Sunday, January 30, 2011

Storm 2.2 Could Be "Boffo"

The GSD staff is out in central New York doing some field research to get a better sense of the terrain through which our ACs pass. There's some light snow out here, and the snow cover looks eerily similar to the Berkshires'. Shockingly, we've discovered it's snowy and cold out here.

More and more signs are pointing toward an MSE for Wednesday and perhaps into Thursday. The storm will dip down out of the Rockies toward the South and then bend back up toward the Northeast by following the lead blocking of the jet stream. The storm will gain in strength as it sucks in moisture from the Gulf, and then the moisture could be enhanced by the formation of the coastal low on the mid-Atlantic. We've seen this pattern before. The snowfall totals and timing will all depend on the track of the storm. Right now, the jet stream would push a storm out to sea to our south, but the models are showing that the jet stream could shift northward at the beginning of next week, which would mean a major snow or ice event for the Berkshires.

Meteorologist Evan Myers from Accuweather says we could be in store for "another one of those boffo snowstorms." (Watch his very encouraging forecast here.) "Boffo" is a word you don't hear too often these days, but GSD strongly endorses the revitalization of this word, especially as it relates to midweek snowstorms.

We'll post tomorrow to let you know the latest developments.

8 comments:

  1. memo from: Grammar Police, Division of Parallelisms :

    Dear Sir and/or Madame,

    We very much enjoy your Boffo Blog. We would, however, like to call to your attention one missing possessive apostrophe. viz., "There's some light snow out here, and the snow cover looks eerily similar to the Berkshires." (Sorry, would like to italicize preceding quote, but technology to do so is beyond us.) "The Berkshires" should be changed to "The Berkshires' " Thereby, the snow cover OF New York is similar to the snow cover OF The Berkshires. As presented, your sentence draws a comparison between two unlike qualities/items -- that is, "snow cover" (a meterological byproduct and/or compelling artistic subject) is being compared to "The Berkshires" (a geographic region notable for its current need of a/an MSE).

    We are aware of our own foibles and fallibilities, and submit notice of this infraction with the chagrin that derives from knowledge of certain (if inadvertent) hypocrisy.

    We remain, as ever, Yr. Humble Servants, &c., &c., &c.,

    G.P., D.D.P.

    P.S. Gotta love ANY blog that references the good Mr. Eliot!

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    nota bene : "Shockingly, we've discovered its snowy and cold out here." -- "its" = "it's"

    (Also, not in love with the use of a disjunct adverb, but accept it as commonplace, as in the to-us-appalling mis- and over-use of "hopefully" in both speech and writing.)

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  2. Any chance of a two snow days in a row?

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  3. MUST agree with 'Boffo'.....the next 'awesome'?

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  4. AH-hem...

    Updated version of our own previously imperfect citation...

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    memo from: Grammar Police, Division of Parallelisms :

    Dear Sir and/or Madame,

    We very much enjoy your Boffo Blog. We would, however, like to call to your attention one missing possessive apostrophe. viz., "There's some light snow out here, and the snow cover looks eerily similar to the Berkshires." (Sorry, would like to italicize preceding quote, but technology to do so is beyond us.) "The Berkshires." should be changed to "The Berkshires'. " Thereby, the snow cover OF New York is similar to the snow cover OF The Berkshires. As presented, your sentence draws a comparison between two unlike qualities/items -- that is, "snow cover" (a meteorological byproduct and/or compelling artistic subject) is being compared to "The Berkshires" (a geographic region notable for its current need of a/an MSE).

    We are aware of our own foibles and fallibilities, and submit notice of this infraction with the chagrin that derives from knowledge of certain (if inadvertent) hypocrisy.

    We remain, as ever, Yr. Humble Servants, &c., &c., &c.,

    G.P., D.P.

    P.S. Gotta love ANY blog that references the good Mr. Eliot!

    __________________


    nota bene : "Shockingly, we've discovered its snowy and cold out here." -- "its" = "it's"

    (Also, not in love with the use of a disjunct adverb, but accept it as commonplace, as in the to-us-appalling mis- and over-use of "hopefully" in both speech and writing.)

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  5. Wednesday again? What's with the snow on Wednesdays?

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  6. This morning the NWS in Albany so waxed,

    "Our potent significant winter weather event wave was coming ashore
    across northern California this early Sunday morning."

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  7. i think this storm is defiantly going to hit us. we have a good chance that it might. & ive been following weather.com and it looks promising. but i could also be wrong. we'll have to see what happens.

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  8. 10th graders, please cool it with the grammar
    Save it for your research paper

    Yay snow day!! Boffo?

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