Sunday, 3:45 pm: I think seasonal weather has settled in, at least for the next few days. This winter it has been difficult to describe our weather. One day I write that it is bright, sunny and warm, and the next day I write it is cloudy overcast and generally dreary. Well today it is the latter. And I thought my long johns were put away until next autumn. When I juxtapose all the meteorological variations and extremes this season, it probably balances out into something that might make sense to me, but I just can’t visualize it at the moment.

We drove to Caribou late this morning to try some northern Maine cuisine – pizza. During the drive there and back we passed through some snow flurries. It was nothing bad, but just enough to add an additional coat of schmutz to our car. My wife has a colorful phrase to describe the dirty frozen snow and ice that accumulates on the bottom of our car and along the sides of the roads: She calls it snow snot. It’s maybe a little too graphic but appears accurate.

During the past week I’ve been busy trying to get some software working with my computer and the interface to my ham radio. The software is designed to send Morse Code using my keyboard, and receive, decode and display it on my monitor’s screen. It seems to transmit it okay but doesn’t receive too well. Currently it interprets incoming Morse Code signals as gibberish. I can copy more accurately by ear. More later, in the ongoing technological struggle.

Current values from our
Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 26° (F.)

Barometer: 29.75 and steady

Humidity: 45%

Winds: NW at 3 mph & variable

Visibility: > 3 miles

Skies: 100% overcast

Precipitation: None

Since midnight:

Low temp: 6.7° (F.) at 4:45 am

High wind: 10 mph at 12:11 am

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