The Northeast Storm in Technicolor
Today's storm in the Northeast has kept its heaviest rain offshore thus far, but New England will get a good dousing by Tuesday. The storm is moving excruciatingly slow, in fact thus far today it seems nearly stationary, but this will change tonight as the jet stream approaches. Here's how the storm system looked "In Technicolor*" around 11 AM Eastern today on AccuWeather.com RadarPlus:
The map above shows wind speeds as a gradient from red/orange (high) to green/blue (low), on top of directional arrows and a visible satellite image. I created this image by merging two screens -- if you are interested the original satellite+arrows and pressure+wind images are available.
Most of the heavy rain has remained offshore, though some locations in New Jersey have received around 3 inches, according to Doppler Estimates. This will change tonight as the storm finally moves into New England.
Except for its rain output, the storm is relatively weak. You can see in the image above that the high winds are to the Northeast of the storm. There are no weather stations in that part of the ocean but a buoy off the northern New Jersey coast (on the edge of the high winds) did indicate wind gusts of 44 mph (38.5 knots) early this morning (GRAPH).
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