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Do not under estimate the sunglasses either! The sun may be weaker in the winter, but off of white snow or ice it can be powerful enough to blind a person. Snow blindness is not an urban myth.

Originally Posted by no1son

Do not under estimate the sunglasses either! The sun may be weaker in the winter, but off of white snow or ice it can be powerful enough to blind a person. Snow blindness is not an urban myth.

Hi no1, I have gotten my face really tanned sitting on a bucket ice fishing, especially in Mar. Even got accused of going to the tanner...lol

That snow and ice can reflect a lot of the sun's energy. I remember being on the ice one day when it got downright hot and I ended up in shirtsleeves and they got rolled part way up. Paid for that rolling up dearly. White hide...bright sun...cooked.

Ma and I went to the grandson's basketball game last night and the air felt different now. Felt like winter even if it was 30 dgrees. No1son and others who live in the northern tier states know the feeling. I think no1son may be entertaining a snow shovel today and perhaps tomorrow and then we get cold according to the local weather. I'm thinking you're going to get nipped too Crappie 1. The weather map I saw looked pretty wide where the cold was going to settle and with the amount of snow forecast the air is going to lose a bunch of heat. Just hope the snow precedes the cold so you're ice can set up clear.

Originally Posted by CTom

That snow and ice can reflect a lot of the sun's energy. I remember being on the ice one day when it got downright hot and I ended up in shirtsleeves and they got rolled part way up. Paid for that rolling up dearly. White hide...bright sun...cooked.

Ma and I went to the grandson's basketball game last night and the air felt different now. Felt like winter even if it was 30 dgrees. No1son and others who live in the northern tier states know the feeling. I think no1son may be entertaining a snow shovel today and perhaps tomorrow and then we get cold according to the local weather. I'm thinking you're going to get nipped too Crappie 1. The weather map I saw looked pretty wide where the cold was going to settle and with the amount of snow forecast the air is going to lose a bunch of heat. Just hope the snow precedes the cold so you're ice can set up clear.

Just looked at the weather, it is supposed to get colder. It was 37 earlier. I'm ready for some ice...

You can finally smell winter in the air, but then it gets back up into the 30's by middle of the week again, probably not warm enough though to stop building ice for most of the day. Looks to me like the week after this next one we get to play St. Peter and walk on water, at least on some of the lakes. I am not ready to chance it yet this coming week.

Dale

Originally Posted by CTom

That snow and ice can reflect a lot of the sun's energy. I remember being on the ice one day when it got downright hot and I ended up in shirtsleeves and they got rolled part way up. Paid for that rolling up dearly. White hide...bright sun...cooked.

Ma and I went to the grandson's basketball game last night and the air felt different now. Felt like winter even if it was 30 dgrees. No1son and others who live in the northern tier states know the feeling. I think no1son may be entertaining a snow shovel today and perhaps tomorrow and then we get cold according to the local weather. I'm thinking you're going to get nipped too Crappie 1. The weather map I saw looked pretty wide where the cold was going to settle and with the amount of snow forecast the air is going to lose a bunch of heat. Just hope the snow precedes the cold so you're ice can set up clear.

Originally Posted by Crappie 1

Hi no1, I have gotten my face really tanned sitting on a bucket ice fishing, especially in Mar. Even got accused of going to the tanner...lol

Just caught this. My nephew goes to the tanner in the fall or else he gets seasonal depression. It is just too blame gloomy. He needs the extra ultra-violet.

And I'm shoveling - 10-14" of white stuff across the Twin Cities yesterday.

Originally Posted by no1son

And I'm shoveling - 10-14" of white stuff across the Twin Cities yesterday.

Sorry to hear you got dumped on; that makes for bad ice. :-(
We lucked out and only got 1 inch. It was 11 below this morning and hopefully it will stay below zero until we get at least 12 inches of ice.

We are not supposed to actually get down to zero. The ground isn't frozen hard under the snow either; so quite a bit of this will soak in and it is needed badly. The winds that were behind this did not develop like they were supposed to either, which is just alright by me.

Bad ice perhaps, sore backs for sure.

FWIW Minnesota is over 400 miles from north to south and so we have quite a range of variations in temperature and weather, ranging from USDA hardiness zone 5 to some parts in much more severe zone 3. At 10 degrees change in average winter minimum per zone there can be and generally is quite a bit of difference from far north to far south. This storm cut across the southern middle of the state with very little snow in the far north or extreme south and southwest.