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A disruptive spring storm already pummeling the Atlantic seaboard Saturday will delay the space shuttle Enterprise’s trip to New York and bring winter-like snow to the Appalachians and Great Lakes, forecasters warn.
Rain that washed out ballgames and festivals in southern Florida was moving north and expected to meet cold air moving south from Canada, forecasters said.
Tornado watches were issued late Saturday in central and southern Florida.
Severe thunderstorms with wind gusts up to 34 mph struck Delaware, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday night.
Up to 4 inches of rain was forecast Sunday from Washington, D.C., to New York City.
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National Weather Service forecast for Sunday
“It’s going to be a very, very intense Nor’easter,” said Michael Eckert, senior branch forecaster with the National Weather Service based in Camp Springs, Maryland.
Winds of 30 to 50 miles per hour are expected on the coast.
“The weather will be going downhill during the day on Sunday,” Eckert said.
Snow is forecast to fall across the Appalachians in West Virginia and reach central Pennsylvania on Sunday night and move up to the Buffalo, N.Y., area by Monday. Snow levels are forecast to be above 1,000 feet elevation by Monday night. Snow was also possible for Buffalo and Pittsburgh.
The Weather Channel warned this would be heavy, wet snow that could cause tree and power line damage, especially after record March warmth sent trees into full leaf far earlier than usual.
Heavy rainfall capable of flooding was also expected Sunday into Monday morning in southern New England and eastern Maine and New Hampshire later Monday.
NASA said Monday's planned arrival of the shuttle has been postponed "until further notice."
The Enterprise is being brought to the city where it has a new permanent home waiting at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
NASA managers are monitoring weather forecasts and will reschedule the shuttle's flight as soon as possible, the space agency said.
The plan is to fly the shuttle atop a carrier aircraft to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. It will be moved by barge to the Intrepid museum for public display.
The museum is at a decommissioned aircraft carrier moored at Manhattan. It's been making room for the shuttle on its flight deck.
This article includes reporting by The Weather Channel, The Associated Press and Reuters.
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If the tornado warning is up and if the storm is coming at night, please do evacuation to shelter or to basement with emergency supplies and stay there till the next morning or till it is safe to go outside.
My parents have pictures of me at Easter in the late 60s, in shorts, standing outside in a shoveled walkway with snow piled as high as my shoulders on Long Island. Rare, but big snowstorms happen in April.
Yep, we had the same in St Louis in the early 70's. It was strange, but as a kid you thought it was fun to hunt for Easter eggs in the snow. I live on the East Coast now and we need this precipitation. Whether it comes in the form of rain or snow, I'm glad we're getting something. Hopefully this will take care of our precipitation deficit.
Are you suggesting weather happens in patterns? Don't tell Al Gore. He's made millions off idiots buying his story.
Yeah like this guy who lauds the burning down of homes of man-made climate change deniers (and make no mistake we all know the climate changes over time as it always has, be it warmer or cooler, but there is no factual concrete evidence mankind is the driving force behind it, or even assisting it):
http://www.infowars.com/climate-alarmist-calls-for-burning-down-skeptics-homes/
10tacle:
Were you indicating that the person to whom you refer is making money like Al Gore or just attacking a trollish statement that has some basis in fact?
"Good luck" and get ready to our northern citizens.
Not sure what you are talking about there Sarcastic, but all I did was provide a link to a story about the radicalism of the left wing so-called "progressive" AGW crowd and the lack of outrage in the main stream media, that's all. And it was directed at this comment which had nothing to do with Algore's money and all at his fanaticism (and that of his followers): "Are you suggesting weather happens in patterns? Don't tell Al Gore."
Not a peep from liberals (or their DNC main stream). I'm so sure had Rushannity (or whatever latest cute phrases you liberals are using for conservative commentators) said that those who deny that welfare is on the increase under Obama should have their homes burned, the media would be silent just as they are on burning down homes of man-made climate change deniers. But that's to be expected. And there was no "fact" in that radical left wing commentary, not anymore than there is "fact" that Obama's policies are doing America great (and have been for over three years now).
But I will say this: as the left threatens to escalate things in this nation (and around the globe) from both a "social justice" front through the OWS crowd as well as a "climate change" front from the likes of the people referenced here, all it does is embolden real thinkers like me (and not emotion driven people like liberals) to continue the resistance of forced socialist draconian fascist Utopian ideology cloaked as AWG.
10tacle:
I misunderstood your post.
Regards.
Yup i even remember it snow in June...That was many years ago..
I know, ha...It used to snow in August to. But now, we have this thing called summer...thanks to big oil!
