Hello all, Very interesting how the current front moved through and is now draped across eastern NY, associated precipitation with this front has largely dried up over us (but there's still moisture associated with this front back in western NY), and we're now seeing outer bands more associated with Sandy moving southeast to northwest back over central NY....and over the coming 48 hours that front that has stalled across eastern NY will be pushed back to the west by Sandy......and it looks the front will set up right over us. Never seen such a set-up quite like it. Birding could be great here in central NY Wed-Fri....birds from the North could make it to central NY and potential birds associated with Sandy could get dumped here in central NY. Winds are expected to stay out of the north until Monday night/Tuesday morning changing to the east sometime Tuesday morning. Right now the winds are out of the north but the precipitation is moving from the SE to NW. Weird. It's always fun dusting off my meteorological background, but I'm sure Dave Nicosia can speak about this set-up better than me. Again, weird stuff. I can see how this really does fit a hybrid hurricane/nor'easter. Barometric pressure is down around 951, which i believe the superstorm of March 93' was 963 and many hurricanes don't get any lower than the 970's.....and the size of the storm is enormous!!! Lets hope the birders figure a way of getting through it.
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