No white Christmas for Fargo, it's gonna be over 40F here.

I wonder if there is any snow at all in Minnesota..................

This is what we should have had for the water year so far:

Oct 2.18
Nov 4.03
Dec 4.67

=10.88


Actual totals this year:

Oct 1.97
Nov 1.18
Dec 0.08

=3.23

Note well that almost 2/3 of the rain so far this year was in October.

We had a weird early snowfall but aside from that almost no rain. We normally would have had a few visits from the Pineapple Express bringing lots of warm rain in from the Pacific but it hasn't happened this year.

Day after day of sunshine. It's making it easy on my firewood supply, but it's not right....

Up at 3,600 feet and with a (distant) view of the ocean.

Just off Hwy 36.

Down the road from Mad River?

When the fog clears down there.... ;o)

At the top of McClellan Mountain, actually atop Larabee Buttes. About 10 miles from Grizzly as the crow flies, close to 20 as the road winds....

up in those parts.

alongside my driveway a couple of years ago.

I followed a very large male along the Bridgeville/Kneeland road a few years back. He just casually lopped along in front of my pickup for over a half mile.

I see prints from time to time but it's rare to spot one of the big cats. Bobcats show themselves much more frequently.

I had a friend who died a few years back at the age of 96. He had been the 'county hunter' when he was younger, would be sent out to take care of a big cat that had been killing livestock. He had a skin on his family room wall, its nose touched the 8' ceiling and it's hind paws were on the floor. Its tail stretched out along the floor.

Just a little over a week ago you were taking me to task because you thought (incorrectly) that I was using time periods that were too short to calculate warming trends. Now we have a case of someone claiming that a few days of warm weather in one lousy city somehow is evidence of global warming--and you are silent.

The smell of confirmation bias is overwhelming...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Ground is hardly frozen. Lakes are open. Broccoli plants still alive. Really abnormal.

From 1946 onwards, Fargo has had five 40+ Christmases, 1946 - 44.1, 1957 - 41.0, 1994 - 43, 1999 - 46.9, and 2006 - 43.0.
Coldest Christmas was 1996 at -13.
Average from '46 on is 21.2 F.
Decadal averages 40's (4 years) - 28.6, 50's - 25.5, 60's - 15, 70's - 18.1, 80's - 17.8, 90's - 24.1, and 00's - 23.7

Overall, since 1946, there have been 15 Christmases above freezing in Fargo.

My source is:
http://www.almanac.com/weather/history/ND/Fargo

that's nutz. we get a dusting or an inch or two once in a while, then it's gone the next day.

it's been snowing for two days and should snow all night and half the day tomorrow

'climate change' indeed!