Juno-thusly named (by the Weather Channel) after the fierce, vindictive Greek goddess-was being touted as “a top five storm,” “dangerous and life-threatening,” “historic,” and, my personal favorite, from the National Weather Service, “paralyzing, crippling, epic, memorable. Starting late last weekend, the northeast began bracing for a serious winter storm. And right now I’m so frustrated with how Winter Storm Juno, aka, the Blizzard of 2015, aka Snowmaggedon, was covered. I didn't become a meteorologist, but I’m definitely still a weather nerd. I briefly toyed with the idea of becoming a meteorologist. Monitoring storms, predicting accumulation, comparing temperatures across the country, the channel was somehow both soothing and fascinating. The Atlanta-centric perspective on northern climates. Local on the 8’s, with its seasonally changing elevator music. We loved the enthusiastic, frumpy meteorologists. T he Weather Underground Organization was the most famous American radical group committed to political violence in the late 1960s and early 1970s. When I was a kid, in the 1990s, my mom and I binge-watched The Weather Channel like it was Breaking Bad.
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