New York City Winter Storm - Monday
Snow is finally developing in the tri-state and we could pick up 3 to 7 inches by Monday night. Although, I can't see how that is possible at this point as the radar looks pretty broken up and it looks like the bulk of the storm has passed.The National Weather Service had issued 50 snow advisories, winter storm warnings, winter storm watches and winter weather advisories for New Jersey, southern New York, Fairfield County in Connecticut and far eastern Pennsylvania. We are most likely looking at four to six inches of snow by midday on Monday with locally heavier amounts north and west. Bloomberg has suspended alternate side of the street parking was suspended for Monday to facilitate snow removal.
JetBlue also canceled 30 Monday morning flights from JFK airport. The airline is still recovering from a spate of canceled flights during the New York area's last bout with bad weather.
Central Mozambique was inundated with flooding rains and heavy winds as Cyclone Favio swept ashore. Favio had sustained winds of 125 mph. A second storm, Cyclone Gamede, churned in the Indian Ocean northeast of Madagascar and threatened to make landfall in the same area on Friday. The cyclone hit an area already flooded by torrential rains that have drenched central Mozambique since January. Forecasters said Favio would bring damaging winds and heavy rain to Sofala, Inhambane and Gaza provinces. About 30 people were killed in Mozambique and nearly 90,000 forced from their homes by the earlier floods. The government said 37,000 people were being housed in tented camps before Favio struck.
Ice storm warnings were posted Wednesday along part of the I-95 corridor from Baltimore to New York City, also including Wilmington, Delaware., Philadelphia, and Newark. We can expect significant icing in these locations. Heavy snow warnings continue in parts of five Northeast states, from the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania into the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Winter storm warnings continue from the Ohio Valley into New England.
It's all a very familiar scene to me and brings back memories of the old college days.. In the small county of Oswego, New York residents are covered with not inches but many feet of snow. Since Sunday, places like Parish and Mexico in Oswego county have recorded more than 6 feet of snow. The area received a short reprieve Thursday as the squalls shifted south into Syracuse, where between 4 and 8 inches fell. Gov. Eliot Spitzer declared a state disaster emergency for the county Thursday, authorizing all state agencies to help assist municipalities and residents in the storm-wracked region along eastern Lake Ontario. Late Thursday the northern parts of Oswego County were accumulating as much as 3 inches per hour, said Dave Sage, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Buffalo. At times, the snow has fallen at a rate of as much as 5 inches an hour. Travel advisories against unnecessary travel were posted for Oswego and its neighboring counties. Schools were closed for a fourth day in Oswego and Mexico.