What Could Be Worse Than Two March Nor'easters?

How about three March nor'easters?

Once upon a time you got one big snowstorm to end the winter in March, and then . . . spring.  Spring, at last, glorious spring.  But this winter doesn't want to give up.  A third major (you never want to hear that word in any forecast!) coastal storm could affect the Northeast.  This comes on top of a snowstorm that spewed two feet of snow on my area like Linda Blair in The Exorcist spewing out pea soup.  It brought down trees and power lines all over Essex County, New Jersey, which was the epicenter of the heaviest of the heaviest snowfall.  The snow was of the wet variety, not the dry powdery stuff.  It did indeed bring down trees and power lines, leaving numerous New Jerseyans (and not just Essex County residents) in the dark.  Although my house was not blacked out, my property was not spared - I have an evergreen tree that's a whole lot shorter than it used to be, its top shorn off and deposited upside down in a snowbank next to a red maple tree as tall as the evergreen treetop.   

If there's anything positive to be said about this third storm (and believe me, I'm stretching it here!), it's that it may not be as bad as the last two.  

Although the March 11 Global Forecast System (GFS) 0z map for Tuesday morning, March 13 (above) looks ominous, this storm is likely to spare northern New Jersey of the heaviest snow, putting down two or three inches where I live and more east of New York City - and up to nearly a foot in Boston.  The snowfall map from the GFS March 11 0z run below shows the projected 24-hour  snowfall total as of 8 PM Eastern Time March 13.

Sadly, this offers little consolation to those who have been without electricity since this past Wednesday (March 7) and absolutely no consolation at all to those who have been without electricity since the first storm hit on March 2.  A lot of us are just ready to give up in disgust at the sight of even one more millimeter of snow.