Toss up! Mildy Dry or Near Normal. Technically, precipitation every day of the past seven days. But very cold temps locks all of this in snow and ice and no condition change really noted- everything is dormant. Therefore, going with Mildy Dry this week but it was a toss up.

In observations, local winter resident birds have been appreciating seed and open water. Bunny rabbit has been around. A poor sparrow died in the yard.

Allergies have been high and general stuffiness has been very high, with some tissue bleeding due to the general low indoor humidity.

Daylight has been increasing and it is possible that the last of the truly scary double digit below zero temps have passed for this winter. Therefore, cause for hope!