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3 Frozen Lakes in nearly a decade
TORONTO, March 12 Three of North America Great Lakes Lake Huron, Lake Superior and Lake Erie have frozen over for the first time in nearly a decade after icy weather lasting more than a month, experts at Environment Canada said on Tuesday.
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Winter in Big Cities of the East Among the Coldest Since '50
HIGH LATITUDE BLOCKING AND RECORD SNOWCOVER A KEY TO THIS WINTER
Winter in Big Cities of the East Ranked Among the Coldest Since 1950
Written March 10, 2003
by Joe D'Aleo
Chief WSI/INTELLICAST Meteorologist
In our winter outlook in the fall we showed why the oceans were in a mode, which favored enhanced high latitude blocking, which would make this El Nino colder than the ones we were used to in recent decades.
The degree of high latitude blocking is measured by two climate indices, the North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations. In recent stories, we showed how the negative mode of both modes favored colder and often snowier than normal conditions in the eastern United States and Europe, even in El Nino winters. The indices were at or near the most negative values observed since 1950 especially during the early winter from October to December.
October to December Arctic Oscillation values were the most negative since 1950. This high latitude blocking helped generate large polar and arctic air masses that helped build deep snowcover and make the winter very cold for many areas in the hemisphere.
This high latitude blocking helped generate extensive polar and arctic air masses that brought extreme cold to places in the Northern Hemisphere. Here in North America, the flow pattern entrained frigid Siberian air to join with the cold high pressure building in Canada. The coldest air was focused on the eastern states.
With the large cold air masses came much more snow than normal across the hemisphere. In fact, according to the data compiled at the CPC, the extent of the Northern Hemisphere's snowcover from October through February was the greatest since records were started in 1973. It even exceeded the deep snowcover of the winters of the late 1970s.
October to February 2002/03 average snowcover for the Northern Hemisphere was at the highest level in the data set eclipsing the previous record set in the winter of 1976/77. From CPC: ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/cpc/wd52dg/ ... ea/NH_AREA
PERSISTENT COLD WEATHER FROM OCTOBER TO FEBRUARY
El Nino winters are characterized dependably by a ridge in the western parts of North America and a trough in the eastern areas. With the productive Polar Regions and extensive snowcover, temperatures in the trough in the eastern states averaged persistently below normal. Temperatures during the October to February period ranked among the top ten winters since 1950 in many cities in the northeast.
In Boston, it was the second coldest such period just behind 1976/77.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Year Average Temperature
1976/77 35.42
2002/03 35.72
In New York City, the period ranked 4th coldest since 1950 behind the two memorable cold winters in the late 1970s (1976/77 and 1977/78) and the winter of 1967/68.
CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK
Year Average Temperature
1976/77 37.55
1967/68 38.25
1977/78 39.35
2002/03 39.70
In Rochester, New York, the winter ranked 7th coldest since 1950, tied with the winter of 1969/70 (our top analog year).
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
Year Average Temperature
1976/77 29.48
1993/94 30.38
1962/63 30.38
1981/82 31
1978/79 31.44
1969/70 31.56
2002/03 31.56
In Baltimore (BWI Airport), the winter ranked 3rd coldest behind 1976/77 and 1962/63.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
Year Average Temperature
1976/77 37.04
1962/63 37.16
2002/03 38.63
What a difference a year can make. Many of these same locations during the same period last year found temperatures ranking among the warmest on record as resurgent solar activity produced a shrunken polar vortex and enhanced zonal flow, which in turn maximized the maritime influence on the continents and limited the extent of the snowcover. It also led to near record drought that lingered through the summer in many areas.
These two years demonstrate how many factors combine to choreograph the weather and climate as we march from season to season and year-to-year on our ride through time.
for more info and data charts, consult: http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1378/
Ken
Winter in Big Cities of the East Ranked Among the Coldest Since 1950
Written March 10, 2003
by Joe D'Aleo
Chief WSI/INTELLICAST Meteorologist
In our winter outlook in the fall we showed why the oceans were in a mode, which favored enhanced high latitude blocking, which would make this El Nino colder than the ones we were used to in recent decades.
