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When we first saw the below map, we panicked, thinking we have roughly 24 hours to come up with a new term for a big snow storm that is not one of the following: Snowmageddon, Blizzardgeddon, and Snowpocalypse. (Note: Snowtorious B.I.G. is still on the table, as we've only used it once.) But as of right now it's very uncertain how much snow the area will get this week—Weather Underground is currently calling for a 70% chance of snow Thursday and Friday night, and the prevailing narrative is that it is going to snow. Maybe! Allegedly! Somewhere!

As of right now what everyone does seem to agree on is that some sort of snow fall is expected to arrive in the area as early as Thursday night. While this outrageous NBC map below shows New York getting nearly 30 inches, other reports are being a bit more modest, with predictions topping out around 6 inches. Our own weather expert Joe Schumacher tells us, "There's almost no way this map is close to correct... my jaw hit the floor when I saw it." He adds that we'll get "a few inches for the city, more on eastern LI and a blizzard in New England."

When a reporter asked Mayor Bloomberg this morning about the threat of snow, he replied: "This is the winter."