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Stinky The Clown

(67,623 posts)
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 11:25 PM Oct 2012

Mid Atlantic teevee weather people saying Tuesday may see east coast with a nor'easter.

Too early to know for sure, but there's a soup bubbling up where nor'easters bubble up. The Weather Channel is not yet calling for it, but our people are saying it is possible.

The woman who does our weather closed her weather report with an admonition to take advantage of early voting.

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Mid Atlantic teevee weather people saying Tuesday may see east coast with a nor'easter. (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Oct 2012 OP
10% chance of rain on Tuesday in PA. onehandle Oct 2012 #1
Crap Beaverhausen Oct 2012 #2
Oh, I hope not -- those poor people! gateley Oct 2012 #3
*chanting* "Rain, Rain, stay away. Don't come on election day!" GreenPartyVoter Oct 2012 #4
Jeff Masters explains the system that's causing the problems in the northeast. ananda Oct 2012 #5
Let me guess ThoughtCriminal Nov 2012 #6
What state was this weather report? I got the same here in NC and SaveAmerica Nov 2012 #7
This seems to be the current guess at Tuesday's weather (hard to predict so far out) DLnyc Nov 2012 #8
That low off the Carolina's is what might become the nor'easter Stinky The Clown Nov 2012 #9

ananda

(28,758 posts)
5. Jeff Masters explains the system that's causing the problems in the northeast.
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 11:40 PM
Oct 2012

It has to do with a high pressure system over Greenland. It does look as though the northeast is going to see more rain in the coming days, but nothing as bad as Sandy yet still enough to hamper recovery efforts which is bad enough, imho. See:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/weather/weather-blog/bal-wx-weather-pattern-affecting-sandy-could-bring-more-storms-to-east-coast-20121031,0,4323260.story

The weather pattern that meteorologists say helped turn Hurricane Sandy toward the New Jersey coast is expected to persist next week and could bring more wet and windy weather, forecasters say.

A high pressure system settled over Greenland is credited with affecting much of Sandy's path. The system acts literally as a blockade for weather systems moving from the west. The Weather Underground's Jeff Masters explains more about the phenomenon in this blog post.

This week, it meant Sandy and the frontal system moving in from the west could not move to the northeast toward Greenland and instead converged over the mid-Atlantic. Some say it isn't expected to change soon, opening up the East Coast for more low pressure systems over the next week.
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http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

SaveAmerica

(5,342 posts)
7. What state was this weather report? I got the same here in NC and
Thu Nov 1, 2012, 12:35 AM
Nov 2012

set the place on fire with the get out the vote early message! Share it! They're talking at least very uncomfortable and yucky at worst the noreaster mess from NC through Virginia and possibly farther North. Vote early and let's hope nothing else hits the east coast!!

Stinky The Clown

(67,623 posts)
9. That low off the Carolina's is what might become the nor'easter
Thu Nov 1, 2012, 01:07 PM
Nov 2012

No one is saying it will be. Just a maybe right now.

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