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October 29, 2012Hurricane Sandy Update: 11PM EDT 28 October 2012
The most recent forecast has not changed terribly – this massive storm’s circulation looks to be coming ashore on Monday night along the southern or central New Jersey shore, moving inland to central Pennsylvania by Tuesday night, into Lake Ontario…
October 29, 2012Hurricane Sandy Update: 11AM EDT 29 October 2012
Hurricane Sandy is coming ashore later today, with many areas of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast feeling its widespread and intense effects for some time. Given the present track, similar to previous forecasts, the most likely place for entrained pelagic and…
October 29, 2012Hurricane Sandy Update: 230PM EDT 29 October 2012
Team eBird has posted an update on Sandy birding strategies here, including species that might be possible. Additionally, please follow live updates posted by our friend Drew Weber here. After many days of speculation, Hurricane Sandy is making landfall in southern NJ…
October 30, 2012Post Tropical Cyclone Sandy: 8PM EDT, 29 October 2012
The center of the circulation is mostly ashore near Atlantic City, NJ as of 8PM EDT, the system is now behaving more like a Nor’easter though still with some tropical characteristics, and the effects of Sandy are widespread and dangerous….
October 30, 2012Post Tropical Cyclone Sandy Update: 11PM EDT 29 October 2012
The remnants of Sandy, huge as they are, have a circulation that has just passed Philadelphia, PA. All of the meteorological forecasters involved in predicting the path of this system did quite an amazing job – now, team eBird and…
October 31, 2012Post Tropical Cyclone Sandy: Brief Update for 30 October 930PM EDT
For those out birding from the mid-Atlantic through New England and west to the Appalachians and the eastern Great Lakes, today was a wild day of birding. Several blogs have captured the ornithological events spawned by Sandy’s arrival onshore, and…
October 31, 2012Abridged Regional Migration Forecast: Eastern US 31 October – 4 November 2012
With the departure to the Northeast of Hurricane and Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy, westerly flow prevails outside the Northeastern US across a huge portion of the Eastern US from the western Great Lakes through peninsular Florida. In many areas, despite the…
November 2, 2012Your Mission Now, Find Landbirds! Eastern Forecast Update for 2 – 4 November 2012
To follow yesterday’s post, get out a look for landbirds!!!! Something extremely interesting is occurring in the wake of the epic passage of Sandy. Recent reports from Maryland to Maine of a bizarre mix of Neotropical migrants, including Connecticut Warbler…
November 2, 2012BirdCast covers the ornithological effects of Hurricane Sandy
Numerous articles linked and referenced the BirdCast website during the extensive media coverage of Hurricane Sandy. The following is a list of links to radio, print, and Internet coverage of the storm relevant to (or referencing) BirdCast. Discovery.com – EXCELLENT…
November 7, 2012A (new) NE Canada – Northeast US connection to end the week?
Today through Friday has potential to see winds transport waterfowl, gulls, and other late migrants and irruptives into the Northeast and Great Lakes. Additionally, snow cover may force sparrows and open-area species like pipits, longspurs, Snow Buntings, and larks to…
November 9, 2012Lingering Sandy Effects: Neotropical Migrants and a European Visitor
Hurricane/Post-tropical Cyclone Sandy and all of her fury are firmly ensconced in the record books, and this storm will remain forever in the lexicon of Northeastern US weather lore (probably foremost ahead of the 1938 Long Island Express). This is…
November 9, 2012Et tu, Brute? More western species east . . .
The Weather Channel has taken to naming winter storms for the 2012-2013 winter season, and Brutus is at bat. This powerful storm is dumping heavy snow in parts of the Rockies, and the associated frontal boundary strongly demarcates much colder…

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