PS. We’ve had a mild winter (have only used the snowblower once) here in Western New England; however March has been, as unscientifically measured by me, very cold. Thankfully, we did not get our “Just before the start of high school Spring sports” snowstorm*, as is traditional.

Alexa tells me that the Twin Cities got 31/2 inches of snow yesterday, not at all unusual. When I was a nipper, April 10, 1965 (could be off by a couple days) the Upper Midwest got about four feet of the fluffy white stuff**, followed a couple weeks later by the worst flooding in Minnesota history.

I just hope it warms up for the Frozen Four in a couple weeks!

* I like snow, mostly, just not in March, which is kinda stupid as March is usually a big snow month.

*March snow is rarely “fluffy”, it’s usually what I call “ heart attack snow”.

PS: And... that's another thing I've been saying for a long time. If there's still no solid theory on why the Ice Ages keep occurring (there've been many, not just one), than how DO we know if this alleged man-caused warming would not be a very welcome, albeit, minor help, in the face of the severe change in climate during an Ice Age.

How does any Climate model purport itself to work when the exact causes and therefore timeframe of the Ice Ages is unknown.

PS: Haha, Adam, I was thinking of the wide brooms one might use to sweep the walk with a few inches of powder on it. Then again, a few inches of powder isn't the problem.

Great videos there! I like these reporters are pretty serious seeing as they are going through that crap themselves. I heard no speculation about the Climate Crisis, only concern for the people doing that hard work trying to save their roofs, and the danger of being stranded.

I saw that 2 1/2 ft on one roof. That's a lot of weight seeing as it's packed down. These people were trying to save their houses first and then they would deal with getting their cars out of their driveways. Brutal! Also, it looked like one would have to be really careful up there.

I believe I embedded that Leonard Nimoy video about the likely start of the next Ice Age one time on this site. Yep, found it (more easily than I'd thought): "Long term climate predictions from "America's Science Officer"

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=2359

From that post:

"I don't know who to believe anymore about the future of the planet, a former Star Fleet Science Officer or a teenage Swedish girl. If it's still acceptable in this day and age, I would really like to see Spock v Greta.

"How dare you speak about logic and blah, blah, blaaaahh... "[Permanent Vulcan Nerve Pinch]"

I think now that one Jimmy Buffett line was surely influenced by the really cold winter of 1977. It's from the same time, I'm almost sure, in the song "Manana" from his "Son of a Son of a Sailor" album:

"There's people up in Buffalo
stuck in their cars,
and here I am lyin'
'neath the sun and the stars."

"So, please don't say Manana, if you don't mean it...,"

Thanks for reminding me about that video, Adam. (In my post, I also have a longer clip on the then-coming Ice Age, with more Science - this guy wasn't on the Enterprise though, so who knows if he knows his ass from a hole in the ground. ;-}

PS: Old Soldier, I brought that revised weather forecasting business up as a comment on the Steve Sailer unz.com blog a couple of years ago. I understand that you have to take into account what's ACTUALLY going on to fix up your guesswork. My idea was a program with a big database to suck in forecasts for all over the place, then look at any changes to forecasts for the same days, along with the ACTUAL weather that occurred to see how they get doctored up, on a large-scale statistical basis. Some other commenter said this was being done, but I have no link now.

Reports cards on weather forecasting is what we need.

I've just wanted to be able to use the simple program on the smart phone. It puts out a lot of garbage now, as I wrote up in the post "Depressing Weather Forecasts":

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=2674

PS: Thanks, Mr. Blanc. I hope you make it home after April 10th then. Where I live, mid March is almost always a turning point. However, that didn't take this year.

Alarmist, you sure get around. I have been through Texas on a few different trips, and I think that's a really nice part. Then, I like eastern TX just fine too. It's just that little bit drier than points east that makes it nice.

PS: Good evening, everyone,

“I was worried about the roof, so I 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑝𝑡 it off...”

Lol... Clearly you've never shoveled snow off a roof...

https://i.ibb.co/p2XBJ1m/Shoveling-Snow-off-Roof-1.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcH4Tn9_bYk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVSi-cBnjao

You're right about the last part.
You don't need a ladder coming down.
https://i.ibb.co/XbvnZFt/Shoveling-Snow-off-Roof-2.jpg

More seriously though,

How do we know that this winter weather isn't the beginning of a new ice age?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQSBn50o_8M

☮️

PS Weather reporters (script readers, actually) are wrong more than they're right about the weather. Then they change the definition of what's "right" with their forecasts to keep from being held accountable (keep moving the goalposts). Removing government funding for Global Warming means the weather reporters will have to go back to being right about the weather once in a while. The "news" and "weather" outlets long ago stopped reporting real news and weather and are all now in the business of managing narratives and promoting world communism. I've long since given up on the news or weather reporting being accurate or correct. Letting all the news outlets go bankrupt works for me.

PS

It was a brisk 45° in the Hill Country this sunny morning. Given I was accustomed to 100°+ in summers and often 20°s in the winters, I’d say this is just Spring in the midwest.

PS Our friends in Minneapolis (one of whom also has a farm in central MN) report that the past winter was definitely very mild. One for the books. That said, in that part of the world (the Chicago area, to which we shall be soon returning, included), early spring is just another expression for late winter. After about APR 10, the chances of heavy snow decline considerably. Before that, anything is possible.