In Duluth for the holiday week, I went walking out on Minnesota Point, a peninsula in Lake Superior that stretches almost to Wisconsin. A year ago this time, Lake Superior was on the verge of a major freeze up, building up to the most ice it saw since 1993-1994. It is often said that climate is what we expect and weather is what we get. Average temperature and snowfall are the results of warm winters and cold winters and dry winters and snowy winters all added together. But to have a winter, or a month, or even a week, that reflects the averages is uncommon. Lake Superior may remain unfrozen this winter, but if so, that will only average out last winter's deep freeze.
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