Why Are There Suddenly So Many Nor'Easters?
Wednesday is the first full day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, but you wouldn’t know it on the U.S. East Coast. A huge, ponderous snowstorm is lurching its way up the Atlantic seaboard, dumping snow from Washington to Boston.
More than two inches per hour are falling in some places. At Washington’s Reagan National Airport, it hasn’t snowed this much, this late in the season, in more than 50 years. And the storm will not be a passing event: The entire system will meander up the northeast, snowing all the while, for almost two days straight.
Blame the groundhog, perhaps, who predicted ... seven weeks ago. But for residents of the region, it’s starting to feel more like a different kind of This storm is . After a brief warm stretch in late February that , the country’s densest corridor has gotten pounded by windstorms, snow squalls, and persistently chilly temperatures.
