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Hurricane Irene path: Google just threw up a pretty useful hurricane-tracker tool to follow Irene. (Here’s the article they wrote about the tool, which lets you sort between a number of different metrics.) The giant cloud imagery really puts the hurricane in sharp contrast. Currently engulfed by the storm? North Carolina. Virginia Beach is next. DC and Baltimore will miss the worst of it (though us DC folks got nailed by a heavy ten-minute storm about three hours ago). Philly, NJ and NYC are directly in the path, particularly Long Island.

(via fuckyeahweather)

Tropical Storm Alex, now weakened to a tropical depression again as it crosses over the Yucatan Peninsula, should have no problem restrengthening and becoming this year’s first Hurricane as it encounters low wind shear the warm waters of the Gulf. The good news is that it will stay clear of the oil spill and miss the US. The bad news is it will likely make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane somewhere in Eastern Mexico.

I made a post the other day on SURFBANG that is loaded with facts about how any tropical weather system will interact with the oil spill in the Gulf. You can check it out and read the facts here.

Cam Ward makes an amazing save on Bill Guerin in last nights game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Carolina Hurricanes.