6 hours before, one could look at publicly available RADAR images of the snow and easily discern that the big snow would miss the Eastern seaboard.
12 hours before your could begin to believe it would.
No excuse.
STOP looking at monitors and models, and do your d@mn observational job as a meteorologist.
The scenario that would’ve produced a lot of snow was that a low-pressure system would camp itself right outside of Sandy Hook and pump moisture inland for days. If that had happened, it would’ve been a huge storm. But the chance of that happening was always small.
The proper forecast would’ve been for a middle size snowstorm, with the small probability of a huge snowstorm. But that isn’t a very good story.
Or just try looking out the window for once.
Well, they can’t create dramatic television with the simple facts.
“6 hours before, one could look at publicly available RADAR images of the snow and easily discern that the big snow would miss the Eastern seaboard.”
But it didn’t miss the Eastern Seaboard——much of it was hit.
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