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Wilmaa kannattaa seurata tarkasti edelleen...
Oct. 25, 2005 — Hurricane Wilma may not be done yet.
After pummeling Florida on Monday, forecasters say Wilma is expected
to combine with two other storms to create a powerful nor'easter that
could drench the Northeast today with high winds, heavy rains and even
snow.
"A superstorm will come together off the East Coast Tuesday," the
AccuWeather weather service reported.
Wilma is still a Category 3 storm with 115 mph winds, and is moving at
a brisk 53 mph off the coast of North Carolina. It is expected to
absorb Alpha, a tropical depression that has slammed the Dominican
Republic and Haiti, and to eventually join with a nor'easter
developing in the region. Moisture and energy will increase to build
the superstorm.
The southeastern Massachusetts coast is expected to experience the
fiercest winds; advisories also are in place for Rhode Island and
central Masssachusetts.
"Today is a little hairy. Pulling the boats out here is a decision you
have to make — whether or not you want to tie it up good, or whether
you want to pull it out and put it in the lot," boat owner Drew Poce
told ABC News Boston affiliate WCVB-TV.
A flood watch is in effect for most of Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
northern Connecticut, and southern New Hampshire.
Wind and rains aren't the only threat. The Berkshires in western
Massachusetts could see up to 7 inches of snow.
Tracy McCormick, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in
Taunton, Mass., told the Associated Press that the ingredients are
similar to the January blizzard that covered parts of the state with
more than 3 feet of snow.
"Nor'easters are more of a wintertime phenomenon, definitely,"
McCormick said. "But those are the conditions we're seeing headed this
way."
Further south, flood watches are in effect for parts of the New York
metropolitan area that already were under water from eight-straight
days of rain earlier this month. New York-area airports already faced
delays from Monday night's rain.
Emergency management officials told WABC-TV in New York they are most
concerned with strong wind gusts.
"The ground is soft," said Harry Conover of Monmouth County, N.J.,
Emergency Management. "Some of the trees may have been weakened from
the storm previously, and we're going to watch that."
After already slogging through a wet October, weather-weary residents
braced for more property damage.
Bill Fergus of Spring Lake, N.J., told WABC that his waterfront home
was flooded earlier this month. Now his walls are torn down as the
property slowly dries.
"We don't know what we're going to do," Fergus said. "It's a
horrendous situation."
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