I rarely post diaries here, there are so many great writers I don't feel I have much to contribute, in terms of writing smart literate diaries. However I feel compelled to post a diary on the winter we are having here.
I'm 45 and have lived in central New York my entire life, in the recesses of my memory I can remember the blizzard of '66. I can remember winter after winter with mountains of snow and bitter cold. I can remember enough snow to build snow tunnels in the drifts. Looking back I can definitely say that things began to moderate in the early 80's.
Now we still have plenty of precipitation here, however much of it is rain and if we do have extended periods of snow it invariably melts as the temperature promptly begins to rise. But this year hoo-boy today it was 60 degrees 60!!! The temperature this week has not fallen below 50 the entire week!! It has barely dropped below freezing this year. You'd have to live here to understand how unprecedented this is.
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