Snow. Again.

From AccuWeather

As we mentioned yesterday, it's a mess out there today. Rain has turned into snow, and there are winter storm warnings in effect for all of New York City, all of NJ and eastern Pennsylvania. Hell, there's talk of "snowacane"-like conditions in some areas that are supposed to be hit hard! In the words of Storm Field, "It’s coming, it’s coming, white death from the sky!"

WCBS 2's meteorologist John Elliott says, "It's a very complicated storm. They'll be a lot of variety as far as precipitation type, and storm totals." This is because of two different systems—one with cold air and one with moisture—headed to the area. WABC 7 adds, "This snowstorm is so big and so massive and it's also bizarre. It's so rare that you have a flood watch at the same time as you have a winterstorm warning."

The precipitation—whatever it may be— is expected to be heaviest in NYC between noon and 6 p.m. and we could see between five and eight inches of accumulation. The city's Department of Sanitation is ready for the mess, with crews ready with 170,000 tons of salt.

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By Jen Chung in News on February 25, 2010 8:39 AM

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esmerelda fitzmonster

Big fluffly white flakes in Brooklyn, gross rain/snow mix at my office in Chelsea. I'd rather have the snow.

Snoopy

I'd rather have mid seventies, clear sky, trees budding out, chicks showing their bodies again. You know SPRING TIME!

pinball29

Accuweather is the WORST source. When the National Weather service says chance of snow, you can count on Accuweather.com to be screaming 'Paralyzing Blizzard!!' and 'SNOWACANE!. Like the moronic local news outlets, they are ad-supported and so need to shriek in order to create fear, thus more web hits. This has repeated itself over and over all winter.

diablofreak

so true.

i remember 15 or so years back in JHS we had a real nor-easter (instead of stupid new terms like snowicane) that dumped 20 inches on the streets, and 2 days later i had to walk to school.

the whole city has been pussified. everything is running normal like a rainy day and you got these morons on TV screaming like its the rapture and a bunch more idiots out there who believes everything on TV.

NattyB

+1

So true.

JenChungsBaby

I wish it was ten degrees colder so we'd just have nice dry fluffy snow and not all this slushy wet goopy crap all over.

Snoopy

It's all Staten Island Chuck's fault. Wake him up and then shoot him.

nicemarmot

Can we please stop acting like these pussy little storms are a big deal? Many years ago growing up I always thought, man those east coasters are a bunch of whiners. This is the frozen north, it's going to snow here. Get over it.

babyhitler

For real Son. I grew up in the northwest near oregon and seattle and the snow we had was like 5 feet deep every winter. and hail was the size of baseballs.

Guesty McSpanky

New York is not in the frozen north. New York is in the slushy mid-Atlantic coast. Big difference.

nicemarmot

After you've lived in southern California, it's all the frozen north.

Stevennnn

Long Island and Eastern Queens is right on the battle ground between rain/snow. Places like Newark and Staten Island will see much more than say Queens.