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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

Well, I just waded into the yard. The wind has re sculpted  the drifts 
so that the thermometer  is  now a good foot above the snow line.
It went down to -34 in my yard. That puts it right about average for 
what we have been having over the last couple of decades. Oh well, could 
be worse. Except for the January thaw, the temperatures have stayed 
below freezing nearly all winter. That should be easier on the trees 
than last year when it kept hitting 40s to 50 in the first half of 
January followed by sudden below zero temperatures.

Steve


Steve wrote:
> We came SO close to having the mildest winter in the 30 years that I 
> have lived in the Adirondacks. I'm judging "mildest", in this case, only 
> by the lowest temperature of the season. Most winters we bottom out 
> anywhere between -30 and -40. Once in a while, we have had a winter 
> where we never got below -25 or 26. Up until right now, the season low 
> in my yard was -23. I was starting to think that would be it. Now, here 
> we are just after midnight on February 29th and it's already 21 below 
> zero. Since no clouds are forecast, I'm sure we'll be good and cold by 7 
> AM.
> I'm not worried about the fruit trees themselves but I was hoping to see 
> if a "mild" winter would increase the fruit set on some of the apricots 
> and plums.
>
> Steve