Snowfall at 1:00 pm

Monday, 1:30 pm: I think I got what I wished for – snow. As of this writing, the total amount we have received is about two inches and has not yet melted. Today’s high and low temperatures are only within a degree or so of each other. Snow is so much easier to write about compared to rain which is gray, keeps us inside too long and causes any creative streak that I may have to get washed away.

My outdoor temperature sensor now seems to be calibrated okay. Any temperatures displayed below should now be correct. Even modern technology needs to be tweaked occasionally. According to my wife, this writer needs to be tweaked once and awhile too. My wife attributes this to my XY chromosomes vs. the allegedly superior XX chromosomes. Hooey! I believe it is a motivational issue – laziness.

With all the rain we received over the past week I thought the Saint John River would be close to, or at flood stage, but it just seems a bit higher than normal; nothing really dramatic. Even our local roads are in good order. We [did] eventually get our studded snow tires put on our Honda, which will give us an extra margin of safety over the next months of driving.

Current values from our wireless Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 30.4° (F.)

Barometer: 29.886 & rising slowly

Humidity: 75%

Wind: NNW at 5 mph

Visibility: > 3 mile beneath cloud base

Skies: 100% overcast

Precipitation: ca. 2 inches – snow

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 30.3° (F.) at 2: 20 pm

Today’s high temperature: 33.0° (F.) at 12:08 am

High wind: 14 mph at 2:07 pm