Yesterday the temperature plummeted to -6F(-21C) as an unwelcome guest from the Arctic rolled in. The Connecticut River suddenly froze in large chunks. The day before it had been flowing freely. I enjoyed seeing the ice against the walkway as we took this afternoon’s stroll.
Kids were happily skating on the little frozen pond, but spots were already beginning to thaw. I am sure that by tomorrow it will be posted “No Skating.”
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When the temperature drops in our part of the Fens, the fields by the river are flooded and freeze into a safe skating rink. Even when it starts to thaw it isn’t deep enough to drown anyone.
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Fortunately the rink in the park is very shallow. The nearby cove freezes solid though and the man who built our house in 1929 died there while ice fishing.
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Brrr! I don’t think I’ve been in temps below zero before! We were up in low 50’s here yesterday.
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We are actually in the 50’s today(Friday)
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Beautiful and springlike here today, too! 🙂
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That’s not far off the coldest temperature ever recorded in Britain. By contrast, we had warm sun and blue skies in Beetley today, with a high of 10C. (50F)
Best wishes, Pete.
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We are having a warm day too. A crazy winter for sure.
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Wow! We saw on the news last night that your tallest weather station in the US had recorded -78C! Unbelieveable, brrrr! And we’re in 30C today, a mild Summer’s day for us!
Blessings, Jennifer
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Yes. Mt. Washington really got cold.
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It was so cold, even Mt. Washington set a record. And in a flash we’re back to the balmy 40’s.
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And I was complaining the other day because we had a high of 8c when it’s usually mid 20s/high 70s at this time of the year. Our cold blast came from the south – Antarctic!
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That must be really cold, I could imagine.
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Such crazy weather!
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Just found that a pipe broke in my daughter’s basement. She had been away. I guess the freeze did a lot of otherwise functional plumbing in.
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So sorry!
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Brrrr!
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