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OK, now we're just piling on ...
By adamg on Wed, 03/18/2015 - 4:44pm
The National Weather Service says it's looking more like we could get ACCUMULATING WET SNOW starting Friday morning. And they're mentioning things we just don't want to hear anymore, like CYCLOGENESIS (granted, it's no BOMBOGENESIS, BABY!) and the 40/70 benchmark. The French Toast Alert level has been adjusted accordingly.
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Tell me it's April 1st?
Tell me it's April 1st?
This has to be the kind of joke that makes me cry
No, not April 1!
Some of us still have kind of painful memories of April 1, 1997.
I need to clarify something
During this time of woe, I've been referencing this storm and the city's bad job removing the snow. However, I referenced the wrong street. I was at the commuter rail station at the Roslindale Square, but it was Amherst, not Roslindale Ave, that I was staring at. At one time they were theoretically the same street.
That said, it is too late in the season, and we've suffered too much, for this white shit.
I was 8 back then. I remember
I was 8 back then. I remember I was still hoping for more snow, just one more snow day. I had and still have a snowglobe where I kept a half belief that if I shake it, it will bring snow (no, I have not touch it the past year). I recall I did shook it some few days earlier, maybe even the night before, hoping it will bring one more storm. Then woke up on April 1st and boom, snow - so much snow. I got dressed, ran outside, and jumped... and got stuck because I didn't realize how high it was. My dad had to pull me out.
April 1, 1997 was a great day.
Awwww!
So sweet! There were very few snow days that year, and it was a relief after 1995-6!
My son was a young toddler and he would insist on taking a spoon with him when we went out on a walk or walking errand. He would toddle along, dragging his spoon along the snow banks.
Wait a minute...
I'm no sports expert, but didn't we break the record? We don't need anymore. You don't play overtime when you've won the game! (You don't, do you?)
But you still play your remaining
regular season games after you've secured your playoff berth.
Unseasonably cold?
They mention a front that comes through behind the snow will bring "unseasonably cold" temperatures with it?
What does that phrase even mean?
It was cold always; cold it is now; cold shall it always be. Saying it's slightly more or less cold than the cold that came before and the cold which is to follow is like saying gravity may or may not be a little stronger on a given day. The cold, and its eternal partner the wind, shall be with us for the rest of the days.
Unseasonably cold
= colder than normal for this time of year. And yet another of those pointless phrases that weather types love to use to try to sound more intelligent than us mere mortals.
It's a joke, son
n/t
Should not have cancelled the Evacuation Day holiday
During the height of the snowpacalypse days, unable to visit friends/family who lived at the distant ends of the Orange and Red lines, I remembered reading a book about the British occupation of Boston. Boston residents couldn't visit their families in nearby towns because of the occupation.
Boston celebrates Evacuation Day because it was the day the city was freed from the occupation. So I was hoping that Evacuation Day would mark the date that the winter leaves Boston.... the one year that this holiday would make any sense. But this year, to make up for snow days, BPS canceled the day, and now winter will never leave.
C'mon!
"Boston celebrates Evacuation Day because it was the day the city was freed from the occupation."
That's not why Boston celebrates Evacuation Day.
You mean ...
A day when the people of Boston kicked the Brits out of town isn't part of the celebration?
Correct
Boston celebrates Evacuation Day because they would get in serious trouble if they celebrated Good Friday instead, like the private sector and most of the rest of the world does.
A point that is totally lost on Howie "the real hack" Carr and others.
Good Friday?
Good Friday doesn't correlate with Evacuation Day.
The rest of the world doesn't celebrate Good Friday, either. Seems to be a mostly East Coast thing to shut down for. I never got off school for it, I've never had an employer or school shut down for it, and I think it is a sham that public systems shut down for it in a year where we've had so many closings as it is.
"like the private sector and most of the rest of the world does"
Really? My employer doesn't "celebrate Good Friday". We're a business, not a religion. In any event, it's unusual for Good Friday to be anywhere close to Evacuation Day.
St. Patricks Day, Not Good Friday
So, of course the popular view is that it was a good excuse to take St. Patricks' Day off. (Though the fun of St. Patricks Day is to go to work or school wearing green so I'd rather not have the day off actually.)
It (was) (is) a big part of local history for Dorchester -- the fort on Dorchester Heights, etc.:
... Which brings us back to the whole topic of this year's snowpacalyspe.
It means temperatures will be
It means temperatures will be significantly below the seasonal average for the forecasted period.
Do you also complain that "it was always windy" when we get wind advisories/warnings?
If extreme cold in winter is "unseasonably cold" ...
What season, exactly, does it belong to?
Besides the fact that March
Besides the fact that March 24th isn't winter, a low of 19 is atypical for that time of year.
French Toast Link broken
No French Toast Alert for me!
Too much French toast for me!
Link fixed, sorry about that.
A French Toast Alert Alert?
A French Toast Alert Alert?
I've had it
I'm going to write to the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary and ask them to add this weekend's forecast as the definition for "unnecessary".
Abominable!
Game of Thrones is prophetic?
Winter is coming they keep complaining. Winter that will last years. Does life imitate art?
It isn't fair!
According to Frankie MacDonald, this storm will bring warm rain to Nova Scotia!
Latest NWS forecast for Boston
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So, it sounds like we're going to get 1 1/2 inches of snow out of this at most. Hardly a "snowapocalypse."