Publication Date January 21, 2016 | Vox

Meteorologists are running out of adjectives to describe the East Coast blizzard

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Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images

Meteorologists and weather reporters are running out of adjectives to describe the blizzard that is set to hit the East Coast this weekend. As meteorologist Eric Holthaus, writing in Slate, puts it: "Only religious texts can adequately describe the top-end snowfall scenarios that some weather models are insisting."