Got a firewood moisture meter yesterday and got my winter stoke going. Have about 3.5 cords <20% moisture for our new Jotul F600. However much of the red oak is still high teens and I would like to see it 15% or lower. Have another 1.5-2 cords of red oak seasoning for next winter that is already 20-22%. Pretty amazing it is all from gypsy moth damage and I only started collecting last fall. Still a ton more to take down around the yard and town.
Same thing as previous deals. Everyone gets worried about the morning rain, too many clouds, then a round goes through mid-day/early afternoon, sun comes out and sets things up for the 5-8pm window.
Hopefully not much worse. Thing came in with wind like I've never seen before and I have tree branches and limbs to clean up. Tossed a 200+lbs grill over. Three straight afternoons/nights of thunderstorms.
85* with a DP of 75. Doesn't matter since the 10-15mph wind really takes the edge off. Anecdotally, when we have had DPs this high with a stiff SW wind we have gotten some amazing thunderstorms.