-3F out there this morning… 8 inches of fresh snow and clear skies… There was also some frozen fog in areas…for some reason. It wasn’t that bad out there because there isn’t any wind. The sun should help things moderate some this afternoon.
Models did really well with the snow amts with this storm…
Ugh, more rain, started about midnight and has been coming down off and on since then. More coming through now, with no let up until tomorrow morning. The snow just about finished melting so this will make it just a quagmire. At least it’s 48 now, so no more frozen stuff.
Those rebates are put in as a requirement from state regulatory commissions, which get a say in how rates are set as a check on utilities being effective monopolies. It’s more common in high-regulation states and less in low-reg states. I think WI used to have a more robust program, but the Walker administration did away with a lot of it. My brother lives in Middleton, and when he looked in to it, the program sets the maximum income eligibility so low that most people who can actually afford a property don’t qualify.
That would make sense. Very much a monopoly… i guess a person could say screw it and throw about 5kW of solar on the roof…which is tough in this climate when it can be cloudy for a week straight. I have no idea how or if grid buyback is even a thing here. Maybe you can’t even hook up to the utility (and sell solar back). Although there is a house i drive by daily that has got to have several kW of solar on the roof…not sure how they do it.
Today would be a great day for solar…fresh snow and sunshine and cold temps.
many of the bigger farms here have gone solar. if i had more land id consider that with the heat pump. the income eligibility here in Maine is pretty low. a lot of people have the pumps here and for good reason.
My brother in law is from Sheboygan… I think the whole family worked at Kohler at one time.
Cloudy and 26F but feels so much colder then yesterday when the sun was out.
Still should see coldest temp of the year Friday morning. GFS spits out -20F …i think we make a run for it…clear skies/calm winds and a fresh’ish snowpack…crazy thing is by Sat we should be in the 30Fs so a nice 50F+ turn around.
We went from 32F at 6pm last night to our current -3F… Should be coldest day of the year…and night.
Right back above freezing though this weekend…so its a quick blast.
Canadian blowtorch the last week of Feb… should keep our temps in check to finish off the month.
And looking at the planet…i don’t think i’ve ever seen so much record? heat in the N hemisphere at one time… crazy… All of Europe/Russia/China/Japan bakes (at least compared to norms)…