Winter Storms 2008

[Patch6713 18]

...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM FRIDAY TO 1 AM EST

SATURDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM

WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM FRIDAY TO 1

AM EST SATURDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

HEAVY AMOUNTS OF SNOW WILL FALL ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CATSKILLS...

THE MID HUDSON VALLEY...BERKSHIRES...AND LITCHFIELD COUNTY. SNOW

WILL BEGIN ACROSS THE REGION FRIDAY MORNING...AND WILL BE HEAVY AT

TIMES FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE SNOW IS EXPECTED TO TAPER

OFF TO SNOW SHOWERS BY MIDNIGHT.

TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION FROM THIS STORM WILL BE 8 TO 16 INCHES

ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CATSKILLS...BERKSHIRES AND NORTHERN

LITCHFIELD COUNTY. IN THE MID HUDSON VALLEY AND SOUTHERN

LITCHFIELD COUNTY...7 TO 14 INCHES WILL FALL.

SNOW WILL FALL AT THE RATE OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR FRIDAY

AFTERNOON...WHICH WILL SEVERELY IMPACT THE FRIDAY EVENING COMMUTE.

THE STORM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SNOWFALL WILL MOVE QUICKLY ACROSS

THE COUNTRY TONIGHT AND FRIDAY...REACHING THE JERSEY COAST FRIDAY

EVENING.

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE

EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR

IMPOSSIBLE.

Stay safe while out with all of the crazy drivers coming up from the city.

[moggie6 54]

Nothing for nothing, but when I was young we didn't care about a winter storm. If a nor easter was coming mom told me I had to get the snow blower out. Anytime it snowed I had to get up and help the 74 y\o bus driver put the chains on the bus because her hands couldn't do it in the cold. People stayed home or put chains on the car to go out in the snow.

It's snow, it falls, and we bury ourselves out of it and move on. Why do we put out the alarm and batten down the hatches for something that is suppose to happen in the north east?

[Guest]

Yeah a snow day would be nice. I have a feeling they might try to sneak us in for the AM (until 10) then send us home, that way credit is granted for the day.

[Patch6713 18]

The school by me is doing an early dismissal (10 high school, 11 elementary school). However, since it says the snow is going to start at around 9am, I don't know how well it is going to work out.

[oilflame 0]

those early dismissals always never make scence to me cuse 1/2 the time the storm starts a like 9 then you got to go home in the snow haha

[RWC130 594]

UPDATE

4:12 PM

12/18/08

Winter Storm Warning

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY

412 PM EST THU DEC 18 2008

SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT

LOW PRESSURE NOW TAKING SHAPE OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES WILL

MOVE OUT INTO THE HIGHS PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON...THEN MOVE ACROSS

THE OHIO VALLEY AND PASS SOUTH OF LONG ISLAND FRIDAY AND FRIDAY

NIGHT.

NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX-

NORTHERN NEW LONDON-WESTERN PASSAIC-ORANGE-PUTNAM-ROCKLAND-

NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-

412 PM EST THU DEC 18 2008

WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM FRIDAY TO MIDNIGHT

EST FRIDAY NIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM

WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM FRIDAY TO

MIDNIGHT EST FRIDAY NIGHT. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN

EFFECT.

SNOW IS EXPECTED TO OVERSPREAD THE REGION FRIDAY MORNING...AND

SHOULD BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTERNOON. SNOW

COULD ALSO MIX WITH SLEET IN THE AFTERNOON. THERE IS THE

POTENTIAL FOR SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 8 TO 12 INCHES...WITH THE

HIGHEST AMOUNTS FURTHEST INLAND.

TRAVEL WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY DURING

THE AFTERNOON. PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW...

SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO

POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?...r+Storm+Warning

[Danger 160]

I don't think anyone is in the streets praying, nothing wrong with being prepared though.

[Guest]

Could be wrong but did they forecast storms back then

[Guest]

Great!!! another busy day at work!!! and the dead terroist is ahkmed

[ny10570 745]

I don't think anyone is in the streets praying, nothing wrong with being prepared though.

Swing by your local supermarket tonight. People freak out like they're going to be snowed in for weeks. Blizzard of 96 was a pretty bad one and within 2 days life was pretty much back to normal. Ice storm in New England this year. Thousands still without power, but within a day all major roads were open and two days later just about everything else was open. Life goes on, yet people continue to over react.

[DOC22 1]

or in a paper cone with flavored coloring

That sounds good!!!!!

[LCFD968 10]

THE NEWS THE NEWS THE NEWS.... Anything to make something out of nothing... If we stopped watching the news people wouldn't get so overly excited. The Blizzard of 96 was bad and the one in March of 93 (my son was born that weekend) but we were all back to normal a few days after it began.

I think its a conspiracy... Home Depot and Lowes pay extra money to have them (the weather people) hype up he storms so everybody goes and buys snowblowers, salt and shovels... :wacko: :wacko:

[NWFDMedic 58]

Swing by your local supermarket tonight. People freak out like they're going to be snowed in for weeks. Blizzard of 96 was a pretty bad one and within 2 days life was pretty much back to normal. Ice storm in New England this year. Thousands still without power, but within a day all major roads were open and two days later just about everything else was open. Life goes on, yet people continue to over react.

Snowstorms don't bother me. Ice storms are a different deal. I was upstate in 1998 and wow, what a mess. When they forecast significant icing, I buy a little bit more when I go grocery shopping. For the snowstorm, my preparation was to find my brush that I took out of the truck in the spring.

[LCFD968 10]

For the snowstorm, my preparation was to find my brush that I took out of the truck in the spring.

LOL... Same here and I can't find mine so I am not prepared YET!!!

[LCFD968 10]

LCFD, wher'd you get that photo? It's that HYSTERICAL terrorist puppet guy, right? LOL!

I KILLLL YOU!!!!

[nycemt728 49]

Totally agreed!!! Snow is snow, the media blows it totally out of proportion!

[PVFD233 68]

It shouldn't be the National Weather Service.. it should be National Dont Have a Clue About Weather Service

Well the NDHCAW just stated about a inch or more a hour....hope thats not the case.

[57truck 1]

The snow is starting to fall @ 4 Dana