Oh my, it's gonna be white.

[jsbowden]

Tomorrow was supposed to be one of those annoying minor events where we get a little snow and rain mix throughout the day. No accumulation.

They keep changing the intensity, duration, and accumulation expectations on us. Currently, we're looking at 12+ inches over a 40 hour period. Oh, and this storm is a nor'easter, so it'll be nice and windy on top of all this.

Yay, weather. My commute's looking like the fun will just never end tomorrow. Assuming I go in. It's set to start around midnight tonight.

Comments

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

As the event gets closer, the models are more able to accurately predict system behaviour. Weather is terrificly dynamic, and the models are really only accurate out to about 12 - 24 hours. After that, it's experience of the forcaster using the model as a guide and making educated guesses. A storm of this magnitude isn't the norm, so the models and the forecasts have been conservative up to now (did I mention, before I lived in NoVA, I worked at NASA LaRC in Atmospheric Sciences, supporting the very systems that recieve and preprocess the NOAA satellite data?) I suspect it's going to be in interesting couple of days.