Tropical Storm Ana

well I lied, I said there wouldn't be any more weather reports by the time I graduated, but I also didn't expect tropical storm season to fire up so early. Looking like we're getting our first tropical storm of the season and shes developing off the coast of South Carolina/Georgia. I don't expect it to hit hurricane status although its really trying to get some more spin going in there, but it will probably be hitting the coastline of NC and VA beach Monday night and Tuesday morning, I'll post some charts once I'm done with finals tomorrow but just be in the lookout and maybe buy some toilet paper if you haven't already.

EDIT: http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/subtropical-storm-ana-first...

These guys sum it up pretty well, I could draw up some maps but they're not gonna come out as pretty as theres and I have a very similar path mapped out for the storm.

That is weather.coms path I expect it to hit a little bit north of that (maybe 50-100 miles no biggie really) around saturday evening and sunday morning. It should work its way up steadily along the coast bringing a lot of rain with it. If the article is TLDR winds are around 40 MPH with some rain bands that are going to lead to some significant downpours. shouldn't be anything to life threatening but for the love of god dont go swimming in this thing. Expect some serious media coverage and some silly headlines thrown out in the next few days due to the fact that this thing marks the beginning of tropical system season and its coming about 3-4 weeks early... every time something happens that the media isn't used to they love to give it cute and clever names and freak the fudge out, but it was just some unique conditions. I'm not to certain about long-term forecasts so I will have to look into what the outlook is for this season but there hasn't been talk around the labs about how severe this one is going to be so don't let this be an indicator. The convective season however is a totally different storm, early season is looking very ominous for some heavy duty storms.

As for my poor friend in south dakota....I'm really sorry you're looking at the possibility of a foot of snow, theres no ifs ands or buts about it you're probably getting snow here this weekend. Good news is ice is looking like not much of a possibility!