[Rhodes22-list] Weather - I win

[Steve Alm]

We had that same storm system pound us here in Minneapolis, but the wave
height was still zero.

On 1/23/05 10:10 AM, "Ronald Lipton" <rlipton at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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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