FARGO -- Last week's Gulf Coast snowstorm was given the moniker, "A Once in a Lifetime Storm" by the national media. The national media love monikers, and they usually contain a certain amount of inflation from the truth in an effort to grab the public's attention. This one deserves examination. Many, but not all, long-term weather stations across southern Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida panhandle did break snowstorm total records, and many of the previous records were set in the Great Gulf Coast snowstorm of 1899. Given that 125 years is more than most lifetimes, the moniker works. This meteorologist's only concern is that the name, "Once in a Lifetime Storm," implies a periodicity that does not exist in our highly variably weather. Another similar storm could happen within a few years and then 175 years might go by without another.