Over the last two weeks, the weather has turned rapidly in Minnesota from one of the mildest summers on recent record to a cold and blustery fall.  We’ve been griping about it, but maybe we should have counted our blessings.  I just took a look at the five-day forecast for the Twin Cities and found this:

Snow on October 9th?  That’s less than three weeks into autumn.  Last year, we didn’t get snow until the weekend before Halloween.  Looks like a long winter of global warming coming our way this year….