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Andy King / AP
Snow-covered trees are seen outside the Mall of America Field at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome before an NFL football game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Chicago Bears on Sunday.
Updated at 10:11 p.m. ET: A potent winter storm pounded the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains on Sunday with heavy snow and strong winds, making traveling treacherous and prompting airlines to cancel scores of flights.
The heaviest snowfall was expected from eastern South Dakota through southern Minnesota. Forecasters said up to 16 inches was possible in the hardest-hit areas, including up to a foot in and around Minneapolis.
A record snowfall of 10.2 inches was set at Twin Cities, MN on Sunday. The old record of 7.4 inches was set in 1961.
The snow, coupled with winds gusting as high as 40 mph, could produce whiteout conditions “making travel nearly impossible,” the National Weather Service said in a statement.
Minnesota State Police said more than 300 car crashes were reported from 9:30 p.m. Saturday to noon Sunday, none of them fatal.
NBC's meteorologist Dylan Dreyer reports.
And it wasn’t just the snow that was a threat. The weather service said temperatures were expected to plummet behind the system to well below zero over western Minnesota, with wind chill readings as low as 20 to 30 below.
“Travel will be very difficult and stranded motorists risk getting frostbite or hypothermia due to the frigid wind chill late this evening and tonight,” the weather service said.
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More than 150 flights at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport were canceled due to the storm, airport spokesman Pat Hogan told The Associated Press.
Delta Air Lines said snow and icing conditions prompted it to cancel about 90 flights on Sunday.
The southern branch of the storm was expected to dump heavy snow in the Central to Southern Rockies, according to The Weather Channel’s Tom Niziol. “As the system continues south, snow will also spread southward across the mountains of New Mexico from Taos through Sante Fe where over a foot of snow is likely for this area,” he said.
Snow, strong winds and cold air were also expected to hit the Great Lakes region late Sunday night into Monday.
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nice goin obam bam
waah waah loser
any your point is
Are you by any chance blaming Obama for the weather? If so, your IQ must be measured in the minus column.
well I wonder how many damn people are going the raise hell about all those flights being cancelled? Seems like that is the american way, anymore.
Sophie try your scam someplace else......
Jan, it is a fact that the libs, for decades, have blamed the Republicans and their presidents for global warming! Why is it not fair play to blame Obama and the liberals the same way?! I guess being a liberal means never having to admit you are wrong!
Dan, contrary to your erroneous conclusion, I'm not a liberal. I was merely pointing out the fact that Obama is no more to blame for a snowstorm than George W. Bush was to blame for Hurricane Katrina.
Did you all notice since the format change, how NBC only gives us non-news fluff articles like this one to discuss? All of the real news stories, particularly involving politics, are posted without any follow-on discussion. Does NBC not want discussions of substantial issues, or do they just not want readers to have a chance to criticize the the politicians and issues that they support? Just wondering.
Spider, why don't you go back to hitting on little Miss Tuffett? This story's not fluff, it's about a major winter storm for a good portion of the country, and I'm sure the people who live there consider it more than fluff. If the storm is of no concern of yours, that's fine, so go back to playing with your Limbaugh bobblehead doll, fantasizing about your Michelle Bachmann poster.
Jan,
Dan is one of those Fox News sucklings who, if he had his mouth taped shut, would suffocate within a couple of minutes.
@spider: I noticed that too, but I thought it was just my new browser settings. It would be interesting to see if it's intentional or just the side effect of a different advertising format. Articles about politics or entertainment tend to generate fewer ad clicks than how-to articles or stories geared toward solving a problem for the reader. It might be a way to get people out of the comment section and move them on to more lucrative pages. In another direction, I wonder if there has been any increase or decrease in the amount of mail our lawmakers receive since the advent of comment sections. I should look that up.
Damn global cooling ! were all doomed ! run for your lives !
"What?"
global warming ! but, WTF never mind !
enjoy the weather patterns of earth. check out the farmers almanac the weather patterns of the last 150 years and current weather to come. interesting reading..
How the hell do you turn a December snow storm into a political issue?
Come on down to Virginia. Don't want much snow, just 2-3 feet.
No. We want it here in Colorado. Might at least put out the fire in Rocky Mt NP. This storm materialized just east of us so we got screwed (again).
don't worry you won't really need three feet to walk through it, that's just and old wife's tale..2 will be fine.... unless of course you just left the bar.
