Posted on 12/01/2024 3:12:14 AM PST by george76
The weather outside will soon be frightful.
Upstate New York could be facing up to 6 feet of “extreme” snow as the city braces for the coldest temperatures yet this season.
Every morning is going to be essentially below freezing for the next, at least 10 days, maybe two weeks,” Fox Weather meteorologist Cody Braud told The Post Saturday. “And our afternoon highs are going to be in the low to mid-40s every day as well for this entire week.
“Looking long term to the start of next weekend, we may not even get out of the 30s,”
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The weather pattern is not common, the meteorologist continued.
“It’s called a ‘clipper’ and we haven’t had one in quite a while,” he said. The storm features “an atomic burst of rain and snow that kind of clips the Northeast and portions of the Great Lakes … there’s a chance we may see some flakes fly in the city sometime Wednesday.”
Parts of Upstate are already dealing with Day 2 of what could be five days of disastrous amounts of snowfall.
Snowfall totals in Harrisburg, New York, about 20 miles southeast of Watertown, already neared 3 feet, and “it’s only going to go up,” Braud said. “It’s about a five-day event. This is only going to get worse,”
The extreme lake-effect snow is also affecting parts of Pennsylvania, northeast Ohio and Michigan.
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Actually, a winter clipper is not a new term. As someone who is the north east Ohio winter person, I was been wondering over the years where the term clipper disappeared to. Growing up Dick Goddard use that term often as well as his partner Andre Bernier. A winter storm clipper is a very common event. The meteorologist in the article is just a naïve fool.
A few years ago they were all using the term “Polar Vortex”. I wonder whatever happened to that….
“..Have they named this storm yet?...”
Probably call it “TrumpFault”
But it needs to be: “FJB”
The buzzards showed up here Thursday. When they come, weather to the north is going to be cold and bad.
Somehow...... they know
“Oh...a clipper...here we go with this “new term” cr**...”
And if someone dies in a car crash or has a heart attack shoveling snow they get to add adjectives like “deadly “.
Add “Cyclone” to the title and you’ve got it! We have been getting Lake Michigan lake effect for the better part of a week and it is supposed to go another 5 days. Sounds a whole worse than it really is.
Grew up in Maine.... We’d get em quite often. All I ever heard em called was “Nor’easters”. They’d ususally last 2-3 days...bad storms. We had a handrope from the back door to a garage about 30’ away to help guide us back/forth during a storm because one couldn’t see their hand in front of em it was blowing/snowing so hard. My mom’s outdoor clothesline was about 10’ off the ground. I can remember as a kid playing on top of a snow drift and tripping over it. Some of the older 2-story houses back then actually had a outside door on the 2nd story. I can remember one storm in particular where when we opend the main outside door, there was literally a “wall of white” up against the storm door. In 1962, a local contractor plowed the main stteet of our town with a CAT D9 bulldozer and had a gravelpit front end loader dumping it in the river. The “woke” have no idea.
Yes, I did. That's where I came up with Atomic Snow Bomb. Sounds cooler than a Clipper........LOL!
I have an elderly aunt who lived in Watertown for many years. She now lives in Florida and recently told me that she would go back to Watertown, in a minute, if she could.
[[“an atomic burst of rain]]
When did rampant hyperbole become a meteorological mode of speech?
I was thinking more “A cyclonic bubonic philharmonic weather assault, the likes of which have never been seen before, and which probably wiped out the dinosaurs way back when”
Suck on that man made global warming bitches.
I lived in Oswego for several years. I never got used to driving in a whiteout. It’s kind of like driving with your eyes closed. I had a neighbor who was in a whiteout but luckily got to follow a plow. After a while the plow stopped and turned his lights out. Seems he wound up in the plow storage area.
This is obviously a lie. I was told in 2002 that winter and snow would no longer be a thing by 2008.
I’ve seen more than that up there; few years back they got 9’ but that amount was always right along the lakeshore. Out on the interstate it was about 2/3 to 1/2 that. Still a tremendous snowfall amount. Driving in that is impossible even in a semi; the interstate was a parking lot for days afterwards, with National Guard and local citizens on snowmobile delivering water and food until the roads could be reopened.
I am near Canandaigua, not a flake yet this season…
Snowfall will recharge the aquifers.
Nothing new about a clipper. New England meteorologists have used the term for about a century at least.
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