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by CMur12 » Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:58 pm
That's a lot of snow!
Here in eastern Washington State (not at all like the Seattle side) we have normally had hard winters. I moved to this side of the mountains in 1983, and winters through the 1980s typically had heavy snowfall from November into January. It never warmed up enough during the winter to melt the snow, so we never had slush. Snow was piled in parking lots and in berms down the middle of streets, where it remained until it evaporated.
Since then, we rarely get snow in November, but we can get it into March. Temperatures rise and fall, so accumulated snow melts intermittently. Our last great snowfall was in 1997, when I had five-foot drifts on my roof. Since then, we have had less and less snow, and winters are becoming very mild. This winter, we had one little snowfall of possibly an inch, and this week temperatures are hovering around 50F during the day, down into the low 30s and high 20s at night.
The middle and east of this continent appear to be getting even harder winters than before, while the west appears to be warming up.
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