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Huge snowstorm in the east coast of USA
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Travel bans lifted after blizzards shut down New York, US northeast
Blanket driving bans lifted and limited New York public transport services were scheduled to reopen after a night of snowfall that dumped up to 60 centimetres in some areas of northeast US
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 27 January, 2015, 5:03pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 27 January, 2015, 10:15pm
Reuters and Agence France-Presse in New York k
Residents of the Queens borough of New York wake up to snowfall. Photo: AP
Blanket driving bans were lifted and limited New York public transport was to reopen on Tuesday after a night of snowfall that dumped up to 60 centimetres in some areas.
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said travel bans would be lifted at 8am local time and that limited service on the New York city rail and subway lines would begin at 9am.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie also announced that the travel ban in the state was lifting, but officials still warned against all but essential travel.
“The roads are still dangerous and they are passable but there’s a level of ice under the snow in many areas and if you don’t have to travel today, you really don’t want to,” Cuomo said.
“I would expect delays, even with the ploughs and the salting, the roads are not clear so we don’t want to give people a false sense of security,” he added.
By noon, subway and rail services would run at a limited Sunday service, around 50 per cent of normal weekday operations, and back to normal on Wednesday, chairman Thomas Prendergast said.
Snowfall varied throughout the New York area, with some parts of the city receiving as little as 10 centimetres, and LaGuardia airport 25cm, Cuomo said.
Long Island Railroad trains sit parked as a maintenance machine works on the Port Washington track line in New York. Photo: AFP
Long Island is still being hard hit with 40cm of snow and its eastern tip Suffolk County continues to see blizzard-like conditions and face “serious issues,” Cuomo said.
Flight disruptions are still extensive. More than 5,000 flights within, to and from the United States are cancelled on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to flightaware.com.
Officials launched a vigorous defence of the blanket travel bans and rail closures, saying it had been prudent to protect lives, protect equipment and get services back to normal more quickly.
“You plan the best you can and you lead toward safety,” Cuomo said, adding that he had no estimates for loss of business.
“It may actually have brought us back to full operating capacity sooner but I do not criticise weather forecasters. I learn.”
The National Weather Service earlier warned of a “life-threatening blizzard” that could dump as much as 76 centimetres of snow on parts of the region and winds might gust up to 80km/h around New York.
The National Weather Service in New York said roughly 12cm of snow had fallen in the Manhattan’s Central Park by early on Tuesday and nearly 22cm were recorded on parts of Long Island. NWS officials in Boston reported early on Tuesday wind gusting up to 110km/h at Nantucket Memorial Airport.
“Please stay home,” New Jersey Governor Chris Christie told residents, ordering all but the most essential government workers in his state home from Monday afternoon until Wednesday at the earliest.
A restaurant worker clears his car of snow to return home ahead of a statewide travel ban in New Haven, Connecticut. Photo: Reuters
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday banned travel from 11pm for all but emergency vehicles on roads in 13 counties, including New York City, suburban Westchester and Long Island, with the threat of a US$300 fine for violators.
“If you are in your car and you are on any road, town, village, city, it doesn’t matter, after 11 o’clock, you will technically be committing a crime,” Cuomo said. “It could be a matter of life and death so caution is required.”
Additional driving bans in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey brought travel across the region to a standstill amid near white-out conditions.
A man stands in falling snow on West 42nd Street in Times Square. Photo: Reuters
The United Nations headquarters gave itself a day off on Tuesday. East Coast schools, including New York City – the nation’s largest public school system, serving one million students – shut down. Universities, including Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, canceled classes.
Stock exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq said they expected to stay open for normal operating hours on Tuesday.
The last time foul weather closed the stock markets was in October 2012 when Sandy hit the east coast with flooding, punishing winds and widespread power outages.
A Long Island train at Port Washington station. Photo: Reuters
The latest storm posed a fresh challenge to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, under fire from police who criticised his support of public protests about white police violence against black men. He was vilified for keeping schools open in the last major storm.
