Juno: The Little Snowstorm That Couldn’t

Author: Claire Baum

On January 27th a huge blizzard was expected to drop three feet of snow across the greater New York City area. The city prepared for incoming “Juno” by shutting down public transportation and local schools. Private schools, office buildings and businesses began to follow suit.

Here’s the thing about Juno, though: when you name a storm after a movie on teen pregnancy, what can you really expect? Juno is the little storm that couldn’t. Instead of dropping 3’ on Manhattan, it dusted a solid 7”. That’s about a 29” discrepancy, but who’s counting, am I right? In all fairness, Ithaca got approximately the same snow coverage, and I was wearing light snow boots for a day and a half. It’s like when you walk out of a prelim and the person who took it next to you tries to convince you it was hard, and you’re like, “no, I think it was fine,” but you nonetheless start to think twice and get way more worked up about it than you need to be. That annoying person trying to convince you the test was hard is now the weather channel trying to convince us that snowshower Juno was, in fact, bad. Once again, something not worth getting worked up about.

I could probably count the number of snow days I got in high school on one hand, yet Juno managed to shut down nearly every school in Manhattan. In fact, People Magazine published a video of the entire storm sweeping through Midtown, Manhattan in 56 seconds. It looks like a pretty typical snow shower in Ithaca.

Unfortunately, Juno hit New England the hardest, with some areas getting over thirty inches. On the bright side, Snapchat created a story following Juno in both Boston and NYC. While people giggled about the brief drizzle in NYC, snapchatters quite literally skied through the streets of Boston and other surrounding suburbs. The contrast helped bring a lighthearted mood to an otherwise scary storm.

 

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