ORH_wxman

If you can, I’d look into buying a small condo. It sounds daunting at first but the mortgage payment on it would prob be similar to rent you are paying...and at least you’d be building up equity in the condo rather than lighting money on fire each month with rent. Even if it’s a small dumpy little condo that doesn’t seem “worth it” to buy. Still way better than renting assuming you know you’ll be in the area for s few years. You don’t even have to save up a ton either if you have decent credit. You can prob put like 3% down. But anyways, this would allow you to buy a house down the road a lot easier than waiting until 50. You sell that condo after 5-10 years and prob have a 100+ grand pocketed.

GFS still kind of hideous for Sunday. V16 looks a little better.

Prob before yesterday....they are 6.0" above average to date with 32.7".

Keep the block into mid March....that way it will be timed perfectly to change regimes once we get into late Mar/April. The last thing we want is the blocking to break down at the end of February only to return April 5th and then torment us for another 4-6 weeks.

I lived for years (and grew up) on the northern side of the city which is generally pretty nice (and so is the western parts around Tatnuck Square and Worcester St College...straight northern ORH near Indian Hill/Greendale/Burncoat area is a little more blue collar than west side but still pretty nice). But yeah, they never have addressed actual downtown. Hubbdave mentioned how the canal distrcit is making a comeback too which is nice....but this is pretty localized. The new stadium will be near there, so hopefully it helps expand the growth. They really need to revitalize Main Street between like the Police station and Hanover Theater over to Pleasant St south of Park ave. So much of that is still pretty dumpy. They've made slow progress, but there is a ton of potential there.

NNE gets snow from that system too but it's lighter. Prob like 1-2".

The Euro looks a lot like 12/16/07.

Yep, that is a classic higher end warning SWFE look. Absolutel frigid antecedent airmass and the whole system slams into an arctic high situated near CAR or just north of them.

Vday looks a little better on Euro. Maybe like 2-5" type event instead of 1-2" on last night's run....looks best southwest again.

ORH is eventually going to explode in value. They've "skillfully" managed to keep themselves a low-cost dump through the years, but it's becoming hard for even them to stop the tide coming in from the east. It's already getting really expensive in places just east of them like Shrewsbury, Boylston, etc. If they could ever fix the downtown area of ORH, the city real estate is primed to like double or triple in value over the next 2 decades. Biggest problem right now with the city is that the downtown area is still a dump and the places anyone wants to visit with bars/restaurants are usually east of downtown on Shrewsbury street....though it will be interesting to see how the new ballpark for the AAA team changes things.

Euro says congrats hoth to weatherX to snowman21 on 1-2" tonight.

I was back in ORH by 1989....don't worry, I was back here in time to personally witness the historic ORH snow drought....one of my earliest memories though is our pipes bursting in Xmas 1983 in San Antonio. That was an epic cold outbreak.

Ukie has a big one developing on 2/16-17 too. Good antecedent airmass in that setup.

I always said that personal finance/budgets should be a required course in high school....so many have no idea how to manage finances and its what gets people into trouble.

Ukie was decent for Sunday. Like 3-5" for most of SNE, though maybe a few ptype issues far S/SE areas. It also got like an inch or two into SW CT tonight.

GEM is a coastal for 2/16....not a SWFE like GFS/Euro.

Seriously.... Though I've known a lot of people who buy houses a bit our of their income range. They can technically "afford" it, but it's not smart financial planning. Barely scraping by each month. A lot of people do that. The mortgage brokers will finance you up to like 43% of your monthly income. When we were first getting pre-approved years ago and we made a lot less than we do now, I couldn't believe when they were like "yeah, we've pre-approved you up to 500k"....I was like "why in the hell would we take out a 500k loan we can't afford?"......but they only look at pure debt and not recurring large expenses like childcare, etc.

2/17 is not for this thread. Sunday looks like 2-4" on the GGEM

Yeah they are on the edge of SW CT...maybe the northern edge of SW CT if you divide the state into quarters.

You all in SW CT are in the best spot for this one....unlike yesterday. Hopefully you grab a couple

I won't be surprised at a few flakes at all, but I will be surprised if we get 1-2 inches.

Assuming fixed 30 year interest rates remain near 3%, prob a household income around 150k before taxes if you want to keep your mortgage below 25% of your monthly income. But that income threshold can vary depending on how much other debt/expenses you have....for a couple around 30 years old and also each paying 500-700 bucks per month in student loan debt, they couldn't afford it responsibly at 150k combined unless they went all Dave Ramsey on the rest of their budget....they'd prob need another 20-25k per year.

Except for the times they don't and dry arctic air chews it up.

NAM gets some light snow into the south coast area tonight...esp SW CT. As Ryan mentioned yesterday, the SGZ is really deep, so an inch or two of fluff down there can't be ruled out. Best chances are def SW CT....like Greenwich to BDR, but maybe slightly further northeast can get a little too. There's a lot of low level dry air to fight though, so I'd be skeptical north of there.

84h NAM actually looks pretty threatening....but we all know the caveats there. Models are likely going to struggle for several cycles here with handling the PV and the energy rotating around it. Wouldn't surprise me if we aren't really sure on Sunday until pretty close in.