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<p><a href="https://homecomingbook.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/w-yard-4613.jpg"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="7012" data-permalink="https://homecomingbook.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/north-pole-weather-4813-ian1/w-yard-4613/" data-orig-file="https://homecomingbook.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/w-yard-4613.jpg" data-orig-size="3648,2736" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365262336&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="W yard 4:6:13" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;West yard from porch, April 6&lt;/p&gt;
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://homecomingbook.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/w-yard-4613.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://homecomingbook.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/w-yard-4613.jpg?w=1024" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-7012" alt="West Yard" src="https://homecomingbook.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/w-yard-4613.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://homecomingbook.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/w-yard-4613.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225 300w, https://homecomingbook.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/w-yard-4613.jpg?w=600&amp;h=450 600w, https://homecomingbook.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/w-yard-4613.jpg?w=150&amp;h=113 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>The sun rose at 6:40 this morning, and it won’t set until 9:07 this afternoon. The season of light is certainly here, with 14 hours 27 minutes of daylight. In compensation, we have lost astronomical night: the sun never goes more than 18° below the horizon.</p>
<p>I can’t really say that spring weather is here; the forecast lows are still barely above 0° F and the forecast suggests no thawing, at least in the first part of the week. It was snowing yesterday, enough that I had to scrape the car windows, and to put a slick layer of new snow on the previously dry pavement. Still, I can hope. The weather report suggests a rather unstable (hard to forecast) situation, so it might be warmer – or colder – than the forecasts are saying. I hope it’s warmer; I’m tired of winter, pretty as it is. The snow is still more than 20” deep.</p>
<p>A little melting has started where the snow faces south, as you can see on the south (left) side of the snow covering the berm Friday.</p>
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