Lillie Marshall reminds us of that truism (OK, which we just made up) while looking downtown from the Cambridge side of the Charles this afternoon.
But that was nothing compared to what Cody DaSilva saw while actually out on the water in Boston Harbor: Read more.
Michael Spicher captured the sky view from Castle Island this afternoon.
On the whole, meteorologists just hate to link any specific weather pattern over a short period to climate change. But Pete Bouchard says it's time to face facts: While may be impossible to say the specific wet weather we've been seeing over the past few weeks is due to climate change, the fact that we're seeing more and more unusual weather patterns that last long periods of time is: Read more.
Ellen Berlin shows us the snow falling on the turnpike out in Westfield, on the other side of the Connecticut River, shortly before 1 p.m.
WBZ reports 12 people had to be evacuated from a triple decker on Boylston Street in Jamaica Plain due to major flooding caused by rain coming in through the roof.
Full House Tickets shows us the fog rolling in around 2:30 p.m. Then ten minutes later: All gone.
KMV looked up to catch the mackerel clouds over Boston this morning.
He was not alone: Read more.
As has become usual during nor'easters, Long Wharf flooded this afternoon. Human, Actual Size surveyed the briny deep where people normally walk. Read more.
DCR reports Morrissey Boulevard is shut southbound at UMass due to, of course, flooding, from the nor'easter-whipped high tide.
Tracy Strauss ran across these folks in Central Square today.
Ed Ryan captured somebody fitting in: Read more.
Have a seat! Space savers in Brighton.
An irate citizen filed a 311 complaint from Charlestown yesterday: Read more.
Yesterday, State Police went on social media to urge motorists to clear the snow off their roofs before getting on the road. Looks like word didn't filter into Boston: EmbraceTheBald spotted this BPD vehicle on the Expressway this morning.
The Leather District dad who in winters past has built a snow Batman and a snow Darth Vader turned to the work of Charles Schulz for inspiration today, as Mike McD. shows us.
And when life gives you snow during Mardi Gras, make a Mardi Gras snow bar, as Kim Foley MacKinnon of Roslindale shows us.
Bob Shaffer spotted these two guys and their big boi on Mission Hill today; reports they told him it only took them 45 minutes.
The Boston Fire Department is thanking James and Joshua, two Roslindale kids who shoveled out one of the city's roughly 13,000 hydrants today.
Meanwhile, City Councilor Matt O'Malley is once again giving out JP Licks gift certificates to any kids who tag him (or whose parents tag him) with a photo of them shoveling out a Boston hydrant.
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