My Minnesota

Today is the Ides of March . Tuesday will be St. Patrick's Day. Friday is the Vernal Equinox, at 9:46 am locally. As I'm writing thi...

Yesterday Saturday's snow melted back to bare ground. Several inches more is currently in the forecast for next weekend. Maybe the forec...

If I spend too much time staring at the treetops tossing in the tumults of wind, I could develop a case of motion sickness. A windy, gusty M...

Record or near record warmth today and over the weekend, tempered by howling, gusty winds!!: is March coming in like a lamb or a lion? In ei...

Melting snow, still frozen ground, other than the top inch or two, brings puddles and mud to the driveway where it intersects the road. I’m ...

The air temperature will remain below freezing all day but, with mostly clear skies, the sun’s warmth is enough to cause notable melting, es...

Next week daytime temperatures will regularly get above freezing while nights will be cold. Midweek we enter the month of March and meteorol...

The driveway today is about one third mud, one third ice, and one third puddles, with lots of overlap between the puddles and the ice. Not q...

Tomorrow is the Ides of March . It was a critical date for Julius Caesar. May it serve as such to today’s would-be emperors, if that’s Put’i...

The March thaw has arrived, belatedly, confirming the old saying of “better late than never.” Yesterday brought a glimpse of three of the lo...

Unsurprisingly, the Sunrise River pools north of county road 36 are ice and snow covered. The temperature as we write this matches the date,...

Last night’s weather provided proof that we’re in the messy phase between the beginning of meteorological spring, but still astronomical win...

Tonight and tomorrow we expect to have the first real rainfall of the year. Our ground is still snow covered and frozen. That means almost n...

As this is written, we are less than twelve hours from having survived the meteorological winter of 2021 -- 2022. I think we'll make it!...

For those of you who can’t wait to see our new legislative and congressional districts, they’re here ! For reasons neither understood, nor y...

In the Northern Hemisphere, it's the first day of Spring. The lack of snow cover is making us giddy. Plus, March is known for being a wi...

Irish soda bread with Irish blessing Photo by J. Harrington Although the story tells us that St. Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland, ...

Yesterday there was a large puddle in the driveway. Today, the puddle and 99% of the snow and ice covering the drive are gone. We surmise th...

The pond North of the property is now more open water than ice-covered. The Sunrise River pools still are fully covered with  ice, but there...