Monday, January 07, 2008

Winter thaw

The mid-winter thaw has arrived early this year. As I mentioned yesterday it was 45 degrees when we returned to the Aerie Sunday afternoon at around 2 PM. This afternoon it got up to 58 degrees and Terry reports it was 67 on the bank thermometer on Route 15 in Lawrenceville on the PA/NY line. And tomorrow is supposed to be warmer?!

Nearly all the snow is gone with the exception of the places where shovels and plows piled it higher and deeper. A few more days like these and those snowbanks will disappear too.

The down side is that "Mud Season" has followed the melt and all the clay roads are slick as ice. The Tundra is a reddish brown from all the mud that's been splashed up its flanks. I'd take it to the car wash but what's the point, it would be brown again before I got home.

Mark reports that it's been quite warm up at the Bolt Hole too. He went up Sunday morning and had knee deep snow in the driveways. When he left around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, it was down to his ankles and disappearing quickly.

2 comments:

GUYK said...

During Feb of 1981 I was stationed at the Air Base out of Fairbanks Alaska. It had been a cold winter as usual..then a warming trend started and the snow melted..damn if there wasn't some green grass in a few places above the underground steam pipes..but it didn't last..by the first of March it was 40 below again..and there was no AL Gore around telling us that it was a result of global warming..

joated said...

Algore was probably busy inventing the internet.

Yeah, these thaws happen all the time when the wind is from the south as it has been the last few days. It's kind of nice to get rid of all the dirty snow that had accumulated. I'm quite sure we'll get plenty more before the crocuses and trout lillies let us know that spring has truly arrived.