New Yorkers woke up expecting to be completely buried by a blizzard that hit the city on Monday night. Instead, they got around six to seven inches of powder.
That is a respectable amount of snow. It's not, however, the historic storm that some weather experts predicted would dump three feet on New York City — a warning that caused the city to practically shut down with subway service suspended and all road travel banned.
The massive snowfall predicted for New Jersey and Philadelphia also failed to materialize. But meteorologists were right about New England. Worcester, around 60 miles from Boston, was blanketed in 25 inches of snow on Tuesday morning."Swing and a miss… By about 50 miles to the east," Dan Zarrow, the chief meteorologist for Townsquare Media in New Jersey, wrote in a blog post Tuesday morning.
Perhaps the most extensive mea culpa came from Gary Szatkowski, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's office Mount Holly, N.J., who apologized to New Jerseyans in a series of tweets:
Kate Bilo, a meterologist at CBS' Philadelphia affiliate, assured online critics that she and her colleagues are punishing themselves enough.
So how did weather experts get this one so wrong, at least in some areas?
With this storm, they knew there would be a pressure gradient, or "western wall of snow," where everything east would get hit hard and everything west would escape with relatively little snow, according to Greg Carbin, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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