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Earlier in the week Gothamist was despairing that the weather had grown too boring. Not any more! The uncertain weekend forecast of light snow this weekend rapidly changed into a more certain forecast of a substantial snowstorm. The National Weather Service has issued a Blizzard Watch for tomorrow afternoon into Sunday morning. Conditions are set for a classic nor'easter to form off the coast during the day tomorrow. The counter-clockwise circulatioin of the storm will help pull Arctic air into the region. By doing so, the warm, moist air of the storm will ride up over the frigid air. If all goes well the city will see snow, snow, snow! Six to twelve inches are expected over the city and much of Long Island starting late Saturday afternoon. It will be windy as well. Expect lots of blowing and drifting snow.
The storm has the Weather Underground and CapitalWeather bloggers and commenters very excited. 200+ geeky weather comments on some posts. Awesome!
While Gothamist is excitedly anticipating a storm we will also inject one note of uncertainty. A couple of the forecast models have the nor'easter moving a bit further off the coast. If they turn out to have the more accurate forecast (which is not all that likely but we're just sayin') the current storm prediction will be a bust for the city. It would still be windy, but we won't get much snow. To be on the safe side, check out the city's Office of Emergency Management's winter weather safety tips.
Storm graphic from AccuWeather.com.
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EVERYBODY PANIC!
Don't ya just once wish that Janice Huff would turn to the camera and say "IT'S GONNA SNOW LIKE HELL SATURDAY. That's basically it. Saturday - snow like hell."
why one arth are people rooting for snow? im fine with boring weather if it means i wont get my face blown off by gusts of snow.
I'm blaming you for this Gothamist! JK. But from your mouth to God's ear apparently. Start complaining about the lack of 80 degree weather please.
I love how they always oversell these megastorms....but then the one time I ignored them was the blizzard (Jan '03?). If you don't mind trudging through unplowed streets while the wind blows thru your bones, its a great day to go shopping - no crowds, even in Soho.
I think the blizzard of '03 was President's Day weekend, was it not? I was working in retail on Long Island and we had a big holiday sale that weekend...as you can guess, did not happen.
Anyone up for a concert on Sunday afternoon, snow or no snow is welcome to see the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble at 3 pm. Beethoven Symphony #3 "Eroica" and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1. See http://www.nysae.net for further details.
i am freakin out! i plan to watch the new coverage of this all day, maybe I will tivo it
I think Weather forecasters are wondering if this will be comparable to the Blizzard of 1996...
Bet it's all good by Monday's commute.
Come on Joe, it's not often that us DCers get to get in on the snow fun!! You 'Northerners' get all the fun.