February 23, 2012 - Warm Forecast

If you were slightly confused by this part of last week's column, it was my bad. I got a week ahead of myself in my desire to get to Spring as soon as possible. So the stuff I said last week that was time sensitive is really accurate this week. There is less than a week to go of February even with our leap day thrown in and that means the month-long community read, "DeForest Reads 'Til Pigs Fly" is nearing its conclusion. It is still true that the run of warm weather we've been having continues. Even when we have snow, the sun has come out and melted it all away. Right now the 10-day extended forecast still shows warm (for this time of year) temperatures and any precipitation that falls looks to be rain. You know we're experiencing a very special winter, when the weather forecasters talk about a cold front coming through that will drop temperatures back to where we'd normally be this time of year. And when the same said forecasters say it's going to be cold and they mean temperatures in the 30s, one has to ask "Really? That's cold? Isn't this February? Isn't this Wisconsin?" Be that as it may, the books in last week's column were not a week ahead. We did (and still do) have them now. This week we have even more new books to offer for your reading enjoyment!