These weren’t sleeper type shacks. They stayed in Baudette and went out via some sort of tracked snow machine thing each morning. I guess everything has tracks on it up there or you aren’t getting out very far.
Around here in theory you could live out on the ice. Just build yourself a shack and move it out and pray it stays cold enough. In a cold winter you could probably make it from late December until sometime in March. I know the DNR starts kicking shacks off the ice at some point.
Bombardier…those are the tracked vehicles. Really cool to ride in.
We’re entering what should be the longest dry spell since mid-October. There’s a big high pressure ridge over the west now that looks to stick around at least until about the 22nd.
So far this winter we’ve only had four days (!!) in which the daytime temperature stayed below freezing, and none forecasted in the forseeable future. It’s like coastal weather but I’m 370 miles inland.
Warmest Nov-Dec on record for us south of you:
Snowpack is really suffering this year.
Expecting temps to plummet tonight into the teens and not recover for a couple weeks, probably daytime temps in 20s/single digit nights. We’ve had a “heat” wave in the 40s. Got our fencing contractor out to finally get a fence up yesterday; they decided not to come out today to finish it even though it’s currently 42°F and dry. So we’re going to rig up the second half with some welded wire and t posts…tired of walking dogs in frigid temps.
They also didn’t bring a bucket warmer and were upset I wasn’t around to let them inside for hot water for the concrete, but that’s a whole other kettle of fish. Hopefully with temps in the 40s yesterday and this morning through noon everything will set.
Wow, that’s a large area to all have record warmth simultaneously. I wonder how statistically unusual something like that is, especially given that La Niña winters are typically cooler in part of that area. November-December is a relatively short period so perhaps it’s not too much of an outlier.
I saw a really cool idea the other day that uses a section of 10 or 12" pipe in the ground vertically about 4ft down. Then they surrounded the top with an insulated box framed with 2x6 material, top of the box covered with plywood and a hole cut in it big enough to hold a dog water bowl(hanging by the rim of bowl into the insulated box). They were using it to keep their chicken water from freezing to near zero degrees if I remember right. The way it worked is by thermal cycling of the air inside the vertical tube. Air gets warmed by ground temps(above freezing), air rises and heats the underside of the water bowl, which causes the air to cool and drop back to the bottom of the tube.
It was a neat idea that I want to try next year, if I can find time to build it.
I’m not sure, but sea surface temperatures were (are?) much higher than average locally for months last summer/fall, and that has dampened any La Nina effects on temperatures and possibly rainfall as well. And probably amplifying the warmer temps brought by the high pressure ridge that’s sitting over us right now.
Colorado River is going to be a trickle. Extended looks very warm out west. Phoenix could be pushing 80F.
Cold and crazy windy here all night/morning. Temp was 18F. Snow is almost gone outside of ice piles.
Was 84 in Malibu yesterday. Looks like there’s signs of a pattern change back to wet and cool in a couple weeks. Hopefully that actually happens and brings some low-level snow to the Sierra and Rockies.
Drought map finally shows us clear after a long dry 2 years.
Same here. Yay!
60 to 80mph winds out in South Dakota this morning. They can have it. Mild here with temps in the mid 30Fs but that isn’t going to last. Our friends in Florida get a taste of this next cold blast.
I see areas around Fairbanks, AK are near 30F this morning. These people were -50F to -60F not long ago. That must feel like the tropics after that long cold blast.
High 50’s low 60’s and rain
The extended looks pretty cold for much of the eastern 2/3 of the US. If you’re in the upper plains don’t look at the 12z euro. 
Upper 20s last night, upper 30s tonight, lower 30s Sunday and Monday night. I don’t want any of your artic blast, take it back.
Right around 10F last night, and about 31F right now for our high today. So, sunny and warm 
Some very light fluffy snow overnight. A type of snow you can shovel with a broom.
My brother sent me this from his land about an hour north of here. It’s a bobcat and her baby.
A good couple of feet of snow on the ground in the open places. By the shipping container there’s some figs and cactus under there somewhere.
those oaks or beech with the leaves still on?
