We were hoping for the upgrade to the Winter Storm Warning, but some of the models showed lower-than-anticipated liquid precipitation forecasts for our area. Of course we are holding out hope that Berkshire weather headlines go from -TCH to -RNING after the next run of the models later tonight. Our friends in the Adirondacks and Bennington County did get the Warning upgrade, so we're at least in the ballpark.
Not that it matters that much for cancellations and delays because the timing on this one is el stinko. It will likely start after school tomorrow and finish up by 3 or 4 AM on Wednesday. A big hearty "boo" to that.
So, the Staff is not feeling great about this storm. In fact, if we were betting people, and we had to pick Wednesday or Thursday as the better chance for a delay, we would go with Freeze Delay on Thursday. We are definitely not ruling out delays on Wednesday--especially for those schools in higher terrains--but this is not a (fairly) predictable nor'easter-type of storm.
Here are a couple of maps showing the slightly lower confidence with this storm than we saw this morning:
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| Image courtesy of WRGB Albany. |
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| Image courtesy of WNYT Albany. |
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