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Spring and 70 Today.
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-26F or -31C here tonight, how cold is it by you?
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whenever the east coast (up n' down) got a dose of the stuff we love the most.
Here's what they did with it.......
East Coaster's are very hearty partiers
94f here today, very unseasonable
Hmmm don’t want to light at night yet
Hmmm don’t want to light at night yet
snowed yesterday morning, supposed to be 84 degrees on friday... go figure.
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
We're way below average here. It's 34 and it should be 60.
M
moose eater
Upper teens to lower 20's above 0 here at night. Lower to mid-40's in the day. Glorious sunshine most of the day time right now.
All of the slopes on the roof-tops of the house and outbuildings are clear of snow but for the north side of the house; having had rain gutters installed defeated my 8:12 pitch on the north side, especially on heavier snow years like we're coming out of, and often results in what is literally a 36"+ curl of snow, with compacted ice on the leading edge, hanging off my 2' eave & gutters, but due to curling in, and the nature of air on falling objects (like the curve to the leading edge of an aircraft wing), it chances dropping onto my energy-efficient dryer vent, and my direct-vent boiler flue.... Both of which would cause trouble in trying to replace or repair them.
So, standing a sheet of plywood up against the house where the more expensive of the two appendages is located is the answer (didn't have 2 larger sheets at the moment). The plywood has to be angled such that falling snow weighing hundreds of lbs. will slide down, rather than fracture the plywood, and the plywood is spaced sufficiently from the house to not stifle the air intake or exhaust..
Yesterday, when a larger portion of the snow and ice fell, the plywood did its job..
Last evening my younger son and I took a ride down along the river via snowmobile, on the trails that parallel it, through the thicker black spruce, scrub brush and willow, ponds, and muskeg. The snow there is still quite plentiful, and the ice still quite thick, but the remaining snow is rapidly turning into snow-cone density/consistency. The hard-pack on the trail becomes less stable at some point.
Ice on the river at Nenana is among some of the thinnest for this time of year in well over 30 years; in part due to the insulating qualities of the depth of snow we received this year while having very warm temps early in the winter (which changed a bit after the snow base developed).
I turned in my tickets for the Nenana Ice Classic early on the last day we could do so; April 5.
Last year the 'pot' was down considerably; loss of population and, more so, (loss of economy/fears related to loss of economy), likely have folks buying fewer tickets to guess the day, hour, and minute the ice will go out there sufficiently to stop the clock from ticking. In the past the pot has been well over $300,000.00 I think last year it was about $267,000.00, but I'd have to go check my records.
I've been within 2 minutes of it.
With medical expenses starting to roll in, I could use an injection of unexpected cash! ;^>)
All of the slopes on the roof-tops of the house and outbuildings are clear of snow but for the north side of the house; having had rain gutters installed defeated my 8:12 pitch on the north side, especially on heavier snow years like we're coming out of, and often results in what is literally a 36"+ curl of snow, with compacted ice on the leading edge, hanging off my 2' eave & gutters, but due to curling in, and the nature of air on falling objects (like the curve to the leading edge of an aircraft wing), it chances dropping onto my energy-efficient dryer vent, and my direct-vent boiler flue.... Both of which would cause trouble in trying to replace or repair them.
So, standing a sheet of plywood up against the house where the more expensive of the two appendages is located is the answer (didn't have 2 larger sheets at the moment). The plywood has to be angled such that falling snow weighing hundreds of lbs. will slide down, rather than fracture the plywood, and the plywood is spaced sufficiently from the house to not stifle the air intake or exhaust..
Yesterday, when a larger portion of the snow and ice fell, the plywood did its job..
Last evening my younger son and I took a ride down along the river via snowmobile, on the trails that parallel it, through the thicker black spruce, scrub brush and willow, ponds, and muskeg. The snow there is still quite plentiful, and the ice still quite thick, but the remaining snow is rapidly turning into snow-cone density/consistency. The hard-pack on the trail becomes less stable at some point.
Ice on the river at Nenana is among some of the thinnest for this time of year in well over 30 years; in part due to the insulating qualities of the depth of snow we received this year while having very warm temps early in the winter (which changed a bit after the snow base developed).
I turned in my tickets for the Nenana Ice Classic early on the last day we could do so; April 5.
Last year the 'pot' was down considerably; loss of population and, more so, (loss of economy/fears related to loss of economy), likely have folks buying fewer tickets to guess the day, hour, and minute the ice will go out there sufficiently to stop the clock from ticking. In the past the pot has been well over $300,000.00 I think last year it was about $267,000.00, but I'd have to go check my records.
I've been within 2 minutes of it.
With medical expenses starting to roll in, I could use an injection of unexpected cash! ;^>)
is that to say you were w/in 2 minutes of it & didn't win??? isn't 'ice out' slightly a judgment call? or does it collect & thaw in one spot on the river. On our bigger lakes up here w/many bays it's anyone's guess as to when every bit of ice is gone, we'd have a bunch of hotheaded losers I think.
they make some awesome tuck under gutter systems these days, I used to do roofing back in NY as a side gig, so I know the danger/damage potential, I was impressed by what I saw in live demos for the product. Go to Home Depot & ask, they've likely got the latest version.
guessing that is a snow forecast, mighty odd this time of year
then again, been mighty odd and damn cold over a good chunk of north america
1 more day, that's what i keep telling myself
Thunder and a lot of rain, no snow.Temps are in the 50-60s F.
