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Hmmmm ... I'm in Maine right now but have already voted. Need to look into this because the article says the storm 'forms off the coast of NC, GA on TUESDAY ... ' ... so it would seem that for it to affect NY/NJ, it must be a large system, or it would effect until later in the evening. (both hurting and helping R's - more help than hurt though.)

Food for R's during the day, but R's vote at night, so not as good.

Does anyone have projections of times it would hit NY/NJ and northern New England - i.e. New Hampshire and Maine?

ANY bad weather in NH and ME benefits Romney's 5 EV's. But again - if it's forming off NC and GA on Tuesday - I don't think we're looking at Northern New England being affected during election hours.

Any more research out there? (maybe while I was writing this ... someone posted - if not, I'll go look ...)

Doesn't seem like it's time to expect this, but certainly worth watching ...

Excerpted from XRisk W http://www.wxrisk.com/ per MissMagnolia:

I am not as comfortable in forecasting a big East Coast storm as other for NOV 6-7-8 . Most of the forecasters yesterday who were talking about potential for East Coast storm were focused on the event happening November 6 -7. That struck me as being too soon because the pattern over both Western Canada and southeastern Canada was NOT very favorable for the East Coast storm to develop … though there is better chance for an east coast storm for NOV 7-8

Basically there are two pieces of energy which we have to watch for next week. These two pieces of energy in the jet stream– which in the weather business is refer to as SHORT WAVE — could met and if they do …. IF…. then the potential increases for significant East Coast autumn storm.

The southern piece of energy or the southern shortwave is going to move drop south from Nebraska and Kansas into Arkansas and Louisiana on November 6. The northern piece of energy is coming in from Western Canada and will be located over Manitoba. In order to get the big East Coast storm this northern piece of energy over Manitoba has to drop south eastward through the Ohio Valley and merge or phase with the southern piece of energy coming up from Louisiana and the gulf coast.