New Hurricane Regulations

The National Hurricane Center is modifying its qualifications to issue a Hurricane Warnings north of North Carolina. The National Hurricane Center, NHC, had a boat load of criticism because of how they handled Hurricane Sandy's warnings. In all honesty they went by the book on this storm and didn't put out Hurricane warnings out in New Jersey, New York and Delaware. I say this because all of the models were forecasting that Sandy would transition into a post-tropical system meaning that it was no longer a hurricane before it made landfall. And the models were right, Sandy did become post-tropical before it made landfall, however, just because it became a post-tropical system didn't mean that the storm system would not have hurricane force winds and hurricane type storm surge.

I am not saying that if the Hurricane Warnings were issued that there would have been less damage. But I think that more lives would have been saved, and that the local authorities would have taken this storm more seriously and enforced evacuations within their city limits. However, that is all in the past and you can only learn and hopefully improve for next time, which is exactly what the National Hurricane Center is doing. Starting in 2013, the National Hurricane Center will have the wiggle room to issue multiple advisories on post-tropical cyclones. Ultimately this means they mended the qualifications for an Hurricane Warning to be issued.

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