Starting to rain now. Ground is frozen still with softening snow on top. First rain of the new year. Things are gonna start flowing. Colder trend starting this weekend might lighten the load a bit, but ice is breaking!

I'm gonna continue to talk to myself....lol

Today's rain was short lived and turned to all snow. Although it is 40 degrees according to AccuWeather.

Congrats on new truck!
I'll tell ya, with 1-3 foot in the eastern lake region with 2-4 in the tug... This can get real ugly if the weather really breaks in the next 2 weeks

Got a lite , but soaking rain today in the afternoon. Not heavy by any means. Ice here should hold out for one more weekend. I think I will try to hit the river next week during the week after work at least one night, probably Wednesday.  Will try the ice  on Sunday one last time
if it is viable.

How's some heavy rain with thunder and lightning sound?Well that's what we had around 7 PM and now light rain with heavy rain early Fri AM.That should raise the local creeks pretty good for a few days.

3-5 K max.. geesh.. If a day sneaks in , I may have to take the truck for a ride and smell it all up, mostly a skunk I'm sure..
The crew is coming down for a work detail on the Mae and another vessel this weekend, I'm sure we will test out the 400watt stereo and burn some debris in the fire pit in the course of 3 days.. Dodging ice floes in the creek on a short boat could be a possibility also  ..
  With the eastern (mexico) bay opening up, ya never know what may happen until the splash on the Mighty Hudson.. 
 
Weather the spring well, keep the mud on the tires and off the rug..  

DB,
 
LO is almost all open only the eastern end had ice end of last week. And a lot of the snowpack sublimed, that is, evaporated from a frozen state to a gaseous state without the liquid intermediate, which is why it is gone without the big rise.  Down here we've got 1-2" of ice on the ground from under the snow, and this is likely to have to melt as to it denser than snow, I would think there was a lot more under the TH snow, so this runoff should last for a while yet.

Lucky I live in the eastern lake region and walked my property yesterday with 12-30+ inches on the ground still... Mostly an average of 16". Albion has 2-4 foot still. Went to Selkirk the other day and yes ice is still on the eastern end. It had actually broken off about 300' out from the east wind but was still thick. Even selkirk has an average of 2 foot on the ground(probably less from the past two days). Ground is still frozen underneath but slowly changing over. Plenty of run off to come. Its a matter of "how" it will come. There has been no major thaw event. Natural flowing tribs are showing the rise (oops did I just say that). Salmon river reservoir should be rising as we speak. Salmon river is tailwater and shows signs of flow increase mostly from just the dam. Its been well over 500 cfs for a while with the 350 release. Banks are still frozen though. It will change soon

Charlie enjoy your trip!

Surprised to see large flakes of snow coming down when I got up at 6:15 AM. Turning into a nice day.  Hopefully the remaining snow will be gone by the end of next week but not looking forward to mud season. 
Tuna-best of luck with the new wheels.
Charlie-enjoy the vacation.
 
  
 

Congrats clint!!! Yes a waning day for run off. Top layer of ground froze right back up. Road tractor on ground I've had exposed for while today. Ground was solid frozen still just a couple inches down but water is pooling in low lying areas

About 1/2" of heavy wet stuff on the ground 60 miles to the south of Erie this morning.  Air temperature quickly warmed and turned the solid stuff to liquid stuff in a matter of an hour or so.  Rained a few light showers since than and there is a light/variable wind from the North.  O.A.T. hovering around 41 degrees F. as I sit in my favorite deer stand watching woodchucks scurry about the field.  Darn things are somewhat like a cat, in that, they know just how far to stay away from the old dog.  
 
I'm hearing on my official 'Weather Channel Weather Radio' the temps. will begin to moderate starting Thursday and will continue into next week.  A quick check with AccuWeather on the internet appears to confirm the warming trend and the National Weather Service reports give further support to the forecast.  My optimistic outlook says................  Yeah right, heard this before!
 
How did all-yinz-all make out, 'mupp north', with this latest round of snow?
 
Hope all is well.

Albion, PA. is where my sister-in-law and family once lived and I always thought the town to be a great place with friendly people except........... I swear,  It snows up there in the summer (lol).

Yes maybe I will see some grass soon..............  been a lot of years since I have not put the pasture fence up on Easter weekend.

Tuna if the rivers too crowded you can help me knock some trees down on Friday :)