Posted on 10/12/2025 3:04:54 PM PDT by DFG
Because that’s what it is.
It’s a low pressure system that comes up the coast and brings rain or snow with it.
It’s simply a descriptor of the kind of storm it is and the track it takes.
The amount of rain or snow that happens depends on how far inland the center of the low is.
Nope, the term *nor’easter* has been used for well over 100 years.
Nor’easter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter
Despite the efforts of Comee and others, the term was frequently used by the press in the 19th century.
The Hartford Times reported on a storm striking New York in December 1839, and observed, “We Yankees had a share of this same “noreaster,” but it was quite moderate in comparison to the one of the 15h inst.”[11]
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, in his semi-autobiographical work The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), wrote “We had had several slight flurries of hail and snow before, but this was a regular nor’easter”.[12]
In her story “In the Gray Goth” (1869) Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward wrote “...and there was snow in the sky now, setting in for a regular nor’easter”.[13]
John H. Tice, in A new system of meteorology, designed for schools and private students (1878), wrote “During this battle, the dreaded, disagreeable and destructive Northeaster rages over the New England, the Middle States, and southward. No nor’easter ever occurs except when there is a high barometer headed off and driven down upon Nova Scotia and Lower Canada.”
Sounds just like Los Angeles Mayor Karen "Large Mouth" Bass when the fires broke out in January.
Picture a storm system moving up along the east coast of the U.S., following a route commonly seen with hurricanes and tropical storms. As it makes its way northward, the first sign of trouble for those in its path will be a strong wind from the northeast due to the counter-clockwise rotation of the storm around its center.
The polls says that he's leading... NJ citizens, elect Jack C.
Fierce winds of 25 mph as well as rain? How terrible. We can see that in some semi-arid parts of of our country. As far as Gov. Murphy, we thankfully don’t see him where I live.
I haven’t dared to look at the news this morning. Is New Jersy still there? Did it survive the stormy apocalypse. Anybody left alive?
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