***Northeast Snowstorm*** February 16-17 2003 (Official Thread)

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[SamAdams76]

Moderators, please pull if a similar thread has been started. I did a search on "snow" and blizzard" and came up with nothing.

What originally looked to be primarily a mid-Atlantic snowstorm has blossomed overnight into a monster snowstorm that threatens to shut down the major cities of the Northeast for tomorrow.

Just got the latest forecasts. Washington D.C. area will see 1-2 feet. Philly will see 17-34 inches according to their local mets. NYC will see 1-2 feet. And Southern New England (including Boston), which was originally thought to be missing this storm, is now pegged to get at least 10-20 inches before all is said and done with possible blizzard conditions tomorrow night as the storm explodes ("bombogenisis") off Nantucket island during the day.

Some very impressive snowfall reports already coming in despite the fact that the storm hasn't even developed off the coast yet. Some 8 inches is on the ground in the DC area and snow is falling heavily in the Philly area and parts of New Jersey. This snow is NOT from the storm that is expected to develop off the Carolinas this afternoon, move northeast and "explode" off Nantucket Island during tomorrow.

These storms are never a sure thing until they happen because they are so unpredictable. But this storm has all the ingredients to make it a storm of historic proportions from Washington D.C. to Portland, Maine. If everything falls together just right, we could be looking at 2 feet (or more) of snow in many urban areas of the Northeast over the next 36 hours.

Please post your local reports here.

[CaptRon]

Blizzard warning out for NY-NJ-CT; coastal flooding watch for Long Island and Jersey Shore. I have yet to see a single snowflake.

[Gabz]

this is closer to me than the wilmington picture

[TheExploited]

Not wishing at all..I am just glad you folks have all that extra water and duct tape for emergencies. The only real good thing is that idiot Matt Lauer will not be able to make into work all week so I will not have to see him on the Today Show. The Perky One is not going to be happy.

[Gabz]

Oh good grief.

[sarcasm]

Just showing my compassionate side.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Blizzard warning out for NY-NJ-CT; coastal flooding watch for Long Island and Jersey Shore. I have yet to see a single snowflake.

It helps if you actually look out your window.

[Gabz]

You can have as many of my snowlfakes as you want!!!

[P.O.E.]

Keeping our fingers crossed for yez.

[sarcasm]

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-171200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION TO SPOTTER INFO...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
740 PM EST SUN FEB 16 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

A WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR TONIGHT INTO MONDAY
NIGHT. SNOW WILL OVERSPREAD THE REGION TONIGHT...AND ACCUMULATE 4 TO
6 INCHES ALONG THE COAST AND 2 TO 4 INCHES INLAND BY MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

SNOW IS EXPECTED TO BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES WITH NEAR BLIZZARD
CONDITIONS MONDAY. STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE 10 TO 15 INCHES
FOR MUCH OF THE AREA...AND 8 TO 14 INCHES FOR EASTERN LONG ISLAND
AND SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT WHERE SOME SLEET IS EXPECTED TO MIX IN
WITH THE SNOW MONDAY AFTERNOON. WINDS ON MONDAY WILL BE FROM THE
NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS POSSIBLY REACHING 45 MPH.

TIDES WILL ALSO BE RISING TO AROUND 3 FEET ABOVE NORMAL AND AS SUCH
A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE HIGH TIDE CYCLES MONDAY...
ESPECIALLY THE LATE MONDAY HIGH TIDE CYCLE.

A STORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE COASTAL WATERS WITH GALE
WARNINGS FOR LONG ISLAND SOUND AND NEW YORK HARBOR.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR TUESDAY AND BEYOND AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED FOR SNOWFALL AND OTHER HAZARDOUS
WEATHER REPORTS. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WEATHER WILL OCCUR ON
MONDAY.

PLEASE EMAIL SPOTTER REPORTS TO OKX.SPOTTERS@NOAA.GOV (ALL LOWER
CASE LETTERS). REPORTS CAN ALSO BE RELAYED THROUGH YOUR AREA
AMATEUR RADIO NET CONTROL STATION OR VIA PHONE TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON.

$$

REYNOLDS

[xsmommy]

thanks! his cellphone was about to run out of battery which is not a comforting thought!

[drjoe]

I remember when I was a clinical clerk on the Columbia Medical service at Bellevue hospital [NYC], must have been 1965/66. I had as a patient, an elderly lady who remember the blizzard of 1888. She was a young woman then and remembered seeing an elderly woman, a negro woman, in a snow drift, well on the way to being dead. She stopped her carriage, got out, bundled her into the carriage and took her home. She said in a few days her family took her home. She never heard about her again. Amazing what memories bad weather will dredge up.

drjoe

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[Gabz]

what water, what duct tape????

LOL - my dear husband, who is missing all the fun by being in Atlanta, mentioned the duct tape this morning ofr the very same reason!!!

If i could have I probably would have strangled him through the phone - because if we do have any duct tape it is in his car which is snow bound at BWI airport.

[Gabz]

You're just too funny - had you thrown in a case or two of beer I would have seen the compassion.

[CaptRon]

Now ya tell me. And I was on this thread all afternoon!

[habs4ever]

Now is the time to panic and drink hard liquor instead ;-)

I just hope it doesn't turn to freezing rain in the next 2 days.

[Senator Pardek]

It's started...

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Snow pellets now in Great Falls.

[Gabz]

Hubby left his phone charger in his car at BWI - maybe your hubby can find it - has a cig lighter charger on it.

(just trying to get you to laugh)

[CaptRon]

I just came back from the store 5 minutes ago and there was nothing!