Scooter
I woulda never thought you to be a lawyer!
No but i play one.... not on tv mind ya .....at the Bar...
Oh no....someone contact Mr. Al Gore, sitting alone in his living room of his Nashville 20,000 + SOFT home, quick....Global Warming is here.
Wait a minute....the United Nations is looking out for him with their "United Nations Carbon Emissions Tax Treaty" which requires establishment of a Carbon Emissions Exchange within each of the member Nations (poor, underdeveloped Nations will be subsidized).
**Rattle environmentalists cages**
Ido, you post like and idiot. Climate change or Global warming has nothing to do with a snow storm in the mid-west. But you knew that didn't you? Just had to bash Gore and the liberals.
So, Ido, give us some explanations. I've been in and out of far northern WI for 30 years. For the past 8 or so, spring has come earlier than ever. The summers have been the hottest and driest on record. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was still painting trim outside. Worst, my fruit trees are really struggling even with root watering. I studied Atmospheric Science at CSU and damned if I can explain the phenomena . . . local weather variations notwithstanding.
btw : So far, since about 0630, we've had an inch of snow, maybe a tad more.
jkatze, Ido doesn't reply...she just posts crap and slurs and then leaves.
I thought people there prized themselves on surviving little things like this.
I live in central Texas, it gets hot here and I don't complain about it. I look at the weather maps and see big cold loops reaching just to here, not a few miles east or a few miles west. Why do you suppose that is?
If I wanted to be cold, I'd move to alaska.
Damn global cooling ! were all doomed ! run for your lives !
"What?"
global warming ! but, WTF never mind !
enjoy the weather patterns of earth. check out the farmers almanac the weather patterns of the last 150 years and current weather to come. interesting reading..
verno....."
Idoldo, you post likeandan idiot. Climate change or Global warming has nothing to do with a snow storm in the mid-west. But you knew that didn't you? Just had to bash Gore and the liberals."Yep, and the Internet English Czar is on the road.
Heya, thanks for the kind compliments.
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jkatze....."So, Ido, give us some explanations."
Easy answer.....M O T H E R nature.
Back to that pot garden.
Mike: Didn't you get the memo? They don't call it "Global Warming" anymore - they call it "Climate Change". Want to know why? Well, since 1998 temperatures have been getting COLDER!! That's right - colder.
So they would look like complete fools to continue calling it "global warming" so now they call it "climate change". That's right - if it gets warm it is due to climate change. If it gets cold it is due to climate change. If we have four hurricanes hit Florida in one year it is due to climate change. If we DON'T get any hurricanes in Florida for five years it is due to climate change. When we get floods it is due to climate change. When we have droughts it is due to climate change. When ice melts it is due to climate change. When ice DOESN'T melt it is due to climate change. When it snows it is due to climate change. When it DOESN'T snow it is due to climate change.
And now they have decided if cows have gas it causes climate change. These nuts have EVEN classified CO2 as harmful. So am I no longer supposed to exhale?
But yet we have had floods, droughts, warming trends, cooling trends, snow, rain, etc for centuries. But THIS TIME and ONLY THIS TIME it is due to us exhaling, our SUV's and pickup trucks, and cows with gas. So what caused the OTHER dozens of MAJOR temperature swings, floods, and droughts over the last several thousand years?
Ido says it best and easiest when explaining these climate changes over the centuries - MOTHER NATURE!!
Global Warming! uh, Global Cooling! uh, dammit, there's some Weather happening up yonder!
Climate change, my dear Plotinus, climate change! Until next week, when it will become "Global Warming" again!
Yep, Plotinus, It's called winter. (Al BORE's big plot to get richer!) I'd hate to be the football teams having to play in that weather. I know they had a covered dome up there in the twin cities, but isn't this one a different field than the dome?
As far as wintry roads, these people are hearty, a little snow doesn't get in their way. Wish we'd get some of that danged snow. It's been in the 60's here. Great for the power bill, gonna be another bad summer for ticks.
Hey Ido, Al BORE may still have his Nashville mansion, but he's got a warm spot to hang on the west coast. You can afford a mansion on the beach when you screw the people. Fat old lizard, he should move even further west, say to the middle of the pacific ocean.
The Vikings play in the dome but want an OPEN AIR stadium! They want it partially paid for by the taxpayers and subsidized by the taxpayers. How dumb would the taxpayers be to fall for that?
