This morning I went smelt fishing with Captain George Harris of Superfly Charters. Our party was made up of George, my son Noah and friend Don. It was a very cold morning here around 3 below zero at 6AM when I thought to check. Not as much wind as the last couple of days though.
The last few days have been warm for January, a pleasant thaw. The rain had settled and shrunken most of the snow and we enjoyed daytime temperatures in the thirties. Last night that all came to an abrupt halt. I looked out the window at about nine and it was snowing hard. In fact it was a very quick 3 inches of snow and the wind quickly came up. This morning’s temperature is 8 Fahrenheit and the predicted high for the day is in the teens. The nearly full moon shining through the trees and making it almost as bright as day.
It is raining hard this afternoon with a powerful southeast wind that is blowing right on the house. Our two plus feet of soft fluffy snow is shrinking back into a harder and thinner layer. The big worry with a storm like this is flooding both local when a culvert is full of ice and snow so it can’t pass all of the water. But also in the rivers where ice has formed, with the warmer temperatures and added water that ice can break up and pile together to form ice dams. Hopefully none of that happens but it is a concern at the moment.
