January provided some energetic winter weather this year. It's not uncommon for us to have ice storms in Iowa but the duration of this one was pretty impressive. Some flat surfaces appeared to have almost a half-inch!
Not too long after the ice, we got a couple rounds of really wet snow. It reminded me of a mountain landscape, with the coniferous trees bent down to the ground.
The greenhouse has been handling the snow very well. It's a A-frame or "gothic" frame shape so it has enough pitch that most precipitation slides off.
The snow which slides off makes pretty big piles on the sides. As a preventative measure, I run along the sides with a snow-blower to make room. As you can see here, the snow was already deep enough to get up to the rounded part of the roof. I figure if I didn't get rid of it, the next snow would have nowhere to go.
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