Maybe its just me-but so far this winter doesn’t seem much like winter. We’ve had above average temps most days-but a bitter cold has settled in my holler over the past few days-so maybe winter is finally here.
We live on the North side of the mountain, so it takes a while for the sun to melt the frost off. If I’m still seeing frost on the banks in late afternoon-then I know its cold outside for sure.
I never knew the type of frost in the photo had a name-or if I did I had forgotten it did. Its called Ice Needles. I just thought it was the kind of frost that’s fun to walk on-it gives off a great ‘crunch’ with every step or stomp you make. How’s winter been at your place?
Tipper
p.s. I guess Old Man Winter heard me-this morning its 16 degrees with a skiff of snow in Brasstown!!
Appalachia Through My Eyes – A series of photographs from my life in Southern Appalachia.
I’ve always told “furriners” winter is the price we pay for the privilege of living in paradise. 17 degrees when I left for work this snowy, icy morning. 21 when I called it a day(quite a few hours later). Amazingly, this is the first day it has not gotten out of the twenties. After dealing with driving over steep,icy roads all winter for the last 2 years, I’ve been loving the mild weather. Not looking forward to paying my winter “rent”!
It was 11 here on the branch this morning, and yes we call them ice needles also. Not sure how much snow was out there didn’t stop long enough to measure it with it so bitterly cold going to feed this morning, but I LOVE IT just the same!!!!!
Didn’t know those were ice needles either… and yes, winter seems to be missing us for the most part… keep warm, Tipper…
Tipper: here in nw washington it about 42 midday. low in the hi 30s. hoar frost about a week ago. heading for warm az. in a week. need the sunshine. blessings k.o.h
I’m setting here listening to your brother play Down the Esclante for the fifth time in a row. Tell him I said He’s Good! He wrote it and played all the parts. Wow!
My older brother can pick anything with strings except the fiddle. I think he uses a bow on it. Me I’m left handed. I tried to learn to pick rightee but didn’t get too far. We didn’t see any snow here but I can see it on the mountains over toward Table Rock, Linville and Grandfather Mtn. I can see about fifty miles on a clear day when I come around the end of the runway at Hickory. It looked like it was still snowing up toward Boone at 4:00 this afternoon.
I love those ice needles! We get them here. But it’s bitter cold just now and I haven’t ventured far from the house today so haven’t seen any.
Happy New Year, Tipper, to you and yours!
We got pretty much the same thing here in Angier that you got in Brasstown. BRRR…and very windy.
God bless.
RB
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Here in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, it is now 17 degrees at 6pm. The wind chill factor is 0. The high was 19 degrees today and I’m officially sick of winter!! LOL. This is just our second snow. I don’t like winter!!!
Hoar frost is what we called this crunchy stuff in Northern SC. Thanks for all the music.Happy New Year.Mary
Here in south central PA it’s finally cold today. I prefer the cold weather, so I’m a happy camper. The frost in your photo was common in our woods when we lived in Maine. It’s pretty! I always hated to stomp on it.
wow that is the neatest thing, never have had that kind of frost here in sw pa… todays high is only going to be 21 and we got about three inches of snow last night.. brrrrr is all i can say.. glad i am not going out in it.
hope you have a great week and stay warm 🙂
big ladybug hugs
lynn
It sure is cold outside right now! Around 33 degrees with an awfully cold wind blowing! The ice needles are pretty, I remember seeing them before, but I didn’t know what they were called, either.
Tipper,
Had 3″ of that powdery stuff this
morning, perfect for snowcream.
Only trouble is I ain’t got no sugar. I’ll remedy that today! My
Jeep looked like a snowball from
hell coming to work and folks had
their lights on behind me trying
to see. I love this stuff. It was
also 16 when I checked the temp.
I love to deer hunt when those
icycles push up the ground and it
crunches as you walk…Ken
I’m thinking we called this jack frost. Haven’t seen any for yrs.
Warmer and dryer than usual for this time of year here in northeast Kansas. A few miles west of us there have been two or three significant snowfalls, but none here (near Topeka). Temperatures running about mid-40’s daytime, mid to low 20’s night. Don’t recall ever seeing ice needles around here, probably our winter humidities are too low.
It sure looked like winter crossing Chunky Gal about six-thirty this morning Tipper!
So far here in central Texas, the weather has been sunny, cloudy, windy, rainy and that’s just… you guessed it…. in one day. Seriously though, no hog killing weather yet. Low 31, high 50 so far.
