On March 30, here in the Twin Cities and much of Minnesota, Mother Nature decided to play the cruelest of April Fool's pranks on us and send us a blizzard that dumped almost a foot of incredibly wet, heavy snow in some parts of the state!

Here in Saint Paul, we were blessed with 9 inches.

Having just returned from a vacation where the temperatures weren't tropical per se, but they were warmer than it had been here all Winter, it was hard to laugh at the joke.