It's time folks. Piacere, you should be okay through this one. Parts of New England will get hammered though.
Joe Cioffi
Uh-oh for some of you.
Central pressure of storm will fall to 965 mb over Maine -- get your barometers ready ... equivalent to tropical Cat 3 hurricane pressure"
"While only 1-3" snow in Boston from upcoming powerful coastal storm, inland should see at least 1-foot of heavy, wet snow." 12.27.16
[Edited on 12/27/2016 by gina]
Polar Vortex coming first week of the New Year. Ohhhhhh Whippin' Post!
12/25/16
Here's a late Christmas present -- GFS 18z unloading the #PolarVortex on central Lower 48 -- but it's 7-8 days away ... could go poof.
Latest update, Maine gets the worst of it, and they will get it bad. Vermont, New Hampshire will get a foot or more. The storm will be off Montauk at 5 pm at 990 mb, as it heads north, at this point what they call bombogenesis will start to occur with the pressure dropping 3 millibars per hour, which is why it will be like a Cat 3 hurricane when it gets up there.
Long Island, should be rain starting by 8 AM. Winds kick up between 5 pm and 7 pm as the monster heads up north.
http://www.meteorologistjoecioffi.com/index.php/2016/12/28/winter-weather-advisory-hudson-valley-nw/
Bernie's update
http://www.accuweather.com/en/videos/snowstorm-coming-to-northeast-updated-snow-map/2430839568001
For those of you obsessed about knowing what is coming, when and want all the details, you can get it all here.
http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/
Yes, coming down steady, will become heaviest overnite, expecting 16" or so -- 
Thanks again Gina for the weather stuff -- in all seriousness the gamma ray burst thread is my favorite this year -- us weather fans/space cadets gotta stick together
Lots of weather coming this week for everyone.
Saturday morning still best chance for flurries or snow showers briefly in Atlanta. Heavier snow in Carolinas, VA.
By Sat, E US freezing beneath bone dry Arctic air (10% of normal moisture) while California goes bonkers snow/rain w/moisture > 200% normal
North east the cold is coming. Chicago will be 19 degrees by Wednesday!
Head's up North Carolina. Raleigh, snow coming for you, the storm is off Charlotte, NC right now. Richmond Virginia, snow is coming your way also.
As for those up here, first reports say 2-4, then there are some possibles of 6", it's weather, it's complicated. I like the Navegem take on it, we don't get much.
[Edited on 1/5/2017 by gina]
Saturday snowcast 1.7.16
Totals predicted (combined weather sources)
Providence 4-8
Boston 5-10
Cape 12-14
LI 3-6
Queens 3-4
Nassau Suff 3-6 or 4-8
Raleigh 6-12
Atlantic City Rehoboth Beach 6-9
DC 3-6
Timing: Long Island 1-7 pm, worst of it with the wind 4 pm
Boston, Little Rhody, Saturday evening, after it is done with us.
https://twitter.com/ryanmaue
Saturday is going to be a disaster for travel out of Atlanta, roads will be suicide in North Georgia, Carolinas into Norfolk Blizzard warnings up to Norfolk.
Bernie Rayno
http://www.accuweather.com/en/videos/accuweather-experts/carolina-snowstorm-to-move-toward-northeast/2430839568001
Joe Cioffi
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/meteomadness/southern-snows-but-watch-up-north/70000482
Henry
This is a storm in the west.
https://www.wunderground.com/news/winter-storm-helena-things-to-know?__prclt=H9jXKyyQ
I keep wanting to think these storms are a fluke, it's too early in the season for this, but as my shovel brother in Little Rhody knows, if the northeast is gonna have a bad winter, sometimes it starts like this. I sure hope it is limited to February (as predicted) or maybe we get mercy, I sure need some right about now.
Okay snow is coming, so kick back and make yourself happy, this might help!
Long Island snow totals
Nassau County
•Hicksville- 9.2 inches
•Plainview- 9 inches
•Wantagh- 8.9 inches
•East Norwich- 8 inches
•East Meadow- 7.8 inches
•Bethpage- 7.8 inches
•Mineola- 7.7 inches
•Floral Park- 7.2 inches
•Old Brookville- 7.1 inches
•Westbury- 6.5 inches
•Roslyn- 6.1 inches
•Glen Cove. 5.2 inches
•Island Park- 4.6 inches
Suffolk County
•Yaphank- 10.8 inches
•Laurel- 10.5 inches
•Coram- 10.3 inches
•Calverton- 10.2 inches
•East Shoreham- 10.1 inches
•Nesconset- 10 inches
•Riverhead- 10 inches
•Farmingville- 9.9 inches
•Upton- 9.8 inches
•Port Jefferson Station- 9.7 inches
•Stony Brook- 9.6 inches
•Lake Ronkonkoma- 9.5 inches
•South Huntington- 9.5 inches
•East Northport- 9.5 inches
•Lindenhurst- 9.2 inches
•Holtsville- 9 inches
•Orient- 9 inches
•Mount Sinai- 8.5 inches
•Bayport- 8.3 inches
•Babylon- 8.2 inches
•Bay Shore- 8.2 inches
•Centereach- 8.1 inches
•Shoreham- 8.2 inches
•MacArthur Airport- 8 inches
•West Islip- 8 inches
•West Babylon- 7.9 inches
•Jamesport- 7.7 inches
•Smithtown- 7.7 inches
•Sayville- 7.4 inches
•Southampton- 7 inches
•Ridge- 6.8 inches
•Amityville- 5.5 inches
With 3 hours of shoveling, I agree with the totals. It would have been nice if they let us know ahead of time that much was coming. There's a big difference between 4-6, and 10 inches. It was also supposed to start at 1 pm and last till about 7 pm, but it started at 9 am, and it came down for 12 hours not 6.
