Paul Kocin
Paul Kocin
Paul Kocinis a meteorologist and winter weather expert. He grew up on Long Island, New York and received his B.S. from Cornell University, followed by his M.Sc. from Pennsylvania State University. After graduation, he briefly worked for NASA as a contractor then was hired by the US National Weather Service at the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center in 1989. Kocin worked as an on-air personality with The Weather Channel from 1998 to 2006. He returned to NOAA afterward, first as a surface...
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Some of those gusts were as high as 70 mph. This was not a surprise to some of us, but sometimes, the impact of it can be a surprise.
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You got some wind up there. And how many January days do you get temperatures of 60 early in the morning? That's a sign of how unusual the storm was. It was not your classic nor'easter.
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The criteria are: How much snow fell, over how large an area, affecting how many people.