16.9 degrees F was our low here in the valley this morning. Is up to 27 now outside and is a chilly 52.3 here inside at nearly 9 am. Have thrown more wood in the heater and got it cranked up a bit higher than usual but it will take a while to get up to 70 degrees in here if it ever does today. Predicted high is 58 and am hoping it makes it. Just not up to cold weather right now. Suspect that I will be looking back and wishing for some of this cold by mid summer though…
Actually sleet and drizzle now, and ground temp is high enough that nothing is gonna stick for long anyway. But we ‘have’ had snow today for the first time in several years. Started while Bill, Cat, and I were at the scene of the last pine to go down cutting and splitting and loading firewood. Got pine (boo hiss! but it does give btu’s. Just a lot of crap in the flue too), oak, wild cherry, and elm. Snow and sleet got to coming down to the point the wood was getting wet so we finished loading it and unloaded it under the portable garage out the back door. Already had one load I cut, split and loaded on the top of the hill this morning.
Arms are quite sore from splitting the two truck loads of wood. Am gonna cut this short and will try to catch things up tomorrow morning. Till then… 😎
US Drought Monitor
Still getting worse here in Alabama. Heat is drying the creek up during the day. Nighttime it starts flowing a bit again. Never seen it this dry.
NWS Wind Chill Index
Everything you ever wanted to know about wind chill. Cool! Kinda like today… 😉
BBC NEWS | UK | England | West Yorkshire | Tornado hits during freak storm
My favorite remark in the article: “At least it livened up an otherwise mundane day.”. Strange folk, those English… 😉
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