Normally this time of year temps below zero (sometimes well below) and we have 2 to 3 feet of snow.... Yesterday over 50 , no snow, but we got rain!! We had one cold snap back in november for a couple of days, but it has been unusually, and pleasantly mild since then..
50+ here too, Nony. I have a feeling that when winter comes it's going to result in a very deep frostline and some frozen water pipes.
We went over 65 yesterday, had the accompanying 20 mph wind, but still was pretty nice over all, thats ending today, highs in the 40 and showers and its supposed to go down hill with storm coming in every 2 or 3 days now.
Currently 70 degrees here, it's supposed to rain tonight. The weather guessers say there is a "robust" winter storm heading this way. Hopefully, it stops in Dallas so I can have another weekend of sunshine.
the yo-yo has started....up around 50 degrees for a couple of days...something like 10 right now with a 50 knot wind...a couple of days like that, then up to 35 for a couple of days, then they say snow by the weekend..........
Its been nice here for the most part, even when we had a couple fronts move through they missed the forecast, no snow showers, nothing, even temps stayed up in the 40 and warmed from there.
Until today anyway :disgust: Windchill is around zero, and we hit our high about midnight they say, going to fall from there.
Which figures, I just got my Xmas present ready after waiting for a receiver to come.
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Looks like Wayne left the back door open again. Winds gusting to 30 here this morning, will only get to 50 for a high and supposed to be in the 20s by the weekend. Y'all can keep that ssssnnn.......ssssssssnnnn......well, you know.
Oooh! Cermark Fantasy Racer! :notworthy: Let me know how it flies - I might want one...... :icon_mrgreen:
Thanks for everyone's help (anoymously, of course...)... temperatures are now down to 30 below with wind chills to 40 below and snow has blanketed everything...and more to come...
Well, it is our turn in the basket. Projected 8-12 inches of snow for tomorrow. We did have a good run of weather going. Now, if I can avoid the idiots who don't know how to drive in the snow, life will be good.
Quote from: Buzzardbeak on January 17, 2012, 08:29:33 AM
Well, it is our turn in the basket. Projected 8-12 inches of snow for tomorrow. We did have a good run of weather going. Now, if I can avoid the idiots who don't know how to drive in the snow, life will be good.
Welcome to my world, Frank!
I know that one. Been to International Falls in the winter. BBBRRRRRRR!!!!
QuoteNow, if I can avoid the idiots who don't know how to drive in the snow, life will be good.
now.... you know that is not going to happen Frank.. People live on the left coast to avoid the snow, therefore have no skills for dealing with same... (BTDT !)
Plumbers are making their money this year. -22 this morning and there's less than an inch of snow on the ground. So far so good for us, but if this cold is sustained for any length of time, the money I don't have to put a new roof on the house is going to become money I don't have to bury new water lines...
okay, I'm thawed out now..... out of the cold snap and up above the freezing mark for the upcoming week...that means everything will melt during the day, then freeze again overnight...should be interesting driving....
How is everyone else coping?
Man we really have not had much for cold snaps, just branch snaps from the wind. We had some 75mph gusts a couple times, I had stuff flying that I thought would never fly. :eek5:
This has been a most fortuitous winter for us. February starts tomorrow and we haven't had to shovel even once. What little we get just blows away by the end of the day. My cabin fever, unfortunately, doesn't stem from the weather.
Lookin' at temps above freezing for the foreseeable (until the weekend :icon_confused: ) future.
Well sounds like the fun is over, we have a blizzard warning up for us starting tonight, with snow going until Saturday morning sometime. Which is great timing since the RC auction in Denver is this weekend, and I pre registered. :disgust:
ooooo...that is bad timing... maybe the forecast will be wrong.....maybe.....
Your blizzards turned into a whole lot of rain here. Been wet for four days now, supposed to keep up for a few more. At least it's not cold. We'll have a bumper crop of mosquitos this spring for sure.
not a cloud in the sky...very spring-like out there.....
.....Only means the payback will be severe and ruthless.....................
Five solid days of zeerow viz fog here finally broke about an hour ago. Supposed to get winter this week, but "they"'ve been so wrong this last year that I'll wait to see...
Well I guess it was not meant for me to get to the auction this year, roads were bad on Sat morning still, so I waited until Sunday to go down, its a 2 day auction and usually they push to get out of the event center on time on Sunday after noons, this year they were done by 10:30 AM on Sunday, which sucked since I got there about 11. :disgust:
Now they are talking below normal temps and snow showers off and on all week.
More rain today. And yesterday. And tomorrow. All those blizzards you guys have been getting are melted by the time they get here!
We are back to our usual quota of the wet stuff. Must be the reason they call it the evergreen state instead of the ever brown state. :eusa_think: :eusa_think:
We got our first quarter-inch of snow in a long time last night. I'm now told that we're in a drought. OK then Roger & Joyce, move it over and pass the canteen...
