WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:05.559 It's night side with Dan Ray. I'm WBSY Constance Radio. 2 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:09.400 Thank you Alic Grippin. As we head into our nine 3 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:13.480 o'clock hour and was as we await apparently the approach 4 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:18.800 of really the first real snowstorm of this winter of 5 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:22.000 twenty twenty four and twenty five with us is ACU 6 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:26.879 meteorologist Bob Larson. Bob, I got a feel and this 7 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:29.440 one's for real? What say you? 8 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:29.760 Well? 9 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:32.079 The first thing, Yeah, it's good to be here, Dan, 10 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:36.439 thanks for having me this evening. Definitely, this is standing 11 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:38.840 out more so than anything we've had to this point, 12 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.640 if for no other reason. Notice that we're not talking 13 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:45.920 about a changeover to sleet and rain and freezing rain, 14 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:49.079 not only specifically in Boston of course, the north and 15 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:51.000 west of suburbs, but all the way to the coast, 16 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:54.000 even out onto the Cave. This is primarily, if not fully, 17 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:57.039 a snowstorm, and it just no matter how much falls 18 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:59.600 without having to be concerned about rain, snow lines and 19 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:04.400 change overs. It's a fast moving storm, so there is 20 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:06.879 a limit as to how much can pile up. It's 21 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:10.439 not going to be turning into a mammoth a historic snowstorm, 22 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:13.799 but it is a snowstorm. It all counts, nonetheless. 23 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:17.200 So let's talk about this a little bit just to 24 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:19.840 help people. First of all, at this point and look, 25 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:24.120 predicting the snow or weather is more difficult than most 26 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:28.480 people realize. My understanding was that this is somewhere out 27 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.760 in the Midwest, and first of all, what's the timeline. 28 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:36.040 What's the talking about people here in New England generally, 29 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:38.480 you know, what's the earliest we're going to see some 30 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:41.079 snowflakes that are associated with this, and how long will 31 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:41.959 it last? 32 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:45.359 Timeline is well, as you mentioned, this is coming from 33 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:48.200 the Midwest Northern Plains, headed east bound across the Great 34 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:52.319 Lakes region tonight and then into the northeast tomorrow and 35 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:54.840 on its way toward New England, and snow should be 36 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.519 breaking out locally pretty close to twenty four hours from now. 37 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:59.760 I'll give it a window of between eight and ten 38 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.879 o'clock tomorrow evening for star time a little bit sooner 39 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:06.719 out in Springfield, for example, southwest through to Hertford Providence. 40 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.400 That's the direction more or less that it's coming from, 41 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.159 but somewhere in that time period. So bottom line, if 42 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:14.199 you have errands to run, things to take care of 43 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:17.520 things to do. Places to be no issues during the 44 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:20.159 day Saturday, all the way up through and just past sunset, 45 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:23.960 but things will go downhill and travel will deteriorate pretty 46 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.080 quickly Saturday evening once this moves in. It's not the 47 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:30.599 type of snow that where when it starts it's thirty 48 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:33.159 six degrees and it's initially melting on the roads and 49 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:35.520 it takes a while for things to get covered. This 50 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:38.039 should get going pretty quickly once it starts to snow. 51 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:40.879 Every flake will count and we'll see the snow begin 52 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:43.080 to pile up. And once the snow falls more heavily 53 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.919 toward and just after midnight, that's when we're really going 54 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:49.680 to see conditions deteriorate. As even though it's a fast 55 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:52.000 moving store, there will be a period of time the 56 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:54.680 snowfall rate will be impressive and still be falling toward 57 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:57.599 an incher a little bit more per hour, which is 58 00:02:57.599 --> 00:02:58.639 certainly substantial. 59 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.560 Okay, So again, and in terms of the general it 60 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:06.879 will be over sometime as I understand that after the 61 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:08.639 sun comes up Sunday morning. 62 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:11.639 Yeah, think of it roughly a twelve hour storm, so 63 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:14.240 an eight to ten pm window for a start time, 64 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:18.360 and likely ending eight to ten am on Sunday, give 65 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:20.840 or take an hour or so. So think of it 66 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.039 as essentially a twelve hour story. No matter where you are, 67 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:25.840 it starts first west and southwest likely ends first in 68 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:27.479 that direction as well. 69 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:32.680 Okay, and again it's always tough to give a prediction. 