The rain! The wind! The Mid-Atlantic part of the country has been "battered" by Monday's Nor'easter. As the south was battered by the same storm system produced tornadoes and severe weather earlier in the week. Watching the weather roundup for my region (South Jersey-Burlington County) the local weatherman, John Bolaris gave the round down on the weather event. Wind gusts down at the shore in...
NEW YORK - Rescue crews searched door-to-door for people trapped in flooded first floor apartments after a powerful Nor'easter crashed through the city on Tuesday . The dangerous conditions also included downed power poles, sleet, ice and an insane mob of dog lovers who were in town for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show . No fatalities were reported, but two people were critically injured...
...City. Fall is finally here. We've had such mild weather up until now. I guess it was bound to happen. This is nothing, though *lol*. Next, it'll be in the 30's, 20's, teens...we even get single digits, sometimes. And those Nor'easters ?...Fugeddaboutit ! Thanksgiving's five days away, and what have I done in preparation? Not a thing!....Geesh, I hope I can still get a turkey......lol.
...but I am sure as hell not snoring. It looks like the worst of the Nor'Easter will hit us around noon. The rain is pretty heavy already and the birch across the street seems pretty determined to see how far it can bend before breaking. They say we'll get gusts upwards of 80 m.p.h. which will surely test the mettle of the old oak on my patio, the very same one my darling s/o has been begging me to...
I'm a slacking naturalist - but when the weather is nice I'd much rather be outside! I am forgetting one major storm. The 14-15th we had a late season Nor'easter. The temperature was above freezing at ground level, and the precipitation went back and forth between rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow the whole time. By the end there was a slush 4-6 inches on the ground, and in the driveway each...
Stu Ostro in The Weather Channel Blog : " WHAT CATEGORY HURRICANE WOULD THIS STORM BE? Stu Ostro, Senior Meteorologist The pressure at the center of the big storm this morning, per offshore observations...low, and when that happens with non-tropical lows, often comparisons are made with hurricanes: "If this would have been a hurricane, it'd have been a Category X" ... " Great piece by Stu Ostro here
So the Nor'easter came, but it was heavy rain, winds, and flooding instead of snow. Six of one, half-dozen of the other... The Boston Marathon went off despite the adverse weather conditions. The Red Sox played at Fenway ninety minutes later than scheduled, so the dovetailing with the Marathon didn't work this year. Finally wrote the companion piece to "Light", a Wild Wild West drabble. "Iridescent"...
Jesus Christ! That's some wind out there. I am 6'7" and a man of sizable mass and weight and I could stand and lean almost fully into the wind. I see numb nut parents out with their kids frolicking...the sound of wind. Notice the sound of water dripping. That's my living room . My living frikking room. I'm glad I went out to get buckets and tarps. I'm surprised we still have electricity.
It's not too bad right here, right now, but this is predicted to be the worst nor'easter to hit Long Island in about 15 years. It's being compared to the Halloween storm of 1991 (I think that was the one where we had seven flood tides in four days), the storm of December 1992, and the "Superstorm" of March 1993 (I think that was the one where we ended up with nine inches of solid ice here on the coast...