The degree of high latitude blocking is measured by two climate indices, the North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations. In recent stories, we showed how the negative mode of both modes favored colder and often snowier than normal conditions in the eastern United States and Europe, even in El Nino winters. The indices were at or near the most negative values observed since 1950 especially during the early winter from October to December.
October to December Arctic Oscillation values were the most negative since 1950. This high latitude blocking helped generate large polar and arctic air masses that helped build deep snowcover and make the winter very cold for many areas in the hemisphere.
This high latitude blocking helped generate extensive polar and arctic air masses that brought extreme cold to places in the Northern Hemisphere. Here in North America, the flow pattern entrained frigid Siberian air to join with the cold high pressure building in Canada. The coldest air was focused on the eastern states.
With the large cold air masses came much more snow than normal across the hemisphere. In fact, according to the data compiled at the CPC, the extent of the Northern Hemisphere's snowcover from October through February was the greatest since records were started in 1973. It even exceeded the deep snowcover of the winters of the late 1970s.
October to February 2002/03 average snowcover for the Northern Hemisphere was at the highest level in the data set eclipsing the previous record set in the winter of 1976/77. From CPC: ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/cpc/wd52dg/ ... ea/NH_AREA
PERSISTENT COLD WEATHER FROM OCTOBER TO FEBRUARY
El Nino winters are characterized dependably by a ridge in the western parts of North America and a trough in the eastern areas. With the productive Polar Regions and extensive snowcover, temperatures in the trough in the eastern states averaged persistently below normal. Temperatures during the October to February period ranked among the top ten winters since 1950 in many cities in the northeast.
In Boston, it was the second coldest such period just behind 1976/77.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Year Average Temperature
1976/77 35.42
2002/03 35.72
In New York City, the period ranked 4th coldest since 1950 behind the two memorable cold winters in the late 1970s (1976/77 and 1977/78) and the winter of 1967/68.
CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK
Year Average Temperature
1976/77 37.55
1967/68 38.25
1977/78 39.35
2002/03 39.70
In Rochester, New York, the winter ranked 7th coldest since 1950, tied with the winter of 1969/70 (our top analog year).
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
Year Average Temperature
1976/77 29.48
1993/94 30.38
1962/63 30.38
1981/82 31
1978/79 31.44
1969/70 31.56
2002/03 31.56
In Baltimore (BWI Airport), the winter ranked 3rd coldest behind 1976/77 and 1962/63.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
Year Average Temperature
1976/77 37.04
1962/63 37.16
2002/03 38.63
What a difference a year can make. Many of these same locations during the same period last year found temperatures ranking among the warmest on record as resurgent solar activity produced a shrunken polar vortex and enhanced zonal flow, which in turn maximized the maritime influence on the continents and limited the extent of the snowcover. It also led to near record drought that lingered through the summer in many areas.
These two years demonstrate how many factors combine to choreograph the weather and climate as we march from season to season and year-to-year on our ride through time.
for more info and data charts, consult: http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1378/
Ken
bfez1 wrote:TORONTO, March 12 Three of North America Great Lakes Lake Huron, Lake Superior and Lake Erie have frozen over for the first time in nearly a decade after icy weather lasting more than a month, experts at Environment Canada said on Tuesday.
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Here's some more on winter 2002/03
I found three separate articles on this:
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:09 PM
Subject: A thick sheet of ice may hurt the economy, March.12,2003
A thick sheet of ice may hurt the economy
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) The thick sheet of ice on Lake Superior could delay the opening of the shipping season later this month despite the efforts of the Coast Guard icebreakers that will soon start work.
On Tuesday, more than 90% of Lake Superior's surface and that of two other Great Lakes were frozen. Ice on the Duluth harbor was more than 2 feet thick in spots.
"I sure wouldn't call it pretty," said Capt. Ray Skelton, director of environmental and government affairs for the Duluth Seaway Port Authority, which promotes the Duluth-Superior port.
Port officials hope higher temperatures and icebreaking ships will enable them to start the shipping season on time. Tuesday's high temperature was 28.
Skelton said he remembers Lake Superior freezing almost completely over in the mid-1990s, and "we had a helluva time" opening the shipping season.
Davis Helberg, executive director of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority, said, "We could have a very, very difficult opening, and I think everyone here knows that."
