Snowfalls this Winter

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blkhwkbob

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On the Chicago news weather they are now using three computer forecast models (all different) which means there are now three that are wrong.
 
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arcticgeorge

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Yeah that last storm was right on here in Ironwood forecast wise. I dont even get excited or believe the pink anymore the way this year has been going. It has been really quiet in the snow area, I think this is the least snow we've had since I moved up here 7 years ago with our local paper only showing 99 inches so far.
 
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HardwaterHoosier

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unfortunately, you've been spot on for my tip of Lake MI. 0" of usable snow since December 19th. Plowing side of my business is laughable, but the positive is I'm mowing in February.
 
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upbarleyboy

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I'm thinking it seemed deeper when we were kids because we were shorter and closer to the ground. If you're trudging through 2 feet of snow and 4 feet tall, it's up to your waist. If you're 6 ft tall and doing the same thing, it's barely to your knees:).
 
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indy_500

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upbarleyboy said:
I'm thinking it seemed deeper when we were kids because we were shorter and closer to the ground. If you're trudging through 2 feet of snow and 4 feet tall, it's up to your waist. If you're 6 ft tall and doing the same thing, it's barely to your knees:).
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Nahh, I believe it did seem deeper to you guys back then... from what I gather these warmups and mid winter rain storms weren't as common back then. We still get just as much snowfall per year, but it melts 5 times in 1 winter!
 
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firefighter1

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That's exactly what it is Indy, I was a young kid in the seventies and although we had a few low snow winters also we didn't seem to have as many warm ups and very few rain storms. Every time we get close to having good snow to ride around here you can count on a warm up. At the end of the season the total snow amounts usually look impressive but we will never have more than 8-12" on the ground at one time before a melt down. I decided about five years ago that this a traveling sport for me now and when I'm tired of that I guess I'm done. I hope it never comes to that as I enjoy riding as much as anyone on this board. I purposely built my house so I could ride from my garage so it would be nice to take advantage of that. Three bad winters in a row is really taking a toll on my patience.
 
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bigvin

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I know I was younger "back then",...but snowbanks up to the bottom branches of some of our
mature trees,... cars with styrofoam orange balls on all antenna's for safety purposes,...daily sounds
of city crews trying to keep up with loaders and dump trucks doing the clearing,...those weren't dreams
or illusions,...those are the memories that got me hooked for winter!
Now,.. I call home to talk to the folks and Dad will say,..snowing! suppose to get 8 to 10,...and he laughs
when I told him I just got in from "weed-eating",....
Then he calls the next day saying it was all rain,... and what they had is lost,...
That is what the NORM seems to be just North of Green Bay,... Where you USED to be able to Count on snow,...
I LOVE the UP,... but everyone in places where it SHOULD be winter now you can't count on it.
It is a shame,...
So as I sit here on a day off staring out the window at a clear blue sky,...knowing tomorrows 70 degree temps
won't be so bad to work in,.....
I hope someday I can come back on vacation,... and sled like the old days,....
But looking at the snow fall maps of the US,... OUCH!
Glad I took THAT frustration out of the equation!

Still Rockin',...down in Nashville!
Happy Trails to those who "get it"

~~Vin
 
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hoamskilet

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indy_500 said:
Nahh, I believe it did seem deeper to you guys back then... from what I gather these warmups and mid winter rain storms weren't as common back then. We still get just as much snowfall per year, but it melts 5 times in 1 winter!
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This. I don't have grand illusions of the days of mountains of snow, but I do recall always sledding at my grandparent's house over christmas vacation and having some amount of snow on the ground constantly from then until spring. Short of the last few years, I don't ever remember having long stretches of no snow at all on the ground, rain, and days of being outside in just a long sleeve t-shirt
 
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Clintondf

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This has been the 2nd winter in a row here north of indy that we havent had atleast 4" plus to go out and ride sled in the fields and grassy areas. Ive been riding and living here all my life and the past 2 years are the first times in 20 plus years we havent had enough to ride here. I dont care about that so much now, i have a truck and trailer and plan to head north a few times every winter but even that is becoming challenging the past couple years. Dont get me wrong, i have had great teips in great snow the past 2 winters up in michigan but i am fortunate enough to go almost whenever i want when the snow is good as long as i have a riding partner. And thats getting tougher to come by as well. I love sledsing way too much to ever give it up. I bought my young boys an old mini z for christmas. The older one got to ride it today in the big 2" we got yeaterday. It was as fun for me as it was him. Also just gor the wife a 2014 grand touring. Eventually sledding will be our winter family sport until other sports get in the way but we will always make time to go. I feel this weathwr pattern is a long term cycle. A few years from now i am hopeful it will cycle back to regular winters. The silver lining is my heat bills have been low the past 2 winters.
 
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