The word of the day is Nor'easter.
Get used to hearing it. It likely will be mentioned about a million times in the next 48 hours.
Which means the winter of our discontent marches on.
Yes, we are going to get some more snow.
It's not going to arrive until late Wednesday night and into the day on Thursday. But that won't stop anyone from talking about it non-stop. It will be on the radio. It will of course dominate the TV news. It will be talked about in the office, at the water cooler, and in schools.
At the supermarket? You bet, by the hordes who descend there in search of the bread, milk and eggs that have become the essentials of our Winter Survival Guide.
It appears almost certain that the storm currently rumbling out of the Gulf of Mexico is going to deliver another powerful winter punch to the Philadelphia region, already driven to its knees by a brutal winter topped off by last week's ice storm.
This one is packing more heavy, wet snow, which almost undoubtedly will mean more downed lines and more power outages.
It won't take much snow for this storm to push us to the fifth snowiest in history. Right now the official count at Philadelphia International Airport is 43.3 inches of snow.
Most forecasts are calling for anywhere from 6-12 inches of snow, with more as always in the infamous "northern and western suburbs."
There also is a chance that the storm shifts to freezing rain and then rain on Thursday.
I'm pretty much done complaining about the weather.
At this point, I'm resigned to putting one foot in front of another and slowly trudging toward a spring I know must be out there somewhere.
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