70 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:36.000 But what's the range, what's the what's the most, what's 71 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:37.879 the least? Do we talk in five to eight or 72 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:38.520 something like that. 73 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:42.360 Yeah, it seems like every storm has its complications when 74 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:45.520 it comes to forecast issues. More often than not isined 75 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:49.199 determining if and where it's going to be mixing with 76 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:51.240 and change you over to sleep and freezing rain. I 77 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.159 don't think that's the issue here. As I mentioned, the 78 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.360 issue this time around is the fact that while the 79 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:58.120 storm originates over the upper Midwest and as the heads 80 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:01.120 he's bound, there's a secondary story that will be developing 81 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:03.719 just off the midline of coast and that takes over 82 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:06.960 as the primary storm. And that's always a little bit 83 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:10.960 tricky to pinpoint exactly when that handoff occurs from storm 84 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.199 one to storm two and when that becomes the primary storm. 85 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:19.279 Case in point, long before that secondary storm gets going. 86 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:21.639 If you were to go do west to here, back 87 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:24.519 to say like Buffalo, New York, or Erie, Pennsylvania. So 88 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:27.199 or are they also getting six eight inches of snow? No, 89 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:30.160 probably only one to three inches of snow. Well, how 90 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:31.920 can that be because they're not going to have any 91 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.920 influence of this secondary storm, which will have access to 92 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:38.240 Atlantic moisture. So the storm that's come from the northern 93 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:41.000 plains is not all that terribly impressive, and as a 94 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:43.480 matter of fact, should be weakening as it comes eastbound. 95 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:46.319 But we're banking on the idea that this secondary storm 96 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:50.000 takes over and becomes and strengthens and becomes the primary storm, 97 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.040 and that puts down some moderate to heavy amounts. We're 98 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:57.439 expecting in terms of overall range, specifically calling it a 99 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:01.480 four to eight inch general accumulation across the area, perhaps 100 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:03.759 a little bit less out on the cape, not because 101 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:07.160 of rain, but because just it's proximity to where the 102 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:09.639 secondary is tour in forms. Down to Long Island, it 103 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:13.720 might be more like two to four inches. And then 104 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:17.000 you get down to central New Jersey and it's there 105 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:18.879 that's where they're gonna have a lot of sleep and 106 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:22.199 freezing rain. As you look to the north, still generally 107 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:24.279 expecting four to eight inches. I think there's going to 108 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:28.079 be a zone somewhere from central Massachusetts north and into 109 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:32.040 central and southern anyway from Mount New Hampshire and to 110 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:35.040 a down east Maine near or just west of Portland, 111 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:37.920 where there's going to be upwards of ten ten inches. 112 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:40.720 I wouldn't be surprised if we get some reports coming. 113 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:43.560 We had all these reports come to a some official. 114 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:43.680 Some not. 115 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:46.839 But I wouldn't be surprised if we see some reports 116 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.000 of right around a foot not locally per se, but 117 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.199 deeper into and farther north in New England. 118 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:57.079 Okay, Now, my sense, and I guess just my sense, 119 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:01.560 is that we haven't had a real snow storm in 120 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:05.399 the greater Boston area, meaning something like this, this spens 121 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:07.839 out five four to eight inches, that's a real snowstorm. 122 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:08.279 Yeah. 123 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:11.079 Really, in most cases, it's been a couple of years. 124 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:14.959 Right, Yeah, it has been. We were we were brushed. 125 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:16.319 I had to look this up, and I will do 126 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:19.120 so before we finish this conversation. But I do have 127 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:21.120 some stats in front of me that I have already 128 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:23.600 looked up. We have been what I would call Nickeldon 129 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:25.879 dime so far this year, little, this little of that 130 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:31.439 and with mixing, and it has added up. The official 131 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:35.279 snowfall total this season is sixteen point eight inches. Just 132 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.600 shy is seventeen inches? Does that sound a little That 133 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.800 sounds a little high if you're not really thinking about it, 134 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:41.879 me too, But doesn't that sound hot? 135 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.759 Figure inches? Is that the logan airport figure? 