Good morning Doug, ER's,
                     It's 46* and cloudy here on my hill.
                     H2l............Maybe you should make an appointment with your doctor and get a prescription of your own
                     Bud...........I saw on the news that Tennessee got hammered with some bad storms, I hope your area was spared.
                     OS............I went to college for one one year and was guaranteed a class A school. Since I scored high mechanically, I was sent to Machinery  Repairman
             school. Ironically it didn't teach how to repair anything but I learned how to run a lathe and mills, making parts to be replaced on a ship. They sent ne to Guam
             aboard a Sub Tender.
                     Wally.........I've yet to have mowed my lawn, but it's close.
                     Steve........When doing my exercises at therapy my arm shakes a lot especially when I'm lifting, they need to concentrate more on strength.
                     I hope everyone has a good Friday either at work or out. Stay Safe and Healthy.

             IW
               

 51,calm with showers

Over the last two centuries, lakes around the world, including those in Maine, have seen decreases in the duration of winter ice cover. As global change leads to increasing annual temperatures, the length of lake ice cover each year has been slowly declining and is expected to continue to decline. The easiest way to quantify the duration of ice cover on a lake is to record the first day each year in the spring where the lake is free of ice. This day is referred to as the lake’s ice-out day for that year. There exist large amounts of historical ice-out data. There are eight Maine lakes with consistent ice-out records that extend back from before 1880 to the present day.

This project is a painted grid, with each column representing a different lake, and each row representing a year, with the grid moving forward in time from top to bottom. Each point on the grid has been assigned one of seven colors, according to the ice-out day for that year, when compared to the average pre-1900 ice-out day for that lake. Darker red colors represent years with earlier thaws, and darker blue colors represent years with later thaws, creating a visual gradient from blue to red, with white representing middling values. Years with no data are marked in black. While many people who interact with lake ice in the winter, such as ice fisherman, may be familiar with year-by-year ups and downs, this project aims to fully represent the long-term changes to lake ice in Maine.

Data Sources:

https://me.water.usgs.gov/reports/OFR02-34.pdf

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/parks/water_activities/boating/ice_out_dates.shtml

Morning all,

IW....glad the therapist took it easy on you yesterday 

H2L....hope MrsH2's reports were all good 

MrC....it was very warm/humid yesterday until the t-storms moved in 

IFF....hope there hasn't been any damage from the storms down your way 

FH4.....Friday's just around the corner 

A couple errands today then another round of mowing    hopefully all the rain since Sunday won't create any issues 

Have a good day. Stay safe, stay healthy.