Spring may begin tomorrow, but someone should tell Mother Nature. A late storm is bringing snow and sleet to the area, causing school closings and delays, along with several accidents this morning.
Any snowfall that's less than a foot wouldn't scare most Central New Yorkers, but today's (3/13) Winter Weather Advisory comes with possible sleet. Click for the details.
As you may be aware by our Frogcast today, the Utica-Rome area could see significant snow beginning late this afternoon and continuing overnight (4 - 7 inches possible). In anticipation of the snowfall, the City of Utica is declaring a snow emergency beginning tonight.
Upstate New Yorkers know that a calendar is pretty useless this time of year when it comes to predicting the weather. Although spring is officially set to arrive on Wednesday all the latest weather models show no signs of any warmup soon. But how about last March, do you remember how spring arrived in 2012? Just look at the stats.
Hopefully, we all sprung ahead this past weekend to begin Dayllght Savings Time, and even though we lost an hour of sleep, by now we've made it up (although my father claimed that he lost an hour of sleep everynight until we returned to standard time). So how much more daylight did we gain?
Spring will officially arrive on March 20 but we are already seeing those first signs of the changing season. Crocuses sticking out of the snow, robins returning to snow free backyards, geese flying north and, as I like to joke, grandparents and retirees returning from Florida. There are some other less familiar signs that spring is near.
If you don't look outside you can almost think spring is nearly here. Basbeall spring training is well underway, NASCAR is already 2 races into the season and even the PGA Tour has left Hawaii and the West Coast for Florida Tournaments. But us Central New Yokers know there could still be a lot of shoveling still do. In fact the experts say March is known for bring some very nasty storms. Check out some videos and pictures of the bigger ones.
What's the coldest inhabited place in the world? No, not your boss' office when you're called in on the carpet. Well, you might think it's been cold here in central New York lately, but we're not even close.
After digging out from Winter Storm Nemo, things are getting back to normal throughout central New York and much of the state. If you're planning on traveling today, here are the latest conditions on the New York State Thruway.
Winter Storm Nemo could have been a lot worse in our area. We only saw about 6 to 8 inches at our house in Clinton. There looks to be only 2 or 3 inches at the station in Marcy. How much did you get? Send you snow pictures by emailing polly@bigfrog104.com or by posting on our Facebook page.
National Grid is advising customers to be prepared for the winter storm. Here are some tips, numbers to call to report an outage and ways to get updates.
Nemo is coming! Check out the best Nemo Memes as we brace for this winter storm.
