TN> I'm in Grand Rapids, on the western coast of the lower peninsula. We are
 TN> about due east of Milwaukee Wisconsin.
 TN> We get a lot of "lake effect" here to moderate our
climate. It is not
 TN> nearly as much as one gets from the ocean, but it is still significant ---

We have a simular problem.
I don't live to far away from the biggest lake in Sweden and when Lake Vanern
isn't frozen we get a lot of snow and the flakes are very small and when it's
frozen the flakes are as big as hands.

//Bj”rn

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