Posted Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 9:43pm
One of the least desirable occurrences during a winter season in the Northeast is the weather alternating between days of snow and days of freezing rain, creating a hardened and irregular surface of hard-packed icy snow. It’s not good for sledding, it’s not good for walking, and it’s terrible for driving… unless you have an all-wheel-drive car on snow tires with a manual transmission. Then it’s a lot of fun.
The actual least desirable winter outcome, for students and drivers alike, is no snow. Last year was almost one of those seasons. We got a pity snow day here in New York with juuust enough of the white stuff to get in a little sledding, but even then, after a few runs the hill we usually hit got as sparse as the hair on the back of my head.
