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Nor'easters
Doc, You've got nor'easters backward. A nor'easter starts in the south and heads up the coast, to the northeast. Starting down south in the warmer weather, it sucks up a lot of moisture. As it moves north (and east), the air gets colder, and can't maintain all that moisture. The overflow precipitates out as rain or snow, depending on the temperature. Because of the substantial difference in temperature, the difference in the amount of moisture the atmosphere can maintain is substantial, and the resulting snowfalls make what happened in the midwest last week look like flurries. Snowfalls of over two feet are not uncommon. We seem to get one of those every three or four years here in New Jersey. There are responses to this message:
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