Sep 28, 2026 · 8 min · 5 segments
**In this episode we’ll recap what’s gone on with our storm and when the final drops will fall. This was not a tropical cyclone despite its appearance, and we’ll get into why. Much of the week will be…
It came on shore earlier today down in Monmouth County, and now it's sort of slunk all the way down towards Delaware Bay.
So it has been firmly captured by that upper level low to our west.
And it's going to continue performing its counterclockwise loop.
So we still have a little ways to go with this.
We've got quite a bit.
of rain backing in from the ocean so we are going to see this steady moderate to occasionally heavy rain into the mid day tomorrow we'll probably taper off anytime between two and four o'clock And we're looking for an additional one or two, perhaps even three inches of rainfall.
So somebody is going to wind up with in excess of six inches of rainfall from this event.
And this thing did have a visible eye-like feature.
And that's something that people have been talking about really for years.
really over the past few days.
But again, this was not tropical, despite the fact that it produced these impressive rainfall amounts and wind gusts.
So a little bit about why this wasn't named the subtropical system.
Because it did look like it on satellite, but we have to look at how it formed and what fueled it.
So this was fueled by this cool, dry air to our north interacting with a very warm and moist air mass.
So tropical cyclones, they're totally warm core.
they deal with warm environments only.
Warm ocean temperatures and the moist air mass surrounding them are the fuel.
So that's really the main difference.
So this nor'easter, it did some occasionally look maybe subtropical, that it had some characteristics of both, but A lot of this was just speculation.
And this storm will remain, or I should say has remained, an unnamed standard extra-tropical cyclone.
It came on shore earlier today down in Monmouth County, and now it's sort of slunk all the way down towards Delaware Bay.
So it has been firmly captured by that upper level low to our west.
And it's going to continue performing its counterclockwise loop.
So we still have a little ways to go with this.
We've got quite a bit.
of rain backing in from the ocean so we are going to see this steady moderate to occasionally heavy rain into the mid day tomorrow we'll probably taper off anytime between two and four o'clock And we're looking for an additional one or two, perhaps even three inches of rainfall.
So somebody is going to wind up with in excess of six inches of rainfall from this event.
And this thing did have a visible eye-like feature.
And that's something that people have been talking about really for years.
really over the past few days.
But again, this was not tropical, despite the fact that it produced these impressive rainfall amounts and wind gusts.
So a little bit about why this wasn't named the subtropical system.
Because it did look like it on satellite, but we have to look at how it formed and what fueled it.
So this was fueled by this cool, dry air to our north interacting with a very warm and moist air mass.
So tropical cyclones, they're totally warm core.
they deal with warm environments only.
Warm ocean temperatures and the moist air mass surrounding them are the fuel.
So that's really the main difference.
So this nor'easter, it did some occasionally look maybe subtropical, that it had some characteristics of both, but A lot of this was just speculation.
And this storm will remain, or I should say has remained, an unnamed standard extra-tropical cyclone.
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