Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

We’re apparently expecting some snow in Dayton tomorrow. The problem is, there’s no way to be sure when it’s coming or how much we’ll get. Every weather forecast I check is different. I’ve been through this a bunch of times in my 30 years. We’ve had predictions for clear nights where a few inches magically showed up on the ground the next morning, and predictions for the end of the world that turned out to be a stiff wind. So I’ve decided to keep a snow diary, a table of different weather forecast sources and their predictions, and a record of how those predictions change from hour-to-hour. It seems to be near impossible to predict if snow will even happen, much less any accumulation, and I want to compare the best of what meteorology has to offer with actual results after the storm. I’ll be updating this table every few hours or as the forecasts change (and they will.)
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