“6 hours before, one could look at publicly available RADAR images of the snow and easily discern that the big snow would miss the Eastern seaboard.”
But it didn’t miss the Eastern Seaboard——much of it was hit.
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you misinterpret the event.
it grazed the eastern seaboard. the real snow fall occurred out to sea
It was supposed to range from DC to Maine. Perhaps I should have been more specific, but the area that was supposed to get historical snowfall didn’t. I grew up in the region and we really didn’t think of Massachusetts and Maine as anything buy New England.