The wind has been blowing out of the north-northwest all night and bringing with it what is perhaps THE major export of Canada--cold air. (Yeah, I know that Canada supplies the US with a great deal of natural gas used to heat homes and such. It's just their polite way of making up for all that damn cold air.)
It was 34 degrees just after midnight according to my max-min indoor-outdoor thermometer and dropped to just under 30 degrees at 10 AM. Any water on the deck from yesterday's rain has frozen.
It's overcast and windy (not breezy) and raw. You can smell snow in the air but we're just supposed to get flurries. A peek at the automated weather maps shows lake effect snow showers streaming southeast off Lakes Erie and Ontario.
The chickadees, titmice, nuthatches and goldfinches are hitting the feeders pretty hard and they have been joined by a bevy of gray squirrels.
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