The Blizzard is here...

Well the storm has certainly made quite an entrance across the tristate, where nearly every school besides NYC has been closed. Will they close the schools there? I give it about a 60% chance. Some real heavy bands will begin to move in fairly soon, but depending on how good it looks in the morning will depend on school or not. Anyways, one band of snow containing very impressive snowfall rates and even some lighting and thunder looks to be passing a good distance to the east, although as it moves along it could slightly enhance some of our snow. Now behind that is the band that's going to decide our problem. Is it going to be a total of 6-12? 8-14? 10-16? 12-18? Even a whopping 18-24 inches of snow?!?! Well this band is producing 3-5 inches of snow per hour it looks like, so if this sits over us for a half hour or 45 minutes, where talking 2-4 really quick and heavy inches of snow, and enhancement in and around which could produce 2-3 inches per hour, well for maybe hours... So then 6-10 inches maybe from that, without counting the 2-4 that would have already fallen, and then even the bands after that which could produce up to 3-5 inches depending on a number of things... So you can maybe understand why if absolutely everything ends up correct, I guess 18-24 inches could still be in the game... Ok last snow map update is in... Enjoy, and Enjoy the snowstorm... By the way, the winds will begin to pick up... Although it may not be an exactly classified blizzard, blizzard conditions can be expected at times, especially toward the morning hours!!!!



-Scott Pecoriello