For a few minutes yesterday, we almost didn't know what was happening.
You know what our winter has been like this, uhm, winter. Except for a ten-day span in January it's been pretty much non-existent. So when we looked out the window yesterday afternoon and saw this--
I wouldn't be surprised if some people thought the world was coming to an end. That's how rare the snow's been this year.
Actually, I don't even know if you can tell there was snow in the video, even though it did come down quite thickly for a few minutes. Because it was over 32 it didn't stuck too much, and I have the feeling that whatever's on the ground this morning will soon disappear. Now I'm wondering if what happened last year will happen again this year.
Last year at this time (heading into what used to be UP 200 weekend) we had little to no snow on the ground. We then proceeded to get over 100 inches in the next month and a half, capped by a 22-inch dump on May 1st. Will it happen again this year? I have my doubts, thanks to El Nino, but nothing would surprise me any more.
Really, it wouldn't.
Of course, that also has implications for our upcoming Spring & Summer, if only because Lake Superior didn't freeze at all, which means it'll be starting from a warmer-than-usual state and probably won't have as many cooling lake breezes as we usually do. And because we've barely had an precipitation this winter, that also means the lake levels will probably be much lower than normal.
And seeing as how out little lake contains 12% of all surface freshwater on the PLANET, I'm thinking that's not a good thing.
Is yesterday's snow an aberration or a sign of things to come? I guess we'll find out in the next few weeks.
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