There's a reason why you're looking at grass and pavement today instead of digging out or throwing down ice melt. It turns out that Winter Storm Stella was going to be less than advertised. Forecasters at the federal Weather Prediction Center knew, yet didn't share.
Stella was originally predicted to drop up to a foot of snow on the region, but meteorologists at the Maryland-based center didn't drop the predicted amounts for here or anywhere else when they realized the storm wasn't going to live up to expectations.
Greg Carbin, chief of forecast operations for the center, which is part of the National Weather Service, told the Associated Press (AP) that they knew after a conference call on Monday afternoon that the amounts would be lower. They decided not to issue the lower amounts because people might not have viewed the storm as the threat it remained because of the potential to produce icy conditions.
They stuck with the higher amounts "out of extreme caution," Carbin told the AP.
"There's always uncertainty in every forecast, and we have to get better at describing that," Carbin said.
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