This season's first named storm forms in the Atlantic: it will ruin the weather from New York to Florida

The same storm that raged for several days in the mid-Atlantic region could eventually become the first tropical depression to be given a name, according to AccuWeather forecasters. Writes about it Accu Weather.

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The storm in question has a few more days to form, but even if it doesn't get that strong, adverse coastal conditions will hang over from New York to Florida.

Although the rain will slowly recede, this weekend (May 7-8) winds will increase along the New England coast, it will be cold along the entire mid-Atlantic coast, according to weather forecasts.

“From New York to Virginia, winds will be steady at 15 to 30 miles (24-48 km) per hour with gusts up to 35-50 miles (56-80 km) per hour,” said AccuWeather senior meteorologist Dave Dombek. .

Strong winds will continue until the middle of next week, and continued rough surf will cause coastal flooding, he said.

Next week, the same severe conditions will extend hundreds of miles further south along the Atlantic coast to the Carolinas, Georgia and even northeast Florida. Cities prone to coastal flooding during offshore winds and higher than normal tides include Wildwood (New Jersey), Norfolk (Virginia), Nags Head (North Carolina), and Charleston (South Carolina).

In the mid-Atlantic, water temperatures will be between 50 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit (10-15,5 Celsius). However, along the southern coast of the Atlantic Ocean, the water temperature will mostly be 70 degrees (21 Celsius).

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“The coastal storm will create an area of ​​cloudy, cool, windy and wet conditions along the south Atlantic coast in the first half of next week,” AccuWeather meteorologist Joe Lundberg explained, noting that “the weather will be warmer in the second half of the week.”

This warmer and wetter trend in the southeast region may indicate other phenomena occurring over the nearby Atlantic and possibly the storm itself.

As the storm enters Atlantic waters for the first time this weekend, it will have cold air at its center, which is typical of a non-tropical system. However, there are some indications that the center of the storm will become warmer as it lingers over warm water.

The storm will spend a lot of time over the warmer waters of the western Atlantic, so there is a chance it will take on some tropical characteristics. A storm that develops some tropical features is known as a subtropical storm.

“The chance of subtropical development is low, but not zero in this case,” said AccuWeather meteorologist Brandon Buckingham.

If a small closed circulation develops within the storm, with maximum sustained winds of 35 miles (56 km) per hour or more, the National Hurricane Center may declare it a subtropical depression. The first name on the list of tropical and subtropical storms for the 2022 season is Alex.

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The official start of the Atlantic hurricane season is June 1.

The Atlantic has experienced seven consecutive years of storms well before the start of the season, most recently Tropical Storm Ana, which formed on May 22, 2021. The last storm, named Alex, appeared north of the Bahamas on January 12, 2016, and was the first Atlantic hurricane ever to develop during the month of January since Alice in 1955.

The AccuWeather forecasting team, led by hurricane expert Dan Kotlowski, predicted a high likelihood of a preseason storm in their 2022 Atlantic hurricane season forecast, which was released in late March.

AccuWeather forecasters predicted that from the coast of North Carolina to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, an area has formed with the potential for the development of a large number of tropical storms.

This depression is part of a much larger atmospheric storm that will develop across much of the United States. It will also lead to a heat wave in the central states, as well as an extended period of cold, wet and snowy conditions from the US west to the Rocky Mountains.

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