40s again today...The Guessers are predicting snow every day but Friday this week. We've been blessed that there's been no need to shovel a flake this winter, as they only started letting me excercise my shoulder day before yesterday. The process is excruciatingly slow. By the time my shoulder is good to go it will be time for something else to fall off... :disturbed:
Yeah we are in that winter doll drum thing, cold and windy broken up by cold and snowy, but just enough to make roads slick and not really make anything wet for long. I have been wanting to fly the new plane, but the runway needs some blading, but its dry enough that if I touch it it will blow off when it dries out.
It is still unusually mild here, although it snowed all day today (a whopping 4" !!) there is virtually no accumulation of snow. That is going to spell big trouble later on with no moisture in the soil (for the farmers) and probably another nasty fire season.....
Belay that...we now got a blizzard.
Stetto...looks like it's heading your way.....
Yup. It's h-eeeeee-eeeere...
I amend this to say that this is the first legitimate snowstorm we've seen here this year. The idiots at the "weather centers" even up to last night were claiming that it would miss us way to the north. We are, of course, smack dab in the middle of it, with more (supposedly much more) coming on Tuesday, which is "supposed" to hit us dead on. I expect that one to hit Iowa... :devil:
Yesterday we had snow, hail, and sunshine all at once. :eusa_think: :eusa_think:
Of course, at 45 degrees, the snow and hail didn't stay long.
So much for the "advanced" technology in weather prediction. A dusting of snow, 10 mph breeze. This storm showed up 200 miles off the track they predicted just last night.
I wish these buffoons would quit pretending they know stuff...
Gad, I wanna be a tv weatherman. Who else can collect a check for being so freakin' wrong all the time?
They keep forecasting 40s for tommorow. Then we get get snow, wind and low 20s, and another forecast of 40s for tommorow.
Do you s'pose they hire bodyguards to go out into public?
No, because everyone is hunkered down hiding from the weather when they dare to go out. :eusa_eh:
Hey that might be a viable career path for ya.... no liftin', no ladders, no "checks in the mail", you just have to look good and wave your arms around......
Uh, you had me until "you just have to look good..." :icon_smile:
must be spring time...I saw my first convertable with the top down this afternoon.........
Heck Nony, we've been dodging crotch rockets for a few weeks now...Catch up,man...
Hey, we are about 9000 miles further north than you.......!!!!
(Wait til you see what the weather gods have in store for us tomorrow!)
well the "blizzard" that we were supposed to get just grazed us, so all we got was some freezing rain....the sun came back out in the afternoon, and most of that has dissappeared... the convertibles and rotch crockets are back on the streets.....
We had 10 drops so far, don't know how we have kept from flooding.
must be the Koi pond saved the day.........
Must be them gold fishes drink a lot.
Whoa!! We got slam dunked yesterday... a foot of the white stuff...
80 degrees and severe clear here in the swamp. Of course, I'm in the bunker right now and can't enjoy it....
Hey Nony, around here the white stuff is either fire ant powder or the fuzz floating off the cottonwoods.
Yeah, I wish we had some, but its looking like about mid to late June around here already. Going to be a long summer
Dag blame it!! We've had more snow this spring, than all of winter...that in itself would not be so bad but it comes in bunches, warms up melts into goo and mud, then we get hit with another one, and repeat cycle...I sure all the plants and trees are totally confused what season they are in.....
Well we have not had winter to speak of. We had a 'big storm' just roll through, give us maybe a 10th inch or rain and a some sleet enough to dampen the side walk, and of course the 40mph wind. We were lucky in that he worst of the squall split right when it got to us so north and south of us just a mile or so had some pretty good rain, well 2 or 3 tenths anyway.
This is really not looking good for summer.
Rain gauge has an inch and a half in it this morning. Add that to an inch and a half a week ago and we're catching up in the outer region of Nowhere. It was a really warm, dry winter, and if the temps were just a bit lower here we'd have what Nony's getting...
I'd be happy to send some wet stuff to all who desire it. I would like to see some sunshine for a while. :eusa_wall: :eusa_wall:
ARRRRRG!!!
We went 2 whole weeks without any snow (lots of rain, though)...all the vegetation started turning this funny green color...dunno if it was mildew, or what.... Then today we get rain (lots of it), snow (lots) wind(lots), more rain and snow and wind (cars in the ditch, upside down, traffic slowed to a crawl) more rain, lots more wind, then.......nothing! The sky cleared up, the wind stopped just as if nothing had happed...
Wonky weather!!!
Heh, we have had 2 days of showers and thunderstorms roll through, and got a whole 1tenth of an inch out of it. This is about as dry as I have seen it here, no pasture, fields are dry. We missed the week of green and went straight to grey. :sadness:
fortunately there is irrigation water, but man is this not going to be fun if it stays this way through the hot parts of summer.
Yeah, I know it is critical for your livelihood to get some moisture....we might be in the same boat here, with no snow pack to provide the moisture levels in the soil, what rain we get is soaked up right away and I believe we are still in a fire ban due to the dry conditions...which is incredulous when you are up to your ankles in slush...
