Meteorological Fall Starts Today

[Wandering Sagebrush]

52 for a low this morning. We could have worn shorts on our morning walk.

About 26° here at the Fort. Maybe Capilene under shorts…

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

The first two was taken at 0700 this morning and it was raining. The last two taken a couple hours later.

 

[ski3pin]

At 0600 this morning the outside temperature was 48°. At 0730 the temperature had dropped to 38°. Finally a Fall like bite to the air.

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

The current screen shot from the live Sonoma camera of the Nevada Alert camera system. The elevation is 9,036' plus whatever height the camera is mounted to the tower. The last image in my post above show a dusting of snow down to about 5,000', or about 650' above my home.

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

For all of you dreading an early winter, please know that I have stalled it for a while. Today I put both sets of chains on Big Red the might tractor, plus dropped the bucket and installed the snow plow.

Big Red uses Bobcat type releases for the implements, and I have to say I like them. Didn’t even hurt myself.

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

That just means that it won't snow at your house.

I get by using a 6' length of railroad rain with a chain and round thingy tossed over my trailer hitch to plow my snow. It just sits in a spot by my east end of my driveway and gets used when I need to clear some brush, drag the driveway or plow snow.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

That just means that it won't snow at your house.

I get by using a 6' length of railroad rain with a chain and round thingy tossed over my trailer hitch to plow my snow. It just sits in a spot by my east end of my driveway and gets used when I need to clear some brush, drag the driveway or plow snow.

Interesting snow removing tool.
Frank

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

A friend of mine is a life long railroad employee (now retired). We put together that drag more than a dozen years ago. He didn't use it much, as his property is more rocky than mine. So when I purchased my property in 2021 I brought it down and used it extensively to establish my driveway route, yank out greasewood and sagebrush, and this past winter found it useful to plow snow.

Snow seldom gets more than a couple feet deep around here; so I don't feel the need of payments for a tractor, ATV or UTV with a snow plow.

I plow my driveway system, plus the two streets that run along my property. They are dirt streets, thus not plowed by the county.