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3k NAM is 970mb exiting the gulf of ME.

No locking yet. Reel it in some more.

Sign me up for that run.

Can anyone else confirm this? I find this many strikes near the pole hard to believe. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/05/world/lightning-increased-north-pole-arctic-2021-climate/index.html

They don’t even pretreat anymore…friggin joke.

29.5F now. We wedge.

29.2°…a couple tenths of sn/pl out there. Dropped about 10° on the car thermo from CON to home.

Your setup sounds like mine. An 8x8x8 coop elevated 30”. My run has a portion covered with a metal roof and I enclose it with fiberglass panels for winter. On nice days I give them the option to go out into the large outdoor portion of the run. Then in May all of the panels come down. And yeah, not many people save money doing this. Most of the cost is up front, but it still isn’t cheap. I enjoy the hobby though, and their personalities and the flock dynamic is definitely fun to watch.

congrats mht

Maybe Brady can invite it into his home and Guerrero can give it a deep rub down.

Snow and sleet at the casa. CON is slippery though.

Haha 21.9° at my house.

93 is a mess apparently.

Snowing at home. PLFZRA at CON

That’s like over the benchmark.

Hey I still have more hope for this. But the runs verbatim in this suite have sucked so far.

I guess….from a shart to a turd.

Gotta subtract out tomorrow.

That includes tomorrow’s rain.

Little nuances in the flow can make big impacts…but I never trust the NAM with synoptics this far out. Onto the GFS.

I don’t like that vort taint in our upstream ridging.

I was pissed that day because I had a high below 0F all day until a couple hours before midnight...ended up with +1F. I wasn't here in 2004, but CON had back to back 0F highs so I'm sure it would've been like -3 to -4 here.

The important thing is to not overthink it. It they have good shelter they'll be okay. I let mine out all of those days and they were fine. I wouldn't want them out there in the 20s with wind and puddles, but that's not usually a problem until late winter or if there's a strong cold front. I've let them free range in the evening in light snow, 10s with little wind, ice packs, etc. Some won't touch the snow, others walk through it. Some come out when it's 15F and others say "no way" and stay in the run. I'd be careful about washing them in the winter. If they have protection from the rain/drizzle they'll go back under when they've had enough precip. Their outer feathers keep them dry really well. But if you get those down underside feathers wet that's when you can be dealing with hypothermia. So wet/dirty feet I don't worry about. They sit on their feet on the roosts anyway which will keep their feet warm and able to dry. Any poopy butts I leave alone in the winter...in the warm season sometimes I'll wet them and try to pull it off. I worried about a lot of things my first winter as well. Someday you'll look back and laugh at some of the things you worried about. Now that doesn't mean I'm cheering the cold on...lol. They're a lot easier to care for in a tame winter. They survive fine in deep winter, but obviously they're not thriving. Good luck and feel free to ask me anything anytime.

It's a long time for here. I usually get at least 1 single digit high every winter, but I've had none going back to Jan 19. I had 7 of them in those couple of weeks in late Dec 17 into early 18.