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Old 03-24-2009, 12:58 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Blue Thunder View Post
In my opinion, he is replying to post #14. I agree with him on the one issue, the forecast the morning of the storm was for 1-3 inches of snow,(Boston). It wasn't until the storm was literally upon us that most of the forecasters started pulling out all the stops.

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If that's the case, I'd have to disagree

Scroll down to the usenet posting quoting Bob Copeland

also:
http://www.boston.com/news/weather/a...zzard_of_1978/

The timing was off, but the forecast was there from many of the meteorologists who were more comfortable relying on the Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models. Onset of precipitation can still be a very difficult variable to forecast.
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