Caution urged on homeward commute

Global Warming?

Global warming, anyone?

It's time for these donkey forecasters to stop acting like they know what's going on with the weather. When you watch a forecast three or four days ahead of the event, it never resembles the forecast of the day before the event nor does it resemble whatever actually happened. Then they spend the rest of the time explaining why things happened differently than they predicted. Dickie, Harvey, and the rest should retire their "Super Live Doppler Radars" and just be given a minute or so at the beginning or end of the news and let us know their best guess for the type and amount of accumulation.

Oh god! Now I'll have to drag my couch outside again to mark my parking space!

Where is spring?!?!?

See, this is why CSI-Miami has become my favorite show...

Weather in HD is no different than weather in analog.
Spare me!

Weather forecasting has been and remains more art than science. The only reliable measure of snowfall will be at about 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Hey there, you anti-progress conspiracists - next thing you know, you'll be blaming OBAMA for curing global warming! Meanwhile, the rest of the world is getting soaked. Look beyond your own backyard.

It's all Bush's fault.

"Global warming" is actually an outdated term. The current phrase in use is "climate change." The idea is that weather will get more severe in general, including colder winters and more extreme weather, not that the world is strictly getting hotter. It's also a shift on a massive scale, not just a yearly difference.

I can't wait for another foot, as we've run out of places at my house to put snow.

I want to be a weather man, and use my aldoppler radar and wait to get paid,,yahoo,I will say chance of everything and i cant be wrong. hey what can i say...life is good!

Snowflake, that was funny. I live in San Diego I gave all that stuff up 15 years ago when i went on Vacation to SD and never came back! Spring Training is almost here!

"Global warming" is actually an outdated term. The current phrase in use is "climate change." The idea is that weather will get more severe in general, including colder winters and more extreme weather, not that the world is strictly getting hotter. It's also a shift on a massive scale, not just a yearly difference.

I can't wait for another foot, as we've run out of places at my house to put snow.

Where is Soxfan123???

You know what? It's January, in New England! Cope with it.

Anyone who thinks that snow and cold weather indicate that "global warming" doesn't exist should probably shut off Rush Limbaugh and the Drudge Report and look up just what the heck "Climate Change" actually means. it is *not* a linear progression of temperatures in every region of the world. And that is *not* the measurement. It's about the melting of things best frozen.

Does anyone ever watch Fox 25 at 10PM? The way the two anchors psuedo argue with each other over something dumb and then cackle to the weather guy, drawing him into the conversation, makes me want to vomit. This has nothing to do with the weatherman's lack of ability, which goes without saying. I just wanted to mention how annoying they all are. Just give us the weather please, without the phony nonsense.

I sometimes use my mother-in-law to mark my parking space.

Saying "global warming?" in response to cold weather is a really good way to show the world you're a giant idiot, folks. Might as well say "Cigarettes are bad for you? No way, I knew a lady who lived to 106 and smoked til the end." The science is proven, local examples mean nothing.

The term "Global Warming" is outdate beacuse under "Climate Change" the climate alamists can blame ANY "extreme weather" on anthropic GHG emissions, convince us to abandon fossil fuels and live in the dark.

Up in New Hampshah we're supposed to get 14 inches. Ayup. Got snow tires up heah. Ayup. Not them All season ones. Got wood setting by the woodstove. Ayup. Gonna watch that Lawrence Welk fella on the tv whilst it snows. Ayup.
Then we'll shovel it.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather just take precautions and hope that global climate change can be slowed, stopped or reversed rather than try to find loopholes or reasons that my science is less accurate than yours. Really, do we want to have the change? Probably not. Maybe we should just try to be a little more gentle with the earth.

Is this another stupid media "invention"---SLOG.
Jeez, does someone actually get paid for this nonsense? Tell me about the weather-not some "weather event". Where do I sign up to write this stuff?

