April is near!

The March 14 storm gave us 16.4 inches of snow!

April snow is common. With that, I will pause. We will see the outcome.

An open mind?

Do scientists​ allow others to present their evidence?

Climate is the summation of a period of record divided by days in the record. Ten to eighteen thousand years ago Maine was very cold.

Arizona and Iraq do just fine in the winter. Not too many summer in Barrow, Alaska.

Will your great grand children summer in Barrow, Alaska?

City right of way - snow covered.

My route to a back door neighborhood is on the wide paved right of way.  However, after sixteen inches of snow this portion was near knee deep in snow.  Yesterday mild air had allowed settling, however the snow still was not open down to black top allowing rapid melting.  I therefore took shovel in hand and shoveled for an hour.  This morning I was again able to walk the length of the paved surface.  Today's task is to widen my shovel width attempt to move water off the pavement.

Down size activity

Here is a bit of before and after information.  Before with a long driveway and a large dooryard snow removal was time consuming.  I claimed one hour work for each inch of snow.  Now each snow means fifteen minutes of minor sweeping.  Ice melt is spread on the apron in front of the garage.  This apron is black top.  The garage is concrete so ice melt can pit the concrete.  Now with plenty of time I sweep often moving ice melt off and out of the garage.

As a public service I have selected fire hydrants to clear after large snows.  Likely, I will monitor four hydrants and keep up with two of the four.  Bring on spring.

We had a harsh wind!

Last weekend the cold and wind were extreme.

The forecast is the same for this weekend.
Rain, light rain is falling now. 

Back to winter.

Looking warm to cold
May 62
April 51
March 43.

Warmth is slow to arrive in Maine.