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.
It sounds like heavy snow would be better for them than
heavy rain.
No.
They are both hauling ass to get out of town as of tomorrow, no such thing as 2 hurricanes "merging", they will hit each other like tops and bounce away from each other. Or the weaker will be sucked into the stronger.
Sounds like a merger to me ... LOL
Cool! Hope it happens. My broken ribs are hurting, and anything to distract me from the pain.
Sorry, east coasters, but it is about time you guys got your butts whupped.
Wasn't the idea of storms merging the basis for the movie "The Perfect Storm"? That is what it sounds like is being talked about here. Yeah, I know, Hollywood isn't reality.
Ya beat by a minute. ;-)
It's a blue state event. You get out into the Red States and this superstorm with ice and snow is not an issue.
Fastest mouse gets the cheese! lol
The Headlines read: "The Perfect Storm: Women, Minorities and Children hardest hit."
This sounds like something Joe Bastardi would write. He likes to think about worst-case scenarios.
actually Perfect Storm was about a fishing boat and based on a true story. I can't think of the name of the movie that had the Statue of Liberty buried under snow last year.... somebody will by the time i post this I'm sure.
It was'nt 2 hurricanes "merging", it was a hurricane and strong anti-cyclonic system coming off land that "merged". Something you do not see often...hardly ever in history.
What do you call it when a large company buys off a smaller company? That would be the appropiate scenario.
that's just mean!
Yes, we live in states that are populated by MO-rons,
but we ahve families her and jobs here and we Conservatives are trying to get somewhere!
Don't ever wish bad things on other folks because the may come home to kick YOU in the butt!
Have a nice evening, I'll be checking my basement every 2 hrs!
LOL
Actually the "Perfect Storm" really happened and the movie was based on a true story. In late October (around Halloween) in 1991, a massive northeaster affected Southern New England and dumped about a foot of rain with hurricane force winds. Most coastal communites were flooded around here - very similar to the Blizzard of 1978.
USCG the "real life" perfect storm October 1991:
http://www.uscg.mil/news/PerfectStorm/Realstorm.html
USCG the "real life" perfect storm October 1991:
http://www.uscg.mil/news/PerfectStorm/Realstorm.html
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