Waiting for that 4 00 p. M. Advisory to determine the full extent of new yorks travel ban and whether or not new yorks subways will shut down. We are expecting a very high rate of snowfall starting later this evening combined with high gusts, gusts as high as 55 Miles Per Hour, so get to wherever you have to get by 11 00. On a night like tonight, you really are jeopardizing yourself if you are out past that hour anyway. We learned all broadway shows in new york city will be cancelled tonight due to the storm. Joining me now from boston is chris pallone. Whats the word up north in boston . Reporter even though there hasnt been a lot of notice for this storm, friday into saturday the models started showing the blizzard was coming. It appears that people are heeding the warnings. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has been very emphatic. This might be a historical event. You need to be prepared for this. You might have to stay in your home maybe two, maybe three days lose power. Make sure you have enough food. Fill up your car with gas. Be prepared for whatever might come this way. Theyre predicting 20 to 30 inches of snow here in the boston area. It is not just the snow that theyre worried about. This storm is accompanied by high winds that could reach 55 mile an hour winds inland and 70 miles an hour on the coast. So people who live up on the north shore, plum island, all the way down to the cape theyre boarding up their homes as if they are facing a hurricane because the tidal surge, the flooding that could accompany this storm, could be catastrophic for a lot of people. The cities and towns in the area are prepared to take on that snow. Once it gets into the 2 to 4 inch per hour range, it is going to be very difficult to keep up. Today as a commuting day was pretty quiet. It was not a normal monday to say the least coming into boston today. Even today at 4 00 when you would normally see a lot of people i saw a lot of those people leaving at 2 00 or 3 00 this afternoon. How vulnerable is bostons electrical grid . We were just doing research. A lot of new york citys electrical grid appears to be underground. Not necessarily so in boston. A lot of it is above ground. Will there be a broad power outage in boston at some point . The governor has been sharing with the media where they anticipate the highest amount of Power Outages could be. There might be widespread Power Outages on cape cod and plymouth. As we move inland the winds are supposed to be a little bit less. Theyre expecting fewer Power Outages inland. Depending on how heavy the snow is they have tree branchs that could come down and take out an entire neighborhood for power. The infrastructure is not quite as underground here in boston as it is in a place like manhattan. Thanks for the update chris. Sure. Joining me now is bill carons. We are expecting an updated weather advisory. What are you seeing in terms of the forecast . Dont get caught up in the updates. It is updated every 12 hours. The National Weather service do their big updates at 4 00 a. M. And 4 00 p. M. East coast time. New york city, i just texted my wife. I told her get home. Tell her it is time to go. I was thinking 6 00 to 8 00. This band of snow is over new york city. You can see we are moderate snow, but it is coming down already. This goes all the way out on long island. It is heavy to moderate snow. It is accumulateing about an inch, maybe about a half an inch, an hour. We had a little bit of snow pellets. That made it slick on the roads too. It is time to get off the highways and off the roads in and around new york city and long island and soon up in southern new england. I dont think you have to wait until 8 00 or 6 00. Get home now and get safe if you can. Tomorrow it wont be like this. I was watching the wind gusts. Only about 10 mile per hour winds. Temperatures hovering right around 30 degrees. This isnt even blowing. Tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. I wouldnt be able to stand that up. The snow will be about up here. The bottom line the worst of this blizzard the winds are going to add to the heavy snow. Midnight to about noon tomorrow thats from portland to boston to worcester right down through providence into new york city and the jersey shore. Someone is going to end up with three feet of snow. I bet you im going to hear thunder snow. Im going to hear claps of thunder. If youre close enough youll see an eerie greenish hue in the clouds. Thats the color the lightning looks like in snow with the way the light bends and refracts. I dont know whats crazy in that sentence the thunder snow or you staying out there all evening long. Thats if. I want to ask you one more question, which is the wind seems to be the huge sort of the thing that distinguishes this particular blizzard but the wind in particular has a chance of sort of throwing like everybodys expectation of what snowfall looks like out the window. I read somewhere that the snow drifts i mean given 50, 