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Posted on 01/30/2021 5:23:29 PM PST by Peter ODonnell
You probably heard that a snowstorm is approaching the major cities of the northeastern U.S. and the mid-Atlantic states.
Some forecasting models have outcomes as high as 24-36 inches of snow for some areas. Most at risk appears to be eastern PA, NJ, and MD. NYC and LI could also get hit with 18-24 inch amounts.
So far it looks a bit less extreme for most of New England, with forecast models saying 6-12 inches for most areas. That is also the case for western PA, central NY state, and some parts of the Midwest where the storm has already started.
Low pressure moving through Missouri at present time will track into Kentucky by Sunday. At that time, a coastal low will form off North Carolina, capture most of the energy of the inland storm, and produce heavy snowfall near the I-95 corridor. Strong east winds will develop near the coast, and inland the snow may blow around at times with near-blizzard conditions.
If you've heard a forecast for 6-12 inches, that may in fact verify but be aware that there are significant chances of a much heavier total snowfall especially around Baltimore to Philadelphia to NYC.
This thread can now be used for actual storm observations as we go forward. The east coast snowfall will begin Sunday afternoon. It will start soon in Ohio and w PA.
Temperatures with the snowfall are around 28-30 F, and a mixing zone is likely in parts of Delaware, southeast MD and southeast VA (sleet, ice etc). Heavy rain is the most likely outcome for Norfolk VA and that region. But the storm could transition to wet snow near the final portions on Tuesday.
Would advise some to stock up today before it gets messy as this may be a long-duration storm with a slow recovery period Tues-Wed. Could be Thursday before you'd want to go out again once the storm begins.
“Meteorologists can explain very well—what happened after it happens.”
Very true!
11 inches here north of Indiantown Gap and still snowing hard!
Freeze, liberal bitches.
The old Albertan saying was back when Trudeau senior was around was....Let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark
Tell me about it. I live on The Jersey Shore. I just came in twenty minutes ago from shoveling this s***. Darn near worked myself into a heart attack. Did use my snowblower where I could but the front steps and the walk way? No good. Heck with that.
Punxsutawney Phil. Say his name!
Well, they do seem to always keep their jobs no matter how often they are wrong :-)
But give them a break - it’s not a perfect science, and mostly, they are pretty good.
I think it was 1.5 miles of ice deep, but I’m too old to remember..
My DH and i took a course in meteorology when we sailed. Very interesting. One week they said the golfers would have a sunny Sunday, but woke up to snow. In the class, they explained what happened and why. It was both funny but interesting. So many many factors go in to forecasting. Very interesting field.
Years ago, my husband and I took a couple of lectures given by the NWS Skywarn/Storm Spotter program. Fun and interesting speakers and classes. We haven’t seen announcements of classes in our area in recent years, but they are apparently still doing this:
http://www.weather.gov/skywarn/
When I was in college, my geology professor discussed glaciation and that there was a series of small hills just a few miles north of the college that he had been curious about when he first moved here in the flat lands of northwestern Indiana. I got permission to visit the hilly area from the farmers who owned it and proceeded with his examination. He concluded that the hills were actually a glacial moraine formed by a pause in the retreating glaciers that covered and leveled all of northern Indiana and Illinois.
City of Evil Ithaca it’s getting pounded right now
Good for them - we almost moved to Ithaca in the ‘60s because Dad wanted to work in the “gun business” and had an offer. He did some research and even back then they were far to left-wing for him to want to live there - dream job or not.
On the contrary, CO2 (along with methane which quickly turns into CO2) are very much something, and critical for the survival of life, you said so yourself. It's time to stop ceding the ground that CO2 is bad or that higher CO2 is bad. It's good that mankind increased CO2 when we did. Before we did, the earth was in an unprecedented period of CO2 starvation.
The Rancho La Brea tar pit fossil collection includes Juniperus (C3) wood specimens that 14C date between 7.7 and 55 thousand years (kyr) B.P., providing a constrained record of plant response for southern California during the last glacial period. Atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]) ranged between 180 and 220 ppm during 280 ppm before the industrial period, and is currently approaching 380 ppm in the modern atmosphere. Here 13C of Juniperus wood cellulose, and show that glacial and modern trees were operating at similar leaf-intercellular [CO2] (ci)atmospheric [CO2] (ca) values. As a result, glacial trees were operating at ci values much closer to the CO2-compensation point for C3 photosynthesis than modern trees, indicating that glacial trees were undergoing carbon starvation.
Just heard a news report on WOR in NYC that Harrison,NY and Newton,NJ got 2 feet of snow.I know that Harrison is a suburb of NYC...I assume that Newton is as well. I also heard a report of 17 inches in Central Park.
Or ‘Corpse’ as 0bama called it.
National Weather Service reported 30 inches of snow fell in parts of Sussex and Morris counties on Monday.
NJ
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Pennsylvania.
The National Weather Service has reported huge snowfall totals throughout the central and eastern regions of the state, including 31 inches (78 centimeters) in Nazareth, 23 inches (58 centimeters) in Sterling, 22 inches (56 centimeters) in Auburn and 20 inches (51 centimeters) in Pocono Summit.
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