Irene a New England storm?

[WXFIEND]

Maine? MAINE?

I live in NJ right by NYC and its not even a threat to me, none of hte met's are mentioning it and those westerlies will probably sweep it right out to sea.

How is it a threat to MAINE?

[Trader Ron]

Maine? MAINE?

I live in NJ right by NYC and its not even a threat to me, none of hte met's are mentioning it and those westerlies will probably sweep it right out to sea.

How is it a threat to MAINE?

I agree. When i lived on Long Island,the majority of the time, you could count on the Westerlies taking a storm North and East of the area.
We'll see...

[storm4u]

whats this all about the little turn to the northwest!! That makes me wonder



http://hurricane.methaz.org/cgi-bin/map ... zoomsize=2

[wxwatcher91]

just to remind everyone... Long Island, Nantucket, and southern Connecticut and Rhode Island are now in the the forecast cone.


here is an image of the current surface data... I usually try to save a lot of the pics and make a loop of my... it is very useful...


also try out http://www.goes.noaa.gov/srcheast.html for an archive of sat images.

[JamesFromMaine2]

Maine? MAINE?

I live in NJ right by NYC and its not even a threat to me, none of hte met's are mentioning it and those westerlies will probably sweep it right out to sea.

How is it a threat to MAINE?

All I know is that the Meteorologests here in Maine said it was something we needed to keep an eye on cause we could be getting it!

[storm4u]

almost all the mets around here said to keep a close eye on it! But noone knows where its going to go so i dont know well see!

[New Englander]

This is from the NECN weather blog For the New England area.

Here Is the Link: http://weather.boston.com/blog/

As for Tropical Storm Irene, she's still a strong tropical storm as of this writing, but I expect she'll be classified as a hurricane by the end of Friday. While the trend in our guidance has been to "recurve" Irene out to sea farther away from the coastline than was depicted yesterday, I'm suspicious of this trend. Our Bermuda High will be pulsing late this weekend into early next week, and it's not natural to allow the storm to turn north, directly into an area of high pressure. At this stage of the game - which is still very early when dealing with tropical systems that can change over 5 hours, let alone 5 days - I still think a forecast of taking the storm just offshore of the Outer Banks of North Carolina Tuesday, and parallel to the shore up to at least Southern NJ Wednesday seems like the best track at this point. From there, it still seems too early to speculate, though clearly the farther south one is in New England, the more possible effects we could see. We've been watching this storm for a long time at NECN and we always give the latest information - as well as the National Hurricane Center forecast track and cone of probability - in our broadcasts. Feel free to check back this weekend, as I'll likely post a special update on Irene at some point over the weekend.

[wxwatcher91]

here is a compound image I made using 0015z 0315z 0615z 0915z and 01215z sat images from today

[Tri-State_1925]

I haven't been following this storm much...last I heard it was heading out to sea a few days ago.

Over the last 10 years or so, storms threatening NE were blocked or pushed out to sea by fronts and whatnot. This thing will probably head out to sea too. Not hearing much buzz around these parts.