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Offline Lloyd Smale

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finaly the snow
« on: January 14, 2024, 10:32:47 PM »
and when it came it CAME. from about zero to 2-3 feet on the flats and 5 foot drifts. my little kobota diesel had all it could do to blow it all. dont think i remember it stuggling like that ever. cold came with it. its 2 above outside right now and this is probably the warmest county up here.
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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2024, 01:02:24 AM »
We had that front go through here a couple days ago. Two days with 50 mph wind gusts, and cold air moved in. Its single digits here this morning, although we didn't get very much snow with it. I hope everyone of the leftists that yammer about global warming gets plenty of frigid temps and lots of snow.  Wonder how their EV's are performing in these temps.
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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2024, 01:41:53 AM »
  It was the wind speeds... Much of the snow that fell was wind blown so much that it turned closer to ice crystals , rather than snowflakes.

  Out at the end of my driveway, the usual ridge of snow left by the snowplow, has turned to chunks of dirty ice..
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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2024, 02:15:10 AM »
Just about an inch here so far
11° F

Can't see anything messed up (so far)
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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2024, 02:19:46 AM »
Just about an inch here so far
11° F

Can't see anything messed up (so far)

1 below and thankfully no wind.
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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2024, 02:28:27 AM »
Just about an inch here so far
11° F

Can't see anything messed up (so far)

1 below and thankfully no wind.

No wind in the PH ?
That's a genuine miracle

NOAA weather radar shows it's mostly
gone from here

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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2024, 09:14:08 AM »
 We got lucky, I guess, as the snow got pushed up into Michigan, sorry Lloyd, so we didn't get much. Left the gun show in Wilmington, down close to Cincinnati yesterday, was only about 4 degree's. But the roads back north were clean. 70-75mph all the way back. The high for the rest of this week is between 15-20 degrees each day.
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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2024, 09:35:12 AM »
Two Below right now; we had three days where the temp never rose to zero.
Actually normal January weather  a bit on the mild side.
It did hit double digit sub-zero but not very far.

Only , at most, 3 inches of very light snow; I blew snow Sat. and Sunday and with the wind you blew it only one direction unless you wanted to eat the snow you blew.
I was heading back up North Sat. but when I went to put gasoline in the car, with the wind you could not see car headlights 300 feet in front of you, so I waited till Sunday.

I wish we had a lot more snow on the ground as sub-zero on bare , or ground with less than five inches will drive the frost down deeper into the soil.
Next week looks to be above average but February looks to be nippy.
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Offline Lloyd Smale

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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2024, 12:59:01 AM »
only -3 this morning. warmest its been in 3 days. hell it might hit zero today.
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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2024, 08:09:05 AM »
Some of yall should have gotten
some of that frozen precipitation
the last few days.
Lots of rain and thunder here.
NOAA weather radar showed
a good bit of snow in the Texas
and OK ph's

Still colder than I care for today
with a wind out of the NW
Sun finally broke through, but it's
still barely 50°F, and a cold breeze
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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2024, 08:41:30 AM »
We got about 2 inches
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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2024, 02:39:32 PM »
Lloyd hope it all passed through and imho at least it’s just about mid February
Hopefully this was Mother Nature’s best Pitch of the year (thumbs up)
Spring is right around the corner, hopefully no curve balls

Offline Lloyd Smale

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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2024, 12:37:36 AM »
snows about gone. or should i say other than that one storm it never came. usually 4 feet of snow in my front yard about now and lake superior is half frozen over. right now my front yard has a dusting and for the first time in recorded history munising bay doesnt have a lick of ice. this winter isnt just a low snow year. weve probably got a .10 of the snow that was gotten on the next easiest winter. more like a mild winter in ohio. i absolutely love it but there may be consequences. it will mean farmers will start with much drier planting seasons and if it becomes the norm the tourists that come up for our perfect summer season wont go running back south. harsh winters have always kept the populations low and the rif raft out of here. we  could still get hit but basically there is only one month of winter left and usually about now it starts winding down. heres some contrast. last year was about an average winter. ive got a little 4cys diesel tractor for blowing snow. last year it burned 14 gallons of fuel 16 the year before. this year so far id guess by looking in the tank ive used about a gallon
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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2024, 02:54:11 AM »
Cold ( to me) and sloppy here.
Sure need to cut back the weeds,
but I can't do anything without
making a bunch of ruts
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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2024, 07:27:44 AM »
Well Winter has returned in the Great White North.
Drove sixty miles up to Brainerd yesterday in a snow storm, the kind where visibility is limited to a quarter mile or less at times.
The last thirty miles up were not bad as they had little to no snow from Little Falls on.

Saw one car in the ditch after the wire/posts stopped it from going into the other lane on the way up and another upside down in the ditch on the way home at night.
From Rice, Mn, South on the way home the road was slick.
By the time we hit the suburbs of St. Cloud, the inner lane was mostly covered with iced snow.
I still scooted along at a goodly pace as traffic was low both ways most of the time.

We went to Sharon's Niece's place for a Valentines steak dinner.
Got off to a bit late start, as the cable telephone/internet went bad and hooking up the new modem became pain in the arse as the office still had the old one listed as being used so I could not log in.
At that the system is being changed so they changed out-door box guts because they were told to.
First guy arrived at One Thirty P.M. and , now three,  guys were still dickering around when we left at Four TwentyFive P.M. in a true snow storm.
All things considered it was still an enjoyable Valentines Day.

I went home and back Sat.-Sunday and stopped at the Red Rooster Grocery store in Dassel , Mn; one of the VERY rare old school, very small town super markets, at least by 1960 store size standards, that is still around.
Found a dozen very nice, in perfect bloom stage, Red Roses for 18 dollars.
The other half is very happy.

It has been a very good week , and now I will go outside and shovel, approx. 3 inches of snow, for only the third time all winter.
Happy Flag Day of Canada

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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #15 on: February 15, 2024, 09:27:52 AM »
ya bob we got a bit today too. nothing id really call a storm though
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Re: finaly the snow
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2024, 12:56:26 AM »
actually picked up and we got a little snow. maybe 6 inches but the weatherman said its suppose to warm up next week again
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