Thought it might be good to keep track of how she rode over the winter. Feel free to scroll through hero shots of greenhouse in big weather shown on the NOAA Weather Service reports. This is an El Nino year with warmer (for here) temperatures than normal. First photo below is from January when we got 60 inches of snow in two storms back to back. Snow started off light in cold weather but winds turned to Southeast which brings warm, wetter, heavier snow. Eventually turned to rain. I wouldn’t recommend letting this much heavy snow collect but shoveling the driveway, house roof, boat, and helping neighbors took precedence. Didn’t get to the greenhouse until near the end of the event. Did get to it before the rain hit (snow soaks up rain like a sponge and adds weight fast).
November 2023
Third Week of November. We’ve had a lot of rain, some wind so far this winter, a little snow at sea level. This was the first snow with wind. Piled snow on windward side which I shoveled. Greenhouse did fine.
December 2023
Third week of December: Winds to 70 mph across the Channel. *We’ve got some wind breaks so we rarely get full-on winds they get downtown.
January 2024
Second Week of January
Third Week of January
For reference: same load as would have been on the greenhouse before shoveling except the greenhouse shed much of it because of its shape. This storm took down two commercial buildings, sank 8 boats in the harbors, and collapsed a venerable hoop greenhouse that had stood for many years.
You get the idea. The rest of January and early February were more of the same. Greenhouse still standing in Spring.