136 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:47.879 Yeah, that is logan, And of course that tends are 137 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:49.839 and lower than most of our northern west. It starts 138 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:53.600 logan sixteen point eight about seventeen. Compare that to what 139 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.959 is considered average historical average for the first week of February, 140 00:06:57.079 --> 00:06:59.759 where total normally would be twenty seven and a half inches. 141 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:02.920 So yes, we're below average by a little more than 142 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.839 ten inches ten and a half or so, but not 143 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:08.240 extraordinary low. It's not like we're in a snow drought. 144 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.000 We are. We just heard that report overall drought. In 145 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:15.199 terms of precipitation liquid precipitation, yes, that's a different story. 146 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:17.920 But in terms of snow amounts, it's below average, but 147 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.680 not astoundingly so. And there was that one storm. I 148 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:24.560 want to say, I know there was more than one 149 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:26.279 modest storm, but I want to say it was the 150 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:31.800 first or second week of January last year. Let me 151 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:33.639 see if I can find how much that was. I 152 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:36.720 think it kind of what we would say underachieved. Yeah, 153 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.199 it was only about four inches, but. 154 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:42.319 That was only snow. That's the only snowstorm last winter 155 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:49.560 that plow I mean, okay, great, it was a plowable storm. Yeah. 156 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:52.279 There was another one close to that on in mid January, 157 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.759 January sixteenth, there was three and a half inches, and 158 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:57.360 then the rest of the month it was just a 159 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:01.040 quarter of an inch here, half inch there. And it 160 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:04.560 seems to me that February is incredibly quiet. The total 161 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:07.120 from the entire month, the entire month of February a 162 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:09.240 year ago was a half inch total. 163 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:10.360 Yeah. Uh. 164 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:13.360 And then in March, where we sometimes had some legendary 165 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:17.079 March snowstorms, March was even less than February. Nothing measurable, 166 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:20.639 just a trace of snow. So there was just four. 167 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:23.079 We got to go back back in a couple of years. 168 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:26.079 A year ago. I remember, I have a great friend 169 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:29.639 of mine, Mark McCullough, who has a plow, and he'll 170 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:32.279 come over, he'll plow for me, and uh, that was 171 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:34.600 the one time I saw him, And I don't know 172 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:38.759 that there was a plowerable storm. The year before now. 173 00:08:38.639 --> 00:08:41.159 It was the year yeah, the year before was the 174 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:44.039 year that New York City just or a suth broke 175 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:46.159 a record for the least amount of snow of a 176 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:49.159 winter season ever. And just after New York, Philadelphia had 177 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:51.320 no I think it was like a tenth of an 178 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:54.240 inch snow for the entire winter season. That was two 179 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:56.879 years ago. So the whole Eastern Seaboard is not having 180 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:58.799 munch the way of snow for a good solid at 181 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:00.559 least two years. You got to go way back. 182 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:04.600 And for me, and I don't know, you know this 183 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:07.360 better than I do, but for me, you always have 184 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.879 to start most New Englanders who are alive today with 185 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:11.600 the blizzard of. 186 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:14.600 Seventy eight, Yeah, legendary. 187 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.799 Blizzard of seventy eight. You probably were very young. I 188 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:20.960 was a little older. Then you got to think about 189 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:26.440 the in my opinion, the April first blizzard of April first, 190 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:31.360 nineteen ninety seven, which was a big storm. And then 191 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:34.200 he got to think about the winter of twenty fourteen, 192 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:41.240 twenty and fifty hardly snowed in November, December, half of January, 193 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.360 and then it started snowing in the middle of January 194 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:45.960 and it wouldn't stop, and we got. 195 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:49.679 I wouldn't stop. It was one yeah, one storm after another, 196 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:53.840 one storm after another. Yeah, it was. It was crazy. 