Whether the ice buildup is formidable enough to postpone the opening of Lake Superior's shipping season probably won't be known for days.
As of Tuesday, the locks at Sault Ste. Marie were scheduled to open March 25. Helberg said the first ships out of the Duluth-Superior port -- more than a dozen large "lakers" have been docked there over the winter -- are scheduled to leave two days earlier.
Port officials say they are optimistic that higher temperatures in coming days will lead to a quick breakup.
On top of that, the Mackinaw, a Coast Guard ice breaker, is scheduled to hit the lake next week.
"Once the Mackinaw gets up here and does its thing, we should be seeing the first lakers moving out of here about the 23rd," Helberg said.
The organizations that operate the St. Lawrence Seaway, which connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, have pushed back the seaway's opening six days, to March 31, because of ice and cold.
Albert S. Jacquez, the administrator of St. Lawrence Development Corp., which operates and manages the seaway, said the decision was made after looking at long-term weather forecasts.
He said temperatures along the seaway have been so low that "even a week's worth of warmer temperatures won't cure everything."
Beverly Havlik, commanding officer of the Sundew, said that just how quickly the ship can do its work will go a long way toward determining whether shipping starts on time.
"The plan is to get off our pier," she said. "If we can even do it, it'll take us awhile to move. It's going to be like watching grass grow. It won't happen fast. But we're ready to rock and roll."
Ice threatens to cover Lake Superior
HOUGHTON, Mich. (AP) — Record-shattering cold temperatures threaten to freeze massive Lake Superior's surface for the first time in more than two decades.
"The lake is fairly well covered," said Craig Evanego, an ice forecaster with the National Ice Center in Washington. "It's the thickest its been in years."
Lake Superior last froze completely in 1979, and this year's ice cover is the most since 1996-97, lake watchers said.
Ice currently covers more than 90% of the greatest of the Great Lakes, Evanego said. In some areas, the covering is a scant inch or so, but vast portions of the big lake have 12 to 28 inches of ice, according to the National Ice Center.
Lakes Huron and Erie are ice-covered, with much of shallow Lake Erie buried under 28 or more inches of ice, the center reported. Northern Lake Michigan is frozen, but the mid- to lower section is open, other than coastal areas.
Relentless cold temperatures are responsible for the ice buildup. While snow swept across much of mid- and lower Michigan early Wednesday, Upper Peninsula residents again bundled up against record lows.
"It's more than just a little bit cold here," said Dave Petrovich, a forecaster with the National Weather Service office in Marquette County's Negaunee Township.
Temperatures at Houghton County Memorial Airport hit minus 17 degrees at 8 a.m. Wednesday, shattering the day's previous record of minus 5, set in 1960.
Petrovich also said minus 16 in Marquette County set a new low.
At the western tip of Lake Superior, Duluth, Minn., saw a low of 12 below Wednesday.
Deep winter freeze coats three Great Lakes
By MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
— For the first time in years, the entire surfaces of Lake Superior, Lake Huron and Lake Erie have frozen over, according to ice experts at the Canadian Ice Service of Environment Canada.
This winter rarity usually occurs only once a decade, and only for fleeting periods, with the last two big freezes in 1994 and 1982.
"They're all covered with ice. They're 100 per cent covered. That's quite unusual," said Claude Dicaire, senior ice forecaster for the Canadian Ice Service.
The Great Lakes region is not alone in having massive amounts of ice. The Gulf of St. Lawrence has 25 per cent more ice than normal, and the Atlantic coast down to Halifax is covered with sea ice, a tribute to the intensity of the deep winter freeze that has gripped Eastern Canada.
Ice extending as far south as Halifax in the Atlantic is considered as unusual as shoreline-to-shoreline freezing of some of the Great Lakes.
Mr. Dicaire said Lakes Superior and Huron froze over for the first time this year on Feb. 27, a finding based on satellite images.
The two massive lakes — the world's second- and fifth-largest by surface area — usually have ice-free areas all winter because the huge volumes of water in them seldom cool enough to allow surface temperatures to drop to the freezing point.
The colder weather that has led to the ice has had other effects. In Eastern Canada, it has helped the skiing and snowmobile industry, which are having one of their best seasons in years.
