# Nor'easter - Not just hype

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**Category:** Marine Weather\
**Created:** [January 31, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/noreaster-not-just-hype/50484 "2019-01-31T14:01:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kennebec\_Captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kennebec_captain/32/13_2.png) [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/noreaster-not-just-hype/50484/6 "2019-01-31T19:31:16Z")

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This one is from January of last year: [January 2018 North American blizzard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2018_North_American_blizzard)

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/2X/e/e8a853aca8424b7af8c17b4a583cca1cc83825ed.jpeg)  
[GOES-16](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES-16) satellite image of the blizzard [rapidly deepening](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_cyclogenesis) off the [Northeastern United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_United_States) at 13:45 [UTC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time) (8:45 a.m [EST](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Standard_Time_(North_America))) on January 4, 2018.

> After forming, the [extratropical cyclone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extratropical_cyclone) continued to [explosively deepen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_cyclogenesis), tracking northward parallel to the [United States East Coast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States).[[11]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2018_North_American_blizzard#cite_note-Summary2-11) By the morning of January 4, the powerful storm system had deepened by 53 [mbar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(unit)) ([hPa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(unit)); 1.57 [inHg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inches_of_mercury)) in 21 hours—one of the fastest rates ever observed in the Western Atlantic[

The Norwegian Breakaway got caught in this storm - thread here: [CRUISE SHIP CAUGHT IN A BOMB CYCLONE (Norwegian Breakaway) Youtube Video](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/cruise-ship-caught-in-a-bomb-cyclone-norwegian-breakaway-youtube-video/47004)

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