At least that is what the news is sorta saying. Fox is saying it could be measured in feet not inches. I wonder how bad the hysteria will be. Striperman36 whats the real scoop?

Put the chains on!

Figures!! I go skiing in New Hampshire and we get a storm. Not a whole lot of snow up here.

Put the chains on!

Racist
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Snow
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the weather man hasn't been right yet their swinging for the fence hoping to get lucky

i remember back in the Old days that our town postman had to walk thru a tunnel we dug from the street to the house to deliver the mail.

sure we could have knocked the snow drift down but it was more fun to leave it in place. :grins:

Hope I get home before this thing starts. I've been on the road since Sunday morning. ETA home Thursday night

Hope I get home before this thing starts. I've been on the road since Sunday morning. ETA home Thursday night

You'll be fine, just don't try to fly in Friday evening.
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Whatever!:jump1:

Spence is actually factually correct

:grins: 35 years ago today, "THE BLIZZARD OF '78":buds: 3 day pub crawl through the snow lined streets of W. Warwick & Coventry R.I.... via footmobile. Oh to be 25 again!:bc:

Heavy, wet, snow.

Break out the kidsnowremaldevices

Wide variation in forecasts right now. Some have the east bay gettin 12+ while NOAA is showing sleet and little snow. My gut says it should be a good one.
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It better not be a "good one", my wife is flying home Friday afternoon after a week away, and I am already sick of my cooking.

I'd believe NOAA. The media tends to um.... Hype this kind of thing.
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Racist
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I had an uncle named Tom.....................my:rotf2:

Hopefully it's a close enough pass to be mostly rain for us on the coast and then snow for the mountains.

Most of the population would be happy that way.

It will be a bust. It is the media doing its thing in a snowless winter. We will watch it go out to sea.

:grins: 35 years ago today, "THE BLIZZARD OF '78":buds: 3 day pub crawl through the snow lined streets of W. Warwick & Coventry R.I.... via footmobile. Oh to be 25 again!:bc:AHHH yes...Remember seeing the DUKE in his white sweater on the tv.Pulled the shades on the apt. windows covered completely.Convoyed[Ma. Bell] to work in Scituate,Cohasset,& Hull from Weymouth.Drove[76 F-250] at night for the Civil Defense.Bringing doctors,nurses,firemen,police to their respective locations from Weymouth to the Boston area as far as Islington.That was a snow storm.

I live west of 495 no matter what happens we will get at least a foot. Regardless u am glad it is on a weekend my schedule is too tight to miss any days
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Spence is actually factually correct

Maybe my new sig.....
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I'd believe NOAA. The media tends to um.... Hype this kind of thing.
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Perhaps I'm reading their info wrong, in the daily forecast they're listing precip amounts but not delineating between rain and snow...

The snow map they have shows everybody getting creamed.

-spence

It's gonna do what it's gonna do, and there ain't a bleeping thing any of us can do about it. I wish these talking heads would calm the #^&#^&#^&#^& down. It's winter. It's New England. Sometimes it snows. Sometimes we get a little. Sometimes we get a #^&#^&#^&#^& load. This is news?

Here's another late breaking item. It's gonna melt. Maybe next week, maybe next month. But it's gonna melt. This isn't the herald of a new ice age, for cryinoutloud.

Shop early - the milk and bread will be sold out at the grocery store.

Here's another late breaking item. It's gonna melt. Maybe next week, maybe next month. But it's gonna melt. This isn't the herald of a new ice age, for cryinoutloud.
Rain Monday.

-spence

I stocked up on this last storm so I won't have to keep running to the store....

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kIWY2DV0KnE/SUXkbhEqhAI/AAAAAAAAB7U/0Hg22R-iZAE/s400/Dehydrated+water.jpg

The reason it is so slow in here today is that everyone is out stocking up on milk and bread.

I stocked up on this last storm so I won't have to keep running to the store....

