🔴 LIVE - HISTORIC BLIZZARD SLAMMING THE NORTHEAST - WHITEOUT CONDITIONS FROM PHILLY TO NYC_Ryan Hall, Y'all...

[2naSalit]

[SheltieLover]

1. Stay safe all!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. The precip is already almost 4 hours late

Something is happening that they're not picking up on.

Did Trump use his Sharpie?

UPDATE: 1:40PM See? Now they've dropped the total range, it was 16 to 26" now it's 11 to 16". We are making progress!

[GopherGal]

3. A theory comes together.

I believe they mentioned that the NHL players at the Olympics were scheduled to return via New York, but have been re-routed via Miami because of the storm. My tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory is that he Sharpied the storm track to make them come to Merde-a-Lardo.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. That's plausible. But so is the Weather People are hyping the last winter storm for ratings

They love these late winter storms. Last boost to the bottom line until hurricane season in September.

[GopherGal]

5. Well, yes, but I have my own theory about the risk/reward schema for Meteorology.

that doesn't involve much in the way of financial/commercial incentive.

I think their risk/reward is something like:
Predict 6 inches, but actually get 12 = REALLY BAD, as in "you'll never live it down"
Predict 12 inches, but actually get 6 = NOT GOOD, but you can live it down.
So they have a strong aversion to possible under-prediction of snow totals.

For years after the infamous Minnesota "Halloween Blizzard" in 1991, where 12 inches was predicted and 28 inches was received, the TV meteorologists were way over-predicting snowfalls.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. We had one of those in Philly too

Blizzard, closed all the schools, no snow.