This storm is a confluence of two big low-pressure systems that are on track to collide off the North Carolina coast and then turn north, bringing heavy snowfall that will continue into Wednesday. Samenow said Virginia and the District might get 6 to 10 inches, while Maryland could receive as much as 14. High winds -- perhaps gusting to 50 mph -- might topple trees and take down power lines just as service was being restored to tens of thousands of customers.
The National Weather Service predicted late Monday that 12 to 16 inches of snow would fall in the District and its nearby suburbs by Wednesday. The prediction was expanded early Tuesday to 10 to 20 inches. A little less snow was expected in Fairfax County, the weather service said. Snow was expected to start falling Tuesday afternoon and become heavy overnight, amid fierce winds.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for northern Illinois, and is forecasting accumulations of from 12 to 14 inches of snow by Wednesday morning.
I am not looking forward to when this snow gets to Michigan. We seem to have avoided all big snow storms thus far this year. This would be the biggest.
Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts has arrived in Washington DC. The Boston Globe is suggesting that it's important that he and Senior Senator John Kerry get along, and I tend to agree:
“Within any legislative body, all the incentives are to collaborate,’’ said Marty Linsky, a politics professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. “It’s not in either Brown’s or Kerry’s best interests not to get along and not work together. In the past, [senators in opposite parties] actually found it good for the state to be able to collaborate. It gave each one of them access to the other party.’’
And that, Linsky said, makes it easier to bring home the federal bacon.
In the Senate, he added, “you can’t afford to alienate anybody, particularly someone in your own jurisdiction. We’ll see a lot more collaboration than conflict.’’
It will be interesting to see how this relationship develops.
