It should not come as a surprise that globally, 2015 has been declared the warmest year on record. Despite a relatively mild summer in the Twin Cities, we are certainly not an exception to this. The month of November started out with temperatures in the 70's and did not fall below freezing until the 20th of the month. In fact the weather was so mild, we were out laying sod the day before Thanksgiving. Overall, we averaged 7.6 degrees above normal. The weather did finally