Just in time to punctuate the ending of the much-hyped global conference on climate change in Copenhagen, the Great Weatherman in the Sky sent a season’s greetings reality check message to the eastern United States, including the nation’s capital.
The New York Times reports that “Records Fall as Snow Blankets East Coast”:
It came up the coast on the last weekend of autumn, a ghostly apparition of midwinter, roaring into the solitude of cities and countrysides from the Carolinas to Cape Cod with blizzardlike ferocity. It closed airports, roads and malls and recreated Whittier