Tropical Storm Earl (Jam) Develops

[YmoBeThere]

The final results of Hurricane Earl, a lot of media hype and some winds in a few places, but a whole lot of nothing.

[indoor66]

The final results of Hurricane Earl, a lot of media hype and some winds in a few places, but a whole lot of nothing.

Sounds like an evaluation of most media treatment of any event.

[DukeUsul]

In the media's defense, if not for that front that came through and pushed Earl back out to sea, we probably would have seen a more dramatic impact.

[colchar]

The Maritimes got hit. Not as badly as they expected as I think it had been downgraded to a Tropical Storm by the time it hit there (although one newspaper said the difference in wind speed between that and a hurricane was only eight miles per hour or something like that) but Nova Scotia still got hit. As far as I know, a lot of people there are still without power after the storm.


ETA: The story linked below still calls it a hurricane so maybe it wasn't downgraded when it made landfall (winds of 130kmh). This story is from yesterday so I am not sure how many of the people there are still without power as I haven't seen anything about it today.


http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/arti ... arl-s-wake

[bjornolf]

The final results of Hurricane Earl, a lot of media hype and some winds in a few places, but a whole lot of nothing.

Well, we always knew that Earl(Jam) was full of hot air. ;)

All blow, no go.

[gadzooks]

In the media's defense, if not for that front that came through and pushed Earl back out to sea, we probably would have seen a more dramatic impact.

Exactly; remember that it was a Cat 4 storm on Thursday morning. It was just a lucky confluence of events that caused it be mostly nothing.