Wacky winter returns

Heavy, wet snow with wind followed by 40+ degrees and lots of rain? That's winter in northern NH? This year such a pattern looks to continue tonight and tomorrow. Our latest wind storm dropped several trees, but left no serious damage to treasured oaks, birches, or sugar maples. The young oak in the photo below dodged a major hit from a falling red maple. The oak only lost a small branch low on the trunk.

Softwoods fared even worse in the last wind, which topped 50 miles an hour.