'Nemo' because "Tropical Storm Matt" just doesn't gain viewers.
Posted on 02/06/2013 1:36:19 PM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
The Winter Storm Team has named the upcoming winter storm NEMO based on the following potential impacts.
Meaning of Nemo: A Greek boy’s name meaning "from the valley," means "nobody" in Latin.
Time Frame-
Thursday through Friday Night
Location-
Upper Midwest through northern Great Lakes Thursday to New England Friday through Friday night
Impacts-
Swath of moderate snowfall from Upper Midwest through northern Great Lakes with as much as 6 to 8 inches in parts of Lower Michigan. Very heavy snowfall across New England Friday through Friday night. Significant impacts to travel including places like Boston and New York City. Boston could several inches of snow, New York will likely see less snowfall but nearby commuting suburbs inland of the metro areas could see much heavier snowfall. Parts of New England would be in line for 1 to 2 feet of snow through Saturday morning. Stronger winds will also combine with the snowfall to reduce visibility throughout the storm.
Other Information-
One of the important details of this event is whether or not coastal New England will become warm enough for precipitation to turn over to rain for a time Friday. If temperatures were to warm up enough, then snowfall totals in places like New York City and Boston would be less. Also, tides will be near the highest of the month due to a new moon on Sunday, there is potential for minor flooding along the Mid-Atlantic Coast and moderate flooding along parts of the New England Coast.
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'Nemo' because "Tropical Storm Matt" just doesn't gain viewers.
Exactly right. We name snowstorms now? It is freaking weather!
High winds are a problem where my house is located. The house does fine but the utility lines can come down and we would of course be without power.
A true "noreaster" swithches to the NW and brings in colder air which can freeze water lines in an unheated house.
Cracking a faucet, and keeping the water moving helps if you can't heat the house.-Tom
Yepper - I grew up on the south side of Lake Ontario. Snow on top of snow can be bad, especially if it blows a lot and sets up a bunch of drifts - almost ran into a buried school bus after a storm; if a chunk of snow hadn't popped off the top right corner of the bus, I would have never seen it as the snow smoothly sloped up from an almost bare road to cover the bus. Be safe.
Yes NBCUniversal purchased the Weather Channel in 2008.
This is all part of the progressive push to evangelize for “climate change”
I used to watch the WC a fair amount, now it’s completely politicized. Very smart move on the part of NBC.
I actually saw an internet posting by a dumb yout to the effect that “they had to start naming these winter storms because climate change has made them so severe”.
Don’t forget naming pop up thundershowers too.
It’s all about the “climate change” indoctrination.
Apropos of nothing, one of the first Latin or Norman French legalisms that we learned in first year law school was “nemo dat quod non habit” or something like that (nemo dat for short), which means that you cannot give what you do not have. It is the rule that says that someone who obtains something from a thief cannot transfer legal title to that thing. It occurs to me that our government is intent on proving this canon of law wrong.
Because they wanted to. Also, they attract attention.
You know that cities, towns and states are already clicking and pre-filling out their FEMA pdf forms :)
The weather forecasters in Connecticut are forecasting between 3 and 30 inches of snow depending on which channel you look at. Too bad Al Gore isn’t helping them out since he can forecast weather hundreds of years into the future. He should be able to nail this storm down to a fraction of an inch.
The Nat Weather Svc. predicts a biggie for us.
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS UPGRADED A WINTER STORM WATCH TO A BLIZZARD WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAYMORNING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
* LOCATIONS...SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND...AS WELL AS THE SOUTH COAST OF MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS. * HAZARD TYPES...HEAVY SNOW WITH POTENTIAL FOR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.
* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 18 TO 24 INCHES. . TRAVEL MAY BECOME NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE WITH BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.
* WINDS...NORTHEAST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH.
Easy for you to say, you’re not in the blizzard warning area. :)
I do enjoy the breathless local reporting on this, esp when in 2011 we got whacked by the ‘snowpocalypse’ (24 inches here) and then they barely mentioned the next storm (4 days later) and predicted maybe 2 inches; we got another 20.
The snow fall is not so worrying, it is the blizzard conditions and drifting that might make this one potentially tough. Gonna take every chance I can to haul in wood.
Because without a cute sounding name it is vewy vewy scawy. We got 4 inches of snow last night and will be getting a few more over the weekend, but not a peep out of us in the national news looking for attention about it,
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Thanks so much for the ping, FRiend. Interesting...
The Connecticut local media (or maybe it was just WFSB, Channel 3?) named the blizzard/winter storm "Charlotte", but apparently the Weather Channel named it "Nemo".
Why all the confusion? Why don't these winter storms have one nationally-recognized name, ie "Katrina"?
The Connecticut local media (or maybe it was just WFSB, Channel 3?) named the blizzard/winter storm "Charlotte", but apparently the Weather Channel named it "Nemo".
Why all the confusion? Why don't these winter storms have one nationally-recognized name, ie "Katrina"?
Channel 3, WFSB in Hartford used the name Charlotte instead.
Member because Charlotte is nicer name?
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