The October storm was bad enough out here in the boonies. But the warm weather cannot be global warming because that is a hoax put forward by powerful global conglomerates! Oh wait...it's the conglomerates who say it was a hoax. Oh mighty corporations I bow down before thee and declare you omnipotent! Cheers!

Maybe we should say "The 1st Winter that wasn't", eh? Then we can look forward to the next Winter that isn't, until they happen so frequently, we ask "What is it that wasn't anymore."

This winter was a gift from the snow gods after last winter.

The average of weather statistics for this winter and last winter is the long term winter weather average. 80" snow (2011) + 8" snow (2012) = 88" snow / 2 = 44" (42" average).

Get used to it. The effects of climate change are now in full effect and will only grow larger. Here we go.

Another light-hearted treatment of the extreme weather the country and the world have been having! Our children and some of us won't think it's so funny when climate change really gets going. Your words like "apocalypse" may be more serious than you intended. The basic mistake is thinking that meteorologists know about climate; they don't. They are experts about the location and effects of high pressure systems but they can't tell you why these systems tend to be where they are. For that you need a climatologist; there are plenty of these around Boston waiting to be interviewed about what we need to do to avoid disaster. The report on global water security, also in today's Globe, gives a more realistic idea of a small part of what we can expect; that's the story that should have been on the front page.