Warm, mushy, slushy. Gone by noon?? Actually a light drop on the final day of a leap year? Leaping into spring? ( As you know the publisher is often wrong on predictions so – since the snow is still falling at 8:43 I have added another ? to my statement above )

Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 marks Leap Day, the day added every four years to the Gregorian calendar to adjust for shifts in the seasonal year. The added day makes the year a Leap Year with 366 days rather than a common one with 365.