Yea, look at the morons that think snow and sleet in January is "global warming" or "climate change". If anything it's "climate stability" because this type of weather has been happening for centuries in New England.

How stupid are you people?

Forecasters? How about these jittery school systems that close schools 12 hours before a flake of snow hits the ground...and for a storm that is only going to drop around 5-6 inches. The panic that sets in with these schools is absurd.

I don't get the school closings when the storm hasn't even hit yet. Ridiculous. When I was a kid schools didn't close until the last possible second. What gives?

I love the arrogance of the climate change folks....waah, it's not global warming you twit, you're so behind the times...it's now climate change, and you must say it with your nose turned up...because we're so much smarter, even though it's JUNK science and really a RELIGION these folks are espousing with Al Gore as the grand poohbah....absolutely ridiculous...check your brain at the door if you want to believe in climate change

Today it was sunny. Tomorrow will be bad weather. Then it will be cloudy, but by the weekend cold and sunny again. In the spring time it will warm up and we'll get some rain.

That is climate change. It happens. Has been happening since the dawn of time. Get used to it Al Gore lovers.

If I didn't have to take the bus to work, I'd be fine with the snow. BU Med, Please, please, PLEASE tell us to stay home tomorrow. I won't get paid, but I also won't spend 4 hours attempting to take public transit 5 miles,

Why don't some you just use some freaking common sense. It snows all the time and is cold all the time. Global Warming or Climate Change or whatever you want to call it does NOT exist. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. It is right in front of your face. Global Warming was cooked up by some politically correct over educated environmental wackos so they could push their own dumb agenda on the rest of us. Global Warming is about as real as the tooth fairy!

if we have any more snow days i'm quitting teaching

this is RIDICULOUS

I love my mother in law (really) but Snowflake is funny

Another snow day!?!?!? It would be great to compare the amount of snowfall vs. number of snow days over the past several decades. I'm willing to bet the increase in school snow days is out of proportion with the amount of snow we've received. Why does it feel anytime there is a hint of snow in the forecast the red flags go up and schools everywhere are shuttered!?!? A month from now teachers, parents, and administrators will be bemoaning the fact they have to make 'adjustments' to the school year to meet the required days.

Here's a solution: Since we know it is going to snow in the winter why not start school earlier in August or go later into June????? Either that or suck it up and get the little tikes to school. Also, on this type of day/storm why not have the kids go in late since it is going to be a rainstorm this afternoon??? Just thinking...................sorry to state so many obvious points.

Why do schools have to cancel for 3 inches of snow? We live in New England. People should be able to get their kids to school in 3 inches. GIMME A BREAK. It will be raining by 11 am.

I do believe 'global warming' is real. It is possible though that sometimes normal extreme events are falsely blamed on that phenomenon.

And regarding snow days, well, when schools are closed there are less cars on the roads and it makes for an easier commute. This also keeps kids safer, lots of them have to walk to school and the sidewalks haven't been cleared yet. They might not get all the educational required days for the year though since I understand it's not possible to extend school beyond June 30th.

this is new england Give it a minute it will change

Yeah, every town is different with weather.. Even it's it's only 10 minutes away. It was not necessary for schools to be cancelled. Maybe they could have been let out early. But they jump the gun a little too early on cancellations...........

To everyone who thinks the kids are getting days off for nothing - there has been no melting of the snow in between storms and a lot of sidewalks are impassable and kids are forced to walk in the street. I, for one, have a high schooler who drives about 12 miles to school and I would rather be safe than sorry on a day when the roads are bad. Some winters we have hardly any snow, you just never know.
I think school administrators do the best they can in planning and sometimes you just can't plan for something like an ice storm that closes everything for 10 days.

Global warming is a reality. You didn't inherit today but are borrowing from the future. A bunch of morons have been pasting comments. If you'd check the farmers almanac a few months ago, your comments wouldn't have been stupid.

