Two reporters for Canada's The Weather Network were blown away by the ferocious blizzard that pounded the Maritimes yesterday, packing wind gusts of over 100 MPH in this Nova Scotian town just before the reporters were knocked off-camera. They were able to quickly get up and hobble back to their spot to finish the report.

Buoy 44027, located about 20 miles off the coast of Jonesport, Maine, is recording incredible gusts of wind as the nor'easter passes to its southeast this afternoon, clocking not one but two wind gusts at a staggering 103 knots, or 118.5 MPH.

The long-awaited nor'easter is finally cranking off the coast of New England this afternoon, and it really looks about as beautiful as expected on both satellite imagery and surface pressure analysis maps.

The impressive nor'easter that's slated to develop on Tuesday and Wednesday and rake parts of New England with heavy snow and strong winds will likely prove devastating to the Atlantic provinces of eastern Canada. The storm is expected to drop to a barometric pressure equivalent to that of a category 3 hurricane as it approaches Nova Scotia on Wednesday, bringing with it the potential for two feet of snow, winds well over hurricane force, incredible waves, and a fair amount of coastal flooding.

The explosive (hype) bomb of a nor'easter that's slated to form in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean in a couple of days continues to teeter on the edge of being no big deal and a decent snowstorm for heavily populated areas along the I-95 corridor, but it's leaning more heavily towards not being that big of a deal for that many people.

For the past few days, numerous weather models have signaled at the possibility of a significant nor'easter sometime early next week that could bring snow to places from North Carolina to Canada. At this time, it's still a very fluid situation with lots of uncertainties, but there is enough risk right now to warrant mentioning.

The winter storm's central pressure continues to rapidly drop this evening, now near 980-981 millibars. Pressure is 982 millibars in Millersburg, WV and Johnstown, PA is currently 983 millibars. The radar overlay shows the storms lining up perfectly along the cold front, which is also clearly visible in the isobar kinks extending down the eastern side of the Appalachians. This is a storm right out of a meteorology textbook.

In a perfect world, you could go to your local television news website and get the latest snowfall forecast issued by their team of dedicated meteorologists. But that's a perfect world, and this one is a search engine optimized hell where interns bash one another over the head to come up with the most clickbaity title possible.