Best and worst skeeter years

Posted: 10:26 AM CDT Tuesday, Jul. 1, 2014

Feel like you're slapping yourself more than you usually do? You might be -- but it's not so bad when you look at the peak weekly average trap counts for the last three decades.

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Feel like you're slapping yourself more than you usually do? You might be -- but it's not so bad when you look at the peak weekly average trap counts for the last three decades.

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Feel like you’re slapping yourself more than you usually do? You might be — but it’s not so bad when you look at the peak weekly average trap counts for the last three decades.

The graph below shows the best and worst skeeter summers since 1982, according to data provided by the City of Winnipeg.

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