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About That Snow

To the chagrin of the region’s snow-lovers, that weekend storm is looking wetter and wetter.

This morning, the computer models evidently are coming into agreement that the storm will take a path that will draw in warm air.

Any snow or sleet in Philadelphia, the National Weather Service says, is going to quickly turn into a cold, cruel rain.

Ken Reeves, the head of forecast operations at Accu-Weather, predicted that by Sunday morning the snow will have disappeared without a trace.

Also, the models have backed off the cold foreseen for early next week. The forecast now calls for highs closer to 40 than 30.

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Comments (15)

Anonymous:

Darn. I should know better than to get my hopes up but I still do anyway.

Anonymous:

another example of premature hype to increase ratings.

Anonymous:

another example of premature hype to increase ratings.

Anonymous:

Storm came from OK. We get bad snow when the storms come from Eastern TN. You would think the weather puppets knew that by now.

yes hype for ratings

Anonymous:

...and we wonder why people get frustrated when the possibility of snow is brought up, yet the only wintry precip falls north and west of the city.

Personally, I think that talking about the possibility of a storm is not a bad thing. It needs to be communicated lest you get caught off guard. However, the problem is that too often what appears to be a sure thing turns out to not to be.

steve:

Ken Reeves, is he related to Dr.Gray? or does evey person still need their 15 minutes..Will someone get it right?? or Maybe Tony Wood has a future in forcasting? Waddya think Tony, how good are you??

Paul Sottile Jr:

It figures that every where else in the country is getting snow but us. There was snow on the ground last week in central NJ, making it feel so Christmas-eee! The snow situation here is such a drag, every year I think that this will be the year for snow, and it never is....seems like our big snow days are over...gettin pretty temperate around here.....kinda scary. i don't want to believe that global warming has something to do with our brown, rain-laden Christmas's, but i think it just might. Another brown Christmas....yea!!!!!!

Bill Wunsch:

I hope to see your weather comments again? Are you still there? I can come and make coffee again if it would help.

Bill Wunsch:

I hope to see your weather comments again? Are you still there? I can come and make coffee again if it would help.

Bill Wunsch:

I hope to see your weather comments again? Are you still there? I can come and make coffee again if it would help.

jonathan grode:

Tony where have you gone?

I wonder if he's taking a long vacation.

Anonymous:

This winter blows. There's nothing for him to bother posting about.

Eric:

keep up the excellent work!

http://www.weather-channel.org

I want to thank the National Weather Service for all their hard work. Kevin Martin, Meteorologist at SCWXA

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