"We are watching a conveyor belt of wave after wave of snow coming in over the Atlantic, " said Alan Dunham, meteorologist with the weather service in Taunton, Mass.

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Since this term is totally without meaning, she can then claim that the latest forest fire, the latest hurricane, the latest drought, flood, snow, cold snap, heat wave, or tornado were cause by man, and that scientist X said so.

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This relatively minor shift, the model found, still produces enough energy to initiate a wave-like pulse of crystal-shattering snow separation that quickly propagates uphill and leads to a major release of the upper layer.

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