edschweppe | Entries tagged with weather

Not snowing at this moment. That's likely to change in the next couple of hours, according to the forecasts, which still have me in the 18-24 inch band by Monday night.

Meanwhile, no word from the Current Paying Gig if they're going to be open on Monday or not. And the MBTA commuter rail is having serious problems maintaining their Sunday schedule - so far, they've had three scheduled departures from Fitchburg and two of them have been reported as delayed. This bodes ill for the chances of working trains tomorrow, in the teeth of inch-an-hour snowfalls; even if the CPG is open, odds appear poor that I'll be able to make it in.

Joy.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/184277.html

Another Winter Storm Warning is up, effective 10PM tonight through 1AM Tuesday morning. This time, the call is for 12-18 inches through Monday night ... except for a "localized band of 18 to 24 inches", which is located approximately between where I live and where I work. I've got a funny feeling that I'm not going into the Current Paying Gig come Monday morning ...

We've already had multiple feet of snowfall this year. According to the graphic I just saw on the television, Boston had 5.5 inches of snowfall this season before January 23 - and 48.7 inches since then. I've got twenty inches on the ground right now, not counting plow berms and parking-lot mountains.

Joy.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/183837.html

Or mostly dug out, at least. It looks like I picked up about fourteen inches of fluffy snow from today's storm, which is hopefully finally abating.

I did not risk going into the Current Paying Gig, as that would have involved (a) driving on back roads (b) to the commuter rail parking lot, then (c) taking the train in and (d) walking from North Station to said Current Paying Gig. (a) would have been bad enough, but even if (b) had been properly plowed in the morning (no guarantee) it would have been socked in by nightfall. (c) would have been an "adventure", since almost every train was either seriously late or cancelled entirely (due to mechanical failures, frozen switches, etc) And (d) - well, Boston hadn't finished clearing sidewalks from the last snowpocalypse. Slogging a mile through a foot of snow would be just the thing for my not-yet-fully-functional knee. (Not.)

Tomorrow? We'll see; at least I'm dug out enough to have the option of going in.

Weather folks on the news were saying that this has been the snowiest single week in local history. Over three feet in Boston; over four feet in Worcester; over five feet in Leominster, about fifteen miles west of here.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/183351.html

Congrats to the New England Patriots, with a close victory over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl (TM) XLIX. (Shouldn't 49 be IL in Roman numerals?)

And now we're back under a Winter Storm Warning, with a foot-plus of snow and 35-mph wind gusts expected tomorrow. Boston hasn't fully cleared the sidewalks from last week's snowpocalypse ...

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/183068.html

At least two feet on the ground, and plenty of drifts higher than that.

However, it's a very light and fluffy snow in my neck of the woods, which has kept the trees from shedding branches all over the power lines. Judging from news reports, the South Shore and Cape Cod have been getting the heavier stuff and losing power as a result. Nantucket Island is apparently completely without power, courtesy of ocean spray getting into a main transformer station and doing bad things thereto.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/182831.html

Well, it's started snowing, at least. Barely a coating on my car, but there is snow on the ground.

And, presumably, lots more to come in the very near future. The final paragraph of the current NWS blizzard warning says it all:

ALL UNNECESSARY TRAVEL IS DISCOURAGED! THIS IS A SERIOUS LIFE-
THREATENING STORM!

Meanwhile, the forecast for the rest of this week is pretty much snow, snow and more snow:

Tonight: Heavy Snow (100%) Low: 12 °F

Tuesday: Heavy Snow (100%) High: 20 °F

Tuesday Night: Snow (90%) Low: 11 °F

Wednesday: Chance Snow (30%) High: 24 °F

Wednesday Night: Mostly Clear Low: 4 °F

Thursday: Slight Chance Snow (20%) High: 30 °F

Thursday Night: Snow Likely (60%) Low: 21 °F

Friday: Snow Likely (60%) High: 34 °F

Friday Night: Chance Snow (30%) Low: 11 °F

Welcome to New England.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/182774.html

Just got the official word from the Current Paying Gig not to bother coming in Tuesday. Not surprising, since Governor Baker has declared a state of emergency, with a travel ban and MBTA shutdown effective at midnight tonight.

No snowflakes yet. Emphasis on the word "yet".

