Tuesday, 12:30 pm: Another snowy day in mid-November. We met our neighbor riding his bicycle into town. One thing led to another; we gave him a lift and we ended up having tea and biscuits at our house. He is, after all, from the UK. He’s part of the small international contingent in the Saint John Valley, which is a bit disconcerting for a few local people who have never left this area.

I must digress before I get my fingers slapped for being too cheeky. I’ve been working on my weather station. The data is fine; it’s my webhost who changed the remote settings so I cannot update my online weather via my station’s software. What a headache! Eventually it will be sorted out. Luckily, data is still available via the Weather Underground and various APRS weather sites on the Internet.

Tonight is our monthly drive to Fort Kent for our radio club meeting. We’re, once again, hoping the streets will be clear and not covered in frozen slush. This is when we really depend on studded snow tires to do their job. I don’t really want to be found in the spring, thawing out in some roadside snow bank with a frozen Snicker’s bar in my pocket.

Current values from our wireless Davis Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 37.3° [F.]

Barometer: 29.672 & falling slowly

Humidity: 86%

Wind: Calm

Visibility: < 3 miles

Skies: 100% overcast

Precipitation: 1 inch snow

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 23.8° [F.] at midnight

High wind: 6 mph at 6:35 am