But the cold has hit homeowners with bigger heating bills. January and February has been 34 per cent colder in Southern Ontario than the same period last year, leading to skyrocketing costs for home heating.
Even the maple-syrup business is having trouble getting off the ground because it is too cold for the sap to run. "We're not doing anything," said Ken McGregor, who has a sugar bush near London. "It's just way too cold."
Ice is not unusual on Lake Erie, the shallowest and most prone to freezing of the Great Lakes. It has been covered by a sheet of ice since late January, and usually freezes rapidly because it is quick to cool.
Lake Ontario, a deep, relatively southern lake, almost never freezes. It is mostly open water, except for an ice-covered patch in its northeast corner, according to satellite images. In Lake Michigan, the only one of the Great Lakes entirely in the United States, the northern third is covered with ice.
Most of the ice is 40 centimetres to 60 centimetres thick, though some places on Lake Huron and Lake Superior have ice about 70 centimetres thick.
Mr. Dicaire said the ice is so extensive he expects it will take until the end of April for spring temperatures to thaw the lake surfaces.
The ice has created havoc for shipping and ferry companies.
The St. Lawrence Seaway is to open on March 25, but it is not certain that conditions in the lakes will co-operate.
"We've informally talked with coast-guard people and the seaway people, and it's quite likely that that may be delayed a few days due to ice conditions," said John Falkingham, chief of forecasting operations for the Canadian Ice Service.
John Misener, a retired Great Lakes ship captain who spent decades on the lakes, said he has taken freighters through late-season ice, and the experience was not enjoyable for the crew or good for the vessel.
"The ice damages the ships to a certain extent. It's tough to get through. It's far better to wait for two or three weeks and see if the thing reduces itself with a good rain."
On the East Coast, Mr. Falkingham said ferry service between Sydney, N.S., and Port aux Basques, Nfld., has been experiencing difficulty because of the thick ice. A ferry spent part of Sunday caught in ice about 38 kilometres off north Sydney and had to be helped by an icebreaker.
But Mr. Falkingham said the thicker ice will be good for seals, mammals that require firm ice to give birth and to nurse their pups until they can swim. Last year, the Gulf of St. Lawrence had so little ice that many pups drowned after their mothers were forced to give birth in open water.
The ice in Eastern Canada is due to temperatures that have been below normal since January, with hardly a hint of the warming trend that is normal for this time of year.
On Monday, the forecast highs in Southern Ontario were about -11, compared to an average for early March of 3. And last week, the mercury dipped to -25 in Toronto, the coldest March day in much of Southern Ontario in more than a century.
"We had never seen a colder day in March since 1868. That is really phenomenal," said David Phillips, Environment Canada's authority on weather trends.
The other unusual weather this winter has been the lack of rain and snow. According to Mr. Phillips, the entire Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region from Windsor to Quebec City has had the lowest precipitation on record. He said the colder temperatures have masked what would otherwise be recognized as a severe drought.
Nonetheless, the winter has been tailor-made for those who enjoy ice, with lengthy periods where the temperatures have not exceeded 0. Even Toronto, a city with frequent winter thaws, has had 63 days in which temperatures failed to rise above 0, more than double the number last year, according to Mr. Phillips.
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:09 PM
Subject: A thick sheet of ice may hurt the economy, March.12,2003
A thick sheet of ice may hurt the economy
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) The thick sheet of ice on Lake Superior could delay the opening of the shipping season later this month despite the efforts of the Coast Guard icebreakers that will soon start work.
On Tuesday, more than 90% of Lake Superior's surface and that of two other Great Lakes were frozen. Ice on the Duluth harbor was more than 2 feet thick in spots.
"I sure wouldn't call it pretty," said Capt. Ray Skelton, director of environmental and government affairs for the Duluth Seaway Port Authority, which promotes the Duluth-Superior port.
Port officials hope higher temperatures and icebreaking ships will enable them to start the shipping season on time. Tuesday's high temperature was 28.
Skelton said he remembers Lake Superior freezing almost completely over in the mid-1990s, and "we had a helluva time" opening the shipping season.
Davis Helberg, executive director of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority, said, "We could have a very, very difficult opening, and I think everyone here knows that."
