ATTENTION : Northeast U.S. (New Jersey acting-Gov declares State of Emergency)

[Edward Rose]

jesus, when global warmings had its way, england will have storms like that too.

Scary thought!

I just went to downtown Manhattan and they were about a foot or two away from being under water. Close call. The storm is running about 6 hours behind schedule and that's the only reason it wasn't worse.

But the storm is only just now forming off the Maryland coast... the rain all day was just some energy moving out ahead of it.

EDIT--- My ears are starting to pop from the low pressure... Barometer: 29.17" (987.7 mb)

England? Your biggest problem in the Global Warming computer models will be the breakdown of the Gulf Stream cycle, plunging The U.K. and all near-by countries into arctic weather equal to what is experienced at the same lattitude in Canada... http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/mb-25_metric_e.html

[SLCPUNK]

Well it brought some very cool weather down here. Two days ago I was going to go swimming, and today I have my sweater on, which of course, is fine with me.

[Edward Rose]

The pressure just dropped below 29.04 which is as low as a category one hurricane. And the storm just formed and is still hundreds of miles away.

[Edward Rose]

Stay away from moving water and enjoy the day off from school... 

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WEATHER/04/16/storm.ap/index.html

[Cornell]

My sons and I just flew home Saturday from spending 10 days at the beach and now they don't have school today because of the storm.  I'm sunburned and freezing now! 

[pilferk]

Flooding up here in CT is just outrageous.

On my drive in to work today, it was "detour central", having to take lots of side roads to route around flooded out areas.  I passed some lowland areas that were easily under 3 to 4 feet of water (there was a van who's "nose" was completely submerged in one area).

Luckily, so far my house is "dry", as is our basement.   Hopefully, that luck continues.

They were saying that it should start to slow down now.....here's hoping the drive home is a bit easier.

[Edward Rose]

Flooding up here in CT is just outrageous.

On my drive in to work today, it was "detour central", having to take lots of side roads to route around flooded out areas.  I passed some lowland areas that were easily under 3 to 4 feet of water (there was a van who's "nose" was completely submerged in one area).

Luckily, so far my house is "dry", as is our basement.   Hopefully, that luck continues.

They were saying that it should start to slow down now.....here's hoping the drive home is a bit easier.

Yeah, hard to say. The worst is supposed to be over, but the storm is stalled just south of Long Island.

[pilferk]

Yeah, hard to say. The worst is supposed to be over, but the storm is stalled just south of Long Island.

For us, as long as the rain stays light (and thus, doesn't overpower our drainage capacity), we're OK (meaning my house).  It's the torrential stuff we had last night that kills us.

The light rain isn't going to help out the low lying flooded areas, though....because they're going to keep the water table high so the ground isn't going to be able to soak up much of that extra rain.

Looking at the radar, I'm seeing all light green stuff...none of the nasty red and yellow from early  (around 2 AM til around 6 AM) this morning.  That's a help, at least.  Hopefully it'll just spin itself out.

[Edward Rose]

Yeah, hard to say. The worst is supposed to be over, but the storm is stalled just south of Long Island.

For us, as long as the rain stays light (and thus, doesn't overpower our drainage capacity), we're OK (meaning my house).  It's the torrential stuff we had last night that kills us.

The light rain isn't going to help out the low lying flooded areas, though....because they're going to keep the water table high so the ground isn't going to be able to soak up much of that extra rain.

Looking at the radar, I'm seeing all light green stuff...none of the nasty red and yellow from early  (around 2 AM til around 6 AM) this morning.  That's a help, at least.  Hopefully it'll just spin itself out.

I just noticed on the national radar (on the Weather Channel) the snow in up-state NY is changing over to rain. I think that causes rapid snow melt and river flooding.... and eventually comes down to those northern New York City suburbs that get flooded easily.... which are already flooded.