Warning Ends, Snow Showers now, and again on Wednesday

Lovee Lily????? She retired as CHS Principal in 2013. Ms. Aaron is Principal and has been since 2014.

weirdbeard said:

oakland2 said:

meganlibrarian said:

School's cancelled for tomorrow. Time for the kids to rejoice!

For which town? I'm in SOMA and haven't gotten any calls (yet)....

The email from SOMSD arrived in my inbox at 1:15pm.

Yep. SOMSD. I'm a bit surprised that they didn't do a robocall, as well. I suspect it will come at some point, but it usually precedes the email.

Jude said:

Lovee Lily????? She retired as CHS Principal in 2013. Ms. Aaron is Principal and has been since 2014.

Aware! I think maybe that's the way it was saved in my contacts a long time ago.

Sounds like snowblower round one at 8 am.

Round two around noon.

Final round when it's done.

Someone please tell South Orange that winter storms do not have names.

mrincredible said:

Sounds like snowblower round one at 8 am.

Round two around noon.

Final round when it's done.

I think it depends on when we have the high winds. High winds=no point to shoveling (especially if it's light and fluffy).

max_weisenfeld said:

Someone please tell South Orange that winter storms do not have names.

And Maplewood:

https://maplewood.worldwebs.com/forums/discussion/winter-storm-stella-update-1?page=next&limit=0#discussion-replies-3342302

I went to fill up the car with gas and was going to call in at Trader Joe's to buy some bread on the way home as I was totally out of it (and we don't have gas for cooking....when the power goes out we can't cook anything at all, unless we dig out the barbecue grill). It was crazy in the parking lots (lower and upper levels) and cars were parked on the side road (Myrtle?) with what I presume were Trader Joe's shoppers.

I didn't even get out of the car, I made an exit after driving out via the medical offices/CVS and went to ShopRite in Millburn instead. It was fairly busy, but quite civilised in there.

Forecast remains on track as models continue to consolidate around a potentially historic storm. The internet weather weenies are so excited they are crashing their message board servers. At this point, the details will be coming in the nowcasting tonight and tomorrow, but the question at hand is what two digit number of inches we will get, not if we will get a storm.

sprout said:

max_weisenfeld said:

Someone please tell South Orange that winter storms do not have names.

And Maplewood:

https://maplewood.worldwebs.com/forums/discussion/winter-storm-stella-update-1?page=next&limit=0#discussion-replies-3342302

I feel like we are losing this battle to The Weather Channel.

it's no using fighting the name thing. The weather channel will win.

Anyway, it kind of makes sense, and it makes it easier to talk about past storms.

drummerboy said:

it's no using fighting the name thing. The weather channel will win.

Anyway, it kind of makes sense, and it makes it easier to talk about past storms.

Apostate.

mrincredible said:

drummerboy said:

it's no using fighting the name thing. The weather channel will win.

Anyway, it kind of makes sense, and it makes it easier to talk about past storms.

Apostate.

It's only easier if you agree to use the names. And I refuse to do that.

tom said:

mrincredible said:

drummerboy said:

it's no using fighting the name thing. The weather channel will win.

Anyway, it kind of makes sense, and it makes it easier to talk about past storms.

Apostate.

It's only easier if you agree to use the names. And I refuse to do that.

Testify!

Just got a call from my coworkers that unless the storm blows over tomorrow the South Orange library will be closed

@librarylady the SOPL won't open tomorrow. (trust me)

Hope so , annesimms..

Here's the pic that goes with the article about the (unnamed) Blizzard of 1888.

librarylady said:

Hope so , annesimms..

Naming winter storms makes no sense scientifically. There is no agreed upon criteria for naming them. Tropical cyclones are discrete, single source systems that can be tracked for days or weeks. A storm like this has componant parts that come together over time. When and by what standard does it deserve a name? Why don't they name the ones that stay out to sea? Or the ones that only hit Canada? The naming of tropical cyclones is by hemisphere. Are they naming the system in California? When the PAC stream of this storm passed through California, was it part of that system? If so, is it still? Do we call this system and that system the same, even though they are both current and happening at the same time but 3000 miles apart?

As you can see, there are a couple of issues with naming winter storms.

details, details.

I've got three pints of the good stuff.

mrincredible said:

That may not be enough.

How much syrup?

drummerboy said:

I don't care what it is. I'm not leaving the house til it melts. I've got french toast supplies for a week.

dano said:

lazydog said:

anyone know if this will be the light, fluffy, stuff, or wet and heavy ?

Dear lord I hope it's just fluffy ;(

Agreed and no self-respecting meteorologist will either

tom said:

mrincredible said:

drummerboy said:

it's no using fighting the name thing. The weather channel will win.

Anyway, it kind of makes sense, and it makes it easier to talk about past storms.

Apostate.

It's only easier if you agree to use the names. And I refuse to do that.

I feel sad for the poor sheep and pigs. At 7 PM I ran over to Home Depot to buy bird seed. The place was mobbed by people picking up shovels and ice melt.

librarylady said:

Hope so , annesimms..

for the door:

Snow has overspread eastern PA and will be entering our area after 1:00 am.

Heavy snow will quickly develop throughout the area, with average accumulations of 2"+ an hour from start until early morning Tuesday. We could see 10" by daybreak. Steady winds of 15 - 25 mph throughout the day (with gusts up to 40 mph all day) will start out from the northeast and gradually swing round to the north and then northwest by the end of the day. Snow, heavy at times, continues at least into the early afternoon. Total accumulation by evening in the 18 - 24" range.

There is still some disagreement in the models, as is normal with storms like this, over the exact track of the storm. This affects us two ways. The one that matters is the freeze line. there is some possibility, if the storm continues to shift west as it has been the last few runs, that we could get some mixing at the end of the storm Tuesday afternoon. While this would depress snow totals, it will replace them with sleet. I still don't think ice accumulation is a serious possibility, especially at the rate the temperature is dropping now at the surface and aloft means no mixing at the outset. But sleet at the end means a difficult clean up as the snow will be wet and heavy. Also there is a likelihood the top layer will then freeze into a hard crust, which does not help either.

Snow showers are possible throughout Wednesday, and new accumulation of another inch is possible.

Blizzard Warning from midnight tonight until midnight tomorrow. Details remain essentially the same as above.

Stay home. Stay safe. Enjoy the show.

Most recent snow map:

You can see in the map above how the edge of the snowfield has moved west over the last 24 hours. this next map shows the amount of water expected (as if everything fell as rain). You can see that the east end is getting the same water as us, but more sleet and rain so less inches of snow:

But very little ice anywhere. Rain and sleet into snow = clogged snowblower.

Sweetsnuggles said:

At 7 PM I ran over to Home Depot to buy bird seed. The place was mobbed by people picking up shovels and ice melt.

At 9pm tonight my husband asked me if I could pick up a few bags of salt for the model railroad club (he's in charge of buildings and grounds). People have gotten divorced for less...