Thursday, April 4, 2024

Red Lake ice-out moves to May 1

 There's bluebird weather in the forecast the next two weeks and that makes me move my final ice-out prediction to May 1 or one week earlier than "normal."

We deserve a nice spring after some of the crappy ones in the last few years.


Monday, April 1, 2024

Finally, some snow to ease our drought

 

Today, April 1, 2024

We got about a foot of snow last week here in the Thunder Bay area. That was the first snowfall since early January. The ground was bare almost the entire winter. Red Lake did not get this dump but does have some snow, just less than this.

Where did Ojibwe get canoe birchbark?

There are moments in winter that are just spectacular When we came to Thunder Bay in 1979 one of the first things I learned was that Nipigon...