Greetings! The next few days will be very exciting as--it's official!--Winter Storm Diamond* gets ready to obliterate our region with snow. Technically, she's not a real thing yet as the two low pressure systems that we have been talking about will not converge until some time tomorrow.
The good news is that we have a Winter Storm Watch already. Forty-eight hours in front of the event suggests certainty from NOAA that we don't always see. We do expect the Watch will be upgraded to a Warning some time tomorrow. We don't think we'll see a Blizzard Warning but one never knows.
Currently, the Watch is from 6 am Friday to 6 am Saturday. While we love the fact that the NWS is predicting 9 or more inches, we're less enthused about the timing of the storm now. Still, the storm is definitely within the "cancel school" window and, again, we've been feeling confident about this storm since its inception.
Much more to follow later today, and right now we see no reason not to be confident about a cancellation for Friday.
*We have our own storm naming process, which is different from the Weather Channel's. The Weather Channel has decided to go with Nemo.
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