As Stacy and I work on getting back to our usual routine, Winter of 2010 has decided to start off hard and over a month early this year.While I'd hoped to have the usual until Christmas for snow and cold to 'stick' to be able to finish up with some pre-winter prep, not happening this year.
Top photo was taken the morning of the first snowfall that stayed. November 17th. Not too much that day about an inch and it didn't stay on the roads at all.
Compare that photo with the photo I took Thanksgiving morning. By this day it had been snowing almost continuously for about a week. Luckily I had gotten the Polaris quad ready early with the snowplow blade and tire chains and spent a little over an hour that morning clearing out around the house and the driveway and also making it so the postal carrier can drive up to our mailbox.Bottom photo was this morning. Still snowing then as now, and Stacy and I had plowed and cleaned away snow again today before I took the photo. It's looking out to the street from the house and our driveway. It normally doesn't look like this until late December or early January.
So will it be that predicted record snow? We'll have to wait and see.
We even had our week of at or below zero last week. Topping off, or bottoming out, at 10 below zero last Wednesday. It has warmed "up" to more usual temps for our area, highs of upper 20's and lows of upper teens. And I can say truthfully that it does seem warmer too! I was actually asked how does it feel at 10 below? Answer, just like 5 below! It is just COLD!
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