Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. The storm watches/warnings are now up for the entire NYC metro area. NYC proper, Long Island, and parts of NJ are under blizzard warnings (which requires only that it be snowing and winds of 35mph or greater - whiteout conditions).

Bergen County is expected to get 6-12 inches, which isn’t that much, but it would be the first significant snow of this winter (we’ve only had trace/dustings until now).

Right now, it looks like the real deal snowfall is set to hit around the DC metro area - they’re predicting record snows. The GFS model for snowfall, which the Jeff Masters’ blog embedded suggests that Virginia near DC metro could see 3-4 feet of snow (assuming 10-1 ratio between snow-liquid). That’d be epic snows.

I can handle a foot of snow. I’ve even dealt with 2-3 feet of snow (blizzard of 1993), and more recent storms have dumped 12-18 inches.

3-4 feet? Yeah, that’s a challenge.

And this storm has the potential to affect more than 50 million people from KY/TN through VA on up to CT.

Now, whether this storm lives up to the predictions still has to play out, but when it’s done, we’ll get to compare it to other historic storms