With the changing seasons, I'm already starting to see those posts on social media claiming a caterpillar can tell us what to expect this winter in terms of weather. I hate to burst your bubble, but it's an old wives' tale.
Last winter was a record setting winter for snow and a difficult spring for hot holes in the City of St. Cloud. St. Cloud Public Services Director Tracy Hodel indicated last winter they had a lot of overtime costs and pretreatment chemical costs.
We've had a stretch of warmer than normal temperatures in Central Minnesota recently but that is not the case in Alaska. There is a reason for this according to Meteorologist Megan Mulford from the National Weather Service in Aberdeen, South Dakota.