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Note from the Associate Editorial Director: Weather CDI storms with peer advice: Save yourself from unexpected pitfalls

By Melissa Varnavas
There’s a photo of my mom and dad from the winter of 2015, snow piles towering over them on either side. That year the Boston area received blizzard after blizzard. We still call it (with a nod to J.K. Rowling) the winter-that-shall-not-be-named.

This winter hasn’t been so bad. In Massachusetts, we’ve had stretches of temps below 10 degrees, but not the nine-plus feet of snow 2015 dumped on us.

The thing about New England winters, though, is that if you live here long enough, you get to know them. You build up a layer of tolerance to them. You live through the winter-that-shall-not-be-named (second only to the 2005 winter of I-can’t-believe-we-lived-throughthat) and you actually miss the Tetris-esque challenge of where to put the extra three feet of snow the forcast has coming your way.

 

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