Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- As a winter storm threatens to leave more than 12 inches of snow across upstate New York and parts of New England, forecasters are warning of an even more powerful system arriving Feb. 25.
“You may hear it called a ‘snow hurricane’ because blizzard may not even do it justice,” said Alex Sosnowski, an expert senior meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania. “It is like we’re getting a decade’s worth of storms all in one season.”
Winter storm warnings and advisories for the current storm stretch from Pennsylvania through Vermont and Massachusetts, according to the National Weather Service. While rain is falling in coastal areas such as New York, heavy snow is falling in Albany, where forecasts call for as much as 7 inches tonight and 10 inches tomorrow, the weather service said.
The next storm will develop off the U.S. East Coast out of a system coming up from the Gulf of Mexico, Sosnowski said. AccuWeather’s Web site describes the storm as “nothing short of a monster” and predicts high winds and heavy rain across Long Island, Connecticut and New York.
“Midday models show a region from Cape Cod to northern Maine receiving hurricane-force winds at the storm’s peak, Thursday afternoon and overnight,” private forecaster MDA Federal Inc. said in a statement. The lowest hurricane-force wind is 74 miles per hour (119 kph).
NYC Snow
New York City will probably receive snow from the storm, which is forecast to enter the metropolitan area early in the morning on Feb. 25, said Joe Pollina, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Upton, New York.
“We anticipate some snow for much of the area,” Pollina said by telephone.
He said it is too early to estimate snowfall amounts for New York because the storm’s path may still change. The weather service will begin releasing those forecasts sometime tomorrow, he said.
In coastal areas, the storm is likely to draw in warm air that will mean rain, while areas from upstate New York to Ottawa may receive 12 inches or more of snow, Sosnowski said.
“This thing is a little different animal,” Sosnowski said by telephone. “Instead of passing on by, it looks like it is going to hook back.”
The current storm has tied up air traffic along the East Coast, according to the Federal Aviation Administration Web site. Weather-related delays of more than an hour were reported in Boston, Philadelphia and Newark and at LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports in New Yor |
发表于 2010-2-23 21:02:18
