.
The storm grew into Hurricane Noel as it passed Thursday over the Bahamas, where flooding killed one man and forced the evacuation of nearly 400 people. The storm then shifted north over the ocean and headed parallel to the U.S. Atlantic coast toward Nova Scotia.
Noel is the deadliest storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, with at least 132 dead...
Noel Loses Steam, Tropical Storm Status, Bears Down on Cape Cod (click here)
By Kelly Riddell
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Noel, the deadliest storm of the year, weakened to an extra-tropical storm as it steamed up the U.S. East Coast toward Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Noel will make landfall late today or tomorrow morning just east of Maine. By late afternoon, Noel will come close to Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
``Cape Cod and the islands are going to bear the brunt of this storm,'' Charles Foley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said in an interview from Taunton, Massachusetts. ``We're going to get 70 mph (113 kilometers per hour) wind gusts, heavy downpours and coastal flooding. Some streets will be washed away and there'll be clogged drains because of the leaves. Power outages could be likely.''
Foley expects the storm to start affecting the Boston metropolitan area as well as Cape Cod as early as noon and to remain over the area until late tonight....
Noel rolls into Atlantic Canada (click here)
MELANIE PATTEN
CANADIAN PRESS
November 3, 2007 at 7:52 PM EDT
HALIFAX — Hundreds of people in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were without power and dozens of flights in and out of Halifax were cancelled Saturday night as post-tropical storm Noel rolled into the Maritimes, promising to batter the area with high winds and a deluge of rain.
Nova Scotia Power said the rough weather knocked out power for about 1,000 customers in and around New Germany, along the province's south shore. In New Brunswick, more than 1,500 customers were in the dark in the Fredericton and Rothesay areas.
Nova Scotia Power spokeswoman Margaret Murphy said more outages were likely as the worst of the storm approached.
"Looking at the severe winds that were forecast, we could tell that there would be damage to different types of infrastructure across the province," she said. "That combination of power lines and trees, with those high winds, that's a recipe that would cause some damage."...
