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WOR meteorologist Ray Stagich · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, this nor'easter we had was interesting, wasn't it? Because
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  Speaker 1: we were told it was going to hit hard, and
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  Speaker 1: it did. It absolutely did. But it hit hard along
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  Speaker 1: the shoreline. There are some people that will tell you, oh, geez,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't that bad because they were farther inland. So
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  Speaker 1: let's talk more about that and get some of the
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  Speaker 1: numbers with the man you just heard from a second ago,
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  Speaker 1: Ray Stajic, WOR Weather Channel meteorologist. ray in many ways
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  Speaker 1: i know it was one storm but it was almost
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  Speaker 1: a tale of two storms because if you were on
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  Speaker 1: the coastline my god it was like armageddon but if
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  Speaker 1: you were a little bit inland it was just rain.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah and coastal flooding beach erosion significant even out ahead
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  Speaker 2: of when the main load developed we had multiple days
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  Speaker 2: of a pressure gradient wind which was basically strong high
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  Speaker 2: pressure to the north and weaker low pressure to the
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  Speaker 2: south and then we got the nor'easter to develop and
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  Speaker 2: The slow movement and even that movement back toward the
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  Speaker 2: west just kept pushing the water in along the coastline. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there have been some comparisons, I would say, in isolated
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  Speaker 2: areas to maybe water as high as what we did
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  Speaker 2: receive in Sandy. But as for overall widespread significant, as
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  Speaker 2: you said, significant impacts, we didn't see a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: flooding from the rain coming out of the sky. And
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  Speaker 2: we had some scattered power outages. We were expecting that
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  Speaker 2: with strong winds. The winds did gust, at least isolated
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  Speaker 2: one reported wind gust. I'm on talk point over 80
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  Speaker 2: miles an hour, but that was in the lighthouse, which
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  Speaker 2: I think was a couple hundred feet above the ground.
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  Speaker 2: So that strong wind didn't translate down to the surface,
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  Speaker 2: but still we had tropical storm force winds on Long
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  Speaker 2: Island and New England. Luckily, luckily didn't see widespread heavy
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  Speaker 2: rain and flooding because of kind of the on again,
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  Speaker 2: off again, nature of the rain. And we didn't see
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  Speaker 2: more in terms of wind damage and even worse, in
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  Speaker 2: terms of some of the water rise, but as we
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  Speaker 2: had said, it was significant in some spots.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, thank you, Ray, for not hiding behind the
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  Speaker 3: fact that there was a high tide and a full moon,
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  Speaker 3: like I've heard some of your brothers and sisters in solidarity.
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  Speaker 4: What role, if any, did that play with all the flooding?
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  Speaker 2: Well, certainly it played a pretty significant role of high
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  Speaker 2: tide and not only a full moon. So abnormally high tide, too,
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  Speaker 2: and there's another one coming this afternoon. That's why the
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  Speaker 2: coastal flood advisories until 2 p.m. So with the full moon,
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  Speaker 2: you'll get an abnormally high tide, and so that's why
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  Speaker 2: the water coming in was a little bit higher, and
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  Speaker 2: it will be again. We'll probably have another inundation here,
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  Speaker 2: probably not to what we saw over the weekend, but
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  Speaker 2: the water is going to come up again at high
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  Speaker 2: tide this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: One of the biggest problems along the shoreline has been
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  Speaker 1: beach erosion. And it's stunning, some of the pictures, especially
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  Speaker 1: from like Atlantic City.
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  Speaker 4: There was a cliff.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you would actually go along the beach and
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  Speaker 1: then it just dropped off.
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  Speaker 4: What causes that? How does that happen?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was more of the persistent just onshore flow
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  Speaker 2: around the high and the low developing. And it just
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  Speaker 2: started days before the storm was even formed because of
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  Speaker 2: how strong that high was. And you just keep pounding away,
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  Speaker 2: and the water doesn't have any opportunity to recede back
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  Speaker 2: into the Atlantic. So it just stays up, and with
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  Speaker 2: each push and each continued push of water in, and
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  Speaker 2: then you throw the storm on top of that with
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  Speaker 2: even stronger winds and the high tides and the full
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  Speaker 2: moon pushing all that water in, basically you just wear
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  Speaker 2: the base of that sand and that cliff out, and
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  Speaker 2: eventually it falls.
