Pete Bouchard
@PeteNBCBoston
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Chief Meteorologist NBC10 Boston #meteorologist in Boston since 373ppm (2002). PT sawdust maker and guitar hack. Califormonter. IG: @petenbcboston
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My son is a police officer on duty in Kittery tonight. Thoughts are with law enforcement/first responders as they work to apprehend the suspect, and my heart breaks 💔💔 for the victims & wounded in Lewiston.
#LewistonStrong
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If we took a picture of the Sun every day of the year at noon, it would make a trace like this in the sky. We are at the bottom of the analemma at 10:27 tonight. Welcome to winter! ❄️⛷️🏔️
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Kind of mesmerizing to watch this snowstorm hammering Lake Tahoe...
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Nor'easter? Youbetcha.
Damaging wind? Certainly poss.
Rain? At the coast (to start).
Snow? Heavy & wet. Foot poss.
Surf? Is way up.
Start? Monday night
End game? Not sure, Thanos. Tue. night? Wed. AM?
This is big.
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Profound sadness in the weather community as a bright light has gone out. Mish Michaels was as amazingly wonderful in life as she was on-air. Peace and comfort to her family in this time of sorrow. Touching tribute by
@TerryWBZ
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Lunch with some pals. Our jokes are outdated, but at least WE get them.
@KevinBoston25
@HarveyWCVB
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Weather speak:
Just so we're clear, I've never seen anomalies of around 400dm at 500mb in New England.
Prepare to be astounded by the cold.
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THE DROUGHT WILL GO ON UNTIL IT RAINS AND THEN YOU'LL COMPLAIN IT'S RAINING TOO MUCH THEN IT WILL GET COLD AGAIN AND SNOW AND YOU'LL WISH IT WAS SUMMER AGAIN.
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Not ready to say "winter is dead" just yet (because March can be....March), but the hearse is idling at the curb.
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We’re just minutes away from the Sun beginning it’s journey back to the Northern Hemisphere. If the noontime sun were to trace a path in the sky over a year, it would look like this. We are at the very bottom of the analemma as it’s called.
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From
@NWSBoston
regarding this afternoon’s storm threat: “We anticipate that this will be the highest impact severe event we have experienced certainly this summer, if not in the last few years.” Stay weather aware today.
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People who are planning on “riding out”
#HurricanceFlorence
despite mandatory evacuations are naive. Ask anyone who’s done it if they’d do it again. The sheer sound of howling, incessant wind can be terrifying.
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I think that was an earthquake...standby for confirmation
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"I will NOT talk about the weekend storm until Wednesday. I will NOT talking about the weekend storm until Wedne...."
Resistance is futile. 🖖
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Some roads will be impassable during the height of the storm from 8am-2pm Tuesday.
White-outs and
#thundersnow
are possible in that time.
Improving LATE evening Tuesday.
Gusts on coast 40-55+. Cape gusts to 60+
This is a
#noreaster
with
#bombogenesis
- expect the worst
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How's your
#twitter
feed? Mine waffles between tweets 6-18 hrs old and some 2-10 min old. Then repeats. 🤔
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Want all the trolls out there to have a good night. You guys are real knee-slappers.
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Early thoughts 4 Tue
- You said nor'easter, why am I getting rain?? (Nor'easters can be wet.)
- It's days away, you'll be wrong. (Guidance is uncommonly consistent.)
-Why can't you tell me how much I'm getting right now? (I'm not that nuts.)
- I hate snow. (Try forecasting it.)
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Got the weekend forecast done through the holidays.
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Sweet Mother...
Nature about to put on a clinic on how to make it snow.
Worst of the this BLIZZARD will be Saturday from mid-morning through the evening.
Very difficult travel, gusts to 60-70 along the coast. Flooding Saturday AM high tide. It's going to be a long ride.
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Well....
1) I'm NOT certain of a blizzard
2) I am NOT thinking 2 feet
3) Trends have moved the storm farther offshore
Preliminary snow map is coming.
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It appears we have a snowstorm for Tuesday.
This may be the one defining snow event of the season. Probabilities of 6" or more are 🪨 solid ⬇️ Game on.
