Comment on Storm of political blowback after blizzard misses some areas

In the wild world of winter weather, location is everything, which New York and Massachusetts learned too well Tuesday. Small last-minute changes in the air morphed what was supposed to be crippling feet of snow into a handful of inches, leading one forecaster to apologize, the National Weather Service boss to get defensive, politicians to explain themselves and some Northeast residents wondering where the much-hyped snow went. The not-so-great blizzard of 2015 did wallop the Northeast: Long Island and Massachusetts got hammered with more than 2 feet of snow.