Step aside, thunder snow

Volcano snow has arrived. Cantore is going to freak. Severe eruptions along Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and Alaska's Aleutian Islands this winter have sent ash clouds miles into the atmosphere, which are then transported via the jet stream towards the continental United States. This effect is complimented by a southerly creeping Arctic air mass that drives the Jet Stream into the Snowmaggedon zones of New England (and the rest of the lower 48 for that matter). Whatever moisture or water vapor the cloud of ash accumulates as it travels across oceans, deserts, lakes, continents, etc freezes to the ash particles, gets heavy enough and precipitates as snow without regard to whether it enables shredding or disaster. Shredding > disaster. The diagrams below courtesy of the amazing Browning's Newsletter illustrate this better.