You probably enjoyed a beautiful Groundhog Day this year, a sunny day with a high reaching 59 degrees.  At the same time last year, Decatur residents were digging out from under seven inches of snow in 50 mile per hour winds during the Blizzard of 2011.  The weird winter is not so weird to National Weather Service Meteorologist Ed Shimon, who says the difference between the rains we have received this year and tons of snow is not much difference at all.

"There's an ebb and flow during each winter season," says Shimon.  "It's a matter of how the jetstreams set up across the whole country.  While we are real mild, parts of Alaska and Europe are bitterly cold."

Shimon won't count out a big snowfall just yet.  While he says school children and snow enthusiasts aren't having the best winter, the coming rains in the next few weeks could easily turn into a winter storm, even as late as April or the first part of May.