Was -10 Saturday and -25 Sunday am.  Too cold. Our new calf is a girl and seems to be eating off her mom and the other heifer whose Calf did not make it.    Chickens have taken to laying in a 5 gallon bucket half full of sawdust there were two in it this am. Was quite a site.  One of my leghorns is now sitting so they are not freezing.  Supposed to be close to 50this week. Time to push the banks back I think

I don't think my ice is going anywhere until at least march, I'll take a warm up next weekend.
Broke zero at noon and it's a balmy 5deg

The lake yesterday

Almost 60 today and 10 below tomorrow ughhhh

Weather dude just posted a "flood occurring" statement for my little piece of Penn's Woods. Reports of 3" of rain on the ground and more on the way.

Mixture of horizontal sleet and rain in progress with rain turning to all ice sometime around 5ish than snow after 10:00 PM. Only 4 to 8 expected for my area.

There have been ice jams pushed across the road on rt 3. The winds have picked up.

At 4:30 AM the therm-O-meter was bottomed out at minus 14 and by 6:30 AM we were enjoying a mild temp of minus 7 degrees. With the temps. in the low 60s just a a few days before then tumbling into minus teens, last night was like living in a box of Rice Krispys. The logs were snapping, cracking and popping as the temps dropped through the night.

Snow wasn't so bad except for the drifting part and then there was the freezing rain that put a pretty good coating of ice before the snow arrived.

Didn't have to plow any snow from a 6 ft. swath in front of my garage doors because it was bare.

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Because the wind moved the snow from there to here. Walkway to entrance door. Stupid wind.

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Hope the calf made it through...good of you to take in the birds. Hopefully they don't have mites or lice to go with the poor nutrition.

-15 in the village... steam coming off the river, and a very hard rime frost on the trees... river is roaring

43 and rising with the sun is tee shirt weather

GOOD MORNING AMERICA



What is they say about a pink sky in the morning.......?

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You can say that sailor take warning alll righty!   Wind is 20 from the SW ripping to 30 MPH gust; sure glad I ain't sitting in a hub shanty on the ice right now. 'Yo Ho Blow The Shanty Down'!!!  Anchors A-wayyyy down at the other end of the lake!!

BeenThereDoneThat.
You can say that sailor take warning alll righty!   Wind is 20 from the SW ripping to 30 MPH gust; sure glad I ain't sitting in a hub shanty on the ice right now. 'Yo Ho Blow The Shanty Down'!!!  Anchors A-wayyyy down at the other end of the lake!!

It was 30 gusts a week ago sat and we put 8 stakes out . She held, 2 anchors bent . Sunday was windless and 50's. No shanty required.
Last sat it was 20 sustained in the flip over. Couldn't lift your butt or it swung.
Sunday windless and 50's with no stakes out on pop up and nobody really sat inside.

Moral of story:
Fish only on Sundays
Give it a few hrs and the weather will be the opposite.
I haven't listened or watched a meteorologist in about 10 years. One thing I have found is you can't change the weather so deal with it. :)

Beautiful picture BTDT, thanks

Snowing all night and all day, but accumulation is for the most part minimal with 4 to 6 and some higher drifts. Will go out later and clean up. With the lake very cold I anticipate large LE events may not have the right mojo to happen from here on out as the moisture is limited. We will see.  temps look seasonal or better for the next week.

Snowing heavy here in SE Pa,turning to rain later then colder tonight,I may not get out of here for awhile....this weather SUCKS and I HATE WINTER.