For those of us in the northern hemisphere, Monday is the first day of Winter, which seems a good time to check out a website that's all about the snow.

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Shovel small amounts of snow at a time, especially if the snow is heavy and water-laden.

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Now, with extremely early snow already falling from coast to coast this year (New York City just broke its all-time snow record for October, for example) conditions are shaping up for another epic season.

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Gooding, who recently returned to Springfield, Missouri, from Swaziland, says he has not seen snow in a long time.

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