What's the crisis music for a "snow hurricane"?

[UrsulasShadow]

I wake up to the paper this morning to see the following headline on the front page. I kid you not, this is verbatim: "Rochester area braces for snow hurricane".

WTH?? I don't even know what a snow hurricane is. They're calling for at least a foot of snow between Thursday and Friday.

“It’s going to be a very nasty storm," said Alex Sosnowski, a meteorologist with AccuWeather.com, a weather service based in State College, Pa.

An AccuWeather press release said the storm “will be nothing short of a monster” and “may seem more like a ‘snow hurricane’ than a blizzard.”

Whipping winds with gusts up to 50 mph are expected in the Rochester region, he said, and could create hazardous driving conditions on tomorrow and Friday.

Wasn't it 50 mph winds that kept the Disney Magic stuck at Castaway Cay? Great.... I'm sure that won't be a problem for the "Cool Aunt" driving over from Cleveland.

I'm hoping we get out tomorrow before the storm hits.

Okay, I feel really bad that this storm is coming your way. I do.

But the weather services are just making up words now.

To qualify as a "hurricane", there have to be winds of 74 mph. They're predicting 50 mph...which is a "blizzard". BLIZZARD, weather people! Stop making up words to try to make what is already a stinky situation seem even worse!

I hope it isn't as bad as those morons on TV are drumming it up to be, and that you are still able to take your trip.

Edited to add: at least your wife found the voice of reason in all of this.

 

[Mouse Skywalker]

Okay, I feel really bad that this storm is coming your way. I do.

But the weather services are just making up words now.

To qualify as a "hurricane", there have to be winds of 74 mph. They're predicting 50 mph...which is a "blizzard". BLIZZARD, weather people! Stop making up words to try to make what is already a stinky situation seem even worse!

I hope it isn't as bad as those morons on TV are drumming it up to be, and that you are still able to take your trip.

Edited to add: at least your wife found the voice of reason in all of this.

Mindy, you said exactly what the last article I read on weather.com said. To say snow hurricane for this storm is bad meterology. They are using sensationalist hype.

 

[Mouse Skywalker]

You are like a SNOWYcane
There's calm in your eye.
And I'm gettin' SNOWed away
To somewhere safer
where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but
I'm getting SNOWed away.

 

[wishspirit]

I can add no more except say that I am sending all my good thoughts and Pixie dust your way Dave!

 

[DVCsince02]

Yay, more snow!

{where the heck is the sarcasm font?}

 

[Cherinva]

I'm sorry ya'll are getting more snow..that's one of the reasons I won't move back home...the weather. As for us here, southeastern VA, we started to get rain an hour ago with cold wind....this morning on the news, I looked at 2 of our 3 local stations and one said that we could expect 2 inches of snow by tomorrow morning, and the other said a dusting, but it wouldn't last because the ground has warmed up. Now, I ask you...they all get the information from the same places, how could the two stations vary so much in their forcast? BTW, the one that said a dusting is the station that I trust.

 

[UrsulasShadow]

The weather 'casters I trust most are the ones that say honestly, "We don't know. Too many variables at this time. It could be this, or this. We'll keep you updated." None of this nonsense of Snow Hurricanes. Just the facts, ma'am.

 

[tmli]

I so HEAR YA!!!! I surprised Chris with a cruise for hir birthday this weekend out of Port Canaveral...we fly out of Buffalo tomorrow afternoon!!!

The last time we were both flying on the same day you almost missed your dinner with Marty Sklaar and we sat on the runway for over 2 hours!!

Maybe together we are bad luck and we should start alternating vacation times!

I checked out of Toronto and nothing under $1000 a person....gotta love Canada and the freaking air taxes!!!!

 

[warrenite]

Good Luck makeing it down - be safe.

Here's my thought for "crisis music" see link:

Chrisis Music

 

[auroralark]

Dave, I hope you're able to get out!

Looking at the map on Weather.com, it looks like we're going to get about 6-12 inches in the next 48 hours where I am, in the NYC metro area. My parents are freaking out because they're flying to Aruba on Saturday morning. Traveling in the winter in the North can be such a headache.

 

[Mouse Skywalker]

Thanks everyone for the good wishes. Unfortunately, we just cancelled our trip. I think DW and I would be able to get out on time tomorrow, but the big question mark was my sister-in-law driving from Cleveland to Rochester to watch the girls while we're gone. The plan was to put the girls on the school bus, we would leave, the girls would come home to friends and wait for the "Cool Aunt" to arrive Thursday evening from Cleveland. Everything we're reading says the Cool Aunt would be driving right into the teeth of the storm. It just doesn't look safe for her to be driving, and seems like a lot to ask of her. So we did the conservative thing and called it off.

**sigh** it stinks being an adult sometimes...

 

[tmli]

Sorry to hear that Dave, but it does sound like you made the right decision.

I hope you were at least flying SWA and will get a credit for a future trip!

 

[auroralark]

I'm sorry to hear that, Dave! I hope you can make plans for another trip soon!

 

[DUHgreg]

See, even God likes to play jokes on lawyers! JK

However, God is also on the side of honorable lawyers. We live 58 miles from our office and our weather here is supposed to be way worse here than east NJ. For us, it could be a snow day when everyone else is trying to move.

 

[Zdog]

Blizzard, snow hurricane, whatever. The weather is expected to be bad. But calling the TV folks, weather people, et al, morons is a bit extreme, isn't it? I realize there is little love lost between those of us in the TV news business and the public we serve, but please, let's keep the name calling to a minimum. Or, simply change the channel, or turn the TV off..

Dave, you of all people should understand. Let's not blame the messenger.

 

[Boston Kid]

How come all weather people jump for Joy when they can play the crisis music. Here in Boston a couple weeks ago they said that the area (Boston) was going to get 10-12 inches. Schools were canceled,and people sent home early. Quess what? NOTHING fell in Boston but a 1/2 inch or so.

 

[DUHgreg]

How come all weather people jump for Joy when they can play the crisis music. Here in Boston a couple weeks ago they said that the area (Boston) was going to get 10-12 inches. Schools were canceled,and people sent home early. Quess what? NOTHING fell in Boston but a 1/2 inch or so.

For the same reason that the Weather Channel people can't wait to stand and report from the middle of a blizzard, hurricane, tornado, ice storm, etc. They're different from the rest of us and it's what they do. Plus they get paid to scare us.

 

[Gretta]

I'm sorry to hear you had to cancel your trip, Dave. We are in Webster and just waiting to see what this storm brings. I have been to Wegmans for supplies! I sure hope you are able to reschedule soon.

Gretta

 

[DUHgreg]

Thanks everyone for the good wishes. Unfortunately, we just cancelled our trip. I think DW and I would be able to get out on time tomorrow, but the big question mark was my sister-in-law driving from Cleveland to Rochester to watch the girls while we're gone. The plan was to put the girls on the school bus, we would leave, the girls would come home to friends and wait for the "Cool Aunt" to arrive Thursday evening from Cleveland. Everything we're reading says the Cool Aunt would be driving right into the teeth of the storm. It just doesn't look safe for her to be driving, and seems like a lot to ask of her. So we did the conservative thing and called it off.

**sigh** it stinks being an adult sometimes...

Dave, it may stink, but it was the right thing to do. That's always the problem with being the "grownup" in the group. You can do the right thing, though everyone else will be less than thrilled.

 

[G66]

Dave, it may stink, but it was the right thing to do.

A tip of the mouse ears to you Dave.