"More Snow..." 7•Jan.•11

The second snowstorm of the winter has blanketed our area in the Northeast. Since I made it out to the airport this morning to look for airport and aircraft related imagery in the snow, it kind of worked out nicely as we wrote about today's weather conditions, airline delays and scheduling in the paper / website. Besides being good daily images, they can be used later as file images for a business story, transportation, airline travel this time of year (wouldn't that be a business story too...?) and of course airline safety. Since I'm still required to make the local everyday images of snow-shovelers, roadway traffic and the like, these types of images at the airport are now an annual trek for me in "weather." I am still amazed that commercial pilots can fly in this weather with almost non-existent visibility and precip on the runways & taxiways. I guess this now conforms that winter is really here... ~cg.

US Airways Express Flight #3582 from Philadelphia taxis to the terminal after landing at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, NY on Friday January 7, 2011. The second snowstorm of the winter is expected to dump upwards of 4" to 8" of snow in the region, and continuing through Saturday morning. CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record

Snow plows clear a taxiway (foreground) and runway (background) at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, NY on Friday January 7, 2011. The second snowstorm of the winter is expected to dump upwards of 4" to 8" of snow in the region, and continuing through Saturday morning. CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record