Was it a mild winter where you live?? .. it's always

[cboy4]

pretty mild where I live, but we just had our sixth driest March on record.


on edit, typo. d'oh.

[Ganja Ninja]

1. It's the warmest winter in Florida since I moved here in 1988.

[marmar]

2. After years of mild winters here in southeast Michigan, this one was rough....

.... We didn't have extended bitterly frigid periods, but we've had 68 inches of snow, which is about 36 inches more than average.

[RebelOne]

3. It's hardly been a winter at all here in the Atlanta metro area.

[LiberalEsto]

4. Mild in central Maryland

Very little snow here

[El Pinko]

5. Slightly colder and a LOT more snow than usual in El Paso this winter.

A lot of people complained about the frequency of snowfall, but I didn't think it was THAT amazing. It usually all melts by afternoon anyway...

[mainegreen]

6. Brutal. Very cold, very windy, and one of the snowiest on record.

It snowed at least once every three days for months. When it wasn't snowing, it was raining.

It just snowed yesterday.
It's raining today.

127.3 inches of snow vs average of 59.6.

x(

Caribou got 189.1 inches this year.

[fight4my3sons]

8. yes, this winter sucked up here.

x( x( x( (Those are the looks on my kids faces. They want to ride their bikes outside.)

[Echo In Light]

17. Same. Big heaps o snow, endless arctic temps and ice storms...and FLU!

Horrible winter ... we'll all be dancing in the streets once the warmer spring weather arrives and stays.

[spinbaby]

7. Our lake froze late and thawed early

Usually the lake near where I live freezes over in the week between Christmas and New Years. It typically thaws again in late February. This year it froze over on January 22 and was thawed by February 6th.

[mac2]

9. We had a record amount of snow in the MW.

Or so they said. I wouldn't know since I haven't spent most of my life here. I'm from Western New York...snow area so this is not a shock to me. We skied on it. You find it hard here to ski since it is wet and heavy stuff. The evergreen trees didn't like it much. Nor the expressway drivers.

The Continental MW climate is one of extremes normally. Or at least that's what I learned in my Climatology class.

According to climatologists dry years are followed by a wet ones, etc. Asheville, NC had 10" of rain and flooding when we visited a few years ago. This year...drought. Let us hope it is normal variation. Those TVA lakes were put in that area of the world to stop the flooding and give power to the area.

The trees in the Smokies have already suffered from the acid rains of the coal burning plants in Illinois. People in the area burn a lot of wood in the winter so that is acid rain also. In Asheville there were some huge trees which pulled out of the earth during the heavy rains. Don't know if that was the soil problem or the trees not that healthy because of age.

[King Coal]

10. More severe than usual in New Mexico.

[gollygee]

11. It was colder than usual here and pretty darn snowy

so I'd have to say no. I live in Michigan.

[tavalon]

12. Compared to last year, yes, but

the thing is, the weather is changing. It's getting wilder and drier. Yes, drier, in a city known for its rain, we have a drought every summer and it's getting worse.

[Clear Blue Sky]

13. Colder and snowier than usual.

[stevedeshazer]

14. Hell, it's still winter in the northwest

La Niña year.

[raccoon]

15. Yes. SC. nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

16. Where I live in NY, relatively mild and not that much snowfall but lots of rain.

Today is going to the 60s and its raining.

[ThomWV]

18. It was very wet but not overly cold

In any typical winter we will see a few nights far below zero (-10 ~ -30) and weeks on end during which it does not get up to freezing. Not so this past winter. It dropped just below zero once or twice, that was about it. Also, there was never more than a foot of snow on the ground at any one time. More easily noted by us, there was not one day when we could not drive on our road, and that is unusual too - the norm being about 3 days out of a winter.

[havocmom]

19. Very mild and unusually humid all winter

Winters here generally pretty brutal and DRY. Humidity generally hovers between 9 - 15%. This year, I only noticed a few days with humidity under 50% and most days it was over 70%. Not too many days below zero. I am used to weeks and weeks of it not hitting zero.

Very odd.

Bird migration has changes. Bugs out and about at least 6 weeks earlier than usual.

Yep, the seasons are changing around here.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. We had snow yesterday. Never seen it that late in the year here in SW Washington.

But, it has been mostly wet, cold, and long. El Nino.

[SidDithers]

21. Great Lakes levels should rise this spring...

after falling for a few years in a row. This was an exceptionally heavy snowfall winter 'round these parts.

Sid

[SidDithers]

22. dupe...

that was a bit strange

Sid