Has WInter's Back Been Broken?

     I am certainly not going to go out on a limb and declare that it has, because I have lived around here for too long, but with the above freezing temperatures we have been getting the last few days (and nights), and the forecasts predicting more to come, winter’s broken back does seem like a possibility.

    The fourteen inches of snow we have on the ground had gotten very soft with moisture, and I ended up having to put my snowshoes back on, even on the packed snowshoe path, so I could walk around the pond.

    Every year when all of the snow sitting on the ground and ice starts to melt, it is given the term,
“Break-Up”.   Break-Up is still in our future, but this year’s winter has been very mild, except for February, and there is not as much snow on the ground as what we usually see, so if this current weather continues, Break-up could arrive sooner than usual.  

    I have had enough winter and seeing some open water again gives me hope that spring will eventually be coming.

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