Whom amongst us hasn’t dreamt of being one thing they’re not. Me, personally, I dream about quitting journalism to open a espresso roastery in a mountain city the place I can sling joe within the morning and get a few laps within the afternoon. Maybe I’d even shut the store for an hour on mornings with contemporary powder. Summers floating down the river. Long hikes.

Sorry, the place have been we? Ah, proper. It seems even hurricanes can dare to dream. Hurricane Larry, a formidably giant storm present chugging within the Atlantic, has desires, too. Dreams of being a blizzard. And in contrast to myself, toiling at a desk in New York, Larry is on its method to making these desires actuality.

The storm shaped in the course of the Atlantic earlier this week and is just now posing a menace to land. Larry is forecast to clip Newfoundland, Canada, a location that hardly ever sees precise hurricanes make landfall. After that, the storm will head even farther north and convey snow measured in toes to Greenland, making Larry a meteorological oddity.

Hurricane Larry is presently a Category 1 storm with winds of 80 mph (130 kph). It’s anticipated to keep up that energy because it approaches Newfoundland, an island in Atlantic Canada, on Friday evening. Hurricane warnings are up for the southeast tip of the island with tropical storm warnings extending to factors farther west and north. Larry has a reasonably monstrous windfield, with tropical storm-force winds reaching 240 miles (390 kilometers) from its core. That creates a big fetch, permitting Larry to scoop up water and push it northward, which is why the National Hurricane Center is warning of “dangerous storm surge [that] is expected to produce coastal flooding.” Larry can be presently producing harmful swells in components of the Northeast U.S. and Atlantic Canada, and Environment Canada is warning of waves as excessive as 45 toes (14 meters) “breaking upon the shore.”

If Larry makes landfall, it will likely be the primary time in a decade {that a} hurricane has hit the island. The final was Hurricane Maria in 2011 (not the lethal 2017 model), which hit as a Category 1 storm. Newfoundland sees a good variety of extratropical cyclones which are the remnants of hurricanes which have taken on completely different meteorological traits, probably the most distinguished of which is having a chilly core. (Hurricanes and tropical storms have a heat one.)

Larry will do the extratropical shuffle after passing by Newfoundland, and add one more trick to its repertoire: snow. The storm will hold going north and, within the phrases of the NHC, is “expected to merge with a large extratropical low over the Labrador Sea on Sunday.” That additional zap of atmospheric vitality will give Larry renewed energy to deliver heavy snow to Greenland because it passes by the island. Snowfall totals may attain an astounding 3 to 5 feet (1 to 2 meters) on the southeastern a part of the island.

Call it Blizzicane Larry, Tropical Snowstorm Larry, or another mashup assured to make meteorologists hate you. Or, maybe, you would merely name it inspiration.