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There Goes The Shopping Spree: Nor'easter May Hit East Coast For Thanksgiving
Forget Black Friday and Q4 GDP... it appears, from the most recent forecasts that from Wednesday on this week, the eastern US faces a 'White Five-Day' as Accuweather reports "an increasing likelihood for a swath of heavy snow stretching from eastern Pennsylvania through New York's Hudson Valley and across much of New England before all is said and done." Furthermore, as WaPo notes, Wednesday’s possible storm has a chance to develop into a legitimate Nor’easter (though current models offer 3 scenarios).
East Coast travelers are being put on alert that the potential exists for a winter storm to unfold on Wednesday, the busiest travel day of the year.
The culprit for any headaches or nightmares for travelers trying to reach their Thanksgiving Day destinations will be a storm system set to ride up or parallel the East Coast at midweek.
There is growing concern for the storm to be strengthening and tracking close enough to the coast for an expansive area of heavy rain and snow to create travel nightmares in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast."
The storm should rapidly strengthen off the coast of New England Wednesday night, leading to strong and gusty winds, especially near the coast. This would lead to some blowing and drifting of the snow, making travel Wednesday night very difficult," stated AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Ben Noll as he discussed the impacts in this storm scenario.
"There is also an increasing likelihood for a swath of heavy snow stretching from eastern Pennsylvania through New York's Hudson Valley and across much of New England before all is said and done. Some locales could see a foot of snow."
As The Washington Post reports though, there are 3 scenarios for now...
1) The storm is more out to sea, with just a glancing blow for the East Coast Wednesday (Canadian model, GFS parallel model, and GFS ensemble mean) – Low impact
Canadian model forecast for 7 p.m. Wednesday (WeatherBell.com)
2) The storm moves up the coast just offshore, with snow for coastal areas and sharp cutoff to precipitation farther inland (GFS operational model, European ensemble mean) – Moderate impact
GFS model forecast for 7 p.m. Wednesday (WeatherBell.com)
3) The storm hugs the coast, with heavy coastal rain and strong winds, and heavy inland snow (European operational model) – High impact
European model simulation at 7 p.m. Wednesday night. Dark blue line is 32F line – near and west of which accumulating snow would be most likely. (StormVistaWxModels.com)
Scenarios 2 and, especially, 3 would pose major headaches for travelers on the busiest travel day of the year from Florida to New England. It is too soon to say which of these three scenarios is most likely.
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Nonsense. Krugman will fix this.
Snow or ski? Ski or maybe Adderall would cause Shoppers to shop veracioislly.
Http://www.hedge.bz
Does bread, milk and eggs count towards GDP?
No, but stolen Doritos do.
Where's Manbearpig on all this?
I just put the snow chains and blower on 'Betsy' this morning (my old Bolens tractor that's the same age as my wife and a arguably prettier). Went all last winter without it thanks to a stripped-out gearbox in the blower unit. Hadn't needed the blower for 3 years prior to that so I figured 'ah, forget it'. A mistake I'll never make again. Shit got real bad last winter without the big-dog blower around to help out.
So, OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods and Bill Cosby are sitting around talking about doing a five-some with a strange gal.
Bill Clinton walks in and asks if he could join in a 6 some
Jackson looks at him and says, "That's sick."
"Where's Manbearpig on all this?"
Global warming! Bush's fault!
Next?
Here is NOAA's GFS interactive forecast for N. America:
http://tinyurl.com/pya3hfv
That puts the bulk of the storm right over NYC on Thanksgiving. I, for one, am thankful.
It ain't gonna snow/be cold/rain here...then again, I live in Florida.
Fuck everyone else.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Grats. Unless you're able to move north in the summer I still don't envy you.Definitely a beautiful state but you've got a few other pesky challenges like gators (don't get a flat on a rural road), snakes (of all poisonous varieties), sinkholes that like to swallow people up while they sleep at night and Jeb Bush Repulican morons.
