Blizzard of 2008
Oh, March 7-8 2008 will be a day that will be remembered for a long time in central Ohio as the year of a potent blizzard. Finally, something to speak about other than breakups and politics... the weather! The last blizzard that I've been through was the blizzard of 1999 that struck north central Ohio, and I'm quite excited - no - ecstatic that as an adult, I can sit home with food and movies while city of Columbus will shut down. Now... here is the statement from the National Weather Service. Literally, meteorology is my porn, and very few can understand this.
...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST SATURDAY......WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST SATURDAY. THE WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.A MAJOR WINTER STORM WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE OHIO VALLEY OVERNIGHT INTO SATURDAY. THIS STORM WILL HIT AS A ONE TWO PUNCH.THE INITIAL PUNCH TODAY...FOLLOWED BY A BRIEF LULL IN THE SNOW INTENSITY THIS EVENING...BEFORE PICKING UP IN INTENSITY AGAIN OVERNIGHT WHEN STRONG LOW PRESSURE WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TO BRING A SECOND ROUND OF HEAVY SNOW TO THE REGION. WINDS WILL GUST UP TO 40 MPH AT TIMES OVERNIGHT. BEFORE THE STORM ENDS SATURDAY AFTERNOON...YOU CAN EXPECT 10 TO 15 INCHES OF ACCUMULATION. THE STRONG WINDS COMBINED WITH SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW WILL CAUSE EXTREME WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS. THE SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO AT TIMES CAUSING WHITEOUT...AND BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.DO NOT TRAVEL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. CONDITIONS CAN DETERIORATE RAPIDLY IN BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.REMEMBER...A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY.