Heard on the street; that Winter 2015 is o-v-e-r…
Retailers are fire selling off winter coats, Paul Wilson’s primping his new above ground pool in Olathe, Harley’s waxing his surfboard and Jack Frost is nowhere to be found.
Time to mothball the snowblowers and tune up the lawnmowers?
No way, says KSHB TV weather wonk Gary Lezak.
“This winter there’s a warm pattern and a cold pattern and we just went through the warm pattern,” Lezak says. “We’ve had below average snowfall – but we’ve had 4 1/2 inches of snow so far – do you realize it’s snowed six times already this month?”
Get outta town.
“Seriously, one time it was .2 of an inch, another time it was .2 of an inch, then we had three inches one night. You know, 4 1/2 inches of snow by the end of January isn’t much. So far we’ve averaged 1/2 an inch of snow each time.”
So no May blizzards, like a couple years back?
“It can happen,” Lezak says. “But it’s not going to happen this year.”
And what of the talk that winter 2015 is done for? Continue reading
