we had a wicked day yesterday! the worst of this winter. wind picked up mid day to gusts over 40mph! they closed most of the major and secondary roads. i couldnāt see 50ft out my window. they only closed the schools at noon and by then the roads we impassable! the plow trucks had to escort the busses to get the kids home. was one hell of a scrape! still gusting to 30mph and -37f windchill this a.m. single digits and -20f for the rest of the week. Iām convinced we are starting a new ice age! 
Weāve had a āhowlerā in RI for the past two days. You know the wind is strong and loud when you canāt hear your dishwasher running!
we are at 147in. and that was before this last 14in. storm. looks like its going to break our 08ā record!
Move move move move!@ J/kā¦ i couldnāt do 147 inchesā¦i canāt handle this. I hate the snow more then the coldā¦i can handle cold pretty easily to a point ā¦i hate falling (i feel on my ### last week and i can still feel it)ā¦and i hate driving in it. The interstate was an ice skating rink earlier. Lots of crashed cars again. Could see where a bunch of people left the road and ventured down into the ditch. It was weirdā¦it looked okā¦but i felt my rear end drift a little and that was enough to tell me to slow down.
Nws La Crosse says:
Highs on Sunday and Monday may stay below zero over portions of the area, with the entire area no higher than the single digits above zero.
Add wind with that tooā¦ yum!
Thatās a LOT! We only got 90" here for the record 79 season
Amarillo is 20F and freezing fog at 10:33 am Wed. It will be 72 on Friday and 12 on Monday. I just love TX weatherā¦notā¦!!
tell me about it and our winters are getting colder with more snow in the last 10 yrs! global warming my arse!
drove thru there in apr. of 93ā . heading from NM to ME and encountered that lovely fog yaāll get there.
How are those outdoor blooming trees doing? We should bloom in about 3 months at this rate.
Today was 52, we had a little rain midday then sunshine. Nice enough that my honeybees should have been flying. When they werenāt I cracked open the hive and they have perished. 
Sorry to hear about your hive loss. If you havenāt already it can be informative to do a little detective work to find out what caused the hive to die out. If there is no honey stored in there and bees were dying head in the cells, then they likely ran out of food. On the other hand, if there was plenty of food in there but they dies anyways, might be mites, or possibly some other cause.
In any case worth trying to figure out the problem, so you can make a sound decision about reusing the hive parts or not. You can also ask your local bee inspector or club for advise.
Good luck.
I had blooms on a couple apple trees the last weekend of May 2018. I wonāt be surprised if I have apple blossoms in June this year.
Thanks! This is my sixth year with a hive and this is a new death pattern for me. The cluster had broken, dead bees were found going up both sides to the sugar board, and there was a nice, tight brood pattern, maybe 2.5 inches across. There was also over six frames of honey left. Iām wondering if they got caught in a fast temp drop after they broke cluster. We treated for mites, no sign of infection. I took pics and videos for the local autopsy group.
I know you are joking about the new ice age, but this really is shaping up to be one of the least powerful solar cycles in a very long timeā¦
We had a āclipper systemā come through, predictions for 1-3" turned out to be 6-8". Some of my 4 foot high apple tree cages have about a foot showing. Our snow accumulation for February has jumped up significantly. I was going to check on the nursery bed but to get there I have to cross the road and Iām not sure I can still get the snowmobile over the snowbanks. Iāll have to hoof it on snowshoes or cross country skiās.
Yes.last year was so weird hereā¦after a very cold April///May was like summer. It was kind of nice because the pools/lakes all warmed up quickly so kids could swim pretty much June-Septā¦ but I lost a lot of trees because of that cold April.
GFS looks āwarmerā on the overnight lows this runā¦ Negative teens a givenā¦not sure about -20Fā¦maybe in some of the cold spots. Also keeps pushing the cold out further like the EUro has beenā¦ so its more of a Sun-mid week thing nowā¦ Sat doesnāt look all to bad for temps.
Good thingā¦this is all done. GFS has a much milder pattern showing longtermā¦NAEFS is also breaking down the cold mid month. Maybe weāll get our melt.
@moose71 You have us beat by a little, we are at 130 something inches last time I checked, and that was also before we just got dumped on. We had to plow a road through the pasture to give the animals a place to go, and to get the tractor in to feed. The snow is close to 4ā out there in the open. There is going to be melting snow here until July at this rate! One of the highways down by the water was closed for two days because they couldnāt get it plowed. We are sending some cold blue skies your way nextā¦ but just for a few days. More snow on the wayā¦
Well, the sunny warm days are over already. Itās 40 and misty outside today. Iāve been looking at some forecast models and theyāre saying we could get 3-6" Sunday night, and then temps down around 10 Mon and Tue nights. So, March will be bringing us some more winter.
i noticed on the national interactive snow map that you guys get quite allot of snow up there in the U.P. no end in sight for the cold again next week.