Monday, 8:00 AM. –13 degrees, wind SSW, calm. The sky is cloudless, but the barometer predicts snow. The weather pattern is now: a low with a lot of blowing snow, followed by a high with severe cold; and this repeated, probably over and over again.When it’s this cold I put on a scarf and pull it up over my mouth and nose. It is amazing how much warmth this renders in severe weather. Even at 20 below zero, with no wind, one can be comfortable walking without any specialized cold weather clothing, as long one has good boots, hat, gloves and a scarf.
Yesterday Lucky and I went to the beach, just before dinner. I put on snow shoes for the first time this winter. It was windy though, and far colder at 5 degrees than at this morning’s -13. However, I only had on cotton gloves and my fingers got very cold holding ski poles. The Sioux River is frozen over now, and no open water is visible anywhere, although it is open beyond the Islands. Lake Superior seldom freezes over, but this may be one of those years. The photos are of the Chequamegon Bay south toward Ashland, with the Penoke Range in the distance; the frozen mouth of the Sioux, and the Big Water Café, run by Jon and Danielle Ewalt, a good place to warm up with a specialty coffee or tea or hot lunch after a trek across the frozen tundra.
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