On Jan 3, 1:51*pm, Smitty Two wrote:
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*rochacha wrote:

WNY has you beat hands down for snowfall with population over 50k.
We get about 2 times the snowfall.
(not that we like it mind you
I keep the plow on the truck into April.

http://www.city-data.com/top2/c464.html

You guys have a tad bit lower temps with pop. over 50k:
http://www.city-data.com/top2/c460.html

All in all the NE is darned cold (with the higher pop. than other
places). Such as the west with a lower pop. in general and higher
elevations.

At least we don't get hurricanes and wildfires which are very bad, IMHO..

I don't know how much things have changed in NY in the last 33 years,
but I know they've changed where I used to be. I left my hometown in '76
and my brother tells me the winters there are MUCH milder than they used
to be. Daytime highs of 0 F or less were common, stretching for weeks on
end. A week or two of solid 40 below was nothing. A foot of snow fell
within a week of Halloween every year, and the ground was not seen again
until mid April.

Nowadays, they have several almost total thaws throughout the winter.- Hide quoted text -

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Gee whiz. It's been raining half the day here 'up north' in most
easterly Canada at almost 48 degrees North!
Snowed before Christmas now all gone, but gets icy some days. Now some
10 days past the shortest day of the year.
F.Cast says it will be above freezing (32F or 0 Celsius) for most of
the week.

Our deck/patio is completely clear of snow, last trace in front yard
went today. Neighbours yards completely clear.
Chilly but out there filling bird seed feeders in my slipper
yesterday; fewer birds this year so far, weather seems milder than say
50 years ago when one dug one's way out to go to work and dug your way
back in each evening.

Maybe the weather is more screwed up? Of course we are alongside the
North Atlantic and that may be warmer than in the past. And more full
of carbon dioxide (carbonic acid)? Also the rian here is more acid
than say 100 years ago.

Fewer icebergs coming down from up north in last few years and/or they
melt more quickly before arriving off shore. Oil rigs now at risk
instead of the Titanic!

Anyway. Only used the new snow-blower (November 2009) twice so far.
Looks like a couple more weeks, at least, sans snow.