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kIWY2DV0KnE/SUXkbhEqhAI/AAAAAAAAB7U/0Hg22R-iZAE/s400/Dehydrated+water.jpg

Ha!

Hype it up, line up the advertiser's, the local supermarket chain, home goods stores selling shovels, snowblowers, etc. and keep everyone hanging with "has the potential", we are watching the "weather models" and keep checking our forecast throughout the next couple of days!!

And as far as the weather models, here is a real weather model, both hot and cold :)

At least if the power goes out due to the wind we won't have to worry about ice.

Somehow every time one of these storms comes around I always ACTUALLY NEED TO BUY milk and bread. I always feel conspicuous checking out with it...

Funny, I just threw out all my milk and half and half.
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I will be at Il Capriccio down the street on Friday evening for early Valentines Day.

If I need to take the bus the 1/2 mile down the street with the Mrs., so be it.

I can pick the bus back up on the way back, and the packy is right next door.

I say big F_U to the snow. Takes a lot more than that to ruin a Bomba's fun.

Looks like I'm stuck in San Diego for a couple extra days. This is gonna be tough. Got a full day lmb charter set up for Friday and pending hotel availability this is gonna be the best time getting stuck I've ever had.
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Looks like I'm stuck in San Diego for a couple extra days. This is gonna be tough. Got a full day lmb charter set up for Friday and pending hotel availability this is gonna be the best time getting stuck I've ever had.
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How will you be able to sleep at night?
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Enjoy Mike. Wish I was there too. I hate winter
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I will be at Il Capriccio down the street on Friday evening for early Valentines Day.

If I need to take the bus the 1/2 mile down the street with the Mrs., so be it.

I can pick the bus back up on the way back, and the packy is right next door.

I say big F_U to the snow. Takes a lot more than that to ruin a Bomba's fun.

Ricky, get the soufle de porcini. It is a reason to go back besides the wine list.

I'd note that over the last 24 hours predictions are not getting better.
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Are they expecting this to be windy too? I have a weekend planned with 2 nights of hotel reservations. As long as the power stays on we should still be able to go. I am going to try to get there around 1-1:30 pm on Friday… hope its drivable still at that point.

more wind than a Bassmaster post

THE HEAVIEST SNOW

.....................starts @ 10:00 pm friday night

Are they expecting this to be windy too? I have a weekend planned with 2 nights of hotel reservations. As long as the power stays on we should still be able to go. I am going to try to get there around 1-1:30 pm on Friday… hope its drivable still at that point.
Gusts 50-75 depending on where you are.
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Nobody in Eastern MA should be driving anywhere after 5pm Friday.
Airlines are already moving equipment, I have people stuck all around the country

Eastern MA, all west of the Cape is looking at 3-4 inches of precip at 10-12 to 1 you get the drift

Too bad they already burnt the "SnowMageddon" tag

Snowmapocamageddonalypse?

Aww, they named it after a little cartoon fish, how bad can it be?? ��
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striperman, how are the models shaping up, is everything agreeing with the Euro at this point.
I want a healthy snow in falmouth, although I'll be sitting in the dark, with wet snow, powerlines, and 60 mph winds

I think its safe to say the Euro model is no longer the Euro model, its the truth... I'm not trusting any other models anymore
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waiting for the 12z euro build it's not complete yet.

The NAM is still showing the 3-4 " of total precip that WCVB is using for it's 39+ inches in Woostah by 0700 Sunday

Ricky, get the soufle de porcini. It is a reason to go back besides the wine list.

Chris,
Jess is already all over that one.

You should all go to your local DPW and get a bucket of the sand/salt mix. Usually allowed one per residence, at least here. I just stocked the eight houses I will be clearing, plus one in the truck in case I get stuck.

