What the hey?

Well, I was expecting the weather to be somewhat different than it's been behaving lately. I haven't been home for winter for two years, but I can't imagine that this has become the norm after that much time. It's been in the mid 30s and has rained quite a bit in the last week. Today and yesterday were especially wet and foggy and it reminded me strikingly of Rhode Island weather.

But the folks around here are equally baffled by the weather. Generally winter here starts shortly after Halloween (we usually expect snow by Thanksgiving) and lasts through to mid-April. We haven't had a brown new-years EVER and I'm sort of afraid that that's what it's going to be. This is the first year in history that Duluth and International Falls (right up on the boarder with Canada) have had a brown Christmas as well. Anyone who denies global warming can kiss my butt.

The forecast is for snow on new years, though, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.