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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

A friend of mine grew up near the quad cities in Iowa.
 He tells me they had snow on the ground for weeks at
a time.  I don't know if climatologists agree with
this but I've heard many references to the "snow
belt".  That is a line above which snow does stay on
the ground much of the winter.  My guess is that line
is someplace in between his home and mine.
One reason snow does not stick around here is that the
weather fluctuates.  I don't remember many weeks when
the highs don't get above freezing long enough to melt
the snow.
When I was a kid I would read about people riding in
sleighs during the winter.  I never understood this
because we seldom had enough snow on the ground to
allow a sleigh to be a mode of transportation.
Van Dell

--- Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:
:
> >I'm surprised about snow on the ground for several
> >months.  I'm 100-150 miles north of Heartland and
> >don't remember snow staying on the ground for
> months
> >or seldom weeks at a time.  Guess I always thought
> >that was part of Missouri weather pattern.
> 
> I grew up about 250 miles north of there and
> remember many long 
> winters.  There would also be a huge snowfall toward
> the end of 
> March.  Snow would often be on the ground for weeks
> at a time.  My brother 
> and I would pack and water the snow on a north
> facing slope and have a sled 
> run for most of the winter.
> 
> 
> 
> Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up               
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