WCVB reports that Harvey Leonard is retiring from daily forecasting on May 25, but that this fall he will become the station's chief meteorologist emeritus, in which he will come back on air for severe-weather and climate coverage. Read more.

Why yes, and when that somebody is our own Harvey Leonard, we begin to think about checking the breadbox and refrigerator. But before we clear space in the trunk for all that extra milk, he first cautions:

With regards to that next storm (middle of next week), parts of New England could see snow..too early to say for sure.

While Harvey Leonard was only calling for 6-10 inches on Wednesday in tonight's forecast, Pete Bouchard was telling us could get up to 15 inches: "Wow! We're going to get hit pretty hard on the South Shore!" he said - adding Boston is also in that big band.

Harv did get points, however, for mentioning the Blizzard of '78, although he was referring to the Washington storm the other day. Pete, meanwhile, was pooh-poohing the 6,000-person snowball fight in DC: "You won't see us calling it 'Snowmageddon,' he said.

Steve Nadis objects to Harvey Leonard trying to whip us into a weather frenzy by showing a temperature map that extends all the way to the North Pole.