Vacationers and business travelers faced headaches as airlines canceled around 3,000 US flights, with Boston and New York airports most heavily affected, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.
New York authorities said “virtually all” flights at LaGuardia Airport on Tuesday would be canceled and cancellations at John F. Kennedy International Airport would be “significant.”
A lonely commuter waits to catch the last train at a subway station in New York. Photo: AFP
Coastal flood warnings were issued from Delaware to Maine, with tides in the New York metro area expected to be as much as a metre higher than normal early on Tuesday morning.
Amtrak suspended rail service on Tuesday between New York and Boston, and into New York state, Vermont, Massachusetts and Maine.
The biggest snowfall on record in New York City came during the storm of February 2006, dropping 68 centimetres, according to the city’s Office of Emergency Management.
i'm meeting with folks from the northeast, and the situation is not as serious as forecasters have warned. it's a bit underwhelming and overhyped. the few places that bear the brunt of the storm are long island and cape cod. sinkies have little clue what a real blizzard is. they should thank the pap gov for keeping snowstorms away. :p
To have a nice time away from the weather
Long Island aside, the met forecast for NYC was way off. To think they shut down the subway for the first time history for a paltry 5" in Central Park (when they were forecasting 30" with labels like 'storm of the century')! De Blaslo obviously over-reacted after he was vilified for failing to close schools during a storm in Jan 2014
[h=1]US snow: What happened to New York's 'snowmageddon'?[/h]27 January 2015 Last updated at 18:20 GMT
There has been heavy snowfall across the north-east of America but the predicted chaos in some areas has not been as bad as expected.
Officials are now facing tough questions over their decision to lock the city down.
A driving ban had been implemented but was lifted on Tuesday. Flights were cancelled and schools and businesses were closed.
The BBC's Laura Trevelyan has been out in New York city, where residents are asking where the "snowmageddon" is.
Near-Miss For NYC Blizzard Prompts Backlash Against Forecasters
| By By SETH BORENSTEIN and GEOFF MULVIHILL
Posted: 01/27/2015 11:25 am EST
In the wild world of winter weather, location is everything, which New York and Massachusetts learned too well Tuesday.
Small last-minute changes in the air morphed what was supposed to be crippling feet of snow into a handful of inches in New York, leading one forecaster to apologize, the National Weather Service boss to get defensive, politicians to explain themselves and some Northeast residents wondering where the much-hyped snow went.
The not-so-great blizzard of 2015 did wallop other parts of the Northeast as predicted: Long Island and Massachusetts got hammered with more than 2 feet of snow. Auburn, Massachusetts, got hit with 32 inches and there was severe coastal flooding, National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini said.
But snowfall in the self-absorbed media capital of New York City, shut down in advance, was under a foot. New Jersey and Philadelphia also were spared.
In a conference call with reporters Tuesday, a defensive Uccellini, who wrote textbooks on winter storms, wouldn't say his agency's forecast was off. Instead, he blamed the way meteorologists communicated and said the weather service needs to do a better job addressing uncertainty.
Private meteorologist Ryan Maue of Weather Bell Analytics slammed the public agency for ratcheting up forecast storm amounts before the system arrived, instead of telling people how uncertain it was.
"The public should be upset that the forecast was blown for NYC and ask for answers," he said in an email.
Uccellini said the agency would review those procedures and consult with social scientists to improve messaging.
But Uccellini said he'd rather warn too much and be wrong, than not warn enough. He said the weather service's predictions and citywide closures that they prompted made for a faster recovery.
"This was the right forecast decision to make," Uccellini said.
Meteorologists say the nor'easter strayed about 75 to 100 miles east of its predicted track, which meant the western edge — New York and New Jersey — got 10 inches less than forecast.
"That miss occurred in the most populous corridor in the nation," said David Robinson, director of the Rutgers Global Snow Lab and New Jersey's state climatologist. "Had it been between Albany and Syracuse, not to disparage them, no one would have made much of this."
The region girded for something historic but got much less.
