Weather People on their ‘high’s’….
The weather ‘models’ call for anything from 4″ to 18″…..
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The blizzard warnings were in place for nearly 20 million people from Sunday morning until Monday afternoon, with the heaviest snowfall — one to two inches per hour, if not more — expected by Sunday night, the Weather Service said.
Forecasters warned travel will be “dangerous, if not impossible” on roads, as it became clear that the Monday morning and evening commutes will be messy in the big cities, from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia, to New York City to Boston.
It’s the first blizzard warning in Manhattan in nine years.
This is the first blizzard warning issued for New York City since 2017, according to the Weather Service.
There was also a blizzard warning for the city the year before, in 2016, when a record-breaking snowstorm dumped an accumulated 27.5 inches of snow onto Central Park — the largest since records began in 1869.
The city has not experienced near-blizzard conditions in four years. But in the coming days, New York City as well as Long Island and coastal Connecticut could get 13 to 18 inches, or more, of accumulated snow, the Weather Service said….
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Blizzard warnings were issued Saturday for New York City, New Jersey and coastal communities along the East Coast as a late-winter storm set to arrive on Sunday threatened to make a mess of the start of a new week.
The National Weather Service increased its assessment of the potential severity of a storm that was projected to be less ferocious only days earlier.
The weather service said 1 to 2 feet (about 30 to 61 centimeters) of snow was possible in many areas as it issued blizzard warnings for New York City, Long Island, southern Connecticut and coastal communities in New Jersey and Delaware. Flooding was also possible in parts of New York and New Jersey, the weather service said.
“While we do get plenty of these nor’easters that produce heavy snow and strong impacts, it’s been several years since we saw one of this magnitude across this large of a region in this very populated part of the country,” said Cody Snell, a meteorologist at the service’s Weather Prediction Center
Snell said the storm will arrive Sunday morning in areas around Washington, D.C. before stretching toward Philadelphia and New York City and reaching Boston late Monday evening.
The weather service said the storm could begin as rainfall in some places before worsening, with the heaviest snowfall expected Sunday night and as much as 2 inches (5 centimeters) of snow an hour at times in some areas before tampering off by Monday afternoon.
The weather service warned that the storm, with steady winds of 25 to 35 mph (40 to 56 kph) would “make travel dangerous, if not impossible. Scattered downed tree limbs and power outages possible due to snow load and strong winds.”….
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