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Snowstorm Compendium
Mon Oct 31, 2005
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We have this little book that took us the last couple of decades to write. It’s called Northeast Snow Storms, Volumes I and II. It’s going to be a terrific seller. It’s going to be selling dozens and dozens of copies.
Hi, I’m Bryan Yeaton for The Weather Notebook. You might recognize that voice as Paul Kocin, Winter Weather Expert for The Weather Channel. Kocin and Louis Uccillini (Director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction) have updated a book they wrote more than a decade ago.
The first book we did was basically a nice little sample. The second book was like, “no,” everything you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask. Hopefully, it will be the text to be on the subject for several decades to come.
BY: This books been anticipated for a number of years. What were some of the road blocks you found or what were some of the things that made it take so long?
KP: Well, we did add a tremendous amount of materials. You can’t go from 280-pages to 800-pages without including, not just…well we left out a few storms.
Kocin says that they also tried to add things like the effect of El Nino on snowfall.
We also wanted to talk about those storms that are very hard to predict called “mesoscale” snow storms, very small scale details that often wind up being in these storms that where one place might get three inches and then some place twenty miles away gets 20 inches.
Kocin says that a small error can have major results. Just being able to forecast a subtle shift of the movement of the head boundary makes the difference between a crippling snowstorm and a day like all the rest.
Northeast Snowstorms is available through the American Meteorological Society. The Weather Notebook is funded by Subaru of America.
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