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Subscribe to RSSA nor'easter winter storm could hit the Mid-Atlantic and New England next week, the National Weather Service warned, but said the impact would be nowhere near as devastating as Superstorm Sandy.
The storm may affect the regions anywhere between "Election Day (Tuesday) into next Thursday," the service's prediction center said in a statement Thursday afternoon.
"Increasing winds along coastal New England and coastal Mid-Atlantic states Tuesday onward may lead to some coastal flooding and beach erosion," it added.
In a statement earlier Thursday, the center said "it should be noted that this system is expected to be much weaker than Hurricane Sandy and produce impacts much less extreme and mainly away from the region most strongly impacted by Sandy."
The Weather Channel echoed that scenario.
"At this time it looks as though coastal impacts would be farther north along the New England coast than we saw with Sandy," wrote weather.com winter weather expert Tom Niziol. "Snowfall would be confined to northern New England. Also, this system will not be anywhere as impactful as Sandy. That being said, it is much too early to discuss details and we will need to keep a close eye on future forecasts to fine tune the evolution of this system."
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Okay, I am ready for the nonsensical
Global WarmingI mean Climate Change comments. So our drilling for oil is causing climate change. Cows with gas in the fields causing climate change. Two storms within one week apart caused by climate change. That terrible air conditioner we like to use causes climate change. Its too hot due to climate change then too cold due to climate change. Sometimes it snows - climate change. Sometimes it doesn't - climate change. Sometimes it rains too much - that pesky climate change. Sometimes it doesn't rain enough - darn that climate change.Forget the fact that our climate has been going through cycles for millenniums THIS time around it is due to my truck. So go ahead I'm ready - everything we do is causing climate change.
98% of scientist, yap no reason to accept that. Let’s just look to the bible or to the profit motive. It is people like you sir who our decedents will be cursing. Please turn off Faux and read the scientific papers yourself.
we have ... http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/20/do-hacked-e-mails-show-global-warming-fraud/
wing attack,
Look at the investigations in to the hacked emails and you will find that there was nothing to them and they were taken out of context there were about six investigations and every one of them found no impropriety
Doug: Your "99% of scientists" just isn't true. Now, to clarify are you saying that 99% of scientists believe the climate is changing? The answer is "yes". But that is because the climate is ALWAYS changing so OF COURSE 99% of scientists will say that. Even I say that the climate is changing because it is ALWAYS changing.
HOWEVER, the number of scientists who believe the climate is changing due to "human caused events' now THAT number is low. Humans do not have the CAPACITY to affect our climate. Our climate is affected by earthquakes, solar flares from our sun, volcano eruptions, etc. To THINK that a cow flatulating out in the field is going to affect our environment is not only silly but illogical.
Is there climate change taking place? Yes, because it is ALWAYS taking place. We have had 75 MAJOR temperature swings in the last 4500 years and I doubt that the 76TH was not due to the same events that caused the other 75. But "human caused climate change" is just plain silly and wrong.
No I am saying that 98% of scientists that study the climate believe it is anthropomorphic “man made” climate change. Once again read the scientific papers not the reports from right wing “think tanks” see propaganda machines. We easily have the ability to affect the climate and atmosphere with the amount of heat trapping gasses we are pumping in to the atmosphere at the same time as we reduce the capacity to sequester it by cutting down large swaths of forest.
Doug: First, NO scientist can say with any certainty whether any slight climate change occurring is due to human caused events. I teach college Statistics and let me tell you how it works. You collect data, you run a regression analysis, and you look at the output to determine if it is significantly significant. What you are testing for is CORRELATION!! You CANNOT test for CAUSATION!!
No statistician on the PLANET would say that humans cause climate change. Only scientists that rely on government programs is stupid enough to say that. All a statistician can say is that the climate is changing with a confidence level of XX% and THEN can say there appears to be a CORRELATION between certain data and the change itself. But no statistician would say there is a CAUSE and no statistician would go so far as to say the CAUSE is man made. That's nonsense.
