Keep an eye on this slow-developing storm, East Coast folks

[Johnny Dangerously]

Wind: 30 MPH — Location: 29.3 74.3W — Movement: E
This area of disturbed weather has the potential for tropical development.

(from Weather Underground)



Low pressure off of the Georgia- Florida Coast has the potential to acquire tropical or subtropical characteristics over the next couple of days.

The system appears to be gaining organization, however, at the moment, northwesterly shear is still inhibiting the disturbance from rapid development. This upper level shear is forecast to subside during the next two days. An Air Force Recon aircraft will investigate this suspect area tomorrow afternoon if necessary. All interests along the US East Coast should keep a close eye on the situation.

(From The Weather Channel)

 

[Eagleboy]

Intriguing. Based on where that sucker is, it seems like a sure bet to come up here.

Joy.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Have the folks at The Weather Channel taken Jim Cantore out of storage yet?

 

[HeinekenMan]

I remember one like that two years ago. The sucker came within 45 miles of the Daytona Beach coast and just spun for a day or two and then headed north and pounded North Carolina. It stayed stationary for so long that the waves caused lots of beach erosion in some areas that were hard hit in '04.

 

[Football_Bat]

Hopefully the only thing it'll stir up is a bunch of fish.

But the ones who may need to watch this are the Bermudans.

 

[Chef]

Have the folks at The Weather Channel taken Jim Cantore out of storage yet?

Yep...Our boy Jim is in Belize watching it get the **** hit out of it.

If you see him in your town.......head for the hills.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

The system's moving east, or is supposed to start, but the consensus is that it'll move to the southwest and west, and depending on which model you go with, everyone from Florida to Rhode Island could be hit.

It's been a while since the East Coast north of Florida got a landfalling hurricane. Ophelia brought hurricane conditions to the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 2005, but the eye stayed offshore. Gaston in 2004 was upgraded to a hurricane at the end of the season, Charley made a secondary landfall as a minimal hurricane that year, so Isabel and Juan were the last hurricanes with winds of more than 100 mph at time of landfall to affect the EC.

In other words, we're kind of overdue.

 

[StormSurge]

We haven't had much rain here in Connecticut all summer & Mother Nature has a funny way of making things even out.

 

[crimsonace]

Are there many people in the world with worse jobs than Jim Cantore?

You get to stand in the middle of every hurricane, tornado, snowstorm in the Western Hemisphere.

That might be down there with sewage cleaner.

 

[GuessWho]

Are there many people in the world with worse jobs than Jim Cantore?

He wants to be Dan Rather.

 

[Cansportschick]

Any word on if Atlantic Canada is supposed to get this? More importantly, will I be able to get out of here for New York on Friday?

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Any word on if Atlantic Canada is supposed to get this? More importantly, will I be able to get out of here for New York on Friday?

You should be fine for Friday. The storm's going to take its time getting its act together and wandering around the South Atlantic (I could think of worse things to do with my life, honestly). Any threat wouldn't likely materialize until early next week.

 

[Cansportschick]

Any word on if Atlantic Canada is supposed to get this? More importantly, will I be able to get out of here for New York on Friday?

You should be fine for Friday. The storm's going to take its time getting its act together and wandering around the South Atlantic (I could think of worse things to do with my life, honestly). Any threat wouldn't likely materialize until early next week.

So you mean, I may not be able to return back? Well, that is a win-win situation for me. Thanks Mystery!

 

[93Devil]

JD, if you have not seen this already, I think you will really like it.

 

[hondo]

Have the folks at The Weather Channel taken Jim Cantore out of storage yet?

Yep...Our boy Jim is in Belize watching it get the **** hit out of it.

If you see him in your town.......head for the hills.

Brad Pitt in Ocean's Eleven: "I had never been to Belize."

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Cantore's a wuss. Belize was 500 miles from where the eye came onshore. Once Belize City was out of the landfall cone, he should have hoofed it over to Cabo de Gracias a Dios or whatever that town in Nicaragua is called, shacked up in a mud hut and given us the REAL scoop.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

Should I be able to get out of Raliegh, N.C. by plane on Sunday night?

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Should I be able to get out of Raliegh, N.C. by plane on Sunday night?

Way too early to tell. Pretty much everyone on the East Coast has a chance at being affected. If I had to take a guess, Raleigh on Sunday night will probably be okay, but that depends on how soon this thing starts moving towards the coast and what kind of intensity it'll be. I suspect the Carolinas are the most likely target, but that could mean a typical OBX storm (moving anywhere from NNW to NNE), which would spare Raleigh. You may have a lot of company at RDU, though.

 

[Football_Bat]

OBX, here we come.

 

[DEB]

Well, forget the storm folks...bigger problems at Stanfield International Airport:

http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Front/857551.html

This is scary and I talked to Cansportschick on this phone this morning. She is scared to go on her flight to New York.