Paging Vanilla Ice??..and a couple cool photographs.

I'm home from work today with the schools being closed. (What was the deal with Bedford being 2 hours late and waiting till 8:45 to call it off??) and had some fun with my kids.

Scanned the mid day models-- the Feb 2-3 event is on track. First guess is leaning towards sleety icy mess. We've not been able to get the High Pressures in the favorable spot for our region in these big events. This is an evolving storm that is in the 5-6 day window to just keep in mind., We also may see a brief snow shower or two tomorrow AM.

First regional total map for yesterdays event- 75 miles off! My hometown of New Castle DE-- crazy day--- 4 inches of unexpected heavy snow in the morning, a driving rainstorm late afternoon. (about a half inch of rain fell) and back to heavy snow in the evening. Daily total of snow was 10.5 inches.

Thunder snow video-- The tremendous energy aloft supplied many instances of thundersnow-- This is a video from outside Philly. His reaction is classic-- He's clearly a snowfan.

Thundersnow in Philly

Lastly, Cool photo from Tolland, CT. Kevin is a friend of mine that I'm in a fantasy football league. He did all this shoveling by HAND-- over 40 inches since the first of Jan. Looks like 8 foot crests?