I really wish I was gonna be up there in my old pilot house watching this one roll in.

Gump

Public Information Statement

Statement as of 3:30 PM AKST on November 7, 2011

... Public information statement...

A rapidly developing storm located about 600 miles southwest
of Shemya this afternoon will intensify into one of the
most severe Bering Sea storms on record as it moves northward
across the chukotsk peninsula Tuesday night. This storm
has the potential to produce widespread damage.

The storm will produce widespread winds of 40 to 55 mph
with higher gusts over the West Coast Tuesday night into
Wednesday evening. Strong west winds are expected to continue
over St Lawrence Island Wednesday night. Gusts to 70 mph can be
expected along the chukotsk peninsula and in areas near Kotzebue.
Winds of 60 to 75 mph are expected over St Lawrence Island and
the Bering Strait coast. Winds are expected to approach hurricane
force over the Chukchi Sea and northern Bering Sea. The strong
winds will generate seas to as high as 20 feet over the Chukchi
Sea... and to 15 to 25 feet over the northern Bering Sea.

The strong winds will push large amounts of water into Norton
Sound... raising sea levels to as high as 8 to 9 feet above normal
Tuesday night through Wednesday night. The high sea levels
combined with high waves will produce severe beach erosion and
major coastal flooding along the northern and Eastern Shores of
Norton Sound and along the Bering Strait coast. High water
levels will produce coastal flooding along the southern
shore of Norton Sound. Strong winds and wave action may push
ice in Norton Bay on shore.

Moderately elevated sea levels and high waves will cause
severe beach erosion and major coastal flooding along the
south and west facing coasts of St Lawrence Island Tuesday
through Wednesday night.

Along the Chukchi Sea coast from Cape Krusenstern northwest...
southeast winds gusting to a high as 70 mph will produce high
waves and some elevation of sea levels... resulting in severe
beach erosion and major coastal flooding. The Village of
Kivalina will be highly vulnerable to damage caused by
beach erosion and coastal flooding.

The storm will also produce significant snowfall and blizzard
conditions over almost all of the West Coast Tuesday night
and Wednesday. Snowfall amounts of as much as 14 inches
are expected along the southern Seward Peninsula coast and
in parts of the interior Seward Peninsula.

Again... this is an extremely dangerous and life threatening
storm which will be one of the worst on record over the Bering
Sea and the West Coast.

Anyone know if King Crab season is over yet? This could give the fleet some big trouble if not.

G44

Gump, do you Crab or sideslip into this one?

Ha!!!! Whatever works.

This is gonna be one of those blows where you'd better tie the doors closed from the inside so they don't get ripped off the airplane.

Gump

Storms like this are the reason removable metal bellies for Super Cubs were invented. So u could chisel the packed snow out of the fuselage. Polar Bear and Wolf hunters often had this problem. Spent a few nights in the basement of the Catholic church in Kotzebue waiting for blizzard to clear

GumpAir wrote:
This is gonna be one of those blows where you'd better tie the doors closed from the inside so they don't get ripped off the airplane.

Gump

Here is what it is projected to look like soon, according to NWS:



And, it just gets uglier.
Nizina

So 'Ol Tweeto will probably send Ponts and Ariel out for some crosswind practice 'eh?
Naturally, after dropping a hundred cases of soda off in Koyuk

Seriously though, I hope everyone fares well through the storm.

I think if I lived up there, I'd be thinking about getting a new drivers license.... One with "Arizona" printed on the top...

949 mb. isn't the lowest I've ever seen but those isobars sure are bunched up.

I hope they got a lot of waterproofed brick and/or cinder block buildings, and insulated Quonset huts up there. This doesn't sound like the time to be in a drafty, leaky wooden house. They all damn well better let their dogs stay inside their houses...

And this would definitely be the time to pay attention to the service manuals where it shows good solid EXTERNAL gust locks on the controls!

Interesting considering that I am almost at the bottom of the world (sporting my BCP hat) with a huge system getting ready to crush us as well. We leave Ushuaia (bottom of South America) in the AM for our 3 day crossing of the mighty Drake passage enroute to the Antarctic Peninsula. Waves heights are forecasted to be 40 plus feet. Hope you guys are all flying and enjoying yourselves. I will be hurling my gutts out over the next 3 days...

Will see...anyhow...Will post a photo of a penguin representing the BCP logo in a couple days...

Over and out...

AKT

In Nome I got hit in the face by a seagull during one of those blows....
His groundspeed was negative. Mine was slightly positive and with a good tilt correction factor into the wind. Pissed me off.
Now I live in Arizona...

Sounds like a hellva storm, here's to hoping for the best.

flightlogic wrote:In Nome I got hit in the face by a seagull during one of those blows....
His groundspeed was negative. Mine was slightly positive and with a good tilt correction factor into the wind. Pissed me off.
Now I live in Arizona...

Is that where the term pecker head comes from Which end did you collide with?

Storms are a common event in the area but when they add this caveat it makes u take precautions.........

"Again... this is an extremely dangerous and life threatening
storm which will be one of the worst on record over the Bering
Sea and the West Coast."

BOT and the Breakers will be doing a landslide business for a few days

DonC wrote:BOT and the Breakers will be doing a landslide business for a few days

More like a waterslide business Surge isn't predicted till noon tomorrow, but if it gets anywhere the 28 feet predicted, the bars on front street are going to get a good flushing .

Got the plane double tied down, we'll see

Chris

As I recall they could use a good flushing But all that Beer down the basement at the Breakers will take a beating ....

DonC wrote:As I recall they could use a good flushing

Yes they could. They all recently went "smokeless", but it will take a whole lotta years before you could ever tell A good rinse would help maybe.

Chris

All u glass ball and ivory hunters get out after this one passes, should be some good pickings