Get your your boots and shovels again, a powerful winter storm will be moving into the tri-state this weekend.
Snow will move into the region from west to east on Friday night after the evening rush. The flurries will pick up in intensity overnight and some folks could be dealing with blizzard conditions early Shabbos morning.
The greatest impacts from the storm are expected south of New York City, where snow totals of over a foot are possible. Impacts along the coast, especially in New Jersey will include strong winds, blowing snow and minor tidal flooding.
The exact track still needs to be determined closer to the arrival of the storm, and any shifts in the path could have a large impact on snow totals. Friday morning the National Weather Service said Staten Island could get up to 9 inches.
Snowfall totals of 12 to 18 inches were expected by Shabbos along the central New Jersey coast, according to a blizzard warning the National Weather Service posted for Ocean County.
Significant snowfalls of 8 to 12 inches were forecast for Monmouth County.
The blizzard warning is in effect from 4 p.m. today to 7 p.m. Shabbos. A blizzard warning anticipates conditions of falling and blowing snow, strong winds and poor visibility — possibly whiteouts — making travel dangerous.
It’s part of a powerful winter storm that’s bearing down on the Mid-Atlantic region.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said New York City was “on the ready” as the winter storm approaches. Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show that the salt spreaders and plows are positioned to go.
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As far as I am concerned, not enough here in New York City. Sorry Mr. Levin, I like snow.
Bottom Line – How much snow is expected in flatbush?
Hear that folks? Travel will be dangerous!
NO DRIVING TOMORROW!!
Boruch Hashem for global warming. Can you immagine how much snow we would have, if not for global warming?
#4 bigjosh
There is very little doubt that global warming is occurring. While the media may feed the “controversy,” in academia and among actual researchers, there is no question that the Earth is warming. But you are correct, the degree of warming that is being observed probably doesn’t impact the amount of snowfall in Brooklyn just yet.
Why don’t you all move up to beautiful unspoiled Canada where not even one inch of snow ever falls? It comes down in centimetres. You southerners sure do a lot of wimpering for a mere 20 to 30 cm. of snowfall.
A gutten Shabbos Kodesh!
Lets all enjoy the snow.
justajew:
actually, the global warming causes the extra snow on the atlantic coast. what happens is that certain areas become warmer, it disturbs the water and air currents, the cycle gets changed and it becomes colder in certain places during the winter.
an example of this can be seen in the labrador and gulfstream currents, which are being disturbed by the melting ice, so less warm water goes north, along western europe and england, too much cold water is flowing south along the east coast of the unites states, and according to university of toronto physics Prof. richard peltier, if the melting continues a large influx of freshwater into the north atlantic will cause significantly colder winters.
unfortunately, most frum jews do not even believe that global warming is happening, and i think this is a result of their lack of education, as well as their desire to discredit science in general, because science can disprove their belief that the world is only 5,770 years old and that evolution isn’t true.
it is sad when people believe in something so much that when you show them absolute, undeniable proof that they are wrong, they won’t accept the proof. in this regard, they’re no different than people who believe that the world is flat…you can show them satellite pictures from space, and you can fly them around the world, but they will do mental gymnastics in order not to accept it.
the rambam says very clearly that if we could prove philosophically (scientifically) that the world always existed, we must accept the truth and try to reinterpret the torah to fit around the truth.
fortunately for me, however, im in las vegas visiting my parents, so i don’t have to get snowed in…although it has been unseasonably cold out here too. twenty years ago, the winter was much warmer and much sunnier.
Where is this “absolute undeniable proof” of man made Global warming when the scientists have been caught lying about it and destroying data that refutes their global warming claims?
Even if Global warming was occuring, all the other planets are warming up at the same rate as Earth so how can it be caused by humans?
As for evolution, all it’s supporters demand absolute “I personally saw G-d” proof for G-ds existence.
But they cannot provide the same level of irrefutable proof for evolution.
They just have faith in it.
hereorthere:
when i said “absolute, undeniable proof” i meant about all of the many scientific things that most frum people dispute.
about global warming, i myself am not convinced that the global warming is man made, but i am convinced that the earth’s atmosphere is changing.
next, where do you get the idea that all of the supporters of evolution do not believe in G-d? that’s far from the truth! and noch mehr, where do you get the erroneous idea that there’s no proof of evolution?!
by the way, i’m curious, what is your level of education?
Well if it is changing but not because of man, then all these laws regarding it are simply an excuse to further attack business and our freedoms and rights.
If you believe in G-d then you are either making up your own religion, or following Torah which says the Earth is less then 6000 years old.
And you cannot believe in that, and evolution too.
As for proof of evolution that is just as strong and undeniable that evolutionists demand from frum people RE the age of the Earth, where is that proof?
You would have to have a time machine to go back and actually witness it happening.
Otherwise all you have is speculation and guesses.
Quantum Mechanics says that an electron can exist and not exist at the same time or be in several places at once.
We do not have any solid proof that any radioactive decay rates have never changed in all of history or that G-d did not create the world with fossils already in it the day it was created.
As for my education level are you talking about my formal schooling, or the massive education I got from my own research over the years, since then?
hereorthere:
actually, many, many people believe in the torah and also believe in evolution…there is no steerah at all.
as for the age of the world, it’s clear from the rambam in the hakdamah of moreh nevuchim that only the “fools upon the earth believe that sefer beraishis is to be taken literally”
and your comments on the electron have nothing at all to do with radiological dating.
we know that radiological dating has never changed because according to the laws of physics, it can not change.
if you were right, then it would no sense at all that radiological dating would be accurate at 2,000 years, at 3,000 years, at 4,000 years, but when it comes to 5,770 years all of a sudden it’s all wrong…we can date things that we know to be from the roman era to 2,000 years, we can date things from the elamite kingdom to 4,000 years and so on, so what makes you think that the things that are dated at 6,000, 7,000 years and so on, are wrong??
I have asked rabbis this question and have never heard any of them say that the Earth was more then 6000 years old.
My point about Quantum Mechanics was not to say that that exact point about electrons disproved radiological dating.
It just shows that we do not have all the answers for what goes on at the atomic level.
Humans do not know as much about what can or cannot be done in the laws of physics as they think they know.
In the 1960s when the origional Star Trek with Captain Kirk was on; Scientists back then said that teleportation would forever be impossible.
They said that the amount of information necessary to teleport a single human would be greater then the number of molecules in the entire universe.
Now, Dr Michio Kaku has a TV show where in one episode, he tells us how we could build a teleportation device.
The amount of information needed is still massive, but no longer an ‘impossible’ amount.
He figures that within 200 to 300 years we will have computers powerful and fast enough to do the job.
Back in the 1800’s scientists said that trains would kill people because they would never be able to handle speeds greater then 50 MPH.
The point is, that as science ‘evolves’ our perception of what is and is not possible according to the laws of physics, keeps changing.
Who is to say, that one day we won’t see exactly how a steady radioactive decay could suddenly change to be billions of times faster or slower,
based on certain once in a hundred million years events, for example?
It might not even have to be a “sudden change” at 5770 years.
It could be like a bullet that at 2000 years it might still hit the bullseye but a bit toward the outside of the center spot.
At 6000 years it might barely be on the edge of the red center dot.
After that, it might still be subtle but it would start getting noticeably off the mark, at which point it could not be relied on at all so anything it seemed to indicate would be useless as ‘reliable data’.
Or who knows.
When G-d created the Earth who knows if it did go sudddenly wild.
That is the point, we do not know.