You miss the beauty of gators, rattlers, water mocs, coral snakes, American crocs, black widows, scorpions, and brown recluses, not to mention all the tropical diseases:
It keeps Yanks away.
And I do not own an ice scraper for my vehicle.
Happy Thanksfreezeyourassoffgiving!
Looking at the 'climate models' reminds me of the NOAA/NASA-GEOS satellite analysis of the Atlantic temperature variants. Of course, the 'Gulf Conveyor' was shut down back during the BP Mancondo 252 A/B/C flyovers.
What's a little Corexit 9500/9526A, between freindly oceans, anyway?
From the state that re-selected Jeb FUCKING Bush; the VOICE OF AUTHORITY!
I prefer the Accuweather graphics of 'Weather For Dummies'. The 'less impact' area for CONUS 'commuters to WORK', somewhere out in the mid-Atlantic...
buffalo is fucked right now.
heavy rains with a cold snap backer.
Buffalo? Al Gore must be visiting. GOD does have a sense of humor.
He sure does!
'Hey, Abraham, kill your firstborn!" "Just kidding, LOL!"
I'm sure the people on the East Coast freezing their butts off are wishing that Algore's scissor lift predictions actually came true.
I believe this is also BULLISH!
I've been waiting for global warming for years now here in Michigan. I've upped my carbon releases more and more to no avail. What am I doing wrong? Perhaps global cooling will make it warmer?
Right now, we're getting hit with a Mid' Wester... frankly, I don't give a shit about the Nor 'East.
Four chan
Your tits can melt snow. LOL
Snap backer?
Polar Vortex?
Sounds like finishing moves off mortal kombat..
I ain't buying shit. Factor that in to your fucking modelz. Bytchez!!!!
"I ain't buying shit."
Google Analytics already knows this.
Your next series of 'targeted advertisements' will include Depends(T.M.) underwear as well as do-it-yourself PortaPotties (T.M.).
They KNOW that while you might not wish to invest in shit, you still have to TAKE a shit (from time to time).
So, I'll at least probably be buying some toilet paper this week.
One of my California Liberal Eco-Buds said that I should buy nothing but recycled toilet paper.
I looked at him like he was crazy and he asked me why the look. I said that recycling toilet paper had to be the worst jobs in the world, was probably done by illegal aliens for slave wages and that was the kind of shit that His Leader was promoting.
He told me that His Leader was doing a great job and was one of the most qualified people, ever!
I told him that stuffing feathers up his ass doesn't make him a chicken.
I don't think we came to a mutually agreeable position.
But I guarantee ya' that Q4 is gonna suck big time. Except for weather proofing stuff and cans of Tommy Rotten's Leak Proof Spray Sealer Shit. You know. The stuff you use on the screen door on the bottom of your boat.
After the last election, I now have plenty of advertisements to wipe with. Its a pure pleasure to see their smiling faces kiss my ass.
Hope the view isn't too bad out the sinkhole your house is sinking into..
Frozen ground does have benefits.
Flying to the east coast could be real entertaining.....
Marion Barry brings the refreshments and video equipment.
He's dead Jim.
OK JLee....
Dead Question: What would Marylin Monroe be doing if she were alive?
A: Scratching at the lid of her coffin
OK knukles
Q. How do you make a dead baby float?
A. Two parts dead baby, 1 part ice cream
Even in the ultra-sarcastic world of Zerohedge do we need to dwelve into sick gutter jokes at that caliber?
Does he still vote though?
"(my old Bolens tractor that's the same age as my wife and a arguably prettier)"
Could you be more specific ... "prettier" -wife or tractor
Tractor. Doesn't talk back neary as much as the wife, either.
I traded my wife in for a $2500 / month Maintenance Enforcement Payment. It was the best cost savings move I made in 10 years. I highly recommend it :)
My ex took the kid and the dog and moved 2000 miles away. I really miss that dog.
Are those Genetically Modified Monsanto BT Corn Doritos... you might want to set those down and grab a hazmat bag.
If they banned them in India..