Maybe the ViQueens should start playing real football again. They sure want enough for nothing in return. They had an open air field then they built the dome at great expense. (remember when the dome caved in?) Sounds like a bunch of teen-age girls pestering mom and dad for the latest phone, or fashion. LOL
Have you noticed that it is only the deniers who even bring up the issue of climate change in an article about the weather? Trying to manufacture a fight, I assme?
I have noticed that jock. I have also noticed that all of them are science deniers too. They don't have basic knowledge of weather science at all. Yes, it is (almost) winter. It snows in the mid-west and north. Happens every year. This is one of hopefully many storms we get this season. We could use the melt-off next spring, since spring weather is coming earlier and earlier. I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It was not uncommon to have a White Thanksgiving. Now it is a hit and miss to having a White Christmas! Last couple of summers were the hottest and driest summers ever here. Lake Michigan is down at least 5 feet and not coming back anytime soon it seems. No, global climate change doesn't happen over night. Every storm isn't caused by global climate change but it does make for more extremes. This storm is not extreme by any stretch of the imagination, at least where I am. That also is evidence of climate change as it shows we are still in a draught. It is called global because, well..it is global. Just because it is ok in one place doesn't mean another isn't suffering extremes, like a very late season hurricane that costs many billions of dollars in property loss and many lives lost in an area that never seen something like that. Oh well, nothing with the deniers will ever change.
Buck --
Packer game just started. It's been snowing all day and will be at least till midnight. Temperature low 30s. Should make for a good game.
I should see if it's being televised in my area.
Buck......
And when Mr. Gore's beachfront California property slides into the Pacific with the "big one", he will be the first on the block to ask the government for help. Midway Island sounds like a good landing spot....since they have the "gooney birds" there.
That will happen because of all the fracking, huh Ido? You sure do seem interested in Al.
Ido,
I was thinking more along the lines of feeding the nasty old lizard to the sharks. LOL.
snow in the midwest in december? that's odd lol
Just like hurricanes off of the East Coast! Who would have thunk it!
Y'all might want to check the records on hurricanes. . . interesting.
What is odd for us here in SW Wisconsin is that is the first real snow of the year. It's been coming later and later every year...
It doesn't have to be unprecedented to be worth reporting. It affects people's lives, so it's news. get over it.
MSDNC is too much, on the same day they run this story they have another story saying the midwest is starved of snow. No wonder people prefer Fox.
Silly Philly. Everyone knows Fox isn't a news station.
Oh yes it is, you must be thinking PMSNBC
No cable channel broadcasts news anymore. It's all just commentary. You get more actual information online (although admittedly not much more).
News?....wheres your dedication folks?...hell, be a true weekend vine poster and get it where everyone else does ...you know..... simply make it up as you go,
No, at least Fox news doesn't plan its "news" with other outlets like ABC, NBC and CBS have been shown to do on tape! I guess because Fox is not quite as left-leaning as the other outlets they must be wrong!
Dan try to improve your attention span. The topic is weather. CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC and affiliates are all very close on this matter because they get their information from meteorolgists, and the same legitimate weather bureaus.
FOX Snooze gets the same information from the same weather bureaus as the former, but before they can are allowed to televise it, they censor it according to the rules, interests, needs, and demands of the Koch Bros, Karl Rove and any other private interest which they serve.
In that way Dan, your needs as a FOX fan, are treated really special, and FOX wants to keep it that way.
No Phil, PEOPLE don't prefer focks, idiots do.
I don't know where you are at Phil, but I'm in northern WI and for the past decade or so, snowfall has been far below average. Today is an excellent example : since 0630 we've had just a tad more than an inch of snow. A person has to look closely to see that it is still snowing. Some years, septic tank lines have frozen for lack of snow cover.
I no longer need my monster snowblower and I'll be darned if I can find a buyer even at fire sale price.
FOX is okay for a dog-and-pony show.
The winter is still young, jkatze. I just wish I could borrow your monster. It looks like we, in the Twin Cities, will end up with over a foot of wet heavy stuff. I just have a mid sized blower.
I'm in the upper midwest......I don't see no snow?
Rain here, the bigger ( not really big but...) system in currently north of us MN. IA. WS. border right now.
two negatives make a positive. It's probably snowing outside.
thats kinda the way we prefer it around here....snowing inside...tends to make a hell of a mess.....