60 mile per hour winds, that could be much higher than the two feet that is currently predicted. It is going to be hard to measure. If youre the lucky one, you may have 6 inches to 12 inches in it. If all that snow blows in your neighbors yard they could have five to six foot drifts. When the wind is gusting 60 to 70 Miles Per Hour, it could easily just blow all over. Tomorrow windchill single digits. Youre going to want to get out there and shovel to try to get ahead of this. But you could shovel and an hour later, the wind blows another foot back into your driveway. It is not until wednesday morning that i recommend that you get out there. It is not like it is going to be warm but at least the wind wont be as bad. This is one of the situations where procrastination will actually help you. Take a quick cocoa break. Hang with me. Were going to go on the west side highway here in new york. Were hearing broadway will be going dark tonight in the city. Yes. New yorkers are prepping for what will be a massive blizzard tonight. We have an inch and a half to 2 inches to accumulating and were already getting the biteing snow in your face. The traffic here as been slower than normal. This would be bumper to bumper of people taking their way home. Already the streets have been salted. City officials have tried to get ready for this blizzard. Many city officials are saying that they want people to stay home tonight, to get home early from work. We know that the subway system will at least be partially closed from 7 00 to 8 00 p. M. Tonight. The streets and roadways will be closed by 11 00 tonight. They want people in their homes and hunkered down for when it gets the worst. Thanks for the update. After the break, more than 6,000 flights have already been cancelled impacting routes across the country. We have everything you need to know about travel delays. Plus have you been hearing the term bomo genesis . We will look at how that phenomenon is making this storm especially explosive and as always, we want to hear from you good people. How are you preparing for the snow . What are you buying . What are you planning on eating . Weigh in. This is not a storm to take lightly. If youre without power, you are going to be without power for a period of time. In all likelihood, several days. [ snoring ] [ male announcer ] zzzquil, the non habit forming sleep aid that helps you sleep easily and wake refreshed. Because sleep is a beautiful thing. You drop 40 grand on a new set of wheels, then. Wham a minivan tbones you. 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Statewide travel bans go into effect in connecticut at 9 00 p. M. Tonight. Ground stops are in place at laguardia and newark airports. All flights in and out of bostons Logan Airport will cease starting at 7 00 p. M. Tonight. Joining me now is kate rogers. Thanks for joining me. Whats the latest on the air snarls . Of course. Alex as you said, there is certainly a ripple effect. There were only about 2,000 flights this morning cancelled or delayed. That number is now at 6300. Ground stops have been enacted here at laguardia and also at newark airport. It is kind of turning into a ghost town at laguardia airport. We also saw Major Airlines like united and american completely stopping all their service to select airports in the northeast beginning tomorrow including philadelphia boston, newark, laguardia where we are, and jfk. Boston, theyre still the only airport at this hour to completely suspense service at 7 00 p. M. Tonight and continuing to tomorrow. They hope to have things back to normal by wednesday. Theyre saying the way things are going right now in the new york city area they wouldnt be surprised to see all flights cancelled in and out of this area tomorrow. Are there flights scheduled to leave tonight out of new york that have not been cancelled . There are some have haventthat havent been cancelled at laguardia. They have seen more than 50 of the flights out of this airport cancelled today. Newark airport has seen more than 87 of the flights cancelled. It is definitely getting worse and worse out there. Thanks for the update kate. Thank you. Back with me is phil carons and professor jeffrey sax. Phil let me start with bombogenesis. What is that for those who do not know . It is not as rare as the whole polar vortex. It happens probably six to ten times a year from october to march. It is when any storm quickly intensifyies intensifies. It has to drop 24 millibars in 24 hours. This storm is undergoing that process right now. It is easily going to get past 24 millibars in 24 hours. Even the storm we had on friday that brought this snow, that was a bombogenesis process also. It is kind of a catchy term but you get the picture. Im starting to worry that new york city is already ahead of schedule. I was just looking at the radar. I dont see any breaks coming. I think were in the steady snow now. The winds are picking up. It is only going to get worst from now. There are already 2 