El Niño has got weather systems in a tail spin from California to the coast of East Africa, and many places in between. Commentator Susan Carol Hauser laments that El Niño is putting some strange moves in to the traditional northern Minnesota winter. Susan Carol Hauser is author of “Sugartime: The Hidden Pleasures of Making Maple Syrup.” She comes to us from member station K-B-B-I in Bemidji.
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