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Day: February 7, 2017💾
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Still Want to Get Camping
I still want to get camping, but the weather doesn’t seem to want to cooperate. I’m not going to go out on a frigid winter’s night, nor on a cloudy, dark depressing day. There needs to be enough snow that I can either drag my gear back in woods or I can drive my pickup back to some campsite. I need to make sure I get enough time to get started, to make sure I have the propane up and working, and warm enough so I can light the heater.
Winter camping is just tough. It requires so much gear and a lot of variables. It can be done, and with proper planning can be quite successful – as witnessed from my Christmas Day trip. But so far, I’ve not been able to make all the conditions meet. Maybe the Ground Hog will prove to be wrong, and things will be mild enough, so I can get out camping some weeks in March. We will see.
February 7, 2017 – The Next Sixteen Weeks
We are still in the cold of winter, but it won’t last. You have probably been noticing how much later the sunsets have gotten later. But the mercury hasn’t been moving much. But once we get into the second half of February, mercury will be starting to climb as spring approaches.
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After many weeks of mercury only increasing a degree a week, we will be see jump two degrees a week in late February, three degrees in early March then four degrees come the first week of spring. Average temperatures always rise most steeply around the first day of spring. The same is true with increases in daylight and time of sunset. Daylight Savings Time begins March 12th.
| Week | Date | Dawn | Sun- rise |
Sun- set |
Dusk | Day | Avg High | Avg Low | Record Hi | Record Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | February 7 | 6:31 am | 7:00 am | 5:17 pm | 5:46 pm | 10:16 | 33 | 16 | 48 (2005) | -18 (1995) |
| 1 | February 14 | 6:22 am | 6:51 am | 5:26 pm | 5:55 pm | 10:35 | 34 | 17 | 63 (1946) | -13 (2016) |
| 2 | February 21 | 6:12 am | 6:41 am | 5:35 pm | 6:04 pm | 10:54 | 36 | 19 | 65 (1981) | -10 (2015) |
| 3 | February 28 | 6:02 am | 6:30 am | 5:44 pm | 6:12 pm | 11:14 | 38 | 20 | 63 (1903) | -10 (1950) |
| 4 | March 7 | 5:50 am | 6:18 am | 5:52 pm | 6:20 pm | 11:34 | 41 | 22 | 62 (1974) | -6 (1950) |
| 5 | March 14 | 6:38 am | 7:06 am | 7:01 pm | 7:29 pm | 11:54 | 43 | 25 | 75 (1946) | -6 (1948) |
| 6 | March 21 | 6:26 am | 6:54 am | 7:09 pm | 7:37 pm | 12:14 | 46 | 27 | 78 (1921) | -1 (1956) |
| 7 | March 28 | 6:13 am | 6:42 am | 7:17 pm | 7:45 pm | 12:35 | 50 | 30 | 85 (1945) | 3 (1923) |
| 8 | April 4 | 6:01 am | 6:30 am | 7:25 pm | 7:53 pm | 12:55 | 53 | 33 | 79 (1950) | 14 (1954) |
| 9 | April 11 | 5:49 am | 6:18 am | 7:33 pm | 8:02 pm | 13:15 | 56 | 36 | 82 (2011) | 20 (1874) |
| 10 | April 18 | 5:37 am | 6:06 am | 7:41 pm | 8:10 pm | 13:34 | 60 | 38 | 90 (1976) | 21 (1948) |
| 11 | April 25 | 5:26 am | 5:56 am | 7:49 pm | 8:19 pm | 13:53 | 63 | 41 | 89 (2009) | 23 (1965) |
| 12 | May 2 | 5:15 am | 5:46 am | 7:57 pm | 8:28 pm | 14:10 | 65 | 43 | 88 (2001) | 29 (1974) |
| 13 | May 9 | 5:06 am | 5:37 am | 8:04 pm | 8:36 pm | 14:27 | 67 | 45 | 93 (1979) | 27 (1956) |
| 14 | May 16 | 4:57 am | 5:30 am | 8:12 pm | 8:44 pm | 14:41 | 70 | 47 | 89 (1991) | 33 (1980) |
| 15 | May 23 | 4:51 am | 5:24 am | 8:19 pm | 8:52 pm | 14:54 | 72 | 49 | 93 (1964) | 36 (1967) |
| 16 | May 30 | 4:46 am | 5:20 am | 8:25 pm | 8:59 pm | 15:05 | 73 | 52 | 92 (1987) | 33 (1967) |
