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.
Ice on the lakes and ponds will thin in places where the water moves over or under it making local knowledge of places that open up more important. It won’t take long though for it to refreeze given the weather current forecast.
On the positive side we were getting short of places to plow the snow here in the yard so a shrinking back of the snow banks is welcome on that count. We are back to cold winter temperatures by the end of the week with a few flurries in the forecast. With luck we will have enough snow to make snowshoeing an excellent way to spend a sunny afternoon next week.
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