It's only like thousands of times we've seen this scenario play out before and H5 always leads the way. I'd want for surface changes to wait for the 0z run anyway because of its higher skill scores.
Lee Goldberg is already honking on this storm, saying the chances are getting stronger that this will be a high impact event for our area with two days of snowfall 60+ mph winds and lots of coastal flooding.
I think we should name this storm Hercules, because he was the step son of Juno (Hera in Greek mythology-- wife of Zeus), and no matter how much she tried to ruin him, Hercules triumphed at every labor she put on him.
That prediction was amazing considering there had been a decade plus of conservative forecasts since the March 2001 bust. I guess the Euro really had much more respect back then.
I like that the furthest west members are touching the Jersey shore, that establishes a nice firewall to the west. I expect this to track between Block Island and Nantucket.
we've seen that disconnect more and more lately...so the AO will be negative and the NAO will be positive on Friday and over the weekend? Will they be weakly such or significantly departing from 0?
when humanity reaches its next stage of evolutionary progress this is exactly how we'll all be talking.
we might not even be talking, we will be directly projecting the words into each other's minds.