Predictions Change For Winter Storm
Forecasters, who originally predicted snowfall totals as high as a foot or more in some parts of the Baltimore area, are revising totals.
Ice is likely to be the problem this week, not snow like last week. Here, a Baltimore County worker operates a snowplow at Pikesville High School on Thursday, Jan. 27. Many schools throughout the county, including private schools, were closed for three days last week—Wednesday through Friday—because of two snowstorms.
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Schools were closed in preparation, but many residents and Patch readers are wondering—where's the snow?
Forecasters, too, have been revising predictions as a low pressure system responsible moves north and takes the warmer temperatures with it. Here is what some Baltimore-area forecasters have been saying on Twitter over the past few days.
John
4:23 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Revised from a foot to 0 inches? I want a job where you can be 150% wrong and no one cares. How much business / money is lost when a city shuts down because of a huge weather event that never happens?
Beverly
4:37 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
I agree but I think it's stupid for the city to shut things down before the storm anyway, knowing how off our weather predictions are...
Jennifer Tanko
5:40 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
I actually find it fascinating that weather is so complex that our contemporary models are still completely off-put by occurrences like this. Considering how far we've come in understand meteorology, it's wild to realize that we still know so little.
Anyways, a Wednesday off without been snowed in? I'll take. :)
Tim
8:30 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
if its a paid day without taking leave, I'm sure it's lovely.
Gigi gafny
7:34 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Very happy I don't have to unstore my equipment. I want to start with spring projects for my loyal customers.
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Gigi gafny
7:34 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Well, already started last week.
Runymede
9:04 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
yeah, one local TV forecaster revised his prediction....two to 10 inches......I guess he was covering his hiney.
bystander
10:38 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Food for thought. A meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere 2 weeks ago and slammed into a town in Russia and the meteorologists had no predictions of it. The world is still very complex.
Tim
12:53 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013
Only because it was too small to meet their previous search parameters.
VVL
10:38 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013
The words "meteor" and "meteorologist" sound similar, so they must be related, right? I'm sure someone who studies atmospheric phenomena should be expected to know the flight paths of rocks in space. Because that's totally what weather forecasting is all about.
ETC
9:13 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013
Like John said, I also want a job where you can be wrong almost everyday and still keep your job. Those of you who have federal jobs and can take "liberal leave" or just take the day off please remember you're the minority, most people live in the real world and are hurt substantially when a whole city shuts down for nothing more than a rain storm, restaurants, retail stores and generally everyone who is in sales suffer.
Loomis
9:24 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013
i would take a bad weather forecast over shoveling snow ANY DAY..thank god they were wrong