This thing is starting to look like the real deal. Check out the surge and wave projections for Sandwich Harbor... :eek::lurk: The wind speed map for the European model predicts SUSTAINED winds of 57 mph on the cape. Remember to charge up your cameras and phones and (as much as SAFELY possible) get out and take some storm pics, maybe we can have a storm pic thread... I still get pumped for a good storm, but I dread losing power and also the cleanup... :mad::cheers:

I hope it rains. the weather folks are having wet dreams about this thing. One guy said one of the models predicts some towns could get 70+ inches. Personally I think that is irresponsible of them to report what these models say directly. All of these models make physical assumptions and you can tweak them to say just about anything...as my computational fluid dynamics professor said...assumptions are the mother of all phuckups.

Weather is now a full on reality show and the reporters showing cleavage get the highest ratings.

(BTW, that pic of Kate U is awesome! )

It will be 45 deg on Monday...

I'll be leaving for the rotary derby @ 5 AM tomorrow... going to be the toughest( most miserable) fishing I have ever done...

I'm betting on flurries. :hihi:

Seriously though, don't want a repeat of this...

oh you'll get it Jackson, but it won't be powdery goodness, It'll be heart attack snow.

the euro has 2.5 inches of precip in SE MA, pick your multipler for temps in the 20's

like 15

the euro has 2.5 inches of precip in SE MA, pick your multipler for temps in the 20's

like 15

How bout us on the coast? Where can I find that model?

I'm looking for Northeast MA....Looking like 34-36" of snow for us...Yippee :wall:

so 15 inches or 15 X 2.5 = 37.5

Dog will have it difficult to squat.

Facts on precipitation, temp and snow amount
WHYY Franklin Facts (http://www.whyy.org/tv12/franklinfacts/FEB2200ff.html)
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Model Analysis and Guidance: View parameters for selection (http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/Image.php?model=nam&area=namer&param=precip_ptot&cycle=18&image=nam%2F18%2Fnam_namer_072_precip_ptot.gif)
pick your location - closer to the coast try 10-12 out 495-95 use 15 - 1

But the media...ESPECIALLY the radio is announcing repeatedly

THE STORM OF THE CENTURY.....

Went shopping and it was TOTAL Madness ....making it
very difficult to shop... it was as if they were all drunk...

Good thing i was ..... :rotflmao: ..... NO not really-lol

but i had to go down an Isle and come back up the other side just to go 20 feet
because there was GRID LOCK

....an old people's traffic JAM :hs:

message : 2
so.............
I made STORM STEW....

well really a heavy Chicken SOUP
first i roasted a large Perdue chicken
surrounded by gourmet potatoes and mini carrots
removing the BREAST meat 3 hours later i dumped it
all into a very LARGE oval crockpot and added shrooms
2 heads broc-flowers, four cloves un chopped garlic ,
half a red bell pepper....more mini taters and carrots
it'll be simmering all night on low,,,, mmm mm mm
and the most important ingredient , chicken broth...

Yum
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I work for a DPW so the plan for tonight is... Have a couple of cold bud lights, kiss the kids, make love to the wife, and sleep in my bed for last time for a few days.
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In the keys fishing with buddies.

We've been down here all week, supposed to fly home Saturday.
I guess we will have to stay longer and book a couple of more charters. TOTAL BUMMER....I hope she is done shoveling by the time ai get back......

gonna have to get more

amberjack
blackfin tuna
king macks
snapper
sailfish (0 for 2)
tallies
triple tails
trout
cobia and more.....

Tarpon???:uhuh:

Winter Storm "Nemo" will never sound as cool as "THE BLIZZARD OF '78" !!!!

sailfish (0 for 2)
and more.....

Yes you better stay as you definitely need more sailfish practice!:smash:

In the keys fishing with buddies.

We've been down here all week, supposed to fly home Saturday.
I guess we will have to stay longer and book a couple of more charters. TOTAL BUMMER....I hope she is done shoveling by the time ai get back......

gonna have to get more

amberjack
blackfin tuna
king macks
snapper
sailfish (0 for 2)
tallies
triple tails
trout
cobia and more.....

Speaking for the rest of us.... You Bastid!

