Strong Winds To Prevent My Cleanup From Strong Winds

One of my back yard burn piles from two years ago.  I was
planning another tomorow, but strong winds might
prevent me from burning up the debris from, you guessed it,
strong winds from earlier this year.

The town of St. Albans, Vermont was nice enough to grant me a burn permit for  tomorrow so I can get rid of a lot of brush that has accumulated on my property.

Much if not most of those branches, trunks, twigs, leaves and whatnot are storm debris from the past year.

A lot of it is from that epic storm on November 1, which took down a whole tree on my property, and did other damage.

Here's the rub: It looks like my cleanup from past strong winds will be canceled by..........strong winds.

Winds in the Champlain Valley are expected to gust over 40 mph tomorrow.  With snow on the ground my brush pile wouldn't spread and cause a forest fire or anything like that, no matter how windy it gets.  But really. You don't want to try and manage a brush pile fire with that kind of wind.

Maybe some other time. We'll see how it goes.

Here's the reason for tomorrow's strong wind. A pretty strong high pressure system is coming in to clear our skies later today and give us a very chilly night tonight.  Many of us will get into the single digits.

That high departs to the east tomorrow.  Like I said, it's strong, and a pretty good sized storm system will press in from the west.

The squeeze play between the high pressure and the storminess will come over Vermont tomorrow afternoon and night, triggering those strong south winds.

The Champlain Valley will further squeeze the air flow between the Green and Adirondack mountains.  That means the wind will be especially strong there.  So instead of cleaning up my storm debris, a little bit might be added to it if winds go well above 40 mph in gusts, which they might do.'

The National Weather Service might issue a wind advisory for the Champlain Valley for tomorrow. It's possible we'll have a few downed limbs and power failures once again.

On the east side of the Green Mountains, the winds won't mix down into the deeper valleys. So when rain arrives late Sunday night, it'll take the form of freezing rain for awhile in some of those valleys.

We are in for a thaw with these south winds and the storm to our west.  That means temperatures will rise into the 40s Monday and stay there into Tuesday before it turns pretty cold again.
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The thin snow cover in the valleys will disappear for awhile with this rainy thaw, but you do tend to get those this time of year.  For the mountains, this thaw will make the quality of the snow take a hit at the ski areas, but grooming and snow making will fix it as we get colder than normal again by the middle of next week.

Also, for those of you who say I should grind up the wood instead of burning it and releasing carbon dioxide and other stuff into the air, you have a point.  Problem is, there's such a great volume of stuff that I have neither the time or the money to do it.  The larger tree trunks are being made into wood chips by a tree service we have hired.  I'm burning up the multitudes of smaller sized branches that have accumulated.

Not a perfect solution, but so be it.