Invert her 180 degrees and that's probably just about the position I was in when I slipped and screwed up my back two winters ago. 
A tad chilly
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Nov 1, 2015
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Nov 5, 2015
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#2703
Wow! Clear, sunny, and 67 F yesterday in the Soo, which tied the record high for the date ("normal" high is 45 F). I set up my stuff at the Farmers Market for the first time in 3 weeks-- it rained each of the two previous weeks. Didn't manage to sell anything, of course. 
I'm too lazy to read back and see if I already mentioned this: the long-term forecast for the full winter for this region is a strong probability of above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation. That's pretty much the case for the whole western Great Lakes region, in response to this year's strong (possibly record-setting) El Nino.
Nov 5, 2015
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#2704
Another very warm day here (68 F) today, but look how far south in the Rockies this current cold weather trough extends:
It was eighty in Saginaw on the fourth of November!! Made it to seventy here in Mt. Pleasant. Guy Fawkes day wasn't as nice as the fourth. It was cloudy, but still made it into the high sixties.
I'm not complaining...yet.
Nov 6, 2015
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#2706
The radar for 5:40 a.m. EST (about an hour ago) showed a very skinny but persistent squall line running the entire length of the lower peninsula.
Nov 9, 2015
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#2707
Here's my hero Buzz thanking Einstein for 100 years of relativity:
Great pic! 
Nov 11, 2015
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#2709
20 tornado warnings in Iowa this afternoon before the storm system was done passing through. Michigan gets that storm system tonight and tomorrow, though the nastiest part should be quite a way south of me. Rain and lots of wind projected for the next couple days, and maybe just a few snow flurries.
This was in Iowa today:
I'm sure glad I don't live in tornado country anymore.
Duluth recieved it's first measurable snow for the year. About three weeks later than average. 2.4 inches at the airport this morning. But here a few miles from the airport near the lake shore we have just a faint trace. The lake is putting out enough warmth right now that anything that fell here turned to rain or melted before it could stick.
Nov 13, 2015
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#2711
Yeah, there have been a few soft flurries here over the past few hours, but nothing on the ground at my location. It's still a few degrees above freezing and everything's wet. Maybe a few miles inland there may have been some accumulation, but today and tonight is the coldest day forecast for a while. Sunday through Wednesday are all forecast at low 50s F for high Ts.
Normal high/low for this date is 41/29, but the Soo has had only 5 nights so far this season that went below freezing, and 4 of those were in October.
Nov 14, 2015
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#2712
NY to London in 30 minutes. Yeah right, and someday we'll all be flying around in jetpacks. Why must they tease us with these flights of fancy?
I'm thinking snow for the Soo. 
(but I'm not doing that snow dance above!) 
Nov 22, 2015
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#2713
Lake effect snow flurries tapered off earlier this afternoon after depositing maybe 4 to 6 inches in the previous 24 hours.
Today's staying below freezing, making this the first day that looks like the winter season, but it won't last. Each of the next 5 days is forecast to be a bit warmer than the previous, capping with 2 days in the 40s Wednesday and Thanksgiving day and also an inch or so of rain possible on Thanksgiving. That temperature and rain combination should easily be enough to return the area to bare ground.
Nov 23, 2015
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#2714
The snow activity over the past few days has brought the percentage of snow-covered land quite a bit closer to last year's value heading into Thanksgiving:
Unlike last year's blotchier snow coverage, this year it's pretty apparent that one storm system swooped across and is responsible for most of the cover so far.
Dec 1, 2015
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#2716
That's about the size of it.
Official Soo snowfall totals:
November 2014: 65.4"
November 2015: 7.0"
Cloudy and rainy. This El Nino stuff stinks. I haven't even taken my snow boots out of storage yet.
Stinks? Other than the ground not being frozen, I think it's dandy.
bigpoison wrote:
Cystem_Phailure wrote:
You know, in spite of my recording a record low T at my house last year (-34.6 F), the last 2 winters here have had extremely low amounts of snow compared to the 100-year average-- both winters were below 100 inches total. I wouldn't mind getting back to a snowier normal winter for a change.
For now, though, cool weather means its time for nice local apples!
It's a bumper year for fruit in the LP! Every four or five years we have a good berry year 'round here. This was the year. Blackberries and raspberries everywhere. One morning, a couple of weeks ago, I walked outside my door about 10 feet to gather ripe raspberries to put on my PANCAKES--no sissified waffles fer me.
The pears are really good this year, too. I know Mr.Guy will never believe it, but I have two Bartlett Pear trees between house and barn. They're loaded with fruit. If I had slacked on my trimming in February, broken branches would have been a certainty. There's got to be over 500 lbs. of fruit on those two trees as I write.
And this year. I don't remember a year that saw so many wild raspberries go to waste.
Dec 10, 2015
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I've seen a couple people driving around with vacant looks while towing snowmobile trailers. I like to think maybe they drove up from way south without bothering to check the forecast and conditions first, but more likely they're just moving machines around to get them fixed up for some eventual snow.
Meanwhile, the heating bills for the past few weeks have been noticeably lower than normal. Combine that with no plowing bills yet and the current $1.819 gasoline, and this area seems almost like the deep southern parts of Michigan.
2.0 inches of snow recorded at the Soo during October.
And so the Soo Snow Dance begins once again!