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What does climate change have to do with snowstorms?

  • Written by Michael A. Rawlins, Associate Director, Climate System Research Center, UMass Amherst
What does climate change have to do with snowstorms?Boston got socked with nearly 2 feet of snow in late January 2022.Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Bostonians may have grumbled about digging out from almost 2 feet of snow after a historic snowstorm clobbered the Northeast in late January 2022, but it shouldn’t have been a surprise. This part of the U.S. has been seeing a lot of storms like this in...

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