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When ‘Frankenstorm’ First Caught Our Eye

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.”

We suspected something might be different about this one.

We had no idea.