“All this caterwauling over cold weather. It’s late January and mid-winter in North America. It’s supposed to be cold.
All my life, New England winters have featured cold blasts that included snow and sub-zero days. Since when has this been deemed newsworthy? Not just newsworthy but actually a top news story? .....”
Living in Minnesota all my life, I can remember other bitter cold winters. However, I must say this -— last spring we had a snowstorm here every Thursday between March 10-May 1st. Finally spring came with lots of gloomy cold rain for about 6 weeks. Then the oak leaves finally emerged in mid June, about 4-5 weeks late.
We had an OK summer & a lovely September and first week in October. Then the bottom fell out and our weather turned harsh. Lots of days with temps mostly around 40-55 in October - no Indian summer at all. In November it was almost too cold to go outside and put out the Christmas lights. Waiting for a warmer day had to be abandoned and I went out in 35 degrees to decorate the outside with lights.
Minnesota has not had such a relentlessly cold winter in many decades. I don’t remember such a winter ever before. It just keeps coming at us. Perhaps a day or two with temps somewhere between 15-35 degrees or so - mostly the high blips are around 15-20. Then the plunge in temps blows in again, and again, and again.
It is time for me to get on the internet and find flights to Arizona.
I have never been in the middle of such an unrelenting, bitter, snowy, windy winter as this. This is not normal.......it's waaaaay below normal, and has been since fall.