by TimC » Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:59 am
Back at ya! Love the midwinter holiday.
I like to say that if the groundhog sees his/her shadow it'll be six more weeks of winter and if he/she didn't see their shadow it'll be a month and a half! Of course this whole groundhog day thing was created, me thinks, in areas where they don't even have what I would call winter. For example, Hope, Indiana.
This has been the weirdest winter I can remember. No snow until the first week of January. Then we get about six inches. Last week had highs approaching 40 degrees and this week highs are in the high 40s. Snow will be gone by the end of the weekend. Last winter we had snow cover from the end of November through most of March. Spring weather knocked it down to close to nothing in late March then BAM!, a big dump in early April. Loved it! I generally like winter. At least until March, then I'm ready for spring. Weird, weird winter this year.