Where in the upper midwest are you? I'm in western WI right now and we've got about 8 inches already!! And it's expected to keep going until midnight tonight. Gonna be a fun drive to work tomorrow, LOL!!
Free snow cones! My dog keeps making lemon ones!
I'm in a suburb just west of Minneapolis. We have just over 12 inches and its still coming down. But WTF, it IS hockey season (for those of you unfamiliar with Minnesota seasons, there are 2: Highway construction and hockey season).
Um......... its snowing in December ( AKA winter )...its not "pummeling" anything its called winter and... .....Oh the hell with it, i give up ... cant beat em..so....
EEKK ....Global warming
Move someplace "safe"
Its ______— "s fault
No Fema / Yes Fema
Gods wrath
ETC., ETC., ETC,...............
gm Tramp,
Hunker down and watch Fargo.
Gm Bill
thought about the new ice age movie ( ya just know i will be getting it ) but it don't come out till Tuesday.
I love you guys!!! ("I love you, man?"...you know, not like that, just, whatever) Your posts are as funny as all get out!
GM Scooter and Bill
I guess so much for your "tropical weather" that was there on your birthdays! Now, with winter just a few days away, Santa needs some snow to land his sleigh on! Down here, Santa uses dolphins to deliver!
Boat drinks on the patio, overlooking the Caribbean and NFL Football - what more can a retired GI desire?
GM jack,
monday i intend to break a rule of mine and be at the Legion after dark, No cable and My Beloved Pats play The texans, On ESPN, my comp just dont stream well.
I would like to say I'll watch too, but we are 1+ hour ahead of EST here and that means it would not come on until 10 pm B'bados - So, I'll have to catch the score on nbc Tuesday 5 am. Just don't try to drive a bus home afterward!!! LOL
I am going to be at the Legion watching the game also but just because my friends will all be there.
And some clown will call this winter weather "extreme", and that it is caused by climate change, and from this day forth can only get worse and worse and...
Got about an inch of snow in Denver, it is clearing and 21 degrees
Makes me long for the good old days, when hurricanes were named exclusively after women because they were so unpredictable. That would have freed up men's names for the blizzards ...... because you never know how many inches you're gonna get or how long it will last.
Hey Rex, here inSW WA it's mid 40's and scattered showers. Typical Dec day here. Great day for a fire in the fire place and a good book to read. Gotta love it.
HAHA! Awesome Bill!
you're the only clown that's mentioned it.
Best post of the day goes to Denver Bill 2!! :)
Sally, I know it rains a lot where you are, but didn't you just have several torrential rain storms lately that were..unseasonable? At least on the left coast?
Y'all are funny. Love the comments - global cooling/warming, obama's fault, giving up ... thanks for today's chuckle. aka winter - lol. After all IT IS DECEMBER!
You know - it is in the store - 'winter holiday music'. Here in Texas we are told we cannot call it Christmas Music nor say Merry Christmas as we might offend someone. They even call Christmas Break - the Winter Holiday break.
And the problem is?.........sorry dont follow all y'all....to very loosely paraphrase and ol saying.... F' em if they cant take a.... Christmas..
Pretty sad Tex, up here in Massachusetts we have public manger scenes, and Christmas music playing in stores and malls. You guys need to lighten up and loosen up your collars a bit and quite fighting the world.
And who told you that you can't say Merry Christmas? You've got to watch something other than Fox Snooze. They sound like trouble makers, agitators, and rabble rousers.
Tex...come to the Midwest! We have Christmas carols and concerts and plays and nativities. We don't listen to the PC people from DC.
Merry Christmas, Texas grace. See, you are allowed to say it. It is, after all, still a free country. Lighten up.
Another problem you created, everywhere else we say Happy Christmas except texas and Fox News. Yes that is a small t for texas.
Hell Tex, I live in the very Liberal Blue Left Coast city of Seattle and we've had a radio station playing nothing but Christmas music since October 01. We have a malfunctioning hi tech Christmas Tree downtown (Who'd a thunk that in a city renowned for rain, an electronic Christmas Tree might not work as well as in say... Houston)
A Texas town is being SUED by a group to take away their manger scene, Google it. (I am still saying Merry Christmas to everyone anyway.)
