High ground cold and snow in Tolland
Tolland sits on some of the higher ground in the region, and winter is longer and colder than in the river valley below. Snow comes heavier and stays, and ice at the eaves is an annual event on warm-attic colonials and cold-attic period houses alike. Forest covers most lots, so roofs are shaded, valleys fill with debris and limbs come down in ice storms. Open ground around the green and the farms takes wind across exposed slopes. Spring freeze and thaw is long and works at old chimney flashing.

