By Staff Writer (media@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Nov 04, 2014 10:48 PM EST

Super Typhoon Nuri now shares the "strongest storm of 2014" label with Typhoon Vongfong, which emerged from the Pacific Ocean last month and made its way through Japan. Recent reports have it that the storm has maintained its 180 mph wind speed and has gradually weakened to category 4, although not before reaching category 5 status for 24 hours, according to The Washington Post.

"Over the next few days, Nuri is forecast to track north through the West Pacific, losing its tropical cyclone characteristics, and interacting with a strong jet stream," the publication said. "By the time the low pressure system reaches the Bering Sea, west of Alaska, it is forecast to have deepened to a pressure less than 920 mb - on par with some of the deepest cyclones on record. The lower the pressure, the more intense the storm is."

Although the super storm won't hit North America, its climactic intensity has been forecasted to affect American and Canadian weather patterns.

"According to multiple computer models, it may be destined to transform itself into a monster storm near Alaska - possibly one of the strongest that the western part of the state has ever seen - by this weekend," Mashable reported.

"In New York, Nuri's effects will likely be a round of heavy rain and mild air on Wednesday night and Thursday as a trough of low pressure sharpens near the East Coast," the site explained. "Parts of the Midwest, though, may see some snow out of this storm. By Saturday, New York's temperatures will be in the mid-to-upper 40s, with colder air sliding all the way to the South."

Meanwhile, MPR News said that as Nuri makes its way to the Bering Sea, a series of weather events may be triggered and possibly make November a little bit colder in Minnesota and eastern parts of the U.S. "Nuri's downstream ripple effect could trigger a downstream trough in the eastern US that may bring a cold wave into Minnesota," the site said.

The Washington Post affirmed this information by saying that the record-level low pressure will "kick-start a domino effect on weather in the Northern Hemisphere over the next few weeks."

"In particular, it will spur a parade of cold air outbreaks across the central and eastern U.S. in November," the news source said. "The good news is that while this pattern does favor cold air outbreaks, we will have periods of warmer weather in between."

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The first of these cold fronts may arrive Friday.

"This storm is really impressive," commented Heather M. Archambault, a University Corporation for Atmospheric Research scientist, as noted by Mashable. "It's forecast to explosively re-intensify as an extratropical cyclone. The impacts will be felt far downstream because of the energy it provides to the jet stream."

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