The “NASCAR of Sled Dog Racing” held in Minnesota has been canceled due to too much snow, yep that’s right, too much snow:
Here’s another entry for the annals of noteworthy winter weather: The dogsled race near Frazee, Minn., has been canceled because there’s too much snow.
Too much fluffy snow that keeps drifting and therefore made it impossible to maintain a groomed trail.
That poses a safety risk to the dogs, supercharged canines whose mushers need a groomed trail to drop a hook to stop when necessary.
“We can’t pack it,” race organizer Eddy Streeper said Monday. “We just can’t get it packed. We had to speak up on behalf of the dogs.” [...]
The National Weather Service doesn’t tally snow accumulations and moisture content for Frazee. But snowfalls in Fargo, 54 miles to the northwest, have totaled 39.3 inches since October, with 2.37 liquid inches.
And it’s all Al Franken’s fault! (I mean, Senator Al Franken.)
Well, 39.3″ is a lot of snow, almost as much as the 48″ that we got here. 
Those armchair athletes are so critical and unforgiving.
Now there’s a pooch in the environment that coat was meant to endure. Have there been many snowbaths and frolics?
Sled dog race called on account of snow!
What did they do during the pioneer days
when they had no choice?
I’m sure that makes some people 21st
century wimps.
Now watch, the global warming deniers — Neal Boortz being first and foremost among them — will be oozing out of the woodwork to cite this as evidence that global warming is a myth…
Niles – Many snowbaths and much frolicking. She won’t even come in some nights, she curls up in the snow and sleeps in it. That unbelievably thick furry coat of hers is like a furnace.
Torontonian – Given the tears of terror I’ve shed in the last 4 weeks, I’m hesitant to call anyone else on their snow wimpishness
JAB – Oh yeah, they’re just gleeful about all this. The thing they’re too stupid to realize is that this used to be pretty normal weather, but now it’s so unusual that it’s almost catastrophic.
I’ve been talking to a lot of elders around here who have the most amazing stories about how cold it used to get 50 or 60 years ago, so cold that even some of the coastal waters would freeze hard enough for people to go ice-fishing. And that water is part of the friggin ocean, so that’s pretty severe cold.
Basically people are asking the wrong question — instead of saying “Why’s it so cold if there’s global warming?” they should be saying “Why’s it hardly ever this cold anymore?”