Weather

The entire state - except for Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket - is under a Fire Weather Watch for Tuesday:

EXTREMELY DRY AIR COMBINED WITH GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS AND LITTLE RAINFALL OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING TUESDAY.

Ongoing allegations of drug activity & prostitution result in the Mayor's office pulling out the ol' Scarlet Letter. Bring back the stockade!

Good Morning Gloucester reports.

Who's going to be the first reporter to bend down, gather up some snow, make a snowball and toss it?

Belgrade Auto on Belgrade Avenue is ready for this afternoon.

Are those snow clouds moving in over the Great Blue Hill this morning? The scene from the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

A weatherman can hope. The French Toast Alert now at blue, still too early for major panic, but we're eying that near-empty cinnamon bottle ...

Sullivan's at Castle Island re-opens this Saturday at 8:30 a.m.

Cheryl Stober looked out her office window today at the Greenway in Dewey Square.

Some reports, photos from today (may take a moment or two to pop up):

Stiofan forwards this photo of the result of a car-vs.-bollard incident in Harvard Square this morning. Lots of other smashups reported across the area as we magically lose the ability to drive in snow.

Just in time for snow, Boston has launched its Adopt-a-Hydrant program, in which you promise to shovel out a specific hydrant after a storm, like, say, the ones we're supposed to get tonight and Saturday.

Meanwhile, both Brookline and Cambridge have referral programs to match residents with snow with teens with shovels.

Cambridge City Councilor Minka vanBeuzekom tweets this morning:

After light snow best time 2 see urban animal tracks - like rats. Do you have any?

Dave Ahern looked out the window of his Dorchester home to see what a thin coating of snow means. He used the hashtag #yougottabekiddin

Crash at Everett and Clevemont in Brighton. Photo by bbarbaruolo.

Update, 11 p.m.: Expressway in Dorchester at a complete standstill in both directions; six cars collided on the Zakim.

Drivers unaccustomed to powder-covered roads, coupled with a lack of salt, means spinouts and crashes are beginning to pile up. A Hummer ran up into a house on Lake Street in Brighton, but did no major damage to either house or people. Police shut Everett Street in Brighton after cars started playing pinball. Boston DPW salt trucks began blasting out of their yards to treat roads around 10:45 p.m.

Ed. note: I held off on raising the French Toast Alert based on a forecast that called for everything to melt by morning as temperatures rose into the 40s. I should have known better.

Tom Bruno arrived at the Gloucester commuter-rail stop this morning to find it coated in all this white powder and wonders what in the world it could be.

OK, granted, it's man made, but if you want to remember what the stuff looks like, you can get a good view of the Great Blue Hill ski slope from Meadow Road in Readville.

Earlier:
What a difference a year makes.

The National Weather Service posted these images showing the snow cover across the Northeast today and a year ago.

UPDATE: There is one place in the Boston area where you can see snow.

Read more here from author Brad Johnson, a Boston native, who writes about climate and public policy for ThinkProgress.

Leslee noticed some trees are putting out blossoms even as they're dropping leaves.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Views of the Northeast enjoyed the rushing waters of Porter station today.

Copyright Views of the Northeast. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Good Morning Gloucester has the Webcam pics to prove it.

Also, just like the state warned us, Morrissey Boulevard is closed due to wicked high tides, as Lauren Glynn shows us:

Open-night skating festivities scheduled for Nov. 18 have been indefinitely postponed due to warm weather.

Snow delays nothing new in Boston: Stuck trolley in Uphams Corner, 1930.

The Globe reports the T will run fewer trains on snow days this winter, in an effort to give crews a better chance at dealing with snow and ice when the weather outside is frightful. They even have a new Web page to let you know about winter cancellations - which will be on both subway and commuter-rail lines.

Snowy wreck in Readville, 1931.

Photos of trolley and train from the BPL Leslie Jones collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.

A.P. Blake photographed his family's snowy pumpkinhead in Saugus today.