Well, yes. My nearest official NWS reporting station is at the Ann Arbor airport, which is about ten miles away. There is a stretch on M14 I drive thru and watch the temp dip when it is really cold. I have seen it drop from -8 to -19 and back up in a half mile, and I have seen similar on several occasions. I watch for it now because it's interesting to me. As far as storm prediction, timeline, track, and snowfall amounts, they've been pretty good. Weather forecasting is an educated guess, and it has come a long way. Predicting a storm that still hasn't formed in the Pacific is pretty impressive.
I'm with you guys......I like winter, but I'm about bored with it. And loading BOTH stoves all day long from this extreme cold is getting a little old. Stay warm guys, I have a feeling this may be the last real HOORAH For winter!!
I'll be happy to see the ice melt. Still have to be very careful where I step. Front steps and walk now under snow and ice. It will be that way until we get a thaw. Two of the three exits now snow covered. Could get out through them if I needed to. No melting predicted for several days.
I used another bag of rock salt the other day between the house and the camp. In some places there is no where for the water to go.
Rock salt is scarcer that wood pellets and cord wood in my area. We've start using water softener salt on the drive cause its all I can get! I haven't look up the details, But this seems to be the coldest winter I can remember since the early 70's.
We stocked up on the salt before the season got started. Our garage is 30x24 and has a second floor with nearly as much floor space and 8 ft of headroom wall to wall. Need lots of storage space around here. My next project is to get a lift installed so I don't have to carry things up and down the stairs.
Seasonal temps are not in the forecast for the next 10 days. Nothing but low 30-40s. By the time we hit the low 40s were are suppose to be at 52.
The local paper had an article about that yesterday, the bug that's been killing the spruce (aphnids?) have been pretty much wiped out, once you start getting below zero some of these bugs die. I'm with you, the more the merrier, too bad the ticks don't die off, hardy little buggers.
Kids soccer practice is starts in a week and a half. Tyrouts had to be indoors due to inclement weather and at this point the first game will be on a snow covered field. It's usually close to 50 degrees during the day at this time of the year.
That pic was a huge red oak we did back in October.....tree was around 80', right against the power and phone lines on one side and a house directly on the other. I had to piece it most of the way down. I was around 45'-50' up in that pic.
Like PapaDave, we had -16 this morning. I wouldn't mind the winter so bad if we hadn't had that ice way back when. It is really thick under this snow. We did have a minor warm-up a week ago and lost about a foot of snow but then got more. Still can't go in a lot of places with an atv. Hey, when is March this year? Will we have April?
Think back, when this happened before, we went from snow on the lawn to mowing the lawn in one month. It can be just that fast.
This won't earn any sympathy, but the big box stores have stopped selling winter gear....no rock salt, snow shovels etc. If you are looking for patio furniture and gas grills, they have all you could want. Think I'll put a lounge chair on top of the 4 feet of snow on my deck and have a few extra-cold ones
