Whats your weather right now?

[kshansen]

Silly me huh?

Jim if you were closer to Syracuse NY I could offer you one real cheap! Might need a little engine work or just grab one of those Harbor Freight 6.5 horse motors and it would be good to go.

Over on the snow blower forum this is one of the popular ones, once in a while they sell them under $100.
https://www.harborfreight.com/brand...hv-horizontal-shaft-gas-engine-epa-69730.html

 

[jetmechmarty]

When it snows here it the South, I do not consider shoveling snow. I don’t own a snow shovel. I’m not going to own a snow shovel. I’m just going to wait for it to melt.

I do know snow. I was born and raised in Western New York. There was no shortage of snow. I shoveled my last at age 18. I had already had enough.

 

[atom4488]

Life’s too short for me to not have a snowblower. Back when I was a young ‘un I didn’t mind so much about shovelling, plus I didn’t have any money for such luxuries. Now, the snowblower is good insurance for no snow in our area. I think used mine once or twice last winter and hopefully not at all this season.

Not owning one is not even an option for me. My house is set far back at the end of a dead-end road, plus there are garage driveways, parking areas, shed and wood-pile accesses etc that all need to be cleared. My snow-clearing operations are conducted with a vintage Bolens yard-tractor powering a 42" blower and a much larger Massey-Ferguson yard tractor pushing a 48" blade. When you're done with those, you get out the snow shovel to do the edging and trimming!

The reality is that I am in SW FL at 64 * F / 18* C as I write this. The boys are the ones running the snow gear !

 

[Raymond]

When it snows here it the South, I do not consider shoveling snow. I don’t own a snow shovel. I’m not going to own a snow shovel. I’m just going to wait for it to melt.

I do know snow. I was born and raised in Western New York. There was no shortage of snow. I shoveled my last at age 18. I had already had enough.

No doubt people will correct me, but my experience says that nobody in the UK has a snowblower. OK, bound to be country estates with that sort of equipment but I mean ordinary folk living in towns and cities - it doesn't snow very often, deep snow is even less frequent and rarely lasts more than a few days. So you wait for it to melt, or shovel it off your drive.

 

[Raymond]

BTW, the snow we had on Sunday is mostly gone at lower levels. Just a patchy covering in the back garden where the Sun hasn't melted it. But the hills are all covered - outside the village, the Eildon Hills are looking splendid in their gleaming white ermine.

 

[Raymond]

Still cold. Last night temps in rural Scotland were down about -18* C and unlikely to get above zero all day. In fact, most of Britain is under cold air, leading to official warnings about avoiding unnecessary travel, keeping warm, checking elderly neighbours and so forth. This cold spell forecast to end next week as warmer air gradually moves in from Monday onwards. Brrrrrr.

 

[ThatXS650Guy]

It's snowing and the temperature is dropping. Definitely a garage/woodshop day today.

 

[jetmechmarty]

I’m under a heavy blanket of snow in Top of Mississippi. There’s over half of a foot and it’s still coming down. I’m not stepping out of my house until it all melts. That may take until late tomorrow afternoon.

 

[Jim]

Another inch or two overnight? Sure, why not......

 

[Lou_TX]

While I normally post about sunny skies and 70F in the winter, this week was brutal. It freezes every night here and daytime isn't any better. I have to start the car remotely and let the interior and seats warm up for 15 minutes before I can get in. While we don't have snow or ice, it surely feels like it. Low 30s and freezing northerly wind from the cold front don't help. Y'all nordners, please take your dang winter back, I want to ride again!

 

[atom4488]

While I normally post about sunny skies and 70F in the winter, this week was brutal. It freezes every night here and daytime isn't any better. I have to start the car remotely and let the interior and seats warm up for 15 minutes before I can get in. While we don't have snow or ice, it surely feels like it. Low 30s and freezing northerly wind from the cold front don't help. Y'all nordners, please take your dang winter back, I want to ride again!

I feel you...I am a nordner as you you call 'em, but choose to spend the better part of winter in FL. Damn cold here too last few days, relatively speaking.

 

[lakeview]

Minus 7C and Snow Overnight in SW Ontario
But it didn't blow around. A bit overcast, too.

 

[Raymond]

Complete change, wind now southerly and much warmer, the patchy snow has melted even on the hills, streams are all in spate and so is the River Tweed.

Really just need some rain now to clean the roads.

 

[Wingedwheel]

Been cleaning the drive every day. We have been getting an avg of an inch or so a day since last week. We did get 4-5 when the big storm rolled through. I own a snowblower but while I still can prefer to shovel for the exercise.

 

[Raymond]

Hard to believe! Sunday, still cold, ice and snow. Yesterday, much warmer but stayed cloudy all day. Today, the Sun is out, the birds are singing and - this is the hard to believe part - we saw a Red Admiral butterfly outside the dining room window. Uhm, you don't see butterflies in Scotland on 14th January. Further evidence that Nature is well confused over the seasons these days?


Internet image of a Red Admiral:

 

[Grimly]

Hard to believe! Sunday, still cold, ice and snow. Yesterday, much warmer but stayed cloudy all day. Today, the Sun is out, the birds are singing and - this is the hard to believe part - we saw a Red Admiral butterfly outside the dining room window. Uhm, you don't see butterflies in Scotland on 14th January. Further evidence that Nature is well confused over the seasons these days?


Internet image of a Red Admiral:

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About 50 years ago the Red Admiral was declared near extinct in the UK.
It's made an amazing comeback, even 30 years ago I saw many of them.

 

[Raymond]

About 50 years ago the Red Admiral was declared near extinct in the UK.
It's made an amazing comeback, even 30 years ago I saw many of them.

This is a weather thread, so I suppose it's alright to talk about butterflies? Because there's a phenomenon I've noticed that's got to be due to differing weather across the years.

Each year (and I mean in the Summer, not 14th January) there often seems to be one species that outnumbers all the others. I mean, it seems like 60-80% of all the butterflies in our garden will all be the same. It even varies across the season, early summer one species dominates, but later another takes over. One year it's Peacocks, another Red Admirals, another Orange-tipped Whites. You still see others but in small numbers.

I suppose it tells us butterflies are very sensitive to conditions, things like weather and which plants are flowering? And also how rapidly they can multiply when conditions are right.

 

[lakeview]

Minus 5C More Snow to Come
So much for being in the Sun Parlour of Ontario.

 

[Wingedwheel]

It’s snowed every day for the last two weeks. I use the shovel for my morning exercise. (Edit) I wasn’t saying that in my happy voice…

 

[gunk]

Central Alberta. Currently -11 celcius, winds gusting to 90 KPH 54 mph, snow squalls coming in sideways and drifting with damn poor visibility.
But it was warm this morning so a nice layer of ice underneath. Fun drive home with a drivers side wiper blade that peeled off.