I really hope you get some badly needed rain soon.... I bet Lake Fubar must be dried up.........
Heheh, yeah right now its Fubar salt flats. :)
Fubar Salt Flats? How long is it? I want to see how fast my RC Mustang GT will go...... :disturbed:
now there is someone who can see a silver lining !!!
:icon_lol:
Well mine is just long enough to make a good wreck, but the neighbor is long enough to set a land speed record. :)
Well we went almost 4 months and got 3/10 of an inch of moisture. I got to where I would pray daily, sometimes more, "God, we could sure use a little rain"
Couple days ago, a thunderstorm came out of the south, which is odd, usually when they come from that way it means trouble, and while it did have a little hail in it, it dumped 3" of rain :eek5:
Now I pray "God, I could use a little gold" :disturbed:
Huh. The local weather-guessers have been predicting "severe" weather and "heavy" rain here all Spring. The next day they repeat the forecast, but for tomorrow, never acknowledging their useless forecast of the night before.
I remember, before they were so addicted to computer simulations, that they were actually pretty close some of the time. Nowadays? Never, though they argue with numbers they pulled out a computer simulator's ass that say they're ALWAYS right.
...Village idiots, all of 'em, and me looking at a lot of dry earth.
Its 100 degrees out... for the canuckistans its hotter than heck out :icon_lol: since you have funny degrees and stuff to measure with.. and wind 28 gusting to 37 mph. We had no rain here in may and so far in June other than once we got the sidewalk wet... literally. Way below average moisture and way above temps all year. Our wheat harvest will probably start Monday. We have never cut wheat this early, sometimes starting about the 4th of July area. Right now I dont know how any fall crops will grow, unless the Good Lord blesses us with some good rain this summer and fall.
If I can get this link to work, its an online weather dealy bop that my brother in law has and it is hooked up to the national weather service somehow. http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=DW9439&last=12 (http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=DW9439&last=12) His house is 1/4 mile away from where I live.
Yeah its been a weird weather year. Bet this isnt the last of weird weather too... what with all the hot air blowing in D.C.
up til Friday, it has been dry which is usual for this time of year..fire bans, forest fires, but fortunately, no cities burning down yet. That was then...... now.....well....does anyone have plans for an Arc?? need them desperately!!
About time; A good two-day soaker. We have just under 2 inches in the guage since yesterday morning, and should have another half-inch by this afternoon. My folks, about 20 miles southeast of us, have 4 already and had tennis ball size hail yesterday.
The other problem is the danged constant Wyoming 30 knot breeze we're suffering this year.
We've had so much hot air blowing around here you'd thing the politicians were campaigning this year.
Heh, we had our second 'shower' night before lase, about 11pm lightning was putting a world class show, and then it rained, and then it rained hard form.
So just to recap we have had since the end of Feb, about 3.8" of rain (3.5 in the last couple weeks) and 2+ inches of hail. Glad I am not farming and just sitting watching the grass not grow. :disgust:
Actually other than gardens and trees, timing was OK, what little hay I had was mostly up and stacked, the young seeding like the millet and oats is so short its didn't hurt it. But I feel for the guys with corn and especially wheat that was close to mature. You can mark this year in the 'fun' catagory already. :icon_smile:
We had a little rain earlier in the week, which only caused the grass to grow at an accelerated rate, rearranged the bugs on the windshield on my truck and added a few hundred percentage points to the humidity. But it's only 92 degrees, so it's not that noticable....
We hit 100 yesterday, with a 20mph wind, supposed to be 5 hotter today. Yet this morning there is a fog bank over us, go figure.
hmmm....sounds like a sauna.....heat, humidity, ambiance.....all you need now is some paying customers......
Yeah this has been weird, yesterday it was a sauna, but the days before it was dry as a bone except for foggy mornings.
It has been hotter'n'ell here all week and last night two hellacious storms rolled through....didn't cool anything down, but left lots of flooding and hail damage just to the southwest of us...
Its been summer here for sure, triple digits and mid to high 90s, smoke went away finally, an d we actually have had a sprinkle or 2. Naturally, since I have hay down. :eusa_wall:
Huh. We got a half inch of rain and a downdraft wind two nights ago, and now I have ten 35 ft rows of sweet corn lying flat on the ground.
I hate that. More than just about anything. Hopefully some of it will recover.
Temps are moderating now, easing towards Fall. They say it will be a long, warm one. Their problem is that they're rarely if ever right...
We are moderating too, 102 instead of 105. :eusa_doh: Actually Saturday it only got to 85, and though that felt hot because the sun was intense it was nice in the morning and evening. of course Sunday was back to 95 or more and today is triples again. Its so dry that you can't see the difference in color between grass and dirt, everything is just gray /brown that has had no irrigation.
pant....pant.....pant.......wheeze....... I don't do well in hot weather. Blazing hot during the day, then thunderstorms and torrential rains overnight......anyone want some skeeters???
