Winter has arrived. We had a cold October, a warm November, now winter comes roaring in. The temperature around noon was 9 degrees. It is hard to tell how much snow we got because the wind is blowing it around so much. Some parts of the driveway were bare and there were 2-foot snow drifts here and there. The news says we got about 3.5 inches in the northern metro.
6:00 PM: No wood smoke.
9:00 PM: No wood smoke. 2 degrees (Fahrenheit).
Interestingly, the colder it gets the less wood smoke there is in the air. Fireplaces are not used for home heating around here. They are used for recreation. The cold weather and lack of wood smoke provides ample evidence to back this theory. It is smokier in the summer than it is in the winter in North St. Paul.
10:15 PM: No wood smoke. Last check of the evening.