Tonight's Big Storm

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Originally Posted by Jim

I see all new fancy software with snow predictions on the news and yet none of them can agree. You would think that after all these years of predicting the weather, they might get it right once in a while.

The news stations get a majority of their info from here http://www.weather.gov/ The rest they get from their own doppler's or whatever they have.

Then the the local forecasters put their spin on it depending on how the station runs. (The optomistic ones will always have the temps +3 or 4 degrees - hence sleet and ice).

Personally, I just look at the NOAA info and skip everything else. Looks like a foot or so of new snow in Buffalo area.