As with many places in the country, and the world, this winter season has been as record-setting as the summers have become almost every year now. I remember as a kid in southern California how winters used to be way more than a few weeks of rain and cold weather. While almost always the sunny California of old, it wasn't as it became, all year long is now fire season. Even here, since we've lived in North Idaho since the spring of 2006, winters were different than they are now. Over the years here, we've had winters with almost no snow, winters with snow followed the next day by rain for most of the winter. A few with quite a bit of snow, like the 'snowpocolipse' of February 2009, with almost four feet of snow (1.21 M) in one night, but things are definitely changing. This winter has been the overall coldest in many years. For almost three full weeks spread from December till now, we've had at or below temps. This morning was 2 below zero (-18.88 C) at le
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