From time to time, the weather-forecasting authorities issue warnings of some type.
Sometimes we write about them. Sometimes we don’t.
A year ago today, the National Weather Service’s highly technical Extended Forecast Discussion veered off into a digression about something it dubbed a Frankenstorm, “an allusion to Mary Shelley’s gothic creature of synthesized elements.â€
We suspected something might be different about this one.
We had no idea.