This morning we have a little light snow falling with the forecast calling for ten to fourteen inches of new snow. Temperatures for the next week will be very cold (highs in the single numbers) and the wind will blow tomorrow on the back side of this storm. Many clients ask about winter in Maine and I tell them that we have ten days in the summer when it is too hot to go outside and ten days in the winter when it is too cold to go outside. Those ten winter days are here!
Overnight we endured an early winter storm with a howling southeast wind and lots of rain. The overnight temperature warmed to 51 degrees. We had wind gusts that were over 40 mph. This morning the wind is shifting to the south and beginning to diminish. I expect that the rain will stop soon.
Every year winter sort of creeps up on me, it is here today for sure. With the snow cover temperatures can fall pretty quickly at night this morning it was 5 degrees when we went for our walk. At any rate each winter I am surprised when the heated water buckets are needed in the kennels (usually around Thanksgiving), the dogs should come in at night because of the cold and how quickly the wood pile melts away. At my age you would not expect all of that to be so surprising.