197 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:54.080 Yeah. 198 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.679 Basically every like like four to seven days or three 199 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:01.200 six days one year lined up. And then and then 200 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:03.519 we started running out of places to put the snow 201 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:07.120 because it right after it shut. It's not like you 202 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:09.279 could clear and push a pile. And then the post 203 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:12.960 got harder and higher and higher, and oh it was horrible. 204 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.720 I have a flat roof on an over porch, and 205 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:18.919 I knew at one point I thought, man, this this 206 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:22.000 may collapse. The porch was so much out there. So 207 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:25.720 I got a trusty shovel, climbed out a window, and 208 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:28.480 all of a sudden I realized up to my armpits 209 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:32.480 and snow, and I said, you know, if I die, 210 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:36.919 no one's going to find me until June. I back 211 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:39.039 in that window. But I didn't realize even how deep 212 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:41.480 it was it was. It piled up. 213 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:43.759 It was incredible. I can tell you this, dand I 214 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:45.480 can tell you this not and not that we're going 215 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.840 to repeat that, certainly, hope not. But the weather pattern 216 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:52.919 has changed a lot uh this month compared to January January, 217 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:55.039 we had a lot of cold weather, not a great 218 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:59.360 deal of snow. So far in February hasn't been severely cold, 219 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:02.600 but was starting to see more storms again. Up until now, 220 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:05.240 they weren't snowstorms or mixed precipitation here and there. But 221 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.840 we're seeing more storms come across the country. We'll lined 222 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:12.279 up one enter or another. We just said mixed precipitation 223 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:14.559 just you know, a couple of days back, and then 224 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:17.960 we've got this one coming. There's another storm that probably 225 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:21.120 primarily misses us to the south on Tuesday, but there's 226 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:24.679 one later next week that bears watching. There could be 227 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.000 a snow or mixed precipitation storm. And they all start 228 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.039 on the West coast. It's been so terribly dry, as 229 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:33.639 we know in California with the horrible wildfires. They're starting 230 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:35.840 to get rain out there now and heavy stone in 231 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:38.320 the Sierra starting to be a parade to storms. And 232 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:40.320 they all march across the country and end up here 233 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.279 in somewhere in these one one way or another. So 234 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:45.519 we'll have to see how long this pattern continues. But 235 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:47.720 for the time being, it's looking stormy. 236 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:52.559 Well again, I appreciate it, bof You're taking the time. 237 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:54.759 Do you have to work this weekend or no? 238 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:59.000 I do not, and don't tell anyone. I don't want to, 239 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:01.919 you know, yes, Bob Martin, we'll bring him in. 240 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:06.840 Yes, well, but no, management is not listening. Okay, Friday 241 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:10.679 night at night, that's true, Tue A great time you 242 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:13.759 and I that are holding the fort, you know. So Hey, Bob, 243 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.720 I appreciate it very much. You're always great to deal with, 244 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:19.480 and uh, tonight it was a command performance. I said, 245 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:21.919 we got to talk about this storm because I think 246 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:24.600 it's going to be for real. You do as well, 247 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:26.799 your opinion council a lot more than mine. But we're 248 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:28.679 going to talk about it for the next hour or so. 249 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:31.759 Thanks so much, Bob, appreciate it, staying my pleasure. 250 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:34.519 Yeah, we'll try you as well. It's always good to 251 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:35.159 talk to you. 252 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:37.000 Have a good evening, right back at you, you too, 253 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:39.200 have a good weekend. All right, here's what we're gonna do. 254 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:42.120 Gonna take a break, Gonna give out the phone number 255 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.559 six one seven two four ten thirty six one seven 256 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:49.480 nine three one ten thirty. My question is this Are 257 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:52.600 you looking forward to this? I kind of am. I 258 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.399 hate to admit it, but It's been a long winter 259 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:59.960 without mush snow, and I'm thinking, let's have a little 260 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.240 snowstorm that you know, maybe four to eight inches will 261 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:06.799 be fine and we'll all be satisfied. I also want 262 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:10.279 to know if how many of you remember the blizzard 263 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:12.759 of seventy eight, what you were doing? Where were you? 264 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:14.399 I know what I was doing. I was working as 265 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:18.799 a TV reporter. The April first blizzard of