Do we get the East Coast USA weather 10 days later...

A snowHead

Seen and heard various mentions of this, just wondered what any resident snowhead weather expertss thought.....

interested as they have just been dumped on!

pics from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8502700.stm

A snowHead

i think i asked this question on here in the weather outlook thread a couple of years ago...

have learned a great deal since then, but stand to be corrected. The systems from the east coast of america can take all sorts of times to get here, sometimes a couple of days, sometimes a little longer. It'd have to be a pretty slow moving system to take 10 days to get here though, as they're mostly hurried along by the jet stream in this general direction (ie. anywhere between greenland/iceland and the iberian peninsula).

Wether if falls as snow or not also depends on more local conditions at the time (ie. if there's a stalled cold weather system sitting over the UK or if the westerlies aren't so warm and moist that they just blow everything out of the way. At this time of year, you'll more than likely get at least some hill snow when those systems hit land though.

And, this is all entirely different to the weather that we had a month ago, as that all came in from the north and east on a high pressure that rotates clockwise dragging the cold temps in from the east.

Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

kitenski, I am definitely not a weather expert, not an expert on very much at all in fact - but we do keep an eye on the east coast weather in the States as our son and family live in Connecticut - and I agree with you that a touch of the same weather, snow, wind or whatever often seem to come our way a few days later.

They certainly have not had the heavy snow just recently but often do and then the city really snarls up.

brian

In as much as weather tends to travel W->E around the globe (cos that's the way it spins) and the default position of the atlantic jet stream runs more or less Newfoundland to here, sort of. However, the weather is rarely simple. The current prognosis is that high pressure to our NW will force anything coming across the atlantic on a much more southerly track and that we might even get a low heading our way from the arctic.

Help!!

Do we get the East Coast USA weather 10 days later...

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