Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Illinois Cold Case: Snow Job

"Spring snow wallops states in East Coast" Associated Press, March 26, 2013

HAMBURG, Pa. — Five days into spring, warm weather and budding flowers were just a rumor Monday as the East Coast endured another blast of winter.

A wide-ranging storm that buried parts of the Midwest weakened as it moved east but still managed to carpet lawns and fields in a fresh layer of white....

The cold temperatures and miserable mixture of snow and rain had people longing for more agreeable weather....

Earlier, the storm walloped the Midwest, dumping a record 17 inches in Springfield, Ill., and a foot or more elsewhere in the state....

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Related1st snowfall is Chicago’s latest ever

Except it had already snowed earlier, sigh. 

Also see: Slow Saturday Special: Globe Gaseous About Great Lakes 

You know, when they lie about the weather what can you believe? 

Has it STOPPED SNOWING out there yet?