"We don't have many modern precedents for what the models are suggesting"

[superpatriotman]

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/hurricane-sandy-new-york-delaware_n_2013788.html

With every hour, meteorologists are getting more confident that this storm is going to be bad and they're able to focus their forecasts more.

The New York area could see around 5 inches of rain during the storm, while there could be snow southwest of where it comes inland, Cisco said. That could mean snow in eastern Ohio, southwestern Pennsylvania, western Virginia, and the Shenandoah Mountains, he said.

Both private and federal meteorologists are calling this a storm that will likely go down in the history books.

"We don't have many modern precedents for what the models are suggesting," Cisco said.

One of the more messy aspects of the expected storm is that it just won't leave. The worst of it should peak early Tuesday, but it will stretch into midweek, forecasters say. Weather may start clearing in the mid-Atlantic the day after Halloween and Nov. 2 in the Northeast, Cisco said.

"It's almost a weeklong, five-day, six-day event," Cisco said Thursday from NOAA's northern storm forecast center in College Park, Md. "It's going to be a widespread serious storm."

more at link

[littlemissmartypants]

1. How do you think this

will affect voting?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

2. well, it's a week before election day

and I don't know how many people were going to early vote...but i don't think it will be too bad.

sP

[superpatriotman]

5. We'll have to wait and see

Inclement weather is likely to keep some from the polls. This storm should be long gone by then. But its force could knock out power, dump snow, etc.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. Disaster relief reminds people

that competent government is a good thing.

[grok]

3. I thought you were talking of Polling models

Silly me....

[Swede Atlanta]

4. Wow.....that is amazing.....

[starroute]

7. More from the Associated Press

This is all just worst-case scenario so far -- but wow!

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-hybrid-sandy-winter-storm-threatens.html

Hurricane Sandy in the Caribbean, an early winter storm in the West, and a blast of arctic air from the North are predicted to collide, sloshing and parking over the country's most populous coastal corridor starting Sunday. The worst of it should peak early Tuesday, but it will stretch into midweek, forecasters say. . . .

It is likely to hit during a full moon when tides are near their highest, increasing coastal flooding potential, NOAA forecasts warn. And with some trees still leafy and the potential for snow, power outages could last to Election Day, some meteorologists fear. They say it has all the earmarks of a billion-dollar storm. . . .

Cisco said the chance of the storm smacking the East jumped from 60 percent to 70 percent on Wednesday. Masters was somewhat skeptical on Tuesday, giving the storm scenario just a 40 percent likelihood, but on Wednesday he also upped that to 70 percent. The remaining computer models that previously hadn't shown the merger and mega-storm formation now predict a similar scenario.

[superpatriotman]

8. WSVN just reported a 150 mph gust

Registered by a hurricane hunter plane.
!!!