Weather Forecast - Haverhill, MA - Local & Long Range. Weather Underground Forecast for Sunday, April 13, 2014 A cold frontal boundary will extend across the Great Basin, the Intermountain West, the central Plains and the upper Midwest on Sunday, while a ridge of high pressure will build over the eastern Pacific. A low pressure system is forecast to develop to the lee of the Rockies over the central Plains on Sunday.
This system will interact with a warm, muggy air mass from the Gulf of Mexico, bringing strong to severe thunderstorms to the central third of the country. Severe thunderstorms will be possible over a handful of states, including Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri, bringing a chance of flash floods to the middle and upper Mississippi Valley. A separate wave of low pressure will inch across the Great Basin and the Intermountain West on Sunday, as a mixture of rain and snow is expected over the Rockies. High pressure over the eastern Pacific will keep conditions mostly clear across the West Coast. Local and National Weather.
* National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) * Satellite Events Art Gallery: Cyclones. Satellite Gallery / Extratropical Cyclones / Perfect Storm 1991 / SAA / Help An enormous extratropical low is creating havoc along the entire Eastern Atlantic Seaboard in this infrared image at 1200 UTC (0700 EST) on October 30, 1991. Labelled the "perfect storm" by the National Weather Service, the storm sank the swordfishing boat Andrea Gail, whose story became the basis for the currently best-selling novel "The Perfect Storm" by Sebastian Junger. A little-known and bizarre ending came to this monster, which came to be known as the Halloween Storm. To tell this incredible story in its entirety, the Satellite's Eye Art Gallery spans two subject headings (Extratropical Cyclones and Hurricanes)!
Event Discussion The Perfect Storm Conditions at the Time of the Image The color-enhanced infrared image of 1200 UTC October 30, 1991 depicts a monster storm off the Eastern Seaboard, which was described by the National Weather Service as the "perfect storm. " History of the Storm Top of Page. NOAA's National Weather Service. Marine Weather Charts (Boston Area) Weather.com. Weatherbase.