I hate March! Winter Storm headed toward Boston

[Kathy in Cambridge]

:wtf:

We haven't had a snowstorm since early December! We are expecting 6-12" IN THE CITY and more in the 'burbs. It's supposed to snow through tomorrow evening. We usually escape big snow totals right along the coast. The trees are budding, the crocuses are coming up, and they'll be buried under a blanket of snow. :-(

Well, at least it will keep the amateur drunks inside for St. Patrick's Day.

[stepnw1f]

1. I love The Snow

Then again, I'm unemployed, so I don't have to commute. I love Boston!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. I'm unemployed too-and it stops me from going about my business

I love Boston too-just not the weather! We may have beach weather next week, ya never know.

[stepnw1f]

5. Weather In Boston

has always been irradic. I stil remember the Blizzard of '72. I was a kid of course, but wow!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

7. How about the April Fool's Blizzard-April 1, 1997?

I was working for a company with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. They called the Boston office and no one answered, and they thought we were playing an April Fool's joke. We weren't-we got 18" of snow, and the subway closed down.

The funny thing was: the week before the storm, it was 80 degrees, and I was sitting in my backyard drinking margaritas.

Crazy Boston weather..
:crazy:

[stepnw1f]

9. Oh Yeah!

That was a wild one.

[welshTerrier2]

16. We got 3 feet that day

i took a yard stick and poked it into the snow on my driveway ...

poof ... it disappeared ...

i love the snow ... the more the merrier ... people around here are absurd ... all the supermarkets get crowded as hell every time it snows ... do they think the roads will be shut down for weeks ???

[Kathy in Cambridge]

17. You're out there in the Metrowest snow belt

you usually get clobbered!

[mr_hat]

2. We got ours yesterday. 18" in western IA; about 7 here.

[LuLu550]

3. you should know by now

that we in the Northeast always get hit with a whopper storm in March...we're expecting even more there in ALbany, NY!

[mdmc]

22. Hudson Valley, NY'er here!

I have family, friends in Capital City! :kick:

[NightTrain]

6. Sucks, doesn't it?

And as if that weren't enough, we may get another fucking snowstorm on Friday--the day I was supposed to drive 300 miles to Pennsylvania so that Lisa (liberalhistorian) and I could finally meet. Looks like it ain't gonna happen now! Of course, it also doesn't help that Lisa just found out she's losing her job, but that's a whole other rant.

Whenever things start to look up for me, something worse always happens to fuck it up! It never fails. ;(

[madrchsod]

8. she`s losing her job

that sucks, i haven`t noticed her post lately but maybe i just missed her. maybe you`ll get lucky and it won`t snow...

[papau]

10. Same boat - I leave early AM to DC, -come back Sun so I miss the

Boston Thursday/Friday storm.

But I dread tomorrow and the snow plow barrier that with 12 to 16 inches will be about 3 feet of heavy wet snow.

:-(

[Kathy in Cambridge]

11. I put away my winter boots-what was I thinking?

There's nothing like trudging through the city streets because people are too freakin' lazy to shovel their sidewalks.

[papau]

25. A week from now it will be melted!

sigh ....

:-)

18 inches fell Monday in one isolated area, around Sioux City - but other areas are getting 4 to 6 inches - or a "dusting"

A fast moving storm - I just hope it does not "stall" over Cape Cod.

[LuLu550]

It just started snowing here...

Two of our schools have one snow day left, but one of them has no days left because it had to be shut down once because of a boiler malfunction. If we call a snow day for tomorrow, they will have to give back a day over spring break.....wonder how many people will actually show up?

[meegbear]

12. Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

...CENTRAL MIDDLESEX COUNTY MA-CHESHIRE NH-EASTERN ESSEX MA- EASTERN FRANKLIN MA-EASTERN HAMPDEN MA-EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH NH-EASTERN KENT RI-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-HARTFORD CT-NORTHERN BRISTOL MA- NORTHERN WORCESTER MA-NORTHWEST MIDDLESEX COUNTY MA- NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA- SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-SUFFOLK MA-TOLLAND CT- WESTERN AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH NH-WESTERN ESSEX MA- WESTERN FRANKLIN MA-WESTERN HAMPDEN MA-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- WESTERN KENT RI-WESTERN NORFOLK MA-WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-WINDHAM CT- 1117 AM EST TUE MAR 16 2004
... WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EST WEDNESDAY FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND EXCEPT THE SOUTH COAST OF RHODE ISLAND AND MASSACHUSETTS...

THE WINTER STORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT... NORTHERN AND CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND AND MOST OF MASSACHUSETTS. THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE CITIES OF HARTFORD... SPRINGFIELD... WORCESTER ... BOSTON... MANCHESTER AND PROVIDENCE.

SNOW WILL BEGIN IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT BETWEEN 1230 PM AND 2 PM AND THEN OVERSPREAD THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA BETWEEN 130 PM AND 430 PM.

