Snow Day!

Woke up this morning to find that school was cancelled due to snow. This is the SIXTH time school has been cancelled since January 6th due to inclement weather. 

President's Day 2014

Lots of snow overnight. I was off today so I had the pleasure of shoveling all of it. My guess is that we got about 5 inches. The photo above was taken as Athena and I returned from a walk.

Full Snow Moon - February 14, 2014

Moon full today at 5:54 p.m. Happy Valentine's Day!

From The Old Farmer's Almanac:

"February's full Moon is traditionally called the Full Snow Moon because usually the heaviest snows fall in February. Hunting becomes very difficult, and so some Native American tribes called this the Hunger Moon. Other Native American tribes called this Moon the 'Shoulder to Shoulder Around the Fire Moon', the 'No Snow in the Trails Moon', and the 'Bone Moon'.  The Bone Moon meant that there was so little food that people gnawed on bones and ate bone marrow soup."

Yes, 40 Days Below Zero

It must have fallen below zero because about a half hour ago the National Weather Service tweeted:

"Today marks the 40th sub-zero low temperature recorded at the Minneapolis airport this winter."

40 Days Below Zero?

About an hour ago, local meteorologist Matt Brickman tweeted: 

"0 degrees now in #MSP. When we fall below zero, that'll make 15 subzero starts in a row & 40 such days this winter! And Monday will be even colder."

So Much Snow

So much snow lately. Here you see where the fire pit was once visible.

Snowmound

I was telling Dale that I think it has been a while that the snowmound has been this big.