Back to the article- It doesn't need to be as powerful as Sandy to be very bad. We've got power out all over the place with an estimate of 5-10 days before it is restored, let alone tree damage, schools being out, etc. All you really need is some wind, rain, and snow and you'll knock out more trees, power lines, and the lower temps will push people without heat into more trouble.
Joe- good luck over there. Hope it breaks up and you get some decent weather for cleanup.
If the GOP admitted to global warming they would have to stop polluting the planet and cooperate in curbing dependency on oil. Well, that won't do, so they continue with ridiculous propaganda in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
At the bottom of the twisted GOP reasoning is one thing. Money. It doesn't have to make sense when money is involved.
Climate change is real. Regardless of what one believes is the cause, we need to do everything we can to slow it down the best we can.
If we keep getting bigger and more frequent storms, these won't be called severe weather alerts anymore. They'll just be called "weather reports".
It’s nice that you seem to understand statistics but you seem to lack an understanding of how science works. Going by what you’re saying we can also discount evolution by natural selection, gravity, and every other theory ever proposed and backed up by evidence. Yes you can say it is anthropomorphic with a high degree of certainty. All a theory is, is a model that works, can make predictions, and is backed up by the evidence available just like the model of the atom or atomic theory we can’t see it we know with in a percentage of certainty that it is there from the correlations that come out of the experiments we conduct based on the theories presented. Find your closest physicist and ask him/her about it I am sure he/she can help you in this area.
((( UNSEASONAL ))) 10 DAY WEATHER FORECAST
Thank the Father of All, that NYC is not dealing with freezing weather, snow, or both!
Hurricane Sandy was an unseasonal weather event, but just look at the warm November, 10 Day Weather Forecast.
Global Warming is truly in; "sharp relief"
ohh more great news...
is Mother Nature turning into a Romney supporter?
Don't kid yourself.
If you stub your toe and just broke your toe the week before, it hurts a lot worse!
Useless article, report on Bengazi you gutless reporters
Cry harder CON.
It's been reported ...extensively. It was a terrible tragedy and now it's fodder for conspiracy hacks that are tired of crying over birth certificates and school records. Do you post this crap on every article on nbc?
It's like a broken record...Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. Well, by the same logic Bush was responsible for 9/11 because he was president and had knowledget that an attack was possible. I'm sure you gave Bush a free pass on that one, though. Typical hypocrisy of the weaker minded.
Not to mention, your precious GOP voted down further funding that could have saved those people by bulking up security.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/us/politics/libya-attack-gains-steam-as-issue-in-race-for-president.html?_r=0
But keep just repeating the same thing over and over...it's all you have that hasn't been debunked by far smarter people than you.
I disliked Bush. That said, there is a difference between "a possible attack" (heck, even Clinton knew an attack was "possible") and allegedly covering up an alleged assistance requests.
If even half of what is spreading is true, Obama will be gone shortly after he is re-elected (if that happens). Nixon was (going to be) impeached on less.
BTW, why is there a "you're against A, so you must automatically be for B" mindset? Why can't I just be upset that having an honest man in the presidency is few and far between?
Whether or not you like it, weather happens.
That's Hurricane Sandra to you!
So John, you have no problem with Americans asking for help a month before the attack and not getting any, or do you have a problem with the white house watching live the attack and the state dept. denying assistance while its happening?
Knowing the Red Cross left and the Brits left, and the British Ambassador was attacked, and we stayed there asking for more security personnel, once again denied, in fact the state dept. pulled security out before the attack-you see no problem?
And main stream media missed the whole thing. Are you just stupid or do you not care about our people?
Seems even Mother Nature has had enough of Obama.
Don't you wish.
If the storm hits Philadelphia hard enough, Pennsylvania will go for Romeny. The Obama supporters will stay home, or at least will only go to the polls once.
Well, have fun cheering for more human suffering. After all, plenty of (R)s have been cheering bad economic news with the idea it might get their guy elected...hell, Congressional (R)s have been working as hard as they can to make things fail....what better way to finish their most important job of making Obama a one-termer, right?