We didn’t have much worse weather here in Michigan than y’all did down home! It was 18 with an inch of snow at home. Considering the date, it’s been a VERY mild winter so far.
I don’t know if we have ice needles- there’s 4 or so inches of snow on top of ’em if they’re there. It’s not likely the snow will melt for the next few days, more is expected. Time to get out the snow blower so we can get out when we need to go somewhere.
I haven’t seen ice needles in quite a few years. I do remember that they were so much fun to stomp on and hear that crunch!
It finally got cold last night here in Roanoke. It was 24F when I got up this morning. I LOVE cold weather and getting all bundle up. I sure do miss living in the mountains!
I wondered why I didn’t get Blind Pig on Monday, Jan. 2, but went online and found the post! I enjoyed hearing Paul play his original composition, “Down the Escalante.” (Is that a name for a river?) Wonderful piece! Enjoyed it tremendously. As to the “ice needles,” I don’t see them much here in Middle Georgia as I did when I lived in North Georgia (Union, Towns and Fannin Counties). But we had a big frost here this morning, and so cold when I walked to the paper box that I had to “wrop up” warmly!
High 30s in FL (central east coast)and a bit of wind.
Love Down the Escalante — one of our favorite Colorado places is Escalante Canyon. Those are some nimble fingers, too.
Lise-a skiff is just enough snow to barely cover the ground-so about like your 1/2 inch : )
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Here in the cold Pacific Northwest, outside my kitchen window in Portland Oregon it’s 47 degrees. We are setting record warm temps. Go figure!
We call it hoar frost too. I love to crunch through it as I walk the dog on cold mornings.
PS that would be in the western NC mountains
We have about 1/2 inch of snow, and it was 9 degrees at 8am..winter is here. How much is a skiff? Haven’t heard that before:)
Tipper, it’s 16 degrees here in Black Mountain too. Cold for sure!
I could whine about it but I’ll spare you,
We had snow too, not much but enough to say it snowed.
Yep, winter is here.
Winter has arrived in North FL. I’m not sure if we brought it with us as we arrived. We have not had a frost, but very cold winds and and the temps are just a smidgen below 32 early this morning. Brrr! for FL.
I always wondered what that type of ice was called. Thanks for the good learning.
Tipper, You mentioned that you live on the north side of the mountain and it reminded me of a song that I’ve been singing lately called, “The Blue Side of the Mountain.” I heard The Steel Drivers singing it. Maybe the “kitchen singers” can record this one. Ray – Memphis
14 degrees on this side of the mountain Tipper and between one and two inches of the white stuff. Enough to cover things pretty well. The wind is the worst thing…was out walking the dog and dang near froze. :O)
Winter arrived here, too! After a mild winter we had our first temp at 20 degrees last night. We were out yesterday wrapping the fall garden (which is still going strong!!!) in frost cloth. I fully expect the hoses to the barn are frozen for the first time so I am having another cup of coffee while waiting for the sun to warm things up. The goats and chickens are giving me the stink eye through the front window for the delay 🙂 Stevie @ http://www.ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com
I saw the low at 48 here in Jupiter, FL (southeast coast, about 20 minutes north of West Palm Beach). Obviously, no kind of frost here.
I’ve noticed to as well as others I’m sure that winter looks to be getting a slow start. Not that I really enjoy shoveling snow but if it is coming i wish it would hurry up.
We got the same cold from you did and it is getting quite nippy here in the northeast, tomarrow night we are suppose to have a low of 9.
Tipper: We are in the same boat as you here in East Tennessee. A dusting of white stuff and temperatures way down! But clear sky and maybe sunshine today!
Cheers,
Eva Nell
Joe-I kept thinking I had heard the frost called hoary frost-so maybe I have : )
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Culture of Appalachia
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We call that Hoar Frost here in East Tennessee. We were traveling down Norris Freeway one morning and the Hoar Frost was so bad it looke like someone had thrown out a bunch of trash, white trash, or cotton. It was an odd site and the frost was several inches long and looked like claws coming out of the ground. We stopped and looked at it. Well, it was 22 degrees this morning and we had a nice dusting of snow last night. Glad to see winter is finally here.
a few flurries here , the grass was white yesterday in so central ky
i wont complain if the winter stays mild(helps on the heat bill)
the ice needles look very pretty but boy they look cold !brrrrrrr
put a log on the fire and enjoy!
So far here in east Texas it’s been mild. Still need more rain. Temp. this morning is 27 so there’s frost.
Winter here in Northern Missouri has been pretty mild. A few flakes and some mild cold weather but nothing like last year yet.
That is what we call mush ice.