But this winter normal has become abnormal. All kinds of high temperature records have been shattered in almost every month. Now the ice is coming out of the Red River, weeks early. The geese started heading back north again in February.
Rollerbladers already have a couple weeks of skating under their belts.
There isn't any. Normally at this time of year we should be seeing a massive area of white. There's no snow and winter temperatures are 4.4 degrees, above normal. It might not seem like much but to the weather forecaster, it's huge. When we see seasonal changes in the order of magnitude of five degrees.