But forecasters also said the path of the storm will depend on a high-pressure system over the southern United States.
As the precipitation intensified and the low pressure system became more intense, basic physics said more cooling was on the way.
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When there is no wind, for example, heat builds up in a city, creating a low-pressure system that pulls air into the city.
The past two years it got stuck on top of southern England - and that locked a low-pressure system in place which in turn brought misery and rain.
Meteorologists were blaming the nor'easter on the collision of two storm systems: cold air traveling south from Canada bumping into a moist low pressure system heading north from the Carolinas.
In the weather, we can see positive feedback when a series of hot, sunny days create a static high pressure system which keeps storms from moving in to cool things off.
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Northern states including Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota are closer to normal rainfall levels as a high pressure system over the middle of the country pushed wet weather northward during the last month.
There's this low pressure system sitting out in the Bay of Bengal which is sort of nudging up exactly to the same area which is going to dump, I think it's 200 millimeters of rain, a huge amount of rain.
Its patented reduced-pressure distillation system can reportedly convert 10 liters of seawater into 3.7 liters of fresh water.
Given the two red flags that had been thrown up previously, one would have expected that as a precaution a cement plug would have been placed somewhere in the wellbore as a secondary pressure seal before this primary pressure control system (heavy mud) was evacuated from the wellbore.
And while the inescapable and obvious result is that increased financial pressure is placed on the private health insurance system at the expense of removing some of the financial pressure on the government run Medicare system, what may not be quite so obvious is the additional financial pressure placed on even the youngest and healthiest people in the private health insurance pools.
One company, KCI based in San Antonio, Texas, handles more than half a million support calls a year for their Negative Pressure Wound therapy system.
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Mr Straw restated his aim of creating 14, 000 more prison places by 2014, saying the government would be "failing in its fundamental duty to protect the public" if it did not increase capacity to meet the anticipated pressure on the system.
There is growing pressure on the university system - and increasingly urgent calls for more funding.
"It is so flexible that, when subjected to the pressure of the accountability system, it can buckle, " she said.
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The new 101 non-emergency number in Scotland is designed to simplify the way the public contact the police, while reducing pressure on the 999 system.
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More people will be sectioned with a Mental Health Bill, adding ever increasing pressure on the NHS system with the lack of funds and hospital beds.
But Mastro argued that the outtakes exposed a criminal conspiracy, in which Donziger was exploiting the corruption of the Ecuadoran system to pressure Chevron into a huge settlement.
She told the BBC the best thing for her mother was to be cared for at home, but that she was aware that there was intense pressure on the care system.
The one thing certain about the next crisis is that it will feature the same crushing panic, pleas from banks and huge political pressure to stabilise the system, whatever the cost.
Takeshita Noboru is hospitalized for treatment of spondylitis deformans, a spinal deformation caused by aging which puts pressure on the nervous system and causes back pain and paralysis in the limbs.
Brad Setser believes that unless China rapidly revalues its currency, it will face increased pressures on its domestic economy - with over-investment (now approaching 50% of GDP) eventually collapsing, putting pressure on the banking system.
As emerging economies become a bigger and more important part of the global financial system, pressure is being exerted on institutions to shift their governance to recognize the needs and aspirations of such nations.
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This year's presidential election - with the shock breakthrough of the far-right - was in many ways the culmination of this effect, and it is no coincidence that pressure to overhaul the system comes under a government born of that trauma.
Gotham as an examination of the frailties and pressure points that make this system weak in the face of the unexpected and uncontrollable.
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If there was a failure in the air supply system then the pressure would decrease more slowly but still eventually match the outside air pressure.
Perhaps the most potent pressure comes from inside the system.
However, since Brazil switched on more gas-fired thermal plants in October, to cope with growing demand and ease the pressure on the hydroelectric power system, costs have increased significantly.
Previously, Prospect had warned that the cuts would put extra pressure on the criminal justice system and leave large areas of England and Wales without public sector forensic cover.
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