Tropical Storm Andrea

As many of you know, Tropical Storm Andrea was born yesterday, but not really. Andrea started off in the Pacific ocean  and actually hit Mexico about a week ago. her Pacific name was Barbara and was classified as a Cat 1 Hurricane just prior to landfall.  Since then, she moved across Mexico and into the Gulf of Mexico. From there, she meandered north and officially became a Tropical Storm yesterday after the US Air Forces' Hurricane Hunters flew into the storm to better sample her energy. What they found was enough to warrant the naming of the storm. its rare for a storm to move from the Pacific to the Atlantic, but Barbara / Andrea is one of the few. Her name would have changed regardless even if she had not fallen below naming criteria in the Gulf of Mexico.

Currently, Andrea is ready to make landfall into Florida.  From there she will track across Florida and up the eastern seaboard. Andrea is currently packing 60mph winds, heavy rains and even some tornadoes. Flash Flood Watches have already been posted in parts of the area (although not NJ yet). The biggest impacts for us will be rain. Andrea will pass to our east. You can remember from storms of the past, that the most severe weather is usually located on the eastern side, so that will be out over the ocean. We will however have copious amounts of rain. We are looking at potentially 2-4" of rain. Winds will be present, but for the most part will not be very significant.

Rain moves in tonight and will last through late Friday Night. Showers may stick around for a period of time Saturday morning. The heaviest rains will fall during the day on Friday. As usual, updates on twitter and facebook. Welcome to the tropical weather season!

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Monday/Tuesday Update

Before the model runs tonight come in, just wanted to drop a note and let everyone know todays trends keep a fairly decent storm across the area. In fact, it may be a rather snowy day Monday. The bad news, most of the heaviest precipitation will be falling during the day time. A March sun angle and borderline temperatures is not a good combination for accumulations. So, it will more than likely be snowing, but it will not be accumulating. Temperatures will be in the middle 30's. We are still 36+ hours to go, so start time and max precipitation time can still be worked out.

More updates to come on this tonight and tomorrow.

March 6 & 7 update 3/1/13

EURO and GFS still are showing a potential Mid Atlantic storm for the middle of next week. While over the past couple days, both have been showing a more Southern track. Yesterday's Euro actually started working further and further north and last nights overnight run brought it up enough for it to affect us. The GFS has been doing the same thing, although maybe even more dramatic. It was the model showing the furthest south track and actually just had to going out to sea and not affecting us. Over the past day the march north has started. Today's midday run shows a real good smacking for all of our area. There is still a great deal to iron out, and the shifts and changes over the past 24 hours shows nothing is set in stone. Still a long way to go, but odds are better than not that a significant storm will affect a part of the Eastern seaboard. More to come!