Yew kin keep yer dag-nabbitted buzz-bombers there, Nony, but the rain would be a novel item. When they get a couple inches south, we get a quarter inch. When they get a couple inches north of us, we get a quarter inch...
...or nuthin'.
The only plus around here is the smallest population of mosquitos in decades, and that's nice...But the FLIES!!! :eusa_wall:
The corn is attempting to raise itself, we may get an ear or two yet.
It rained for about thirty minutes yesterday and this morning. Just enough to get the humidity above a thousand percent to go with the 97 degrees after the sun came out.
It did get below 80 last night, though.
Somewhere I heard that when trees are stressed by lack of moisture they go dormant early...I hope that's the case, because box elder makes really crappy firewood. Our entire grove, which is usually a lush little wetland full of frogs and ducks and a primordial ooze that you could lose a pair of hipwaders in is already an unhealthy yellow-brown.
The yard is "greenish", but mostly quackgrass and weeds. I've been giving the higher class of trees (maple, elm, cherry, apple) a 5-gallon drink of water every week from our 300 ft well and they even look like third world refugees.
...Just 50 miles south of us they're having problems with "too much" rain. I would like too much rain. I have no idea how the aquafer where our well is sunk is doing, but even at that depth without something substantial for rain it'll eventually dry up.
Stetto, you better keep the trees you want watered, and really well. We lost the elm that's been in our backyard for twenty years at the beginning of the summer. Ike beat it up a few years ago and the drought last year finished it off. I think most of the water I poured on it got soaked up by the grass around it, but when it went, it went fast.
Water? Whats that stuff. Theres not even enough of that to hardly drink around here. We have not really had a rain all year. We did have a couple three showers this summer of like .10 hundredths and one of .40 hundredths. Ours hadn't yet anyway but there are people in our county that have had their water wells go dry.
I'd make a crack about not taking a shower but once a month, but I don't want anbody thinking that is true :icon_smile:
Motto of the El Paso Surf Club (of which I was once a member) - "Real men don't need water." :disturbed:
Heh, yeah its dry. Our roads went from blow sand to compacted cracked clay now to soft powder so its like driving in 4" of snow. Last real rain was in June that gave a gully washer and then a couple showers weeks apart that maybe gave 2 tenths, but we have had record number of 95+ and triple digit days, and a lot of wind so to say its dry is like saying Kate Beckinsale is sort of attractive. We have been fortunate as we have had plenty of irrigation water, its has kept the crops going where we could get it wet, its kind of surreal to see the dry pastures that look like nothing but dirt with a few weeds next to a really bright green and lush alfalfa or millet field. But I am feeding cows already, grass is non existent, even the emergency CRP grazing some guys got is just about gone already. Going to be a lot of cows at the sale barn I'm afraid.
I think everyone just keeps hope there will be a real winter in the mountains or this will be nothing compared to next year.
Vicki was talking to a local rockhound, and she said that just south of us up until the 70s or so was a year round sand dune, it would move around even in a 3 mile or so area. When we would get a good wind the rockhound would come out and look for arrowheads. I guess it was prolific enough that apparently one of our neighbors even had a flat on his tractors from an arrowhead. When the CRP came out they required they stabilize it, so planted some weeds and grass to hold it and its been grassed over ever since, until this year, it starting to blow in places again.
wish I could help you guys out....we've had maybe 2 weeks of warm weather all summer, the rest of the time rain, wind, thunder, lightning, wind, more rain....
I see there is lots of rain, but in places that don't really need it, like Indy.....
We are still dry, but like throwing a switch its starting to cool off some. Still going to be 90 something today, but maybe 70 tomorrow. After all this hot weather (http://www.fubarhill.com/emoticons/cold.gif)
Nary a drop of relief here. We got a cool down, hmmm is that because Stetto and Canuckistan have not been posting as much lately??? Anyway some of our millet that we have out is about 3 inches high and headed out. LOL never seen that before. Hardly above the drill row and headed out. No way in creation can a person swath that. At least the ground is not bare and maybe there is enough root system to keep the ground together and not blow too bad this winter. Most everyone's corn has burnt up here, but surprisingly, we may get some milo out of all of this. I dont know yet what wheat drilling this year will consist of. We may wait until october sometime and try it then when the ground has cooled off and maybe some deep moisture will come back up.
Sorry to hear that Ron. We've gone into a "fall pattern", which is supposed to consist of day-long soaking rainstorms and threats of frost. The morons keep predicting it, and it keeps not happening.
It is cooler though, for now. I believe one almanac or another predicted a long, warm Fall. All I know is that if we don't get a respectable snowpack this winter the tough sledding we had this year will be nuthin' compared...
That sucks, I had worried that's what my millet was going to do this spring, and I had some in the ground for 6 weeks before it sprouted. When it did, it just sat there just barely out for 3 more weeks until it finally started to grow after one of our big 1/10" rains and it got big enough for me to irrigate it without washing out. In the end it did pretty well considering but man its been a struggle. And I have seen some dry land that came up and went domant or died, just looks like sparse dead grass.
