1st snowstorm of 2014 descends on New England, NY
Source: AP-Excite
By PAT EATON-ROBB
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Residents and emergency management officials in New England and parts of New York prepared on Wednesday for a winter storm predicted to help usher in 2014 with snow and frigid temperatures across much of the region.
Snow was expected to begin falling overnight, promising a messy commute for the first business day of the new year, but the full storm wasn't expected to hit until later Thursday. As much as a foot of snow or more was forecast for some areas overnight Thursday into Friday, and temperatures were expected to plummet, with some areas seeing highs just above zero, the National Weather Service said.
"There will be travel problems," said Hugh Johnson, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Albany, N.Y. "It will be very cold."
The storm dropped a half-foot or more of snow in Illinois on Wednesday, prompting hundreds of flight cancellations into and out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, according to the aviation tracking website FlightAware.com.
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People enjoy a snow-covered Cloud Gate at Millennium Park in downtown Chicago, which became a great photo opportunity for visitors, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. As much as 9 inches of snow has fallen in some parts of the Chicago area since New Year's Eve, and a second wave is expected to dump several more inches by Thursday. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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One in particular I remember was when I was in clinical training and we had 2 major storms/week. Came early, ended late, effed up my clinicals. It stormed every week on the day I was scheduled for phlebotomy, so nobody would show up and I ended up way behind and barely passed my hundred mark in time. And it seemed all I was doing was shoveling and recovering from shoveling.
But we haven't had the below zero temps here at the coast for a few years. In fact, I don't think we got much below freezing last year.
Anyway, I checked the temps here a few minutes ago. It dropped another 1/2 degree to 5 below. Brrrr...with wind chill of 15+ below. Brrrrrr....
but we're only down 0.2 degrees, now -6.2.
Glad I'm not in Van Buren, Maine. Not sure where it is. I'm guessing a touch south of Canada and inland. 
