Snowing like crazy this morning and blowing a gale. Winter arrives at last. I was scheduled to guide a party of duck hunters this morning but cancelled on account of the anticipated wind the snow is completely unexpected. For a brief time while I had the dogs out it was snowing quite hard. It has lightened up some but is still snowing. The latest forecast guess has us getting around 6 inches or so. Just enough to make the Christmas decorations look great.
After a rediculously warm and wet November December has got us back to normal. It was 15 degrees outside this morning when I got up. With the sun at 9 AM we have warmed back to 19 so it is not going to be a very warm day. At least it finally feels like late fall in Maine. We even had a little snow yesterday so the fields are covered with white. We had a strong northwest wind last night but it has gone down this morning. My duck hunters at the end of the week may be preempted by a forecast that includes a gale warning for Friday and a small craft advisory on Saturday.
It was 55 degrees today at noon; cloudy and damp with a little fog. This November has set records for being wet. November is normally our wettest month but was even more so this year. The water in the river has just fallen back into its banks after being at or near flood stage most of the month. I was at a meeting last evening with folks from the mountains in the western part of Maine and they told me that even the peaks did not have snow.
