Monday, January 27, 2014

Fawns along the road video.

I don't know where this was filmed. It's a few years old.   -  Jim

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Sunrise will get earlier beginning tomorrow!


While the winter solstice (December 21) is the shortest day of the year, sunrise continues to get later until January 8-11.  Starting tomorrow, sunrise will get earlier, initially by less than 1 minute per day, but the change will get more dramatic by March.



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Estimating Remaining Daylight


During the late afternoon, you can determine the remaining daylight on your fingers using this simple trick to measure the remaining daylight without a watch. Count the finger widths between the sun and the horizon. Each finger is equivalent to 15 minutes, with each hand totaling an hour.

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Monday, January 6, 2014

Might the cold snap affect invasives?

Excerpted from Minnesota's

Updraft

MPR News Weather and its underlying science       

Extreme cold may wipe out high percentage emerald ash borer larvae

Here’s one resident who may welcome the extreme cold wave headed for Minnesota. Your local ash tree.

The extreme temperatures moving in with Sunday’s arctic blast may kill off a significant percentage of emerald ash borer larvae, according to one of the premier forestry experts in Minnesota.