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Extraordinary Measures(East Coast Blizzard)
Foot's Forecast ^ | 12/25/2010 | Mr. Foot

Posted on 12/25/2010 5:27:32 PM PST by XEHRpa

6:15 PM Saturday 12/25/2010 - As has been projected for days by various computer models, and outlined in our Storm Technical Analyses, the U.S. East Coast this weekend will experience the most high impact winter storm since March 1993. With Blizzard Warnings in effect from the New York City metro area to Southern New England, and Winter Storm Watches or Warnings covering all of the Carolinas, it is fair to say this event has lived up to the moniker our team assigned of "Snow Miser Surpriser." The extraordinary measures that countless thousands of public safety, service and logistics sector employees now have to initiate on a holiday weekend is the first of its kind on Christmas Weekend in the 21st century. In fact, not since December 24, 1966 has such a wide area of the east coast been impacted by a storm on a holiday weekend such as this. We urge all our readers to closely monitor statements, watches and warnings from your local National Weather Service Forecast Offices.

(Excerpt) Read more at footsforecast.org ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: blizzard; foot; weather
Mr. Foot and his forecast team of students and volunteers (kind of an open-source forecasting model) made a splash in the Maryland news last year as the guy who predicted a number of the blizzards much better than the big guys. He has expanded his operation, incorporating experts and students from as far away as the Carolinas to Ohio to Pennsylvania.

His forecasts are so much more lively and technical than the national forecast houses. He's worth a gander if you live on the east coast.

1 posted on 12/25/2010 5:27:39 PM PST by XEHRpa
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To: XEHRpa

Computer models? Thank God. That means it’ll probably blow over.


2 posted on 12/25/2010 5:32:10 PM PST by the invisib1e hand ("Three hostile newspapers are more to be feared than 200 swords" - Napoleon Bonapart)
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To: XEHRpa

Øbama is laying on the beach in Hawaii taking care of the situation.


3 posted on 12/25/2010 5:32:39 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: XEHRpa
...the U.S. East Coast this weekend will experience the most high impact winter storm since March 1993.

No wonder the Global Warming lover O went to Hawaii for vacation.

4 posted on 12/25/2010 5:34:56 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: XEHRpa

His radar model is great. Snow is passing through Atlanta right now. From the model I can see how the snowy weather will push up the east coast.


5 posted on 12/25/2010 5:42:52 PM PST by Atlantan
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To: rdl6989

great tagline!


6 posted on 12/25/2010 5:49:27 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

Thanks. It’s fitting.


7 posted on 12/25/2010 5:56:29 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: XEHRpa

I love the snow and cold, it makes it real hard on the warm weather-illegals and subterranean terroritsts.


8 posted on 12/25/2010 6:24:39 PM PST by MissyMack66 (ROMNEY SUCKS: don't be fooled like we were in MA.)
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To: XEHRpa

bump


9 posted on 12/25/2010 9:35:20 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: rdl6989
Øbama is laying on the beach in Hawaii taking care of the situation.

No he's not. He's getting pounded by flooding rains. LOL! Big downpours in the Kailua area.

10 posted on 12/25/2010 9:49:40 PM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: XEHRpa

Should I rearrange my memory cells, dispose of the ones storing the blizzard of 1996 (30” in Philly, etc.) to make room for this new unprecedented historic catastrophe?


11 posted on 12/26/2010 5:19:06 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Merry Christmas!)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Probably not. I woke up this morning to no snow, having expected it to start sometime in the night. The brave Mr. Foot seems to have downgraded his snowcast predictions to 4+ inches for southeast Pennsylvania. Hardly memorable sounding.

My guess? The sweet spot is narrow, and the storm track is a little more east than expected.


12 posted on 12/26/2010 5:23:55 AM PST by XEHRpa
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To: XEHRpa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_blizzard_of_1996


13 posted on 12/26/2010 5:26:16 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Merry Christmas!)
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To: XEHRpa

We remove 4” of snow with a broom around here! Yesterday I read that Delta Air Lines cancelled 300 out of 800 flights in anticipation of 2” of snow in the Atlanta area.

People have gotten so dainty.


14 posted on 12/26/2010 5:34:50 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Happy New Year!)
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To: Islander7

LOL. Shadenfraude.


15 posted on 12/26/2010 7:27:23 AM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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