Probably the closest match in weather history to this storm is the second wave of the Great Freeze of 1895, in which 10-20” of snow fell on coastal Texas and Louisiana and Tallahassee picked up 2”.

Their invention, the pineal gland simulator and regulator — or “Pinacal” — simulates the effects of sunset and sunrise in order to stimulate hormones, which in turn causes astronauts to experience a ...