From USAToday: "Over a foot of snow will fall in localized areas of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut and the cities of Hartford, Conn., Providence, R.I., and Boston," predicted AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski." You have to be interested in the weather with a surname like that.....or it's a wind up.... http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/01/01/new-england-ny-snow/4277525/#!