It’s nice that you seem to understand statistics but you seem to lack an understanding of how science works. Going by what you’re saying we can also discount evolution by natural selection, gravity, and every other theory ever proposed and backed up by evidence. Yes you can say it is anthropomorphic with a high degree of certainty. All a theory is, is a model that works and is backed up by the evidence available just like the model of the atom or atomic theory we can’t see it we know with in a percentage of certainty that it is there from the correlations that come out of the experiments we conduct based on the theories presented. Find your closest physicist and ask him/her about it I am sure he/she can help you in this area.
Also, the high correlation of smoking to lung cancer does not need a specific cause and effect, the correlation is high enough to stop snoking.
Pro Bus assumes that unless one understands all the absolute cause and effects or all interrelated variables that one cannot make a decision to do something.
Decisions in business are made every day without perfect knowledge, only high correlations.
I just realized that there are fourteen states that cling to the "election day only" voting paradigm....and a good portion of them are in the northeast.
Imagine if Sandy had hit one week later, and 3-4 states have to postpone their election days because there's simply no way of getting their population to voting booths in a safe, orderly manner....think that might cause a bit of chaos?
Have a deadline date where all voting must be completed and counted, sure....but the idea of one day where everyone must get to the polls is an antiquated notion, and Sandy is a perfect example of why.
Good day to all your commentors... In this time of all the people in need, why don't
you just rolll your sleeves up, work a couple of hours extra and send it to one of the
numerous charities, and just be glad for now, just for now, that you are living in the
United States, and you can constantly comment each other on badgering each other
and against Obama and Romney. Come On, we are in this boat together!!!
Seems to me relying on one fuel, gas or diesel from oil is the problem, no alternatives.
No ability to use any other means other than a bike or your feet.
That is why a monopoly on fuel is dangerous/
There will always be a reason why oil is either not refined, cant get to you, too expensive, whatever as long as Americans rely on just gasoline as their fuel.
Pro business. You are correct in your statistcal analyses..
However, we do know high correlations about certain things.
Tobacco smokers get cancer and heart disease more often.
Man affects the environment and global warming is real based on the high correlation and isolating variables with a hiogh level of confidence that man pollutes and cause global climate change.
If you don't believe that then we can make a case that says we do know cars create carbon monoxide and other pollutants and increasing the number of cars cannot continue forever . We will have grid lock as you see in NY as well as problems in our waste management and pollution of rivers, as is the case of the Hudson River in NY.
Bottom line is fossil fuels are 19th century technology and will not sustain us into the future. Also, fossil fuels are too heavy for serious space exploration.
You are trying to keep a dinosaur alive my friend.
So how do you get a "Winter Storm" in November?
The same way you get a super storm that's really a hurricane, I guess.
the hurricane season lasts until November 30th.
CAN SOMEBODY HELP ME FIGURE THIS ONE OUT?
How can any government official who has been appointed by the people of his or her state sincerely say "he cares about them" and at the same time announce a marathon will take place while dead bodies remain in unchecked homes and apartment buildings. It seems to me that all those who are going to participate sincerely lack compassion for his fellow man by not volunteering to help those who were less fortunate. I always thought of New Yorkers after 911 as being supportive of each other and willing to lend a helping hand to those in a crisis or in a time of need. There is no excuse just letting the government do all the work. What happened to the true spirit of New Yorkers standing shoulder to shoulder as the days of 911 occurred. Maybe God is sending a message to New York to not get complacent and to be more compassionate and grateful for having survived disaster after disaster. God bless New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Timothy Lewis Whiting
U.S. Army Veteran
How about Maryland? We got hit very hard, too.
In times like these, the only logical thing to do is to delay the election. What's wrong with peoples thinking. That is not a "Holy" date, not to be moved. So much corruption in this government. When will we wake up and realize this. If we really want to change our government we need to outlaw lobbyist. They are the ones that have control of our elected officials.
Just frickin great.....guess I'll just put off having my fence repaired until Spring...... I LOVE New England weather....