Environment
Why the Snow Forecast for New York City Was So Bad
"If you asked me to concoct a situation with high potential for a busted forecast, I’d concoct the one we had yesterday."
New York City got a snow storm overnight, but "historic" it wasn't—unless you count the subway being shut down for the first time for that kind of weather* in all its 110 years. Despite forecasts calling for up to three feet of snow, New York's official snow accumulation tally was a decidedly more modest 10 inches or less.
While New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio and state Governor Andrew Cuomo defended their widespread travel bans and transit shutdowns as "better safe than sorry," Gary Szatskowsi, meteorologist-in-charge at the Philadelphia/Mt. Holly National Weather Service Forecast Office, made a striking apology for his part in the forecast on Twitter.