This is not typical, but it is also not all that unusual. I grew up in the northeast and I can remember a few times having major snow storms as late as the last week of April on Long Island. All evidence of the snow was usually gone within a day or two as the weather would quickly return to normal. We would get heavy wet snow one day and it would be in the 60s a day or two later. This looks like the snow is going to be restricted to the Appalachian mountains, not anywhere near the coast, so it is not really that strange at all.
I Would Evacuate!!! Fo Sure!!
Great 5' snow would be so nice to the NE
Pretty much knew that unusually cold wet weather we had on the Left coast (while the east had 80's) would head East.
Hope it doesn't last long.
Another example of GeoEngineering...
Why is this such big news? We've had snow in April before in Michigan. It's nothing new to me.
People seem to think their lives are the most important life over and above any one or anything else they just have to TALK AND TALK AND TALK about themselves until the end of time. This isn't just a weather cycle of snow. No no. This is an event that must be batted around and analyzed to pieces so people feel relevant.
Wish it wasn't coming all at once, but at least it will relieve the drought. People relying on shallow wells were beginning to worry.
Here here!, as in "me too!"
Someone make a bigger umbrella ....
Enjoy the cool air while you can. It's going to be a hot summer along the east coast:
The seasonal temperature outlook for MJJ 2012 indicates below normal mean
temperatures for montana and western north dakota. probabilities of above
normal mean temperatures are enhanced from the southwest across texas and the
south, including the gulf coast states, and to the Atlantic states.
The seasonal precipitation outlook for MJJ 2012 indicates enhanced
probabilities of below median total precipitation for the pacific northwest, the southwest, inland as far montana and wyoming, and the Atlantic states.
Yep...It's the weather...Nothing so unusual about the possibility of a little snow in late April here in NJ. Better snow than a frost anyway, At least the snow will not cause as much damage to the blueberries.
The ONLY good thing about snow this late in the year, is that it helps with the forest fire season.Snow on the ground keeps miosture in the soil and vegetation, lessening the damage a fire can do.
Other than that snow doesn't turn my crank.
Gas up the generator! Maybe this will help our groundwater levels.
After an unusually cold winter in 2011 (December 2010-February 2011) the winter of 2012 was unusually warm in the continental United States. But the winter of 2012 was bitter in Europe, Asia and Alaska.
Weather conditions similar to 2012 occurred in the winter of 1942, when the U.S. Midwest was unusually warm, and when the Wehrmacht encountered the formidable forces of "General Frost" in a Russian winter not unlike the one Russians just had. ~ William Happer, professor of physics at Princeton
I'm ready !!!! still have my snow tires on the car!! LOL
Good luck!
every time I see an ad for lawn furniture or weed killer....I just roll my eyes.
Up here (Lake Superior), we still have snow,and haven't quite had the opportunity yet to finally put away our snow shovels and snowblowers. We are sick of Winter and the lack of warm temps.
Northerns also coined the phrase.. "Weather forecasting is an in-exact science".
Our "Easter" snow is a little late this year. We usually have one. About 20 years ago, we had a similar snow, but it didn't last (on the ground). It warmed right up, and all was good. It's just this winter's last party on the lawn.
Words to the wise: Be prepared. It won't last long, but you don't want to be cold and uncomfortable. You know what you need to get through. Take care of yourselves.
Big deal. It frequently snows in April here in Denver, and it also did in Michigan when we lived there. Spring snow never lasts long, though, and that's the good news.
April snow in the Northeast is nothing new. I remember back in my college days I was not able to get to school after spring break because there had been a snow storm!
Its just a form of cold Global Warming
Warning Al gore Farted it may cause weather pattern changes you have been warned!!!
XD
we are finally getting winter in the NE ? its a little late though !
The Four Seasons,
Here in Az people like to say we have 4 seasons ... warm, warmer, hot and hot as Hell ... today is going to be 104, so it's 'only' hot... although the weatherman used the clever word 'toasty'. It would be nice to get just a few drops of rain one of these months, but won't hold my breath waiting on it either. Enjoy your spring, whatever it brings. :-)
Peace to all
The Summer Monsoon will be wetting your windshields in a few weeks Steve.
Wally,
True enough, but most of the monsoon storms are wind and dust with only a little rain, it's just enough so that everyone's cars look like a spotted leopard the next day. However, it's good business for the car wash companies! Have a good one.
Why does the weather on the East Coast always make headlines? The rest of the country can be flooded to it's eyeballs, storms raging, fire, ice and snow destroying everything and the media pays hardly any attention.
But, the weather burps on the east coast and it's so newsworthy, we hear it for days on end!
The weather only affects the East Coast media. The rest of the nation must have death and/or destruction in order to qualify for time. Besides, Global Warming is responsible for this. It is also responsible for dogs having fleas, your toast burning, your wife acting irritable, the weeds growing in your lawn.....