I thought I'd get some perspective on this weather event...

...so I thought I'd see what the Weather Network had to say about it:

Boston, MA
Current Weather 13:00 EST
1°C Light snow

Feels Like : -6
Wind : 41 km/h

Humidity : 86%
Pressure : 102.09 kPa
Visibility : 1.2 km

Sunrise : 6:49
Sunset : 17:07
Ceiling : 600 ft

24-Hour Precipitation Outlook
30-40 cm of snow from Friday Afternoon to Saturday Afternoon.

Not too bad, eh?

Their home page adds a link to Storm Watch: Major storms for ON, Maritimes and New England - TV has updates..., although the file itself mostly talks about Southern Ontario, with hardly a word about the Maritimes or New England.

Nemo?

From Slate's Future Tense blog:

Contrary to popular belief, winter storm Nemo is not named after a fish. And it is most certainly not named after the fictional clownfish protagonist of the Disney/Pixar hit film Finding Nemo. Let me explain.

There are some, including the National Weather Service, who frown upon The Weather Channel's decision to begin naming winter storms at all. I am not among them. If people weren't calling this weekend's Nor'easter Nemo, they'd almost certainly be calling it something far more annoying, like Snowmageddon II or Snowpocalypse Now. But I and several readers did wonder, when The Weather Channel released its storm-name idea last fall, about the odd explanations for some of the names it settled on. Nemo, for instance, is defined thusly in the cable network's official announcement:

• Nemo: A Greek boy’s name meaning "from the valley," means "nobody" in Latin.

That's not the only head-scratcher among the network's storm-name explanations:

• Gandolf: A character in a 1896 fantasy novel in a pseudo-medieval countryside.


• Khan: Mongolian conqueror and emperor of the Mongol empire.


• Orko: The thunder god in Basque mythology.


• Q: The Broadway Express subway line in New York City.


• Rocky: A single mountain in the Rockies.


• Yogi: People who do yoga.

Really. Not this: