Posted on 01/22/2005 4:04:20 AM PST by SamAdams76
Honestly hate to give advice like that (but I'll do it anyway). The airport as reported on WJAR 2 minutes ago is closed till later this afternoon. Last time this happened it took at least 24 hours to clean up the backlog of flights.
Wow! Looks like the worst is yet to come.
I can't remember the last time I've read winter storm info like this.
Stay safe folks!
...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS EVENING...
AN EXTREME SITUATION IS OCCURRING IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. FOUR INCHES OF SNOW HAS BEEN REPORTED IN 25 MINUTES AT CHELMSFORD MASSACHUSETTS AS THE LAST EXCESSIVE BAND OF POWDERY SNOW SWINGSSOUTHWARD. THE NORTH SHORE IS BEING BLITZED BY SNOWFALL RATES OF ALMOST 8 INCHES
PER HOUR. IT MAY LAST ONLY AN HOUR OR TWO BUT ITS PROBABLY A COMPLETE SHORT TERM PARALYZER.
IT WILL ARRIVE IN BOSTON BETWEEN 830 AND 930 M...CONTINUING THERE UNTIL AT LEAST 11 AM. IT WILL ARRIVE ON THE SOUTH SHORE DURINGMIDDAY. FINAL BLIZZARD TOTALS FOR MOST OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 28 AND 38 INCHES SETTING A NEW SINGLE STORM RECORD FOR BOSTON...SURPASSING THE AMOUNT FROM THE GREAT BLIZZARD OF 78 AND THE
PRESIDENTS DAY STORM OF 2003.
ISOLATED TOTALS OF 40 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. VULNERABLE LOCATIONS FOR NEARLY 40 INCH STORM TOTALS ARE ESSEX...MIDDLESEX...PLYMOUTH...NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE COUNTIES IN MASSACHUSETTS.
EVEN IF THIS STORM COMES UP SLIGHTLY SHORT OF RECORD...IT IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH THE WORST OCCURRING NOW INTO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AS WINDS STRENGTHEN AND TEMPERATURES FALL TO NEAR 10 ABOVE. NANTUCKET MAY END UP WITH ONLY 12 TO 22 INCHES...BUT BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL DESCEND ON THAT ISLAND BY LATER THIS MORNING OR THISAFTERNOON.
NORTHERLY WINDS WILL BE GUSTING AROUND 75 OR 80 MPH ON BARNSTABLE AND NANTUCKET COUNTIES. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS LIFE THREATENING STORM BECAUSE OF SEVERE BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE NEWLY FALLEN SNOW AND TUMBLING TEMPERATURES.
SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES HAVE OCCURRED THIS MORNING AS WINDS ALL ALONG THE COAST GUST BETWEEN 55 AND 65 MPH ON BOSTONS NORTH AND SOUTH SHORES AND EVEN ON NARRAGANSETT BAY. A 78 MPH WIND GUST WAS REPORTED IN EAST FALMOUTH BY A SPOTTER. PROVIDENCE REPORTED A 60 MPH WIND GUST AT 722 AM. PLYMOUTH HAS REPORTED 58 MPH WITH 67 MPH AT PROVINCETOWN...ALL SINCE 7AM.
THERE HAS BEEN ISOLATED DAMAGE REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHERSERVICE.
POWER OUTAGES MAY BECOME WIDESPREAD THIS AFTERNOON ON THE CAPE AND NANTUCKET WHEN THE BRUNT OF WIND HITS HERE...AGAIN...BETWEEN 75 AND 80 MPH. THATS HURRICANE FORCE!