Hope everyone is safe and somewhat recovered.
Northeast a little snow tomorrow. After that snow on Superbowl Sunday could be 3-6" , then artic air after that.
[Edited on 1/31/2017 by gina]
Your weekly weather outlook. Next Tuesday there will be severe weather Arkansas and Southern Missouri. The northeast should get a reprieve from the predicted 3-6" of snow previously forecast for Super Bowl Sunday.
Northeast
http://www.accuweather.com/en/videos/accuweather-experts/record-warmth-to-a-snowstorm/2430839568001
[Edited on 2/8/2017 by gina]
Time Frames:
SE Pennsylvania, Maryland will start getting it by 1 am tonite. I hope our Pres. is sleeping by then.
LI and thereabouts 7 am - 10 am will be the worst of it. It will be a 6-8 hour ordeal. Thundersnow, lightning possible, and snow 1-3 inches per hour.
New England will start being pounded by noontime.
Piacere, 12-18" coming your way.
hey gina, how's things? 
yeah, we got about a foot. lots of drifts. was really windy.
getting cold. wind chill tomorrow around zero.
stay warm.
just buttin' in, ski area socked in today -- been snowing continuously in mtns -- bitterly cold next 24 hrs., warmer Sat, then more weather predicted Sun. -- once all this weather clears skiing will be s-w-e-et
I tried skiing...once. Sunday River, Maine. As cold as I've ever been, I think it was like 2 degrees. Every time I tried getting off the ski lift, I fell on my face. Every time I tried "skiing" I fell on my face. Mountain was a sheet of ice. An absolutely painful, uncomfortable experience. 😛 Never went ever again.
but if it's your thing, go for it!
it'll be a world of difference in the right conditions -- w/all this new snow (&a lot more coming tmrw nite too), give it a whirl on a sunny day, you'll have a blast! It's the bomb 
This is our neck of the woods.
http://data.newsday.com/long-island/maps/20170209_snow_totals_map
It was particularly bad for me because I did NOT follow my own advice. When I last looked at the maps the night before (radar), it seemed as though the heavy snow would not arrive till 10 am, so I thought I had plenty of time to get out to the gym and do a short workout. I never made it there. By 7:15 I was hit with a white out and it did not improve till noon time. White meaning you could not see what was on either side of the street, could not see traffic lights even with no one ahead of you. I turned around but it was too late. I made it to a shopping center and saw a store open so I went there to hang out till things improved, but they didn't. A nasty plow plowed me in while I was in the store, my defroster could not even keep the back window clear, much less could I see out the side windows with horizontal snow coming. Finally someone with a black pick up truck happened by, had mercy on me and plowed out the stuff I would not have even been able to shovel. The CEO of the store is going to hear from me. It was so bad on the road I could not get thru it. In the 5 hours it took me to traverse a 6 mile swath of road I did not see one plow, not one. I had to constantly pray for about the last few miles, because there was no way I was going to get thru that. When I finally got back to where I live, I could not get in the driveway. I had to shovel to barely get in. Later another nasty ass plowed several feet of snow right in back of my car. Too high, too packed in to shovel that down.
When I went out later that night to do a little more work, the cop who lives next door was out there with his snowblower aiming his snow directly at the side of my car. I did not yell, it was obvious what was happening. I just got in the car, sat quietly, and put on my Isis head chopping off looking ski mask just there watching him. For some reason he seemed to stop.
Yes I know it's all my fault. I did not follow my own advice, I should not have been on the road at 7 am, even though it wasn't bad then.
I hope it went better for everybody else, especially you Piacere.
hey gina, how's things?
yeah, we got about a foot. lots of drifts. was really windy.
getting cold. wind chill tomorrow around zero.
stay warm.
I hate to say this baby, but there's more coming for New England, a lot more soooon. Sunday into Monday. Hopefully the guess-timates for your area are low 1-3 or 3-6 and stay that way. Boston will get blasted.
Beautiful yet powerful storm off New England coast Monday.