IT SHOULD QUICKLY BECOME HEAVY WITHIN AN HOUR OR SO OF THE FIRST FLAKES FALLING. ANY MELTING ON PAVEMENT WILL BE QUICKLY OVERCOME BY 1 INCH PER HOUR SNOWFALL RATES AND TEMPERATURES FALLING 5 DEGREES FROM THE MIDDAY READINGS... TO FREEZING OR BELOW.

THIS WILL RESULT IN TREACHEROUS TRAVELING CONDITIONS FOR SEVERAL HOURS CENTERED ON THIS EVENINGS RUSH HOUR THROUGH ALL OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND.

THE HEAVY SNOW WILL EASE RAPIDLY BETWEEN 930 PM AND 130 AM.

FROM HARTFORD TO WORCESTER... PROVIDENCE AND BOSTON... SNOW IS EXPECTED TO MIX WITH SLEET FOR A TIME LATER TONIGHT... BEFORE CHANGING BACK TO SNOW WEDNESDAY MORNING.

IN GENERAL A WIDESPREAD 5 TO 10 INCH SNOWFALL WILL OCCUR WITH A FEW 1 FOOT AMOUNTS POSSIBLE NEAR THE MASSACHUSETTS NEW HAMPSHIRE BORDER BY MIDDAY WEDNESDAY. FOUR TO 8 INCHES IS FORECAST FROM NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT TO NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND AND SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS WHERE A LITTLE SLEET IS EXPECTED TONIGHT.

ALTHOUGH SNOW IS EXPECTED TO LAST INTO WEDNESDAY... THE MAIN BRUNT OF THIS STORM WILL OCCUR DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING COMMUTE... WITH SNOW COVERED ROADWAYS AND POOR VISIBILITY....

[Kathy in Cambridge]

15. My parents left for FL this morning. Boy am I jealous!

[meegbear]

18. Is Channel 7 doing

DEATH STORM '04!

wall to wall coverage yet?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

20. YES! No Todd Gross yet though!

[Mass_Liberal]

32. please

let that all be true. If we get 5 inches, and it sticks..... that means I get a snow day. Pleeeeease.

[skippysmom]

13. Argh

I hate winter. We just got back from a week in Arizona where it was 90 every day. And now this. I was really hoping spring was actually going to happen here this year.

Thankfully the Cape is supposed to get less than Boston -- for a change. It seems that so many storms lately have been coastal.

And thankfully I didn't put my winter clothes away yet.

[Dogmudgeon]

14. Envious

I love snow.

Here, in the Normally Colder Northern Suburbs of Philadelphia, we're due for about three inches.

Maybe I'll put on some Christmas music this afternoon.

--bkl

[LuLu550]

19. started snowing a half hour ago

now it's a freaking blizzard out there! Run away! Run away!

[mdmc]

21. lol

We have an anti smoking law in NYS that, according to the bartenders, is keeping the drunks home!

6 inches of powder expected in the Hudson Valley.

[DS1]

23. I'm not panicking yet, go to weather.com and watch the animated map

It's coming more from the south with warmer skies than from Canada/NY State.

The weathermen here are a bunch of self-inflating Assholes trying to scare people into the supermarkets anyway.

I hereby predict a dusting north of the Mass Pike, max 4 inches.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

26. I hope you're right, Martin

They do love to scare the hell out of people. It's too warm to snow in Boston-hopefully it will be a 'rain event', as the weatherman like to say.

[DS1]

27. Have faith in the big D

*gawd I hope I'm not wrong* but - watch this

http://www.weather.com/outlook/driving/map/01701?from=LAPmaps&name=index_large_animated&day=1

See how it's moving parallel to the coast? This means A) It's not picking up more moisture from the ocean to dump - B) It's hopefully petering out over Connecticutt and C) they aren't clouds from colder northern areas. Also note the gap of light cloud coverage that's sailing over Metrowest then Boston.

Here's the same map over Trenton NJ

http://www.weather.com/outlook/driving/map/08601?from=LAPmaps&name=index_large_animated&day=1

See how far it's moving in the span of an hour? And it's almost halfway over us so far, and here in Framingham I haven't seen anything yet...

*crosses fingers - stands by his claim - 4 inches max*

[av8rdave]

24. I gotta layover there next week....

Try to have the snow gone by then, ok?

av8rdave

[Kathy in Cambridge]

28. It's really coming down now

and our evening news is "March Madness"-all storm all the time!

:eyes:

[DS1]

29. We've got one inch in Framingham

and this storm is 2/3rds complete.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. You can take it. It's finally leaving Michigan. I've been depressed all

day about it. My lilacs were just beginning to bud...:(

[Mass_Liberal]

31. Then how come I ain't gettin a snowday

ARRRRRRRGGGG!!!!!!!! !!!! Why can't they give me a damn snowday???

[boobooday]

33. We just had snow -- and it is Spring Break

It happens every year, just when my daffodils start to peek up.

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