hmm, I’ve noticed patterns of severe weather that always seem to happen when there are extreme temperature differences. I would say it be just interesting weather. I go to college up in Minneapolis and perhaps some of the strangest weather I have experienced is when its minus 12 degrees for about a week and a half , then all of a sudden the temperature rises to zero and it feels like summer! Thats strange weather to me. Enjoy the snow!

Yes, St. Louis has crazy weather but this has definitely been to the extremes. And the fact that we’re getting this much snow into March…it is slighty bizaare, and more that anything, sad. St. Louis always has up’s and down’s but I just think that this has been more snow than we’ve had in a long time.

We all must continue to wonder…when will spring be here?

If you think this is unusual you are retarded. It does this every year. There’s always a late january thaw before the early feb freeze, and there’s almost always a late feb thaw before an early march freeze.

Talk to me if it snows in may - THAT’S unusual for STL.

For you who are afraid of global waming, there is one CERTAIN WAY to stop it. Put a thrmostat on the Sun. The sun is causes global warming and global cooling. It has done so for hundreds of thousands of years.

Before you install the thermostat on the Sun, be sure and get international agreement on what the thermostats setting will be. I’m sure that will be easy to do.:).

You should also consult with the microbes…The are a lot bigger problem than humans ,,,ut you think humans have anything to do with global warming.

As far as rhis being a “unusual” winter for me, it has not.. The inconvenient truth is I can’t do anything about it. I am picturing how AL GORE is sitting at his computer writing another book while it’s too cold for him to go outside.

I’ve been thinking about writing a book. I have the name already. “SAY YES TO GLOBAL WARMING”.

Have a cold day, everybody.

I think this winter is a return to how winter should be. I don’t think it’s worse than any of the cold, snowy winters I’ve lived through. I recall that the big snow storm of the early 80’s dumped 22 inches of snow on us in March. I can also remember going to Cardinal games that were postponed or delayed by snow. Those games were in April. The idea that politics or humankind have some influence on the weather is ridiculous. Mother Nature will do as she pleases.

Well I think the weather does flunctuate more than when I was growing up. The winters that I remember when I was a kid were days and days of bitter cold weather and ice/snow storms that kept us off from school. But I always worried for my dad who worked for the Post Office who always had to get out in the weather no matter what. I remember one Christmas Eve when it took my dad hours to get home and I was so happy to see him walk through the door. I’m not sure there was a MODOT back then or if there was, their participation in getting the streets cleared. And they definitely didn’t have the products they have now to keep the roads wet and not iced. Cars weren’t as reliable back then and weren’t built to spend hours in a snowstorm. Many of times he was late because either he was stuck or he helped someone get un-stuck. Doors frozen over easily, defrost weren’t reliable, no back or side defrosters, tires weren’t as rugged. But if he could read this he would just laugh because I know he could probably tell me a story or two about his winters as a kid. So I guess as far as now and global changes the weather is strange as far as flunctuation but we have so many things available to us today to protect us against harsh winter days.

This has been more like the winters I remember when I was a kid in the 50s. Snow of more than an inch or two were fairly common and fairly regular if I recall correctly. Where we lived the street treatment the city (St. Charles) used was cinders. I don’t recall missing a lot of school over it. Most of the kids lived within a couple of miles of the school (which is under 370 now) and a lot of us did walk. Maybe it always snowed on the weekends.

You guys ought to weigh in on the “Mother Nature Watch” blog heading.

I am only in my mid thirties here, but have spent all of them in St. Charles. The weather around here has always been “all over” in the winter…I recall more snow when I was younger, but still remember running around in shorts one valentines day! Same goes for a particular Thanksgiving…and then getting dumped with snow later that night. Every year we go through swings…warm then cold, then warm again only to drop bitterly cold the next day (this past weekend seems to fit the bill). March started off with a bang folks! There’s a saying I think about that, you know…with the lion and the lamb!…..Very appropiate for St. Louis in general!

Just another thought that yesterday’s snowstorm made blatantly obvious. True, the winters of yesteryear were horrendous. But I was younger then. A lot younger. I used to make some serious bucks shoveling snow way back when. Now I’m hard pressed to get my own driveway cleaned off. Thank God a couple of kids came by yesterday and I paid them to do it! Usually a kid with a snow shovel is a rare commodity in my neck of the woods….

Bottom line. Snow is a lot more fun when you’re ten. Snow can be quite profitable when you’re 15. Snow can be “no big deal” to drive in when you’re 20. By the time you’re 60, it is a big deal, it’s isn’t profitable, and it sure as hell aint’ FUN!!!