I spoke with a friend in Bemidji, Minnesota [upper NW corner of the state] on Monday and he had just finished plowing out 15 inches of ugly wet snow. Monday even the news was dismal with another storm coming right this way only this time time entire state was getting the nod. Then that forcast changed and changed again. Yesterday we started with rain accompanied by steadily rising temps. This storm was being hailed at a century storm. The snow, heavy snow, went to our west and north. I just talked with the same friend. Snowfall rates are in the two to three inches per hour up there right now. Again. He said he's looking at having to move another two feet of the stuff. lol.
Andrew Lamberson lives only 40 miles to my east along the Mississippi River while I sit out on the prairie, as I call it. I'm not sure what is happening down in his direction this morning but I have had rain since yesterday afternoon with a break of about twenty minutes last night around 930 and trees were ice coated. Secondary roads were ice coated. Even some of the city sidewalks were iced up good. 34 degrees right now and the ice that made things shine last night is gone. I have a small stream right behind out property along with a river a half block away. Both of those are showing a significant rise now that its light enough to get a decent peek at them. I won't complain, because I don't have to shovel rain. And for a February, this one has set us in the warmest winter here ever recorded. Its high-school basketball play-off season here in Minnesota, a time traditionally labored with snow storms and blizzards. Two of these have gotten past us now. Maybe we can just get the rain now to flush winter out of here and let us get on with some serious fishing.
