Just a heads up, and it's almost sure to change...

[redsoxliberal]

But for those of you in the mid-atlantic and northeast, there is the potential for a significant snowstorm Sunday into Monday, depending on location.
Remarkably, there appears to be very good agreement on the major models on the handling of this storm, leading to a higher confidence in at least some event. I don't want to bore everyone with meteoroligical mumbo-jumbo, but basically it looks (and remember this is 6 days away) that cities from Raleigh to Portland could be under the gun for crippling snowfalls. Stay tuned.

[JohnKleeb]

1. ooh please please

We already have a delay in Virginia because of extreme cold.

[NYC Liberal]

2. Delays due to cold?

Wimps! :P

[JohnKleeb]

4. Its true

January 17: All Fairfax County public schools will open two hours late on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 due to predicted severe cold temperatures in the morning. More
Southern and Proud!

[NYC Liberal]

7. How cold is "severe cold"?

[JohnKleeb]

9. it is a whomping 19 degrees right now

with expected negative 5 and negative 15 wind chill in the morning.

[NYC Liberal]

11. 13F here now... -5F windchill.

It's supposed to get down to 10 tomorrow, without windchill.

But I only have school from 12-2. :D

[JohnKleeb]

12. why for only 2 hours?

I dont have school thursday either, and I won't be going Friday.

[NYC Liberal]

16. Finals.

;)

[JohnKleeb]

17. ahhhhh

right

[Donailin]

13. wow, that's insane

I'm in Montgomery county, have you heard anything for us? (Three kids here who would love nothing more during mid-term week)

[JohnKleeb]

15. No, not that I see

Yeah its nearly our end of semester too.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. That's cute!

They're even worse there then here. Here it takes some snow or ice on the roads to cause a delay. With good reason too, these people shouldn't be on the roads before the sand trucks! Woo Hoo! Ice on the roads go real fast then hit your brakes. :P

[Droopy]

3. You can have the snow, John

We already had a full winter's worth here in Ohio in the space of 24 hours right before Christmas. It snowed another couple of inches here the other day. Next time somebody orders snow around here, I'll have them send it your way.

[JohnKleeb]

6. That'd be nice, we're still waitin for a first fall

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. Oh, sure. I believed you LAST time.

:-)

[redsoxliberal]

20. yes... blew that one... keep in mind, this is 5 days away

[JohnKleeb]

21. oh is it?

Well I would like some time off.

[redsoxliberal]

23. it's the type of storm where, if it meets it potential,

you could be talking about nearly a week off.

[JohnKleeb]

26. I just better not slack off and get behind in school work

I am going to be downtown for a couple days starting thursday and I get back home saturday afternoon.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. Any predictions on...

Total accumulations? A possible range?

[redsoxliberal]

22. where do you live?

I could tell you what it looks like now, but it's almost certain to change in the next few days... Suffice it to say, I belive some areas will get slammed (measuring snow in feet,) and it is very possible that those places will be the I-95 cities... the synoptic set up is actually incredibly similar to the Jan 96 blizzard.

[JohnKleeb]

24. January 96 blizzard!?!?

ahh wait nevermind, we had a blizzard of 95 I thikn.

[redsoxliberal]

25. no, it was 96 for you. 2 feet +

[JohnKleeb]

27. yeah thats right, damn poor memory

God was it really nearly 10 years ago that Riggs moved, jebus.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

10. They promise and promise and promise

Just when I buy another four-wheel-drive vehicle,

THEY PULL ME BACK IN.

Lying bastard meteorologists. All I want is a couple of feet of snow, and what do they deliver?

Flurries.

FLURRIES.

Is it too much for me to want the world's biggest snowstorm to start in Alexandria, Virginia and environs at 11 pm on Wednesday and continue for several days?

[Donailin]

18. hey now. . . some of us don't earn if we don't work

snow that brings the economy to a grinding halt -- like two winters ago -- is fun for a day, but not a week, and the DC metropolitan area freaks when it flurries as it is.

However, I do admit, the silence after a major snowfall is practically a spiritual experience.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

29. I understand

OK, a compromise:

How about snow starting at 9 a.m. on Thursday, falling at a record rate for six hours, and then mysteriously melting overnight?

I could be happy watching it all for one day.

See, I got an agenda here .....................

[Donailin]

32. LOL

Don't worry, you'll get some snow to use that 4x4. I have one too and employed it a few times last winter, and last winter was weak on accumulation.

[KG]

19. hello from Florida

:hi:

it sucks here, too. don't move here....

[barackmyworld]

28. omg *please* cancel my final tomorrow

and I will love you forever, snow gods!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

30. The snow gods have spoken

They said, "Go study or you're screwed."

Go study.

And good luck.

[redsoxliberal]

31. it's in like 6 days.