The New York City Tri-State area is in for a bomb storm this weekend. The amount of snow that the city and surrounding area will see is still up in the air. It was a big time.
The internet is currently filled with forecasts of 2 inches to 20 inches of snow, which means either minimal hassle or everything will shut down, followed by a week of wallowing in gray slush for the next week. New York City is on the edge of the forecast, which is the biggest uncertainty.
The wildly diverging forecast has to do with how much data is available. When they are able to give more accurate information about snowfall totals than dusting to snow, they start making predictions a few days before the storm.
Nelson Vaz, a meteorologist with the New York office of the National Weather Service, said there are a lot of different pieces of energy that are coming together to develop the storm.
A series of storms will hit the Pacific Northwest on Thursday. They will ride the jet stream across the U.S., take a turn down to the Southeast and then emerge over the Atlantic near the Carolinas. There, the systems will spin up into a storm that will wrap around a cold core and hit the eastern seaboard.
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