No Hookers do . Welcome to New Amerika. Hope and Change Bitchezz
You mean yelptrade? The one where everybodies sister can make like $300,000 a month working a few hours from their home.
Guess that's where the saying 'give you 50 dollar to make you holla' comes from.
Only if the government is buying.
I knew weather was a bad idea when they invented it!
You can thank Al Gore for that shit.
All bad weather is Al's to own, 100%.
Have you ever seen Al in the same room as good weather, before?
No?
See!
Point made.
No, but hookers and blow does.
Yes and if the price of those has tripled the GDP has tripled! Hourrah, growth!
Nonesense. China will buy this.
I've got plenty of wood stacked, and lots of lube.
I'd better get some lube for my wood.
used properly, wood produces its own lube...
Dammit get out there and shop till you drop. Your Lords want you to be in debt and slave away your life. American Pussies
Praise the Walmart!
Consumers for Christ!
http://www.organicmechanic.org/scratch/braz4.jpg
God I love that film.
Whaassuupp with the Wal-Mart stock price over the last 10 days?
Polar Vortex right up the anus of America! Fuck yeah!
There's nothing like a "polar vortex"to BS your way out of "buybacks" and other non_GAAP shenanigans
This may be a "full spectrum" "polar vortex."
lol. You made my day Freddie.
LOL! So sick of this Washington DC buzzword bullshit.
The Pentagon's full spectrum crap. Full Sprectrum bids getting maimed, killed and destroyed along with innocent civilians for the banksters and defense contractors as Hollywood and TV glorify it all. Very sad.
All they know is how to spend full sprectrum and build expensive useless crap like the F-35.
Global warming will surely be the death of us all. /sarc
Propel the whale Al Gore to the sun. Say goodbye to that fucker
Just let it bash D.C., the District of Corruption, that festering sore.
just print more money to make it go away
So... Nobody stocks up and fills the fridges?
Because that would be a shopping spree.
And for all the plastic crap they won't be able to buy, maybe the people will finally learn that they don't need that crap and it's more fun to be locked up in the house with the family.
I would love that actually!
Just spend all weekend with the entire family and I loved it! The dozens of discussions, kids fighting, eating, drinking, it's the best weekend of the year for me!
Being locked up in the house with the family would require a tremendous amount of brandy though...
Cognac. 30 year old XO.
my thoughts exactly ! 50 gallons should be suficient !!!
For sure! They can still use the computer and send other family members SMS's/text messages, too!
I've been looking at the "Negro Friday" sales, and they're pretty deeply discounted if you shop smart.
Makes me wonder what the margins are on that huge October inventory build. I'm thinking these retail chains are willing to sell their souls for some decent "foot traffic".
Welcome to {Barter Town} Bitchez
I will be spending even less this Christmas. F the Emperor Obola.
BULLITEN: People foregoing spending on Turkey Dinner, saving for Black Friday at Walmart instead. Stay tuned....
In other words, Thanksgiving dinner is cancelled. Short turkey futurez...
looking at the supermarket freezer section yesterday makes me think you might be on to something. spam sammiches and cheap teevees for all.
I'm ready for Black Friday this year. Been working hard on the speed bag. If I was down south and had to contend with some of dem big women down there, I would have worked on the heavy bag.
Obviously you have never been to Wisconsin or "Destroid"
molon labe bitchez!
Temps in Mid Alantic showing in some cases low 40s.NE should see more.
all that money on the sidelines next week.
Bulish
long amazon bitches...and ebay
amazon bitches bitchez!
There are 2 types of people you should NEVER listen to. People who tell you Gold is going to $10,000 and weather men. At the very best, they have a 50% chance of being right. And weather men that forecast storms a week away are only good for about a 10% chance of being right.
actually the european model is usually dead on from 5 to 7 days out...i hope not. i have no interest in snow this early in the season
It is the duty of all Americans over the weight of 400 pounds to get to Walmart this weekend dammit! (And remember, take a weapon in case some fat guy tries to steal your new TV!!)
