Those of you who have followed my posts over the past 10 years on the boards and the prior 5 on irc know that I have a snow cover fetish. Last year, an interloper used this same thread title and ran with it. No disrespect intended but people should at least change the wording. This year, I decided to wait until was reasonably sure that the ice melt which in the north polar regions has been unprecedented this year was over. There has been a pretty robust increase in ice today so now we begi