1641

Have not mentioned it recently but yeah, it’s kinda hot in Australia at the moment.

— Alan

1642

Here’s a fun thing to do if it’s super cold where you are right now. Make some water balloons with food coloring in them and leave them out to freeze. Remove the balloon when they are frozen and you get: https://twitter.com/TVnutNaomi/status/292661054356459521/photo/1

1643

That’s awesome clay!

1644

Moderate risk of severe weather forecasted on Tuesday for the lower Mississippi Valley region including eastern Arkansas, eastern Louisiana and western Mississippi. Storms will first develop in Texas overnight before merging with a front and flowing into the warning area. It appears that perhaps most severe potential may occur into Tuesday evening:

POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR A SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER EVENT TUESDAY WITH DAMAGING WIND AND TORNADOES THE PRIMARY THREATS…ESPECIALLY DURING THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT IN MODERATE RISK AREA.

…

STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP WITHIN PRE-FRONTAL CONFLUENCE BAND
ACROSS CNTRL/ERN OK INTO NCNTRL/NERN TX EARLY TUESDAY AND SHIFT EWD
AND NEWD DURING THE DAY. OTHER STORMS MAY DEVELOP FARTHER SOUTH
THROUGH ERN TX DURING THE AFTERNOON ALONG MERGING PACIFIC FRONT AND
SHIFT EWD THROUGH THE LOWER MS VALLEY. THE BOUNDARY LAYER WILL
MOISTEN SUFFICIENTLY FOR THIS ACTIVITY TO BECOME SFC BASED. STORMS
WILL BE EMBEDDED WITHIN STRONG DEEP LAYER FLOW WITH A 50+ KT SLY LLJ
AND MID LEVEL WINDS INCREASING TO 80 KT. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
EVOLVE INTO A PREDOMINANT QLCS WITH EMBEDDED SUPERCELL AND BOWING
SEGMENTS POSING A RISK FOR DAMAGING WIND AND TORNADOES. TORNADO
THREAT MAY INCREASE OVERNIGHT…ESPECIALLY IN MODERATE RISK AREA
WHERE LLJ INTENSIFYING TO IN EXCESS OF 70 KT WILL BE COLLOCATED WITH
NRN EDGE OF MID 60S DEWPOINTS.

— Alan

1645

Bumped

So let’s have it New Englanders… what’s Nemo doing?

(And seriously… since when did we start naming winter storms?)

1646

I work for a university in the Boston area and they’ve stupidly decided to keep operations up and running through midday. Looking out the window, the snow has already started to come down steadily. Fun, fun, fun!

And I am also not on board with naming winter storms. Damn you, Weather Channel!

1647

Good luck up there, from what they’re saying Boston might see up to 40" from this. Guess my parents picked a good week to go down to Florida (they live on the Cape).

1648

West Michigan got about 6 inches where I am, but up around a foot in some places. It’s all over now, everything has moved off to the east. Cold, clear, and sunny out now. Gonna be a good weekend for anyone who wants to do outdoor winter activities around here.

1649

HELP!

I’m supposed to be flying into Boston on Sunday for a class at EMC, maybe ten miles west of the city center. Should I be trying to cancel, not worrying since Boston knows how to handle this stuff, expecting to spend a week in the airport, or what?

1650

You going to Milford? That’s more than 10 miles. :p

Yes, Logan airport is a pro at snow removal. But 40" is more than they’ve seen in decades. Plus, there might be overflow from all the cancelled flights on Friday and Saturday. I imagine you’ll still be able to arrive on Sunday.

1651

Been snowing for 2 hours in southern NH. Can still see the blades of grass and street, though.

1652

You’re right, more like 30 miles. Yeesh.

1653

The overflow is the big danger; delays will propagate around for quite awhile I imagine. If you go, just be prepared for very long waits and delays.

— Alan

1654

Hit Long Island earlier than expected (they were calling for after dark, and it went total snow above 495 (The LIE) at around 3 PM.

There are probably several thousand people stranded on roads in Suffolk County. It took my wife 4 hours to make her usual 30 minute trip from the south shore up to the north shore where we live…

1655

70+ mph wind gusts reported in Cape Cod and Nantucket.

— Alan

1656

Oy, Alan. Gimme a thumbs up/down on this thing, is it the big boy or just another contender?

1657

Drove up to visit my parents in Vermont this morning on a pre-planned trip. The only real impact here is some fantastic skiing this afternoon, and a pretty standard winter storm snowfall.

I understand the coast is getting it much worse, but literally every person I’ve spoken to here has been all “Yup, it’s snowing. Why are they making such a big deal out of this?” On the plus side, that probably means crews from this area will be able to help out neighboring regions when it comes time for repairs.

Hope those without power and those getting the worst of it stay warm and safe.

1658

I saw snowfall numbers between 5 inches and 18 inches for NYC depending upon which path the storm took. As well they were talking about it stalling for 12 to 24 hours around the NYC to Boston area. Any update on this?

1659

Went out and plowed, since I have a rather anemic electric snow blower that doesn’t deal well with snow over 12". Which it already was by 9pm when I went out. That came to an end when I ran over the extension cord at 11pm, which I had been studiously avoiding all night. Blown snow and additional fallen snow had hidden it.

I rather expect that we’ll see another 12" by morning, because it sure doesn’t seem like it’s letting up. Fortunately, I have a spare 100’ cord, but I didn’t want to chance doing it again so I’m saving that one for tomorrow. I was 90% done, if you don’t count the snow that had covered the work I’d already done.

I did a little shoveling, and my arms started aching almost immediately. My END is only about 3.

1660

Suffolk County on Long Island has two feet+ of heavy wet snow. Possibly more where I am - its drifted a lot (entirely covering cars), so hard to tell.