One thread per storm.
NWS Map for Monday-Tuesday. Yellow means hazardous weather outlook.
In a hazardous weather outlook Friday afternoon, the National Weather Service's office in Mount Holly predicted that a "significant coastal storm will affect the region beginning Monday night and lasting into early Wednesday." The outlook covered parts of New Jersey and Maryland and all of Delaware.
According to a forecast from Tri-State Stormwatch's Rick Cuttrell, "Computer guidance continues to display a powerful east coast storm" with snow and wind, and "Details will be determined in the coming days but this has the potential to be a high impact weather event."
In a video forecast Friday, Steve DiMartino, owner and lead meteorologist for NY NJ PA Weather, said the storm could juke, but is definitely bearing down on the coast.
"We are still not certain of the exact storm track here, a track further west along the coast will mean basically rain along the coast and significant snowfall along the interior," he said. A track further north and east "would lead to a very impressive snowfall along the coastal plain and not so much along the interior."
"The next storm on the horizon, all model runs for several days now are suggesting a formidable coastal storm come Tuesday, say Monday night into Tuesday. That's subject to some adjustment," Robinson said. "By 'formidable storm,' I mean a nor'easter that will be producing heavy surf, strong winds, and some heavy precipitation. The big question is where, exactly, this will line up and what form the precipitation will be in. But here we are in March, and there is no question that there could be some snow out of this system."
"Best case scenario for the Shore is this storm sets up further north than expected," Robinson said. "The cases where we get our worst coastal flooding and beach erosion is when the storm develops to our south, intensifies as it gets there and is relatively slow-moving.
"The problem with coastal flooding is, often, you get the easterly winds push the water into the bays in the high tide and, as the high tide goes down, the winds are still pushing the water in," Robinson said. "And the next high tide comes along and things haven't gone down as much as they should from the previous high tide."
NWS Map for Monday-Tuesday. Yellow means hazardous weather outlook.
In a hazardous weather outlook Friday afternoon, the National Weather Service's office in Mount Holly predicted that a "significant coastal storm will affect the region beginning Monday night and lasting into early Wednesday." The outlook covered parts of New Jersey and Maryland and all of Delaware.
According to a forecast from Tri-State Stormwatch's Rick Cuttrell, "Computer guidance continues to display a powerful east coast storm" with snow and wind, and "Details will be determined in the coming days but this has the potential to be a high impact weather event."
In a video forecast Friday, Steve DiMartino, owner and lead meteorologist for NY NJ PA Weather, said the storm could juke, but is definitely bearing down on the coast.
"We are still not certain of the exact storm track here, a track further west along the coast will mean basically rain along the coast and significant snowfall along the interior," he said. A track further north and east "would lead to a very impressive snowfall along the coastal plain and not so much along the interior."
"The next storm on the horizon, all model runs for several days now are suggesting a formidable coastal storm come Tuesday, say Monday night into Tuesday. That's subject to some adjustment," Robinson said. "By 'formidable storm,' I mean a nor'easter that will be producing heavy surf, strong winds, and some heavy precipitation. The big question is where, exactly, this will line up and what form the precipitation will be in. But here we are in March, and there is no question that there could be some snow out of this system."
"Best case scenario for the Shore is this storm sets up further north than expected," Robinson said. "The cases where we get our worst coastal flooding and beach erosion is when the storm develops to our south, intensifies as it gets there and is relatively slow-moving.
"The problem with coastal flooding is, often, you get the easterly winds push the water into the bays in the high tide and, as the high tide goes down, the winds are still pushing the water in," Robinson said. "And the next high tide comes along and things haven't gone down as much as they should from the previous high tide."
