We moved away from the scenic North Shore of Lake Superior on October 12. Our new-built home is in Woodbury, MN east of St. Paul. The furnace works. Water pipes don’t freeze. The power company does not turn off the heat for hours for power sharing.
We missed most of the sleet and feet of snow that dumped along I-80 in January. What do you need to know about climate change? Persistence with variations. Every morning this Valentine’s Day weekend, our kitchen thermometer reads -20 F until about 10 AM. Then it warms to -1 at noon.
I don’t report daily weather observations to the National Weather Service or the Minnesota State Climatology Office. That was one of the joys of living in Northeast Minnesota for 21 years. Here in Woodbury there may be a dozen daily reporters, including one true meteorologist on our local CBS affiliate. Enough friends around the country respond to my reports on Facebook. Many of us get together on Zoom several times a week.
This post is in response to at test posting by Ryan McCarthy on Long Island. He is one of many Weather Watchers Online who have been at this for nearly thirty years.
Dave C
PartlyDave - More Things 
I just got around to reading your post. I took interest in your mention of your local CBS weather observations since the station does the same thing. They would often show the observations from different viewers when I watch at 11:00 pm. It put an interesting spin on the weather as opposed to just the observations at an airport.
By: Ryan JM on February 17, 2021
at 3:20 PM