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Thursday, March 20, 2014

First Day of Spring!

Today, March 20, 2014, is the first day of meteorological spring.  Of course, we here in Minnesota know that spring is by no means defined as a date/time:

(This picture was taken in Minnesota on a May 2nd)

That being said, generally-speaking the worst is going to be behind us at this point.  Those days of chiseling your car out of the driveway each morning and sliding to a (hopefully) stop at each intersection are probably in the past.  We might get a few more snow-related events coming through the area, but gradually warming temperatures and a higher sun angle will keep us from being encased in the white stuff for too long each time.

As such, the Star Tribune released a sort of "Tribute to Winter: 2013-2014 Edition" that I thought was kind of neat:


We are almost to the point where we can confidently say "we made it through another one"!