The unusual "cold" continues on the Crystal Coast

I like to think of the Crystal Coast as a refuge from ice, snow, and cold temperatures. This year has challenged that theory. We saw one half inch of snow on Inauguration Day, and we have seen far colder weather than we have in the previous two winters.

We are in the first week of February again experiencing some cold temperatures. This morning, February 5, when I got up our temperature here on the White Oak River was 24F. That is the reason for the ice in the blog picture.

I have to admit on the scale of cold, we barely register, since we will be close to 70F this weekend. Cold in my mind is when you do not make it to double digits for a high.

Tonight at 10 PM, we are already down to 24F so I expect the diving ducks that often visit behind our home need to keep swimming hard if they want some open water. For our area this is very cold and unusual.

This afternoon Raymond's Gut where the channel of water behind our home flows before it reaches the river still had some ice on it since our temperature barely got above freezing today.

People tell us that they have not seen a winter like this in six years.

This is not normal weather for our area, but it was also in the thirties well down into Florida and Mississippi so we are not alone.

Even London, England got several inches of snow recently. We have friends in Canada near Fredericton, New Brunswick where we used to live telling us that they haven't seen a winter this cold since 1982 when our youngest daughter was born during a cold spell when the temperature dropped to minus forty degrees.

With some luck we will all pull through this cold winter and in seven weeks, I will be planting tomato plants for our annual great tomato race.

If you want to see where I will be planting the tomatoes, click on the Bluewater Cove Homes icon and zoom in on this map.

From that you can probably pick out the area from this new Google Panoramio map.

Stay warm. There is an index of my posts about the area at this link.