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/182285.html

Blizzard warnings up for tomorrow evening through Wednesday morning:
( Weather service message )

Or, in other words: here comes a cubic shitload of snow.

Definitely not going into work on Tuesday. Possibly not on Wednesday. Might even blow off Monday, considering that the train doesn't normally get me home until around the time the blizzard warning goes into effect.

Good thing my knee is more or less kind of working properly now, isn't it?

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/182192.html

This morning's walk to work? Low 60's, maybe 10mph winds. Sat out on Rowes Wharf at lunchtime, watching a tanker come into port. (MV Seavictory, homeported in Valetta, Malta, for those keeping score at home.)

Tomorrow's forecast? Winter storm warnings, with anywhere from seven to eleven inches of snow out in my neck of the woods expected by ten PM, and wind gusts up to 25mph.

Welcome to New England.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/180637.html

Not so much that the National Weather Service is predicting a late March snowstorm. This is Massachusetts; that happens some years.

Not even so much that the late March snowstorm is expected to reach blizzard conditions. Really big storms can happen at any time of the year; when they're full of snow, they tend to be considered blizzards.

But the current NWS forecast for my neck-o-the-woods calls for maybe an inch or two of snow along with winds around 20-30 miles per hour and occasional gusts up to 55 miles per hour. The blizzard warnings are up for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket - which are southeast of me:

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
237 PM EDT TUE MAR 25 2014

...BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WITH DAMAGING WINDS EXPECTED VERY LATE
TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE CAPE AND ISLANDS...

MAZ022>024-260245-
/O.UPG.KBOX.BZ.A.0004.140326T0400Z-140326T1800Z/
/O.NEW.KBOX.BZ.W.0004.140326T0400Z-140326T1800Z/
BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN...
VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET
237 PM EDT TUE MAR 25 2014

...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 2 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 2 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY. THE BLIZZARD WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

* LOCATIONS...CAPE COD...NANTUCKET AND MARTHA/S VINEYARD.

* HAZARD TYPES...HEAVY SNOW...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND BLIZZARD
  CONDITIONS.

* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 5 TO 10 INCHES WITH THE
  HIGHER AMOUNTS EXPECTED ACROSS THE OUTER-CAPE AND NANTUCKET.

I really can't remember a blizzard this late in the season that missed me to the south. Even for New England, that's weird.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/170278.html

Today's storm has moved further Down East (to annoy Mainers and eventually the Canadian Maritimes). We picked up about eight inches between noon and six PM. Evening newscasts were showing a particularly aggravating evening commute. Another storm is forecast for tomorrow. The weatherfolk think it will be a rain/snow mix this time around, which was yet another reason to get out tonight and finish relocating the current batch while it's still relatively fluffy.

Current Mood: cold
Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/168302.html

The latest snowstorm has started snowstorming in my little neck of the woods. The good folks at the National Weather Service have yet another Winter Weather Warning up, this time for "A QUICK PERIOD OF HEAVY SNOWFALL" (five to eight inches worth) through eight PM tonight.

Boston proper is forecast to receive less, and only gets a Winter Weather Advisory. Snowpocalypse, this ain't; still, tonight's commute is likely to have much suckitude.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/168026.html

Around nine inches of white stuff on the ground, with a nice freezing drizzle crust on top. The National Weather Service says I might get a few more inches later tonight.

Then there's a chance of snow Saturday and Saturday night.

Then there's likely going to be snow Monday night into Tuesday.

Then there's still the rest of February and all of March to go.

...

Actually, as long as I don't have to drive in it, I like the snow. And this should hopefully give us a solid snowpack for the rest of the winter. The worst winters, IMNSHO, are the ones where we get heavy snow, then it mostly melts leaving brown and grey crap, then we get heavy snow, then it mostly melts, etc. etc. etc. Too many snow-to-bare-ground transitions per season get to me after a while.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/167834.html

Yep, the heavy snow is starting:

https://twitter.com/edschweppe/status/434032188330627072/photo/1

We're expecting a few hours of this, followed by a nice "wintry mix" of snow, sleet, freezing rain and sundry neither-sunny-nor-dry precipitation. Choir practice tonight has, unsurprisingly, been cancelled.

Stay warm and dry, folks!

