While this has been a difficult winter for Iowa, how does it compare with past winters for the amount of winter we experience? While there is no one proper way to compute the misery for a winter, the featured graph shows a simple calculation of the total number of days for the winter below freezing and with snow cover (having both would count as 2 points) for Ames dating back to 1965. With this statistic, our recent few winters come up short compared with the winter of 2000-2001 and the winters of 1978 and 1979. Has this winter been the worst you have experienced? How do you quantify winter misery?

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