Winter Storm Niko to Become a Northeast Snowstorm [as if you didn't know:)]

/weather.com/ ^ | 07:22:39 AM Thu, 02/09/17 | /weather.com/

[daniel1212]

Winter Storm Niko will bring heavy snow to a sizable swath of the Interstate 95 Northeast corridor through Thursday. Many areas will pick up 6 to 12 inches of snow during this quick-hitting storm, with snowfall rates topping one inch per hour at times.

(INTERACTIVE: Winter Storm Niko Snowfall Tracker)

The snow will make for difficult road travel and will likely trigger significant flight delays Thursday in Boston, New York City and Philadelphia.

(NEWS: Snow Emergency Declared)

Current Radar, Temperatures, Conditions

[HotHunt]

I have had enough of cold, frigid wintery weather. Wouldn't move back to it no matter what the reason, including yours.

Since leaving the military, when one didn't have a choice of where you lived or were stationed, I have always lived where there is plenty of sunshine and heat. I hate snow and ice and frigid temperatures.

Never again. Life is too short.

[KC Burke]

Same for me. It’s going to break 80 here today in the Phoenix valley.

[HotHunt]

I grew up in Tempe after my father retired from the military. Left there 5 years ago when I retired to get out of the big city. Just returned in November from a month long trip to the Valley of the Sun for my 50th high school reunion. I still miss the desert and the dry.

It's 78 outside here on the farm in Florida currently. Supposed to break 80 in an hour or two. Can't stand the humidity in the summer but love that heat.

[KC Burke]

After four years I find I appreciate the lack of bugs and humidity.

[HotHunt]

It took you four years?

On my trip to Tempe, I enjoyed the lack of bugs and humidity immediately.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Some of us like the snow and cold. It’s fun. In the summer, I can barely move without becoming soaked in sweat.

[HotHunt]

It is a lot easier and cheaper to stay cool than it is to bundle up and fight off the cold all winter. I haven't had the furnace on all winter. Shirt-sleeve weather for two weeks now.

I just do not see the headlines in the news of the hoards of people in the southern half of the country, where the climate is warm most of the year, invading the northern states so they can enjoy the frigid cold, snow drifts and accumulation, shoveling their driveways and walks, spraying deicer into the key slot on the car door handle to be able to unlock the car, waiting to warm up the car before it can be used, salt on the roads to melt the ice and rust your car, the muddy, sloppy conditions when it all starts to melt, the high energy bills for keeping the house livable and the cabin fever you get when you can't leave the house days on end for outside activities.

The demographics, however, show just the opposite. The population is moving south out of the NE and Rust Belt for warmer climes. Every other car on the highway here is from up north and heading south. Why is that? I'm sure it is because they love their icy, frigid homes up north. I'm sure it is a lot of fun for them up north too, like you said. (sarcasm alert)

Been there, done that and it is not fun at all.

[tomkat]

I wasn't gonna say anything, but

             

[daniel1212]

I just do not see the headlines in the news of the hoards of people in the southern half of the country, where the climate is warm most of the year, invading the northern states so they can enjoy the frigid cold, snow drifts and accumulation, shoveling their driveways and walks, spraying deicer into the key slot on the car door handle to be able to unlock the car, waiting to warm up the car before it can be used, salt on the roads to melt the ice and rust your car, the muddy, sloppy conditions when it all starts to melt, the high energy bills for keeping the house livable and the cabin fever you get when you can't leave the house days on end for outside activities.

Just came in15min ago from shoveling (with insulated gloves and wool army liners) and my fingers are still tingling, overalls are caked with ice, and yet now there is more snow on areas then when i first shoveled them, so i understand why you are so jealous. 😊

I actually look forward to helping others by shoveling snow, but I definitely like warm weather, when you can stay in a T-short all day. Global Warming gets my vote. I have been to Florida doing evangelical outreach years ago (Church st. station in Orlando, Daytona Beach, and South Beach, Coconut Grove, etc., and indeed the weather is so much nicer, and the people less contentious). But God put us here in MA to try to make a positive difference in their lives for time and for eternity. As can be done elsewhere, but the best place to be is where the Lord leads you (but strangely many pastors hear" God calling them to Hawaii!)

[daniel1212]

I have had enough of cold, frigid wintery weather. Wouldn't move back to it no matter what the reason, including yours. Since leaving the military, when one didn't have a choice of where you lived or were stationed, I have always lived where there is plenty of sunshine and heat. I hate snow and ice and frigid temperatures. Never again. Life is too short.

Thank you for your service, which is sacrificial, especially potentially, and where go where it is deemed you are needed, if only for a short time (if you came back alive). I am sure you would have wanted to go to the Pacific theater in WW2 over Germany! But I am in a different service, seeking to make a difference among my "native tribes" for this life and the next, for this relatively short life is where souls decide whose side they will be on, and who they will be with for eternity. May all choose Jesus, and thus choose Life.

[Capt. Tom]

I’m in Jersey today. Snowfall of at least 6” and falling steadily. Snow plough is already keeping road clear in this quiet town.

Snow started in my town just south east of Boston about 10 AM. Strong winds and accumulating snow have at least 10-12 inches on the ground at 6PM.

I know I am getting old when one of my sons just called me and said he is sending over a plow tonight, or first thing tomorrow morning to plow us out. - Tom

[daniel1212]

Same for me. It’s going to break 80 here today in the Phoenix valley.

80'' of snow is a lot! 

Here are the latest snowfall totals from the National Weather Service in Boston, Rob Macedo, the SKYWARN Coordinator for the National Weather Service in Taunton, and WBZ-TV Weather Watchers.

Ludlow	18.0″
Monson	17.3″
Granby	17.2″
Westfield	17.0″
Athol	16.5″
Hubbardston	16.1″
Springfield	16.0″
Ashburnham	14.5″
Chelsea	14.5″
Fitchburg	14.5″
North Adams	14.0″
Taunton	13.5″
Pepperell	13.0″
Sterlin	13.0″
Dartmouth	12.8″
Gardner	12.5″
Hingham	12.0″
Rockland	12.0″
South Boston	12.0″
Middleboro	11.2″
Acushnet	11.0″
Fairhaven	11.0″
Lynn	11.0″
New Bedford	11.0″
Peabody	11.0″
Pembroke	11.0″
Taunton	11.0″
Lancaster	10.5″
Oxford	10.5″
Worcester	10.5″	http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/02/09/snow-totals-massachusetts-noreaster-wbz-weather-feburary-9/

[KC Burke]

I’m just gonna stay down here and shovel sunshine.

[daniel1212]

I’m just gonna stay down here and shovel sunshine.

😎

[The Westerner]

What a good son! You’ve done your share, let your kids use their young hearts and backs to clear your drive.

[HotHunt]

Twilight Zone

[cmj328]

Stop. Naming. Snowstorms.

[who knows what evil?]

Posters at AccuWeather forums discussing the possibility of freezing rain, and PLENTY of it in NE Pennsylvania and northern NJ. Maine is going to get it...’bigly’.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I can grass outside my window.

You have grass, or you can graze?