Those Minnesotan ice-dam specialists who rode to the rescue in Massachusetts are getting some Bostonian love today. Read more →
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Weather
Many people in Boston apparently haven’t had enough snow yet. What’s wrong with them? Read more →
Today is the last workday of winter. Read more →
It’s tempting to say the climate change ‘debate’ reached its silliest possible point today. Read more →
This just in from the Department of Why Didn’t You Think of This. Read more →
People in the northeast have had it with winter. On its Facebook page today, the Massachusetts State Police say the driver simply abandoned this car. Read more →
Don’t be complaining to Quentin Super and Ryan Brandenburg, two students at St. Cloud State University, about the silly wind chill. With spring break looming, they’re hitting their bicycles and heading… north, the St. Cloud Times reports. Read more →
New England stole our winter. Read more →
For baseball fans, today is groundhog day. The day when pitchers and catchers see their shadows, signifying the beginning of spring. Read more →
The chances are dwindling that the ice caves on Lake Superior will be available to you this year. Read more →
Today’s proof that TV meteorologists are not of this world comes from — surprise! — The Weather Channel, which was camped out on a beach on Cape Cod to document the latest assault from winter when a perfectly natural thing happened.
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You’ve got to feel a little bit for the city snowplow driver in Manchester, New Hampshire.
With six feet of snow falling in the last 30 days, you’d think people would have gotten the message that cars parked on the street hinder the ability to clear them.
A few days ago, a snowplow driver took it out on one car. Read more →
We’d probably last less than day living the simple life, but there’s still something comforting about the Ice Ball, the annual get-together near Ely where people haul ice out of a pond on Will Steger’s estate. It happened on Saturday, as it has every year since 1967. Read more →
If you want to get around the country’s 10th-largest metropolitan area, you better own a car today. Read more →
Yep, we’re hunkered down here in flyover country, just waiting until spring.
Right, Ironton?
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