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Agreed--what you see when you drive through downtown on the highway is a combination of heavy industrial uses, and dense multi family properties that have generally been poorly maintained. It's too bad though. The city has several noteworthy universities, good highway access, and a growing medical and technology presence. Shrewsbury St seems to have pulled off a fairly cohesive uplift, and there are still some nicer residential areas on the periphery of the city. I've seen quite a bit of investment in renovating homes in these neighborhoods, but the residential areas downtown are so hard to resolve without dealing with genuine issues of poverty there. Hopefully they will incorporate meaningful neighborhood improvements when building the ballpark. Wonder what happens with real estate if enough people from Boston / Metrowest shift to remote working long term...

It looks like I-190 / I-395 beltway is heading in the direction of what I-495 beltway used to be, and worth looking at in terms of investment over time. Worcester has been trying to revamp itself as far as an urban area, and the nearby towns are worth looking into. Even in this area, a 1000 SF home in good condition can be priced close to $300K right now. You can so quickly get into a world of hurt if you buy a home near the top of what the bank is willing to lend you. S&**T happens, life happens, and real life is way more expensive than the formula the bank uses. I'm thankful I was so conservative, and I sleep much better at night.

Agreed! Was surprised that they upgraded again this morning.

Pretty healthy looking flakes here now. The road is getting a good coating.

From shadows to sugar like snow in Central MA. That's a pretty nice band in central NY on radar!

The sun is casting shadows right now in ORH area...

Blockbuster storms are dramatic and exciting, but there’s a quiet beauty with the tranquility of today’s storm in central MA. There’s a stillness out there...snow holding on every surface. One of the most lovely storms in recent memory.

Says someone who doesn't have kids that would have yet another "remote learning snow day" on Monday? Kiddo has only been in school about 20 days since last March, so fingers crossed for a Sunday event!

The nice thing about GIS is that it is a cross-disciplinary skill set. If it didn't work out in the meteorology, there are still numerous other fields that are making use of GIS technology. Most BA programs allow you to tailor classes for a concentration or minor if you want to incorporate that as well. Just pick a school with a good program for both fields.

Thanks for this post, and link to the WAPO article--guess I haven't been imagining this, then! The tiled radar layer is just painful to watch load. The radar.weather.gov server may not be the issue since it loads the ArcGIS base maps fairly quickly. But the radar layer is served up by the open data server at NOAA--so this is probably the bottleneck. Regardless, the deprecation of Flash has been pretty obvious for years. There was more than enough time to budget for and develop a suitable replacement.

Driveway was plowed at 10pm...looks like we had quite a bit of additional snow and drifting overnight. Good news is that main road is now down to pavement. 3' drifts along the 4' chain link fence. Wish I could get a photo of the fence drifts, but it's in the neighbors yard and it would be a bit creepy to do that.

I’m at the border of northern and southern Worcester county, and it must have pounded snow here overnight. At 10pm my front walk was shoveled, and the path isn’t there at all now. Really hard to measure with the drifting—but the 5’ tall snowdrift along my stockade fence usually only happens if there’s close to 20”. The screens on the eastern and southern side windows are pasted with snow. I live on a generally well maintained, major artery—while it’s plowed it still has a pretty heavy snowpack. Great nor’easter for central MA—sorry so many busted out. (Former lurker at Weather Underground...great to find an active local wx board!)