Pete Bouchard explains.

Bostonians filled the 311 lines with plenty of road snow complaints today, such as this complaint at 7:16 p.m. about Gallivan Boulevard (which, granted, is a state road, not a city responsibility): Read more.

Rob Adams looked out his window this morning and knew just what to do: Make some festive French toast. Read more.

Jeremy Reiner reports it's been 1,019 days since the last time Boston has seen six or more inches of snow in a single day, the fifth longest such streak since 1891.

It's still too early to say for sure, but NWS is at least raising the possibility of snow on Thanksgiving, and so the French Toast Alert gnomes are frantically looking up French Toast recipes again (it's been awhile since they've needed them).

The Crimson reports the prolonged drought has been drying up Cambridge's reservoirs, leading to officials urging residents to conserve water - like by taking shorter showers. Worst case, Cambridge could buy water from the MWRA, which has larger, still relatively plentiful water sources out west, but that water would cost more.

Yesterday, a thermal inversion meant smoke from fires in Salem and nearby communities stayed close to the ground and came down into the Boston area. The thermal inversion is still there this morning as Nicholas Agri shows in photos from the Cottage Park Yacht Club in Winthrop. He reports the wind was blowing east today, but some folks are still reporting the odor of smoke.

The current forecast from NWS Boston shows a chance of rain for Wednesday night into Thursday.

A roving UHub photographer watched a crew carve up a large tree knocked over in West Newton by this afternoon's storm.

National Weather Service forecasters are saying that Tropical Storm Debby's track has shifted more to the north and west, so the impact on the Boston area will probably Friday into Saturday will probably be relatively minimal: "It appears the threat for significant flooding has shifted west of the region."