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/167524.html

but a foot or more of snow, with potential bonus freezing rain. Definitely sucky weather, and stuff I'm glad I don't have to go out in.
( Text of the current Winter Storm Warning )

This may make life ... interesting ... for those trying to get to Boskone from outside the area, especially since this storm has already screwed up air travel through the Deep South.

Current Mood: cold
Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/167403.html

Areas south of Boston got a foot to a foot-and-a-half of fluffy snow. ( Snow totals from the NWS website )

Me? A bit over an inch of fluff. Plenty damn cold, though.

Current Mood: cold
Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/166784.html

My local National Weather Service forecast for this afternoon:

Rain likely, mainly before 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 56. West wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

My local National Weather Service forecast for this evening:

A slight chance of snow between midnight and 4am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 9. Wind chill values as low as -4. West wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

That's a forty-seven degree swing in less than one day. (In degrees Fahrenheit, which is just over twenty-five degrees Celcius, if that's your local scale.) Even for around here, that's pretty damn extreme.

(Meanwhile, between the warmth and the rain, we're getting holes in our snowpack, again. Sigh.)

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/166025.html

At least, not in my neck of the woods. This storm will be strongest along the coastline; the National Weather Service has blizzard warnings up for parts of Essex and Plymouth counties and Cape Cod. I "just" get a Winter Storm Warning and somewhere around ten to fourteen inches of snow predicted. Plans to go out tonight to the Agile New England meeting fell apart as said meeting was cancelled.

Oh, and record cold temperatures tomorrow night. Say, -12F. Brrr.

The good news is that this snow is extremely fluffy and thus easy to move out of the way. The bad news will be that the high winds expected for later will find it equally easy to move this snow around, and tomorrow's snowdrifts promise to be ... interesting.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/165814.html

Church cancelled this morning "due to the storm and the bad driving conditions." A bummer, as we were going to sing Distler's arrangement of "Lo, How a Rose Ere Blooming" as an introit.

The snow has stopped here, with only about eight inches of accumulation. Our forebears would consider us wimps. On the other hand, our forebears would have had the minister living in the parsonage, not twenty-plus miles away over not-yet-plowed roads.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/165027.html

At least, not according to the actual weather forecasters. (The folks running TV promos? They spent all summer coming up with cool new graphics and by God they're going to use them!)

Still, the National Weather Service does have a Winter Storm Warning up from 1PM tomorrow to 1PM Sunday, expecting 6-10 inches of snow out in my neck of the woods with "around a trace of ice" and winds 10-20MPH gusting to 30MPH. There's a good chance that Sunday church services will be cancelled due to road conditions (the minister lives a good twenty-some miles away).

If we don't have a big thaw in the next couple of weeks, this should give us the proverbial White Christmas.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/164645.html

Another day, another snowstorm. The National Weather Service has put a Winter Storm Warning into effect from now until 8PM tomorrow, calling for 8-12 inches of snow (plus maybe a trace of ice) in my neck of the woods. No word yet from the Current Paying Gig as to whether or not they're going to ask folks to show up tomorrow morning.

So I guess I'll have a White Vernal Equinox. Not quite the same ring to it as a White Christmas, somehow.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/159290.html

Around six this morning, the folks at the Current Paying Gig sent out a message that said CPG would be opening at ten, due to the ongoing snowstorm. I'm wasn't terribly surprised; driving home last night, the local streets outside the CPG were in terrible condition, while those at home were barely wet. (I found myself stuck behind a bus just outside the garage at work; that bus took three traffic-light cycles to get enough traction to make a right turn up a hill.)

Around nine AM, the CPG sent out another message, further postponing the opening time until noon.

About half an hour ago, they sent out yet another message, throwing in the towel and declaring the place closed for the day.

All this makes me think that the conditions at work must be really bad. During last month's snowpocalypse, they had the place open despite active National Weather Service blizzard warnings.

Current Location: home
Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/159126.html

But of the light, fluffy, not-taking-down-the-power-lines variety. Which is good.

(Folks south and east of Boston got the heavy, wet, lets-drop-trees-on-power-lines variety. Which is not good. And why about four hundred thousand folks are in the dark.)