I, for one, derive my sense of self-worth entirely from the size of my TV and how much it dominates the smaller screens of lesser men.
My 70 inch VIZIO cowed my fellow trailer dwelling neighbors and allowed me greater access to low-grade breeding opportunities.
Now the great game of the rural trash begins - will I be able to pay off the TV before it blows up, or not? So exciting!
Snow in the Northeast during winter? Who would have thonk it?
Krugman
It's Fall dingus! You musta had public skoolin' huh?
Marion Barry would have loved all the white powder in d.c.
"The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"If you take out the killin's, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"Bitch set me up." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?" -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?" -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? WOULD IT!?!" -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man." -- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
Impressive List.
Makes Rob Ford look like the world's greatest (cracker) mayor..lol
"Bitch set me up!"
Marionberry's lasting contribution to the world.
These quotes in no way reflect the good people of Washington, D.C.
How corrupt do you have to be, before the NSA says you're NOT worth " Black Mailing"?
It's not "how corrupt". It's "how sociopathic". At the point where you no longer have any shame, and the voters will elect you as long as you deliver the payola, blackmail becomes impossible.
Just a thought for retailers.
If the christmas sales are what are required for year long profitability....
Why trade the rest of the year?
Mother nature is saying stop shopping and stay home with the family on Thanksgiving.
Mother nature is telling me something different. Mother Nature is telling me to go into the garage, close all the doors, start the car and play the long version of freebird...
After that the polar votex procession. Cancel shopping this year. Hell with it. Who needs more junk anyhow. The only thing a person needs today to be happy is food and shelter. Yellen pays for the education and health needs. There's too much of the other stuff available for free. My 1992 Toyota runs great and I can't think of much else that I would want to have.As Keynes predicted hardly anybody has to work these days.
There's something called the internet... If retail stores are down then there should be a spike in internet sales...
Stay the eff away from Florida all you carpetbaggers!
No problem. Too many fascist cops there.
Dumb Earthlings haven't learned that Black Friday sales are available online.
Get your George Foreman grill and big screen without the sweat and blood.
This is one of the few times Krugman has had an orgasm from a zerohedge article.
Forecast: Due to snow, this year's Black Friday will be White, which means that in the end it could turn out Red...unless Black Friday is held earlier, say Tuesday or Wednesday.
some fucking global warming would be nice right about now!!!!
Screw that, here in Sydney (Southern Hemisphere) we have been having too much warming. Yet another friggin day over 100 and it aint summer yet.
They have to have this storm so they can claim 'weather' for the 4thQTR numbers, you know, the failed xmas retail season to blame for -2% retail?
As long as there are excuses and people foolish enough to believe them ............
Are the Amazon delivery drones grounded?
Cue the Haarp.
I bought gold for my family for xmas.
Half ounce coins for each kid and 22 carat necklace for the wife.
Stack On
Cheap bastard, your wife deserves a beautiful pearl necklace.
Talk about cheap.
Alarmist hype. NOAA, Weather.com, and Accuweather do not predict snow on Thanksgiving or Black Friday.
I say hold the Ferguson verdicts until Black Friday....then announce it just as the doors of WalMart open, and we be seeing real existential dilemma for the niggas!
Niggas being all those not being the bankster elite? Sort of blame the slaves for their masters plans?
Niggas being the looters gathering, licking their chops, in St. Louis..
If I had said Brothas and Sistas would you be less offended? Sorry, like every living American, I'm just steeped in years of rap culture,
But, but I thought the Black Friday madness had shifted online.
So many of these Retailers are dependent on the Year End Sales to make their annual budget. Any credible junior analyst can tell you this. In the real economy and normal times, this translates to tanking of retail equity prices.
Not likely when the real economy is detached from the markets with collapse in price discovery.
So muppets are still now holding to junk papers ?
Remember how weather did not figure into the equation before 2008. Now these weather fronts have Names to make them seem more intense. This one will be named, Manson.