Old Man Winter gave the finger to Target's first-quarter bottom line, the company says.

Target's first-quarter earning report is Best Buy-esque, but the company doesn't think you should attribute that to the ongoing decline of big-box retail. Rather, it's winter's fault!

SEE ALSO: Target renames "Orina" sandal after learning word means urine in Spanish [IMAGE]

In the official first-quarter financial report, Target attributes a 29 percent drop in earnings to "soft sales in seasonal and weather-related categories." In other words, since it seemed like spring would never come, people indefinitely delayed buying outdoorsy products and clothing.

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Snow, snow, go away. Come again some other... season.

Seriously? Just when we'd let our guard down and thought more 50-degree days were on the horizon, Winter Storm Walda slams us with more of this wintry white stuff.

Even if you haven't ventured out into the winter wasteland wonderland, no doubt you've heard about the icicles and slush. Chances are, if you were awake early enough, you even heard some thundersnow this morning, too. Yeah, that's right, THUNDERSNOW.

While this isn't the April we've been waiting for all season, you betcha we Minnesnowtans can laugh off an extra foot of snow (after some good ol' passive aggressive wisecracks to Mother Nature)... so we've gathered some of our favorite photos and tweets about the winter that just won't go away.

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Snowpocalypse December 2012

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Yup, that about sums it up.

Live in Minneapolis and find yourself fretting about where you'll stash your car during the latest (and hopefully last) assault by The Winter That Won't End? Don't worry about it.

SEE ALSO: Winter of 2012 fourth warmest in Twin Cities history [GRAPHIC]

The official Minneapolis Snow Emergency Twitter account reported earlier this morning that "We can't declare a Snow Emergency after 4/1 (city ordinance) but crews will be out today, tonight and tomorrow treating/ clearing streets." St. Paul, however, isn't encumbered by a similar ordinance.

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Robert S. Donovan via Flickr

Even in March, at least 1,341 drivers haven't gotten used to Minneapolis's snow emergency parking restrictions.

That's how many people lost their cars to the city's tow trucks between Tuesday and Thursday as plows worked to clear nine-plus inches of snow out of the roads.

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- Feb. 12: More than 650 cars towed in first two days of Minneapolis snow emergency
- Dec. 11: City towed 750 cars in the first two days of the snow emergency
- Slideshow: Snowpocalypse December 2012


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Robert S. Donovan via Flickr

As we trudge through day three of the season's second snow emergency, at least 657 drivers have already suffered through the experience of looking out their window, seeing plowed pavement where they left their car, and realizing it's been whisked away by city tow trucks.

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- City towed 750 cars in the first two days of the snow emergency
- Snow Emergency Grim Reaper: Video of the day

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A fog advisory is in effect until noon today.

A combination of yesterday's heavy snowfall and a thick layer of fog over the Twin Cities made for a rough morning for commuters. More »

Snowy scenes from Sunday morning.

Between Sunday at 9 p.m., when day one of snow emergency parking went into effect overnight, and Monday at 8 p.m. when day two ended, the city towed 750 cars.

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This winter was too warm for much of the white stuff to accumulate.

​It's March. When will winter start?

Apparently, this year, it won't. We somehow managed to skate through Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, and Valentine's Day with daytime temps rarely dipping below 30 degrees and, for those of us in Minneapolis at least, no snow emergencies. Temps are projected to hit 50 degrees by next Tuesday. In other words, the "worst" of it is behind us.

It may have seemed like a once-in-a-lifetime Minnesota winter. In fact, it ended up being the fourth warmest on record. Here's a graphic from the National Weather Service showing detailing just how about average Twin Cities temps have been since the beginning of December.

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A jack-knifed semi in northwestern Minnesota this morning.

​Everyone knew this was going to get ugly.

Since the frigid rainy-slushy-whatever-it-was started pouring down on our fair state last night, there have been about 367 crashes, spin-outs or vehicles flying off the road, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

Old Man Winter, it appears, didn't appreciate everyone using air quotes around the word "winter" lately.

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The Twin Cities has seen about half as much snow so far this winter as usual.

​Minnesota's ridiculously mild, almost snow-less winter has forced Bloomington-based Toro to travel elsewhere to test its snowblowers.

With just a trace of snow accumulation in the Twin Cities area, Toro has given up on testing their equipment near home and instead traveled to Ironwood, Michigan, which is in the Upper Peninsula on Lake Superior's shore and covered with 11 inches of the white stuff.

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