Wednesday, is Groundhog Day, the day that Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil foretells whether we can look forward to an early spring and the warm sunshine or put our boots and parkas back on to endure six more weeks of snow, wind, and temperatures in the single digits.
After this record-breaking cold and snowy winter, everybody is looking forward to the arrival of spring, or at least spring break.
Last Sunday's blizzard and Wednesday's snowstorm dumped almost three feet of the powdery white stuff on the greater Boston area.
While our friends down the street at Boston University had no school last Monday due to the storm, Boston College only escaped with a delayed opening on Monday and an early closing on Wednesday.
Delays, early closings, and snow days are very common at the grade school and high school levels because of the traveling to and from school that is involved.
With the majority of BC students living on campus, however, trekking to class through howling winds and mountains of snow is not easy, but it is at least plausible. Too bad, though, for the professors that still had to battle the dangerous and icy roads to make it on time to their classes.
Hopefully, it is almost over.
Today is the last day of January, which marks the end Boston's snowiest month ever in history. The month started off with mild temperatures reaching almost 50 degrees across New England on New Year's Day, but January quickly turned into a seemingly endless stream of white.
This month Boston saw a total of 43.1 inches of snow, the most snow in any single month since the National Weather Service began recording snowfall in 1892, according to the Associated Press. This month's snowstorms beat the previous record set in February 2003 when 41.6 inches blanketed Boston.
Those of us who are juniors and seniors should remember the blizzard of February 2003 very well; we had two days of classes cancelled and we were cooped up in our residence halls for hours at a time.
