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| A visitor this morning to our bird feeders |
What a great day to sit inside and eat turkey! The outside air is in the -20s C and the wind is gusting up to 36 km-h making the windchill about -40 C. Just in case you don't understand Celsius temperatures, -40 C is the same thing as -40 F. In reality, however, the windchill is worse than the straight temperature. Or to put it another way, -40 windchill feels much colder than -40 in calm conditions. Suffice it to say it is bitterly cold outside today.
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| Sunroom in Celsius |
I think it is the cold temps that brought a red fox out to the bird feeders this morning. It is the first time we have seen a fox this winter. He wasn't interested in the seed, of course, but rather the other creatures that come to eat the seed, especially mice. I was disappointed that he didn't wait to pick off some of the ornery red squirrels. They are probably just not worth the effort.
Meanwhile, this is probably as good a test for our unheated sunroom as we are going to get. As the thermometer photos show, the solar gain on a sunny day like this is considerable, no matter the
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| And in Fahrenheit |
cold outside.
The inside temperature would even have improved from what is shown if only it wasn't so windy. The wind is whipping the snow up into the sky which clouds things up a bit.
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| Wind is whipping snow up into the sky |
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| I'm still working on the inside of the sunroom |
Conditions up at Red Lake are even colder. They are experiencing a -44 C windchill. Red Lake has gotten more snow than down here in Nolalu. You can see this for yourself in the following photograph, sent to us by Red Lake Marine's Sherry McCoy.
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| Scene along Hwy 105. Sherry McCoy photo |
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