Good morning!!!!

[PJSprog]

Good Morning
-6 this morning and still snowing forecast is for a high of +2. I believe we have had over 100" of snow in the last 9 days.
Praying for things to get better for all the folks down south.

Welcome to the GM thread, KCY. Yoopers are generally pretty hearty people, as I recall. Tough winters up there.

On the bright side, it was -35°F in International Falls this morning.

 

[txdon]

Could not get an accurate measurement on how much snow. This snow was a dry blowing snow and there are 2' drifts or 0" bald spots. Average guess would be 6". How do you measure this type of snowfall? The snow did not accumulate on the roofs it just blew off (except in a few valleys). In full sun now and 15˚F.



No tracks in the street - no cars no walkers. The wind is still blowing the dry snow about.

 

[Dftodd]

My son’s college was closed thr and fri, maybe he will be off some more this week. When he was physically in AR, he never even took a winter coat.

You will want one this week. Supposed to be 0° tomorrow at 7am.

 

[workinonit]

Just brought the first of my 2 Farmall 140s home. Man is that thing nice. I will post a pic tomorrow when I get #2 home.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It was 11° with 15 mph north wind this morning .. resulting in -6° "feels like". It's already up to 16°. The present forecast for tomorrow morning is 13° so .. this morning might be our "coldest" day.

Snow here, was dry and very fine powder getting blown around by the wind, so I'm guessing between 1-2" total.




GD Madison, in San Marcos (Texas State) said they got 2-3" of snow and it was 9° this morning. This is 3rd time she's even seen snow in person.

We had our turn for the "rolling blackout" from exactly 10 a.m. until exactly 10:40 a.m. The temperature in the house stayed at 72°.

Hope everyone stays warm and safe today.

Prayers to all.

 

[Bird]

Could not get an accurate measurement on how much snow. This snow was a dry blowing snow and there are 2' drifts or 0" bald spots. Average guess would be 6". How do you measure this type of snowfall? The snow did not accumulate on the roofs it just blew off (except in a few valleys). In full sun now and 15˚F.

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No tracks in the street - no cars no walkers. The wind is still blowing the dry snow about.

I don't know how you measure it either. But my rain gauge that holds 6" of water is almost full of snow.:confused3: Now whether that's a reasonable measurement is anybodie's guess.:laughing:

 

[toppop52]

I seem to recall one of you Texans bragging on how warm it was there compared to the rest of us, well our forecast high tomorrow is 61.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I seem to recall one of you Texans bragging on how warm it was there compared to the rest of us, well our forecast high tomorrow is 61.

If we did .. it's because it was true Randy. Last week it was 74° at LCR and -1° at my brother's place. That's a 75° delta.

That caused him to head down to South Padre Island this weekend. It was 25° there .. this morning. I'm rolling on the floor LMAO.

 

[rswyan]

26F and cloudy @ 14:00, and 26F will be the high for the day supposedly. Probably got 1/2" or less of snow overnight, nothing today other than a stray flake here and there. Snow could start around 16:00 though ...

Couple of the local junior woodchucks came by a little bit ago and asked if the could use our "hill" next to the house to go tubing. Woman said she felt so bad for them she thought about getting dressed and taking them to Firestone Metro ... that didn't happen though ... :laughing:

Put box blade on Kubota yesterday and did a little cleanup on the driveway ... although it really didn't need it.

Needed to locate the pto shaft extender for the snowblower (cut the blower shaft before I got the 3PH quick hitch - so it was a little short ) ... so I headed up to the shop and fired up the double-barrel stove to warm things up a little and went back out and dropped the box blade and got snowblower mounted but not hooked up.

Went back up to shop after I grabbed my Streamlight edc which I had forgotten previously and after some poking around located the shaft extender. It ended up being in good shape with the lock pin being free ... just needed a little lube so I hit it with some WD-40.

After that I worked on the quick-release coupling for the blower PTO shaft - it had combo of ice/mud/rust in it, melted the ice with MAPP gas torch, cleaned out the debris with a wire brush and flushed it with water in a squirt bottle and then worked on freeing the coupling up some before I quit as it was getting dark last evening.

Finished freeing the coupling up a little bit ago and then worked to free the shaft itself up (jammed closed) Got that freed up and the driveline all connected up and then engaged the rear PTO and ran it to make sure everything was working as it should. Lubed the chain while I was at it. All in all, not too excruciating an ordeal.

So we should be ready for snow ... if it ever materializes ... :laughing:

It's probably been 10 years or better since we've had to blow snow ... don't usually need it, but it's sure nice to have when you do.

If we lived another 20 miles north and 10 miles further east, I'd probably using it some every year.

Agenda for the rest of the day: will be to refill feeders and maybe a trip down to Canal Fulton Provisions before the weather gets bad to grab a duck and a couple of nice steaks.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day ... :thumbsup:

 

[Buppies]

Use a snow board 16 by 16 National Weather Service it痴 how we measure as described