Mother Nature has put us through quite a lot this winter, but especially the mid-Atlantic region of the east coast of the U.S. which is not used to dealing with so much snow. Well, whether they’re ready or not, the ill prepared southeastern and Mid-Atlantic States are getting hit with a little more. Beginning early Thursday morning, cold high pressure fronts are moving throughout the eastern United States to create the atmospheric cocktail that produces heavy snowfall along the east coast. Kentucky and West Virginia are expected to see the most snow, getting a prediction of five to ten inches from the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center, which also predicts that temperatures will be lower than average for this time of year, falling anywhere between ten and thirty degrees Fahrenheit.

 

States of emergency have already been declared by the governors of Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia and New Jersey. Even Congress hustled through proceedings in recent days under the daunting predictions of heavy snow to hit Washington, D.C.

 

Despite the seemingly never ending winter, Mike Halpert, deputy director of the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center, says this “might be winter’s last hurrah,” a welcome end in sight to one of the worst winters in recent memory.

 

The brunt of this storm will be felt in the Mid-Atlantic region, barely stretching to southern New England, but a few inches are predicted for Boston, and Bostonians welcome it. At this point, Boston is extremely close to experiencing its snowiest winter ever, and after all they’ve been through, the people of Boston want this year’s winter to go down in history. Erin O’Brien, a professor at the University of Massachusetts – Boston, says, “I want the record. We earned the record.” And Boston just might get there, being only a couple inches shy, with this one last storm.