Quick Hits

We are into October which by my calculations means the first snowstorm for our area is a few weeks away if last year is any indication.  This weekend won't be warm but snow it will not.

It will be snowing in Montana.  Great Falls is looking at two to four early season inches.  And hey, I saw the boys up at the Mount Washington observation station posted a few snowy pictures themselves.

If you haven't been following tropical system Nadine you aren't alone.  It has done little to bother anything other than a few ships and maybe alter some flight patterns.  Yet this pesky storm will still go into the records books.  Nadine formed as a tropical depression on September 11th.  It has since gone back and forth from a tropical storm to a hurricane three times and has looped its own previous track twice.  It is currently spinning as a tropical storm in the middle of the Atlantic 21 days later.  By Friday it should finally get propelled north into cooler waters and become sub tropical.  Nevertheless the storm will be in the top five of longest durations of an Atlantic tropical system in recorded history.

I was slacking on the big event in September when New York City boroughs were hit by two tornadoes that seemed to come out of nowhere.  There were calls for severe weather that day but I believe these ended up happening basically out ahead of the supposed violent storms.  Here is one that came off the water into the Breezy Point section of Queens.