OTOH, some of that whole lotta snow is between me and my car, which I will have to dig out so that the snowplow can snowplow.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/158660.html

Bright shiny blue band on the weather radar. Fluffy white snow in the air and on the ground.

Lots of fluffy white stuff. Probably two inches in the last hour.

But can it really be the snowpocalypse when the local television station is broadcasting "CSI:NY" instead of constant storm coverage?

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/158382.html

Only light snow so far, but the blizzard warnings remain in effect. (As does the hyperventilation of the television news.)

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/158197.html

Today was nice and sunny.

Tomorrow? Not so much.

So sayeth the National Weather Service:

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
355 PM EST THU FEB 7 2013

...A POTENTIAL HISTORIC WINTER STORM AND BLIZZARD IS EXPECTED TO
DROP AROUND 2 FEET OF SNOW FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY...

MAZ005>007-012>023-RIZ001>008-080500-
/O.UPG.KBOX.BZ.A.0001.130208T1200Z-130209T2100Z/
/O.NEW.KBOX.BZ.W.0001.130208T1100Z-130209T1800Z/
CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA-WESTERN ESSEX MA-EASTERN ESSEX MA-
SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-WESTERN NORFOLK MA-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA-
SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA-NORTHERN BRISTOL MA-
WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA-
SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA-BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-
NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI-SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-WESTERN KENT RI-
EASTERN KENT RI-BRISTOL RI-WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-
BLOCK ISLAND RI-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRAMINGHAM...LOWELL...LAWRENCE...
GLOUCESTER...MILFORD...WORCESTER...FOXBORO...NORWOOD...
CAMBRIDGE...BOSTON...QUINCY...TAUNTON...BROCKTON...PLYMOUTH...
FALL RIVER...NEW BEDFORD...MATTAPOISETT...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...
PROVINCETOWN...VINEYARD HAVEN...FOSTER...SMITHFIELD...
PROVIDENCE...WEST GREENWICH...WARWICK...BRISTOL...NARRAGANSETT...
WESTERLY...NEWPORT...BLOCK ISLAND
355 PM EST THU FEB 7 2013

...BLIZZARD WARNING FROM 6 AM FRIDAY TO 1 PM EST SATURDAY...

* LOCATIONS...EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...INCLUDING
  BOSTON AND BOSTON METRO AREA...ALL OF RHODE ISLAND INCLUDING
  BLOCK ISLAND.

* HAZARD TYPES...HEAVY SNOW...BLOWING AND DRIFTING AT TIMES...
  QUARTER MILE VISIBILITIES...AND WINDS GUSTING IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH.

* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 18 TO 24 INCHES.

* TIMING...LIGHT SNOW WILL DEVELOP BY FRIDAY MORNING...BECOMING
  HEAVY LATE IN THE DAY INTO THE EVENING COMMUTE. THE HEAVIEST OF
  SNOWFALL...ESPECIALLY FOCUS ALONG THE I-95 CORRIDOR...WILL FALL
  FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY.

* IMPACTS...BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND DANGEROUS TRAVEL. WHITE OUT
  CONDITIONS ARE ANTICIPATED AS ROADS BECOME SNOW COVERED BY THE
  FRIDAY EVENING COMMUTE. STRONG NORTH-NORTHEAST WINDS ARE
  ANTICIPATED WITH GUSTS UP TO AROUND 60 MPH...RESULTING IN
  BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF SNOW. DAMAGE TO TREES AND STRUCTURES
  ALONG WITH SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES ARE ANTICIPATED.

* WINDS...NORTHEAST 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH.

* VISIBILITIES...ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS AT TIMES.

* TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 20S.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A BLIZZARD WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OR FREQUENT
GUSTS OVER 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH CONSIDERABLE FALLING AND/OR
BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.  VISIBILITIES WILL BECOME POOR WITH
WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AT TIMES.  THOSE VENTURING OUTDOORS MAY
BECOME LOST OR DISORIENTED...SO PERSONS IN THE WARNING AREA ARE
ADVISED TO STAY INDOORS.