Hurricane Force Winds ✔️
Rapid Deepening --> bomb ✔️
Huge waves
2 hours ago
Most recent "Euro" forecast model paints snowfall of 12-17" across Boston. 22-25" coastal Maine for Monday's blizzard
After Boston and points north get blasted Sunday night into Monday, there is another problem coming Wednesday.
967 Millibars for the monster heading to Cape Cod and New England.
[Edited on 2/11/2017 by gina]
THREE MORE MAJOR SNOW STORMS?
whippin post!
I'm going to pass on that, brother. Me and skiing have parted ways... 😛
This is our neck of the woods.
http://data.newsday.com/long-island/maps/20170209_snow_totals_map
It was particularly bad for me because I did NOT follow my own advice. When I last looked at the maps the night before (radar), it seemed as though the heavy snow would not arrive till 10 am, so I thought I had plenty of time to get out to the gym and do a short workout. I never made it there. By 7:15 I was hit with a white out and it did not improve till noon time. White meaning you could not see what was on either side of the street, could not see traffic lights even with no one ahead of you. I turned around but it was too late. I made it to a shopping center and saw a store open so I went there to hang out till things improved, but they didn't. A nasty plow plowed me in while I was in the store, my defroster could not even keep the back window clear, much less could I see out the side windows with horizontal snow coming. Finally someone with a black pick up truck happened by, had mercy on me and plowed out the stuff I would not have even been able to shovel. The CEO of the store is going to hear from me. It was so bad on the road I could not get thru it. In the 5 hours it took me to traverse a 6 mile swath of road I did not see one plow, not one. I had to constantly pray for about the last few miles, because there was no way I was going to get thru that. When I finally got back to where I live, I could not get in the driveway. I had to shovel to barely get in. Later another nasty ass plowed several feet of snow right in back of my car. Too high, too packed in to shovel that down.
When I went out later that night to do a little more work, the cop who lives next door was out there with his snowblower aiming his snow directly at the side of my car. I did not yell, it was obvious what was happening. I just got in the car, sat quietly, and put on my Isis head chopping off looking ski mask just there watching him. For some reason he seemed to stop.
Yes I know it's all my fault. I did not follow my own advice, I should not have been on the road at 7 am, even though it wasn't bad then.
I hope it went better for everybody else, especially you Piacere.
geeze girl, stay home, do some crunches, push ups, whatever. Don't be driving around in that. Next door neighbor probably figured you were ploiwed in anyway so what's a little more...
yeah, storm coming. Stay in the house, would ya?
Update storm for Boston tonite/tomorrow, also short update on the Wednesday Thursday possible storm, for LI, NYC etc. that one is now looking less likely (whoo-hoo!)
[Edited on 2/12/2017 by gina]
February 20 -24, we need to watch, potential exists for MAJOR east coast snow. No it is not definite yet. We just have to be vigilant. We are now in winter.
We were -- wish like heck that forecast had been good --
instead, last week's plentiful snow/winter wonderland will be history by Saturday -- record warmth, flood watches in effect etc etc....too darned early for me 😮
Wonder if it all might be connected to this blurb about the recent discovery of brave new cosmic worlds (from the Daily Galaxy):
NASA has just announced discover new solar system with ‘best chance yet of alien life’ .Life may have evolved on at least three planets in a newly discovered solar system just 39 light years from Earth, NASA has announced. Astronomers have detected no less than seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting a cool dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1. The six inner planets lie in a temperate zone where surface temperatures range from zero to 100C. Of these, at least three are thought to be capable of having oceans, increasing the likelihood of life. No other known star system contains such a large number of Earth-sized and probably rocky planets.
Stephen, I heard the planets were in the Aquarius star system. That's kinda spooky, there's also some stuff about the Arabs, and this is true wanting to be able to go to Mars. The probes will be there by 2020 and they hope some colonization can occur by 2050. All I can think of is the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, Total Recall. OMG, prophecy!
"Sign up for your vacation today! With Travel Agent Doug Quaid....." no wait 😮 😮
great flick, & yes, prophetic -- maybe it won't be in our lifetime, but these new finds have "future colonization" written all over them -- the photos on the Daily Galaxy website are awesome
record warmth continues, topping out tomorrow w/mid 50s, making it 3rd straight day of 50 degrees-plus weather -- on a better note, ski resorts really did well this season -- it was snowy both at Christmas, & this week's economically-crucial Mass. school vacation week -- big crowds both times
Joe explains the weather coming up for March and why. We have a blocking High from Greenland in play.
The models he uses come from Tropical Tidbits website. (which is also what you should use and look at for hurricane weather. Levi Cowan's website. He rocks!)
WARNING: Massive Jet Stream T Storms & tornadoes TWO DAYS
Of course the Northeast has the warm weather 50's 60's and then Friday possibly snow. (40%).
Winter ain't over till it's over.
