The big winter snow storm turned out to be a huge bust.
As such, the series of meetings and public hearings that were canceled at the state Capitol on Wednesday are all being rescheduled. A hearing on several agencies as part of Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s proposed $18.91 billion budget – including the allocations for the University of Connecticut and the UConn Health Center – has been rescheduled for February 19.
Many of the meetings have been pushed back into next week because the state Capitol is closed on both Friday and Monday for state holidays.
On Channel 3, the meteorologists admitted that the much-hyped storm was essentially a complete bust in the Hartford region. Depending on the location, the storm dumped between 2 and 6 inches in many towns in northern Connecticut. New York City, by contrast, got about 9 inches, and places like Baltimore got much more. Greenwich came in at 10 inches, and Fairfield got about 10.5 inches.
“Weather is an inexact science,” Channel 3’s Mark Dixon said on the air Wednesday. “This was a very difficult storm to forecast.”
Meteorologist Bruce DePrest was more direct.
“This is one of those cases where we were just wrong,” he said on Channel 3.