"I expected tons of snow," New York cabaret singer Susanne Payot said, walking through Central Park with her home-from-school daughters and their golden retriever, Alvin. "This is nothing. I don't understand why the whole city shut down because of this."
Before heavy snows began falling, officials shut down roads and public transportation across in New York City, in New Jersey and on Long Island. Amtrak suspended train service and air traffic slowed to a stop. Schools along the East Coast on Monday canceled Tuesday classes.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie defended his decision to ban travel on all state roads.
"I was being told as late as 9 o'clock last night that we were looking at 20-inch accumulations in most of New Jersey. If, in fact, that is what would have happened, having these types of things in effect were absolutely the right decision to make," Christie told WABC-TV on Tuesday. "We were acting based on what we were being told."
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he was criticized for under-reacting to the November mega storm in Buffalo, so he worked "on the theory of living learned and a little wiser."
Irwin Redlener, the director of Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness and an unpaid adviser to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, said Tuesday that the way the region came to a halt ahead of the storm was good practice.
"It's not whether the city should have prepared so much, it's how people respond," Redlener said. "We don't want the population to get so cynical that they're not heeding the warnings."
A National Weather Service forecaster who was called a hero of 2012's Superstorm Sandy tweeted an apology for the errant forecast.
"You made a lot of tough decisions expecting us to get it right, and we didn't. Once again, I'm sorry," wrote Gary Szatkowski, a National Weather Service forecaster in Mount Holly, New Jersey.
Uccellini downplayed Szatkowski's apology.
The storm spun up in the ocean, where there are few monitors to help meteorologists and computer models pinpoint the track, forecasters said. In such a storm, an error of 50 miles "can be a big difference," said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private service Weather Underground.
Late Monday, the computer models started to move the storm more east and away from New York City, but by that time "media and social media hype was out of the bottle," said University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd.
The European computer model that was praised for accurately forecasting Superstorm Sandy failed more than others, Masters said.
"It's just that we didn't get the western edge of the forecast correct. If you want to call that a bust, I think you're being a little harsh," Masters said.
Robinson, Shepherd and others said meteorologists probably erred more in the way they relayed the forecast to the public than the prediction itself.
"In reality, nothing went wrong, the models were always iffy in NYC area," Shepherd said in an email. "We just have to do a better job of communicating the story."
Not good enough, said some unhappy commuters waiting for the first PATH trains to leave Jersey City for New York on Tuesday.
Vikram Kanagala, 33, who works in finance, said he was frustrated by officials' response.
"Definitely unacceptable," he said. "I think they should have done a better job with real-world decisions."
Brandon Bhajan, a security guard in New York City, wasn't upset. "I don't think they (city) overblew it," he said. "I think it's like the situation with Ebola ... if you over-cover, people are ready and prepared."
Posted: 01/27/2015 11:25 am EST
In the wild world of winter weather, location is everything, which New York and Massachusetts learned too well Tuesday.
Small last-minute changes in the air morphed what was supposed to be crippling feet of snow into a handful of inches in New York, leading one forecaster to apologize, the National Weather Service boss to get defensive, politicians to explain themselves and some Northeast residents wondering where the much-hyped snow went.
The not-so-great blizzard of 2015 did wallop other parts of the Northeast as predicted: Long Island and Massachusetts got hammered with more than 2 feet of snow. Auburn, Massachusetts, got hit with 32 inches and there was severe coastal flooding, National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini said.
But snowfall in the self-absorbed media capital of New York City, shut down in advance, was under a foot. New Jersey and Philadelphia also were spared.
In a conference call with reporters Tuesday, a defensive Uccellini, who wrote textbooks on winter storms, wouldn't say his agency's forecast was off. Instead, he blamed the way meteorologists communicated and said the weather service needs to do a better job addressing uncertainty.
Private meteorologist Ryan Maue of Weather Bell Analytics slammed the public agency for ratcheting up forecast storm amounts before the system arrived, instead of telling people how uncertain it was.
"The public should be upset that the forecast was blown for NYC and ask for answers," he said in an email.
