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| What would have been Nor'easter #5 this month spins intensely well east of the New England coast yesterday. Had it been a few hundred miles further west, it would have caused more bigtime havoc. Beautiful satellite photo, though. |
There was a grand total of four that hit at least parts of New England, so it was a busy month in that department.
The overall weather pattern has shifted only a bit in the past week. The shift has been enough to put us in somewhat warmer air. The snow is beginning to melt now.
Still, a fifth nor'easter of sorts did manage to get going over the past couple of days. I'm not sure if you can officially call it a nor'easter, since it didn't hit the coast or come particularly near it.
But otherwise, this fifth storm did pretty much what the previous four did: It emerged off the southeastern U.S. coast as a weak system, then blew up into a monster, huge storm. Only this time it was much further offshore than the ones that came before it.
You can see by the satellite picture of this storm that it was a beaut, way offshore.
Which is great, because this Nor'easter #5 is, or at least was, arguably the strongest of the bunch. It is generating sone big waves and dangerous surf up and down the East Coast, but nothing extreme. There are hazardous seas advisories for offshore waters of New England.
The good news is this Nor'easter #5, while moving erratically, It's now weakening and moving north, way off the coast. It looks like it will clip Newfoundland and harass Iceland, but leave us here in New England alone.
Of course, that doesn't mean another snowy nor'easter can't come along. We can get them in April, you know. And the weather pattern is potentially favorable for a nor'easter or even two sometime between April 4 and 12. I don't know whether one will develop, but it's worth watching.
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