Home with the cold that is ranging though the kids' elementary school, there is great opportunity to do nothing and note nothings. Like the weather as forecast in amazingly accurate detail by the US Weather Service:
SHORT TERM FORECASTThe same warning from Environment Canada is far more general covering a greater time span and the entire geography of the Lower Great Lakes.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
127 PM EST SAT JAN 22 2005NYZ006>008-222026-
JEFFERSON-LEWIS-OSWEGO-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF LOWVILLE...OSWEGO AND WATERTOWN
127 PM EST SAT JAN 22 2005.NOW...
THE SHORT TERM FORECAST FOR THE EASTERN LAKE ONTARIO REGION. AT 120 PM, A LARGE AREA OF SNOW EXTENDED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE REGION. IT IS FORECAST TO REACH THE WATERTOWN AND LOWVILLE AREAS BETWEEN 130 PM AND 145 PM, PHILADELPHIA AND CROGHAN AROUND 2 PM, AND ALEXANDRIA BAY AROUND 215 PM. THE SNOW WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES AND CAUSE NEAR WHITEOUT CONDITIONS, ALONG WITH SNOWFALL RATES OF AN INCH OR MORE PER HOUR POSSIBLE AT TIMES.
Here are two movies of stupifying dullness except that they note the wind coming directly from the east, an unusual event in these parts: #1 [3.8 MB] and #2 [5.6 MB]. Gripping plots in each, I can assure you.
Comments
NYCO - January 22, 2005 5:16 pm
I noticed the snow from the east here from my window earlier today - sufficiently unusual as to make me do a double take.
I'm not sure if you can conceive of the extreme obsession with weather in upstate New York. And Winter is our Super Bowl. I don't know if you've ever seen a typical upstate evening newscast. Not only is the weather coverage copious and constant, but the stations compete with one another to have the best radar gadgets (including ones that predict rainfall on a street-by-street basis - I kid you not) and the biggest and baddest team of weathermen (here, it's the Storm Team versus Wayne Mahar and Doppler the Weather Cat). I think it's like this all over the country but seems particularly crazy here.
Alan - January 22, 2005 6:17 pm
We get the Syracuse channel 3 and that weeather is very good but the Canadian version of the Weather Network is the Lord God of all TV weather news. We do not particularly care in Canada if the weather is bad right here where we are so much as we want to know what it is like in the most godforsaken corner of the land and pretty much adopt that weather as what happened here. I think we really all believe we are on a raft ten miles off shore in Ungava Bay.
Arthur - January 22, 2005 10:04 pm
Hey. That's that storm that's coming our way, no?
Alan - January 22, 2005 10:17 pm
Enjoy.
Arthur - January 22, 2005 10:51 pm
Enjoy.
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