With my luck I would be stranded trying to get there, and you get "stuck" there! Your assignment is to start a new thread and document the weekend, with plenty of pics, for us to glance through, between shoveling........
Have fun

Winter Storm "Nemo" will never sound as cool as "THE BLIZZARD OF '78" !!!!

Oh Chit.....Nemo is omen spelled backwards!!!!!!!
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the bliz of 78 had a low pressure of 980, Nemo is projected to hit 974

Speaking for the rest of us.... You Bastid!

With my luck I would be stranded trying to get there, and you get "stuck" there! Your assignment is to start a new thread and document the weekend, with plenty of pics, for us to glance through, between shoveling........
Have fun

Yea we keep thinking the same thing. We called this trip serendipity instead of NEMO.. LOL.....I will post more pics when we return (if we return).. Fishing the bay side tomorrow---back country. This is a first, but the guy is supposed to be good and has a 24' flats boat with 300 ponies, should be a fun ride. we will see what we catch, we are taking plenty of pics...

Stay warm all !!!!!!

Tarpon???:uhuh:


Too early, but there are loads of them where people pay to feed them. I would love to sneak in at night with a rod and a herring...

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

just got done doin the "smart thing"

hired ! my neighbor and his fancy new plow

to keep my "WAY to long driveway" clear of

that white STUFF.... missed the storm of 78'

CNN says: were being hit by a Monster Storm

NICE CATCH SLINGAH !

ought to be good

I got a dozen spoiled eggs, about a cup of milk, no cream for my coffee, half a gallon of water. Dropped outta boy scouts as a weeblo.

Flew over 20,000 miles this week (Sunday thru last night). Got up at 2:00 AM this morning. Generator = ready. 15 gallons of gas = ready.
Hauling wood onto the deck for the wood stove = almost ready.
Bottle of Makers Mark = ready. Wife has the crock pot full of meatballs and sausage = ready. Front loader full of diesel = ready.
Bring it on baby!!! Bring it on!!!:uhuh:

shouldn't we be making a Stew out of Punxsutawney Phil ?

45 degrees monday

been coming down for a while down here, started very light, but steadily increasing since it started... wind is picking up sooner than I thought...still cold enough for very light (dry) flakes, down here on the rain/snow battle line... as usual, we are to expect mixed precip for a time, but I am a little leery of that... I remember in past storms being so close to the rain/snow line that the difference in the changeover was the rate of precipitation... when the (snow) intensity picked up, it was enough to cool the warmer mid level layer and fall as snow ... I'm wondering if the intensity picks up before that warmer layer can fully work in that it might be enough to fight off the changeover... Looks like some heavier stuff about to work it's way onshore, we'll see what form it takes in a bit...

The fact that the sensationlistic weather channel is now naming winter storms based upon their own creations is beyond ridiculous. I am calling it Wally.

Started about an hour ago down here.

i live one block away from pt. jude lighthouse. first flake came down at 6:30. 4 hours later, not even a coating. 10 ft. seas, wind at 30+already. ene.............

Half to one inch, breezy, 1 mile inland from the Chucktown B-way.

stay safe guys

I have 28 degrees. About 1/2 inch of snow, and the tall spruce trees are barely moving. It's coming down pretty hard now.

Three buckets of sand/salt. Two snowblowers and ramps ready to go. Went to chiropractor before this marathon. Tightened down boat cover. Taped a yardstick to a deckpost to see it add up. Pick up my son with his gear as he is going out with me to clear nine houses tonight/tomorrow. Pass the next 15 hours turning plugs and sleeping.

shouldn't we be making a Stew out of Punxsutawney Phil ?

Groundhog stew, don't do it! It will keep coming back on you.

No wait, that was the movie.

Didn't Bill Murray get stuck in a blizzard with Andie MacDowell.

it's still down off of NC. pretty intense, yet to come

think I'll take some Valiums and wake up on Monday

First band hit in woods hole around 8:30- started sticking at 10:30, we closed the lab at noon. Was 35 in truck, snowing like crazy. Got into Falmouth to pick little guy up at daycare, was 33. It's still snowing at the house, grounds covered.
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Bad start here. The first few hours of light snow is sticking to every tree branch. That means the stuff will continue to those branches . I think come midnight or so the branches will be very heavy with snow when the wind gets cranking and that means power outages. We will see what happens.

