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Practically every storm for the last 9 months that hits New England has originated in Texas and come up the Appalachian Mtns... more people should start noticing this. The storms are always fountain shaped too with a big softer rain mushroom area at the northern part and an intense stem as a tail. Always moving Northeast out of East Texas.
That’s where our storms have always generated except for nor’easter’s coming up the Atlantic coast. Years ago I was fly from Texas back to North Carolina and waited several hours before we could leave. They have serious storms in Texas and tornado alley. Thankfully they usually break up over the Appalachians. Looks like this one is heading north. Stay safe.
I've been watching for decades casually because of work. I'm in Western Pa. What I expect and have observed for years is winter weather coming out of the Midwest or Michigan. "Lake effect snow" used to be a thing that doesn't happen anymore. Just my observation. I'm not saying systems never came out of the south it was just the exception and not the norm. Stay safe too fren!
Oh I get that. I’m speaking of the storms for my area. I would not have a clue to any other weather patterns history. I think I learned about lake effect snow just a few years ago. Weird because I’m a weather junkie.
Yeah I really only ever paid attention to my region. I used to mow grass in the 90's. I could call when a storm would hit within 15 minutes for a while there by checking the progress on the radar in the morning before heading off to work. From central OH West there's not much by way of topography to influence the wind. Most storms came across the rockies and usually hit the next day.
What I think I'm consistently seeing now is most storms develop in Central/East Texas and move toward the Appalachian Mts. and ride those up into New England. It's weird as I'll see a forecast for rain in 4 days and nothing in Texas. Then 2-3 days out they'll start showing up in practically a line stretched out NNE to SWW and it'll slowly move East but more quickly be moving like a flowing fountain to the NNE creating the mushroom of lighter showers on the Northern end. Just weird and seemlngy not natural to happen every other week.