Is that a giant sucking sound I hear?
Posted on 10/22/2005 6:51:32 PM PDT by gusopol3
The atmosphere as of Saturday holds potential for the development of a powerful storm off the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States early next week. While this would be true to some extent without the existence of Hurricane Wilma and the newly-dubbed Tropical Storm Alpha, which represent a great reservoir of tropical warmth and moisture, it only ratchets up the potential. Two players here are key. First, a sharply dipping jet stream will be thrusting southward from central Canada and tapping a cold pool to spin up low pressure south of the Great Lakes Sunday and Monday. The other player, none other than Hurricane Wilma, will pull away from Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in time for a crossing of the Florida Peninsula Monday. It is Monday night and Tuesday when things could get crazy in the meteorological sense. The strong northeast-trending jet stream will scoop up Wilma, with possible contribution from Alpha, as the low shifts from the Appalachians to the coast. If Wilma were to follow the western edges of its forecast window and begin to draw in the cool low from the west, an explosive deepening could result, culminating in a deep and fully merged storm raging south of Nova Scotia Wednesday. While this is not the most likely scenario, it is one that is in the realm of possibility. This is what could happen Monday night and Tuesday if our Worst Case Scenario came to pass. Heavy, driving rains and gales would pound the Seaboard from North Carolina to southern New England. As the rains spread northwards and the storm tapped the cold pole from the west, rain would turn to heavy wet snow over the inland Northeast. Keep checking back with us at AccuWeather.com Weather Headlines to see what the latest is on this interesting, even serious, weather situation.
Joe Bastardi is alluding to the possiblity of a massive storm the middle of next week in his AccuWeather blog, with heavy snows in the interior and eventually the snow moving right to the coast.
Is that a giant sucking sound I hear?
So George Clooney really died in this storm? Wishful thinking on my part. ;-)
It doesn't matter.... either way this is AMERCIA and we will overcome.
So George Clooney really died in this storm? Wishful thinking on my part. ;-)
Look, even Maryland escapes this one while Eastern PA and all of New Jersey get drowned. It's part of the umbrella of protection that comes from voting a Republican into the Governor's office ~ although that doesn't apply to New York. They have entirely too much baggage so they're getting ice and snow as well.
Sneeze; really HARD.
Bush better be getting ready to have Brown parachute in, or the poll numbers are going to really bottom out this time.
He's using words like "huge hybrid howler" and "windwhipped monster storm".
Yep, that's just Joe getting all excited. He won't be getting any sleep anytime soon.
Here's the weatherman who called "the Perfect Storm", Todd Gross of WHDH-TV Boston. The movie included a scene where he realizes what's happening...
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/extra/H5145/
Uh, oh. Just wait 'till Drudge gets wind of this one!
If the smaller got sucked into the larger, wouldn't that be merging?
susie
Yeah, there are no ice scrapers at Wal-Marts in the red states. Or snow shovels. By the grace of God.
They will be busy with Indian Summer and a comfortable Halloween evening while New Englanders are up to their eyeballs in snow.
LOL.
And, not that it's relevant to the topic, but what a terrible movie that was.
The map I've seen shows that Alpha is not a threat to the US.
That's not Alpha chasing Wilma. It's Fred!
BTW in both my former states, there were a lot of Democrats who were definite red-staters. Not like the blue state Democrats at all.
Wasn't that an October storm?
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