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More Snow in the Future?

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            Today the local weather reports seem rather boring.   Each day the morning announcers lament the lack of snow in Minnesota .   Around town, however, friends are telling me to just sit back and wait.   When the snow comes, it is going to arrive with a great deal of fanfare.             History has shown that the month of November is a time of unpredictable and often frightening weather. Snow at SHC, November 2010             Only twenty years ago, the Halloween blizzard of 1991 witnessed a snowstorm that delivered more 28 inches in a two day period.   The snow started to fall at noon on October 31 and continue for two days.   It was a heavy, wet snow that stayed.   Trick-or-treaters were forced to climb over snow drifts to reach houses for candy.   In the Twin Cities, children...