vocab lesson

so there is big talk lately in the news of a Nor'easter coming our way...i won't try to convince you that i know what that is...i actually had to ask one of the parents of my students...he explained it as being a big storm system that moves up the east coast and stalls over us...and dumps a ton of snow on us...this is the wikipedia's definition of it: A nor'easter (also northeaster; see below) is a macro-scale storm along the East Coast of the United States. A Nor'easter is so named because the winds in a Nor'easter come from the northeast, especially in the coastal areas of the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada. More specifically, it describes a low pressure area whose center of rotation is just off the East Coast and whose leading winds in the left forward quadrant rotate onto land from the northeast. The precipitation pattern is similar to other extratropical storms. Nor'easters also can cause coastal flooding, coastal erosion, hurricane force winds, and heavy snow. Nor'easters are characterized by having an association with a warm front, cold front, or occluded fronts.

so in terms i understand we are under a severe storm warning from sat night through monday morning...we are being told to expect 18-24 inches of snow by the time we wake up on monday morning...this seems so far fetched to me....
it has been snowing or flurries almost everyday at some point for the last 2 weeks...today i took so more photos at school pre-nor'easter...we'll see what happens...here are some pictures that don't even come close to capturing the beauty of today's snowfall....

i will be taking pictures after this big storm hits...we'll see if it ends being everything they are saying it will be...
just in case i borrowed some snowshoes from my classroom so dominic and i can use them on sunday or monday maybe...
let it snow...let it snow...let it snow