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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Wisconsin Weather

Wisconsin's weather never ceases to amaze me. A couple of weeks ago we were hit with a monstrous blizzard that closed schools,the highway, and even the Medical College of Wisconsin (though they did wait until 5am to make that decision). Amazingly, by the afternoon many places around Milwaukee were navigable and life returned to (fairly) normal the next day. Then we had a week of sub-Arctic temperatures. With wind chills well below zero, it was bundle up or be frozen. Last week we had record highs with temperatures approaching 50 degrees and nearly all the snow melted. In fact, you couldn't even really tell that we had even had a blizzard a few weeks ago because there was grass everywhere and everything seemed like Spring--right down to all the mud. Today Wisconsin decided it was winter again. After snowing all morning, it's now decided that it's time to dump sleet/freezing rain on us. So much for seeing the grass again! But seriously, the Midwest's weather is crazy and you never know what you're going to get from one minute to the next. To quote the local weatherman (I think I've quoted him before), "If you don't like the weather in Wisconsin, just wait a few minutes."

Can it be warm yet? Like, for more than a week?

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