March 24, 2009
Fargo, ND
Photographer states :: Flooding Near Fargo
With noted 'heat transfer system' over Hawaii, noted high surf (purple) and small craft (mauve) advisories are noted (click here).
Hazardous marine condition(s):
Tonight:
ENE wind around 24 kt, with gusts as high as 33 kt.
Isolated showers.
W swell 3 feet at 11 seconds.
Waves around 10 ft.
Wednesday:
ENE wind around 25 kt, with gusts as high as 33 kt.
Isolated showers.
W swell 2 feet at 10 seconds.
Waves around 10 ft.
Wednesday Night:
ENE wind 20 to 24 kt, with gusts as high as 31 kt.
Isolated showers.
W swell 2 feet at 18 seconds becoming 5 feet at 16 seconds.
Waves 10 to 11 ft.
Posted on Tue, Mar. 24, 2009
Trawler sinks off Cape May; 2 dead, 4 missing (click title to entry for video - the sound to that video is very noisy so turn down the volume control - thank you)
By Robert Moran and Jacqueline L. Urgo
INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
Two men are dead and four others missing after a fishing vessel sank about 70 miles southeast of Cape May this morning, the U.S. Coast Guard reported.
A rescue helicopter plucked three men from the ocean after they were spotted floating near an empty life raft, officials said.
One was dead and another was unresponsive and died this afternoon. The third told the Coast Guard that the 71-foot Lady Mary, a scalloper, based in Cape May sank around 5 a.m.
There were seven people on board, he told the Coast Guard.
Two Coast Guard cutters, a C-130 aircraft and two helicopters are searching for survivors....
...Waves were 4 to 7 feet high when the boat sank. The water temperature was 40 degrees and the air temperature 33 - conditions that would rapidly kill anyone without a survival suit, officials said.
The fishing vessel is the second in a week to run into trouble in the waters off Cape May.
On March 17, a Good Samaritan scalloper rescued three members of the North Carolina-based Miss Dollie who had abandoned ship shortly before it exploded in flames 30 miles out at sea.
March 25, 2009
0230z
UNISYS Infrared Satellite Image (click here for 12 hour loop)
The vortex east of Massachusetts has a great deal of consolidation and 'loft' to the north border.
March 25, 2009
0230z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite Image (click here for 12 hour loop)
