[Thanks for the tip, Gefn!]
Posted on 02/06/2013 1:23:57 PM PST by TSgt
Two storms will merge quickly enough to bring colder air, heavy snow and increasing wind to New England. Some areas will be hit with an all-out blizzard and a couple of feet of snow.
The worst of the storm will hit late Friday and Friday night and will wind down Saturday morning. However, lingering effects from blowing and drifting snow, blocked roads and other travel delays are likely to linger into much of the weekend.
Numerous flight delays and cancellations are possible centered on New England, but these problems will be felt elsewhere across the nation.
Strong winds will not only cause white-out conditions but can result in massive drifts.
At the height of the storm, snow can fall at the rate of 2 to 4 inches per hour and may be accompanied by thunder and lightning.
A person traveling northeastward from New York City Friday evening along I-95 would encounter progressively worse and potentially dangerous weather conditions.
With such snowfall intensity, vehicles can become stuck and people can become stranded.
The hardest-hit areas are likely to include Hartford and Providence to Boston, Worcester, Concord, Portsmouth and Portland.
Coastal flooding is another concern with this storm along the coast of eastern Massachusetts. The period of strong northeast winds will be occurring within a couple of days of the new moon and high astronomical tides.
Warm air will play a major role in the storm from New York City, Long Island and central New Jersey on south and west in the mid-Atlantic, resulting in rain during part or all of the storm, depending on location.
Only if the two storms sync up completely would heavy snow wrap around into New York City for an extended period, bringing a foot of the white stuff. Even so, without complete phasing of the storms, New York City and Long Island will get significant snow.
A separate story on the storm's role in New York City and the mid-Atlantic is now available on AccuWeather.com.
Meanwhile, a fresh injection of arctic air will fuel the blizzard over New England. The colder air will cause rain to change to snow on Cape Cod and along the South Coast, as well as cause wet snow to become more dry and powdery with time, making it subject to blowing and drifting in central and southern areas.
In northernmost New England from northern Maine to along the Canada border of New Hampshire, Vermont and northern upstate New New York, too much dry air feeding in from the north may limit snowfall or cut off the storm completely.
Snow from the Alberta Clipper part of the storm will still deliver enough snow to shovel and plow over much of upstate New York.
So how’s the perch fishing?
Not much in the way of perch but there is an occasional walleye taken in the deeper water near the dam. Its shallow, weedy and full of stumps. Lots of blugills, bass, and pike.
.My fridge is stocked and as long as the power stays on things will be OK.
If it’s snowing and the power goes out, I’ll bet you can figure out a way to keep things cool. ;)
/johnny
Just put some milk jugs full of water outside. Let them freeze. When you lose power, bring one in at stick it the fridge. When it thaw, replace it and put the thawed one back outside.
This is not our first rodeo.
As long as it buries the politicians from the region, I can live with it!
Conservatives, get out.
Here in Central NJ it’s wine, food, wine (:
As long as it buries the politicians from the region, I can live with it!
Conservatives, get out.
It’s called an Alberta clipper up here.
Correction make that 1978 ... 35 years ago.
No need to stock up on beer for a snowstorm, since no one up here ever lets their stock get below blizzard levels to start with..
I was born & raised in northwest Indiana near the Michigan border on the SE edge of Lake Michigan.
“It is appropriate that it is over Massachusetts”
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Give me a break-—there are lots of nice people here.
It’s a storm,not politics.
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[Thanks for the tip, Gefn!]
The same weather pattern appeared on an episode of South Park.
Looks like almost the same scenario for Sandy, a storm coming in from out west and a nor’easter coming up the coast at the same time.
That area over TX/LA is prime nor’easter spawning grounds.
God’s probably okay with Tom Brady. Now Bill Belichick, on the other hand...
On top of us right now, cold rain 1-2 inches tonight, about 58 degrees, 25 miles north of gulf.
Heh, where we are, we get both. The nor’easter smacks us one day, and then when it pulls off the coast, the winds swing around and we get lake effect off Lake Ontario 24-36 hours later.
The NWS here refers to it as the *classic one-two punch*.
When the Blizzard of 93 hit, we got 2-3 feet of snow from that and then another 2-3 feet of lake effect. Syracuse was pounded.
This storm looks to be far enough out to sea that we won’t see it, but they are forecasting 8-12 inches for Friday, which I suspect is from the storm out west. We’ll get the lake effect later anyway.
That’s AWESOME....
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