[Rhodes22-list] Weather - I win

[Ronald Lipton]

Sounds like a normal day to me.


Ron
On Jan 23, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Jim Connolly wrote:

> Blizzard Warning
> URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
> NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
> 846 AM EST SUN JAN 23 2005
>
> .THE BLIZZARD OF 2005 IS NOW IN PROGRESS ACROSS PARTS OF COASTAL
> SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND...AS THOSE IN MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND
> ENDURE A STORM COMPARABLE TO THE BLIZZARD OF 78.
>
> THIS STORM IS NOW BLASTING EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...NORTHEAST
> CONNECTICUT AND RHODE ISLAND IN ALL ITS FURY WITH WHITEOUT
> CONDITIONS...TEMPERATURES PLUMMETING INTO THE SINGLE NUMBERS AND
> TEENS...NORTHEAST TO NORTH WINDS OF 50 TO 70 MPH CREATING DRIFTS TO
> AT LEAST 6 FEET...IN EXPOSED AREAS.
>
> TRAVEL IS NOT RECOMMENDED UNTIL SOMETIME LATE TODAY OR TOMORROW...TO
> GIVE CREWS WHICH IN SOME CASES MAY HAVE STOPPED CLEARING ROADS FOR
> SAFETY REASONS...AN OPPORTUNITY TO CLEAR ROADS LATER TODAY WHEN THE
> STORM STARTS MOVING AWAY.
>
> THE STORM AT 8 AM WAS STILL LOCATED ABOUT 50 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF
> NANTUCKET AND WILL END UP DUMPING ABOUT 16 TO 24 INCHES OF SNOW IN
> THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY...20 TO 30 INCHES FROM MANCHESTER AND
> NASHUA NEW HAMPSHIRE THROUGH WORCESTER AND RHODE ISLAND.  THE JACKPOT
> WILL BE EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS WHERE 28 TO 38 INCH AMOUNTS WILL BE
> COMMON.
>
> NANTUCKET WILL END UP WITH LESS SNOW BECAUSE OF ITS WARMER CONDITIONS
> AND CLOSER PROXIMITY TO THE STORM CENTER BUT BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL
> ARRIVE THERE THIS MORNING.
>
> THIS IS LIKELY TO BE A RECORD SETTING SNOWSTORM IN BOSTON WHEN
> COMPARING AGAINST DATA...DATING BACK TO 1892.  FOR PROVIDENCE THIS
> SHOULD BE A TOP 3 SNOW EVENT.  THE 7 AM REPORTS OF 17.8 INCHES AT
> PROVIDENCES TF GREEN AIRPORT AND 19.8 INCHES AT BOSTONS LOGAN AIRPORT
> MAKES THIS THE 6TH WORST SNOWSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND
> INTERSTATE 95 HISTORY DATING BACK TO AT LEAST 1905...AND HEADING FOR
> AT LEAST TOP 3 RANKING BY DAYS END.
>
> BLIZZARD OR NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR ALONG THE COAST AND
> HIGH TERRAIN THIS MORNING AND THEN GRADUALLY RECEDE TO ONLY THE
> IMMEDIATE COAST DURING THE AFTERNOON.
>
> THIS IS A POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION FOR THOSE WHO
> VENTURE OUT DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM THIS MORNING.
>
> AGAIN...TRAVEL IS NOT RECOMMENDED UNTIL LATE TODAY.
>
> IF YOU LEAVE THE SAFETY OF BEING INDOORS...YOU ARE PUTTING YOUR LIFE
> AT RISK.
>
>
> Jim Connolly
> s/v Inisheer
>
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