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EatenByLimestone

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I know what you mean. Although it's unusually warm in MT this year, that means it will rain, then freeze and stack some more snow on top. From the start of winter, we've received over 5ft of snow. It might not sound like much to some of you, but our December total of 18in. matched the average yearly snowfall for the last 20 yrs.
 
The wife and I snowmobile and are happy as pigs in _ _ _ _!
Been trailing way to much the last few years.
 
I get out on CC and snowshoes. I would love to get out this weekend, but it might be a bit cold... I don't think I have the layers to do neg 10 with wind safely.

Matt
 
EatenByLimestone said:
I get out on CC and snowshoes. I would love to get out this weekend, but it might be a bit cold... I don't think I have the layers to do neg 10 with wind safely.

Matt
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I don't think it's supposed to get that cold here..maybe 0 on and off for the weekend.
We used to x country ski..till I bought the sleds..lol.
 
Yeah we'll get some of that. And some bitter cold here. It's going to be like 10* with the wind chill -2. That's really cold for us. And man am I thankful I upgraded last week to a 3.2 cf firebox. This beast should keep us warm. As for the snow. I'm a fan. I love it.
 
4" of snow on the ground, now 20°f here.
Man, ole man winter moving around some this year.
 
Bogydave, are those normal temps for you? That sounds warmer than I would expect to here in Alaska in January.
 
We usually get what's called "a January thaw" here.
We get one big storm in January the brings warm air up from Hawaii, warms us up for a week in the 40s then real
winter sets in until March. But we had that in the beginning of Jan. Then it got cold -14°f was coldest, here (South Central Alaska.)

Normal? Maybe 10° warmer. But close to normal. Average temps in Jan & Feb are around 0°f night to 20°f day. Now we are getting 20s a night & close to 30 in days.
I expect to get in the below zeros when this jet stream position changes. But this year, who know? La Nina seems extreme this year everywhere.
That may mean we won't get our -20s, that has happened in the past, one winter we had no days below zero.

This weather front just went thru southern Alaska, & pushed East thru Canada, it didn't reach up to Fairbanks (central AK) The are having -40s f, which is normal

Normal, this year is a tough one, nothing real normal yet We finally got 4" of powder snow 4 days ago. Ground was bare before that. All melted in the "January thaw".

Pic after the "thaw" -8f in this pic. (Shingles in the yard are off my roof, 80 mph gusts, 0°f) When the cold moved back in, after the thaw, , the North wind was 50, gusting to 80 mph.
has been below 0 to 10 ° till yesterday.

Hope I answered you, with out boring you to death.
 

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I got about 6" over here in Palmer, but yeah yard looked just likes yours before.
 
bogydave It would be hard to imagine living in temperatures like that. It would be a completely different lifestyle.
 
bogydave said:
Hope I answered you, with out boring you to death.
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As long as you post a pic like that, you can tell any story you want.
 
bogydave said:
We usually get what's called "a January thaw" here.
We get one big storm in January the brings warm air up from Hawaii, warms us up for a week in the 40s then real
winter sets in until March. But we had that in the beginning of Jan. Then it got cold -14°f was coldest, here (South Central Alaska.)

Normal? Maybe 10° warmer. But close to normal. Average temps in Jan & Feb are around 0°f night to 20°f day. Now we are getting 20s a night & close to 30 in days.
I expect to get in the below zeros when this jet stream position changes. But this year, who know? La Nina seems extreme this year everywhere.
That may mean we won't get our -20s, that has happened in the past, one winter we had no days below zero.

This weather front just went thru southern Alaska, & pushed East thru Canada, it didn't reach up to Fairbanks (central AK) The are having -40s f, which is normal

Normal, this year is a tough one, nothing real normal yet We finally got 4" of powder snow 4 days ago. Ground was bare before that. All melted in the "January thaw".

Pic after the "thaw" -8f in this pic. (Shingles in the yard are off my roof, 80 mph gusts, 0°f) When the cold moved back in, after the thaw, , the North wind was 50, gusting to 80 mph.
has been below 0 to 10 ° till yesterday.

Hope I answered you, with out boring you to death.
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Amazing woodpile...thanks for the photo!
 
Picture this if you will..

I've got 3 feet of snow on the ground.

My good, burnable wood.. is stacked 3 feet high, 200 feet or so from the house.

I have a narrow trail that is 1 foot of solid packed snow. then I actually have to get on my knees and DIG down to get the firewood. Only way to get it back to the house is on a kids plastic sled towed behind me.

I feel like I'm on an archeological dig, revealing the ancient fuel source of a previous era.
 
I hear ya! I'm going to ask my neighbor to bring down the tractor today and knock back my snow banks. I've been using my new plow for the ATV - works great, but the banks are getting very high and creeping into the driveway. I used a snowblower mount for my lawn tractor in years past, which cast the snow as good 20' - never had to worry about banks then - but the plow is SO much easier to use. I think we have close to 2' on the ground now, and doesn't look like it's going to melt anytime soon! Cheers!
 
Heem said:
Picture this if you will..

I've got 3 feet of snow on the ground.

My good, burnable wood.. is stacked 3 feet high, 200 feet or so from the house.

I have a narrow trail that is 1 foot of solid packed snow. then I actually have to get on my knees and DIG down to get the firewood. Only way to get it back to the house is on a kids plastic sled towed behind me.

I feel like I'm on an archeological dig, revealing the ancient fuel source of a previous era.
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lol, that's not hard to picture. Deal with that enough days of every year and you will be building a shed right outside your door.
 
One good thing is. The back lawn looks great! no piles of half processed wood laying around. No creeping charlie. Dog turds are buried... :lol:


Matt
 
EatenByLimestone said:
Dog turds are buried... :lol:
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But when it melts in April and the sun comes out...
 
SolarAndWood said:
EatenByLimestone said:
Dog turds are buried... :lol:
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But when it melts in April and the sun comes out...
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NOT looking forward to the springtime "poop patrol".

"Deal with that enough days of every year and you will be building a shed right outside your door."
Yep, did that last spring, and it's probably one of the best things I've done in a while.
Still trying to figure out how to make it magically find it's way into the house.
 
Once again, it misses us! Well, it is snowing this morning but not heavy snow.
 
SolarAndWood said:
bogydave said:
Hope I answered you, with out boring you to death.
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As long as you post a pic like that, you can tell any story you want.
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We had 4 ", got 3 - 4" last night & right now (1100 am) have freezing rain crusting the top of the snow. 28°f.
See what happens if you complain, I did, & then it snowed more :) Will try running ATV/plow. Back should handle that.
(Chicken scraps for the Magpies on the plate)
 

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Heem said:
Picture this if you will..

I've got 3 feet of snow on the ground.

My good, burnable wood.. is stacked 3 feet high, 200 feet or so from the house.

I have a narrow trail that is 1 foot of solid packed snow. then I actually have to get on my knees and DIG down to get the firewood. Only way to get it back to the house is on a kids plastic sled towed behind me.

I feel like I'm on an archeological dig, revealing the ancient fuel source of a previous era.
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I'd like to see a picture of that..
Bet it's beautiful, buuuuut lots of work. So much for global warming eh?
Nice to have good burnable wood, even if you have to dig, lucky you. 1 of the reasons I built the shed, now wood is findable :)
 
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