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Mon, 04 Oct 2010

Massachusetts Weather

Long ago I read a book about weather forecasting in which the author said all TV meteorologists don't much care for the jobs on the US west coast. They like the challenge of an east coast job, especially one in New England.

I wonder if the following map of precipitation (from the National Weather Service - recorded on Monday Oct. 4, 2010) is any indicator of their enthusiasm. Normally a weather system which produces rain cycles counter-clockwise around a low pressure system. Watch as this radar loop repeats a few times. How would a TV weather person explain the way the rain branches to the east AND to the west as the air flows north?

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Are we looking at a pair of storms?
Is the right branch actually being "torn off" and moving around a clockwise high?

I admit, I'm not sure what's happening.
Does anybody out there know?

NWS Radar Mosiaic - Northeast Sector