Where's the snow?Follow

It's January 9th, and it hit 42 degrees out today. Last Friday it hit 49 degrees. We didn't get any snow until a week after Christmas, and it was about 1 inch and was gone in 3 or 4 days.

So am I to expect a late winter, lasting until April or May... or is the Lake going to suffer and not get water this spring?


(Michigan, US).

No snow, no reason to start up the fireplace.

Also, Christmas doesn't feel like Christmas without snow.

It's here!

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/01/09/20120109alaska-town-tries-dig-out-from-huge-snow-dump.html

When I was in high school we had one or two very mild winters in a row, and everyone started freaking out. Without the snow melt in the spring, the Lake levels dropped. I think Lake Michigan dropped a foot or two that year. I can't imagine what it's doing these days (I don't hear people crying about it as much though).

I do remember all the rich folk living on the Lake making a big deal about the drop in water level exposing their beach fronts. And apparently the city said that the exposed land was public, so people on the public beaches were using it as a walkway across the beaches, walking in front of these huge mansions. The owners threw a big fit about the whole thing. I think the city ended up moving the "water line" since the whole thing was about tides exposing land, but now it wasn't tides doing it it was the Lake level that had changed.

I think it was like 70 the other day here in Illinois. yea not really sure, but it was warm enough Saturday you could wear shorts. It only got cold when the sun went down.

It is cold in the mornings here, gets to about 45-50 during the day, and then chills up once the sun goes down. I'm happy with this winter.

Starting to get closer to the 80s again here. Tank top weather is back!

(Seriously haet snow)

For about a week now, we've had weather in the 60s, with that finally dropping below 50 today when we got some rain.

It's been a weird winter.

I hate snow and I don't understand this obsession you all seem to ahve with it. In a couple of weeks, you'll all be ******** about how much you ******* hate the stuff after shoveling it out of your driveway and/or ******** about the stupid driver you came across the other day who nearly killed you and everyone else within 400 square miles.

I would be indifferent to snow if it would stay out of my god damned driveway and off the roads. I'd just feel disdain towards it if it could only do one of those and stayed out of my driveway.

What's snow?

52F today in the Chicago area. I blame that there global-hotting-whotsits.

A lot of landscape companies are getting creamed right now due to idle snowplows. Fortunately, the company I'm with doesn't do plowing.

The one thing the rest of the country used to get that still allowed you to claim you were living in a better place despite your droughts, smog, wild fires and earthquakes.

52? That's practically freezing!

Been warmer than usual in TN this year also. Not that we get tons of snow, but by now we've usually seen one decent one that had more than an inch and lasted more than 12 hours. But so far all we've seen this year have been 2-3 separate nights of some flurries. We might get some later this week but once again, it's not supposed to amount to much.

But the southern winters always roll like this. Two or three in a row that are cold and snowy (well, as cold and snowy as it can get here), and then 2-3 in a row that are mild.