[Magdalen] What is as Rare....

[Jay Weigel]

I remember an exceedingly chilly night in July in Madison, WI, the occasion
of a display of northern lights the like of which I have never seen before
or since, about which I have written before.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> April 14 (two years ago) is the latest I can recall. We had lovely,
> slow-falling Christmas-y snow that day. I remember watching one of our
> cats watch the snow.
>
> And I was in a blizzard in Chicago one April 4 in the 1980s. I
> remember waiting for a bus on Michigan Avenue with a group of people
> who couldn't believe it. And helping an old lady hold on to a pole for
> dear life in the wind. The city used to set up ropes to hold onto
> while trying to walk in the Loop in the wind; could have used those
> ropes that day.
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> > Snow that late is essentially unheard of in the Upper Midwest.  April,
> > certainly,
> > and the occasional May storm, often timed with the opening of fishing
> > season do occur.  But June?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>