streets of new york. mayor bloomberg says they re going to do everything they can. they learn lessons from 2010, and also learned lessons more recently from the superstorm sandy. listen. we certainly found out with sandy that fire, police, sanitation, parks, transportation, buildings, the mayor s office, people with disabilities, all know how to work together. they got a great experience in doing that. i think since it s fresh in their mines there s certainly some benefit in that. now, mayor bloomberg says this storm is no sandy but that does not mean it cannot hurt and cannot kill. everybody has to be as safe as they can tonight. shepard: jonathan, thank you. the forecast for specific areas is changing and we want to good to the weather center and rick right after this. my bad.
shepard: breaking news from california. a new development now in the case of the ex-cop already accused of murdering three people and wounding two others. police right now are executing a search warrants at the suspect s mother s home. brand new video just into us. the police at her house. the latest on the search live from big bear and a live report coming up moments from now. first back to the weather that is crushing the northeast, or about to. our chief meteorologist has the forecast live in the extreme weather center. i know there have been some variations in predictions. a little bit. it s going to be a little more than nor easter storm. places like buffalo and syracuse, a slightly less snowfall total. we have been showing the two
are like, look, you good crazy for this stuff. not going to be that bad. i say that is a pretty dangerous statement. shepard, we re going to be looking at 18 plus inches in a large area of southern new england. boston, hartford, providence worcester, and we re going to have whiteout conditions, blowing and drifting snow and travel is shut down. so it s a huge storm. the question we have to try to answer, and the jury is still out, is how big is it going to be? is it going to rival the 27.6 inches that fell in february 17th and 18th of 2003 in boston? that is a possibility. hartford s all-time snow, january 12, 2011, 24 inches. shepard: a winter mix all day, since 8:00 this morning. but you guys have said all along, and so has hour team, that when these two systems
so i think we ll stay at all snow for the remainder of the inning and tonight, and when those two storms collide, which is going to happen, this piece of energy there and this coastal storm going to happen around 7:00, 8:00 tonight. it will be completely absorbed. and then we re going to see an explosive strengthening of the storm. temperatures we plummet and it s snow for everybody. nobody on the rain. one thing that may be different at this point. it s moving a little farther towards the east a little quicker. i think we look at maybe the snow tapering off at bit earlier tomorrow than we thought it would be. shepard: but not in boston. boston is in for just a whopper, isn t it? right around two feet of snow, i think all indications. you look at their of fine snowfalless storms ever, people think the northeast gets the big storms but the highest they ever had was 27-1/2 inch inches in team. we re going to be around that
merge, that s when the worst of it begins. what time does it look like to you guys? i think it s already started now. we re starting to change over to snow in new york city. that s an indication that the cold air is being drawn in. and it s not just the combination of the northern storm and this gulf moisture. it s the arctic air that came in across new england a couple of days ago, and if you look at a satellite and you look at a radar, take a look at what you see. all the twisting and turning. the yellows and orange. that storm is now intensifying, and i would say after 7:00, 8:00 tonight, and then tomorrow morning, it s going to be very extreme across southern new england. whiteouts. thunder snow, that s the least of their problems. and ex-again, this is going to get very bad, very quick, as we go through tonight. shepard: you re thinking two or three inches an hour in the worst hours. and how long does that go on? when does this get out of oway?