Whether the ice buildup is formidable enough to postpone the opening of Lake Superior's shipping season probably won't be known for days.
As of Tuesday, the locks at Sault Ste. Marie were scheduled to open March 25. Helberg said the first ships out of the Duluth-Superior port -- more than a dozen large "lakers" have been docked there over the winter -- are scheduled to leave two days earlier.
Port officials say they are optimistic that higher temperatures in coming days will lead to a quick breakup.
On top of that, the Mackinaw, a Coast Guard ice breaker, is scheduled to hit the lake next week.
"Once the Mackinaw gets up here and does its thing, we should be seeing the first lakers moving out of here about the 23rd," Helberg said.
The organizations that operate the St. Lawrence Seaway, which connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, have pushed back the seaway's opening six days, to March 31, because of ice and cold.
Albert S. Jacquez, the administrator of St. Lawrence Development Corp., which operates and manages the seaway, said the decision was made after looking at long-term weather forecasts.
He said temperatures along the seaway have been so low that "even a week's worth of warmer temperatures won't cure everything."
Beverly Havlik, commanding officer of the Sundew, said that just how quickly the ship can do its work will go a long way toward determining whether shipping starts on time.
"The plan is to get off our pier," she said. "If we can even do it, it'll take us awhile to move. It's going to be like watching grass grow. It won't happen fast. But we're ready to rock and roll."
Ice threatens to cover Lake Superior
HOUGHTON, Mich. (AP) — Record-shattering cold temperatures threaten to freeze massive Lake Superior's surface for the first time in more than two decades.
"The lake is fairly well covered," said Craig Evanego, an ice forecaster with the National Ice Center in Washington. "It's the thickest its been in years."
Lake Superior last froze completely in 1979, and this year's ice cover is the most since 1996-97, lake watchers said.
Ice currently covers more than 90% of the greatest of the Great Lakes, Evanego said. In some areas, the covering is a scant inch or so, but vast portions of the big lake have 12 to 28 inches of ice, according to the National Ice Center.
Lakes Huron and Erie are ice-covered, with much of shallow Lake Erie buried under 28 or more inches of ice, the center reported. Northern Lake Michigan is frozen, but the mid- to lower section is open, other than coastal areas.
Relentless cold temperatures are responsible for the ice buildup. While snow swept across much of mid- and lower Michigan early Wednesday, Upper Peninsula residents again bundled up against record lows.
"It's more than just a little bit cold here," said Dave Petrovich, a forecaster with the National Weather Service office in Marquette County's Negaunee Township.
Temperatures at Houghton County Memorial Airport hit minus 17 degrees at 8 a.m. Wednesday, shattering the day's previous record of minus 5, set in 1960.
Petrovich also said minus 16 in Marquette County set a new low.
At the western tip of Lake Superior, Duluth, Minn., saw a low of 12 below Wednesday.
Deep winter freeze coats three Great Lakes
By MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
— For the first time in years, the entire surfaces of Lake Superior, Lake Huron and Lake Erie have frozen over, according to ice experts at the Canadian Ice Service of Environment Canada.
This winter rarity usually occurs only once a decade, and only for fleeting periods, with the last two big freezes in 1994 and 1982.
"They're all covered with ice. They're 100 per cent covered. That's quite unusual," said Claude Dicaire, senior ice forecaster for the Canadian Ice Service.
The Great Lakes region is not alone in having massive amounts of ice. The Gulf of St. Lawrence has 25 per cent more ice than normal, and the Atlantic coast down to Halifax is covered with sea ice, a tribute to the intensity of the deep winter freeze that has gripped Eastern Canada.
Ice extending as far south as Halifax in the Atlantic is considered as unusual as shoreline-to-shoreline freezing of some of the Great Lakes.
Mr. Dicaire said Lakes Superior and Huron froze over for the first time this year on Feb. 27, a finding based on satellite images.
The two massive lakes — the world's second- and fifth-largest by surface area — usually have ice-free areas all winter because the huge volumes of water in them seldom cool enough to allow surface temperatures to drop to the freezing point.
The colder weather that has led to the ice has had other effects. In Eastern Canada, it has helped the skiing and snowmobile industry, which are having one of their best seasons in years.
