![]() ![]() Down jackets twisted on department store racks like hungry ghosts. Sales of woolly hats, boots, snow blowers, and rock salt plummeted. The heat spelled sweet relief for the thin-blooded endless summer enthusiasts. Daytime highs hovered at 15 degrees above normal. Blitzen would be swapping the sled for a cigarette boat. As Christmas closed in, it looked as if Donner and. But even weather-hardened Bostonians found December 2006 puzzling. ![]() Temperatures here can sink from balmy to arctic overnight, icing streets into axle-twisting slicks that melt into moats in the next day’s sun. There is scant hard evidence for this, but I’m inclined to believe it. | RAMA RAMAKRISHNAN, FORMER CHIEF SCIENTIST OF ORACLE RETAIL It is often said that New Englanders talk more about the weather than about all other topics combined. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: ![]()
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