23 Day String Ends
Gee, it was beginning to feel like a good old-fashioned winter. Through Sunday we had 23 days in a row when the temperature never got above freezing. 14 of those days had a low temperature below 0 (F). Finally, yesterday, Monday, we went running above freezing sometime between 10:00 and 11:00 in the morning. Now I know for our friends further north than the Twin Cities that doesn't seem like all that cold. But in this extended era of above normal weather, these 23 days were a hearkening back to days of yore.

Fortunately we didn't break any record with that. The longest stretch below freezing occurred in the frigid winter of December, 1976- February 1977 when there were 66 days in a row below freezing.

But the sun is getting higher in the sky. We are closer to March than we are to January. And the first above 60 degree day usually comes in March! Even with the likelihood of significant snows in March around here, (they are actually calling for a storm this coming weekend- which is still February) the extended cold is probably on the way out.

Or not.