Kind of looks like a hurricane

[hurricanetrack]

Take a look at this satellite photo and notice the nor'easter over, well, the Northeast. Kind of looks like an old, used up hurricane, doesn't it? Has a lot of the same effects too- except this sucker is cold!

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/ECI8.JPG

['CaneFreak]

Take a look at this satellite photo and notice the nor'easter over, well, the Northeast. Kind of looks like an old, used up hurricane, doesn't it? Has a lot of the same effects too- except this sucker is cold!

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/ECI8.JPG

You make a great point there hurricanetrack. Actually, I have found some data from the buoys that suggests that this storm's pressure may have made it to cat 2 intensity!!!!!!! This is remarkable. Here look for yourself: the pressure from buoy 44025 made it down to 28.54 inches of mercury = 966.48 mb of pressure as of 8:50 AM this morning.

04 16 8:50 am - - - 14.8 13 7.4 SSE 28.54 -0.06 41.7 41.9 41.5 - - -

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44025

This is going to go down as one of the top 10 nor'easters of this century and we all were here to witness it. How remarkable is that!!!!

[Bonedog]

You folks should see the flooding we are experiencing up here in NJ.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
1221 PM EDT MON APR 16 2007

.SYNOPSIS...
INTENSE LOW PRESSURE OVER THE METRO AREA WILL LOOP OVER THE TRI-
STATE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...BEFORE PUSHING SOUTHEAST TONIGHT THROUGH
WEDNESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN BUILD SLOWLY INTO THE REGION
FROM THE NORTH THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

&&

.NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/...
NUMEROUS FLOOD WARNINGS ACROSS THE AREA...WITH HARDEST HIT AREAS
BEING NE NEW JERSEY/NYC/AND LOWER HUDSON VALLEY WITH BETWEEN 4 AND
8 INCHES OF RAIN HAVING FALLEN THE LAST 36 HRS. IN-FACT MAJOR TO
HISTORIC FLOODING BEING EXPERIENCED IN NE NEW JERSEY.

[Janie2006]

Sometimes winter storms will form eye-like structures as well as feature an intense area of low pressure. I think there are plenty of correlations between intense winter storms and tropical systems.

[wxwatcher91]

I believe the lowest pressure recorded was 965 which is 1mb away from category 3 hurricane strength.

[CrazyC83]

Well, pressure doesn't necessarily translate into categories...I have seen Category 1 storms with such low pressures as well as higher Category 3 storms. But generally a 965 mb storm would be a Category 2 hurricane.

[brunota2003]

Remember Wilma? 898 millibars as a Cat 4? (granted, it was weakening, but still...)

[Category 5]

I believe the lowest pressure recorded was 965.

I think you're right.

I recorded 972.2mb here.