A big system might move in next week end,little too early to tell where and how much

Let me know when Spring arrives in the Keystone, will ya guys?


In the meantime, I gotta deal with all this stupid white stuff.
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Good times and tight lines. 😎

JM the one guy I spoke with showed me some White Fish(?) he had caught but he said trout and snapper fishing has been slow.

Weather here has been fluctuating with cold fronts coming oint the area about every 5 to 6 days. We just had night time temps in the upper 30s the past two nights. Next few days those temps are to be in the 50s to 60s with day time highs in the 70s but next Sunday the weather takes another dump with lows touching upper 20s.

I have noooo idea if that affects fishing the Gulf or not. Locals say this is below normal temps for the region.

I did like the beach carts those fellas was using. I'm thinking the carts would work good on the ice and snow with the big baloney tires they have.

That's what the guy said.... excellent eating and no limit.

He and his buddy were packing it up and I did not want to hold him up with questions (yes I did) but it was a bit windy bringing the wind chills into the upper 40s. Dudes where dressed in heavy clothing but had enough of the cold temps and there I was in all my tourist glory, flip flops, jeans and tee shirt. Spring is in the air!!!

Did I mention I need to work on my tan?

Heyyy yinz guys is gettin famous muup there especially in the Keystone State.

I just seen on TWC a reporter interviewing some dude from PENNDOT. regarding "pre-treating" the roads cause it's gonna snow.

IMAGINE THAT!!! Snow in Penn's Woods..... who knew???

As for "pre-treating" roads wellll, that's a topic for another day... Isn't it.


Be safe everyone and heed the safety warnings and stay off the roads if yinz can.

Spring is in the air.......

They pre treated our roads Wednesday evening, why I don't know.
They salted the roads today.

When I grew up , they were sanders not salters

Many areas have installed piping to handle stormwater where they used to have ditches.  Sand and cinders work fine for traction where you have ditches, you just have to clean them out with a backhoe in the spring,  but pipes clog rapidly with the solids, and the Vactor trucks needed to clean them out are both expensive and very low capacity, so you are hauling the material to a dump site very frequently.  Salt (Sodium Chloride, Calcium Chloride, etc)  work fine down to about 10 °F, and do not clog the infrastructure.  Per-treatment is done with waste products from brewing operations, most have high magnesium chloride concentrations (another salt), and they are " sticky" so they hold to the lanes for a while and do start the melting process.  Also, when this material is sprayed onto the salt it does not bounce as much, so less can be applied per lane mile and it is still effective on the road surface and does not end up on the shoulder as rapidly.  These materials have extremely high Biochemical Oxygen Demand associated with them, they would be deadly to streams in warmer temperatures, but tend to be out of the system before BOD becomes a big problem in the warmer months. 
 
 
Plowing is generally ineffective until there is more than 3 inches of snow. 

Pretreat, cinders, salt or sand there was was never any greater sight for sore eyes then seeing "Salt Shakers" working the highways and byways during a snow event.  Though truth be known, at times, I have wished there was twice as many working along the leading edge of the weather in order to keep with the storm  Thanks to the many men and women who take pride in doing their job keeping our roads passable and much safer.
 
 
In another mater, this is gonna suck......  for a while.  Be safe,  I gotta go I hear the, SURFS UP!!
 
                   

Light snow turned to rain and now is about done falling......BBUUTTTT ,now I have to try and blow slush off the driveway before it freezes solid late this afternoon! My,I really hate this time of year!

Clint, sorry to hear you're having problems with the elbow. Mentioning the shot made me cringe....a little more than I needed to know. Lol Godspeed with your recovery.

No more shoveling and plowing snow for me, at least this year. Temps did touch 40 last night and maybe mid 30s tonight then back to the 40s & 50s for lows, starting tomorrow. Highs are expected to be 60ish.

Couple Tornadoes reported to our north but we saw only brief heavy rain followed by gusty 35 MPH wind through the night.

Brought new meaning to the sign on my door. "IF THIS TRAILER'S AROCKIN, DON'T COME A KNOCKIN".😎

Be safe everyone.

I just finished for the day plowing with ATV.
It turned to freezing rain hard for about an hr then and still snowing.
Got an additional 3" . Probably total 10-12 on ground .
Getting ready for a perch fry and leftover Wellington. I'll deal with touch up over the week. Heard it my get to 40' after this artic air moves out mid week. Sure hope so as I have a cub scout ice fishing trip next weekend on this local lake.
I'm sure it doesn't look like it did yesterday

The bright side is its still pretty light out at 5pm.
The time will come, we can't stop it.
3 more weekends on the ice for now than I'll be casting a rod into fridged icy moving water, just to say so, I'm a steelheader, lol.

-5 and windy with ice on every tree limb and branch.
One Ct lineman was killed when a limb fell on him. 
Those guys are out they making sure we are warm in our homes in the worst weather.
RIP.

We hit negative 8.4 at my house last night. High only got to 7 above but a brutal wind all day. My co workers really struggled outdoors today. We have some places that are 400 feet tall and all exposed to work in.

This is NOT the type of cold I wish for. The snow made it twice as miserable.
Walking into my house just now its 40 degrees, typically its 50.
Stay safe folks, tonight is going to get worse

I like my (OLD) Hearthstone Soapstone 1. Have used it for yrs. , bought used for $300 will heat up to 18 hrs., 26" logs, 100,000 btu / hr nice even heat not like a cast iron stove that get hot/cold fast. Heats our 2 story early 1800 house 78* in these single digit days/nights. Helps the chimney goes up center of house to distribute heat better. It weighs 730 lb. though. Loads from the side or front. Great oven to cook in when coals are not overly hot. Very nice to look at & can use like a fireplace with screen if wanted.
 
  They are pricey new (soapstone) but come up used on the net sometimes reasonable.