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CABOT UNITED CHURCH
Thursday, September 9
5:30 p.m.
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Baked Beans - Ham - Red Flannel Hash
Cole Slaw - Muffins - Rolls
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Adults - $7.00 Children - $4.00
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Auction of Vegetables and Baked Goods

This is a real old fashioned kind of church supper. Always good.
Don't miss it!

This morning I sent the following e-mail to Gary Sadowsky, meteorologist at WCAX:
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Gary -

I was just on the National Weather Service site to check the hurricane

situation and saw that Fiona is traveling at approximately twice the

speed as Earl - in the same direction. Is it likely Fiona will overtake

Earl and if so, then what may happen? Seems to me that could result in

a real whopper of a storm.

Here is his answer:

Hi Jane,

Nope, that won't happen.  Although Fiona is moving faster than Earl

right now, it will begin to slow down pretty soon.  And Earl will begin

to speed up.  It will also be tracking farther to the east than Earl,

moving northward just west of Bermuda on Saturday, whereas Earl will be

moving northward very close to the U.S. eastern seaboard, and by

Saturday be up into Nova Scotia.  In fact, it looks like Earl will stay

over the water, just skirting the coast without coming over land in the

U.S.  But it looks like it will make a direct hit on Nova Scotia on

Saturday.  By then, it will have weakened to a Category 1 hurricane

(right now, it's a Category 4 . . . very powerful!).  But still - not

good news for Nova Scotia.

I have often wondered what would happen if two tropical systems

"crashed" into each other.  Every now and then it looks like that could

happen.  But usually, one of the storms makes a turn and they go their

separate ways.  I consulted some of the Weather Service folks to see if

they had any wisdom on the topic, but they also were not sure what would

happen.

The famous, so-called "Perfect Storm" was a case of a strong low

pressure system over the Atlantic (not a tropical system) absorbing the

moisture from a hurricane and resulting in a huge, moisture-laden storm.

Interestingly, last week, one of the longer range forecast models showed

a low pressure system just to our north (the one that's going to drag a

cold front through here on Friday and cool us down for the weekend)

absorbing Hurricane Earl over the Canadian maritimes and turning into

one of those monster storms.  But the problem with those longer range

models is that they have trouble resolving the finer details.  So, as we

get closer in time to the situation, it looks like those 2 systems will

now, in fact, stay separate.  But it sure caught our attention last

week!

Hope that helps explain things rather than just leaving you more

confused.  Let me know if you have any other questions.

Enjoy(?) the heat & humidity!

And Happy Meteorological Fall (which starts tomorrow on Sept. 1)

Gary Sadowsky