Wow. I got up at about 8am this morning to 9°F temperatures with -9°F wind chill (about -12°C with wind chill of -23°C) ..brrrr. There is a huge snow storm on the way, due to hit NYC later today and last about 24hours. They're predicting over a foot of snow and are comparing it to the blizzard of '83 (I guess it was a memorable storm back then). Sounds like fun to me. I'll let you know what happens.

..update at 3pm..

kewl. -10°C and it's started to snow. I might go for a walk to the shops soon (only just down the road and around the corner a bit). It's very fine dry snow ...there's going to be some hellish powder skiing in the mountains later in the week. The weather channel is hilarious. Every 10 minutes or so they have this seriously dramatic music with bass drums banging away and huge orchestral crescendos and a full screen graphic saying 'The Presidents Day Storm!' in big bold font (it's Presidents Day tomorrow - a public holiday here). This is then followed by a current update spoken in urgent excited tones of where it's snowing at the moment and how much, with quick jumps to reporters supposedly in various locations standing in the snow stating the obvious (they're probably all standing in the same place and just pretending to be reporting from different places). This is of course interspersed with phrases such as 'We are now on high alert mode!' and 'we are now in severe weather mode!' etc etc. Major hype. I'm sure they could make watching paint dry seem exciting if they had a mind to do so. Damn funny.