It did better last weekend in the east then the Euro but both AI models were much better with it. CMC was really the first model that seemed to catch on with the north trend this time

The grocery stores near me are selling potted flower plants. May all the plants suffer a painful frosty death.

Yesterday was the anniversary for the coldest day in Chicago's history. January 20th, 1985 the temp dropped to an incredible -27F. 41 years ago. Wow!

Fished on Delavan lake quite a bit myself, we live over on Lake Lorraine. Small little weedy lake but great fishing. Ice fishing has been great this year and I have a hockey rink on the lake that has been annoying to keep up with due to these light fluffy snows and windy days but hey its great. Heading out the rink to shovel again now and likely will get another another inch or so and plenty of blowing tonight. Won't even look like I cleaned it up. Why do I do this lol. Growing up in the 90s mostly seemed like after I went to High School in the early 2000s the winters have been weak. This year certainly has been off to a better start than usual which is nice. We need the precipitation bad and with the ground frozen ill pass on any more unreasonable rain. Ugh nothing worse than that. The photo was after the 3rd attempt at a rink this year. Its only half the size of the last one. I can use the ATV plowing after this week without worry so that might help a bit. Then we wont get any more snow