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Never did for me when I lived in Amherst, MA, for my freshman year of college, 2008-2009, the only year I spent there before transferring. That year I remember the snowpack being established sometime in December before I left for winter break. I just remember it being annoyingly late. But when I came back in January 2009 after winter break, the snowpack lasted quite a while. I got off at the Amtrak station and walked all the way to campus, passing some makeshift street ice rink along the way (I had my ice skates with me, always regret I never bothered to skate there). Yeah, it was pretty much an amazing winter scene from the time I got off the train for another 6 weeks or so, maybe. Granted, though I didn't have a car on campus and didn't have to drive in any of it. And I enjoyed observing just how long into April the various piles of snow would last before melting entirely: I seem to remember a good 2-3 weeks into April. In fact, I think this was when I got in the habit of constantly checking Weather Underground for the forecast: I wanted to know when to look forward to more snow. Fun times.
After a snowstorm is nice, but the biting cold isn't. And there's always cold without snow. That was a colder winter than usual from what I remember.
I agree. But for me the positives still outweigh the negatives. Walking by that library (big wind tunnel) in winter wasn't always so fun, that's for sure.
Incredible amounts of lake effect snow in the North Woods
Wind chills are about to crash
The Arctic hounds are about to be unleashed....
Euro unloads on New England with a blast of frgidness...
This is interesting. Are we going to see an early blast of winter, and then shut off the valve half way through? So says the latest long range Euro
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Long Range Update into Early January
December 05, 2013; 9:44 PM
Here is my latest long range forecast interpretation that now goes out into the first week of the new year....
Latest indications are that the cross-polar flow, which has been delivering the unseasonably cold, Arctic air deep into the western two-thirds of the country will slowly shut down for the second half of the month.
Current Watches & Warnings Map. 12 States have Wind Chill Advisory. 22 States have Winter Advisory. 6 with Freezing Rain Advisory
Cali has Winter Storm Warnings and Freeze Warnings.
Even Southern Tip of Texas now has a Wind chill Advisory and a Freeze
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