Posted on 10/16/2019 10:40:52 AM PDT by rockinqsranch
A storm will strengthen rapidly and bring a dose of drenching rain, high winds and even some high-elevation snow to the northeastern United States into Thursday.
The latest indications are the storm will strengthen at a fast enough pace into Thursday to be classified as a bomb cyclone. The barometric pressure has to fall at least 24 millibars, or 0.71 of an inch of Mercury, in 24 hours for the bomb cyclone criteria to be met.
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Here in SW Pennsylvania I call it a rainy Autumn day.
Go Astros!
Guess we will have to play all the games in Houston
A nor’easter is really a winter hurricane.
It comes up the eastern seaboard travelling in a NE direction. It is a low pressure zone turning in a counterclockwise direction. It brings in rain/snow off the ocean similar to lake effect off the great lakes.
I think this storm is coming out of the west heading due east.
I think the Weather Channel just makes up these names to increase their ratings. Stick with us for Breaking News.
Stick with News 7 for the latest storm updates.
And this is the storm we get EVERY YEAR that takes down 90% of the leaves of fall.
They are ALWAYS gone by Halloween.
Since Halloween is still two weeks away, we will get another storm that will finish it.
This isn’t news.
Five Nor’easters are the most I remember here on L.I. That was three four years ago. But different areas get affected differently. But the meteorologist types have been creating new more hyperbolic weather vocabulary. Super Storm Sandy being a great example. It came ashore and wasn’t a hurricane. It was no longer tropical. So they concocted this idiotic name that came ashore in positively the worst places.
Hey! Wifey and I are in Houston for several days being that we are also from sw pa should we be worried? Ha!
My god they never stop! It’s maddening! It’s freaking RAINING!
“polar vortex”
I remember when the wacko eco-idiot weather fools invented that crap phrase. We used to call it a snowstorm or blizzard, back in the 50s.
No. Not unless you are in Houston, Pennsylvania.(just kidding) I have lived in the same house for 28 years and this is just another October.
These things happened in the past, in our child hoods. I don’t remember them being referred to as “bombs”, That was before “climate change”.
BINGO. LOL. When I was a boy, when we got up in the morning, we'd look out the window, or step outside. And THAT was the weather, take it or leave it.
It’s called weather...
In before the Scoldilocks scowl pic.........
So does that make this a nor’wester? It does sound like a winter hurricane.
Here in Michigan weather seldom comes from the east unless Lake Erie gets in a mood.
Actually a low pressure zone pout of the west met up with a low pressure zone coming up the coast. So, it was a Nor’easter this time around too.
Turned out OK here about 50 miles inland. However, there were about 60K customers out of power along the coast.
The guy next to me lives about 5 miles from the ocean. He lost power. Another guy is home today with his four kids because their school had no power this morning. His wife had to work.
They had 40-60mph winds out of the east last night. Surf was very high. I was not a good night to be on a boat in the Gulf of Maine. 30-50’ seas were predicted.
Stay safe.
https://www.mountwashington.org/experience-the-weather/current-summit-conditions.aspx
This predicted storm was a fizzle here. Some leaves came down off the trees.
We lost power briefly in Amherst. Just enough to screw up the clocks. I think the power outages were mostly on the coast or just inland.
York, ME canceled school because of no power. The guy next to me drove through three detours on the way to 101 west. He lives in Seabrook a few miles from the ocean.
It’s obscene how the boys of summer, the autumnal knights (football), and the winter warriors are all playing at the same time.
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