nineteen ninety seven, 266 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:21.840 they called it the April Fools Stay blizzard. I remember 267 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:25.399 that vividly, vividly, and I have a couple of stories 268 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:31.840 about that. And then the season of twenty fourteen to 269 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:35.720 twenty fifteen, we were a snow barren. There was no 270 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.320 snow to speak of until the middle of January, and 271 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:43.039 then it didn't stop. We're hardy New Englanders. If you're 272 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:45.200 listening outside of New England at this time and you 273 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:47.759 want to tell us a snow story, let's just get 274 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:49.600 ready for the snow. And have you gotten to the 275 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:53.440 store today and bought some bread, some eggs and some milk, 276 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:56.120 so you I mean that is a tradition. And also, 277 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:01.759 don't forget get some witchy, a washer fluid and a shovel. 278 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:04.279 Remember that all right, let's have some fun with this. 279 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:07.039 We're in New England. As we can handle it. Six one, seven, 280 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:10.000 two four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one 281 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:12.879 ten thirty. It's a Friday night. Let's have a little fun. 282 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:14.559 Coming back on Nightside right after this. 283 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:19.200 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 284 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:22.480 Nights Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 285 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:25.879 Let's go to the phones right away. Gonna start off 286 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:28.840 with Maureen and Brockton. Maureen, have you battened down the 287 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:29.639 hatches yet? 288 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:31.919 Pretty close? 289 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:32.159 Dan? 290 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:34.960 How are you? I'm doing great? Thanks for calling in 291 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.120 my favorite listeners and callers. What do you think You're ready? 292 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:40.320 You ready? 293 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:44.720 Well, it's really not in my hands. So whatever the 294 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:46.639 fall is gonna fall, I just haven't deal with it. 295 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:49.559 I'm not happy. But I have to tell you real quick. 296 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:52.799 So I was a senior in high school during the 297 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:58.360 nineteen seventy eight, and honest to goodness, I was really concerned, 298 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:02.919 not about the snow. But I went to Saint Colin 299 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:10.360 Kills High School in Brighton, and so we always graduated 300 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:15.759 in May. And my thought was, oh, good grief, you 301 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:17.440 know we're gonna have to make up this time. And 302 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:20.720 the senior class won't graduate until the middle of June, 303 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:23.879 so that was my somehow. 304 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:28.240 I will bet you graduated on time. 305 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:34.759 Yes, thank goodness, we did. But no, you know, it's 306 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:37.799 you know, we we have been lucky. And I'm not 307 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:39.840 a fan of the snow, even though I've lived here 308 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:43.320 all my life. But you know, if it's going to fall, 309 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:46.080 it's out of my control. I just have to, you know, 310 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:49.360 just wait and see like everyone else. 311 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.000 Yeah, you know, I mean, we'll be okay. I only 312 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:59.399 got scared a year ago or so. When I heard 313 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:03.720 that this storm, they had this fancy phrase. You might 314 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:07.320 remember it. Remember, they said, this storm is coming down 315 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:13.360 from Canada and it involves a bombo genesis. And I 316 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:17.200 thought to myself, what the heck is a bombo genesis. 317 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:19.200 I thought he was a relief pitcher like in the 318 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:22.159 National League, who I never had heard of. But I 319 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:25.360 guess it's a specific Someone out there who's more scientifically 320 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:27.759 oriented than me will be able to tell us. But 321 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:30.600 I guess it was some sort of combination Latin phrase 322 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:35.159 like meaning like a snow bomb. But I remembered that phrase, 323 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:41.399 bombo genesis. I thought to myself, if I ever was 324 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:44.799 involved in like writing a book or a play or 325 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:48.600 starting a band. I would call it Bombo genesis because 326 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:51.360 it was just had a nice ring to it. Did 327 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:52.759 you remember that phrase at all? 328 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:56.720 Or no? It does sound familiar and I want to 329 00:16:56.720 --> 00:16:58.720 touch I know you've got lots of calls. I like 330 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:02.799 this short and sweet. But going back to twenty fourteen 331 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:05.519 to twenty fifteen, I had just started my new job 332 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:11.079 in Hingham, Massachusetts, and the thing that drove me crazy, 333 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:16.319 I felt and you know, some meteorologists to me, it 334 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:18.400 was like they had to hit that hundred inches of 335 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:21.319 snow and I thought, well, honest to goodness, you know, 336 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:24.680 we don't need another inch. And then I remember driving 337 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:28.079 home and it was the funniest sight because somebody, you know, 338 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:30.599 in my neighborhood and they had shoveled and they had 339 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:34.519 a big sign and it said free snow. 340 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:38.400 A little humor, A little humor. Now I've never heard anyone. 