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One of the things that was funny about the fall of 2004 is that it seemed to take winter a long time to come. I seldom remember waiting until December to see the first real snowfall of the year. Around September I remember smoking cigarettes on my porch in Shortsville, thinking to myself about how I’d probably need to put shoes on in the following week or so. I went barefoot until sometime in November.

I moved to Milford in the last week of April in 2005. The temperatures were seasonal until around the last week of May. From then until October, I remember being coated in a constant blanket of humidity and sweat.

That suits me fine, but are our summers getting a tad warmer? Are our winters getting a tad milder? I didn’t turn my heat on until November. In January, I was without my jacket for more days than with it.

February feels off to a normal start, though most of us are complaining because winter is finally behaving like winter. I suppose I haven’t been around long, but I’ve never seen a winter like this.