This is one of my favorite sights and sounds of early spring. I rode my bike all around west Madison today and although it started with a damp chill, the sun eventually broke through the fog and I saw the roads and sidewalks flood with snowmelt. This major pool is beneath the old Hoyt School building which is an MSCR office now. It was 10x20 feet and probably 5 inches deep. It's exciting to think about how much water a city's worth of snow produces when it melts under a 55 degree F sun. And we started this melt with very little snow, about 6 inches or so in most places. Our winter snow total was 30.2 inches and here is the breakdown by month: November 8.3, December 0.1, January 10.2, February 10.7, and March 0.8. A dry winter indeed, but still fun to see it all melt away. Yes it may still snow again, but now that the ground is totally thawed I'm not too worried about it.
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