Sunny and crisp

-14F this morning. The house was cracking when the sun hit it. With no wind every time the sun shines on a building,and south side of trees you hear them crack and expand from the heat after a bitter cold night. Not a cloud in the sky last night and stars where bright and just about on the ground.

The lake ice is around 14" and looks like there are number of cracks this morning not to mention a pressure ridge that is different this year, there is one right in the middle of the lake running north - south. Generally the pressure ridge out front runs east- west. If you look at the web cam you'll see steam rising from the lake in some spots. That's where the ice has cracked and water comes to the surface, and with these low tempurtures it appears as steam.

Summer???

What a difference a day makes. Frost the other night and 79 degrees now, good thing we have a breeze. Official first day of Summer is a month away.

Weather Plus!

A beautiful crisp day +13F, sunny and warm in the sun. Outside I can hear a woods crew cutting north of us towards Brandy Pond. Probably 15-20 miles away, I can hear them clear as a bell. They work 4:00am to 4:00pm, Monday-Thursday, 12 hour days. They'll go home Thursday afternoon and head back to the woods Sunday afternoon. Because of the warmer days they'll soon be restricted to only hauling their loads to the mills at night for the next 4-6 weeks then no hauling at all till June. So, they're working hard to make a living while they can. Tuff, hard working men. Mainer's work ethic is alive and well with these guys.

Outright balmy!

39F, That's above ZERO! Too warm for this time of year. We like to ride the 3rd week of April in jeans and a T shirt! Stays warm like this, the snow won't last. Good thing is, the lake ice is over 40"+. We've had to put an extension on the ice auger to get down to the water. So we'll be able to ride the lakes till April.

Windy and cold

+14F and NNW winds at a steady 23mph with gusts up to 40mph. This is the second day of high winds.

The 2 windmills/wind generators we installed in November are doing their job! Cranking out a steady 15+amps, 24volts into the battery bank. The amp meter on the windmills has hit over 40 amps with the wind gusts. It's good to see something work as well as you planned. We don't have run the diesel genset with this amount of wind.

Webcam and weather

Sorry for the webcam delay this morning, snowed pretty good overnight. Had to brush off the dish. Picked up another 6"+ of fluff. Snow or more snow, it's +10F. Finally catch up on some outdoor work with the weather this balmy and all.