It’s pretty nice that we’re already in the first week of January, 2025 and we haven’t had to shovel tons of snow and shiver through sub-zero temperatures all that much so far this winter.
It’s pretty cold right now, and it looks like Northern Illinois will be staying well below freezing for the next 10 days or more. This morning, the temperatures around here were in the middle teens with a feels-like temperature of 5 above zero, and there’s more of that to come.
Whenever Northern Illinois goes into a real deep freeze, it seems as though all activity by wildlife comes to an absolute halt while the animal kingdom hunkers down to try to survive the brutal cold, except for Illinois’ squirrels, who are as active as ever despite the weather conditions.
I Understand That Hibernation In Very Cold Weather Keeps An Animal Alive, But There’s Just One Problem With That Here In Illinois…