Tuesday, 9:10 am: The last day of February and still lots of snow and ice. I’ve got a cold so I haven’t posted any weather blogs for a few days: I apologize to my readers. My head feels like the weather looks – overcast and gray. My wife has just left for town and will return in a few hours with all sorts of wonderful over-the-counter cold medications to unblock my head and lure me into believing I am feeling fine, which, I suppose, is better then feeling sick.

I’d like to think I am a hardy person, but when I am unwell, like yesterday and today, I feel as though I am well past my prime and need to be sitting in a nicely padded recliner with a shawl to keep the chill away. What a dismal prospect: I better get well soon so I can mince words about the weather and everything else that strikes me as interesting.

Yesterday was bitterly cold with the wind chill; at times hitting -33 degrees Fahrenheit. Just bringing in firewood and feeding the wild birds was an adventure. Today we should expect much of the same according to the NWS in Caribou. Currently it is snowing lightly with a light breeze, but not nearly as strong as yesterday when the high wind recorded was 29 mph at 1:15 pm.

Current values from our
Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 6 degrees (F.)

Wind chill: 3 degrees (F.)

Barometer: 29.43 and steady

Humidity: 68%

Winds: W at 6 mph and variable

Visibility: < 1 mile - overcast

Precipitation: Snowing lightly

Since midnight:

Low temp: 3.9 (F.) at 2:36 am

Low Wind Chill: -1 (F.) at 2:40 am