weatherpruf

Anyone do a measurement in Woodbridge area? We were under a heavy band but haven't been for awhile.

Lightened up a lot here.

Coming down nice. Just saw a guy cross country skiing in the local park.

NWS offices haven't really waivered much, while admitting number could be a bit lower in some areas west of the city due to some south and east movement, but not enough for them to change the essential forecast. Guess we will see soon.

Can you elaborate....this still looks like the heaviest stuff is south and east to my untrained eye, and not good for areas like Wayne.

SMH. I'm with you....

Well, Mt Holly did use the " challenging forecast" qualification IIRC in the morning report...

Where do you think we stand here in Middlesex?

Gotta say, some days I never even take em off.....

Paid or free to public?

It's also Saturday night, even if there isn't much to do these days....

I can already see the drop in interest here, unless people are waiting on new models....

That darn weather just won't do what you want it to.....

When i was younger and worked on fishing boats, they were the object of scorn, because blown forecasts can be life-threatening at sea. A wind that is forecast for 10-15 NW but ends up closer to 30 is a big deal a few miles offshore; like wise 10-15 NW that turns out to be 10-15 NE is also a problem. But generally, being a retired government worker, who was paid more than the folks in the private sector for my particular field ( though there was a ceiling to the salary that doesn't exist in the private sector, theoretically...) I have a high opinion of pubic servants, including the NWS.

The field does attract some strange characters, then again you will see this in every field; I've seen dog evolutionists argue about the origins of the dog like it was crossfire....calling each other stupid and idiots and all. These are PhDs.....

Ok but I'm not NYC or LI...I'm a bit SW of the city across from SI. Southern and eastern storms tend to leave us with scraps, as do NW ones for that matter. It's hard to say which is better for us, though in setups like the last one we still do a lot better than the shore. 19 inches reported here ( sleeted for hours ) so not the NW totals but much higher than SE areas.

Yours or ours? You are still Mt Holly right?

Well they have caused near panic in the tristate area once again. I couldn't get prescriptions this afternoon; drive up line was too long. left after 20 mins. Couldn't get curbside at Sam's because all the regular shoppers took the curbside spots. Reports in media kept calling for intense bands during the day; in the AM they were going 5-9. That is all people needed to hear. It's a Sunday anyway so a bust doesn't mean much. But, c'mon....I don't really care about the inconvenience; I'm retired and will have the spots to myself Monday morning. But i do get tired of the media panic, and now want to go 2-4?

He doesn't seem that far off from other forecasts or am I reading it properly? Looks like 4 for the area, on the lower range but I've been hearing 3-6 all day.

Oh ok, that's supposed to be rain for a lot of us so far.

Heh we've had some classic posters in the past, Mulan, Pamela....well I think the latter was banned but Mulan moved to FL. Hope he's ok. A few years down there you forget all about snow.

Just cause it likes to snow there? Anyway, those are some serious amounts for ELI and CT...doubt that verifies. They seem to think this one can over perform? That's my unprofessional guess....

I'm still mighty sore from Monday's event. But I'll gladly take a nice walk in a moderate snow in the morning. Can someone tell me what the devil a jebwalk is?

Not me. In 6 months I hope to be back at some fishing. Will be hoping for sunny skies, low humidity and moderate temps. But, I will likely have none of those, because it's NJ....heat, humidity, t-storms....

An excellent discussion laying out their reasoning.