1. Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
2. these flakes as forming a layer on the ground or other surface.
3. the fall of these flakes or a storm during which these flakes fall.
From Jan 27 through Feb 23, 99.9 inches of snow has fallen in Boston (2.5 meters). According to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, this has “shattered” the 5- 10- 20- 30- and 40-day snow records. Harvard, which historically has never shut down has been closed 3 days already this semester — when public transportation shuts down and the state prohibits all but emergency vehicles from being on the roads, not much you can do but stay in and watch it fall outside!
Weather.com says it will start again around 1am tomorrow morning… because we need more!
Out my front door…
Up my street…
Up my street the other way…
After the first storm (or maybe the second)
During the fourth? or fifth? or sixth? storm
Frontloaders out and about all night and early mornings – shoveling snow into dumptrucks that take it to get melted or dump it in the Bay
A balmy evening walk home (1)
A balmy evening walk home (2)
A balmy evening walk home (3)
Some photos from friends below — and a perspective from the Harvard Graduate School of Education here 😉
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