Talk:Nor'easter
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[edit] Nor'easter LAN party
There is a Nor'easter LAN party in new england hosted by lpane (lan party associate of new england) Dunno if that deserves any mention.
[edit] npov
How exactly does this entry come across as NPOV? Is the writer too much in favor of the nor'easter? Does this person seem to editorialize too much on the nature of nor'easters? IS THERE A CHANCE THAT THE NYT WILL RUN A STORY ON HOW WIKIPEDIA WAS UNFAIR TO NOR'EASTERS? ... Yeah. Removing the NPOV warning. 204.69.40.7 13:31, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Blizzard of the hot year???????
What on earth is the bilzzard of the hot year??? Is that the nor'easter that is happening right now? Evan Robidoux 16:04, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
- I'd call that one the Blizzard of February 2006. CrazyC83 17:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Somewhat Common Misuse
I live near Boston. I've noticed a fair number of people reversing the nor'easter definition; they seem under the impression that nor'easter means that a storm is heading to the northeast instead of coming from it. This particularly seems to occur in the case of storm systems coming up the coast from the mid-atlantic states and then heading out to sea to the northeast from new england. I haven't bothered to find any print or broadcast uses of this backwards definition; I would be very surprised to see a weatherman use it backwards, seems more a mistake of ignorant people, like the common confusion between biweekly and semiweekly. It's possible that people like using the term so much that they are seizing any chance to make use of it. I'm not going to add this to the article, since I have no citations, but it's something to keep a watch on. Akb4 00:11, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
- My understanding from the years I lived in Providence was that in a northeaster, the storm itself is heading up the coast from the southwest, but the wind (and, crucially, the rain, snow, and sleet) blows in from the northeast. Endlessly. (Or maybe it just seemed that way. :) /blahedo (t) 19:16, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
- Note that the name refers to the direction of the wind over land, not the direction of travel of the whole storm system. Any cyclone off the east coast of North America will have its northwest quadrant over the Atlantic seaboard, and therefore its winds will be blowing from the northeast toward the southwest due to the Coriolis effect. Whether a storm is traveling up the coast or down it does not matter; it's whether its center lies off the coast that classifies it as a nor'easter or not. 72.195.135.175 15:13, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Why only New England?
Why is only New England considered a source for the term "nor'easter?" The storms affect Virginia and Carolina too (as in the storm there this weekend); that region might have originated the term too. 74.131.102.124 19:07, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- Is a nor'easter any different from what would be called a tropical storm or hurricane farther south? Art LaPella 18:29, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
