Month: January 2008

Winter just keeps going on and on and on…

Wow! After living here for seven winters, this one just seems to stretch on and on and on! We’ve had snow on the ground constantly since mid-December, if I’m remembering right; that’s almost a month-and-a-half of snow on the ground. In past winters, the snow has always melted within two days after a storm, except […]

More climate graphs

I’ve been thinking about different ways to look at the temperature data from my local weather station. Maybe our extreme cold temps have gotten milder, but do we actually have fewer cold days each winter? I decided to look at various thresholds of cold days. A friend plotted some graphs showing the number of days […]