Environmental Hazards: Let It Snow, Let It Snow... Please

It is 5:21AM, December 7th and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the 13th coldest city in the United States, still fails to have snow. There was one morning, quite foggy in my memory, a few weeks ago that snow stuck to the ground for a few hours, but was gone as the sun rose to high noon.

This area usually has around 11 inches of snow on the ground by December first. As a lover of winter and all things snow, this is killing me. I have a snowboard that is begging to hit the mountain and there is nothing I can do about it. My home hill, Granite Peak in Wausau, WI still fails to be open consecutive days. Not to mention its tentative opening day was November 17th. HA!

Across the Midwest, records are being broken for most consecutive days without measurable snowfall. Des Moines, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska have already broken their records of 277 and 295 days. Chicago and Milwaukee are just days away from setting new records.

The National Weather Service has blamed this on the drought. Damn thing. However, there may be hope.. dim dim hope. The NWS has created a winter storm watch for the Cities and westcentral Wisconsin starting Saturday night and through Sunday evening.

some facts from weather.com:

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