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Originally Posted by Star691
It’s not normal. Longtime North Dakotans will tell you that winters are nothing like they used to be. Sometimes the snow will stay on the ground until May, before it starts to melt. It has(so far) been a fairly mild winter in the upper Midwest.
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LOL, I remember growing up in North Dakota and never seeing the ground in the Winter. The first snow would come sometime in October. That snow would be part of the snow melt around the end of April. Usually it would melt pretty fast. I don't recall much snow on the ground in May. By the end of April the temperature was getting pretty warm, so the snow finally melted really quickly. I remember we had to dig trenches through the snow to channel the snow melt away from our house. Otherwise water would pool up next to the house and flood into the basement.
Eastern Montana was the same. We had to finally move to Wyoming before I experienced my first non-white Christmas. I remember how bizarre it was to look out the window on Christmas Day and see nothing but brown grass, no snow anywhere except for maybe a few small patches in the shade.
That seemed to change by the 1980s. One time in the 80s I remember talking to my aunt on the phone who still lived in North Dakota. I told her, you must still have a lot of snow on the ground. She replied that no they hadn't had much snow all winter.
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