Snow: Score one for government weathermen
The National Weather Service posted a snow-forecast map before daybreak Monday; looks like they were on to something.
We observed that we were astonished when we saw a snow-accumulation map posted on the National Weather Service's Mount Holly site first thing Monday morning.
The map generated by the forecaster on overnight duty, Walter Drag, a veteran of New England winters, called for 6 to 8 inches in and around Philly.
During the next 60 hours, the weather service didn't back off, issuing winter-storm watches and warnings and briefings in sequence.
By contrast, the forecast that appeared in our newspaper on Tuesday, not generated by the weather service, called for 1 to 2 inches for Thursday.
We're impressed by Mount Holly's performance , given that early Monday pieces of this storm were thousands of miles away.
Granted, the amounts have been a bit heftier than the Monday snow map suggested, but if you didn't know this was coming, don't blame the government.