The Conundrum of Warm Winters

The Finger Lakes is a place of deep, lengthy winters. Known for having snow squalls straight into the month of May. But for the three winters we have lived here, each winter has been a little less snowy and the winter a little shorter. This year has been the oddest in particular. While we’ve had a lot of weather events, the vast majority of heavy precipitation has come in the form of rain. This is good, as it allows us to fill our water shed and makes it less likely we’ll dive head first into a ...