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        <p>As&nbsp;Hurricane Harvey hammers Houston with torrential rains and flooding, New England residents may be wondering: Could that happen here?</p>
<p>The answer, according to meteorologists, is probably not.</p>
<p>"Harvey was a very unique storm in that it stalled, and it is still stalled over Texas," said Jacob Wycoff, a meteorologist for Western Mass News in Springfield. "We are so close to the jet stream ... we don't get that type of stalling systems."</p>
<p>New England is no stranger to major storms - for example, Hurricane Irene in 2011 or Superstorm Sandy in 2012.</p>
<p>But there are no parallels to Hurricane Harvey.</p>
<p>Between 1950 and 2012, the maximum rainfall to hit Massachusetts was Tropical Storm Diane in 1955, which dropped 19.75 inches of rain in the state, according to the National Weather Service.</p>
<p>In contrast, Harvey has already caused close to 30 inches to fall in some parts of Texas, and meteorologists are forecasting up to 50 inches in some places before the storm is done.</p>
<p>The reason for the massive rainfall is that the Texas storm is stalled, moving at around 5 miles per hour. "You talk about how fast you or I would run a 5k race, we would run faster than this hurricane is moving right here," Wycoff said. "It is essentially just sitting and spinning."</p>
<p>Wycoff said in New England, the jet stream typically accelerates the path of storms, so they move out quickly. Even Sandy, for example, which caused severe damage to New York and New Jersey, moved quickly and did not linger. "The way the pattern is set up, it's more conducive to stall out over Texas or the Gulf Coast than it would be over New England," Wycoff said.</p>
<p>Alan Dunham, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton, said by the time storms reach New England, they are typically beginning to weaken, or they are fast-moving hurricanes. Storms in New England typically travel at 35 to 45 miles per hour. They tend to last from eight to 12 hours, or at most 18 hours. Hurricane Harvey hit Texas Friday night and is expected to stay in the area through Wednesday or Thursday.</p>
<p>"It would really take an outlier of a storm to give us that much rain," Dunham said.</p>
<p>There two biggest storms to hit Massachusetts were Carol in 1954 and the New England Hurricane of 1938, both of which were designated category 3 storms based on their wind speeds, according to Christopher Besse, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. That is less strong than Harvey, which made landfall at category 4.</p>
<p>A category 3 storm has winds of 111 to 129 miles per hour, while a category 4 storm has wind speeds of 130 to 156 miles per hour.</p>
<p>Michael Rawlins, associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Department of Geosciences and associate director of the Climate System Research Center, said warm water fuels a tropical storm. So as a storm moves further north, where the waters are colder, it will lessen in intensity.</p>
<p>"Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas after passing parts of the Gulf of Mexico, which were incredibly warm this time of year," Rawlins said. "The further north one goes up into the mid-Atlantic, then up into New England, the likelihood of having category 4 and category 5 ... the likelihood of storms remaining that intense becomes somewhat less, because the waters as you move north aren't as warm."</p>
<p>New England does have nor'easters, but the winds are generally less strong than in a tropical storm - wind speeds of 50 to 70 miles per hour are more common in Massachusetts than wind speeds of 120 to 140 miles per hour.</p>
<p>Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, agreed with other experts that Massachusetts cannot get the same magnitude of rainfall as Texas is seeing because there is less water in the air, and hurricanes that come here are typically weaker and moving faster. But he cautioned that Massachusetts can get enough rain to cause substantial flooding, as happened with Hurricane Irene (which had been downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it came through the Bay State).</p>
<p>And Dunham cautioned that it takes less rainfall to cause catastrophic flooding in Massachusetts than in Texas because the Massachusetts terrain is sharper and steeper than Texas's rolling hills.</p>
<p>Besse, of MEMA, said the state is prepared. "From a planning perspective, we do emergency plans for the idea of the worst case scenario," Besse said.</p>
        
        
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