Friday, January 11, 2008

10 P.M. 0z NAM Winter Storm Update...Nor'easter!

Hello this is Junior Meteorologist Kyle Elliott with a 10 P.M. 0z NAM Winter Storm Update...and wow what a shift from the model runs of earlier today! Instead of taking the storm out to sea, it has a huge coastal nor'easter sitting off the New Jersey coast by Sunday night and off of Cape Cod by Monday morning. Basically the NAM has gone over to the worst (or best) case scenario...it now has a major nor'easter from the I-95 corridor the whole way back to the Appalachian Mountains. Right now according to the newest model, the axis of heaviest snow would run from the Lower Susquehanna Valley of PA to the Poconos to northern NJ to Connecticut to Massachusetts to Maine. The major cities would see a rain/snow mix changing to snow with 2-5 inches from D.C. to New York City. In the axis of heaviest snow, a general 4-9 inch accumulation would occur, with upwards of 10-15 inches in some locals across northeast PA and northern NJ. I had a gut feeling this storm might come back on the models at the last minute...and now my feeling has come to fruition. Let's just hope the storm stays on the models tomorrow...because if it does, almost everyone is going to get hammered with a moderate to major snowstorm! This has been Junior Meteorologist (Storm Tracker) Kyle Elliott with a special winter storm update for the AKStormtracker Forecasting Center, in High Anticipation Mode!

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