How can I describe today’s weather, with a nor’easter bringing overnight rain that is currently changing to snow?
First, I’ll note that most of our storms this year have brought more rain than snow, causing some locals to coin the term “pour’easter” to describe a winter storm that is more wet than snowy. Today’s storm was forecast as a traditional nor’easter bringing high winds and more than a foot of snow to Western parts of the state, but here in eastern Massachusetts, we’re experiencing a storm that is half pour and half nor: a pour-nor’easter?
Second, it’s just before 2:00 pm, and I’m wearing my third pair of pants, socks, and gloves of the day, having changed out of wet clothes after walking the dog in the morning and with J midday. I’ll probably have to change clothes again after getting home from an afternoon errand, it being a cold and drenching kind of day.
Third, while cleaning wet, sludgy snow from my car in advance of that aforementioned afternoon errand, I quietly coined a new term to describe pour-nor’easter precipitation: splat snow, based on the sound it makes when you brush it off your car and it lands as a clumpy puddle on the pavement below.
Mar 15, 2023 at 5:57 am
“…half pour and half nor: a pour-nor’easter?”
I’m all dirty-minded, so phonetically, that turned into a “Porno Easter” in my head. Sorry. But on the bright side, that might make for a delightful holiday! Better than egg-laying rabbits!
But “splat snow” also sounds more than vaguely scatological. Enjoy the splats while they last!
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Mar 15, 2023 at 7:41 am
Being stuck inside during a pour-nor’easter might give some dirty-minded folks more time to watch porn, at least if the power doesn’t go out?
We ended up getting more pour than nor, so the splat snow is mostly melted: easier to clean up than the other sort of splat.
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