Nor'Easter Forecast For Middle Of Next Week

Yikes:

Given the frayed nerves of many in the region just raked by Hurricane Sandy, and of political operatives around the country, 13 words at the top of an extended forecast discussion issued on Thursday by the National Weather Service’s Hydrometeorological Prediction Center in College Park, Md., set off some alarm. Those words were the summary near the top of the preliminary forecast, which read:

NOR’EASTER POSSIBLE FOR MID-ATLANTIC/NEW ENGLAND STATES BY ELECTION DAY INTO NEXT THURSDAY

The forecast suggests that a deep cyclone moving down the west coast of Canada could set the conditions for a storm that would bring rain and wind, though not nearly as severe as the one from the past week to the northeastern United States in the early to middle of next week.

As Jason Samenow explains on The Washington Post’s weather blog, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts model, “which snuffed out Sandy eight days before it hit, shows an area of low pressure developing off the Georgia/South Carolina coast the night of the election (November 6), and then moving up the coast into New England by Wednesday night.”

Dan Hofmann, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said the possible storm appears to be “at this point, a week out,” looks like it would arrive “more like the middle of the week,” than on Election Day.

Geez - I'd better get back to monitoring the weather forum again.

Those guys called Sandy well beforehand.

Some people on the forum are blaming Bloomberg for many of the deaths related to the storm in NYC and wondering why there aren't mass calls for his resignation.

I'd have to agree.

So would some of the people in Gerritsen Beach.

Hopefully he takes the next one a little more seriously than the last one.