341 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:40.359 We used to go out and do those live shots 342 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:42.920 and you try to find like the biggest snow pile 343 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:46.880 in that year. I wasn't in TV anymore, but the 344 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:49.119 reporters had a really easy time. They could go to 345 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:52.440 any street corner and find, you know, snow, piles that 346 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:55.799 were still around in May and they hadn't melted yet. 347 00:17:55.839 --> 00:18:00.200 But hey, that's not worth facing this weekend. But it's 348 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.480 more of a rigulous snowstorm, which which is good as 349 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.440 far as I'm concerned. Let's get have one good snowstorm, 350 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:09.200 get out of the way, and get ready for watching 351 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:11.799 spring training. Simple as that. It's a perfect time. 352 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:14.720 I'm with you, Dan, Thank you so much, and I've 353 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:16.759 got more people. You have a wonderful even have a 354 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:18.160 great weekend, Mauri. 355 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:20.440 Thanks for your loyalty to the to the program. I 356 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:22.920 really mean that. You're one of my favorites. Thank you 357 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.200 so much, Thank you so much. Tonight, right, good night, 358 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:28.160 take a quick break here, we got news at the 359 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:33.440 bottom of the hour. Your recollections of a snowstorm. Anybody 360 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:36.440 remember Bombo Genesis. Yeah, that was a big storm. We'll 361 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:38.200 be back on nice side right after this. 362 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:44.160 You're on the Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's 363 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:44.839 news radio. 364 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:48.000 Okay, back to the phones we go, going to go 365 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:52.359 to Mary in Rhode Island. Mary, Welcome to Night Side. 366 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:56.200 How are you welcome. I'm so happy to talk to you. 367 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:58.799 I've been trying to call and call and call, so 368 00:18:58.839 --> 00:18:59.359 here I. 369 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:03.559 Am all right, Mary, about. 370 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:11.440 Bristol, Bristol right on the waterfront. It's beautiful here, beautiful, beautiful, 371 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:13.519 been here all my life and I've listened to you 372 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:16.240 for years and years and I've never called. But I'm 373 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:23.160 here tonight, Yes I am. I need to tell you. 374 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:30.839 That's seventy eight. Blizzard just took this the time for everybody, 375 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:34.960 especially in our street, in our neighborhood, out playing in 376 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:40.200 the snow, communicating, talking, playing games in the house, playing 377 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:43.240 games we never played before. And I thought it was 378 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:45.519 the best thing that ever happened to us. 379 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:52.319 I obviously it was pretty scary initially, Oh it was. 380 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:55.000 It was you got to know your neighbors, didn't you. 381 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:57.400 Yes, you did. You got to know a lot of 382 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:00.440 people you never saw other than in a I'm going 383 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:02.079 by or walking you know. 384 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:03.920 So that was I. 385 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.559 Did a TV star. I was working for w b Z. 386 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:12.880 I was a young reporter, and I went to my 387 00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:18.200 parents' home in Readville, UH and helped shovel the snow 388 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:22.440 as part of the story. The neighbors were out there, everybody. 389 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:28.240 Was everybody, and kids, our kids built a snow h 390 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:29.559 what do you call it? 391 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:30.799 Snow ford? 392 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:34.519 Snow Ford, Yes, thank you very much. A huge snowfall, 393 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:38.279 and they played in that thing all for weeks and weeks. 394 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:41.440 It didn't melt at all. It really didn't, you know. 395 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:43.119 And I also want. 396 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:46.599 To go ahead, No, I just go ahead. 397 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:50.640 Oh and I just want to say congratulations on your 398 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:54.519 four thousand show yesterday. I tried to get in and 399 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:57.319 I couldn't, so I just wanted to say, what a 400 00:20:57.920 --> 00:20:58.960 what a wonderful thing. 401 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:02.039