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Major East Coast Storm to Hit Mid-Atlantic and New England Tuesday
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terrisus
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VGChampion
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Florida here. Still jealous of you all.
I uh, had to put on a light jacket today? It;s 55 out right now. Where's my snow guys?
I uh, had to put on a light jacket today? It;s 55 out right now. Where's my snow guys?
terrisus
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A light jacket for 55?
That's t-shirt weather.
Heck, I went outside to let the dog use the bathroom today in Connecticut in a t-shirt.
Granted, I was only out there a few minutes, but still.
evil solrac v3.0
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1. the one you're on. if some random dude starts rooting for snow stop acting as if he wants people dead. get over yourself.
2. it's always suburbanites that complain about shoveling snow, far more than someone living in a big city like NY. here most people just have a car to drive out of town not for their daily commute.
3. "fun" in this case would be not having to hear people whining about snow and cold when they have lived their whole lives in an area where it snows and gets cold every year.
I always thought you were from Boston. Where are you from?
Also ended up with 20" here in eastern Nassau county in NY. My sister got 28" about 30 miles east of me. The Twin Forks of Long Island got upwards of 30-36" in some places.
Looks like it was a historic storm for Boston and a bust for Eastern NJ and NYC. Forecasters and weather weenies like myself relied on the Euro too much and didn't see the warning signs days before hand that this wouldn't be a historic storm for Western NY metro. The biggest warning sign was a positive NAO. A negative NAO is a really great indicator that particularly the NY metro will see a very active snowstorm period. The NAO is transitioning to a negative period right now, but it was positive before and during the storm. Stepping back from the Euro and using the positive NAO truth serum would have probably saved many forecaster's credibility.
Going forward, it looks like forecasters will have to take the very recently upgraded GFS seriously for east coast storms (it used to have a 50 miles eastern bias) and rely less on the models and more on their meteorology degrees. The Euro may have predicted Sandy, but it was too far west according to six consecutive consistent model runs here.
Overall, we learned that models are great GUIDANCE tools and average forecast tools. The best forecasts come from meteorologists who analyze all of the models, including the long range NAM; which may be retired soon, and use their own observations and expertise to predict a storm. That said, there does need to be more funding for forecast model upgrades. Storms have increasingly become far too dynamic for models to have a consensus on(<<<Climate change). Upgrades are needed, but meteorologists and amateurs need to rely less on models.
Vermillion
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andthebeatgoeson
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andthebeatgoeson
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Double post
Epsilon-delta
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The world is upside down.
terrisus
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From Northampton, MA, although I'm stuck down in Meriden, CT now.
Both my parents are from the Boston area though (Medford and Rockland), so have spent a decent amount of time out there (not to mention regular trips to Boston Children's Hospital when I was younger, and Brigham and Women's and Dana Farber over the past 4 years)
markhimself46
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North Shore Boston here. I think we finished with about 26" of snow. Work was cancelled for me again which is pretty awesome. Finally got out of my house this morning to go to the gym. Side roads are pretty bad still but I got 4WD so can't complain. Just drove to Salem and man are the roads narrow--almost down to one lane in some spots.
forgeforsaken
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Yeah across New England it delivered.
Here's a collection of snowfall totals
http://www.weather.com/storms/winter/news/winter-storm-juno-snow-totals-wind-gusts
Yup. Chelsea looks like they fucked up royally when it came to plowing. Major roads not done, public works areas like bus and train stops not touched, there's a 15 foot hill of snow in the middle of hte intersection from private plow people pushing all the snow from people's driveways into the middle of the street. It's a pretty big mess.
Only realistic method is to torch the fucking thing at this point.
vatstep
This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
Hearing that "sidewalks still need a lot of work" in the city has me not looking forward to commuting and running errands the rest of the week.
Another concern is that, as of now, another "major" storm may be coming on Monday. With the temps a bit warmer, it could be wet snow, or rain, which would make for an absolute mess. It's going to continue to be cold, so nothing is going to melt before then, and adding more on top will just be bad.
Another concern is that, as of now, another "major" storm may be coming on Monday. With the temps a bit warmer, it could be wet snow, or rain, which would make for an absolute mess. It's going to continue to be cold, so nothing is going to melt before then, and adding more on top will just be bad.
terrisus
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I'll believe it when I see it :þ
In work today, but there's a few of us in the office. Northshore Massachusetts here, and yeah roads are narrow as hell and were still not really plowed all the way this morning.
I'm lucky enough to have a condo complex where I park under the building, so no shoveling for me this morning.
I'm lucky enough to have a condo complex where I park under the building, so no shoveling for me this morning.
teruterubozu
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There's one on Friday too. Accuweather is saying just 1-3 inches along the coast, but my local news is forecasting 6" to a foot.
vatstep
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Yeah, I was being self-centered and just thinking about Boston proper, where it doesn't look to be anything of note just a couple of inches like you said. Monday, though, who knows.There's one on Friday too. Accuweather is saying just 1-3 inches along the coast, but my local news is forecasting 6" to a foot.
Which network is saying this? RI-based here as well.
The weather channel.
jamesinclair
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Crossing fingers for a foot
Smiles and Cries
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afraid to ask what does this map mean
Storm system moving in on Sunday/Monday. Shows potential snowfall totals for those regions. I'm looking at a foot of snow, apparently.
teruterubozu
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I wouldn't trust that Euro model, especially after the last storm.
jamesinclair
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The key on the left shows potential inches. So the middle dark rgey is 12-15 inches.
Key word on potential, its just one model. As mentioned above, the Euro was calling for 30 inches in NYC for the bust on Tuesday
The Albatross
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Gonna have to do some more cleanup on Saturday if this thing is coming in. I'm in the 12" range, and I got 34" on Tuesday, plus about 3 this morning. ~50" of snow in a week might be near a record for us.
I had drifts up to six feet and patches were I could still see grass, making an accurate snowfall total hard. It's probably a bit above two feet, so 25-27 inches. The seawall broke in my town and 11 houses went off their stilts. Camera crews were there in force the rest of the week. Some of the wind gusts were insane, 75 MPH and above. Didn't lose power though and most of the trees stayed up because of the heavy wind/heavy snow affair from two years ago took those down.
thecouncil
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For Philadelphia, that's about 4 times the amount we got this week! Whoa!
A Boston-based meteorologist was saying Boston could see 5-12in of snow from the Monday storm early this morning on Twitter.
Smiles and Cries
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24 inches no way do not want
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