Technically, winter is defined as the months of December, January and February, and spring begins with the first of March. As most long-term Gunnisonites know, that does not exactly apply to our climate. But, this year it certainly does. Winter was really over about two to three weeks ago as all of our snow began to rot and turn yucky — technically it’s sublimating, and it seems it was pretty early this year. Looking at recent past records for amount of snow on the ground (SNG), I see that December was close to average (4.5”), but we were a little below in January (6” vs 7.5”), and definitely falling behind so far in February (4-5”) which usually shows about 9” SNG. At the time of writing, Gunnison’s season snowfall is a little over 30” and about on track for our new normal of 40”/ winter, although that was boosted by that big, freak storm in September. Of course, there is another storm coming this week, so it’s not exactly spring yet.