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*Tiptoes onto the Twitter (X) to post a snowfall map for tomorrow night. (In by 9-10p out by 4-5a Fri.)
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Nothing but Valentines ❤️ for you trolls. Nope, didn’t see this much snow coming Friday. Nope, I’m not happy about it. Sometimes Mother Nature sneaks one by you. As my college professor once said, “If you’re gonna bust, bust BIG.”
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Thundersnow for HOURSSSSSS if this verifies.
Wow....next-level H7 FGEN. At this point, snow maps are basically just 1-2 FEET of snow for much of the region.
#7news
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98. Just broke the record in Boston. Old record was 96 back in 1923. Heat index as high as 113 in Dorchester right now. 🙃
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Updated tornado count for New England.
K, I'm ready for winter.
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Meh, so I lose the blue check.🙄
You should be able to recognize my snark from an imposter by now.
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It's official. We tied the record ALL TIME ONE DAY snowfall in Boston.
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💯wrong. Misguided. In error. Off track. But seeing what I saw - with the confidence backing it - would do it again. People don't want apologies, they either want a pound of flesh or they want you to shut up & move on.
@PeteNBCBoston
Why not just admit "Hey, we overshot the target on this one. Sorry, folks. We'll try to get it right next time"? Why is admitting a mistake so wrong?
I mean, predicting 8-12 and then shifting to 2-4 isn't an adjustment, it's wrong.
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Humans are funny. We curse climate change, but root for the 50/60/70+ days in winter.
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Shell shocked at the violence in our time. My generation has failed. It's up to the next to root out the special interests that have steered the narrative of policy & response in government.
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That was a biggie. Confirmation from USGS of a *preliminary 4.2 magnitude earthquake in the middle of Buzzards Bay.
#MAquake
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Happy New Year! Welcome to the new pattern, which includes a few flakes Thursday and a potential nor'easter next weekend. Here comes 5 days of hand-wringing & social media hype. Some guidance is all in, some is not. Prob of 6" or more snow ⬇️
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Tomorrow we fine-tune where the 12-16” snow may set up.
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Look, I'm a snow lover, but for the love of weather, can we just get into a quieter, spring pattern???
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The happy grad…our final one in high school. Way to crush it Luc! 😍🙌👊
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After ONLY 4 dry weekends (out of 17) since Memorial Day, could this be our time?
Pattern relaxes with a stagnant upper level high (in orange) through early October. Favors dry (and for some, mild) weather.
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Snowfall rates (how quickly the snow accum in 1 hour) during the storm seem most intense...
1st in Central Mass on Tuesday morning...
then in Eastern Mass Tuesday afternoon/night.
Unpopular opinion: this ups the ante for an 8-12" closer to the coast and even in Greater Boston.
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Prepare to be astounded...
late next week.
(About time.)
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Yes, it's over. (Not that it ever started in Boston?)
This goes down as the 4th least snowy season for Boston.
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You know her well, but now she’s ours...all ours! Super warm welcome to meteorologist
@Pamelanbcboston
!!! We already have her cooking up a nice nor’easter for Christmas.
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Big thanks today to all the brave men & women (including my dad!) who have served & continue to serve our country far and near.
#RespectTheTroops
#VeteransDay2018
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More confidence with this map. Snow will have a hard time sticking in the first several hours of the storm (into Sunday AM). After noon, the cold comes sweeping in. Slickest roads in the afternoon Sunday. Let's gooooo....
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Mentor to many, emulated by none. Congrats Harvey!
Harvey Leonard, the Dean of Boston meteorologists who so many of us have grown up watching, announced his retirement Wednesday -- and a new role.
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Winter arrived at 5:02 this morning. At that time, Earth reverses its lean and begins to tilt toward the Sun until the summer solstice.
We gained approximately 1 second of daylight today. Use it wisely.
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I'm in a twitter feud with a tree. How's your day going?
@PeteNBCBoston
I'm sorry, how many millions of people watch YOUR little tree lighting show?
Oh that's right.
Thank you, goodnight.
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Hats off to a legend, a gentleman, and a true weather hero,
@BarryWBZ
for 40 years broadcasting the craziest weather in the land. Way to go Barry!
