The weather 2024

[thecfarm]

I have not even seen 60 here yet Tom!!!
Only got up to 52 here yesterday. Rained in the night, and still raining now. Should stop around noon.
River has gone down a lot in the last week. No snow for a run off.
As I mentioned the ground was really starting to dry out.
I have a dirt driveway and the frost is long gone in that. No more mud. Seem like I get about 2 inches of mud, then when the water can drain out of the driveway, it dries out quick.

[woodroe]

55 on the porch yesterday afternoon. 2 nice spring days in a row   Raining now.
Another 50+ geese passed over around noon. Big V.
Came within 3' of stepping on a woodcock edge of field , burst into the air. Heart attack moment.

[SwampDonkey]

Sun came out yesterday afternoon and got up to 48°F by 4:00 pm. Got 7 new 6' cedar fence posts from the woodlot. Peeled and sharpened, ready for the grape garden. Drove out there to the cedar woods on the SxS. About 2-3 inches of snow in the trails. Was no trouble at all. A little slippery walking on ice and snow from the buggy into where I cut the posts, but was only 200 feet or so. Used that little battery saw and my axe was used to limb. Only took 3 trees for the posts, cut to length on site. Love the smell of fresh white cedar. 

[thecfarm]

Today, Saturday looks to be a dry day. But another Sunday of rain, like last Sunday. Then next week looks like rain on Sunday again. But that is a week away.
Sun until about 10 today, then the clouds move in. 32° here now, high of 50.
Back in 2000 I was searching for snow to hold up sticks so I could figure out where I wanted the house built. I check the high and low each day and it was 62 back in 2000. I saw another high too of that year the other day. But this year I would really have to travel to find snow. I would have to put it in a 5-gallon bucket and bring it to the work site.   There is no snow around the house at all. 
Now I have a little snow at the edge of the woods, but that is all I can see from the house.

[WhitePineJunky]

Today is gonna be a warm one at 10 c! Sunny all day and we will also get that rain tomorrow! Can't call it dry exactly lots of water! Few bridges and roads out of commission

[SwampDonkey]

37°F here now, clouds taking over. Going to be snow/rain mix Sunday into Tuesday up here. Yard is dry, but dirt roads, fields and woods ain't dry by a long shot. Won't be until at least end of May. :D

[SwampDonkey]

Snow/rain mix for 3 days is under way. 32°F here this morning. 

[woodroe]

More rain, got a smudge going to ward off the damp.
Ice going out 8 mi. south of here, saw a boat out on one lake by the big chimney in MT Vernon.
5 Ducks flew by this morning so that's a good sign of ice going away. Early for sure.
Usually April before any ice goes out.

[thecfarm]

Minniehonk, that pond right in town of Mt Vernon is well on its way of going out. 
That's my run twice a day.
Ice in Mosher and Norcross is still there. Moosehill too.

[Old Greenhorn]

ICE?! We don't got no stinking ICE! The reservoir never even thought about freezing this year. I never saw anything more than skim ice on any real water. Yeah, some deep puddles might have froze, but not for long. I recall not too long ago (10 years?) when the reservoir didn't see 'ice out' until the middle of April, 2 weeks into trout season, before that we always had ice out by opening day (4/1).
 We are definitely in 'shoulder season' now. I let the house stove go out about 4 days ago, this is the second shutdown in a month. The shop stove continues on because it is the only heat and I have been feeding it junk and scraps and the occasional piece of good wood. One afternoon I let it go out and the next morning it was still 62° in there. Last night I filled it with junks and 3 good pieces of wood on top. It was 68° at 7am.
 About 10 days ago I spotted a pair of Wood ducks in Bill's swamp pond, first I have ever seen. I think they moved on, but Bill says they are still around. This last week a pair of Black ducks showed up and I see them almost daily but they are quite shy. Yesterday I saw the Blue Heron is back for the summer. In interesting bird and their is a wildlife photographer who shows up almost yearly to photograph him/her early in the mornings.
 It was 43° and drizzly at dawn, now the sun is out. We might get some more rain in the afternoon, but the rain predicted for this morning is pretty much all gone now.  I know it rained, but none of the local stations recorded and rainfall yet. Gonna do some more firewood today and other 'stuff'.

[SwampDonkey]

Head ponds here are solid ice still, but none in faster water. No creek or small river has any ice here, just stuff pushed up on shore. Saw 30 mallards yesterday in a small beaver pond. Mostly drakes that I saw. Raining here with fog, but on the edge of wet snow to. 34°F

[thecfarm]

Rain here until about 1 today. Then maybe some sun.
I have Mosher Pond going out April 10 or the 11 in 2022. 
Then April 15 in 2023. 
I drive by Mosher 4 times a day. I saw it go out last year.

[thecfarm]

Looks like no sun until 6. Seem like one summer that happened a lot. Sun would come out and then go down. 

[WhitePineJunky]

Wood ducks are always nice to see

[SwampDonkey]

You can forget about the sun, for 3 or 4 days around here.    34°F here now. No heat wave either.  

[thecfarm]

Sun is out now!!!

[thecfarm]

Looks to be a cool week ahead.
Only 2 days above 40 and below freezing each night.
Much better then 70's for a couple weeks then it cools off and we get a killing frost and sets everything back. That's how it has been the last couple years.

[SwampDonkey]

Had a little reprieve from the snow/rain in the night, but going right back to it by mid morning. 32°F here this morning. I did catch a glimpse of the moon between clouds, setting to the NW behind the spruces. Had a big blizzard of wet snow from 3:00 pm until almost dark. Nothing stuck. Dark is about 8:30 pm now up here.

Probably be swinging the clearing saw by April 1st this year. Going out to the saw shop today and see if they have any new saws.  Test it out on some bushes along my property edge.

[SwampDonkey]

Light wet snow has begun here.

[SwampDonkey]

Carpenter will be putting up the shop next week. 

[thecfarm]

Shop? 

[SwampDonkey]

30°F and light snow falling.    No 50's F in sight for another week. Going below freezing on the weekend, upper 20's for highs.

[thecfarm]

The river is kinda low for this time of year. There was not much ice floating down the river this year either.
Yea, looks to be a cool week. 
Better then the 70's temps each day and everything starts to bud out and we get a bad frost.

[Peter Drouin]

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Better then the 70's temps each day and everything starts to bud out and we get a bad frost.

Don't talk like that. Frosty might hear you.

[Magicman]

34° here this morning and a flicker in the insert feels good.