[RayChuang88]

We've always had winters. They're not any colder or any longer than previous.

However, the last few winters have been brutally bad in the Upper Midwest and Northeast. When eastern Massachusetts got essentially two years of normal snowfall in the space of a month and the Buffalo area experienced this past winter one of the most brutal bouts of lake effect snow, no wonder the US economy slowed down over the winter. I'd ask serious questions if the April-June quarter is bad, though.

[thesharkboy]

However, the last few winters have been brutally bad in the Upper Midwest and Northeast. When eastern Massachusetts got essentially two years of normal snowfall in the space of a month and the Buffalo area experienced this past winter one of the most brutal bouts of lake effect snow, no wonder the US economy slowed down over the winter. I'd ask serious questions if the April-June quarter is bad, though.

That may be so, but I have never seen a good economic report that was tempered by unusually good weather.

[ealgeone]

If the economy can’t handle that we’re in serious trouble.