Ok folks here's the weekly weekend weather article to scream Global warming about, but for goodness sake don't forget the other vine posting rules to include in this VERY VERY simple article about a SMALL VERY NORMAL WINTER snow..... those being of course.
A. Politics on EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE no matter what.( rule ONE BTW)
B. Blame game
C. partial articles
D. name callings
E. Race cards
F. people who rarely if ever read past the headline ( let alone comprehend what they read)
G. people who have absolutely NO idea what sarcasm or humor is.
H. Random acts of stupidity
I. over reaction to everything
J. the vine SP&G / PD ...
K. people that simply must pick apart posts ( guilty as charged)
L. spin baby spin
M. collapse this post ( bury head in sand approach)
N. gloom and doom
O. EEk Global warming ( the sky is falling)
P. people with even sicker "punishment" fantasy's on crime articles.
Q. friends you have never met
R. sworn enemy's ...that again you have never met. ( ok this ones even creeps me out)
S. Poeple who not only can but often do induce headaches
T. People who wade into a discussion HOURS after your original post
U. peopele who dont know what the " reply" is for.
V. drunks and dopers who have come to an "enlightenment" they simply must share.
W. those who disparage others place of residence although most have never been there.
X. Some who actually think before they post ( rare but it happens)
Y. Reactionaries ( opposite of "X")
Z. Those who are really concerned and caring. rather then argumentative. ( the rarest of posters)
there ya go folks i believe i covered MOST of em. ( reprinted from my post LAST weekend)
You forgot a couple, this one could be called A.1. those who are very low informed people.
Does H include those who insist they "went over their to get there coat"? LOL Love the use of words in many posts here. Good list for sure.
I.A., that is the truest post I have every read on the vine. I loved it!
Scooter, I think you're over-reacting. ;-)
I love it! LOL. Btw, I just broke rule U....
good job , i break .."K" ...all the time... and do it for fun mostly. But just wait SOMEONE will take offence its a weekend.
Scooter
I am quite familiar with: A, D - Stand my Ground if they call first,they get a $h1t load back at them, K Q - I am impressed with friends I have met on here, R - found some real PITAs on here as well!, T, X and Z
I despise the W types as they don't think their $h1t stinks!
Keep up the great work!
I love this story because, It was just yesterday they reported on the Midwest Snow Drought
Got a map?....... the midwest is kinda large.....
Flash from central iowa, enough snow on the ground to say it snowed, but hardly enough to say it will affect subsoil moisture. IE not good for next years crops, we need a whole lot more. Reminds me of my first year in construction placed a lot of concrete up until dec 17, then it was may before things thawed/dried out. I would like to see that amount of snow again or the snowfall of 2001 or 2010.
It would be good of you to know how much precipitation snow actually is. As a starting point, one foot of snow equals about 1 inch of rain. If it's really wet heavy snow, it'll go down to 6 inches per inch, but dry large flakes can approach 2 feet of snow per inch of rain.
These people are going to get between 1/2 an inch to 1 and a quarter inch of precipitation. That doesn't do anything for a drought.
Mitchell
I live in southern Minnesota...last year we hardly had any snow...the snow this weekend is the first snowfall of the season...we got about 2 inches here...not much...so we are in a snow drought if the snow doesn't start coming until mid December...this winter is also predicted to be like last winter...very little snow...
We usually have snow at Thanksgiving that stays, still don't have snow, so I guess that is a snow drought. Most of the ski hills in Ironwood, MI have not opened. Think Duluth, MN opened today. Hasn't even been cold enough to make snow with snow making equipment.
Mitchell,
The amount is not so important as you think, what is important is the amount of ground saturation you get. For example, when you get 1" of rain in an hour, you can get as little as 25% saturation, and 75% run off, depending on the condition of the soil, and how porous it is, whereas, snow and ice melt slowly, which increases the soils ability to absorb the moisture, and eventually go into the water table, which increases the level of the water table, thus making it easier for roots to get water during the growing season. So, equating the amount of rain that snow contains is a false comparison to the benefit to agriculture.
HMC - " Most of the ski hills in Ironwood, MI have not opened." I find that strange as ALL of the ski hills in the Traverse City/Petoskey area opened last week, and with a fairly decent base! In fact, we've already experienced our first death on the slopes for the season...
Darn it, darn it, darn it. I misread the OP. I was reading another article regarding the overall drought and people were criticizing the piece due to the snowstorm. I missed the "snow" in his sentence and thought it was another person dismissing it because of "all" the snow the midwest was getting now.
