UGGHHHH

I woke up too late to write an extended piece on this storm! Too bad because it is very interesting. Basically, we are used to seeing storms track up the east coast and you always hear that if it stays far enough to the east, we get snow. Closer to the coast, we get rain.

This storm is going to get VERY big in Long Island Sound and provide Philly, NJ and even NYC with some good snow totals. So you would expect us to get snow too right? Wrong. This storm is going to stop all northern movement and actually get "sucked" back west by our little stalled out upper level Low. Very unusual. Because it of this, the storm actually makes a 90 degree turn and tracks up the Hudson river valley leaving all everything to the east of that point on the warm easterly flow of the storm. Lots of rain. And I do mean lots.

We will see big time downpours later on this evening. Anywhere from 5-7pm. Could even get some thunder as this storm really deepens. Winds will be very strong too. Anywhere that got snow yesterday runs the risk of some serious flooding as they will get heavy rain today.

To the west of the Hudson and also at higher elevations in western Mass, they are going to get a big time blizzard. Upwards of 1-2 feet with strong winds for upstate NY and the Green mountains in VT. We miss out again.

This storm then makes another odd move. It essentially dissipates over us. It goes from being a very strong storm to a storm that is lacking energy in a matter of 24 hours. It doesn't really move, it just dies. Most of that energy gets transfered to the upper level low which means instability for us on Friday and Saturday. Upper level storms are tricky, but essentially we could see snow showers or flurries break out at any point on both days as the cold air will be back in place.

I guess this was a long post. I am going to be late for work now. I wish people who came in for running shoes like to talk about the weather. Everybody loves to make comments about how crappy it is or about how they heard it was suppose to rain or snow, but when I get excited and start to go into details about it, they mostly just look at me like I am crazy and some sort of nerd. Bastards.