Winter weather predictions 2012-2013

[ridehard]

All I know is, by judging the last 20 years I've been working in the ditches for gas, is that when I sweat my a$$ off in the summer, like this one, I end up freezing the rest of it off in the winter!!!! Was it '98 when it was this hot for long period of time, and that winter was brutally cold, not much snow from what I remember, just god awful cold!!!!!!

Wasn't that the year Superior froze over completely?!

I have also noticed this. Hot summer cold winter follows. Lets hope so.

[misty_pines]

All I know is, by judging the last 20 years I've been working in the ditches for gas, is that when I sweat my a$$ off in the summer, like this one, I end up freezing the rest of it off in the winter!!!! Was it '98 when it was this hot for long period of time, and that winter was brutally cold, not much snow from what I remember, just god awful cold!!!!!!

Wasn't that the year Superior froze over completely?!

I am not sure of the correlation between really hot summers and what that means for the upcoming winter, but I did find some interesting stats on how often Lake Superior freezes over. It looks like it was about 90% frozen over in March of 2003, nearly 100% in 1996, 96% in 1994 and about 95% in 1972.

Here is the link: http://climate.umn.edu/doc/journal/superior030603.htm

[mezz]

"The last records of complete ice coverage on the big lake is 1962 & 1979". The winter of '78-'79 was an epic year for snowfall here in the Keweenaw where we reached 390" of snowfall in Keweenaw County. I remember it well & continue to hope for a repeat performance.-Mezz