BF>> Eh....Living that far up north....?
 BF>> This weekend it came over 3 feet wet snow a bit up north and made 17 000
 BF>> houses without power.

 BK>  Where we are on this edge of the lake, for some reason, we are
 BK>  in a warm pocket. We don't get weather as bad as our neighbors
 BK>  to the North or South. We are one whole growing zone warmer than
 BK>  those to our immediate south.

Ought to have something to do with the lakes.
We see a big difference in the size of the snowflakes when the wind comes
from the east and that the biggest lake here is frozen or not.
When there is no ice on the lake the flakes are small and wet and if the lake
is frozen the flakes are big as lavatory lids.

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