an otter in the snow
2021-Dec-07, Tuesday 04:15 pm
To celebrate the winter season with not an inkling of modern human social distress, here's a 1-minute video of an otter enjoying the new snow up near Duluth (in Grand Marais), pictured at right.https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/otter-frolics-fresh-snow-minnesota-81517100
It snowed in Minneapolis on Sunday. Not much, but it's still on the ground today because afterward it turned cold. When I woke on Monday morning, the air temp here was -13C/9F (wind chill -24C/-11F). It's slightly warmer now on Tuesday, but we have more snow forecast for Minneapolis.
The high winds causing that bitter windchill are also changing water levels in the Great Lakes. Like a lunar tide, but it's caused only by wind and is called a seiche.