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发帖数: 4990 | 1 http://news.yahoo.com/hybrid-sandy-winter-storm-threatens-east-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Much of the U.S. East Coast has a good chance of getting
blasted by gale-force winds, flooding, heavy rain and maybe even snow early
next week by an unusual hybrid of hurricane and winter storm, federal and
private forecasters say.
Though still projecting several days ahead of Halloween week, the computer
models are spooking meteorologists. Government scientists said Wednesday the
storm has a 70 percent chance of smacking the Northeast and mid-Atlantic.
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'll be a rough couple days from Hatteras up to Cape Cod," said forecaster
Jim Cisco of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration prediction
center in College Park, Md. "We don't have many modern precedents for what
the models are suggesting."
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.
Some have compared it to the so-called Perfect Storm that struck off the
coast of New England in 1991, but Cisco said that one didn't hit as
populated an area and is not comparable to what the East Coast may be facing
. Nor is it like last year's Halloween storm, which was merely an early
snowstorm in the Northeast.
This has much more mess potential because it is a combination of different
storm types that could produce a real whopper of weather problems,
meteorologists say.
"The Perfect Storm only did $200 million of damage and I'm thinking a
billion," said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private service
Weather Underground. "Yeah, it will be worse."
But this is several days in advance, when weather forecasts are far less
accurate. The National Hurricane Center only predicts five days in advance,
and on Wednesday their forecasts had what's left of Sandy off the North
Carolina coast on Monday. But the hurricane center's chief hurricane
specialist, James Franklin, said the threat keeps increasing for "a major
impact in the Northeast, New York area. In fact it would be such a big storm
that it would affect all of the Northeast."
The forecasts keep getting gloomier and more convincing with every day,
several experts said.
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.
The biggest question mark is snow, and that depends on where the remnants of
Sandy turn inland. The computer model that has been leading the pack in
predicting the hybrid storm has it hitting around Delaware. But another
model has the storm hitting closer to Maine. If it hits Delaware, the
chances of snow increase in that region. If it hits farther north, chances
for snow in the mid-Atlantic and even up to New York are lessened, Masters
said.
NOAA's Cisco said he could see the equivalent of several inches of snow or
rain in the mid-Atlantic, depending on where the storm ends up. In the
mountains, snow may be measured in feet instead of inches.
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Associated Press writer Tony Winton contributed to this report from Miami. | p******g
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| n****e
发帖数: 4990 | 5 This weekend to early next week.
Be prepared. The potential of this storm sounds horrible
"This has much more mess potential because it is a combination of different
storm types that could produce a real whopper of weather problems,
meteorologists say.
"The Perfect Storm only did $200 million of damage and I'm thinking a
billion," said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private service
Weather Underground. "Yeah, it will be worse.""
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: 扫了一下，没看到说什么时候来？
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发帖数: 10665 | 7 深秋真的要来了。。。
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: This weekend to early next week.
: Be prepared. The potential of this storm sounds horrible
: "This has much more mess potential because it is a combination of different
: storm types that could produce a real whopper of weather problems,
: meteorologists say.
: "The Perfect Storm only did $200 million of damage and I'm thinking a
: billion," said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private service
: Weather Underground. "Yeah, it will be worse.""
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