they really botched this call, they were saying 3-6 from the storm way offshore but it turned into a monster and stalled...some places got 2 feet....only 14" here in the Brook.....
Bigtime.
Every forecaster has his/her flub, but I can't recall one this bad in a
long time. I was hoodwinked into believing a storm scooting into the
Atlantic wouldn't produce nearly two feet of snow across the
Commonwealth. And in my defense, that is true in many respects. How many
times has a storm darted southeast of Nantucket leaving us unscathed?
And who would call for those amounts with a storm hundreds of miles offshore?!?
This one was different. We were lulled into believing the storm played
its best hand yesterday: snow fell and melted on contact. Big gaps
opened up and the sun briefly poked out. Stay the course, we thought.
But the storm stalled. Then it hooked into a batch of moisture -
perhaps subtropical - and catapulted it back into Mass. The curtain
closed around 5-6am, the curtain closed, and we were doomed.
Not since Dec. 2005 (a much stronger storm mind you that hit in the
evening rush with gusts near 100mph on Cape Cod) did I scramble to move
the numbers, figure out what was going on, and figure out when it would
end.
Been quite a season.
Anyway the bottom line is the evening drive is much better (but not
perfect) than the AM drive. Snow shuts down from north to south, and we
might even see some sun before it sets.
Weekend is looking much better (give it until noon Saturday before the
wind shut down along the coast/Capes) with sun and milder temperatures.
Stop in and visit me under my rock.
Pete
Thursday, March 21, 2013
2-9-13 Blizzard of 2013
Well we officially got over 22" of snow finally after 2 really lame winters...this winter finally kicked it into gear!!
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