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Moving Along Since December

   Winter? What Winter? To say this region's winter has been "mild" is almost an understatement for the 2020-2021 winter season.  The weather pattern that affected our area's weather is the same basic pattern that has been developing for the last few years. No longer are most of our storms coming from the Northwest and Alaska directions as they used to. Yes, a few storms still make it but most of the storms have shifted and are warmer and wetter as they blow from the Southwest and blow over from the Northern California and Oregon coasts.   Yes, there has been some snowfall too, the most at one time this year was about 8 or 9-inches and as with all the snowfall, within a few days of any snow the weather warms and the rains come washing the snow away. Or, as also happened, the weather would become pretty cold, we had a week of near and a couple of days of just a bit below zero temps but mostly lows in the 20s and low 30s at night and mid to upper 30s in the daytim...