Well, I guess being the Gobi west is a little premature. We actually had some measurable rail the last couple days, it clouded up and started to drizzle on Tuesday and rained all night, and most of the next day, actually got a good soaked in 1/2" or so, no puddles or anything, but its definitely damp.
If you guys got any of that Ron, you will be busy trying to get wheat in. It also cooled way off, was down right chilly on Wednesday. Back to 90 tomorrow, and then back down to 60 for highs after, its roller coaster weather time now.
we got .26 hundredths out of it all.
Man, I hope nothing washed away. :icon_smile:
hmm...last week it was warm and sunny and everything was unseasonably green. (usually start to see the leaves turning at the end of August..). Over the weekend, then not only turned colour, but dropped from the trees...so lots of naked trees on the landscape.......
Well we got a harsh reality check there are other seasons than summer. 86 yesterday, 83 today until about noon or so, then when the cold front came through dropped 30 degrees in about 45 minutes. by 6 it was 48 and a 20mph wind. Welcome to fall. :eusa_doh:
Snowing here today. Early for the season, but I'll take it. I planted the last of my bucket-bound tree sapl,ings yesterday, a basswood and a buckeye. Thought it best to wait till they were dormant.
"They" are saying 3-6" to a hundred miles south of us. I'll go conservative and say maybe a trace. The radar shows us on the edge of everything.
Thought you always lived on the edge :disturbed:
We have a shot at rain/snow here next couple of nights. We are out trying to get some wheat planted.
It's just not normal to run the heater in the tractor drilling wheat. A/c should be on high for that.
QuoteWell we got a harsh reality check there are other seasons than summer. 86 yesterday, 83 today until about noon or so, then when the cold front came through dropped 30 degrees in about 45 minutes.
.......isn't that what you were praying for in the middle of August??
:icon_lol: :icon_lol:
Heheh, yeah but timing is everything! And hey, it felt good...for about 30 minutes, then the new wore off. :icon_smile:
holy shirts, is it ever chicken pluckin' cold out this morning!
It got warm again--70s yesterday, not as nice today...BUT IT'S RAINING!!! :eusa_clap:
We might actually get an inch or more out of this, more than we've gotten at once in months. Might be too little too late, but I'll take what I can get.
I planted some basswood saplings last week, yesterday I checked on them and found that fox squirrels consider basswood shoots to be a delacacy :eusa_wall: . At least they haven't touched the buckeye trees (yet), but to ward them (and the rabbits) off I set buckets over top of them with bricks to hold them down. If they want them, they'll have to work for it.
Were those the hybrid variety that flower into airplanes? :icon_smile:
We have had a little snow and couple showers go through, its still so dry it gets soaked up immediately, but its something at least to get the trees and fields get something before the ground freezes hopefully. The wind returned, can't say I missed it much. Buts its been one of those wild falls so far with crazy swings, 80 one day 50 and drizzly the next type thing.
...And global warming ended 16 years ago, so we goan' need a new scapegoat....
Mebbe Bush did it...
So far this year we have received 6.95 inches of precip for the calender year so far. This comes from a Kansas State Research Station located about 6 miles from our farm. 10" below normal for this calender year too.
Yeah, that's about where we are at, though we may be actually a little lower since the reporting station is 20 miles away and they have gotten more rain than we have.
6.6" and normally 13", last year we were 16" this at time of year, what a difference.
Fargo is was at 11.somesuch inches before this current rain. Fargo is 40 miles away and spent the entire year on a different weather track than us.
We haven't had 6 inches right here in my back yard--That includes all of last winter, so basically less than 6 inches for a calender year.
The guage just passed 1" an hour or so ago and there's more coming. Slow soaker, the best kind.
ugh!
Nice post card Nony. So far we are back to warm and dry. :-\
Really cold here. Getting down to 55 at night and it's still 59. Brrrr
Hmm, 45 here, and it feels pretty darn balmy... :eusa_think:
anybody be wanting some snow?? I got connections and can make special arrangements to have it sent direct...and the best part is it is absolutely free| Limited time offer (expires March 2013) So act now, and get your very own personalized snowstorm.....just think how impressed your friends and neighbors will be!!!
Man I would take you up on that, its shaping up like last year for us, and that is really really bad.
No thanks. We had our cold snap for the year (got down to 40 a few nights ago), but it's supposed to be clear and sunny and in the high 70's for the rest of the week. There hasn't been any appreciable rain here in quite a while.
Yup, we'll take 6 feet or so, if you got the extra. The storms are all going way north of us...Huh, right in your neighborhood, go figger...
Half inch of rain this morning...Has turned to snow, and that means whatever's under it is going to make for a mean drive home tonight--Terrin is in town until late. I trust her to drive with sense, it's the multitudes of idiots out there that I hope she sees coming...
