White, fluffy drama

Vicious winter storm blasts the Midwest

Parts of the Midwest are being ravaged by an December blizzard while the Northeast looks at a wintry mess.

Vicious?  Blasts?  Ravaged?

I know it’s The Weather Channel, so they can get quite excited over a snowstorm of almost any size, but does this headline and article summary from their homepage strike you as a little dramatic?   

Not to mention the incorrect use of the word an before the word December.