It's been the warmest driest winter here in the 14 years I have lived in the Shuswap. I think we have had about 1 foot of total snow fall this year. Last year we measured 8 feet of total snow fall. I talked to a guy that has lived here for 60 years and he can't remember a year where he did not shovel his driveway until this year. It's going to be dry this summer.
I could be milling but I not ready because we usually have to much snow or mud till April. Thinking about it though. May be in a couple of weeks. I have logs to go.
Same situation here. The coldest weather we had all winter long was in mid to late November when it dipped below -30°C at night a few times. Heck, when I was working on the roof of the Wal-Mart in the first week of October, it was -9 three mornings in a row. December was pretty average, but since the new year it's been nuts - we've MAYBE had two or three nights hit -10°C, and almost every day has broken zero; even the colder days were nice and sunny and felt warm. It's felt like early Spring here for two months now, really. Last year I had two feet of snow in my front yard at this time, now it looks like this:
Sorry for the 066 plug; it's the only picture of the yard I have lying around right now! Most of the snow is just in piles where I've plowed it to, or where it happened to get packed down a bit. There's a bit more in the backyard where the sun doesn't hit as much, but still it's nothing compared to last year.
This, following last summer which was the hottest and I believe also the driest on record here. We had over 10 weeks from the first week of July into September with NO rain. Period. And there was a three week stretch in early August that hit over 30°C here every single day, with a couple peaking over 40. It was not the best summer for the lawn care business, to say the least. Neither for the lawns or us workers!