John Ghiorse: This Will Be a Major, if Not Historic Storm
John Ghiorse, Meteorologist
John Ghiorse: This Will Be a Major, if Not Historic Storm
"Current thinking is that this will be a major, if not historic, storm with heavy snow, severe winds and massive seas causing flooding and much severe coastal and beach erosion," say Ghiorse.
"The timing for us in Southeastern New England looks to be from late Friday night through Saturday. Since the storm will not form until Friday off the Mid-Atlantic coast we only have a wide speculative corridor of the storm track. Just about all of the possibilities put us at least in a heavy snow band but I am still unsure if we will be in the maximum banding or not ... that depends on the exact track of the storm center as yet undetermined. It does seem that we can expect at least a foot of snow with banding that could run much higher. Winds gusting to 40-50 mph or higher will cause near-zero visibility and major drifting," adds Ghiorse. "Since we are still more than a couple of days out, nothing is etched in granite but preparation for a major storm is warranted at this time."