Post-Christmas NYC snowstorm will dump up to 8 inches — and make travel a dangerous, slick mess
  • 114 points KanarYa4LYfe

    I see less than an inch for manhattan …

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    35 points Law-of-Poe

    Forecasts 4-8 up here in lower Westchester. Probably OP is quoting the regional snow forecasts.

    I bet if we get 4, manhattan will at least get a couple

    Edit: just rechchecked and now they’re saying 5-7in for my area

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    33 points grim_sins

    It's crazy that people up in Westchester dont simply employ the mutant Storm to change the weather

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    9 points porpoiseoflife

    I'm in Washington Heights, and Google Weather is showing 8.1 inches for tomorrow.

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    10 points aliveinjoburg2

    I’m seeing 5-8 inches. Apple weather is terrible.

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  • 611 points apeachemoji

    It’ll snow for 10 minutes, rain for 8 hours, and we will have gotten nasty in the supermarket fighting over eggs for no reason.

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    42 points suppre55ion

    “Oh whoops look like the storm shifting an inch north so we’ll actually be getting rain for 48 hours!”

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    7 points rempicu

    Always. Got me fucking fuming

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    71 points WhiskeyAbuse

    Mad that I gotta go to the closer bodega that charges a dollar more for the shittier BEC

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    5 points C4ourWarfareEnt

    this comment had me weak. but shit is real.

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    2 points teladidnothingwrong

    wrong

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    1 points NeverBowledAgain

    From your mouth to God’s ears

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  • 21 points helcat

    My weather app predicts 0.2 inches of sleet.

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    9 points hoopaholik91

    Mine is 7 inches for Kings County

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  • 24 points manormortal

    Why not tonight so I can stay home and watch stranger things instead of going to work?

    Why can't anything good ever happen??

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    2 points hendrysbeach

    So sorry that you have to work on Christmas.

    Hope they’re paying you double time.

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  • 95 points Judgement915

    If there’s one thing I trust. It’s meteorologists making weather predictions several days in advance.

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    60 points PrimaryAbroad4342

    weather.gov is usu fairly accurate 72hrs out (pending DOGE cuts). its the same raw data commercial weather sites use for their forecasts, just with less "over promise under-deliver" incentive.

    ie, weather apps/channels use the same data but slightly over-predict inclement weather, bec customers/users will be less annoyed if its sunny when it said rain than the reverse.

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    11 points holtr94

    Their probabilistic snowfall forecast graphics are the most accurate I've seen anywhere. They're quite hidden though, click the "probabilistic snowfall forecast" tab on this page: https://www.weather.gov/okx/winter (Ignore the "offical forecast", it's always overestimated).

    Right now it has manhattan at: 39% for >6", 70% for >4", and 89% for >2".

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    9 points ShatteredAnus

    Weather.gov used to be the most accurate not sure now with all the cuts

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    -51 points EveryNameIWantIsGone

    Huh? DOGE no longer exists.

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    41 points DoubleBlanket

    Money they cut still affects things and not all of those effects have been seen yet.

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    18 points nycdiveshack

    Doge very much exists with permanent positions in multiple agencies like the FAA/IRS/SSA and a few bank agencies. During the shutdown IRSU was completely fired and a few of the doge were permanently hired at the IRS. In the SSA some were given permanent roles back in August.

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    3 points PrimaryAbroad4342

    ugh Social Security is one of the most efficient programs in all government, nearly zero waste. wtf are they going to cut there?

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    5 points nycdiveshack

    They want to sell off the property and then fire the people allowing them to privatize it.

    The damage is just starting. Russ Vought the primary author of P2025 wants to destroy the soul of all federal employees. Russ can do so because he is head of the office of budget management.

    The goal is to privatize the government and to decrease the services that the government provides. Use tax dollars to pay companies for services that federal employees already do.

    “That’s the standard technique of privatization: Defund, make sure things don’t work, People get angry, you hand it over to private capital”

    There is a show on Amazon prime called the expanse. This is a clip from it that in my opinion explains how the relationship between governments and corporations should be…

    https://youtu.be/A98vqgBsoxQ?si=izm6o29aj9Rehy1u

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    1 points PrimaryAbroad4342

    i cant believe the morons who voted for this.

    I've read Ayn Rand, I don't have to watch that youtube to know what Project 2025 intends. Congress and SCOTUS still have to go along with it, though.

