It’s warming up considerably here, compared to yesterday, but I suppose that’s only a relative comparison. It’s 8°F (wind chill = 2°) as I write this at 6:30 a.m., compared to 1° (WC = minus 5°) yesterday at 6:45 a.m.
The image above is from yesterday morning in Patten Bay. It’s “young” sea ice doing what it does as the tide lowers: the surface ice blanket lowers with the tide, but has to give way to sizable rocks, which burst through the descending ice plane in interesting formations.
Nearby, Patten Falls at the mouth of Patten Stream was pouring a torrent of fresh water from melting snows and ice into the Bay:
(Images taken in Surry, Maine, on February 25, 2023.)