to 3 inches on the ground. Were at an inch an hour accumulation already. The heavy stuff is from midnight until noon tomorrow. That is what is going to make this historic the length and the duration. Dr. Sax, thank you for joining us by phone. What a pleasure. I wish i could come into the studio, but off the streets. You have a good excuse today. We have been talking a lot about erratic weather patterns. We have focused on the warming of the earth. This would seem to for those who doubt Climate Change they will point to moments like this and say but it is so cold it is historic snowfall. Is there an interrelation between extreme heat and extreme cold and extremely erratic storms . Certainly the scientists think so. And the Scientists Say they are two big reasons why were getting mega storms such as the big rainfalls in spring and summer and bigger snowstorms in the winter. With warmer temperature, the air holds more moisture in general and second the oceans are really warm right now. That means that extra amount of precipitation in the warmer air over the oceans so the scientists are saying that while you can never be sure of any particular storm, we should be expecting this kind of trend. And i asked one of my colleagues just now what the record is for mega snowfalls. He points out that since the records starting in 1869 of the ten biggest snowstorms five of them have come since 2003. That suggests were seeing a lot more of this kind of extreme event. Thats what we expect. Thats what the Climate Science says. While you cant say it about any particular storm, its definitely consistent with those expectations. Bill when we talk about predictions, theres an expectation that this part of the world will be hit by more bigger and deadlier storms but this one in particular. This was not supposed to hit the northeast. This was supposed to go out to sea. What happened to change that path . Alex i think you directed that to me. This storm was supposed to be about 200 miles off the sea a while ago. Then it kind of switched saturday morning. Thats not that unheard of. That was 72 hours in advance. We kind of knew that this storm was coming. We cant tie that into anything. If you look at the top ten snowstorms in new york city all since 2000, 2006 we broke the record, 18 to 20 inches in 2011 and again in 2013 yes, we have shattered some crazy records. So storms like this arent unheard of. Is the frequency of storms like this increasing . I hope that kind of answers your question. You can never tie one event into anything, but when you start tying 10 15 different storms within a 10 to 15year period thats when you start thinking. This storm has to throw the moisture back at us. It needs the energy. It needs the warmth from the ocean, from the gulf stream. The temperatures are above average from maine to the east coast. Thats also responsible for this. The warmer the ocean water, the more energy that is available for this storm as it picks it up and tosses it back at us. And that is something we have also been talking about, the unprecedented warming of the ocean. Dr. Sax, Hurricane Sandy cost this area 71 billion of damage. We dont know what the winter storm juno is going to do. It seems like framing this changing climate in an economic context is a pretty powerful way to get people to start carrying a little bit more about the changes that are happening to the earth. Of course thats right. Theres a simple costbenefit analysis that we are making a terrible deal right now in risking massive, massive losses when the cost of getting the climate system safer would be very small indeed. It is just opposed by very strong invested interests. To keep this in perspective for everybody, i expect that most people heard by now that 2014 was the warmest year on the planets instrument history. In other words going back to around 1870 when weve been measuring the temperatures using a thermometers and other instruments. 2014 is the warmest in history. The trends and the dangers and dit disasters all over the world are clear whether it is droughts massive flooding, these kind of extreme storms, the storm that hit the philippines one after another after another of those giant mega storms. It is vast and getting larger but we have this powerful oil industry that has been fighting this. They bought the senate unfortunately. The republicans just voted down science again last week. They were given the opportunity to reflect on the most basic science that human activity significantly contributes to Climate Change and the republicans voted against that 495 in the republican party. Theyre just on the take with the big oil money. Yeah it is an ironic juxtaposition that the vote that happened last week in washington and what is happening this week on the northeast coast. Thank you guys both for your fulltime. Time. Great to be with you. Coming up, late the games begin. Republican president ial candidates were out in force. 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