Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.
Q: Sentence 1:This occurs east of the mountains down through the Mid Atlantic states . Sentence 2:Meanwhile , a Pacific storm slammed onto the California coast during the 11th and as it moved eastward , a new area of low pressure developed across southeastern Colorado and the Texas Panhandle .
A:
meanwhile