Very Powerful Noreaster Likely on the way
If the GFS model(the American Model) is correct, a very powerful Noreaster will smash the East Coast with Heavy Rain,Snow and Wind. According to the model, this would be one of the strongest storms to hit the east coast since the famous Blizzard of 1993 as its showing a very powerful low pressure center that moves very slowly up the coast(even stalls) and causes an enormous amount of rain and interior snow. This is the predicted snowfall map based on the 12z GFS run and it even gives the Northern Virginia area 2-3 inches of snow after alot of rain.
This storm would start on April 14 and continue through the 16th according to the model and would give us hours of backslash snow. This storm would also cause coastal flooding and beach erosion and dump massive amounts of snow in the mountains of the NorthEast. Something to definitely watch for the end of the weekend into early part of next week. This storm has very strong support from the GFS ensembles and more importantly, the superior European Model.
Stay tuned!
3 comments:
Some are comparing this to Dec 92 others to March 62. Do you see similarities to either? Obviously the sun angle would be more comparable to March, however if it snows during the night that would be less of an impact. Both March 62 and Dec 92 left the Northern Shenandoah Valley and West Virginia with lots of snow. Obviously I'm wondering if this has the potential to impact my area (extreme NW VA) as those storms did.
The models midweek had this storm being as strong as the Dec 92 noreaster and possibly the strongest surface storm since 1993 but its gone away from that a bit. It dosent show the stalling of the Mid Atlantic coast as it did before.
I think the Northern Shendondah Valley will see some snow but with the track being furthest west than I would like, i dont see it being a big deal.
I live in the Souther Apps. 3000'ft. 10 Miles from the NC Border. From Boone, Nc to Floyd, Va we had 6" of snow from this storm on April 15. I just now found this article, as I was researching the blizzard of 93' which dumped 3 feet on us. ANyways, elevation was very dependent with the April storm I was reffering to, as elevations below 2500' had virtually no less then an inch, and elevations above 3500' had a foot.
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