Bad start here. The first few hours of light snow is sticking to every tree branch. That means the stuff will continue to those branches . I think come midnight or so the branches will be very heavy with snow when the wind gets cranking and that means power outages. We will see what happens.
Same here, very wet sticky snow...
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Started snowing around 8 AM here, now 8 hours later we have a little over 2 inches on the ground.

Just tried shoveling the walk way. Stuff is like cement. Sticking to everything here too. Hope the snowblower will move it. Be careful of a heart attack any old bastards. Can't see the power staying on if it comes in like it is suppose to.

Al Gore should see this. So much for global warming. Gov. Patrick says we can't drive on the streets of the Commonwealth after 4pm. Very heavy and piling up fast here. The wind is also picking up. Got plenty of Jack Daniels and Cheez-its, the two basic food groups to last for a week.

Al Gore should see this. So much for global warming. Gov. Patrick says we can't drive on the streets of the Commonwealth after 4pm. Very heavy and piling up fast here. The wind is also picking up. Got plenty of Jack Daniels and Cheez-its, the two basic food groups to last for a week.
Global warming means extreme weather. Not just warmer temps.. Drought, heat waves, and nasty storms. Seems like that's what things are like lately.
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Al Gore is still a tool bag
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Just tried shoveling the walk way. Stuff is like cement. Sticking to everything here too. Hope the snowblower will move it. Be careful of a heart attack any old bastards. Can't see the power staying on if it comes in like it is suppose to.
It's so sticky it's covering 360 deg around the nearly horizontal awning poles. Like corn dogs...I've never seen that before.
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Sticking to everything, never changed over to rain here a couple miles from the coast... Power went out before 6:30...
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LOL We had 6 to 8 in during the day up here . Now this thing is gonna dumb 2 ft or more LOL. Reminds me of when I was a kid in the 60's. We used to just hope for a good one so we could get the day off from school . LOLDon't need to stock up stuffs already there. Thank god for the internet an cable tv. Panic 101 LOL

Power on and off, trees down, and we're just getting the good stuff now...

power just came back on after an hour or so. friggin wind is crazy. Gone out twice so far.

Power still out, but just saw an Nstar truck out front!�� It's really nasty out now... Heard the top of a tree or a large branch go, thought it was going to hit the house... Everybody stay safe, think it's going to be a long night and a LOT of cleaning up...

Lightning!
Power out
Back on
Back to gold rush & junk food :-)
Gup

Either there's a chit load of terminators coming in from the future, or I am watching transformers blow up, like dominoes falling. That's the 3rd one tonight, and there goes my power.
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Snow seems to have slowed here for now, wind is still howling though.
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14" so far

woooosh, bang, boom, crash
I can't sleep.....

Just heard it's up to 410K without power!

Al Gore is still a tool bag
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He is more of a deluxe ball bearing 6' 2 piece tool chest these days... guy got big

it was snowing slowly (7 inches) with not much wind here in hartford county CT up until 8 pm...

Then bang! the last 3 hours have been crazy! high winds, strong snow and wind drifts measured in feet... Dont throw out your backs or burn out your transmissions!

I can't tell how much there is? Just finished the second round of shoveling, about 8" @ 8PM, a foot right now. But with the drifting, hard to tell. Easier to keep up with it than do all of it tomorrow....

Still raging up there. And from the radar it's not over by a long shot.

According to NWS we got 29 inches!

