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For whatever reason last year was much better in that I didn't have any allergies until May and even then it only lasted for a few days. I've tried various different allergy medication but none of them seem to work very well, especially late at night. Last night I woke up with a constricted throat and was gasping for air. It isn't just me either, I spoke to my neighbors, one of them is elderly and has a medical grade air purifier and even with that he told me he has difficulty breathing with all the allergens in the air. The filter on his air purifier has to be replaced every week, because it turns black. It's amazing how much worse this problem has gotten over just a few years. I was wondering if this is less of an issue when we have our normal snowfall because the snowpack seems to keep the trees dormant longer. Last year we had good snows into late February and then it was dry so we didn't have the type of allergy season we're having this year. Is there a way to track how bad it is from year to year the way we track droughts?

It actually looks like Bismarck might get more snow than Minot, the snow hasn't even reached Minot yet. South trend? This is a true old style blizzard...the kind you see in black and white pics. Snow drifting up past the first floor of houses.

but we already have projects ongoing for ocean farm projects.... seaweed farming is such a good idea.

wild....Scandanavia and the Netherlands are far ahead when it comes to renewable energy projects.

what exactly is causing the allergy season to be much worse this year than last year? less snow in the winter than last year? there's a noticeable difference. The other thing is last spring was drier.

well that is what it is...I actually got the idea from a social media post about "spring treegasms" lmao

It's kind of funny, you just don't have a sense of humor about this. I posted them on social media and everyone was laughing and agreeing. The older crowd loses their sense of humor about these things after a certain age. Maybe not meant for a weather subforum, but there were a series of posts like this on social media, beginning with a "spring treegasm" gif posted by someone. It was all meant in humor, but in reality the warming climate is causing this outrageous reaction from local vegetation.

To Minot!

Hopefully they don't have a January 2015 type shaft.

Looks about the same as the typical rain/snow line

Portland Oregon getting unprecedented April snow! https://twitter.com/search?q="Snow in April"&src=trend_click&pt=1513480229645287435&vertical=trends

yes this is not what I would call a real warm pattern.... it's just a function of storm placement and being warm sectored. Most of the country is going to be much colder than normal. whats going on with that storm on the 19th which looked like a cold rain or a mix?

The good old days with low pollen counts and better air quality.

Some of my windows are better insulated than others so I'm thinking I'll leave it off those windows and just use the kits on the windows that need it, like the one in my bathroom and bedroom where my door actually slams when the wind blows =\

I have it but it still somehow gets in, I'm going to look at 3M window insulation kits.

That was amazing and low humidity too! To be fair I have certain benchmarks for the highest temperatures I expect to see each month-- it's 70s in March, 80s in April, 90s by June. I consider that we should have a four month snow season (DJFM), two months of spring weather (AM), four months of summer (JJAS), and two months of autumnal weather (ON). Ant's 6 months of winter is unreasonable, even when we get snow in November or April it's not really part of our snow season....4 months is the most we should reasonably expect.

Yup snowing south of I-80 near Jim Thorpe now. Where is that-- is it near I-80?

Need it, the wind is making it cold and no sol for natural solar heating. It's snowing at my other house in the Poconos right now.

Yes and it has hit 130 there in the last couple of years. Looks like the most extremely hot places are still getting hotter.

Dont care how "warm" it's been, today is !@#$% cold I have my heat up at 80

and that's a full on Dakota blizzard isn't it? I believe that's also going to give Seattle snow on Wednesday. When was the last time Seattle had accumulating snow in April?

is that close to the Poconos? I wonder if it's been snowing in the mountains around Lake Harmony this weekend? For some reason parts of the south are colder than we are, with freezing temps down to Georgia? I also heard it might snow next week in Seattle. We're going down into the 30s tonight.

Chris, the run from yesterday actually looks warmer than the one from today (notice the blues over our area on the more recent run.)

Awesome....can you pull up a map of April 19-20, 1983....I think we had a storm like this on that same date in 1983 lol....ended up with like 2"-4" of snow in the city and on Long Island

Mt Baker I think? I have it programmed into YoWindow. I tried to find every four letter airport code that averages over 200 inches of snow a year and all locations that have experienced temperatures of 125 and hotter and temperatures of -90 and colder (and -120 and colder for Antarctica.) Those are the two things I love-- snowiest places and most extreme temperature records.