Hey guys! Heads up – an actual storm warning…
I think only the snow plow operators [independent contractors] will be glad.
[I admit to being out of practice dealing with the
white wet stuff from the sky – Deb]
Severe Weather Alert
Winter Storm Warning
WINDHAM CT-CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA- WESTERN ESSEX
MA-EASTERN ESSEX MA- SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-WESTERN
NORFOLK MA-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA- SUFFOLK MA- EASTERN
NORFOLK MA-NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI- INCLUDING THE
CITIES OF…PUTNAM. ..WILLIMANTIC. .. FRAMINGHAM.. .
LOWELL…LAWRENCE. ..
GLOUCESTER.. .MILFORD. ..WORCESTER. .. FOXBORO…
NORWOOD…CAMBRIDGE …
BOSTON…QUINCY. ..FOSTER. ..SMITHFIELD 448 AM EST TUE
FEB 13 2007
…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT
TONIGHT TO MIDNIGHT EST WEDNESDAY NIGHT…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
WINTER STORM WARNING…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM
MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO MIDNIGHT EST WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE
WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
SNOW IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN ACROSS THE REGION LATE THIS
EVENING. THE SNOW SHOULD QUICKLY BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES
BY DAYBREAK WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL HAVE A SIGNIFICANT
IMPACT ON THE WEDNESDAY MORNING RUSH HOUR. IN
FACT…SNOW MAY BE FALLING AT 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR
EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING…LIMITING VISIBILITIES TO A
QUARTER MILE AT TIMES. THE SNOW WILL GRADUALLY
TRANSITION TO A MIXTURE OF PRECIPITATION BY EARLY
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AS WARMER AIR ALOFT MOVES
OVERHEAD. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL EVEN MORE
HAZARDOUS… WITH SOME ICING POSSIBLE.
BY EARLY EVENING…ANY MIXED PRECIPITATION WILL CHANGE
BACK TO SNOW. NEAR-BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL BE
POSSIBLE LATE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INLAND…MOVING
TOWARD THE COAST BY EVENING AS WINDS AROUND THE AREA
OF LOW PRESSURE INCREASE. THE SNOW WILL END BY LATER
WEDNESDAY NIGHT. BOTH THE MORNING AND EVENING COMMUTES
ON WEDNESDAY ARE EXPECTED TO BE TREACHEROUS.
TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE
FROM 5 TO 8 INCHES ALONG THE COAST…TO 7 TO 14 INCHES
ALONG AND WEST OF ROUTE 128. CONSIDERABLE ICING WILL
BE POSSIBLE AS WELL.
BLOWING A DRIFTING SNOW WILL WILL BECOME AN INCREASING
THREAT WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY.
And I’m sure it’ll head straight towards the Northeast when its done ruining our lives. Thank god Boston has an ocean, storms tend to just sit here and die since the Lake as big as it is, is not powerful enough to act as protector from storms and fronts like the mighty Atlantic. That said we also don’t get storms coming FROM the Ocean like we do back in Boston.
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Also politically we’re a lot similiar as well, too bad we have a hack Governor, at least MA has one hackless official in Beacon Hill.
Down here in the SE we’ll see just enough to make the roads slippery, not enough to have them salt it. The West is gonna get slammed — good for the ski resorts, at least.
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It’s either the Cape or the West that gets it — are we even going to have astorm where it’s just metro Boston that gets buried?