by Alan Stankevitz | Feb 23, 2003
We seem to go from one weather extreme to another around here. The bitter cold that had been entrenched in the upper Midwest for the last month broke this past week with temperatures reaching 54°F on Thursday. Although the warm weather only visited for a couple of...
by Alan Stankevitz | Feb 14, 2003
If this is El Niño weather, I’ll take La Niña instead. The past month has found temperatures well below normal. The good news is the cold weather has brought brilliant sunshine for the past number of days. Floor temperatures over the sand bed hit 86°F early...
by Alan Stankevitz | Feb 7, 2003
I was recently asked if I was disappointed in the solar heating system considering that the temperatures in the house were rarely in the 70’s. I would imagine that anyone monitoring the house temperatures over the last two weeks, you might be drawn to...
by Alan Stankevitz | Jan 25, 2003
Remember those warm weather days just a few weeks ago? I guess I never should have bragged about all that warm weather! Temperatures dropped below zero this week for the first time in ten months making it a rather long walk to the outhouse. Envisioning frost...
by Alan Stankevitz | Jan 11, 2003
I will probably be deported from Minnesota for letting the cat out of the bag, but I’m here to tell you that the vision planted in everyone’s head of Minnesota being a frozen wasteland is totally inaccurate. (The movie Fargo was just that—a movie.) With...
