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4:26 November 30 31º Cloudy, cold, and windy conditions 9 hours and 8 minutes For my last field study nothing much has chanted from the one prior. Besides the fact that all of the snow has melted the conditions have stayed almost the same. There was about a week long period of warmer weather that got into the low 50s. The past 2 days it has declined back down to below freezing. I can hear the trees swaying back in fourth in the wind. The wind is on stronger side today with a wind high of 25 mph. At this point basically all of the summer animals have migrated south or are burrowed away for the winter. I'm ready for a good cold and snow filled winter thats coming ahead.
4:27 November 17 36ºF Cloudy and dreary conditions 9 hours 47 minutes The weather conditions have changed quite a bit from the last visit. It has already snowed! I tend to keep my expectations low for first snow of the year just so I don't disappoint myself, but I don't have to worry about that. We got the mass majority of the snow on the 12th and 13th. By now since the ground is still somewhat warm it has begun to melt already, but we expect more later this week. The temperature has also changed quite a bit from the las visit, dropping as much as 20 degrees. Aside from a few cars out in the distance and a bit of wind there is almost no noise coming from the nature. By this time almost all if not all of the insects have moved out for the winter and the birds have migrated. My guess is that even if we get a few more warmer days this will be it until next spring.