Another major winter storm brewing in the North Atlantic. This is the latest snowstorm to blanket New England in a foot of snow. Picking up speed and moving east to Europe and possibly Great Britain.
An animated loop of today's visible satellite imagery combined with lightning density has been created, and it shows this rapidly intensifying system with thunderstorms developing ahead of the strong cold front : http://go.usa.gov/BVJm
"Rapidly intensifying low pressure off the mid-Atlantic coast is expected to develop hurricane force winds within the next 24 hours in the W Atlantic. The top portion of the image contains segments of the OPC 24-Hour W Atlantic Surface and Wind/Wave forecasts produced earlier today. A composite forecast of the low track through 120 hours from today's 12Z OPC charts is in the lower left, and a part of the 18Z Atlantic Surface Analysis is in the lower right.
The forecast central pressure of the low center at 24 hours is 965 hPa with winds in the south quadrant up to 65 kt. OPC is forecasting significant wave heights up to 36 ft in the vicinity of the hurricane force winds. Full versions of these charts are available on the main OPC website:
http://go.usa.gov/ByF3 ~ NOAA NWS Ocean Prediction Center
http://go.usa.gov/ByF3 ~ NOAA NWS Ocean Prediction Center
