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Presuming you’ll be taking a ferry, maybe this will help https://www.steamshipauthority.com/Henri

huh…funny how close those points and paths are for Fred and Henri as TD’s…just a few days apart

Any reason to expect more than EF1 with this?

Dang, Gloria...had a suspended ceiling fall in on us during that one. Think we got part of the eye too.

By the time you have a guarantee it will be too late. IMO, the real questions to ask yourself are: what is your crop worth, how much of your crop could potentially be saved by doing this, and how much up the shitter you are if you lose it all.

I second this---what a great view from there if it's open!

That's a juiced up looking band at the Worcester / Middlesex County line. Dang!

Central MA, North Worcester: Had just over 3" here at 7:15 am. I shook off some bushes at that time and they are already bending again with new snowfall. My footprints from then are half filled in, so thinking close to 5" total now. Really heavy stuff though--it's compacting a lot. Main roads are melting, but side streets were snow covered this am.

Friend driving from Trumbull area to Hartford said the roads were getting bad about an hour ago. Multiple spinouts.

With that snow / ice ratio, I better hunt down some cramp-ons...

P-Type loop from NWS: https://www.facebook.com/NWSBoston/videos/250196426586620/

Just had a short window of sleet and freezing rain here at the border of N & S Worcester county (~ 900ft.) Railings have a thin glaze, and small icicles on the hood of the car.

Dang, is this right? Don’t remember ever seeing the entire state of TX, and most of LA / MS in a winter storm warning all at the same time

Sleet may be gross, but after 2008 I'm soooo all set with icing! Not long after it gets pretty to look at it gets destructive. I'll never forget the sound of trees snapping in half all night long. 2' of snow is nothing compared to 1" of ice, from that standpoint.

I think that the Main South area is still pretty rough..and some areas in Lincoln St / Lower Burncoat / Vernon Hill. Kind of sounds like a good incentive for moving! I remember having a train yard behind my apartment in Framingham years ago, and the vibrations from the trains felt like heart palpitations. That being said, it was pretty wild to watch them use something that looked like a jet engine to clear snow from the tracks. But yeah, there are a lot of sharky real estate investors, and all it takes is a few other neighbors to sell to them to really change a neighborhood, for better or worse. Being right near the commuter rail, probably a larger residential or mixed use building.

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.