When weatherman Don Kent said that we were “in for a doozy,” it was time to batten down the hatches and get ready for a whopper of a storm. However, it wasn’t so easy in the good old days. Today, the list of cancellations is splattered across the TV screen in alphabetical order so parents and students can quickly see the status of their school day. Computer models, barometric pressure, Doppler radar and satellite images help forecasters do a much better job of getting the information to the public instantaneously. Of course, in the present day, predicting the weather has become a much simpler process. “Due to the inclement weather, there will be no school in the City of Gardner today.” The automated phone call came precisely at 5:30 a.m. As soon as the weather prognosticators begin checking the extended forecasts and a huge front develops in the Midwest bearing down toward the Northeast, the excitement begins.Īnd yesterday, the forecasters were spot on when four or five inches of the wet stuff made traveling difficult.
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