We just need to turn the heaters off to blow the balloon away

The people that were complaining about two frigid days aren’t the problem, the problem is it should not be anywhere near this warm. The average nightly low by the lake for the next 10 days is 23°F and the average high is 39°F, that’s not February weather. Those temps are at least 15 to 20° higher than they should be on average.

This is what climate change deniers and people who don’t care do not understand, that we are already having serious issues with crop losses globally. As those crop losses worsen food won’t just become more expensive it will become less available. The vast majority of farmed crops do not tolerate severe weather fluctuations. One freeze or heat wave might not kill off a crop but it will damage at reducing you and could take out the whole crop.

I was considering doing this as well. I do know which way the water line is running so I will most likely go this route if all else fails. Thank you.

Thank you for the link. It seems I don't have enough information to get a proper search for it, but this is very helpful.

Thank you. I have been searching through there hoping to have some luck.

As the comment you're responding to says:

>That big polar vortex was being pushed around by warm air. So once it passed, there's just warm air behind it.
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>This unfortunately will be how it goes. Winter weather will be both unseasonably warm and frigid, as opposed to just cold. The time of consistent winter weather has passed.

Postholing is the worst 😂

I’m no expert on the subject but I read what experts say regarding climate change. The global warming aspect of climate change is causing bizarre weather events around the world, the planet is progressively getting warmer but that doesn’t mean it will be warmer everywhere. Look at the bizarre weather last year where much of the US, Europe and China suffered severe crop losses from drought. Some US farmland dried out so badly that the ground cracked. So the soil ecosystem was badly damaged if not killed off making that land not useful for farming. around that time 1/3rd of Pakistan was underwater. An area the size of Texas or France since they are roughly equivalent flooded in Pakistan, this was caused by severe weather and glaciers melting due to climate change.

Dumb people will say big deal if it gets a little hotter I’ll just turn on the air conditioning not understanding that plants and animals do not cope with this kind of weather. They don’t understand that global crop losses means food is more expensive today and 20-30 years from now just getting food is going to be a problem. Dumb people will say what global warming means will be able to farm areas we couldn’t before. Areas that are currently farmed probably aren’t suitable for farming without massive amounts of fertilizer, irrigation or both and much of the US is running out of water. I’m not someone who just talks about this either, I’ve taken steps to be food secure in the future.

Water witch.

Same for the flora. Said it here before, my fruit trees dropped their leaves super late then a few started budding probably because it warmed up again. That has to stress them.

Go birds

Wednesday night beginners meeting in Cabot is the best one. Not in the NEK technically but it’s my all time fave.

Try Vermont Underground Locators in South Burlington. They can trace the water line from the house out to the well.

The comment I was responding to says, verbatim, “both unseasonably warm and frigid”. It is not. These are not unseasonably frigid temperatures. They are unseasonably warm. The swings are probably more abrupt than they used to be, but that’s not what I was objecting to.

If all else fails with the above suggestions (ANR, DigSafe, etc), I think the UVM Archaeology Dept has a GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) setup, that would definitely find it. Maybe they'd do it cheap as training for student researchers. Most bigger Civil Engineering firms probably have GPR, too. I'm sure that's not a cheap option, though.

Well, I have to confess that I don't. It seems like this year has started off really warm. What do the extreme temperature swings signify?

If you can't find it using the resources that have already been linked, you might be able to reach out to your local town or regional planning commission for help.

https://centralvtplanning.org/

It might be there. They can also be plotted 1000 feet off on the ANR database any day of the week.. so take it with a grain of salt.

If you can't find the well head. Find where the water line enters the house. Get a metal detector, go out from there. You won't be able to trace the water line, but once you get to the well head, it's likely only a foot or 18" under the surface, if that.

Finnigan’s on College St was always recognized as the local Eagles bar.

Go Birds!

If it's a drilled well with all the paper work, maybe it can be found here:

https://anrweb.vt.gov/DEC/WellDrillerReports/Default.aspx

If you get someone with the right equipment, they can find a wire with current going through it just about anywhere. The more sophisticated the equipment people have, the more expensive it is to have them use it.

Wells are a mapped layer in the Vermont GIS database. If you’re lucky, it was mapped and will show up. If this isn’t something you’re familiar with, I can see if I can find a link to get you closer.

65° temp swing in 2 days. The new normal. I feel sorry for the wildlife, this must be hard.

No, I do understand all of that, and I don't like the extreme swings either. My comment was purely about the fact that we've seen such temps before.