{"id":6230,"date":"2015-09-21T05:28:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T09:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=6230"},"modified":"2015-09-21T01:09:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T05:09:37","slug":"more-strong-noreasters-than-usual-predicted-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/09\/more-strong-noreasters-than-usual-predicted-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"More Strong Nor’Easters Than Usual Predicted This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Waved kicked up by the Jan. 26, 2015 nor\u2019easter at Manasquan Inlet. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Shore area could see more strong nor\u2019easters than usual this season, largely thanks to El Nino, but a lower-than-average number of storms overall.<\/p>\n

The forecast by the Northeast Regional Climate Center, based at Cornell University, was released late last month. It predicts a high number \u2013 more than 10 \u2013 of strong storms<\/a> this fall and winter, but 25 or fewer storms overall<\/a>, less than the average season.<\/p>\n

The climate center also issued a prediction for more than four storms<\/a> that would produce a measurable storm surge of one foot or greater, considered \u201caverage to high.\u201d<\/p>\n

For comparative purposes, the last five seasons saw nine, 11, 11, five and 10 strong storms each, respectively, with 23, 20, 15, 19 and 21 storms overall.<\/p>\n

The potential for an uptick in strong storms this year primarily has to do with the effect of El Nino, a band of warm water found in the east-central Pacific ocean that affects weather patterns throughout the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll models surveyed predict El Nino to continue into the Northern Hemisphere spring 2016, and all multi-model averages predict a peak in late fall\/early winter,\u201d a report from the National Weather Service\u2019s Climate Prediction Center said.<\/p>\n

A 2011 study<\/a> by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed that during El Nino years, nor\u2019easter wind storms were more frequent along the east coast. The study, led by Bill Sweet, Ph.D., from NOAA\u2019s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, examined water levels and storm surge events during the \u201ccool season\u201d of October to April for five decades at four sites representative of much of the East Coast: Boston, Atlantic City, Norfolk, Va., and Charleston, S.C.<\/p>\n

From 1961 to 2010, it was found that in strong El Ni\u00f1o years, these coastal areas experienced nearly three times the average number of storm surge events. The research also found that waters in those areas saw a third-of-a-foot elevation in mean sea level above predicted conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cHigh-water events are already a concern for coastal communities. Studies like this may better prepare local officials who plan for or respond to conditions that may impact their communities,\u201d said Sweet, in a statement after his study was released. \u201cFor instance, city planners may consider reinforcing the primary dunes to mitigate for erosion at their beaches and protecting vulnerable structures like city docks by October during a strong El Nino year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Shore area could see more strong nor\u2019easters than usual this season, largely thanks to El Nino, but a lower-than-average number of storms overall. The forecast by the Northeast Regional Climate Center, based at Cornell University, was released late last month. It predicts a high number \u2013 more than 10 \u2013 of strong storms this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,182,435],"class_list":["post-6230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-jersey-shore","tag-noreaster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-21-at-1.06.29-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1Cu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}