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This winter has been harsh. The temperature hasn’t been above freezing in many weeks. Lake Erie is 100% frozen for the first time since the ’90’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It snowed a lot, but luckily, we haven’t been hit with a series of snowstorms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This winter has been harsh. The temperature hasn’t been above freezing in many weeks. Lake Erie is 100% frozen for the first time since the ’90’s. It snowed a lot, but luckily, we haven’t been hit with a series of snowstorms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":14151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[235,139,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-bio","category-cleveland","category-vermilion_oh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260209_085347.jpg?fit=800%2C1067&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5733,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/snow-crusted-lake-erie\/","url_meta":{"origin":14154,"position":0},"title":"Snow-crusted Lake Erie","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The east coast is blasted by a historical storm--over two feet of snow in Washington. 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