It's snow season in America, and although the East Coast has been hogging all the weather-attention this year, the Midwest put Blizzard Nemo to shame on Thursday.
Of all the major northeastern cities, Boston got the worst of the storm. A car ban has been in effect since yesterday evening while nearly two feet of snow fell in some areas. But a Boston covered in snow and without any traffic sure brings in some amazing pictures.
The storm currently making it's way through the east coast knocked out power for more than half a million people across eight states, and some places have snow drifts that go well above your chest. This storm is real, people.
Threatening as they actually may be, snowstorms aren't hurricanes — and just because The Weather Channel started naming them doesn't mean that's proper meteorology. Here's what AccuWeather and the National Weather Service have to say for themselves.
Until the white-out begins — and as it continues to hammer the Northeast all weekend — here are the weather experts you should be reading and/or following on Twitter and beyond, plus what they can already teach you about this "Nemo" storm.
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