Ken Berwitz
Weather is very hard to predict in the New York Metropolitan area. Part of the reason is that it is on the coast, which creates lots of different wind-shift possibilities that affect both temperature and precipitation. And part that is, during the snow season we usually are right about on the “snow line” – the imaginary line above which is snow and below which is rain…so even a slight shift in the wind can change it from one to the other.
That is why I rarely pay attention to weather forecasts more than a day in advance – and why I ignored the heavy snow warnings that we got almost a week ago for today.
Why did they have to be right this time?
In central New Jersey, the wind is howling, the snow is driving downward, and if the short-term forecast is even close to being right we\’re in for something in the range of 12 – 20 inches.
Call me a pessimist, but I\’m betting I don\’t get my New York Times this morning…
