It's presently two degrees Fahrenheit in Indianapolis, up from zero when I woke up. Tam and I shoveled the walks a couple of times yesterday but they've got a thin coating of snow. There's over five inches of the stuff on the ground where it wasn't shoveled.
We'll be in single digits all day today and might reach the teens tomorrow. I'm off this week and I'm not going anywhere until it warms up.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-Z3b9PFCEjI?si=fq9kN-NV8bEioC9J
ReplyDeleteI hope this is not in your job description.
That video is not entirely trustworthy. Some of it appears to be from Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, where some of the worst winter weather in the lower 48 states can be experienced. I think there's been a weather station up there for about a hundred years. It takes a special breed to winter up there.
DeleteOther segments show high-voltage power line workers clearing ice from insulators and assembling new support towers.
National Weather Service observation stations are all over and most of the equipment is surprisingly robust in most kinds of bad weather; freezing rain is the worst for everyone with equipment out in the weather and various de-icing systems can deal with a lot of it -- but sometimes, somebody's got to get out there a blunt instrument or a bucket of hot water.