Moderate temperatures over the last five days has help melt about 5" of snow. The mild melt has made it much easier to walk across the course to check on turf conditions. We were able to make it to all of the greens yesterday. All of them continue to look and smell good. The greens are covered in 4"-9" of snow and .5"-2" of ice. The greens have been under ice for over 70 days. As we saw during the last warm-up, the ice has become much more porous and is pretty easy to drill through.
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The sporadic weather continues with forecasted rain, snow, and below freezing temperatures in the next few days. It looks like temperatures will improve by the weekend and be back in the upper 30's. I will keep you posted on the ever-changing conditions.