(Image Source: NOAA)

BY EVAN BUSH

A 90’s throwback -- On the 20th anniversary of the famed “Perfect Storm” -- the Northeast got a taste of winter -- harkening memories of that 1991 Nor’easter.

CNN shows just how hard it’s coming down.

“This is just stuff that you can’t even shovel at this point in time. It’s turning into slop. Look at that -- that’s like a pan cake. That’s not eve going to come apart. It doesn’t even break when it hits the ground … At five o’clock this is going to be one solid sheet of ice.”

And MSNBC notes -- it’s not even Halloween yet -- when did October become winter?

“...this looks like a forecast map you’d see in December or January”

ABC News explains who’s getting an early winter and how this storm had been ‘perfected’ across the country.

“Is this real? Well, look what happened in Texas the other day. This is the storm that is coming this way. It hit Texas, and before then it was in Denver -- surprised them... The storm is going to barrel through here through Pennsylvania and then into the North East -- it is a true N’oreaster.”

So how record-breaking is it? CNN says this kind of snow in October is at the very least uncommon.

“It’s been 59 years since NYC had a measurable snow. Now measurable snow doesn’t mean flakes and flurries -- at least a 10th of an inch. So, since records have been kept by the national weather service in New York -- it’s only been 3 Octobers -- 3 times since the 1800s. So certainly quite rare, but not unprecedented, since we have seen it.”

Forecasters expect snowfall to continue into the night and some areas could see 10-13 inches. As expected, there’ll be sheets of ice and poor road conditions.