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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
707 AM EST SAT FEB 14 2015
...WINTER STORM WILL BRING BLIZZARD CONDITIONS TO EASTERN
MASSACHUSETTS THIS WEEKEND AND HEAVY SNOW FARTHER INLAND...
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WESTERN ESSEX MA-EASTERN ESSEX MA-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA-
SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LAWRENCE...GLOUCESTER...CAMBRIDGE...
BOSTON...QUINCY...PLYMOUTH
707 AM EST SAT FEB 14 2015
...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO
7 AM EST MONDAY...
...WIND CHILL WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM SUNDAY TO 8 AM
EST MONDAY...
* LOCATIONS...EAST COASTAL MASSACHUSETTS.
* HAZARD TYPES...BLIZZARD CONDITIONS...INCLUDING HEAVY SNOW...
POOR VISIBILITIES...AND STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS. DANGEROUSLY
LOW WIND CHILL VALUES.
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...10 TO 14 INCHES.
* TIMING...SNOW ARRIVES THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUES INTO THIS
EVENING. AFTER A BRIEF LULL LATE THIS EVENING...MORE SNOW
ARRIVES LATE TONIGHT. THE WORST CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE
LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY MORNING.
* IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BECOME NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE AND POTENTIALLY
LIFE THREATENING DUE TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AND BITTERLY COLD
WIND CHILLS. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN DANGEROUS FOR TRAVEL WELL
INTO SUNDAY DUE TO BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...REDUCED
VISIBILITY AND DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS. POWER OUTAGES CAN
BE EXPECTED AT SOME LOCATIONS DUE TO VERY STRONG WINDS.
chillfactor
(7,579 posts)stay safe...do not venture outside! your life is not worth the risk!
jwirr
(39,215 posts)and don't forget to check on your neighbors.
cloudbase
(5,524 posts)NBachers
(17,133 posts)They're sensible enough to actually stay off the road.
She's been doing news broadcasts from locations around the area:
handmade34
(22,756 posts)and a bit further north... brrrr
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR VERMONT *EXCEPT* THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AND LAMOILLE/ORLEANS COUNTIES 1PM TODAY TO 10 AM SUNDAY
WIND CHILL WARNING 10 AM SUNDAY THROUGH NOON MONDAY FOR VERMONT AND EASTERN NEW YORK
THIS PM: Light snow, a dusting to 3 inches by sunsetgreatest in the southern Green Mountains. Highs in the teens above, near 10 northeast. Wind east to southeast near 10 mph.
TONIGHT: Snow, possibly moderate to heavy at times from roughly the Connecticut Valley east especially after midnight. Lows 5-12 south, 5A-10B zero north, coldest northwest. East to southeast wind diminishing to light and variable, then shifting to north and increasing to 10-15 mph with gusts to 25 mph except 15-25 mph with gusts to 40 mph over southern VT, southern NH, and Massachusetts.
SUNDAY: Snow east, and snow showers west, tapering off. Windy and very cold. Temperature steady or falling. Northwest wind 10-25 mph with gusts to 40 mph, except 40-50 mph over southern New Hampshire, northern Massachusetts and southeast Vermont. Total snow accumulation 6-10 near and east of the Connecticut River; 2-6 otherwise.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Stay safe, warm and inside!
Best of luck to you.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Skittles
(153,174 posts)keep us updated; we care