DRIFTS OF AT LEAST 6 FEET ARE OCCURRING. OVER CAPE COD...NANTUCKET AND MARTHAS VINEYARD...THE SNOW HAS BEEN
OF A WETTER CONSISTENCY EARLY TODAY AND THERE HAS BEEN SOME RAIN ON NANTUCKET. THIS RAISES THE ANTE FOR POWER OUTAGES IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW ENGLAND WITH THE SNOW CLINGING TO WIRES AND BRANCHES. ALL THE HEAVY SNOW WILL TAPER TO SNOW SHOWERS LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING...BUT CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING WILL PERSIST INTO LATE THIS EVENING ACROSS EXPOSED AREAS.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF BLIZZARD CONDITIONS CONTINUING ON PARTS OF CAPE COD INTO EARLY TONIGHT AS HEAVY SNOW SQUALLS POUND PARTS OF THE CAPE.
I'll be outside later taking a bunch more pics, and I'll freepmail their address to you, if you like...
Can you imagine... if the Jets weren't such chokers, Foxboro would be hosting the AFC Championship - and it would likely have been CANCELLED!
Not a chance. Foxboro would never cancel!!
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Pics from NorthEastern IL, the snow stopped about 4pm yesterday afternoon. Lake effect snow bands came in from noon Sat with snow awesome whiteout conditions. Winds gusting to 35 mph, whipped the dry powder all over my nice cleaned out driveway and sidewalk... 7 degrees this morning but SUNNY and bright! You guys take care out there, stay off the streets! G
Snow is over the tops of the tires of my white Taurus, which is becoming invisible.
As long as the power stays on I don't care. However, for a Road-Runner scenario..I have...haha..an electric snowblower.
Good Morning Everybody,
Vell...The Snow is here, however, Not as Bad as it was in 1996....Yet!
Will have to wait and see.
Just sitting here Thanking GOD that we have a warm house to live in, food to eat and that we are Safe.
PRAYING FOR ALL: State Troopers, Police, Firemen, EMS and Rescue workers, Hospital Staff; Federal, State and Local government officials, Utility workers, Bus, Train and Truck Drivers and also for those who are Plowing and Digging us out.
GOD BLESS AND KEEP THEM ALL.
Amen ~ and ~ Amen.
The air temperature is 7 degrees (never got above 10 degrees during the duration of the storm) after being -11 yesterday morning (before the storm hit). This is the coldest snowstorm I can remember. So the snow out there is not conducive to making snowmen and it will be difficult to shovel because it is so light, it will blow right back in your face when you pick it up.
In a couple of hours, I am going to try to get out there to shovel it. I'd like to have most of my shoveling done before the football games start!
Will do ProudVet, I worked on a snapper boat when I was a teenager in FLA one summer. We got hit by a nasty nasty storm off shore. By the time we were done, we ran out of fuel and had to be towed by the CG back into port. I never realized how scared I could be and when that CG boat showed up how thankful I could be!
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About 3 inches here too and +1 F. Its snowing but not very hard as the snow is fine, though it does seem to be picking up as is the wind. Not much of a "blizzard", at least not yet.
Game starts at 6:30 PM. In the meantime, since church was cancelled, its a day for hot coffe or tea and a good book. I can't decide between a new book on King Philip's War or a collection of sremons of Jonathan Edwards called "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"! :)
Stay dry down there. No day to find yourself with a lee shore!
Just about the same here. I opened the garage door to find 3 to 5 foot drifts in the driveway and piles of snow in front of the house up to more than 8 feet tall.
Anecdote: The plow drivers always come thru and leave a big berm of snow in front of the driveway so I had a camera on a tripod in the garage when he came through this morning. For the first time ever and for some strange reason, he cleaned it out.
What we have here is a winter hurricane.
Northeastern IL? I lived in Mundelein about 30 years ago. I remember one winter day when the HIGH temp was 3 below, we had 50-60 mph gusts and I swear I heard thunder.
Cranston, RI here - reporting in with close to a foot of snow, with drifts of a foot and a half - two feet.
Still snowing lightly, but with a wicked wind. Not too cold though - mid teens.
Roads are passable, but not very well. Having some coffee, preparing for a little "home church" since services were cancelled.
My Grandmother's 75th birthday is today, and we're still going to have her party this afternoon. We've got a lot of money, time, and people invested in the celebration, so it'll most certainly continue as planned. Wish us well.
IOTN
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