First Frost

This was the first frost of this season.  This photo was taken on 9/27/2011 at 10AM.  We could make a little contest, since Dan wants more postings, and see who can be the first one to post photos of snow for this winter.  Also if someone is creative they could set up a prediction grid or graph of when we will get the first 1" or 1/2" of snow.  Just some ideas to get more traffic and readership and participation.

Snow

Since we are still writing about snow here are a few photos from winter that i was going to post somewhere, but kept putting it off...

Getting ready for robins

I got a new snowblower a month ago and have only used it once before last tuesday. From early on tuesday morning we got 10 to 12 inches of wet snow, and look how far the snow is blowing! Lots of fun. The day following this snow the temperatures went up to 40 degrees and the 10+ inches melted down to 2 inches in one day! Now a week later I'm keeping my eyes open for the first robins.

This searching for robins has caused me to subconsciously check out the e-RR and nothing has been posted since the robins flew south. We need to revive the e-RR when the robins return this spring. During a belated birthday greeting to Dan we talked about asking everyone to post something once every month or two. Facebook works good as email with photos and it is easy to comment, but it is harder to go back and find historical events.

Next year i am going to go back to this blog post to see when the last snowstorm of 2011 happened. So do you fellow e-Round Robiners feel you can post something each month? And what kind of topics would you all like to read about?

Weather to write home about

This is the NOAA image of the day. A 'strong extra tropical storm' is coming to bring some warm April showers. Maybe the snow will really melt. We need some tropical global warming after our cold month of March.












Here is an update of the temperature chart. (There were about a dozen comments last time i printed this.) Notice how cold it was for the whole month of March. The 'North Roaders' played hockey 3 times a week last month thinking each time would be our last chance for the season. Well, last week the weather really warmed up and the sun is staying out longer and longer now. Hockey season is over. PS how about the Minnesota Wild! Their first series with the Ducks will be tough.