Solid white precipitation,

[f6john]

Still learning all the banned 4 letter words


Solid white precipitation on the ground in Central Kentucky. Not unheard of for November, but we have had just great weather this month right up until today. I actually mowed my lawn on Friday. Being Kentucky, it could be sunny and 70 when December arrives, but I have heard no forecast like that thus far.

It’s not curtailing any riding on my part as my Valkyrie is stripped down partially and needing a lot of attention. I most recently just got as far as I could go tiling the backsplash in my kitchen. I’m stilling waiting on a much needed extension for my range hood before I can establish its exact height. I had a delivery date of November 18, but when I checked on the status of my order it now has a delivery date of 1-30-2021. I can go ahead and start tiling the backsplash in the master bedroom once the temperature rises some. The water pump for the tile saw will freeze up in weather like this.

I have had the opportunity to try out my gas logs in my fireplace. They really do a fine job knocking out any chill in the room ( 16’ ceilings ) Nice to have a reliable supplemental heat source that doesn’t involve hauling wood and carrying out ash.

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Dec 8, 2018. Ended up with 7 inches on the ground. Heavy, wet, tree breaking, power cutting crap.

[Moonshot_1]

I thought we could not use profanity on this site. $n0w??? You can't post such things.

[msb]

Contrary to popular belief especially with some of our friends further down South, not all of Canada is a frozen tundra during the Winter months. Here in the Eastern Fraser Valley in SW BC, we often see any snow hold off until Christmas or even sometimes into January. A few days of rain, but otherwise pretty decent weather the past couple weeks. As long as we stay out of the mountains, can still get some pretty good riding in.



Heck, even got a nice beach day in this weekend (uh oh....I've probably jinxed myself for posting these pics, never fails)

[Jess from VA]

Just rain here.  Inches of it.  Submersible pump set up half hour ago, and will run most of the afternoon.

Rain not stopped, just slowed down enough to go out and set up.

Love playing with electric wading round in deep water (it always gets plugged in at the house, last) . 

[0leman]

We are suppose to be in a La Nina weather pattern for the winter, which we are suppose to be cooler and wetter than normal (what ever that is).   So far we have only had trace white here on several occasions.   Though weather man promised us more white next week, maybe.

It is really bad, as am having shoulder issues so can't go for ride this week.   The afternoons do warm up to the low 40's with lots of sunshine.    Warm enough for couple hour rides. 

[f6john]

Two more inches of that solid white precipitation this morning! Supposed to be sunny and upper 40’s tomorrow.

[Beardo]

This warm weather sucks. It’s been getting above freezing quite often and the forecasted highs are above zero for the next week.  Ice is taking forever to freeze, and the ice that’s there isn’t great quality.

If I can’t ride...I better be able to fish. These pics above are my son’s from this weekend. Ice is still too thin to get the truck and our converted camper out.

[The emperor has no clothes]

It's been decades since I've ice fished. But that ice looks pretty thin. Inch and a half ? Nice tent !

[Beardo]

It's been decades since I've ice fished. But that ice looks pretty thin. Inch and a half ? Nice tent !

He said it was 4-6 inches but the bottom inch and a half was not good quality, he could break it with his ice scoop. Good enough for his tent/sled setup though.

[Jess from VA]

We ice fished some on our little MI island growing up (on Lake Erie).

You could go out there and catch hundreds of pounds of ice every day.  


From my front window, I several times watched as a half dozen ice shanties broke off the main chunk of ice  to the island, and began floating out into the lake toward Cleveland or Toledo (depending).   The Coast Guard would run out there in a cutter and rescue them (but not their shanties).



Here we have a nice crisp winter day on the island looking out over the east Detroit River over to Ontario Canada.  You hardly ever saw motorcycles out this time of year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrXujWMvsxg

Somewhat before my time, but bootleggers used to be able to drive across the ice to the Island from Canada, bringing good Canadian liquor into Detroit (which was far preferable to bathtub gin).


I left for the Air Force in 1984, bidding a fond farewell to my Island winters (forever after).


That's Canada over there (and not one bit warmer either).  



EDIT:  This ice fishing trailer is ingenious.  The fishing hole is right in front of the door, so when the DNR man steps in to check for licenses, sizes, species, and numbers, he goes right through into the water.   

[0leman]

In '75 spent a winter in northern Minnesota,  lived for most of winter on the edge of Pelican lake by the huge town of Orr.  Lots of folks fishing on the lake.  One guy who was our closest neighbor would go out every morning to a shanty to fish.

There were also a lot of snowmobile users on the lake.  Every so often there would be an ice heave, where the ice would crack, and create a ice shelve any where from a few inches to several feet.  Our dock and boat launch area was on the of the places where the EMT's would bring out the idiots who ran into one of those ice heaves at night.  Even lost  a couple from running into the heaves where the water had not refroze.   I never did run the lake at night, but did ride some of the local trails at night with landlord.

[h13man]

I visited Charlotte in March of 04' and they had 12" dumped on them. It was hilarious to see the locals (what few that would indeaver) react to it. Our car rental was a Pontiac Sunbird and we took care all our driving/business w/o a hitch but we were accomplished to winter travel. It melted away within 24 hrs. but definitely was a sloppy mess. Got into a similar situation in our last XMas visit to Denver driving a HHR. What a POS with or w/o Traction Control.