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Thursday, December 16, 2010

East coast blizzard on the way?!

Blizzard?! That is right!! The talk of an east coast blizzard is quickly spreading around meteorology stations around the country. This could be the first major accumulating snowstorm of the season for many across the I-95 corridor, and it may be a classic nor'easter with winds howling past 50 mph, along with 1-2 feet of snow!! But then again, it could completely miss, but the details are coming in...

I'll tell you one thing, I am getting very excited, and very hyped up about this storm. First things first. The European model has an incredible blizzard on the table for Late Saturday through Wednesday!!!! If this were to be correct, Washington D.C. could pick up 2-4 inches of snow, Phily could pick up 5-8 inches of snow, and then NYC to around Boston or just southwest of Boston, could see 1-2 feet of snow along with winds gusting toward 50 mph. However, if the NAM were to be correct, we could see virtually no snow anywhere besides maybe extreme coastal areas of ME. And of course the in between would be the GFS weather model which has about an inch or two in D.C., 1-3 inches in Philly, 3-5 inches in NYC, and in Boston a monster 2 foot snowstorm because this time it wouldn't change over to rain like in the European, but still either way you look at it, it seems Boston will be the target city with this one... Here are my current thoughts, which I'm going to show through my first real snow map of the season, not snowfall,snow map...



This map is more then likely to change by time the weekend rolls around, which isn't that far from now. Tomorrow is already Friday. All I can say is a big storm is on its way. At this point though, the impacts hold a lot of uncertainty...