good morning everyone

[blueknight]

the cold is starting to break, hopefully the ice will continue to melt. i hope you all have a great day:hi:

[tavalon]

1. No ice here

But thankfully it has begun to rain. I'm in Seattle and we are about 6 inches short on our rainfall this year. This is a way bad thing because, and I know you'll get a hoot out of this, we have a drought every summer. And if we start our spring with a deficit, it will be very bad, very early this year.

Granted, January is our wettest month so my worrying may be premature.

Great to hear about the ice melting.

[B Calm]

2. Snow melting here in western Indiana..

January thaw coming a few days earlier this year.

[blueknight]

3. yeah,

you guys got it bad.as well as the rest of indiana. this was one of the worst snow storms i can remember and i'm 47.hope thats the last one this winter

[KharmaTrain]

4. January Is Always The Worst

I'm in Chicago and we missed out on your snow, but I had quite a shock when I left LA (before the rains) last week with Sunny and 68 and deplaned at O'Hare and it was 0 with -15 wind chills. Ah, the midwestern winter!

I keep warning my kids about "real winters"...ones we had in this area in the late 70's and mid 80's with 15-20 inch snowfalls and -20 temps. We've been lucky in recent years as the extremes haven't been too extreme.

Cheers & Happy New Year