Windy, red flag conditions today, cold ☀️ 🌬 🚩

Yes, so you probably shouldn’t be burning things around dry grass. Even in Pennsylvania, as if you have enough land to burn garbage, you have enough land to let it pile up and wait until things green up to torch it. Just secure it so it’s not blowing around, getting into pastures and fields, etc. Be safe with fire, so they don’t take your matches away like in New York.

Maybe a little warmth would have been nice. I tell you it was absolutely frigid walking around the Empire Plaza this morning. Tulips out in the plaza, between the wind and the frost last night seem to gotten a real beating, although they are surviving. There was a crew working in the garden while being videographed by what looked like state video crew. So they might have gotten me in a random shot promoting the OGS gardening program while I was walking through Monument Park to my office.

While the next two days should be quite cold, the weekend looks nice. Spring turkey starts on Sunday, so that’s a consideration — I am not participating in it this year but I may do some trout fishing on Sunday, assuming the river I’m thinking is running at a reasonable level. But Saturday should be a good day for hiking. I’m thinking about heading down to Little Falls and hiking around Moss Island — although maybe that’s better to do on Sunday and then do a hike up in the Adirondacks on Sunday. Not sure how green things are out that way, I should look at a web camera.