Sunday, January 29, 2006, 10:00 am: This can’t be January: It was almost balmy yesterday with a high temperature of 40.5 degrees Fahrenheit and a high wind speed of 28 mph. Can you believe it? If this were the 1950s, I would blame it all on atomic bomb testing. Yeah I know it was all an urban myth. Now I’ve gone and done it; I’ve dated myself.

Yesterday when we drove to “town” the roads between Grand Isle and Presque Isle were a little slushy in the morning. By the time we returned the roads were clear. Our car now has a very noticeable coating of mud and salt. Local car washes here in northern Maine do a great business in the winter months trying to keep body rust at bay.

Today it is a little colder and just as windy with a high wind speed of 28 mph. The wind is generally out of the north, so we can smell the nose-tweaking odor of the paper mill in Madawaska about 13 miles away.

Current values from our Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 13 degrees (F.)

Barometer: 30.02 and rising slowly

Humidity: 63%

Winds: NW to N at 8 mph and variable

Visibility: Clear

Precipitation: None

Since midnight:

Low temp: 11.4 degrees (F.) at 7:24 am

High wind: 28 mph at 2:08 am

On U.S. Route One
South of Van Buren Maine