I'm jealous, I saw a snow flake or 2 last night.
lucky, lucky you!!
Hey, Thanks for the Xmas present nony, we have something meaesurable out there!
We finally got some snow today. I imagine it is down in texas now, as hard as the wind is blowing.
The big storm is missing us way to the south. Once again a bridesmaid... :eusa_wall:
Ok, which one of you northerners left the freakin' gate open? The temps have dropped 20 degrees in the last two hours and the wind is 30 knots gusting to 40. Not a fit day for us thin skin people. It rained horizontally for about a minute late last night.
Would one of you please close that gate? Don't need any of the snnn........ssssssssnnn......you know....
Relax...after tomorrow it won't matter..........
This sign was outside the local Mazda dealership:
If I'm not mistaken, the Mayans didn't predict the Spaniards.
Quoteleft the freakin' gate open?
.sorry dude...it is frozen...won't budge an inch! And if you think it is cold down there......c'mon up!!!.......if you dare.......
Wayne! look what you have done now. :icon_biggrin:
....heh heh....always wanted to see frozen Texican chickin feathers......... :icon_biggrin: :icon_biggrin:
Well, Nony, the feathers thawed out, probably because someone on your end finally closed the gate. Now they're just wet because it's raining and foggy here. We're heading west to El Paso this weekend - it's cold, windy and clear there.
Glad you hear you survived the brutal forces of winter...we are finally coming out of the deep freeze here as well....
Yeah, those sub 70 degree days are tough.... :icon_mrgreen:
Winter actually showed up here, below zero and white stuff. We are back up in the 20s even 30s again, but after all those 60 degree days it was shock to the system.
Heh, I just don't see how you can cope with those extremes down there Jaime. :icon_smile:
QuoteHeh, I just don't see how you can cope with those extremes down there Jaime.
It's pretty annoying - shorts and flip flops one day, shorts and parkas the next. What's the world coming to?
Quote from: jetmex on December 29, 2012, 10:50:21 AM
QuoteHeh, I just don't see how you can cope with those extremes down there Jaime.
It's pretty annoying - shorts and flip flops one day, shorts and parkas the next. What's the world coming to?
flip flops? back in the day a real man wore thongs. At least that is what a thong was back then.
Men in thongs? That is not a pretty mental image there Fraz. :icon_lol:
Back in high school every one here who wore "flip flops" actually called them thongs, as in I got a cool pair of thongs to wear going to the pool. A current "thong" back in high school we called a g string.
Just like nowadays when some guy thinks a gurl is "sick" I just ask the kid " how can you tell she is running a fever from here?" :disturbed:
Ahhhh lingo.
QuoteMen in thongs?
....sounds like another Mel Brooks movie....
Blizzard warnings here today...Except that it's raining...
Personally I don't care which form it takes, we NEED the moisture.
Oh man did you guys send the cold from up nort' -6 the last 2 mornings, and we had about 4" of white stuff with some wind. :errrr:
-6 !!!
..balmy shirt-sleeve weather! :icon_lol:
Yeah, it was -6 yesterday when I brought another glass-door-at-ramming-speed-suicidal bird back to life and set 'im free...
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Since we installed the "wall-o-glass" last summer we get a bird or two every week doing the kamikaze. Just glad they ain't BIG birds... :eek5:
get one of them fake owls and put it on your porch.......
I'm afraid of owls...Fake or otherwise.
Yeah? Well I caught the gold fish out of the frozen over pond trying to sneak in and use the internet book a flight to Florida. :icon_biggrin:
We get a bird or two a year try to come down the chimney in our fireplace. Since we never use it, I just got a cover for the opening outside the house. Think it's fun keeping birds out of the house? Try getting one out of the house!
One of you northerners left the damn gate open again. It hasn't been above 40 all week and it's raining / sleeting to boot. My thongs are frozen onto the back porch :eek5: (and no, Frazz wasn't in them...)
ain't me.....believe it or not, we got rain!! Temps up 48 degrees since Saturday - unbelieveable!!!!
Is it true that water freezes when the temp drops below 60 in Texas???
Jaime, our part of Texas is predicted to have a high temp of -18 (f) next Monday. Y'all come on up and we'll go fishin'!
QuoteIs it true that water freezes when the temp drops below 60 in Texas???
It's
twue!! It's
twue!!
Stetto, by my calculation, based on the above quote, that would make your temp about 42 degrees. Don't the fish freeze when it gets that cold? :disturbed:
OOH, guys! It's blizzarding here!
No new snow, but the wind is kicking up some good whiteout stuff.
Gonna be -25 in the morning.
big sigh of relief......the ice age has returned. Life, as we know it, can resume its' normal course.......
Blizzard? That's that ice cream dessert thing we get at Dairy Queen...
Tee Hee... we just got home from a cruise to Grand Turk, Dominican Republic, Curacao and Aruba.