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    1 points nycdiveshack

    There is a tracker…

    https://project2025.observer/en

    https://www.realtimefascism.com/

    https://verfassungsblog.de/the-authoritarian-regime-survival-guide/

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  • 22 points Immediate-Pool-4391

    I used to live in Nassau where it hardly ever snows anymore so when I saw the prediction in Suffolk I was like yeah sure. Well...I was wrong. Half a foot. Pride cometh before the fall. And then of course it froze right away and made things even more dangerous. Learned my lesson.

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  • 20 points Puzzleheaded-Land511

    Just going to be Sleet, 90% sure

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    13 points nycdiveshack

    Tbf we thought that a few weeks back for that one Sunday

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  • 5 points Door_in_Mirror

    I'll believe it when I see it.

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  • 3 points chowbowbiscuit

    Travel question: is it too early to call about flying in Saturday evening? I booked a trip for new years and saw the weather reports so also booked a last minute Amtrak from Charleston but would definitely like to fly — what do yall think are the odds?

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    3 points porpoiseoflife

    Saturday evening should be fine. We are getting some additional light snow on Saturday, but that should be cleared out to sea well before your arrival.

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  • 37 points tiregroove

    It's the fucking ny post. Surprised they can't find an angle to blame 'communist Mamdani' somehow.

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    -3 points Immynimmy

    Why isn’t this shit garbage tier publication banned from this sub?

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    8 points vreditsa

    Maybe because the facts of the story are actually true. ABC News says the same. So did NY1. Truly one of the weirdest things in this sub is people going ballistic over NY Post. Yeah they have a POV and yeah it’s tabloid level. But that doesn’t mean everything they publish is wrong.

    https://abc7ny.com/post/storm-bring-widespread-snow-mix-nyc-tri-state-area-friday-night-saturday-morning/18310884/

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    6 points IRequirePants

    Also, they are the basically the only local news source we have with any funding behind it. NYTimes might as well not be here anymore, WSJ cut their section, NYDN is a shadow of its former self. The new media sites (i.e. The Gothamist) are all mostly garbage.

    NYPost will send reporters to random city and local meetings. And ya, it's a tabloid. How you are supposed to read the post is find the bits that are factual. Quotes are real, for example. Images, links, documents, are all real.

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    -1 points Immynimmy

    Because it’s owned but a POS, it’s a tabloid, they have no journalistic integrity, are very obviously biased, and there are better sources? There are tons of other reasons.

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    2 points vreditsa

    Doesn’t mean that their reporting on the snow forecast is wrong and should be “banned.”

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    2 points drawnverybadly

    Goated headlines and covers

    https://nypost.com/list/anthony-weiner-our-best-covers-headlines/

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    1 points CydeWeys

    They are unfortunately pretty much the only local newspaper we have left, covering lots of stuff that nobody else ever picks up on. The New York Times is pretty much just national news now; you can't rely on them to actually cover local news.

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  • 7 points azninvasion2000

    This ain't gonna be shit. The last real blizzard was around 2016 where I walked 50 blocks to meet up with a tinder date with snow up to my knees.

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  • 2 points phoonie98

    Oh great I’m flying in from Atlanta on Friday

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  • 2 points JusChillin89

    Is this for real ? Because its still just a winter "watch"

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  • 2 points Local_Reputation_171

    Do we think flying out of JFK at 10:30AM Saturday is doable?

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  • 2 points cakes42

    remember 2010 it also snowed right after christmas and what a shit show that was! hopefully it wont be anything like that this year.

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  • 4 points saltlamp94

    Will metro north shut down? I’m supposed to return from Fairfield Saturday evening

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  • 1 points CoxHazardsModel

    When they hype it up you know it’s gonna be nothing.

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  • 1 points ThursdayPugsley

    I’m flying into LGA around noon on Saturday. Thoughts on if I should cancel my trip in advance so I don’t get bit with a hotel charge or will I be fine?

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  • 1 points Automatic_Remote_775

    What time will the snow start? 4 or 5pm? Because my flight departs at 4:40 pm😅

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  • 1 points Muschka30

    Yay, bed rot without the guilt.

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  • -7 points bobbacklund11235

    Trump looked up at the clouds and parted his hands and said, “you’re gonna snow in the northeast again or you’re fired!” And the clouds said “yes Mr President sir right away.” No more playing around!

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    9 points blazems

    Are you okay?

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    -2 points Euphoric_Meet7281

    People can make hilarious jokes and still be okay

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    2 points Adriano-Capitano

    You better thank him for no hurricanes this past season! 

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  • -1 points GBV_GBV_GBV

    The Post, I don’t believe it.

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