HURRICANE FORCE WINDS CAN HIT EAST COAST TODAY AND TOMORROW!!!

Now snow on long island

First Hurricane Sandy, now Winter Storm Athena for the Eastern U.S.

Posted by: Dr. Jeff Masters, 02:57 PM GMT em 07 de Novembro de 2012

Winter Storm Warnings are up for Southwest New Jersey, Northern Delaware, and Southeast Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, PA, where Winter Storm Athena is expected to drop 3 - 5" of snow today through Thursday morning. Slushy accumulations of up to 1" are likely in Baltimore, and non-accumulating snow will fall as far south as Washington, DC. Athena, the season's first Nor'easter and first winter storm to get a name under The Weather Channel's new naming system, is spreading rain and high winds into Southern New Jersey and Eastern Long Island, NY this morning. Winds at buoy 44025, about 40 miles offshore from the coast of Central New Jersey, reached 36 mph, gusting to 45 mph, with a significant wave height of 12.5', at 9 am EST. Winds at Atlantic City, NJ gusted to 28 mph at 4 am EST, and the airport had picked up 0.13" of rain as of 9 am. Athena is building a storm surge that has already reached 2.2' at Atlantic City and 1.8' at New York City so far this morning. A storm surge of 2 - 3.5' is likely along the section of coast most heavily damaged by Sandy's storm surge, and battering waves up to 20' high will cause moderate beach erosion along much of the New Jersey and New York shoreline. The storm surge will cause minor to moderate flooding during this afternoon's high tide cycle near 1 pm EST, and again at the next high tide, near 1 am EST Thursday morning. Fortunately, the high tides this week will be some of the lowest of the month, since we are midway between the new moon and full moon. Wind gusts from Athena will likely reach 50 mph along the coasts of New Jersey and Southern Long Island, NY, and could hit 60 mph on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I expect that Athena's winds, rains, and wet, heavy snows will cause up to 50,000 new power outages today. As of early Wednesday morning, 676,000 customers were still without power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy (down from a peak of 8.5 million customers.)
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the 8th Harbinger?

Snow started!

Ryan Maue‏@RyanMaue

Frontal-fracture & tropopause folding will coincide with bent-back warm-front wrapping around quiet center of #Athena [link to twitter.com]

Joe Bastardi‏@BigJoeBastardi

Buzzards Bay now gusting to over 60 mph ( 54kts) Great loop on storm [link to www.meteo.psu.edu] … pic.twitter.com/ZpPwgYc1

13 minJim Cantore‏@JimCantore

If your in the pink expect HEAVY #SNOW: [link to www.spc.noaa.gov] … #CTwx #NYwx #NJwx #PAwx

Business Insider‏@businessinsider

Nor'easter Could Bring Up To 6 Inches Of Snow To NYC by @DinaSpector [link to read.bi]

2 minAccuWeather.com‏@breakingweather

RT @amyfreeze: NJDOT ready to treat when road surface is 32 degrees. North of 287 the wind is bringing snow down sideways.

22 minAccuWeather.com‏@breakingweather

MT @accu_adrienne: A band of moderate-heavy snow should persist this PM w/ rates approaching 1"/hr from CT to SE PA. [link to www.spc.noaa.gov] …

32 minAccuWeather.com‏@breakingweather

[link to FlightStats.com] reports that 1,300 flights have been canceled in the U.S. today. >500 have been canceled in Newark, NJ.

Jim Cantore‏@JimCantore

Here's the wind: 6 WSW Cuttyhunk [Anz235 Co, MA] mesonet reports NON-TSTM WND GST of M62 MPH at 12:59 PM EST -- buzzards bay buoy

com‏@breakingweather

RT @capitalweather: Impressive MT @MattNoyesNECN: Martha's Vineyard Shipyard now has gusted 72mph from the NE. #mawx

7 minAccuWeather.com‏@breakingweather

2.0 inches of snow has accumulated in both New Britain and Plainville, CT.

The mid-level low associated with this nor'easter appears to be cutting off from the main flow and stalling, means that the trough overall is losing its best dynamics and less negatively tilted.

Capital Weather Gang‏@capitalweather

Key Nor'easter stats so far: Up to 2" snow Conn, 70 mph wind gust Martha's Vineyard, up to 3' storm surge DE/NJ coast, [link to wapo.st]

The National Weather Service issued a high-wind warning for expected "damaging winds," effective from 1 p.m. Wednesday to 4 a.m. Thursday. Such a warning means "a hazardous high wind event is expected," in this case with 25- to 35-mph winds and gusts as high as 60 mph. But gusts along the coast may peak at 70 mph, David Stark, a meteorologist with the weather service, said.

Such winds are capable of bringing down trees and power lines, and creating minor property damage, officials said.

The weather service also issued a coastal flood warning for the South Shore, Long Island Sound and Peconic and Gardiners bays on the East End from late morning Wednesday through 7 a.m. Thursday.

4 minCapital Weather Gang‏@capitalweather

Winds currently gusting 40 mph+ Long Island and E Mass, near 50 mph Nantucket and Cape Cod: [link to wapo.st]

1 minJoe Bastardi‏@BigJoeBastardi

WInds at Buzzards Bay are sustained at 60 with gusts over 70 mph

I grew up not too far from there. The ground is already saturated. Could be worse damage than Sandy.

AccuWeather.com‏@breakingweather

New power outages have occurred in Bergen County, N.J. Wind is the more likely cause than snow, but that part is unconfirmed.

A little patch of convective clouds has developed directly over the surface low of the nor'easter. This is due to latent heat release at the center of the warm seclusion. This is actually the same process that occurs in tropical cyclones

How long until the stronger winds hit the coast? or did it already hit?

Is there any live camera footage to keep track?

Thanks for keeping everyone informed

I don't know, i know this is untill tomorrow morning

51 sAccuWeather.com‏@breakingweather

New York City reporting a quarter of a mile visibility as snow falls in Central Park

48 sJim Cantore‏@JimCantore

Looks like one of the heavier #Snow bands now has rotated into Philly: [link to radar.weather.gov] …

Jim Cantore‏@JimCantore

Heavier snow continues around #NYC and most of central New Jersey including the shoreline: [link to radar.weather.gov] … #NJwx

Jim Cantore‏@JimCantore

#snow/ wind winners thus far: NEW BRITAIN, CT 4.8" 420 PM AMATEUR RADIO 6 WSW CUTTYHUNK 76mph 300 PM MESONET via NWS Taunton

snow in Manhattan

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