Winter, where art thou?
Nicole Batzek laughed when asked Saturday about the relative lack of winter in Northeast Iowa.“All I can tell snow lovers is to be patient,” said the meteorologist based out of the National Weather Service’s La Crosse, Wis., office. “We’ve been stuck on the warm side, I guess is the best way to put it, but sooner or later, winter usually finds us.”And while Chickasaw County got a taste of winter weather late last week and it will definitely feel like winter today as we welcome in the new year, it’s been a pretty abnormal start to the season.Take New Hampton, for example.— For more on this story, see the Jan. 1 New Hampton Tribune.