Northern weather

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Fifty-eight degrees in the sun today...I nearly wept...

Healey

Could actually open a window and let some air in the house....

[E7]

Could actually open a window and let some air in the house....

Been there, done that the last 2 days.......wonderful!

[Tramp]

Waiting patiently for the sun to hit porch and the squeak of the beverage cart, so I can drink a few Dutchmen chilled in the snow, my face in the warmth. Man, am I ready. I say 9 weeks of January is a few too many.

As a side note, I'm pretty despondent about all the lovely threads that were lost for no good reason. Ouch! What damned disposable culture.

[Joe Hohmann]

Our winter in Philadelphia is now colder than last winter, based on the "degree days for heating" measurement. And last year was MUCH colder than normal. If Al Gore is reading this, would you care to comment?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Supposed to break 70 here in the DC area today.....

1st morning in a week that I did not wake up to try and cough my lungs out, too.

Must be Spring for real......maybe, I hope.

[rogruth]

Our winter in Philadelphia is now colder than last winter, based on the "degree days for heating" measurement. And last year was MUCH colder than normal. If Al Gore is reading this, would you care to comment?

Explanation given by a college student on why global warming has caused more snow.

The warmer air causes more moisture from the seas, lakes and rivers to rise into the air
during the summer and because of the lower winter temperatures there is more to fall
from the skies in the winter as snow.

Heard on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News.

So there.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Finally, I can see enough pavement along the shoulders to invite beginning my 2-3 mi. walks daily, starting tomorrow (I always start tomorrow ).

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Ah, the old ice-dam exercise.

When I was a teenager and we lived in the Finger Lakes, we laced the roof with resistance heater wires specially made for the purpose; picture a house-size version of the coils that clear your car's rear window. If they still make them, you might want to invest in a set.
ans. That very day, my friend went to the hardware store and bought: "Easy Heat Gutter and Eaves Trough De-Icer Kit" and affixed them. Man, you sure know lots of stuff, Sarge.

After a few snows, the escaping heat from the house would melt the underlayer the snow on the roof, which would then refreeze at the overhang (which had no house-heat underneath) and dam up the roof. Water from further up the roof would then back under the shingles and come in in odd places.ans. Exactly what appears to have happened.

By the look of those windows, you have one of those lovely full-vaulted ceilings in that room? The insulation difference between the roof over that room (vaulted vs. what would be a "normal" ceiling) and that overhang has an even greater potential for damming; not much space for either insulating material or airspace over the room.ans. All true.

A roof heater over the overhang and perhaps two feet up into the bit over the living space, no more, will permit the bottom to melt first; no damming.ans. OK. We'll see what happens if there is more snow this season. I'm not certain of when I should turn the contraption on, however.
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We tend to think in these modern times that we're so dam smart about all things. ...ans. Not I. I am amazed when I figure anything modern out. The house, incidentally, was my wife's dream - she had seen it being constructed just before we got married, so after a few weeks of visiting other new homes, just built, I said to her, though my eye had been on a Georgian-style house all along, "Why look further? You want that house up on the hillside, don't you. So let's get it." And we did, living happily ever after.
P.S. Washing those 2-story high atrium windows is a joy, of course.
Thank you for the input and your interest in my winter woes, Sarge..

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Washing those 2-story high atrium windows is a joy, of course.

I am ever so glad to read that you are able to derive such entertainment and joy from washing windows!!!!!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

We are both being tongue-in-cheek, right?

[Mitch]

Our winter in Philadelphia is now colder than last winter, based on the "degree days for heating" measurement. And last year was MUCH colder than normal. If Al Gore is reading this, would you care to comment?

Sorry, Joe. With his party in disarray and Hillary on the ropes, Al ran out to Iowa to stick his foot in and test the political water so he'll be unavailable for a while. He's still thinkin' we owe him a presidency.

[The Dirt]

Dang, no robins yet, Sarge, even though the snow and ice are in full rout.

We do have a flock of grackles here, the first migratory birds I've seen.

At least it's something.

[ChipR]

Almost all the Canadien Geese that wintered in Denver have flown north. A few live here all year long.

ChipR

[The Dirt]

No sooner said...

[E7]

I say 9 weeks of January is a few too many.

Not to mention the 12 weeks of February!

As a side note, I'm pretty despondent about all the lovely threads that were lost for no good reason. Ouch! What damned disposable culture.

A good word here is ephemeral, and the older I get, the more everything seems to trend that way. I can only say, Thank God for the beverage cart! Cheers Tramp!

Rich