timers like me, the most exciting two pages written in that era was the Meet The Doctor feature in the 2006 Christmas annual in which Russell T Davies naughtily hinted at his great contribution to the mythology, the Great Time War between the timelords and the Daleks.

In just three columns, Davies pulls together continuity from the television series old and new, the audios, the novels and the comic strips essentially validating their existence in relation to the new series underscoring that he believed as much as we did that when the show left television it simply continued elsewhere biding its time until it blazed back into the corner of the living room again.

It also does that ability the show has always had of implying epic galaxy spanning battlesThere were still large puddles left over from melting snow March 20, 2015. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Ben Fractenberg

NEW YORK CITY — The worst of the snowstorm set to pummel the city Thursday will kick into high gear at daybreak and won't let up until it's dumped up to a foot, forecasters said.

The winter chaos follows a balmy Wednesday, which hit a record high of 62 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

"Temperatures are obviously above average now," Weather Service spokesman Tim Morrin said Wednesday.

But once the storm arrives, New Yorkers can expect "near blizzard conditions," gusting winds up to 35 mph and temperatures in the upper 20s, he said.

Here's what to expect, hour by hour, according to forecasters:

THURSDAY

► 6:57 a.m. (sunrise) — About 2 inches will have accumulated