My fault, should have read that better. Disregard my previous post.
Mitchell
Wonderful decision, Delta, to close your Cincinnati hub and keep Minneapolis St. Paul open... six months of the year of canceled and delayed flights instead of one or two months.
Except that MSP is considered one of the best airports for on-time flights. So not sure where you are going with this?
MSP is larger and better equipped to handle snow emergencies. I don't get where you are going with it, either. I have flown into and out of MSP during snow storms. The worst part is when you are in the plane while they are de-icing it. They turn off the air circulation but that stuff really stinks.
I don't remember what they blamed that blizzard on around Chicago in '67, but I don't think climate change was mentioned.
Climate change wasn't even thought of back then. Back in'67 they blamed it on the fact that you lived in an area that gets hit with blizzards at this time of year.
Climate change wasn't mentioned here either.
QUICK!! EVERYONE!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! IT IS SNOWING!!!! This could be the beginning of the end times! We're all gonna freeze to death and die slow horrible, miserable deaths as our planes get cancelled and the airport vending machines run out of Twinkies. Oh, what shall we do????
What?? It's 75° in Dallas???
Oh....never miiiiiind.....
It isn't climate change, several yrs ago we had a cooling period, now it's a warming period. Actually, and until it's competely disproven, by actual data, not the trols posting here, it's the realingement of the magnatic poles. Every so often they do re-align.
But let it snow, let it snow, it's Dec, and it's Christmas time. None of that "happy holiday" BS, It's MERRY CHRISTMAS. Enjoy it everyone.
Merry Christmas Sally Ann!
Nobody claimed this was climate change, so why do you bring it up?.
Sally, there is plenty of scientific evidence. There is even one region that is actually making glaciers but on the other side of Antarctica, it is losing them at twice the speed. If you don't want to believe it or do a little research about climate change, fine. It is your call. But Merry Christmas anyways. Oh, and sometimes they do call it Happy Holidays because there is more holidays at Christmas time than just Christmas, so Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Years and Happy any other holiday to all and to all a good night!
How about happy winter solstice day? That's what's hiding under the Christian overcoat.
The headline says that the midwest is "pummeled". I've grown up in Minny. I observed the massive blizzards we had back in the '60s and '70s. Those were some nasty ones that lasted at least 3-4 days with absolute zero visibility. The snowstorms we've had here over the last several years are incredibly lame by comparison. No, we're not getting "pummeled."
It's called winter, people. Happens every year. Got a touch of snow here where I live in Colorado. The snow is no big deal. It's the cold you have to worry about. I almost froze my backside off going out to feed the horse. BRRRR!
I love snowstorms. Gives me a reason to break out my favorite comfort foods; tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich.
Here in Minneapolis, it is a pretty good snow storm. And yes, we have been in a drought, including a snow drought. I had to go out and pour buckets of water on my evergreen bushes because they were looking so peaked last week. The gound was not frozen yet which used to happen by the end of October. This snow storm has given us more snow than the largest storm last year and it is still coming down pretty good. There is a difference between climate and the weather any given year. Overall the climate here is definately more mild that it was 55 years ago when I was little or even 30 years ago when I was in my 20's. The weather changes day to day and year to year. I left the area in 1987 and moved back in 2000. The climate change was obvious to me after that passage of time. Last year we got a total of 23 inches of snow, the year before 86 inches of snow and the average is 53 inches of snow. Hopefully we will be closer to average but not to the level 2 years ago. I highly doubt that whoever is president has anything to do with the weather. That is pretty crazy thinking, just saying. You all really have to get a life.
This is why I moved to California where snow is a choice on the coast.
Yeah, but I know midwesterners who would "never" live here because of the earthquakes!
Gee .........Just One Day after the News Reporters Declared a Snow Drought - GO FIGURE !
Because we were in a snow drought, go figure!
Well at least it feels like Winter some where, its damn near 70 degrees here in Charlotte today.
I love minnesota because of how great the hockey programs are and how much snow we usually get but seriously weather reporters is there something you actually can forcast correctly you said we were supposed to have 4 inches of snow and that it would all melt by monday dont you find it odd that we already have a foot of snow and that now its not supposed to melt till about wednesday or thursday?
I hope it snows all of monday to I really would love to miss school