where was this for the last 5 months?

[garageguy]

very important to have summer toys and winter toys just in case.

 

[Hoosier]

And right in the middle of those prime years we had this… funny how Mother Nature does things!
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That's great. I don't have the photo handy, but my Dad bought my 3 brothers and me an 84 Bravo for Christmas. We have a picture of all 4 of us sitting on it on Christmas day in shorts and t-shirts.

I don't think there's any doubt the snow cover isn't what it was on average in the glory years but hopefully it's cyclical and will come back bigly when I retire in 15-20 years

 

[xsledder]

Ehh boat launches were brutal this year and the Mississippi is having gulf water flow in. 3 years in a row of crazy hot temps and no rain. I dont remember that as a kid.

I do!

I remember the summer of '87 and working on a field crew surveying in 100+ degree weather for 5-days to a week straight in the Chicagoland area. I have not see another period of 100+ degree weather in the Chicagoland area since then. (I am referring to actual temperatures, not "feels like " temps.)

 

[xsledder]

Got an '86 Indy in '85. Great snow in NE Iowa to ride from Christmas to New Year's in '85. The following year, 65 degrees in Chicagoland and no snow to be found anywhere. Finally, the day after Christmas northwestern Wisconsin got snow so we ran up there as fast as we can to ride. I remember more Christmas to New Year's chasing snow than reliable snow from the mid-'80's on. Yes, there was a period in the mid to late 80's where Minnesota got a lot of snow for a short number of consecutive years.

If we had so much snow in the 70's, then why are there newspaper articles about snowmobile companies folding because of lean snow years?

 

[dfattack]

Got an '86 Indy in '85. Great snow in NE Iowa to ride from Christmas to New Year's in '85. The following year, 65 degrees in Chicagoland and no snow to be found anywhere. Finally, the day after Christmas northwestern Wisconsin got snow so we ran up there as fast as we can to ride. I remember more Christmas to New Year's chasing snow than reliable snow from the mid-'80's on. Yes, there was a period in the mid to late 80's where Minnesota got a lot of snow for a short number of consecutive years.

If we had so much snow in the 70's, then why are there newspaper articles about snowmobile companies folding because of lean snow years?

I was young but I remember the snowy years from 1977 and after. Not before. Maybe early to mid 70's were low snow years?

 

[xcr440]

That's great. I don't have the photo handy, but my Dad bought my 3 brothers and me an 84 Bravo for Christmas. We have a picture of all 4 of us sitting on it on Christmas day in shorts and t-shirts.

I don't think there's any doubt the snow cover isn't what it was on average in the glory years but hopefully it's cyclical and will come back bigly when I retire in 15-20 years

I’m not waiting - I take 3/4 of my 33 PTO days between December and March - last year was one of the top 5 snow years in MN during my lifetime.

 

[snobuilder]

There is a very good reason we speak about the weather in terms of averages....because nothing is actually "normal".

Here in the great northwoods it has been in the 80's the last 2 days and a beautiful 74 today but the next "climate change" is lterally around the corner. mid 40's/day and 30's /night

 

[matti]

snobuilder, thanks. Your comment made me think about how infrequently the high (or low) temperature of any given day is actually at the calculated average for that day.

 

[euphoric1]

here we go again, up to 3 inches possible at a time where other than getting caught up on what the drought kept from us since spring broke, does us no favors. Lets just hope the pattern continues to when the temp drops enough to make snow.

 

[SledTL]

here we go again, up to 3 inches possible at a time where other than getting caught up on what the drought kept from us since spring broke, does us no favors. Lets just hope the pattern continues to when the temp drops enough to make snow.

I did get all excited because this low is moving right across the twin cities area like a typical winter storm. Too bad its not cold enough, although the swamps are wet now for trail work and I got our club tractor stuck last weekend when I was out mowing.