Uccellini said the agency would review those procedures and consult with social scientists to improve messaging.
But Uccellini said he'd rather warn too much and be wrong, than not warn enough. He said the weather service's predictions and citywide closures that they prompted made for a faster recovery.
"This was the right forecast decision to make," Uccellini said.
Meteorologists say the nor'easter strayed about 75 to 100 miles east of its predicted track, which meant the western edge — New York and New Jersey — got 10 inches less than forecast.
"That miss occurred in the most populous corridor in the nation," said David Robinson, director of the Rutgers Global Snow Lab and New Jersey's state climatologist. "Had it been between Albany and Syracuse, not to disparage them, no one would have made much of this."
The region girded for something historic but got much less.
"I expected tons of snow," New York cabaret singer Susanne Payot said, walking through Central Park with her home-from-school daughters and their golden retriever, Alvin. "This is nothing. I don't understand why the whole city shut down because of this."
Before heavy snows began falling, officials shut down roads and public transportation across in New York City, in New Jersey and on Long Island. Amtrak suspended train service and air traffic slowed to a stop. Schools along the East Coast on Monday canceled Tuesday classes.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie defended his decision to ban travel on all state roads.
"I was being told as late as 9 o'clock last night that we were looking at 20-inch accumulations in most of New Jersey. If, in fact, that is what would have happened, having these types of things in effect were absolutely the right decision to make," Christie told WABC-TV on Tuesday. "We were acting based on what we were being told."
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he was criticized for under-reacting to the November mega storm in Buffalo, so he worked "on the theory of living learned and a little wiser."
Irwin Redlener, the director of Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness and an unpaid adviser to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, said Tuesday that the way the region came to a halt ahead of the storm was good practice.
"It's not whether the city should have prepared so much, it's how people respond," Redlener said. "We don't want the population to get so cynical that they're not heeding the warnings."
A National Weather Service forecaster who was called a hero of 2012's Superstorm Sandy tweeted an apology for the errant forecast.
"You made a lot of tough decisions expecting us to get it right, and we didn't. Once again, I'm sorry," wrote Gary Szatkowski, a National Weather Service forecaster in Mount Holly, New Jersey.
Uccellini downplayed Szatkowski's apology.
The storm spun up in the ocean, where there are few monitors to help meteorologists and computer models pinpoint the track, forecasters said. In such a storm, an error of 50 miles "can be a big difference," said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private service Weather Underground.
Late Monday, the computer models started to move the storm more east and away from New York City, but by that time "media and social media hype was out of the bottle," said University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd.
The European computer model that was praised for accurately forecasting Superstorm Sandy failed more than others, Masters said.
"It's just that we didn't get the western edge of the forecast correct. If you want to call that a bust, I think you're being a little harsh," Masters said.
Robinson, Shepherd and others said meteorologists probably erred more in the way they relayed the forecast to the public than the prediction itself.
"In reality, nothing went wrong, the models were always iffy in NYC area," Shepherd said in an email. "We just have to do a better job of communicating the story."
Not good enough, said some unhappy commuters waiting for the first PATH trains to leave Jersey City for New York on Tuesday.
Vikram Kanagala, 33, who works in finance, said he was frustrated by officials' response.
"Definitely unacceptable," he said. "I think they should have done a better job with real-world decisions."
Brandon Bhajan, a security guard in New York City, wasn't upset. "I don't think they (city) overblew it," he said. "I think it's like the situation with Ebola ... if you over-cover, people are ready and prepared."
How come New York is lower in latitude than London but the weather colder and winters worse?
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001796.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001796.html
some towns in new england such as marshfield in vermont are getting 3 feet of snow. there are pockets of heavy snow for 2 days in ne, but it's not really heavy in ny and nj. there were worst snowstorms in ny and nj, and public transport wasn't shut down. i remember driving to a manor in nj when it was snowing all day. by evening, there was 2 feet of snow, and no one panicked. this is definitely an over-reaction, but i believe the mayor and governor are infected with the sinkie kiasu bug. :p
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