My earlier post about the
Making of A Perfect Storm may have gained some validity. AccuWeather has an
article that discusses the very merging of the two storms I was talking about.
If this occurs it would produce a super storm.
COULD WILMA AND ALPHA MERGE TO PRODUCE
A SUPERSTORM?Posted: Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 7:26 PM EDT
by AccuWeather.com Sr. Meteorologist Jim Andrews
STATE COLLEGE, PA (AccuWeather.com) — The atmosphere as of Saturday
holds potential for the development of a powerful storm off the Atlantic
Seaboard of the United States early next week. While this would be true to
some extent without the existence of Hurricane Wilma and the newly-dubbed
Tropical Storm Alpha, which represent a great reservoir of tropical warmth
and moisture, it only ratchets up the potential.Two players here are key. First, a sharply dipping jet stream will be
thrusting southward from central Canada and tapping a cold pool to spin up
low pressure south of the Great Lakes Sunday and Monday. The other player,
none other than Hurricane Wilma, will pull away from Mexico’s Yucatan
Peninsula in time for a crossing of the Florida Peninsula Monday. It is
Monday night and Tuesday when things could get crazy in the meteorological
sense. The strong northeast-trending jet stream will scoop up Wilma, with
possible contribution from Alpha, as the low shifts from the Appalachians to
the coast. If Wilma were to follow the western edges of its forecast window
and begin to draw in the cool low from the west, an explosive deepening
could result, culminating in a deep and fully merged storm raging south of
Nova Scotia Wednesday. While this is not the most likely scenario, it is one
that is in the realm of possibility. This is what could happen Monday night
and Tuesday if our Worst Case Scenario came to pass. Heavy, driving rains
and gales would pound the Seaboard from North Carolina to southern New
England. As the rains spread northwards and the storm tapped the cold pole
from the west, rain would turn to heavy wet snow over the inland Northeast.
Keep checking back with us at AccuWeather.com Weather Headlines to see what
the latest is on this interesting, even serious, weather situation.
Article link.
Perhaps I should look into a new job as a meteorologist. Just joking, it was
kind of an obvious thing just looking at the tracks of the two storms. Add into
it Hurricane Fitzgerald that should make landfall this week and we have a recipe
for 24/7 news coverage going hay wire.