Region may be due for whopper of hurricane (New England)

[jpak]

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/060327hurricane.shtml

DOVER, N.H. — New England could be in for a big one. Meteorologists say conditions - including warmer temperatures in the Atlantic Basin and cooler temperatures in the Pacific Ocean - are ripe for the Northeast coast to be hit by a whopper of a hurricane this season.

Ken Reeves, a senior meteorologist at the AccuWeather Center in State College, Pa., said that when the Pacific is cooler, it "essentially drives the storm track further to the east in the Atlantic Ocean basin."

He predicts the East Coast north of the mid-Atlantic states could see a Category 3 hurricane, a storm that could resemble the devastating systems that hit New England from the 1930s to the 1950s.

"There are some eerie similarities to the pattern of the 1938 hurricane," he said.

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[ramapo]

1. NJ too...

The barrier islands off the NJ coast are disasters in waiting. Heavily developed, in places only a few blocks wide, these islands have gone about 45 years since a really big hit.

[phantom power]

2. Are building codes up for cat-3 on the eastern seaboard?