Feb 4, 2014 1:32 PMAs much as 7 inches of snow fell across the South Fork on Monday. Most local school districts have announced delayed openings for Tuesday morning because of expectations of icy roadways. Another winter storm is expected to sweep across the region on Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service, bringing as much as two to three additional inches of snowfall.
Southampton Town Hall will be closed all day Monday due to the snow storm. The Southampton Town Trustees meeting scheduled for 1 p.m. has been postponed.
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for Long Island, including the South Fork, calling for 5 to 8 inches of snow, continuing through 7 p.m. Monday.
A mix of light rain and snow was expected to change quickly to all snow around daybreak. The snow was forecast to be heavy at times, particularly during the morning and early afternoon hours.
Visibilities were expected to be a quarter-mile or less.
Travel was expected to be hazardous due to snow covered roadways.
Widespread power outages are not anticipated, but if any occur, they should be reported to PSE&G at 800-490-0075, or by texting OUT, to 773454. All emergencies should be reported to 9-1-1.
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It would be a rain day if it were 33 degrees, which is only 17 degrees off yesterday's high. It's really not that unusual. . .
Btw, keep posting links and you'll keep getting modded.
That being said - it wasn't anything that can't be handled by the average person and if you aren't comfortable traveling to work than call in sick.
Let's see if they will get a bonus day off in the summer to thank the employees for all of their "hard work" during the various snow storms - ...more like they get last year with sandy (when Town Hall was closed for days).
http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=OKX&product=PNS
You really expect a small-town paper to have reporters writing articles on geoengineering and cloud seeding? InfoWars has plenty of what you're looking for...
It's because the temp is 32 which is the freezing point for water. It's in a semi-frozen state (slush) and thus very heavy because it's in a phyiscal state between snow and rain. If it were 5* colder we would have a lot more snow on the ground.
"Cloud seeding is dangerous science and being that it's happening in the skies above southampton it should be discussed by this small town paper."
And your proof of cloud seeding over ...more Southampton is... where?
I know cloud seeding is real and geoengineering in this country is real - but you are screaming like it's this new thing or some big conspiracy theory. Google "NY TIMES + Cloud Seeding" and see articles going back almost 15 years. . .
Cloud seeding dates from experiments in 1946 at the General Electric Laboratories in Schenectady, N.Y., and usually relies on silver iodide as a seeding agent, providing nuclei for the rapid formation of ice crystals that may eventually produce raindrops.
There are some unknowns about effectiveness and safety. For example, seeding at the wrong time and in the wrong place may actually decrease rainfall. Some skeptics worry that there is a possibility ...more of creating severe weather like hail or floods or of increasing rainfall in one region at the expense of another. Other scientists say the possibilities of creating hail are remote and that seeding can be suspended if there is danger of flooding.
Cloud seeding has been used for more than 25 years in parts of West Texas and has been an important part of water policy in Utah, one of the driest states, since 1973. There have been recent major programs in Florida, Thailand and Cuba.
And how are you connecting cloud seeding programs to honey bees? There is ZERO evidence that cloud seeding has impacted honey bee populations - and plenty of evidence pesticides have.
Please cite something, anything.
I'm clearly not someone spreading disinformation as I'm aware of cloud seeding programs and as I noted above they are nothing new and have been going on in the world for a century or so. If you want people to take you seriously, try providing actual information not gague claims and saying it's "laughable" that I state there is zero proof. ...more