Outdoor adventures: Normal is the new abnormal, weather-wise

BY MATT JONES Shaw Media

Created: Saturday, February 16, 2013 12:24 a.m. CDT

News flash: We are currently experiencing a string of very normal weather here in northwest
Illinois.

Do not be alarmed, as things will become completely unpredictable again very soon. In the event things decide to remain “normal,” please just go with the flow and enjoy it.

No foolin’, either. It is February. It looks like February, it feels like February, and now normal is the new confusing. Highs in the 30s almost every day with ice, snow and rain. I feel like I went to bed in January and I woke up trapped in one of them little snow globes I used to love as a kid. It’s madness, man. Pure madness.

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