February sunrise

Sunrise at 7:02 am on Saturday, February 22, 2025

 January sunrise

Winter's not done just yet

Over the past few years, I've informally gauged how bad of a winter we've had by making a note of when the first daffodil blooms.

• 2022 - February 8
• 2023 - February 4
• 2024 - February 7

This year, the first daffodil officially opened on February 19...in the snow.

It just feels to me like it has been a very cold winter.  Maybe it has actually been closer to normal and it just seems like it's been colder because our last three winters have been relatively mild overall.

I think this past fall we had to start using our propane heater earlier and more often than we had been.  We got that big snow back in January, followed by a few days of very, very cold temperatures.  And yesterday, we had our second winter precipitation event of the winter...about 2" of ice/sleet/snow.

As I type this, we're bracing for the coldest weather so far this winter.

If we're lucky, it won't last very long.  The high temperature is supposed to be back above freezing on Friday, and the low temperatures are supposed to be back above freezing by Monday.

But tonight?  The temperature is dropping like a rock.  

Snuggle up kitties...it's gonna be a cold, cold night.