RM>> We're coming into a winter heat wave here.

MP>We've been in a winter heat wave but we are going to start coming out of
  >it over the weekend.  Yesterday and especially today are flirting with
  >record high territory.

We got a wicked rain storm 2 nights ago and lost about 80% of the
snow we had. It's mostly snowy patches around bare ground and rock
here at the moment. There will be a few cold nights over the next
week, three as low as -14c (7f) and -21c (-6f) but the daytime temps
are still going to be sitting within a few degrees of freezing..

Unfortunately that will probably mean some high winds which can
be worse than the cold.

Funny ice on the bay. That rain left a coating of water on top
of the ice a couple of inches deep in places, but then when it
dropped below freezing, rather than the water just freezing solid,
for some reason it formed a very thin layer of ice with an inch
or two of air space under it. It's strange to walk on, crunching
through that top layer to drop an inch or two and then stop..
And where did the rest of the water go?

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