LATE JANUARY AND we’re still awaiting our first major snowstorm — meanwhile, strolling jazz street musicians were playing up a storm in New Orleans this week after a record 10-inch snowstorm hit the Big Easy and other parts of the South as this crazy climate change scenario continues.
Alex Branton of the Mount Washington Observatory, who hails from Pensacola, Fla., said Thursday her former hometown received 9 inches of snow, breaking the former Florida record of 4 inches.
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