Photo of the Week: Hurricane Powder?

For more than a week, Hurricane Igor, which developed from a small tropical weather system spinning off the coast of Saharan Africa, has been gradually working its way northward through the north Atlantic. Igor has filled the north Atlantic with massive swells, picked a serious fight with the small island of Bermuda (which is coping with the storm relatively well) and has amazed weather scientists with its great size and impressive form. Let’s just imagine for a second that Igor is a winter storm parked off the coast of the northeast US – and moisture from the storm is streaming in from the ocean and falling as snow over our northeastern mountains. If a storm of this caliber sat and spun off our coast for just twenty four hours, some meteorologists predict that 5-6+ feet of snow could easily fall upon our mountains. Forty eight hours? How about 10-12+ feet of fresh snow.

Just imagine.

(Satellite image of Igor: NASA)