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It's an extra-tropcial cyclone...hence the reason is won't be classified as
a a tropical storm/hurricane.  The wind fields between tropical and and
zonal cyclones are different.  IIRC, the upper winds of a tropical
storm/hurricane are coincident with the lower wind field. Thus the reason
why light upper level winds are critical to the formation of a tropical
storm and hwy they get sheered apart when they come ashore.

Zonal/extra-tropical cyclones do not have the upper wind coinidence. In
fact, most major zonal cyclones track along either sub-tropical or polar
jet depending on the time of the year. That said, tropical storms do go
ex-tropical when the upper wind fields go away and are swept into the more
progressive westerlies.

There are some hurricanes which after going extropical over the USA became
a MAJOR storms again over the northern Atlantic and blasted northern Great
Britian and North Sea front counties.

NOW....if the TS in the Atlantic merges with the non-TS-cyclone, that will
be one mean storm going up the coast.  Just be glad it's not 30 deg.
colder....

MM

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:56:19 +0000, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
> There is a "small hurricane" going on in the Northeast. It is too
> small to be called an official hurricane, but it has massive size,
> going from Cape Hatteras, NC. to the Gulf of Maine. It has a
> lot of rain and wind. I wanted to get a NWS radar image at work
> this afternoon but the IT department had disabled any IMAGE
> FILES from coming into the plant.
> 
> Great! Not to worry, I go home and try to get the same stuff
> off from Comcast. I get the first radar loop, then NOTHING!
> 
> Comcast has decided that I have used too much bandwidth
> so I'll have to wait until they reset their counters.
> 
> Oh yes, I read 1984.
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Richard B. Johnson
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