M
moose eater
There's a tripod on the ice off-shore, in the Tanana River there, at the Village of Nenana. When it looks like there'll be hazardous conditions for further ventures onto the ice in the near future, they hook a series of tensioner lines and a cable to a specific clock there. (*They have an annual party each year, setting up the tripod the first week of March).
At some point, the ice becomes too thin or unpredictable to take any more measurements, and by then the line's already attached to the clock.
As the time for the ice to go out gets near, they have watchmen on duty there. (*Pretty big deal as the Village of Nenana gets a lot of the money they run their community on from this event).
When the ice moves far enough down river for the cable to pull the clock lever, stopping it, then at that exact minute (based on Winter time, not Summer; i.e. Daylight Savings time) the person or persons who guessed that day and exact time win.
There's a process for establishing winners if there's no guesses for that exact minute, but I can't recall them getting into that. Though with over 100 years of this event, it may have happened.
I've been within 5 minutes, within 2 minutes, and one year (not too many years ago), the tripod tipped over right ON my minute, and began floating. I about had a stroke. It floated over to the shallows at shoreline, tipped over in the mud, slack still in the cable, clock still ticking, and lay there for a LONG time after that. Can't remember if it was days or a week or more.
I've concluded over the years that the closer I come to winning, without winning, the more irritated I'm apt to be for a day or two after the thing ends. ;^>)
Many years there'll be pools or numerous individuals winning, leaving the pot to be split up into amounts that are a fraction or percentage of what the pot is.. But there've been a number of years where there were only one or two winners, too.
One year, a single mom living in/near Nenana with two kids, on limited income, scraping by, was the sole winner. That was cool!
I think the highest the pot has been was near $327,000.00.
Long history behind the thing, dating back to the early 1900s, and the railroad workers there, if I recall correctly..
Re. the boiler flue and energy efficient dryer vent, I have gutters that tuck under the eave of my metal roofing. I figure I can fabricate a steel or aluminum framed small metal awning mounted to small (4" to 6") sauna tubes in the ground, dug 4' down, filed with concrete, 3-1/2 ft apart, and extending out from the house wall about 3 to 4 ft., with square brackets in the cement at the top of the tubes, at grade level, and have the legs at the outside of the awning frame be slightly larger than the square tube that's in the concrete in the sauna tubes, fitting over them and screwed into place, with the frame of the thing against the house screwed into the siding, and the siding cut away neatly to accommodate it, with J channel around it for looks.
Cover it with neatly trimmed scraps of metal roofing I have laying around that match the house and barn roofs, with an ice dam extending up under the trim and siding..
It won't just protect the appendages from the falling snow coming down from 2 stories up, but will also act as a modest barrier for the moisture coming out of the dryer vent that on occasion, when the dew point is just right, and the air is cold enough, frosts up the boiler's intake, creating havoc.
It's another one of those 'time, energy, and money' things.
At some point, the ice becomes too thin or unpredictable to take any more measurements, and by then the line's already attached to the clock.
As the time for the ice to go out gets near, they have watchmen on duty there. (*Pretty big deal as the Village of Nenana gets a lot of the money they run their community on from this event).
When the ice moves far enough down river for the cable to pull the clock lever, stopping it, then at that exact minute (based on Winter time, not Summer; i.e. Daylight Savings time) the person or persons who guessed that day and exact time win.
There's a process for establishing winners if there's no guesses for that exact minute, but I can't recall them getting into that. Though with over 100 years of this event, it may have happened.
I've been within 5 minutes, within 2 minutes, and one year (not too many years ago), the tripod tipped over right ON my minute, and began floating. I about had a stroke. It floated over to the shallows at shoreline, tipped over in the mud, slack still in the cable, clock still ticking, and lay there for a LONG time after that. Can't remember if it was days or a week or more.
I've concluded over the years that the closer I come to winning, without winning, the more irritated I'm apt to be for a day or two after the thing ends. ;^>)
Many years there'll be pools or numerous individuals winning, leaving the pot to be split up into amounts that are a fraction or percentage of what the pot is.. But there've been a number of years where there were only one or two winners, too.
One year, a single mom living in/near Nenana with two kids, on limited income, scraping by, was the sole winner. That was cool!
I think the highest the pot has been was near $327,000.00.
Long history behind the thing, dating back to the early 1900s, and the railroad workers there, if I recall correctly..
Re. the boiler flue and energy efficient dryer vent, I have gutters that tuck under the eave of my metal roofing. I figure I can fabricate a steel or aluminum framed small metal awning mounted to small (4" to 6") sauna tubes in the ground, dug 4' down, filed with concrete, 3-1/2 ft apart, and extending out from the house wall about 3 to 4 ft., with square brackets in the cement at the top of the tubes, at grade level, and have the legs at the outside of the awning frame be slightly larger than the square tube that's in the concrete in the sauna tubes, fitting over them and screwed into place, with the frame of the thing against the house screwed into the siding, and the siding cut away neatly to accommodate it, with J channel around it for looks.
Cover it with neatly trimmed scraps of metal roofing I have laying around that match the house and barn roofs, with an ice dam extending up under the trim and siding..
It won't just protect the appendages from the falling snow coming down from 2 stories up, but will also act as a modest barrier for the moisture coming out of the dryer vent that on occasion, when the dew point is just right, and the air is cold enough, frosts up the boiler's intake, creating havoc.
It's another one of those 'time, energy, and money' things.
M
moose eater
I had 58F on my cars gauge today, same as the bank & sunny; I felt like these guys with my own sunroof opened as I motored about the north country.......
more of the same, very nice @ 64F & sunny, sweet. but there's still a 3 foot snow bank against the shady side of my building, until it melts I can't begin setting up for spring/summer season.......