We keep asking ourselves just wtf are we doing living in kansas with places like that around. Oh I sure could get used to that cold ole 75 degree temp at night, then go splishy splashy all around in the 80-87 degree daytime temps. Willemstad on Curacao was our favorite place out off all of them... although Aruba ... dadgum that is a nice place too.
Never want to go back to the dominican republic though, that is sure a bad place to be, at least at LaRomana where we docked at. Our ship had some passengers get robbed. We never left the port area ourselves as we just didnt feel safe. A lady was on a tour bus just outside of the port area and stopped at a light. A motorcycle rider and a passenger on the back of the cycle rode up to the bus, the passenger stood up on the bike, reached inside the bus ( it was an open air bus) and stole her necklace right off of her body, and injured her also on her throat area when he grabbed the necklace. It all happened so fast no one had time to react and the cycle took off and was very quickly out of sight.
Ocho Rios was a dark dirty dangerous place when we were there in '90. They had armed perimeters around the tourist markets. Not much of a vacation haven!
Speaking of the tropics, it's -26 right here, right now!
roger that! OR is a pretty scary place!!
what?
Whoo Hoo! 8 inches o' snow! Most we've gotten at once in two years...
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Only took me 45 minutes to get the Chinese Honda clone on the snowblower to start--Glad I soaked the carb down with Sea Foam two years ago!
F-f-f-f-ff-free-eee-eezzz-ingggg ....s-s-s-sendd h-h-h-heatt !!!!
42 below this morning........
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...Like mine better... :P
We're getting what you have Thursday morning, but only for a morning...
we have another day of this, then it is supposed to go above freezing for the weekend..........
I hate to do this to you guys, but it's severe clear here, supposed to be 72 today. Guess it's about time to dust the airplanes off and see if I can still fly.
A good friend from back home will be visiting this weekend, and I'll be helping my daughter out at a local gun show tomorrow. It's shaping up to be good days off.
You don't know how to live, Jaime...
They lied. We had -20 again this morning, 30-something below yesterday. Sposed to get in the 20s above for the foreseeable future, but I cease to believe the weather liars. It will be what it will.
I'm just hoping for snow, and lots of it.
For some reason we are just on the edge of that cold stuff you guys have, the outside edge fortunately. We are getting some wind, but its been 50+ the last couple days.
When you say "I live in Wyoming and it's windy", isn't that technically redundant?
:disturbed:
Well there is wind, and there is WIND. We usual don't count the usual lower case version as 'wind'. :icon_smile:
I just remember trying to "crab" the Telemaster in and actually landed sideways, dropping in like a helicopter.
"Well there is wind, and there is WIND"
Is the weather rock moving?
It was a little breezy, yeah. :disturbed:
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Shouldn't that windsock be blaze orange? Just sayin... :eusa_think:
Jethro Bodine and his pals at the weather service are predicting a foot to 16 inches of snow here sunday. Coming via Casper.
Give us a little warning, wouldja Honcho? :eek5:
I'm guessing the paint blew off before it had a chance to dry.........
Heh, doesn't matter if it dry, its gets stripped off from the New Sahara sands.
And OK Stetto, There is snow coming your way. Supposed to be here Saturday, 4-6" But I am not worried, its going to be going by at 40mph so they say. :sadness:
..Yep, more proof that Nebraska sucks....(Oops, did I type that out loud? :disturbed: )
The wind made measurements difficult after about 12" fell, but according to local reports we're at somewhere around 17".
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And the birds knew it was coming; This was taken yesterday before the snow started to get going.
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Little bastiges are still out there this morning. This was two minutes ago...
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Drifts are hip-high, wind is whipping, gonna be a good day to dig concrete, er snow...
Heh, well ours was a bust despite all the big blizzard talk, we had maybe 2" if that, and a little bit of 25mph wind. Not that I m complaining about not having a blizzard, but we are going to be seeing sand dunes if this keep up.
I feel your pain. I've actually never been so happy to have to dig out, we had 6" of moisture last year, Phoenix had over 10...
Quote from: Onepoint on February 11, 2013, 07:07:14 AM
Heh, well ours was a bust despite all the big blizzard talk, we had maybe 2" if that, and a little bit of 25mph wind. Not that I m complaining about not having a blizzard, but we are going to be seeing sand dunes if this keep up.
Just aint that the truth. We got a lil skiff of snow lately.
Drove 42 miles to Fargo yesterday in a pre-blizzard weather event. Took over an hour to get there...
The drive back (in the dark) took 2 & a half.
Hardly any new snow, but huge winds. Saw more than a dozen in the ditches and drove behind/around even more potential in-the-ditches. People are incredibly stupid when they aren't from here. Nort Decoder is one of the only states hiring these days, and morons are clambering from all over the country to come kill themselves in tundra weather conditions.
Whoa... whats that stuff.... the ground outside is white instead of brown now. Weather liars (ha stetto) say we might see snow in some quantity. That is something we have not had for several years.
Yeah they were predicting we were going to get hammered, but changed it and said that you guys out that way were going to get he brunt of it. We did get white, but not much to count. Sure as hell is cold though, our thermometers are lying. Between the wind and damp it was about as cold as it has felt all year yesterday.