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  Speaker 3: Now I want you to put your sinking cap on now, Ray,
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  Speaker 3: because you're very laid back, very stoic at times. Should
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  Speaker 3: we look at the glasses if it's half full, not
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  Speaker 3: half empty, and the fact that we haven't had any hurricanes,
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  Speaker 3: but we've had all these nor'easters and flooding that started
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  Speaker 3: back on Memorial Day?
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  Speaker 4: Is that the way we should look at this?
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  Speaker 2: I would look at it half full.
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  Speaker 4: What a shock. Oh, man, I'm trying every way I
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  Speaker 4: can to hook this guy.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying. Here is my one concern. So I do
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  Speaker 2: have a little concern as we get into the winter
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  Speaker 2: months now. We're going into this super.
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  Speaker 4: El Nino, right? Everybody's heard of that.
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  Speaker 2: We're already there. And during El Nino winters, traditionally, there's
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity for more East Coast storms. So is this
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of an early nor'easter season? Because typically you
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  Speaker 2: don't see this until later in the fall or even
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  Speaker 2: into the winter months, these nor'easters. Is this a sign
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  Speaker 2: of things to come? Because if this had any cold
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  Speaker 2: air with it, if this was the middle of winter
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  Speaker 2: and it was cold enough, this would be a whole
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  Speaker 2: heck of a lot of snow, and we'd be talking
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  Speaker 2: about something different. So the other thing I want to say,
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  Speaker 2: no hurricanes. That record continues in the Atlantic. There's some
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  Speaker 2: chatter in the meteorological community, though, that The National Hurricane
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  Speaker 2: Center could go back and look at this and say that, oh,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it did get some tropical characteristics. So they may
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  Speaker 2: go back and do something in terms of was it
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  Speaker 2: a hurricane or was it a tropical storm or was
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  Speaker 2: it not? From the way it looked on the satellite presentation,
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  Speaker 2: it sure did. look and have the feel of it,
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  Speaker 2: but it's all about the dynamics and the thermodynamics with
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  Speaker 2: inside the center of the storm.
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  Speaker 4: Larry, are you part of that chatter?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you weather guys, you know, that nonsensical chatter
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  Speaker 3: that goes back and forth.
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  Speaker 4: They threw me out a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I noticed when you talked about the hurricanes, you
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  Speaker 1: talked about the Atlantic, because you can't tell Hawaii there
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been hurricanes.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can't. And what do we've got? So we've
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  Speaker 2: got Polo off the west coast of Mexico going to
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  Speaker 2: go into the Baja of California, that was up to
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  Speaker 2: a 180 mile per hour hurricane at one point.
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  Speaker 4: And then you've got.
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  Speaker 2: Lolo, I think, that went south of Hawaii and gave
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  Speaker 2: them Lolo, Lolo, Lolo. I know there's Polo and Lolo.
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  Speaker 2: This is what typically happens again in an El Nino
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  Speaker 2: hurricane season. You get more activity in the Pacific than
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  Speaker 2: you do the Atlantic, and that's working out just like
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  Speaker 2: it's supposed to climatologically.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're getting hit right now, right?
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  Speaker 4: In Hawaii, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Luckily, not a landfall, but there's been some unsettled weather.
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  Speaker 2: The track's a little further south than they were anticipating,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the middle of last week. So the effects may
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  Speaker 2: be not as extreme, but still more rain and some
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  Speaker 2: gusty winds and high surf for the Big Island and
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  Speaker 2: the islands of Hawaii.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Ray. I look forward to the next time
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  Speaker 4: I can attack you, Ray.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, Ray Stajic, you are the best,
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  Speaker 1: despite what Curtis Lewis says. WOR Weather Channel Meteorologist. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much, Ray.
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  Speaker 4: All right.