The New England Patriots are once again Super Bowl champions, but Mother Nature remains undefeated. Heavy snow in Boston will delay the victory parade.
Not everyone loves a parade, it seems. Mother Nature seems to be against the idea, in any event.
The New England Patriots were set for an 11 a.m. Eastern parade through downtown Boston on Tuesday, but the effects of Winter Storm Linus put the kibosh to those plans.
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With as much as 14 inches of snow reported in the Boston area, according to weather.com, the Boston schools will be closed again Tuesday and the parade has been postponed until Wednesday.
“Due to today’s bad weather and the worsening forecast for tonight, the New England Patriots and the city of Boston have made the mutual decision to postpone the victory parade until Wednesday, Feb. 4, at 11 a.m.,” Boston mayor Martin J. Walsh’s office said in a statement, per ProFootballTalk.com. “We thank everyone for their flexibility and patience during the planning of this parade and we look forward to celebrating with Patriots fans during better weather on Wednesday.”
Over the last seven days, Boston has reported more than 34 inches of snow, as of 5:38 p.m. Eastern Monday, a new record for the most snow over a seven-day period.
The old mark of 31.2 inches was set Jan. 2-8, 1996.
Winter Storm Linus has also moved Boston’s seasonal snowfall to more than its average for the year—more than 44 inches of snow have fallen on Boston, which averaged 43.2 inches per season.
Snow was falling at rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour Monday morning and more than 520 flights had been cancelled by 3 p.m. Eastern Monday afternoon at Boston Logan International Airport, according to FlightAware.com.
The flight-tracking website was reporting as of 6:30 p.m. Eastern that inbound flights are being delayed by almost two hours at their points of origin.
That could also have had an effect on a potential Tuesday parade—fans returning from Phoenix can’t get back home.
Gov. Charlie Baker is also receiving some criticism for his decision to keep state governments and roads open on Monday.
The Northeast is bearing the brunt of the latest winter storm after more than 6,000 flights were cancelled in the Midwest, with as much as 20 inches of snow falling in Chicago and Detroit, according to weather.com.
But perhaps the best part of storm coverage is the verbs used to describe them. Headlines scream that Winter Storm Linus “eyes” the Northeast and television broadcasters also seem to revel in anthropomorphizing weather systems.
Then again, we name them now, so it’s no wonder these storms are taking it so personally.
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