If the forecast called for snow, we'd know to pack boots or maybe ride the train instead of taking the car. Or, to use last week's storm as an example, if it started at 1 p.m., businesses and schools would know not to shut down all within one hour of the appearance of the first flake. And people would know better than to rush to their cars and head for the highways. And that they would be stuck, possibly for hours, subsisting on stale Starbucks coffee and sports talk radio. I admit to jealousy here.
Snow often makes traveling difficult.
It often is slippery, so watch your footing. Eventually, it will melt. It could happen again. Speaking of which, I am reading a nifty new book by Brian Fagan, who is a paleoclimatologist - an archaeologist of the weather. Fagan traces climatic changes over the last 1,000 years.