BYC Café

[Sally PB]

I have caught voles in my green house in mouse traps. I mash a peanut into the bait tray so they have to get closer to it and then set off the trap.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafè. Coffee is ready.

Forecast said a dusting to an inch.
I just shoveled 4 to 5 inches.

 

[Bsmac]

Good morning Cafè. Coffee is ready.

Forecast said a dusting to an inch.
I just shoveled 4 to 5 inches.

Good morning! Thanks for the coffee! Sounds about right on snow forecasting! They were better 40 years ago before they had had all of these modern forecasting programs!

 

[Sally PB]

Our local crew does very well, and they have all the new fangled stuff. Lake Michigan is huge factor in our weather. What is happening at the lakeshore is often quite different from what happens 20, 30, 40 miles inland.

This time of year, they factor in how the lake effect snow can set up in bands, and a slight change in the wind strength or direction can drastically change the amount of snow an area receives, or doesn't.

Hedging their bets? Covering their butts? No, I think of it as giving us the information to the best of their ability, and acknowledging that Mother Nature is capricious.