&&

$$

Fortunately, the local power lines are underground; unless one of the main lines into town gets hit, I should stay happily powered and connected. I suspect that tomorrow night's congregational meeting is going to be postponed, however.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/157790.html

The National Weather Service has posted a blizzard watch for my hometown:

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
319 PM EST WED FEB 6 2013

...A POTENTIAL HISTORIC WINTER STORM AND BLIZZARD IS EXPECTED TO
DROP 1 TO 2 FEET OF SNOW ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION FRIDAY INTO
SATURDAY...

MAZ005>007-013>018-RIZ001>004-070430-
/O.CAN.KBOX.WS.A.0002.130208T0600Z-130209T1800Z/
/O.NEW.KBOX.BZ.A.0001.130208T1200Z-130209T2100Z/
CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA-WESTERN ESSEX MA-EASTERN ESSEX MA-
WESTERN NORFOLK MA-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA-SUFFOLK MA-
EASTERN NORFOLK MA-NORTHERN BRISTOL MA-WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-
NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI-SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-WESTERN KENT RI-
EASTERN KENT RI-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRAMINGHAM...LOWELL...LAWRENCE...
GLOUCESTER...FOXBORO...NORWOOD...CAMBRIDGE...BOSTON...QUINCY...
TAUNTON...BROCKTON...FOSTER...SMITHFIELD...PROVIDENCE...
WEST GREENWICH...WARWICK
319 PM EST WED FEB 6 2013

...BLIZZARD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY
AFTERNOON...
...WINTER STORM WATCH IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD
WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY
AFTERNOON. THE WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

* LOCATIONS...MUCH OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AS WELL AS NORTHERN AND
  CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND. THIS INCLUDES THE BOSTON TO PROVIDENCE
  CORRIDOR.

* HAZARD TYPES...HEAVY SNOW WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR BLIZZARD
  CONDITIONS.

* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 12 TO 24 INCHES.

* TIMING...LIGHT SNOW DEVELOPS BY FRIDAY MORNING. SNOW WILL
  INCREASE INTENSITY DURING FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THE HEAVIEST SNOW
  WILL OCCUR FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING.

* IMPACTS...HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL
  FOR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS. THE WORST OF THE STORM WILL BE FRIDAY
  NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. SNOWFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER
  HOUR POSSIBLE. TRAVEL MAY BECOME NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE WITH BLOWING
  AND DRIFTING SNOW.

* WINDS...NORTHEAST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH.

* VISIBILITIES...ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS AT TIMES.

* TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 20S.


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A BLIZZARD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR CONSIDERABLE
FALLING AND/OR BLOWING SNOW WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OR FREQUENT
GUSTS OVER 35 MPH AND VISIBILITIES BELOW 1/4 MILE FOR AT LEAST
3 HOURS. WHITE OUT CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAKING TRAVEL
VERY DANGEROUS.  BE PREPARED TO ALTER ANY TRAVEL PLANS.

&&

$$

Yes, I've got all-wheel-drive on my car. And this storm doesn't sound quite as bad as the infamous Blizzard of '78. And, unlike in 1978, the ground is pretty much bare, so there are plenty of places to put a foot or two of snow.

Still, I suspect I'm not going to risk going into work on Friday, considering how sucktastic the drive home would likely be.

Originally posted at http://edschweppe.dreamwidth.org/157484.html - comment wherever you please.

The National Weather Service has posted a blizzard watch for my hometown:

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
319 PM EST WED FEB 6 2013

...A POTENTIAL HISTORIC WINTER STORM AND BLIZZARD IS EXPECTED TO
DROP 1 TO 2 FEET OF SNOW ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION FRIDAY INTO
SATURDAY...

MAZ005>007-013>018-RIZ001>004-070430-
/O.CAN.KBOX.WS.A.0002.130208T0600Z-130209T1800Z/
/O.NEW.KBOX.BZ.A.0001.130208T1200Z-130209T2100Z/
CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA-WESTERN ESSEX MA-EASTERN ESSEX MA-
WESTERN NORFOLK MA-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA-SUFFOLK MA-
EASTERN NORFOLK MA-NORTHERN BRISTOL MA-WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-
NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI-SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-WESTERN KENT RI-
EASTERN KENT RI-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRAMINGHAM...LOWELL...LAWRENCE...
GLOUCESTER...FOXBORO...NORWOOD...CAMBRIDGE...BOSTON...QUINCY...
TAUNTON...BROCKTON...FOSTER...SMITHFIELD...PROVIDENCE...
WEST GREENWICH...WARWICK
319 PM EST WED FEB 6 2013

...BLIZZARD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY
AFTERNOON...
...WINTER STORM WATCH IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD
WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY
AFTERNOON. THE WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

* LOCATIONS...MUCH OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AS WELL AS NORTHERN AND
  CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND. THIS INCLUDES THE BOSTON TO PROVIDENCE
  CORRIDOR.

