The COLOSSAL SNOW DUMP came and it WASN'T EVEN WINTER YET!!!
Global warming?
PFFFFFFFFFTTT!
That's odd; today's Globe was a huge pile of that stuff.
Buried (pun intended) in a 2x12 column in the left-hand corner of page A5.
You might even miss it amongst the full page ads surrounding it.
"Storm caused havoc on E. Coast" by Associated Press | December 21, 2009
CHERRY HILL, N.J. - The fierce weekend storm that stranded travelers up the Atlantic coast from Virginia to New England dropped more than 2 feet of snow in some areas, and conditions remained treacherous yesterday.
Arriving on the cusp of the winter solstice, the storm dropped 16 inches of snow on Reagan National Airport outside Washington Saturday, the most ever recorded there for a single December day, and gave southern New Jersey its highest single-storm snowfall totals in nearly four years.
The National Weather Service said the storm gave Philadelphia, which began keeping records in 1884, its second-largest snowfall: 23.2 inches. Even more was recorded in the Philadelphia suburb of Medford, N.J., at 24 inches. Around New York City, the brunt of the storm hit Long Island, with whiteout conditions and 26.3 inches in Upton, an all-time record since measurements began in 1949. Nearly 11 inches of snow fell on New York City, and the storm could be the worst the city has seen since about 26 inches fell in February 2006, said National Weather Service meteorologist Patrick Maloit....
--more--"Related: Slow Saturday Special: Snowed Under With Global Warming
"Northeaster was messy but manageable" by Eric Moskowitz and Jeannie Nuss, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent | December 21, 2009
The first northeaster of the season yesterday brought swift winds and substantial snowfall, dumping nearly 2 feet of snow on parts of Cape Cod, hampering scores of flights at Logan International Airport, and putting a damper on the last weekend shopping day before Christmas....
Shopping? Who wants to go shopping?
The storm hit southeastern New England the hardest, as it drew moisture off the Atlantic, while leaving the Berkshires and parts of central Massachusetts mostly unscathed. Snowfall exceeded 20 inches in New Bedford, Bourne, Duxbury, Acushnet, and Kingston, according to the National Weather Service’s network of spotters, and surpassed a foot in other locations....
Amherst had only an inch or two....
Related: Global Warming on the Ground
Yes, I FEEL VERY FORTUNATE and LUCKY!
Someone else has been busy in Amherst:
"Patrols to combat holiday burglaries
Amherst police say a rash of burglaries at off-campus student homes during the Thanksgiving break has prompted an initiative aimed at preventing a repeat over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Town police plan to send out more officers, including some undercover, in off-campus neighborhoods where many students live. They are also urging students to lock their doors, take valuable items home, or put them out of sight of potential thieves by closing shades and curtains. Amherst is home to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst College, and Hampshire College. Tens of thousands of students are expected to leave the region for winter break (AP)."
Anybody check for footprints on the roof?
Maybe it was the "terrorists."
But the storm, which tapered off in most places by midday, was marked more by sluggish roads, snow-dusted rooftops, and supreme sledding conditions than by the havoc it wreaked in the mid-Atlantic, where record and near-record snowfall paralyzed regions, sent hundreds in search of shelter, and was blamed for multiple deaths....
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“acute weather conditions in northern France,’’ which has seen its worst winter weather in years."
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