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That was a nice band I was hoping it would keep going for awhile.

But that wasn't the most recent forecast; the locals were saying 3-6 our way, 1-3 in the city. Don't think we are getting to 3, let alone past it. It so isn't our year.

Looks to be around 1.5-2. The earlier start didn't seem to help us.

Barely a flake just across the Arthur Kill

Was in New Brunswick around 130 and it was snowing good; soon as I crossed the Driscoll Bridge intensity slacked off; moreover, there was only a dusting covering my footsteps from where I had left them in Woodbridge an hour earlier. This isn't going to cut it. It is snowing lightly and I guess dry air here is the problem, yet again. Models showed the cutoff just east of New Brunswick. For reasons that remain a mystery, this area is still a snow hole ( within a snow hole this year ). And folks, please don't come on here and tell me what I'm looking at. I can see for myself.

Snowing good in New Brunswick right now

People are saying the radar sucks and it’s almost over for us already. What do you think?

Bx, in this polarized age it is impossible. I can't even go for a morning walk in the mall without someone getting in my face to spout political talking points. Can't sit in a diner. I have been accosted by old timers swinging their canes at me in the supermarket.

And yet people here will argue incessantly before every March storm that it could easily be 12-18 inches.....and I get pilloried for pointing out what you just wrote.

Thanks for you input here and your reasoned responses. Much of the jargon here is over my head; I'm in a whole different kind of work. I just met a former student who wants to go into meteorology at Kean; he gets this stuff a lot better than me. Kean, I hear, has a decent undergrad program.

That was unfair to babboons.

It would be a big disappointment and in keeping with the whole winter, north of us or south of us.

I gotta wonder if there's any point to following these models, which seem to cut back as we get closer to the events.

Barely into CNJ....

I see. Given that ours already made the call, it's likely others in the area will follow suit. We had too many kids stuck in Nov. Course my son's first class is a lab at 2:15 at Rutgers, but if things look bad they might cancel pm classes. When I was there decades ago they almost never closed. But then, the weather wasn't as bad.

It is political, because one side made it so. Unlike the anti-vaccine groups, which similarly deny the science but represent a somewhat broader political spectrum, climate change denial is squarely in the realm of one political affiliation, and one that exists in only one country. But climate change science itself isn't political. Even the US military accepts it, and they are hardly tree-hugging libs.

The facts are true whether people believe them or not.

Did your schools announce an early dismissal yet? Many have. Don't want a repeat of last Nov, and they day counts as a full instructional day ( no lunch ).

Ours gets a week in November, NJ has teacher convention, election day, and Veterans Day all in one week. So some districts, many actually, give the week off, and Disney World thanks them for it. The Feb week and even the 4 day Presidents Day is going away due to lots of snow and Sandy over the past decade; schools would be scrambling to make up days. 2010,11, 14, and 15 burned so many snow days we said enough, we don't need to plan days off in mid-winter. Also going away are the Sept Jewish holidays, from when so many staff were Jewish. We haven't had all of them for a few years now. If we don't use any snow days ( hasn't happened in years ) we add em on to Memorial Day weekend. The folks in Maine thank us. So does the shore.

And just like that, the superintendent just called. Early dismissal tomorrow. Not taking any chances.

SOme are, but many districts got rid of winter breaks due to the last decade of snow. We're already talking about an early dismissal.

He said some similarity. Not complete. All storms are singularly unique, so that argument has its limits as well. A few of inches of snow, no matter how or why it gets here, during rush hour, will have the same kind of nasty effects as the storm in November. So there are some similarities. If you've been here awhile, you know my primary interest in weather is in its social impacts. How we get there is much less relevant from a social science point of view. That is the story. Since 2 feet of snow in the higher elevations of ME have minimal social impact, it really isn't news. But 3 inches coming down hard during commuter and school dismissal time is very much a big story. So that is what people need to plan for.

Similar traffic snarls too I'm afraid.

Thanks. I'm in north east Middlsex Co; if TTN flips we usually do not long after. Conversely, snow sometimes doesn't get past TTN much to get here.

What do you think of the warm nose in terms of that TTN to SI line...wouldn't that argue for more sleet to rain?