Winter in MN 2024
 

For those of you, especially native southerners, that believe that we live in a winter wasteland up here in MN, the temp today was 52 degrees above zero!!! It was a record high for this date and beat the old record by 9 degrees. No, it is not normal, but this winter it has been above average with almost no snow and none of the bad storms seen elsewhere. For those of us that stay north rather than going south for the winter, we have been rewarded. Our winter still has at least 8-10 weeks left, no matter what the ground hog will say, but it is still more than half over so it is all down hill from here. Smile Smile Smile.

Ditto for Michigan. We have had our bad days of course and in a very weird way, we look forward to them. But today we are supposed to have temps in the mid-40's. The Big Lake is cold so the warm air your sending east is getting a bit of a chill. Ole, Mr. Ground Hog better snuggle down for a few more weeks. It will certainly turn cold again.

Ditto in Kansas! Enjoying temps in the 50's for a change, but I do surely remember the snow covered winters in Minnesota in years passed!

Yes, this year has been foggy! Instead of snowy! This was last year 1/19/23, you can just see the mail box that I had to dig out so we could get mail. I was already starting to shovel the top of the pile of snow at the end of the drive so I could back out also.

I have not used the snowblower once this year and we have not had a single snow emergency!

Strange, but loving the walks in the evening.

I live in Iowa and welcome the snow and colder temps. I lived in FLorida for 30 years and couldn't move fast enough once I retired. I'm orginally from Nebraska so jsut next door to where I grew up. It didn't take long for me to adjust to the 4 seasons either. Love that I can now grow a veggie garden, flowers, etc in the spring thru all seasons, then settle down to winter, enjoy the snow coming down. Don't care for the sub-zero temps we've had this season but I deal with them and just remember that Spring will be here soon enough and already thinking of projects I can work on then. Florida had 4 seasons of green as I called it. The midwest has the real 4 seasons. I used to come up for vacation in the Fall so I could see the leaves changing colors too.

I'm in Minnesota, and we went up to our cabin today! Today wasn't as warm as yesterday, but 46 degrees isn't bad! There is very little snow north of the Cities. We are 3 hours north of the cities, back in the woods, on a lake, and there was only a smattering of snow left in the woods. The lake is still frozen, with one lone ice fishing house on it. The shoreline has started to thaw. It was sunny and serene, and incredibly quiet. We stayed for about an hour, walked around and enjoyed being able to be there on the First of February, be able to drive down our driveway, and not have to snowshoe in from the road! Normally there would be 4+ feet of snow! It was a fun adventure, and a great 8 hours day trip!

I’m in Wisconsin and went disc golfing today. It was a little brisk by by the time we were done at 10 am it was starting to thaw and get muddy.

Thanks all!
 

Your post has been incredibly enlightening.

Yesterday, here in south Texas, the low was 37 degrees. The high on Thursday is forecast at 84 degrees!! Our winter is a series of cold fronts. We go from using the heater to opening windows. When it hits 84, we use A/C!

Here in Southern California we are experiencing our "winter." Lots of rain and even though we need it, 12" from the last storm is too much at once. We're experiencing another downfall and people are losing their houses to mudslides. Still, I'm used to earthquakes, draughts, too much rain, but mostly beautiful weather. My neighbors and I count our blessings.

It's been an unusual winter in many places. Meteorologist says it's El Nino. In FL, it's been much cooler than usual and we've had a LOT of rain. That's ok, the rain was much needed.

It's been a very mild winter in New England, too, which to me is disappointing. I live in MA and we are forecast to have highs in mid-40s this week, and up to 57 next week. I like to ski in NH, and there has been less snow than I like, and worse still (for skiing) repeated rain storms. The storm brought a lot of snow to NYC last week was originally forecast to bring a lot of snow to a lot of MA, but that storm swung south so I got less than an inch where I live (compared to the initial forecast of 8"). Boo!

Very mild here in central Maine also. Very little snow on the ground in my yard, 30 miles south of me, no snow except plowed banks. Normally 3-4' right now. 😲 El nino gave us alot of rain last summer, and fall, way above average, record breaking and in December when we had a flood, the long term forecast the meteorologist were giving last fall predicted the same weather pattern here in Maine through the winter, which would have meant a lot of snow. I guess it balances out over a years time, now just got to wait and see what next summer brings for weather.

I’ll keep the warm sunshine and sand in my toes year round. I’ve never lived in cold winters so 50 degrees is cold enough for me. LOL!

Glad you are enjoying a mile winter.

March can be very snowy but it goes away quickly.