The numbers behind an Alaska weather forecast of ‘cement falling from the sky’

A meteorologist from the National Weather Service’s local office recently told a newspaper reporter that heavy, wet, snow would materialize in a few days. He said it would resemble “cement falling from the sky.”

Three days later, I grunted to lift a shovel blade full of heavy slush. How did that weatherman call this from three days out, when skies were clear and there was no sign of a winter storm?

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