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What's Been Going On?

I'll start with the more recent activities and work back. Will we have a wild winter again? At the beginning of November in our area, we had almost 10 inches of snow! While yes, there often is some snow in November, it is usually a couple of inches around the middle of the month but around 10 inches for most areas? Even the longtime residents I talked with said that was a lot of snow for so early in the season. The trees too were not expecting the snow as many still had the fall leaves and needles of them. All the snow was getting many nervous about a repeat of last year's record snow or an even a worse winter this year. A few weeks ago a state weather forecasting department was predicting what Idaho could expect for snow and rainfall for this winter of 2017-2018. For our neck of the woods and general location, it was predicted an approximate snowfall of 193 inches or about 16 FEET of snow! Of course, that number could be totally wrong and it also is over the span of a fu