Cato the Elder ping!
Posted on 03/13/2017 1:16:25 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
Get out now while you still have the chance!
A blizzard warning has been issued for New York City and much of the tri-state area beginning at midnight Tuesday as Winter Storm Stella threatens to dump as much as 18 inches of snow.
Whiteout conditions are expected to make travel extremely dangerous and power outages are likely amid crippling wind gusts of 20 to 40 mph, according to AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tom Kines.
New Yorkers stockpile supplies as massive snowstorm looms.
“Travel will be poor at best, if not impossible,” Kines told The Post on Monday. “If you have the option tomorrow of staying put, I would definitely recommend that. And if you try to fly by air tomorrow, forget it — not happening.”
The blizzard warning — which will be in effect for 24 hours — will cover New York City and Long Island as well as Fairfield, Westchester, Rockland, Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Union, Monmouth and Ocean counties.
Snow will begin around 3 a.m. and continue throughout Tuesday before tapering off in the evening, Kines said.
The city is expected to get at least a foot of snow and 16 to 18 inches could get dumped on western and northwestern areas of the city. Eastern Long Island could be spared with just 6 to 8 inches.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
But you haven't addressed the basic question:
True or false:A few inches of snow can bring NYC (Manhattan,at least) to a standstill.
Cato the Elder ping!
I’m happily in Manhattan now watching a beautiful sunset begin. It’s easy to do well in the City during a blizzard. The stinking mass of cars go away and everything is beautiful.
As the doorman said this afternoon ‘Glad we aren’t out in the suburbs’
It's mid-March. It will melt.
In spite of how it might sound I'm something of a fan of NYC (but not those damn Yankees or Jets).I've been in Central Park during,and just after,a light snowfall and I must admit that it's quite nice.But while it may be nice in Central Park it's not nearly as nice in Times Square.
Once again, Man is powerless before the forces of nature and climate.
Yikes!! I better stock up!
We’re in the 18-24 inch area of Massachusetts. This may be a challenge:
https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/index_loop.php
We planned ahead. :)
About 6:00 here in Maryland near Frederick and it’s supposed to come through around 8:00. We may get 6 or 8 inches where I live. Woe is me!
I figured I’d just nip out quickly to the Safeway for bread, milk, and toilet paper and then find a handy highway overpass upon which to abandon my car.
So I should be totally prepared by the time it hits.
That's what happens when your schools are nothing more than day care centers, I guess.
day care centers ?
err ever heard of
Hunter College High School
Bronx Science
Stuyvesant
Collegiate
Trinity
St. Ann’s
Really, this is the 19th named storm of the year? I must have missed Rachel and Queenie, and all the rest.
And what is with naming snowstorms? How did the Blizzard of '88 manage not to get a name? Could we now sort of give it a name, posthumously? Barack would be my immediate suggestion.
ML/NJ
The snow here in MD has started a couple of hours before predicted today - but exactly when the reports were predicting a couple of days ago. The models have been all over the place, and we’re right on the line between snow or just rainy/mix; so we don’t really know what to expect.
My workplace already closed for tomorrow, and we’re all prepped; so I’m in clover no matter what happens.
If power goes out, we’ll light a fire and put on more clothes ;-)
Apparently these people don’t realize the snow will be melting by Thursday. I haven’t cancelled my weekend camping plans.>>> actually the temp is supposed to get colder. weatherbell says it’s going to be a very cold march into april.
Stella got her groove on!
In Indy last week they started calling for 2 inches of accumulated snow on Saturday. Saturday was gorgeous. Then they called for light accumulation on Friday for Monday. The snow came and melted especially since the ground temp was above freezing. Knowing this, the only thing that could increase the snow accumulation is the lake effect. If people paid more attention to the weather in fly-over country they would have known this was going to be a non-event in NYC.
I’m not sure when they started naming snowstorms - it’s something I seem to have only noticed within the last 6 years or so.
But I grew up with family memories of a ‘named’ snowstorm, that occurred in 1922 - the Knickerbocker Storm. It was remembered by my father and grandmother as the worst storm they’d experienced in DC - actually, the worst in their lives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_storm
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