What ever happened to these days?

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This is a picture of me when I was young, maybe about 40 years ago, in Luverne, MN. You can see how high the snow drift was and it seemed to happen several years when I was younger. We used to have to dig the snow away from our picture window so it wouldn't break it! I can't remember anything close to this happening in the past 30 years. I'm not a believer in global warming, but we must be in a cyclical pattern that has reduced the snow we get dramatically. I'm sure in another 50 years we could end up in that same pattern.

The picture I scanned was small, so once you open it, click on it again and I think it will be larger for you.

Think Snow!!!!
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windingtrailgal

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WOW!! I grew up around St Louis so we NEVER got that kind of snow when I was a kid! That's AWESOME! Takes a little of the danger out of being up on the roof when you have a 10ft snow bank, eh?? :)
 
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Yeah, I remember another house we lived in had a flat garage roof, and we could climb out a window and go up there and jump into the snow banks and never have to worry about hitting the ground!
 
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snoeatr

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I think about this sometimes. My conclusion is that (this year excluded) obviously some years are more snowy than others but the averages snowfalls haven't decreased really. So it must be that more thaws have reduced the accumulated snow depths. Even the 60s and 70s had some lower snow years and thats what people older than me refer to. Just my opinion and surely no proof.
 
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GREAT Pic!! I would love to see the snow build up to that! and x2 on the one piece suit lol! I'll have to dig out some pics from my mom and dads first home in Sault Ste Marie! They are unbelievable snow pics like yours! Fun to see pics of snow like that!
 
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mrsrunningbear,

Would love to see those pic's from that area, much more of a snow area than SW Minnesota!
 
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sno-x

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Not sure where you were last year, but I had snow three to four feet deep in my yard last year here in central Minnesota. I couldn't even see my car parked on the street the snow banks were so high. This is just a bad year.
 
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Does that look like 3-4 feet in my picture? I don't think so. Show me a picture anywhere close to that from the past several decades. That was not a "snow bank" made by a plow. If anything, last year was the unusual year.

I find your claim of 3-4 feet on the level in your yard to be quite a stretch. So your saying you had more snow than John did in the Keewanaw? If you look at his past deepest depths of past years, the big years had maybe 3-4 feet on the level, and that's with over 200" of snow. What was the official snowfall total for Hutchinson, MN last year?

I found the following snowfall TOTALS for the decade of the 2000's in Hutchinson, MN. Unfortunately, they did not show 2010.

2000 - 1.0"
2001 - 6.6"
2002 - 6.0"
2003 - 5.1"
2004 - 8.6"
2005 - 12.10" WOW
2006 - 1.0"
2007 - 8.0"
2008 - 3.6"
2009 - 8.7"

These same totals were pretty common going back many years. The largest total I found was from 1917 at 31.7".
 
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sno-x

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Whoa not sure where you got those numbers, but they are wrong, I'm just saying.... Now Hutchinson, MN, not exactly the snow capital of the world, had just over a 100" of TOTAL snowfall last year and I guarantee that we had more than 8.7" the year before that. Also I never said we had 3-4 feet on the "level" as you say, but if you look at the MN DNR snow depth maps of last year you will see there were times that Hutch was in the 24 - 30" range last year for snow depth (http://climate.umn.edu/doc/snowmap/snowmap_101223.htm) and next to the street I had snowbanks taller than me and I"m 6'1" so there were places in my yard that were 3'-4' feet deep. In fact the first week in March 2011 I went to cable WI to go riding and all they had was snirt and I still had a foot or two here at home, couldn't get out of the reservations but we made the best of it. What can I say it was "our" year last year. Now to your pic, that isn't 3-4 feet on the level either and from what it looks like to me looks a lot like a nice snow drift.
 
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Firecatguy

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I think John touched on this subject a few years back......maybe when you are younger and shorter things seem BIG AS LIFE then? as the snow totals seem to Equal themselves out year after year.....we see the same or close to the 50i a year here in Metro Twin cities.......

every year we get one or 2 good snowfalls......this is a pic from metro area last winter....

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There was soo much snow last year alot houses had huge snow loads I shoveled a few and they looked alot like the first photo in this thread all winter.......
 
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Skylar

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I remember some good snows when I was a wee lad growing up in the 70's, also a lot of winters that sucked. Just like this decade. The last three winters here in sounth central Wi have been awseome, this year, not so much. Trails have not opened here in the county I live in, and won't for sure in the month of January. Oh well, have trailer, will travel. :)
 
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famousguy,

That is a great picture, probably worth it's own thread! It has to be close to 10' on the level there. Love the sleds and helmets too!
 
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