PRST STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID OMAHA, NE PERMIT NO. 36
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Volume VI, Issue 2
February 2012
A frosty walk Dennis Bergstadt, rural Denison, makes a path to his beautiful red, arched-roof barn the morning of February 6. The original barn burned down in October of 1932. Friends and neighbors came to build the existing barn and Bergstadt’s folks milked their first cows in the new barn on Christmas Eve that year. A storm on February 4 brought the first significant snowfall to west central and southwest Iowa since December 3. State Climatologist Harry Hillaker said December 2011 and January 2012, the first twothirds of what is considered the winter season, were the eighth warmest in 139 years of statewide weather records. The last time the state had a warmer December and January was December 2001 and January 2002. Photo by Bruce A. Binning