It’s snowing outside, though last night it was sleet first then snow. Still, looking at the little accumulation we have here, it got me thinking about the snow we get now and the snow we got when I was a kid. The snow now may pile up for a day and last another couple, but then it melts right off only to start over again. When I was a kid, I remember snowfalls that dumped a bunch all at once and then hung around for a while, long enough to build snowmen, snow forts, and go sledding in. I don’t recall it snowing every year, but I do remember years when we got several inches of snow that stuck around for a while. The past couple years since moving back to southern Indiana, it seems that the snow doesn’t last for very long before it’s disappearing already. The weather in Terre Haute was just different, so I’m not really including the snowfalls there. I’m just thinking about the snow here in southern Indiana. I wonder if it’s actually the Jasper area. We have some strange weather right here like storms and rain completely missing us while it’s raining everywhere else in the county or one half of the town will get some nasty weather while the other half’s pretty normal. Maybe it’s just Jasper. Still, I just remember there being more snow and that it stuck around longer when I was a kid. I would say that it’s because I paid more attention to it as a kid, but honestly, I pay more attention to the weather now seeing as how it can interrupt my shopping and work schedules. I pay far more attention to sleet, freezing rain, and the like now than when I was a kid, and I wonder if maybe Jasper gets more of the icy stuff than the snowy stuff. Dunno. I’m no meteorologist, and it’s not like I’ve been keeping track or have even bothered to look this up. It was just something that I was thinking about while lazing about in bed this morning, watching the snow cover the minivan and car. There may be about half an inch out there right now, and it’s still snowing so we might get more, but I can already tell you that what’s currently out there won’t last long. It’ll warm up enough soon to melt the majority of it, and we’ll start over again. Weird city.