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Welcome to the balmy Great Lakes Region !!!! (Original Post) marmar Jan 2012 OP
Always something to talk about here in the Great Lakes! hedgehog Jan 2012 #1
Mansfield 56 jdadd Jan 2012 #2
48 milwaukee--prob taken at the airport where it is cooler dembotoz Jan 2012 #3
We just hit an official record high.. madmom Jan 2012 #4
Yup, safeinOhio Jan 2012 #13
its nice but it aint right leftyohiolib Jan 2012 #5
yeah, I worry. TheMightyFavog Jan 2012 #8
In Rhode Island all the basketball courts were sunken angstlessk Jan 2012 #6
We really haven't had winter till a few days ago fadedrose Jan 2012 #7
It's 58 in Toledo today. ellie Jan 2012 #9
Fabulous Traverse City 48 degrees! JNelson6563 Jan 2012 #10
45 in Oshkosh, WI. Viking12 Jan 2012 #11
Close enough. marmar Jan 2012 #12
Played nine holes today (in Chicago) AngryAmish Jan 2012 #14
It feels like spring in Detroit Motown_Johnny Jan 2012 #15
Feels like April here on the North Shore of Lake Superior. We've been in a drought for months and Brickbat Jan 2012 #16

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
1. Always something to talk about here in the Great Lakes!
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 02:20 PM
Jan 2012

I'm taking a rest from shoveling the snow from in front of my garage. The combination of wind blowing across a very warm Lake Ontario at just the right angle plus a cold front left two foot plus of snow in my driveway. I'd still be OK if the plow guy hadn't pushed it all against my garage door! My driveway is down to bare gravel now after the sun hit it today, but I've still got a lot of shoveling to do!

See you all later!

dembotoz

(16,740 posts)
3. 48 milwaukee--prob taken at the airport where it is cooler
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 02:27 PM
Jan 2012

i remeber when i was at the university--in the middle of wisconsin

the first day it would reach 50 degress was a time for celebration and the consumption of lots of alcohol.

would never have been this early

kinda makes me thirsty

TheMightyFavog

(13,770 posts)
8. yeah, I worry.
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 03:03 PM
Jan 2012

My part of Wisconsin makes a LOT of money off of winter recreation. (Snowmobilers, Ice Fishermen, Snowshoers, Cross-Country skiiers, etc.) Very mild Winter with little snow + Bad economy = Very bad news for a lot of the little Mom and Pop operations up here.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
6. In Rhode Island all the basketball courts were sunken
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 03:00 PM
Jan 2012

and in the winter the fire department would fill them with water so it would freeze and become a hockey rink...wonder if they still do that? This year it would be a waste of water..

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
7. We really haven't had winter till a few days ago
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 03:03 PM
Jan 2012

I think we had less than 3 inches of snow ALL winter, and winter's over in March as far as I'm concerned.

We have cold springs, frost sometimes into June, but the snow thrower's got spider webs on it, and the plain old shovel's only been used twice - yesterday and Sunday - and it took hardly any time both times.

Maybe February will make up for it with 6 ft of snow...

JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)
10. Fabulous Traverse City 48 degrees!
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 03:06 PM
Jan 2012

This is madness. The ski resort folks are having what must be their worst year ever up here.

Julie

Viking12

(6,012 posts)
11. 45 in Oshkosh, WI.
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 03:08 PM
Jan 2012

We're less than 50 miles from Lake Michigan and within the Great Lakes watershed. That counts, right?

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)
16. Feels like April here on the North Shore of Lake Superior. We've been in a drought for months and
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 05:07 PM
Jan 2012

are hurting for precipitation.

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