Why is it so cold?
I read a bunch of homestead
blogs, and we all seemed to be united last week --- it was just too
cold to do much outdoors work! Between having snow on the ground
for over three weeks running and soil that's frozen so hard that it
hurts to kneel on it, I feel like I've moved to New England. Or
maybe Canada.
I felt like such a wimp complaining, but it turns out that this weather really is out of the ordinary. There's a high pressure zone sitting on Greenland that's deflecting cold air into the U.S., a situation that hasn't been this extreme since 1950. But all's not lost --- Dr. Walter Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center wants us to know that “pretty much all of the Arctic is above normal." There, don't you feel better now?
I felt like such a wimp complaining, but it turns out that this weather really is out of the ordinary. There's a high pressure zone sitting on Greenland that's deflecting cold air into the U.S., a situation that hasn't been this extreme since 1950. But all's not lost --- Dr. Walter Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center wants us to know that “pretty much all of the Arctic is above normal." There, don't you feel better now?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Hi Guys, Sorry to hear you are having some cold weather. I am in Canada and today it was 50 F. outside and sunny. Can't beat that. It's really not that cold up here.
Do you know that in some parts of Canada they can grow palm trees? That would be BC on the coast. I'm east of the Rockies in Alberta where it gets really cold but we have these wonderful things called "Chinooks" and that's why today it was 50. I have seen days in February in the 60-70s. T-shirt weather for sure. On the other hand, it can get to -40 (C or F) but that's not too often. Where I am, we get the most winter sun in all of Canada. BC is mild but in the winter it clouds over. The sun makes you feel pretty happy, even if it is cold outside and it sure warms you up. Hope you are both doing well.
Heather