FreeLanceing,
I like your humor.
We are right here in Garnd Haven where we live and have for 72 years and so do our kids and many of the rest of the family. We nor any of them have had even 4" on their roof's or over 4" on the ground this year except for our daughter who's home is half way between here and Holland. She had 6" and we saw it with our own eyes. Still don't have 4" here and it's snowed most of the day today and just before dark I blew off the main driveway with it's less than 2" of snow on it. First time blowing it off since New Years Day. Not snowing here anymore now. Check: www.wunderground.com/history as it gives the entire daily history for the last more than 50 years. It says we got .17" of precip today which is 1.7" of snow. Takes 10 inches of snow melted to make 1 inch of water!
In 72 years of living in the area, I have yet to ever need to shovel snow off the roof or ever had 18" of snow on it one time or on any of our homes/building/businesses or the RV's!
Nearly all of the snow had melted between our finally white Christmas and New Years as it was in the upper 40's for 3 days straight. December 27th, 28th, and 29th and the 28th was bright hot sun all day. Check the records! Was bare ground here!
Where is this magical place you live around here where you get 18"-24" on your roof and had to shovel it off twice this year? You smok'in some good stuff?
Yes, you are so right that we have had a very cold winter this year and so was last spring and this past fall. Very abnormal along the Lake Michigan shoreline in West Michigan but not inland 30+ miles. We freeze our butts off when we go to say, Lansing! Global warming? Hardly! Global chilling? very obvious!
31.8 F here at 7:57 pm and the low tonight is +23 F. The snow is falling south of here all the way down south in Indiana and Illinois (Chicago). You can watch it live on the color radar.
23 for a high tomorrow and +9 for tomorrow night. In the single digits above 0 F on Monday and Monday night and then is gets warmer again. So much for the below zero F BS I keep hearing.