* HAZARD TYPES...HEAVY SNOW WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR BLIZZARD
  CONDITIONS.

* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 12 TO 24 INCHES.

* TIMING...LIGHT SNOW DEVELOPS BY FRIDAY MORNING. SNOW WILL
  INCREASE INTENSITY DURING FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THE HEAVIEST SNOW
  WILL OCCUR FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING.

* IMPACTS...HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL
  FOR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS. THE WORST OF THE STORM WILL BE FRIDAY
  NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. SNOWFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER
  HOUR POSSIBLE. TRAVEL MAY BECOME NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE WITH BLOWING
  AND DRIFTING SNOW.

* WINDS...NORTHEAST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH.

* VISIBILITIES...ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS AT TIMES.

* TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 20S.


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A BLIZZARD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR CONSIDERABLE
FALLING AND/OR BLOWING SNOW WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OR FREQUENT
GUSTS OVER 35 MPH AND VISIBILITIES BELOW 1/4 MILE FOR AT LEAST
3 HOURS. WHITE OUT CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAKING TRAVEL
VERY DANGEROUS.  BE PREPARED TO ALTER ANY TRAVEL PLANS.

&&

$$

Back in August, I spent a fun day playing seaport tourist, including a tour of the replica HMS Bounty as she was making a port call in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Today, she sank off Cape Hatteras, courtesy of Hurricane Sandy:

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — The Coast Guard rescued 14 members of a crew forced to abandon the tall ship HMS Bounty caught in Hurricane Sandy off the North Carolina Outer Banks and continued the search Monday for two other crew members.

[ ... ]

The director of the HMS Bounty Organization, Tracie Simonin, said the tall ship had left Connecticut last week en route for St. Petersburg, Fla.

"They were staying in constant contact with the National Hurricane Center," she said. "They were trying to make it around the storm."

[ ... ]

Coast Guard Vice Adm. Robert Parker, Operational Commander for the Atlantic Area, told ABC’s "Good Morning America" that at the time of the distress call the ship was taking on two feet of water an hour.

He said the crew abandoned ship into canopied, rubber life rafts with about 10 feet of water on board.

I presume that the two life rafts mentioned by VADM Parker are the ones in this picture:

The sea can be unforgiving.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/153656.html

I have made it my custom to post some small bit of commentary every 19th of April, marking the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord. I've told the story of the "Concord Fight" several times now, occasionally quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous "Concord Hymn":

BY the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.

Today, on this two hundred thirty-seventh anniversary of the "shot heard 'round the world", the latest incarnation of the Old North Bridge still spans the Concord River - but there's not much in the way of flood for it to arch. We had abnormally low snowfall last winter and have had an exceptionally warm and dry spring. This keeps the rivers in their banks, but has made for a lot more brush fires than usual.

Crossposts: http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/148036.html

Edmund Schweppe

Hiatus

Here we go again...

Dug out

Congrats Pats! Now let's have a snowpocalypse

Yes, we have a Snowpocalpyse!

Snowpocalypse now?

The snowpocalypse cometh!

Almost the snowpocalypse

Aaaaand back to wait-a-minute weather

This forecast is weird even by New England standards

Eight! Eight Snowy Inches! Mwah-ha-ha!

Once more into the ... well, not breach, necessarily

That's the first wave...

The game commences...

Well, maybe not snowpocalypse ...

Close, but no snowpocalypse

What do we mean by "wait-a-minute weather"?

Not the Snowpocalypse

Yep.

Not really a snowpocalypse

Oh, joy.

Snow day

Whole lotta snow

Snowing, yes. Snowpocalypse?

Le jeu commence

Now a blizzard warning

Thirty-five years after the Blizzard of '78

Thirty-five years after the Blizzard of '78

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Rude bridge, yes. Flood - not so much

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