The weather has been up and down, like just about everywhere else in the province. This morning it was a chilly -13 (now it's -4), but yesterday it was a balmy +1. And the weather app on my phone says +6 by Saturday.
Not as much snow as some other years. On our walk today, we noticed that the banks are not even level with the tops of the guard rail posts yet. The snow removal here is unbelievable - the plow is out for the smallest amounts. We are never worried about being stuck, unless it is by ice.
The Salmon Lake side of the portage is still very open - just a little ice at the sides. In fact, we wrote on the calendar that the channel of the lake only froze on December 30th. Up to the day before, there was open water.
We thought we saw a snowmobile track on the bay this morning, but can't tell if it is that or just an odd formation in the snow/ice. Hopefully, nobody is on there when the ice is so new.
Not much snow in the forecast, but hopefully the crazy temperatures won't mean no season for the sledders and cross-country folk this year. I checked back on the posts for the new year last year and it was about the same. Looks like the first snow machines were on the lake about the third week of January.
Regardless of what people would like winter to be - or any other season for that matter - Mother Nature will do what she wants.
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