#weatherrolemodel
#deanofweather
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Omar has formed FAR offshore from N. Carolina. However, since it's heading harmlessly out to sea, it shall be henceforth dubbed NOmar in the eyes of meteorologists.
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There is growing concern about a storm off the Eastern Seaboard late this weekend into Valentine's Day. Seemed like it would swing far and away, but it's inching closer to us.
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The pine pollen is silly this year. Look at this pic sent to me by Grzegorz Dorman from North Billerica! 😳😳
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We'll be watching that "L" in the lower right (potential major hurricane) VERY closely next week. 👀
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24 TRILLION gallons.
That's the amount of water that has fallen in California over the last 16 days.
At a capacity of 600 billion gallons, that's the equivalent of 400 Lake Winnipesaukees.
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Scaling way back. Critical band of snow that was going to hit overnight is fizzling. Still some tricky travel overnight and early AM. Now, onto spring.
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The weekend has now trended MUCH drier. Our storm has shifted south (thanks to a storm over the Maritimes), and the chances for rain have greatly diminished. This is not a drill.
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It's a great time to be a meteorologist. Kinda.
Rain tonight switches to snow tomorrow...along the coast, it may switch MANY times between rain & snow. Totals there, not so deep. Winds 45-65 at/near coast, 35-45 elsewhere.
Let's go. (Back to spring.)
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Storm coming Sunday PM. Who’s ready to throw down some numbers?
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Hey look, it's dark. Welcome to sunsets after 4. (4:35 to be exact.) Gorgeous nonetheless.
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To be clear, there is *NO* threat for a landfalling tropical system in Southern New England. This will be a close brush with Lee. Away from the coast, this is a breezy, rainy Saturday. Along the coast, we'll take the brunt of the wind/rain. Quick wrap Sat. PM/night.
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Climatologically the snowiest month of winter in Boston...and not a peep from any significant storms in the first week (plus).
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If Twitter is the stream of consciousness of America, we are in deep trouble.
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Track shift south...totals coming down from Boston north. Still seems like a solid storm SE Mass. These numbers likely to lower to the north if trends continue. Starts rolling in the 7-9am. Never really intense north of the Pike, so travel will be slippery, but not impossible.
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And away we go.
Snow most intense Saturday late AM through PM.
Snowfall amounts/lines likely to change...especially in this highly variable situation.
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8-12” is the snow range for the storm. (Coast too.) Exceptions are south & east of a line from Plymouth to Providence where 4-8” will fall. 2-4” from the Canal to the outer Cape.
Bigger question is where the 12-16” will be. 🤔 Favoring points N&W of I-128 right now.
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Positive stroke lightning on far left. Note how the lightning flickers/holds longer. The charge is ~10x that of negative (more common) stroke lightning. Higher charge, longer discharge. (Also more deadly...although NO lightning is safe.)
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Wow! And double wow on the traffic.
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I'm numb. At a loss for words at this point. Horrific massacre at a Texas elementary school.
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Trade secret: trickiest part of ramping down a snowfall forecast is whether the forecast has stabilized OR whether the trend continues right up until the storm's arrival.
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Almost 4 years since our last blizzard (3/13/18) and the numbers keep going up.
This should be the last number upgrade, but maybe some line adjustments ahead.
Be safe, stay off the roads, & ventilate your generator. Keep the boiler exhaust pipes clear/ice free too.
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This is BIG
BREAKING: Incredible news. The United States Senate just passed PERMANENT Daylight Saving Time.
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Before I start the tweet maelstrom about our pending nor'easter, let's reflect on the gorgeous (some say best in years) foliage now peaking in Northern New England:
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Unlike Snapface and Instachat, Twitter is almost never broken...until I get a nasty tweet.
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Spring is officially here!
Welcome to the season of...sea breezes, occasional 80+ deg days, fog, frosts and snow that lasts for a day.
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@JamesSmith617
@growingwisdom
Sure it smarts. Sure we'd like to present the exactly correct forecast, but to apologize for it implies we intentionally misled people about the forecast. We conveyed the potential, the risk, the scenarios. Difficult forecast to say the least.
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I'll leave this right here. Records are in the low and mid (!) 80s Wed-Fri for Boston. 80 is possible by Friday in spots.
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