I think school administrators are over-reacting to the media hype and last year's messy storm. We live in New England and this is what a New England winter looks like.
What type of education are we given to our children when we tell them that they don't have to go to school because it is snowing? It just comes to show how pampered our youth is. Sacrifice is a required part of the human existence and we are doing everything possible to avoid it.
why don't you publish the list of the school that ARE open?
They are the ones who truly care about education.

Maybe they were wrong to cancel school. But here in Winchester we have roads that are pretty snow covered, and it would have been a mess to get everyone home this afternoon. This added to the fact that today was to be a half day AND that we haven't had a snow day this school year meant that we all knew today would be a snow day.

Have other towns had many snow days this year so far???

I should say that after this winter no one should be complaining when its 95 and humid this summer..... but thats wishful thinking.....

I can't wait to see the "Brace Yourself " news at 6 tonight with the plows in the back ground and the on scene reporter with a ruler.

Boy more and more snow! I'm beginning to enjoy NE weather.. :(

I can't believe it took 2 people to put this story together.

"By mid morning, a dusting of snow had accumulated in Boston"

It drives me crazy when cities and towns cancel school based on a forecast instead of actual snow. We're all here at my work today. Why aren't the teachers? I think I know the answer. Public employees are now privileged way beyond the taxpayers that pay their salaries.

When they do cancel school why can't the teachers have the "Professional Day" meetings and activities then? There have been several times when the schools were closed on one day and later in the week my kids had a day off because of "Professional Days".

It is now clear that I should have been a teacher or state worker instead of working in the private sector. I would now be retired on 80% of my highest year's salary with lifelong benefits. What a dope I was.

Let's take the rest of the winter off!

"The threat of 3 to 7 inches of snow canceled classes at hundred of schools today.."
Yuppies rule.

We've gone totally soft. Every 5-inch storm is treated like the End of Days.

I will resist the temptation to tell an "In my day...." anecdote.

I'm new to the Boston area, after living in Bellingham, WA, and then Scotland. Didn't have to shovel snow for decades. Then I moved here in late summer, and have been hit with both extremely hot and extremely cold temperatures, and enough snow to build 8,942 snowmen. I have decided to open a snow shovel business out of my office at Framingham State College. Come and see the thousands of styles and colors! Bring cash! Discounts for people with tans.

hmmm maybe I don't want to move back up there....

Yes, a snow storm in January in Boston. Must be global warming...

Do you guys want cheese with all this whine? I just moved from Boston to Michigan this past fall and we have not had one day over 20 degrees (actual, not windchill measured) in the past three weeks (and the majority in the single digits for a HIGH). At least you're getting some warmth! I'd be back there in a heartbeat if I could!

This is why people move to FL! I am outa here..

Have you all gone soft? We live in New England, or have you all forgotten? Snow shoveling = exercise that you don't have to pay a gym membership for!

Jan - They work an extra day at the end of the year for every day that they take off. And yes, teachers do get a lot of time off. I am pretty sure, however, that it has been that way for a long time. Certainly, you could have chosen a different profession based on time-off / vacation. My guess is you chose less time-off for a higher paying profession, certainly your decision.

When I was a kid in the 70's and 80's, we had 3-4 days off a year for snow. Still the same, best as I can tell. We all like to remember it like we walked 30 miles uphill in blizzards to and from school, and I am sure our kids will feel the same way and complain about the next generation. I'll bet they complain that their kids listen to the music too loud too!!! :)

Sweetheart,
Kook at the comments after the article. Amusing!
With love,
PG

GW/Climate change. Two sides of the same coin. Worthless currency.

If they can't predict the weather for tomorrow, believe me, they can't predict 50 years out. We don't understand what causes the weather. We don't understand our own atmosphere. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar.

Global warming is an urban legend created by hippies, like unicorns, or liberty.

