Enough Already!

Not sure about you all, but we're pretty much ready to be done with winter and get on with spring. Two winters ago, during our first winter in the new house, we lived through the snowiest winter in Juneau's recorded history with 198.7 inches recorded at the airport and 222.7 inches out near the glacier. Most of the snow came in November (64.1 inches) and March (62.7 inches). There came a point where most of us were immensely sick of the snow, but we were rooting for just a bit more so that we could beat the longstanding record. Can you imagine living through nearly 200 inches of snow only to not beat the record? I wanted no part of that! Come spring, the city manager even made up certificates for people to print off, commemorating their survival of the winter (http://www.juneau.org/manager/Winter_2006-2007.php).

We are slowly approaching the record set two years ago and I can't help remembering just how much of that snow came in March. Does that mean more is in store this year still? This January, we had 75.2 inches of snow - 46.2 inches above the monthly norm, which broke a 20 year old record of 69.2 inches for January. In February we got 30.4 inches, which was 12.6 inches above the norm. As of today, we're still about 2 1/2 feet from beating the record of 2006/2007, with 168.1 inches so far this winter. That's still a lot of snow and John snapped a few photos to remember it by.

John dug out the window to keep the snow from breaking it. We still need to install snow stops on the roof so for the time being, when we get snow followed by warm weather we enjoy massive avalanches off the roof. Most of the snow lands right next to the window and it had piled up right to the sill.

Thank goodness we own a plow truck!

The past few days have been sunny and clear. Here's hoping the trend continues. I've lived through one broken record, no need for any more of that excitement.