Here we go again. April weather in mid January. Was 43 and rain today, yesterday felt near fifty. Tomorrow? High forties and mud again. Two days of around freezing weather then back to 50 for the weekend. Wtf. It's been a while since we had a decent winter...I pretty much expect February to just give up entirely on the whole winter thing at this point.
Got that same sort of feeling here. I don’t stop having fires just small ones. Temps are not much further than mid 30’s at the coldest. Rain storms are whipping around here, its like its back to November sort of. I’m not TOTALLY sold on winter being done but looks like nothing crazy cold for awhile.
I don't think it's over for us, February can get real cold and March we can get some good ole fashion snowfalls.
We have a January Thaw the last week of January almost every year. Not every year, but more often than not. 2nd half of Winter's metric here is measured more often in inches of snow than in bitter cold. I'm ready for Spring.
Fat lady ain't even had a bath yet ,, let alone taken the stage!!! It will be awhile before she sings!
Right there with you on that. We get snow and that awful cold, then we get deep snow, but not so bitter cold. The pattern is usually much the same, just varies some from year to year. Winter doesn't really go away until the first couple weeks of April around here. Then within a month, there is a complete transition. Ice on the ground, three weeks later we are cutting grass and picking ticks off the pets. Late May, (after mud season) the cemeteries are busy with burials of those who died last fall and this winter. Takes about a month to get them all settled in.
You know...I never actually thought about this one. I could see why burials likely in the dry periods are much more common but not during the winter. A staggering number perhaps...
There's a big snow storm up north of us though. We're supposed to get a couple inches of snow early this week though. This crazy roller coaster weather is insane though. Super cold then warm, then cold, back to warm.... Ridiculous.
It doesn't happen very often down this way but as you go north digging a hole in ground that is frozen several feet deep can get expensive .....
It's Midwinter! Plenty of winter to get through yet. I'm OK with that, as long as the wood holds out.
What really pizzes me off is how this crazy weather affects the maple sugar run. I missed out tapping trees the past two seasons due to ridiculous warm-ups in January, so I have to make a decision as to if I want to go ahead and tap these dammed trees now. I gambled against that decision the past two seasons and ended up missing the run altogether. I miss the old days when the weather was semi-predictable. This yo-yo forecast makes me mad....
We have been getting rain and wind overnight. Temps were in the mid 30's this morning but they are starting to drop. Due to the ground being frozen, rain water is running off and I have a bit of a pond down in the ditch by the road. Snow should come later today but for us they are not calling for a lot of the white stuff.
If you are on Facebook, look up northeast weather alert, he's from Maine and was a commercial fishermen. He's called more of the storms this year earlier and more correctly than anyone else. He's only for new England, the Canadian Maritimes, and some of the mid Atlantic region.
Active Advisories NOT GOOD Blizzard Warninguntil Tue 12:00 am 32°F Feels Like 16°F Cloudy with Heavy Snow
As someone who loves snow, this weather is depressing. Last year, we were at our friend's sugar house in Vermont. It was February, most of the snow we had (and we had a good amount in total by President's Day) had melted. And they were sugaring...in February with ATvs and side by sides. I was lamenting to my buddy(owner of the sugar house) about the lack of snow. As a true Vermonter, he said "March can be one of the snowiest months around here!" He was right. A few weeks later, I buried my snowmobile while breaking trail and had to dig it out. The last few winters have been strange. It seems like they start well, go to complete you know what, then pick up and stay cold longer. Problem for us snow lovers is the sun angle. It can stay cold into late March, but the sun does a number on the snowpack.
Skier76, yup I got 42 inches of snow in that March storm, last year. Plow trucks stuck everywhere. Went mile down dirt road to a buddy house with kubota avatar and pulled 4 snowplow trucks out in a mile.
The February of 2015 was coldest month ever in Massachusetts recorded history. I don't think we're quite out of the woods here just yet.