But the cold has hit homeowners with bigger heating bills. January and February has been 34 per cent colder in Southern Ontario than the same period last year, leading to skyrocketing costs for home heating.
Even the maple-syrup business is having trouble getting off the ground because it is too cold for the sap to run. "We're not doing anything," said Ken McGregor, who has a sugar bush near London. "It's just way too cold."
Ice is not unusual on Lake Erie, the shallowest and most prone to freezing of the Great Lakes. It has been covered by a sheet of ice since late January, and usually freezes rapidly because it is quick to cool.
Lake Ontario, a deep, relatively southern lake, almost never freezes. It is mostly open water, except for an ice-covered patch in its northeast corner, according to satellite images. In Lake Michigan, the only one of the Great Lakes entirely in the United States, the northern third is covered with ice.
Most of the ice is 40 centimetres to 60 centimetres thick, though some places on Lake Huron and Lake Superior have ice about 70 centimetres thick.
Mr. Dicaire said the ice is so extensive he expects it will take until the end of April for spring temperatures to thaw the lake surfaces.
The ice has created havoc for shipping and ferry companies.
The St. Lawrence Seaway is to open on March 25, but it is not certain that conditions in the lakes will co-operate.
"We've informally talked with coast-guard people and the seaway people, and it's quite likely that that may be delayed a few days due to ice conditions," said John Falkingham, chief of forecasting operations for the Canadian Ice Service.
John Misener, a retired Great Lakes ship captain who spent decades on the lakes, said he has taken freighters through late-season ice, and the experience was not enjoyable for the crew or good for the vessel.
"The ice damages the ships to a certain extent. It's tough to get through. It's far better to wait for two or three weeks and see if the thing reduces itself with a good rain."
On the East Coast, Mr. Falkingham said ferry service between Sydney, N.S., and Port aux Basques, Nfld., has been experiencing difficulty because of the thick ice. A ferry spent part of Sunday caught in ice about 38 kilometres off north Sydney and had to be helped by an icebreaker.
But Mr. Falkingham said the thicker ice will be good for seals, mammals that require firm ice to give birth and to nurse their pups until they can swim. Last year, the Gulf of St. Lawrence had so little ice that many pups drowned after their mothers were forced to give birth in open water.
The ice in Eastern Canada is due to temperatures that have been below normal since January, with hardly a hint of the warming trend that is normal for this time of year.
On Monday, the forecast highs in Southern Ontario were about -11, compared to an average for early March of 3. And last week, the mercury dipped to -25 in Toronto, the coldest March day in much of Southern Ontario in more than a century.
"We had never seen a colder day in March since 1868. That is really phenomenal," said David Phillips, Environment Canada's authority on weather trends.
The other unusual weather this winter has been the lack of rain and snow. According to Mr. Phillips, the entire Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region from Windsor to Quebec City has had the lowest precipitation on record. He said the colder temperatures have masked what would otherwise be recognized as a severe drought.
Nonetheless, the winter has been tailor-made for those who enjoy ice, with lengthy periods where the temperatures have not exceeded 0. Even Toronto, a city with frequent winter thaws, has had 63 days in which temperatures failed to rise above 0, more than double the number last year, according to Mr. Phillips.
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Lake Ontario is deeper than Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes, so Erie usually freezes earlier. This year's winter started out there warmer, but the last month or so they've been living with the breath of the Ice King. Needless to say, I now prefer the 84* & golfing in winter compared to all the former tundra-days of thawing out the locks on the cars & scraping ice/dethawing the windshield for 20 minutes before going anywhere 
In what section of the Buckeye state do you live ohiostorm?
In what section of the Buckeye state do you live ohiostorm?
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Western portions of NY have had a few occasions where there was an ideal setup for some lake effect, except for one thing: the lake was frozen. Lake Ontario never froze, so we just continued to get pounded. This has been a very unusual winter; last summer they predicted above average temps for the winter. I wish that they were right!!
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Wow interesting info M2. Thanks for the eyewitness testimony nystate. I kinda understand what ur talkinga bout...the winter was bad for us down south too. We had an Ice/snow event every weekend for a month in late jan and feb. We also had a major icestorm...missed so much school...and lost power for a while 
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