SH> I've forgotten where in Michigan you are but my recollection is that
the 
SH> Upper Peninsula was not all that warm at the end of August.
SH> 
SH> As for our snow, more arrived last night and this morning.  While 
SH> some of it melted later today, it is safe to say that 
SH> summer is over.:-(

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