Wow. If Boston gets 38 inches of snow...Logan was closed for a day for that 28" storm 10 years ago that had relatively little wind.

Right now, The Weather Channel is rating Nemo as a 10/10 storm (in the middle of the worst blizzard you can imagine).

It looks like we're having something of a "slush event" - a little snow tonight, a bunch of rain tomorrow, some snow tomorrow night. But the sun is due out on Saturday.

Well, to see how seriously everyone's taking this, the governor and Mayor Mumbles have called on all Boston business and schools (including colleges and universities) to close tomorrow, so we don't have the risk of a Blizzard of '78-style parking lot on 128. Suffolk's already called it, and we're not supposed to see the first flake until late tonight (3 or 4 a.m.).

We've invited Zoe Wells up to ride out the storm with us, so she and I will have to figure out the best time to connect. (I'm probably going to ask her to take the commuter rail up if it's much later than 1 p.m., since it's looking more and more like a damned ugly bit of commute.)

By 9 p.m., we should have a foot on the ground up here in Middleton...and then it gets really going. More than 3" an hour, is what they're predicting, during the worst of it. Not to mention that it'll snow sideways.

Gonna go buy a fowl (scrawny old chicken) and make soup. Gonna bake us up some bread. Got a fire all set for the fireplace, and there can be cocoa. :-)

Hope your slush just stays that way. Wouldn't wish this one on anyone...not even the Steelers!

Does a meter of snow sound better?

Well, if we get the 44"+ they had predicted above, it'll be 1.13 meters or so. But who's obsessing? (I may not make an online meeting Saturday morning, and I needed to do the conversions for the non-US types, which is all the rest of 'em.)

Doesn't sound any better to *me*!

It's interesting that the European model has been consistently predicted more snow than the US model for this storm. I don't think I've ever seen 44" of snow in one place at one time. 36" maybe, but that was when I was a kid (there was a huge snowstorm up in Vermont in February 1965 over my cousin's wedding).

Snow goes away - I hope the wind doesn't do too much damage.