Beastly bomb cyclone blasting Northeast with widespread blizzard conditions, knocking out power and burying towns
Source: CNN
• Whiteout conditions ongoing: A high-impact bomb cyclone is slamming the Northeast with near hurricane-force wind gusts and extreme snowfall rates, knocking out power and making travel impossible. Over 40 million people are under blizzard warnings.
• Snow piling up: Over 2 feet of snow has fallen so far, with a foot reported in at least seven states. It’s the biggest snowstorm in years for New York City and Philadelphia. Heavy snow started pushing deeper into New England Monday morning.
• Northeast shut down: Treacherous conditions paused public transit, forced travel bans and prompted warnings to stay off roads. More than 10,000 flights have been canceled , according to FlightAware.
• State of emergency in NYC: A citywide travel ban is in effect until noon and the city canceled school Monday, its first proper snow day since 2019.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/blizzard-snow-nyc-storm-forecast-02-22-26
Over 2 feet so far in my Staten Island! Are we serious?!?
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Lucky you! 
I'll take it!
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which I attribute to mild-to-moderate wind speeds.
rockantion
Saturday night was very windy, with a lot of power lines down. But only 1 or 2 inches of snow, that was it. The real damage was east of us, heading northeast.
We all know how popular it is to grouse about weather predictions that don't come as expected. But meteorologists aren't a bunch of hucksters out to deceive, nor are they making snap forecasts so they can punch out at 5. They do the best they can with what they've got and they got this one right 
. According to NOAA they get it right 80-90 percent of the time, depending on the number of days being predicted (and sure they may be a little biased ). Not bad odds.
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/k-12-education/weather-forecasting/how-reliable-are-weather-forecasts
Now that our current regime is trying to diminish weather and climate science, it's good to know there are people in still in place who do their best to keep folks safe.
As a side note, this was an early test for Mayor Mamdani. I don't live in NYC, but I just saw some of a press conference and everyone looks like they're on it. Schools will be open tomorrow. Sorry kids!
Stay safe and heed the weatherpeople!
On Friday, I threw a farewell party to the the snowdrift that had been on my front porch since late last month by impregnating it with a champagne bottle -- a few days more, and it could have claimed squatter's rights. The storm that caused it didn't scare me, though: the snow that fell was mainly vertical.
This storm's snow was diagonal and mainly large flakes because the temperature didn't get below freezing until this morning. And in both cases, wind speed was not a factor like with Hurricane Sandy -- I heard only one example of what I would describe as a gust.
There was therefore no reason to fear a power failure, and lord knows I have enough to eat, drink, and do until Saturday, which is forecast to be sunny and 50 degrees -- to the beach, y'all!
Rocknation
