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And again, not saying that a foot of snow is nothing to scoff at, but I don't think a foot counts as "historic" or "life threatening". My beef is more about the media overhype than the forecasters getting it wrong. That happens with snow storms. But the media was treating this like it was going to be a scene from Day After Tomorrow.
Ocean County. I may been off on what I thought I saw earlier. It might be more like eight inches which is still something. I haven't been outside yet to actually measure it. I will do that in an hour or so.
My office notified us of the closure yesterday. People are basically treating it as a day off. Hooray!
I have to go outside and shovel a path for the dog this morning. There's at least 18" in Lexington... at least. 24"+ is definitely possible. And it's still coming down. But no power outage.
How is this a fail? Again, it's weather, it's a fluid situation. If it were not NYC that was affected by a 25-50 miles change in path, then this would have been a pretty accurate forecast. But the line of delination became nassau / suffolk border (12-15 or less west, 15-25+ east).
This is the real letdown story of this storm.If Sheik were alive, he'd have been on top of this.
It was a miss for NYC and Philly, South Jersey I suppose. But it's nowhere near a miss for places very nearby. Forecasts showed a sharp dropoff in snow amounts but that was south of where that actually occurred. Didn't miss the amounts, just the pinpoint location of the amounts.
Well, I'd say I pretty much nailed the first one. And the Super Bowl storm looks like it's still on the table, although, it might be another battleground of rain and snow.
And go East 15-30 miles and it goes to really bad and then apparently close to snowmaggedon. We probably are about where you are from the looks of it.
WTF? You took a break during the biggest storm of the year?
by "dig", you mean kicked some of the snow out from around your tires, right?
I was home from work and I was spending most of my day watching models and "crunching data." There was a very high bust potential to this storm for many areas, so it was actually a fun storm to watch. Things that needed to happen, ended up happening, but other things fell apart. Up until very late last night, it was still uncertain as to whether this storm would bust for the west or blossom like it was supposed to.
Bingo... I'm on the right side of the street though, so there was a decent amount of snow to kick.
well- first off, how are you?
Passionate hobby. When I was in high school, I had planned on going to PSU for meteorology. Then I learned you had to be good at math. So I picked something else.
You mean you can afford $90 hoodies and can't find the scratch for a snow blower? What the hell?
It was on pace to be historic. It did bomb out, just ask the people in New England. And it is life threatening. The track just shifted west. This is something we see a lot with storms like this. Same thing with hurricanes.
Been thinking of getting a weather station , you know the type the people at WU use, what is a good way to start?
That's why I specified NYC proper. The guys in Boston are getting hammered and maybe didn't get enough attention because all eyes were on NYC.
There was a chance that NYC could see a foot or more of snow probably up until about 3 am.
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