Dead of Winter

Well, according to the weather guy on Channel 25, the offical "Dead of Winter" for our region runs from January 10 thru February 10. I never new there were set dates for that. Of course, I was not able to find any link of info to confirm that either. Still, I expect that time period is when the weather is the coldest in this part of Maryland.

They also said the other morning that February is usually the second coldest month behind January. Only three days so far this month with temps above freezing. And 2 of those were the first and second of the month. According to the NOAA, the mean temp in January was 36.1 and the mean temp in February is 19.9. Ouch.

Depending on who you listen to, it will either be this Saturday or next Tuesday when it finally gets above freezing again. It's hard to get any work done around the farm when there's 4 inches of ice all over the ground.