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What can I say; sometimes the predictions are just wrong.That doesn’t always stop us from pretending that our prediction was more accurate than it really was:It appears that the model used to forecast New York’s  Snowmageddon II was just wrong. A National Weather Service official says the agency will evaluate its storm modeling after a storm that was predicted to dump a foot or more of snow on many parts of New Jersey and the Philadelphia region delivered far less than that. So, using the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) instead of the U.S. Global Forecast System (GFS)...

Zoo Won’t Let de Blasio Hold Groundhog After He Killed One Last Year The NYPD isn't the only city organization that has lost complete confidence in the esteemed Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio. After he dropped the groundhog during last year's Groundhog Day celebrations, the Staten Island Zoo has unequivocally banned De Blasio from holding or handling any more of their animals in a celebratory setting. - Mayor de Blasio won’t be killing any more groundhogs — zoo handlers are forbidding the butter-fingered mayor from holding the critter at the annual shadow-sighting ceremony on Feb. 2, The...

“We have beautiful weather for this week…partly cloudy, mild, with those temperatures dropping down into the mid-70s,” reporter Aaron Justus begins, before nonchalantly adding: “We’ve got some big changes here for the upcoming work week. Starting tomorrow, we’re going to have a volcanic eruption right near Charlottesville, and it’s going to make things rather toasty across the area.” “We’re going to have tidal waves moving in ahead of this: a global super storm developing off towards the Atlantic ocean…But the key to the forecast, right before this thing makes landfall, it’s going to be deflected by Godzilla.”