you know it's been a long winter when

rz15,000+ posts

I'ts 20 degrees and sunny today. I work at UW-Madison and walked over to the student union for lunch and there's 10 picnic tables filled with students and staff eating lunch outside next to 8ft high piles of plowed snow. I think "what a bunch of nuts, it's WINTER" until I realize I'm not wearing a jacket.

Spring must be near!

2/27/082:23 PM

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Dad045,000+ posts

and then they skied to class...........

2/27/082:26 PM

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play baseball1,000+ posts

rz, I can totally relate!
I went to college in St. Paul, and during a "heat wave" in the middle of a particularly brutal winter (even for the Twin Cities

), girls sunbathed in their bikinis (not quite as skimpy as today's) on top of the packed snow.....It really did feel balmy!

2/27/082:38 PM

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biggerpapi5,000+ posts

Sunday it was nice and cold here in Northern Illinois with another one of those "storms of the century" on the way.

Tryouts were Monday.

My son was in the driveway hitting off the tee into a net and the boy across the street was playing catch in the street with his dad.

24 hours later we were shoveling 4" of heavy wet snow.

2/27/088:06 PM

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JT1,000+ posts

It was horrible here, too...40 and sunny with all the HS teams trying out

(and a complete absence of snow)

2/27/089:03 PM

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55mom1,000+ posts

We had a small batch of flurries - I put on another pair of socks.

burrrr it's 22 now.

Is snow still white? I don't remember.

2/28/085:49 AM

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CPLZ1,000+ posts

Does walking to the mailbox in my underwear in 5 degrees say more about the weather or me?

2/28/087:10 AM

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biggerpapi5,000+ posts

I think that means your neighbors have great restraint in not calling 911.

2/28/087:42 AM

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80PATRIOT100+ posts

This has been one of our coldest days with the low at 34, but it will be close to 60 this afternoon. Almost 80 for a double header on Sunday.

2/28/088:19 AM

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Orlando1,000+ posts

Careful, 80, the gang can get really cranky when we post on these threads

2/28/089:40 AM

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80PATRIOT100+ posts

I don't care where you're from, when your body is use to 80 and it gets down to the 30s the next day, it's cold.

When I lived in Michigan 30 degrees meant a long sleeve shirt. Here, I wear a ski jacket.

2/28/089:56 AM

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Dad045,000+ posts

rz I heard y'all are closing in on the Madison snowfall record of 87.94 inches. You guys need to bust through that record like a racing snowplow.

2/28/0810:53 AM

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Moc1500+ posts

Just heard on the radio that snow is covering more of the US at this time of year than the last 40 years.

Where's that dadgum global warming when you need it? Al Gore and Michael Moore must be keeping their mouths shut.

Sorry, I apologize for getting political.

http://deathby1000papercuts.blogspot.com/2008/02/coolin...-snow-cover-has.html

2/28/0811:46 AM

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