Town plow truck driver told me 30" at the Town garage in Burrillville

Still in San Diego. Flight was bumped from Friday am to Monday pm. Family ok, we didn't lose power. I'm dreading the return though as my truck was parked on the roof of Logan parking garage. Ill be lucky to identify the thing.
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Still in San Diego. Flight was bumped from Friday am to Monday pm. Family ok, we didn't lose power. I'm dreading the return though as my truck was parked on the roof of Logan parking garage. Ill be lucky to identify the thing.
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Good lord, I just had a panic attack thinking about that dilemma.
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maybe they will de-ice the cars

being up on a hill

i had snow up to my belly in places
difficult to maneuver in it-unreal

punching the plastic between struts in the mini G-H
to get it to slide down the arches

was like preparing for a ROCKY BalBoa flick
talk about SORE

Still in San Diego. Flight was bumped from Friday am to Monday pm. Family ok, we didn't lose power. I'm dreading the return though as my truck was parked on the roof of Logan parking garage. Ill be lucky to identify the thing.
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Just look in the plow piles
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Still in San Diego. Flight was bumped from Friday am to Monday pm. Family ok, we didn't lose power. I'm dreading the return though as my truck was parked on the roof of Logan parking garage. Ill be lucky to identify the thing.


Tough not to find that funny Mike. :)
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Rapid Response - LANCE - Terra/MODIS 2013/041 15:50 UTC (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=crefl1_143.A2013041155000-2013041155500.2km.jpg)

very cool pic of snow coverage, still showing the swath of the 2011 tornado

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Karma. Plain and simple.
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Got really lucky Thusday night myself trying to get back home from NOLA. Had a flight that was supposed to arrive at 10PM. Ended up having to swap out a plane last minute in DC (second leg of flight). Got home at about 1:30 AM Friday. If the flight had been delayed until Friday AM I'd likely still be in NOLA right now!

There is another coming----Saturday/Sunday

Striperman36 always full of good news!:smash:

There is another coming----Saturday/Sunday

Where????


Forecast
View Calendar 10-Day Forecast for station KRIHARRI3
Monday, 11
Rain
48 | 27 °F
Rain
Chance of
Precipitation
100%
Tuesday, 12
Partly Cloudy
41 | 19 °F
Partly Cloudy
Chance of
Precipitation
10%
Wednesday, 13
Chance of Snow
37 | 16 °F
Chance of Snow
Chance of
Precipitation
20%
Thursday, 14
Chance of Snow
37 | 25 °F
Chance of Snow
Chance of
Precipitation
50%
Friday, 15
Mostly Cloudy
43 | 19 °F
Mostly Cloudy
Chance of
Precipitation
0%
Saturday, 16
Partly Cloudy
30 | 14 °F
Partly Cloudy
Chance of
Precipitation
0%
Sunday, 17
Partly Cloudy
25 | 10 °F
Partly Cloudy
Chance of
Precipitation
0%
Monday, 18
Clear
32 | 19 °F
Clear
Chance of
Precipitation
0%
Tuesday, 19
Partly Cloudy
36 | 25 °F
Partly Cloudy
Chance of
Precipitation
0%
Wednesday, 20
Chance of Snow
36 | 19 °F
Chance of Snow
Chance of
Precipitation
50%
Source: BestForecast at 8:42 AM EST on February 11, 2013
Descriptive Forecast
Sunday
partlycloudy Clear. High of 25F with a windchill as low as 1F. Winds from the NNW at 10 to 15 mph.
Sunday Night
nt_clear Clear. Low of 10F with a windchill as low as 1F. Winds from the WNW at 10 to 15 mph.
Hourly Forecast 6AM 12 Noon 6PM 12 Midnight
Temp. | Dew Point 16 | 8 22 | 4 21 | 4 15 | 8
Wind 11 mph North 12 mph NNW 11 mph NNW 9 mph West
Humidity 69% 44% 46% 73%
Chance of Precip. 0% 0% 0% 0%
Cloud Cover 94% 85% 1% 0%
Conditions Overcast Mostly Cloudy Clear Clear
Sunrise & Sunset
6:39 AM
5:22 PM
Source: Weather Underground BestForecast View Detailed Hourly Forecast

Wundergound also had 3" of snow forecast in my area for this past storm until two days before. Just sayin...