There's a blizzard coming. And if it's not fully there yet, just hold your horses. The weather forecast is not looking good. Up to 18 inches in the New York City area, and wind gusts of up to 50 m.p.h. — 75 in parts of New England. Trust me, that's not a winter wonderland for snowmen. So hopefully you're reading this from the warmth of your living room with the refrigerator stocked. Because if you're thinking of going outside, don't. Here are 15 scary blizzard GIFs and tweets to convince you to stay inside.
The storm is named Stella, and it's a type of Nor'easter that could potentially become really bad really quickly. Storms don't intimidate you? Well what about a "weather bomb"? No, seriously. There's a thing called bombogenesis which Stella is being formed by. It's the rapid falling of air pressure in a 24-hour period that results in extreme winds and precipitation. There can even be lightning (in winter!). Stella may not sound scary, but bombogenesis sure does.
Hopefully your office has already closed. But if it hasn't, you might want to send an email calling in "stuck" — at home that is. You don't want to leave the house to find yourself unable to return. Take a look at these tweets, and stay put, why don't you?