Posted on 01/25/2015 1:37:37 PM PST by robowombat
Nothing will ever beat The Blizzard of ‘78.
Nothing.
Oddly enough it started on a Monday and snowed until Wednesday.
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One product issued by NWS for: New York NY
Blizzard Warning
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
339 PM EST SUN JAN 25 2015
...CRIPPLING AND POTENTIALLY HISTORIC BLIZZARD TO IMPACT THE AREA
FROM LATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY...
CTZ006>012-NJZ006-104-106-108-NYZ071>075-078>081-176>179-260500-
/O.UPG.KOKX.BZ.A.0001.150126T1800Z-150128T0500Z/
/O.COR.KOKX.BZ.W.0001.150126T1800Z-150128T0500Z/
NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX-NORTHERN NEW LONDON-
SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN-SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-
SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-HUDSON-EASTERN BERGEN-EASTERN ESSEX-
EASTERN UNION-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX-
RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)-KINGS (BROOKLYN)-NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-
NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-
NORTHERN QUEENS-NORTHERN NASSAU-SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU-
339 PM EST SUN JAN 25 2015
...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM MONDAY TO MIDNIGHT EST
TUESDAY NIGHT...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM MONDAY TO MIDNIGHT EST
TUESDAY NIGHT. THE BLIZZARD WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
* LOCATIONS...NEW YORK CITY AND SURROUNDING IMMEDIATE
SUBURBS...LONG ISLAND...AND MOST OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT.
* HAZARD TYPES...HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW...WITH BLIZZARD
CONDITIONS.
* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 20 TO 30 INCHES...WITH
LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. SNOWFALL RATES OF 2 TO 4
INCHES PER HOUR EXPECTED LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING.
* WINDS...NORTH 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS 55 TO 65 MPH...STRONGEST
ACROSS EASTERN LONG ISLAND.
* VISIBILITIES...ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS AT TIMES.
* TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOWER 20S.
* TIMING...LIGHT SNOW WILL BEGIN MONDAY MORNING...WITH
ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE BY THE EVENING RUSH.
SNOW WILL PICK UP IN INTENSITY MONDAY EVENING...WITH THE
HEAVIEST SNOW AND STRONGEST WINDS FROM ABOUT MIDNIGHT
MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
* IMPACTS...LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
TRAVEL DUE TO HEAVY SNOWFALL AND STRONG WINDS...WITH WHITEOUT
CONDITIONS. SECONDARY AND TERTIARY ROADS MAY BECOME IMPASSABLE.
STRONG WINDS MAY DOWN POWER LINES AND TREE LIMBS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE
EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS
AND POOR VISIBILITIES WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING
TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST
TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET
STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE.
ALL UNNECESSARY TRAVEL IS DISCOURAGED BEGINNING MONDAY
AFTERNOON...TO ALLOW PEOPLE ALREADY ON THE ROAD TO SAFELY REACH
THEIR DESTINATIONS BEFORE THE HEAVY SNOW BEGINS...AND TO ALLOW
SNOW REMOVAL EQUIPMENT TO BEGIN TO CLEAR ROADS.
&&
$$
Those National Weather Service messages in ALL CAPS greatly annoy me. Are they still using teletype machines over there?
Useful for clearing switch points and retarders, but the smart yardmasters get every available coal hopper sent to his yard ahead of the storm, loads ‘em up with snow from his yard, then waybills them to the deep south.
I never seen more vicious winters before or since than those 3 late 70’s ice ages.
I’ve got my candles,flashlights and potato chips.
I’m all set.
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” 3 late 70’s ice ages.”
I agree. It got so bad there was no place to put the snow as you shoveled it.
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Exactly. It was so bad here in Illinois and all the streets were so impassable as it was, and then they predicted another 1967 snowfall! That would of been IT!. Thank God, it never came.
DiBlasio is calling it the biggest snowstorm in the history of the universe because he was called out for doing nothing about freezing rain that paralyzed the highways last week.
But the wind is our big problem here, as it can take down the snow covered power lines.
Winds here could reach 70 mph.-Tom
Malort. One sip for a truly unique, thoroughly unpleasant, and sadly unforgettable experience.
(Bartender! Something to kill the taste! A shot of your best turpentine please!)
It looks like it will be a HEAVY snow to boot. Not good.
It looks like it will be a HEAVY snow to boot. Not good.
Overseas they still are using teletypes in some places.
Snow's so WHITE. Nome sayin?
More proof of the Warren Wilhelm worldview.
As a matter of fact they have. They are now calling this storm "Juno".
This would be a big storm here in northern Minnesota. But people here know how to deal with this sort of thing. Out East ... If it comes true, some people will die. God bless you all and stay home!!
I expect it to be the heavy, pasty snow at my house - inland away from the coast, a mile or two, it could be much lighter snow.
I see that often in local snowstorms. -Tom
Heavy as in high water content? The answer to that I think is no. The water content ratio will be between 10:1 and 15:1. That's a light fluffy snow.
But there will be plenty of it.
...LOL!
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