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Winter
Been a Fairly Long Winter
In my book, this has been awful long winter, getting started in November and having snow cover for most of the winter season. Winters like this are increasingly less common, and indeed compared to the 1981-2010 period, this was a fairly mild winter.
March 1, 2019 11:31 am Update
Winter 2018-19 in Albany
The warmest temperature was 62 degrees (December 21st)
The coldest temperature was negative 8 degrees (February 1st).
8 days were in the 50s, 1 day was in the 60s, 0 days in the 70s this winter.
51 days were above normal. 4 days were normal. 35 days below normal.
Took an hour to get home with the snow.
Took an hour to get home with the snow.🚗🏎🚒🚚🚛🚗🚌🚗🚓🚕 Why couldn’t have this been declared a dire emergency by the politicians👴 and television stations, 📺so everybody went home at 2 pm and traffic was easy at rush hour?❄
Worked so good last snow storm.
February 27, 2019 6:08 pm Update
So far on my evening commute, I think I could have walked faster than the traffic.
February 27, 2019 5:38 pm Update
Albany is in complete gridlock from the snow.
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