Winter Storm
Wednesday evening brief: Time for a reset on this weekend's storm?
I wanted to jump on this evening and offer some quick thoughts on this weekend's storm as we're now about two days out from when we should see precipitation increase in earnest across the region, and it feels like we need to reset just a little. So please, take a deep breath, (this is reminder for myself too, by the way), and clear your mind a bit of all the noise floating around this week. We won't go into much technical detail around the system here tonight. That was covered at length this
Opinion
The Human Element of a Weather Forecast
Being a meteorologist is a difficult job some days. Usually, it’s an academic problem: Trying to decide between two weather forecast models, gnashing your teeth over a couple degrees on a forecast, adding a chance of rain on a weekend day, etc. It’s what most people know meteorologists to do. We’re scientists who predict the future. We forecast weather, so we obviously consider different things rooted in science. Every so often though, you get pulled into an entirely different set of circumstan