Planning a day with 2-3 inches of afternoon snow...

Photowhit

Well, I've been up since 4:30-5, guess I should get up and be somebody...lol. Not getting back to sleep at 9am.

Bonus sunshine, before the storm today!

Planning my Saturday;

Burn barrel and cleaning paper goods!

Haul in as much firewood as possible before the storm, though I pretty much did that yesterday.

Top off house battery, be sure the solar array broom is undercover and easy access!

Be sure to get pork sirloin on the grill by noon!

Check/add wood to woodstove!

Enjoy lunch.

1:30 Snow, nap...lol

5:00 swept snow off solar array, I know you don't want too, but it'll be dang nippy in the morning! Should be bright enough to get some decent charging Sunday!

wellbuilt

Nice , my panels are ice up for the foreseeable future ☹️ They are frozen and won’t melt when is below 20o 

Photowhit

Should melt in the teens if you have direct sun and can get some exposure.
Though perhaps you might be saying -20... no help there!!!

Dave Angelini

Add to the list,  keep the snow shovel where it won't be buried so you can dig out the solar array broom

When this happens here, there is a store in town that has beer, ammo, and gas. They should add pork sirloin, I know they have tri tip,  veggie sandwiches, beyond beef burgers, my favorite is fish tacos!

Oh yea, make sure you have a tow rope in your vehicle. I almost got stuck up on the mountain 2 nights ago. As I punched thru 2 feet of snow by going way to fast on a mountain I thought,  there is no place like home.

706jim

My frozen panels would melt nicely once the cells were uncovered from snow, if even just partially. I invested in a car window scraper to help remove ice safely. Enjoy the cold! (At least there are no bugs at this time of year)

Chris11

Dave Angelini said:

 there is a store in town that has beer, ammo, and gas.

You have a store that still has ammo? 

wellbuilt

My panels just don’t melt off @20o or below once they freeze hard they stay frozen , it needs to be very sunny 
 maybe in a few more weeks the sun will be high enough in the sky to melt some snow . 

 Any way I went from 16” of snow , to a 5’ snow drift across most of it .☹️

  And someone put my panels 30’ in the air .

 I’ll have a scraper to put on the end of my pole for next trip up in a few weeks

Dave Angelini

Chris11 said:

Dave Angelini said:

 there is a store in town that has beer, ammo, and gas.

You have a store that still has ammo? 

Some ammo these days. We are a small rural county and the store has you place an order and they call when it is in. Our big problem is the tourists going thru town on the way to Yosemite National Park.

Photowhit

So we only got an inch or so of dry snow, It did get down to -1 overnight. I was going to wait for double digits to go clear the snow but have nice sun penetration through the upper clouds, distinct shadows, so I went out and cleared them a few minutes ago, 5 degrees (11ish). I was surprised I wasn't getting much of any power through the 1", after clearing the 4Kw area of the array, it had gotten a bit darker, only 5-600 watts charging, but that will top me off if it doesn't get much worse.

The snow fell on sub freezing panels and was dry, so was easy to clear... More, maybe today, certainly tomorrow, before it gets really cold mid week.