Weather Report - in PHILLY

Just in case you've all been in a state of deep meditation for 3 weeks and haven't seen the weather report (like that could happen). Maybe you all better head for the local WAWA and stock up....looks like it's going to be a big one!

I'll be swimming if anyone needs me.

Posted on Fri, Feb. 10, 2006
Heavy snow could start at noon Saturday

Up to a foot is expected (Advisory)

By Anthony R. Wood
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

For the first time since it officially arrived, winter seems ready to get serious with Philadelphia and the rest of the I-95 corridor.
If meteorologists and their beloved computer models are correct, as much as a foot of snow will fall from Maryland to Boston, with a powerful coastal storm inciting gale-force winds that will whip the snow into impressive drifts. (If they are wrong, the supermarket thanks you anyway.)
The snow is expected to start here around noon tomorrow and continue into Sunday morning. The timing is fortuitous for cleanup efforts - and for all those children and teachers who would be devastated if school did not open on time Monday.
In any event, watch it on the roads out there; everyone is out of practice. The storm would be a dramatic interruption of what has been one of the tamest winters in the nation's history.
Last month was the warmest January on record in the continental United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And the extent of snow cover throughout North America was the least it has been in 25 years, said David Robinson, the New Jersey State climatologist, who is a snow-cover specialist.
Suffice it to say that regardless of what happens, road crews are not worrying about a salt shortage.
"We have plenty," said Eugene Blaum of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. He said the five-county region has 80,400 tons on hand, having used only 22,613 this winter. By contrast, PennDOT typically uses about 75,000 tons a season.

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