page_title: November 2006 nor'easter
section_title: Preparations
hierarchical_section_title: November 2006 nor'easter / Preparations
caption_attribution_description: English: Surface Analysis from the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center from November 22, 2006 at 1200 UTC http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/sfc_archive.shtml
context_page_description: The November 2006 nor'easter was a powerful extratropical cyclone that formed offshore of the Southeastern United States on November 20, bringing heavy rains, high winds, beach erosion, and coastal flooding to the Carolinas and southern New England. In addition, the earliest snowfall ever noted in both Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia occurred on the southwest side of this cyclone. Over 10,000 were without power during the storm. No longer a nor'easter, the extratropical cyclone accelerated rapidly across the North Atlantic while rapidly strengthening, becoming a cyclonic storm again by November 25, but this time with hurricane-force sustained winds. The intense low made a cyclonic loop west of Iceland, before being absorbed by another strengthening extratropical cyclone to the west of Great Britain, late on December 1.
context_section_description: There had been indications in the forecast model guidance as early as the first week of November that weather would be unsettled/rainy across the eastern United States around November 23. Within seven days of the event, medium range forecasts generally maintained the idea of a coastal storm offshore the Southeast, though its progression out to sea remained uncertain until November 21, after the cyclone actually formed offshore the Southeast United States and began edging northeast.
caption: Surface analysis from November 22, 2006 at 1200 UTC showing the cyclone moving into mainland North Carolina