onset of meltdown in Bishops Mills

[Fred Schueler]

Here's the snow on the ground in Bishops Mills -

23 February 2026 - Canada: Ontario: Grenville County: Oxford-on-Rideau:
110 m SSE Bishops Mills intersection. (5m web map), 31B/13, 44.87150° N
75.70061° W TIME: 1140. AIR TEMP: -0.5°C, sunny, Beaufort gentle breeze.
HABITAT: rural village backyard lawn between barn foundation, Apple
Tree/old ash heaps. OBSERVER: Frederick W. Schueler. 2026/015a/d, snow
profile (inorganic). survey, measured. 97.5 mm melted from rain gauge
core. Snow 43 cm deep, with crust of old snow at 8 cm depth, 2 cm
icy-layer on ground, ground unfrozen.

28 February 2026 (same location) TIME: 0924. AIR TEMP: +3.5°C, overcast,
Beaufort light air. snow profile - 105 mm melted from rain gauge core.
Snow 47 cm deep, with crust of old snow at 13 cm depth, 2 cm icy-layer
on ground, ground unfrozen. Melt water beginning to run into woodsheds.

....looking forward to a freshet (after the forecast cold weekend) that
will produce useful deposits of drifted snail shells, maybe even
bringing back the vortex where the Bishops' mills' millrace goes under
Mill Street.

fred.
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Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Fragile Inheritance Natural History - https://fragileinheritance.ca/
2024 annual letter: https://clt1233162.bmeurl.co/11E63979
6 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W
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