I hate hippies, and rainbows.
(ahemm, cartman)

I know the cold and the snow get old after months and feet of it, but we moved back down to Texas after living in New England and we miss it terribly. We just had our BIG ice storm of the season, and these people down here think it is the worst thing that ever happened to them. We are just the oppostie of yall, we get 6 months or more of burning hot weather, and yall get 6 months or more of cold wet weather - I guess there is good and bad everywhere, huh - but we do miss the fall and winters up there.....

Shouldn't we be calling it Universe Climate Change as NASA just published a report that Mars has warmed at the same rate as the Earth since 1970?

They cancel school early now so parents can arrange daycare for their children without waiting until 6:30 when they're supposed to be out the door to work to find out their kids are going to be stuck at home all day without anyone to watch them.

That and this is America - we sue, don't ya know? Oh my! My child slipped on this ice - sue the schools!

The weather this winter is actually very in line with the observed effects of global warming. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (you know, the guys who won the Nobel Peace Prize), the northeastern United States is one of the few places in the world where there is increased precipitation as a result of global climate change. Brace yourself for more.

Climate Change/Global Warming is a myth. Predictions are made using 1000 years worth of date at best. The so called "experts" ignore what has been happening for millions of years before that, before we burning fossil fuels etc.

C'mon people. Even meteorologists admit that the only reason they give the forecast a week out is that the viewing public want it!! We all want to plan our schedules and really think (or want to think) that the weather guy can give us an accurate forecast.

Funny thing...it snowed on Al Gores Parade again

Dear Global Warming / Climate Change deniers,

You have nothing to offer in favor of your belief than your chutzpah and being really loud, neither of which means much to rational people. I know that my comment won't stop you, but it felt good to write it down.

Also, to the happy people who say that Climate Change means nothing since the climate always changes.... technically true, but you (intentionally) ignore the RATE of the change. Climate would not change significantly in a generation or two without human intervention :)

Snowflake - if you need a mother-in-law for your spot - take mine!

so sorry you are having such weather up there.
It is 85 and sunny in Naples Florida.
Come on down.

If its too hot, its Global Warming...if its too cold its Global Warming

first of all barkowitz, it's 'data' not 'date', unless you're a middle-eastern fruit. And those experts do indeed take into account NATURAL fluctuations; what the data are (not "is") demonstrating is an excess of carbon caused by human combustion of fossil fuels. Eat that.

Please create a new page for these articles. The comments attempting to debunk the climate change concept are asinine.

Jan, You wrote: "I would now be retired on 80% of my highest year's salary with lifelong benefits. What a dope I was. Posted by Jan."

80% of a low salary. And January - teachers do not have summers off. They have to continue their education; their low salaries mean taking on extra jobs; they work at their schools after June and starting in mid-August. Time off? Teachers are working - all year round, like the rest of you kvetchers.

OMG what am I going to do?? Should I stay here at work or should I take a chance and walk to the T? When you have 2 Globe writers teaming up to write a cautionary weather article you know it's bad out there!!
I think I'll be okay. I bought a piece of salmon for dinner tonight. If the train breaks down, I can always pull out my salmon like Dan Ackyoid did in the movie "Trading Places" minus the Santa suit!
I may be scared, but I won't be hungry!!
Winter in New England is Hell!

why is there so much snow. i mean really.

If I were a school administrator making decisions about cancellation, I would never ever want a child injured or killed in an accident because I made the wrong call about a snow day. One skidding accident with a bus full of kids could be tragic. It's OK to stay home for a snow day because our kids deserve our best protection. Some snow days start out light and turn very ugly by the time school closes, and that's a bad scene for parents trying to pick up kids and for bus drivers trying to get a busloads of kids home safe.

Will the anti-climate change idiots shut up already??? You've already been proven wrong, overwhelmingly so, and a winter of snow in New England isn't going to change that. You just make yourselves look dumber by bashing Al Gore and the scientists--who, incidentally, are smarter, more educated, and more sensible than thou.

Why can't everyone just get along? We made our beds, now we gotta sleep in them. Science means nothing more than religion if it is subjective.