O Sweet Relief! -- The Midweek Snow Day

Break out the tubes, boys and girls, because you will be enjoying a midweek holiday. Throw in the three-day weekend coming up, and you are sitting on Easy Street. Assuming your teachers are followers of GSD, they DID have ample time to tack on some extra work for Thursday--so that might be working against you--but it's your loss and their gain if they didn't.

Here's the skinny: 8-14 inches with the snow starting around midnight. It should end fairly quickly sometime in the early to mid-afternoon on Wednesday. (Don't even go there...we will not be having a two-day snow day.) Bobby K over at Channel 13 has us at 10+, Accuweather has bumped us to 6-12", and the NWS Winter Storm Warning that came in at 3:47 am at 6-12" has since been bumped to 8-16". Even a blind man just off the boat from Papua New Guinea could make this call.

You might check in before you hit the sack just in case GSD has had to hit the panic button. But, really, you shouldn't sweat this one at all. Enjoy!

Life is Good...

Three words...Winter Storm Warning.

9+ inches; perfect timing. Make sure you get the work you'll need on Thursday.

This Indecision's Bugging Me

Continuing the boyfriend/girlfriend metaphor of the previous posting...well, The Clash are playing in the background, she's actively flirting with the guy/girl across the eastern part of the room, and we at GSD do not like it one single bit. (For goodness sakes let's hope they don't start dancing MG style. Cover your eyes, children.)

Here's what we like about Wednesday's storm:

1) The NWS Storm Watch starts at midnight Tues/Wed--perfect timing.
2) Channel 13 has Northern Berkshire down for 6-10 inches.
3) Storm models for our area tend to come on strong initially, indicate a weakening, and then revert back to a strong forecast ("strong" as in lots of snow). We're in the weakening stage.
4) Fairly easy call for the Super if it's snowing at 5:00 am.
5) It's colder than Grinch's pre-epiphany heart.
6) It will snow--guaranteed.
7) Forecasters misidentified the main snow belt from last storm's Norlun trough, missing it by 150 miles. (This could also be a "don't like.")

Here's what we don't like:

1) The two combining lows are supposed to come together too far off the coast to get us over 6".
2) Accuweather has North Berkshire down for 3-6". Gulp.
3) The southern low does not have that much moisture with it.
4) A look at the current radar shows the split (see paragraph 2) is very much in play.
5) Numbers 5-7 above are rationalizations to make the "likes" list look longer.

That's all for tonight. More updates throughout the day tomorrow. Again, GSD is still leaning toward a snow day but without the unbridled gusto we had on Sunday.