Your Honor, I am NOT gaslighting readers to support my pro-winter agenda. I am a neutral observer, praying for an early spring.
All that said, cold weather is good for you and good for Minnesota. No, really.
While your joints may feel stiff, the recent cold wave may help to tamp down general inflammation in your body, which is the root cause of many chronic health issues.
Colder air makes it easier for your body to enter deep (REM) sleep. For severe allergy sufferers, deep winter is the only time of year the air is truly “clean” of pollen and other allergens. Deer ticks, which carry Lyme disease, survive beneath the snow, insulated from the cold — unless there’s a long stretch of subzero weather. Arctic fronts prevent invasive species from thriving and reduce larvae from the invasive emerald ash borer, which is decimating Minnesota’s ash trees. I rest my case.
A couple inches of snow will fall Sunday with 30s returning by Thursday, even a shot at 40 within a week. A relatively mild start to February coming? Deep sigh.