This one's missing us to the south. I'm not unhappy, these plow geeks have never been so slow or incomplete in storm cleanup. We have a good 20 inches on the ground, that'll do for now...
I do have the county plowguy who does our road trained up nice--He lifts his blade now as he goes by--Last week they brought in the industrial snow blower to eliminate the 5 foot berm at the end of the drive. That was nice too...
Well Ron? We're all a-twitter to know--How much didja get? I was hearing ludicrous amounts of 7 feet in places NOT in the mountains....
You get back to us when that shovel cools off... :disturbed:
well, havent seen any official amounts in my area but think we got 3-5 inches is all.
Man, that's hardly an inch of moisture...Here's hoping for a healthy wet Spring.
After our last snow event the official panic distributors have begun screaming "FLOOD!" from high and low. Like their big brothers at the networks they don't pass on an opportunity to stir the muck.
They predicted 24" for us on Wednesday night. I hustled to get all the hay I need ed to haul down to CO by Wed afternoon, and we got a skiff. They predicted snow showers for today, and I get up to 4" and its snowing like crazy. The only time weather guessers are right in when the y say they are wrong.
umm.......it's raining up here.......
oops..... now it is snowing..............a lot!!
We're told last night that we're going to get 12+" tonight and tomorrow...Or maybe 6-10...Or 4...Or maybe an inch.
And they get paid for this.
you should join them.....working conditions probably do not include climbing on ladders, or even going outside......
We got about 5" of wet snow, but its mostly gone now, supposed to be windy and warm this week a couple days which should suck all that out. I just looked at snowpack, we are at about 68% of normal.
Stetto...looks like a big one may come across your back porch.... My brother lives north of you and they are getting hammered....
We'll see, Nony. Usually the panic mongers have schools closed before the storm gets close, but hard as they're trying (it's almost comical watching these poor boobs standing on a windy-but-snow-free street, waving their arms and hollering "RUN!"), no one's biting on their BS this time.
It's that crying "wolf!" thing. This is how the weather schmucks are going to get people killed...
Not a flake of snow yet, but the radar looks...busy...
Meh...We got a few inches, wind blew it all into 3-foot berms (all over MY driveway :eusa_doh: ), and it's up over 32 degs today.
...Gonna be a sloppy Spring, and damm glad of it.
We had a couple days of blizzard warning here, and it started snowing pretty hard about 5:30 or so this AM. We have a couple inches so far an no wind, but its coming down pretty hard. They are predicting 6-11" with 35mph sustained wind.
I spent most of yesterday doing what we could to get ready for a big blow.
Must be spring because the day before yesterday, it was so warm and nice I didn't wear a coat after 10 am and I flew for a half an hour in the after noon it was so calm. But yesterday and last night it just felt weird, everything kind of holding its breath for this.
50 to 80 percent chance of precipitation through tomorrow. Supposed to have a significant temp drop starting tonight with highs in the frigid 60s and low maybe one night dropping to the long john mid 30s. After Tuesday, highs go back to the almost bearable 70s but nights still in the near frigid 40s.
Well we are supposed to hover around 30 today, with low 20s for the low after this moves out, and then back in the 60s and 70s by next weekend. So its not like this is one of those bitter cold storms. But man is that stuff heavy and wet. We have about 4" on the level now, and it weighs about 40 lbs per shovel full. :eek5:
Freezing rain, then snow, then freezing rain. We had a concert yesterday and all of a dozen people showed up.
The panic mongers have really boosted the odds of major flooding over in the Red River Valley, then turn around and say that all this snow and moisture WILL HAVE NO EFFECT on the current drought. To have no effect it would have to flash-thaw and run off before the frost comes out of the ground. I swear these weather idiots get their marching orders right out of the WH office of re-educational affairs...
He, flooding and drought. I guess I need to look those up again. Apparently they do not mean what I think they do.
I also notice they don't make blizzards like they used to either, Snowed pretty hard, we probably got about 8" total, never more than about 5" at once and by last night it was down to 3. the wind showed up, but was not near what tehy calimed and only after the snowhad stopped and melted.
It was snowing and temp was showing 35 degrees yesterday, why it was not raining is beyond me. But I will take it, its a good shot of moisture, though I would not be surprised to see dust by Tuesday or Wednesday.
Spring is comin' ......ah done seed if wif muh own eyes!!
Mind you, I had to drive 900 miles to the coast, but there it was...green stuff all over the ground....big yellow warm thing in the sky...why I even got a bug splatter on my windshield!!!
We left Christmas card land to get there.....kinda reluctant to come back...
:icon_smile: Uh, if that is your spring pic, I think we have different ideas of spring.
Quote from: Onepoint on March 12, 2013, 07:12:59 AM
:icon_smile: Uh, if that is your spring pic, I think we have different ideas of spring.
Yah, I was just thinkin' that...
That picture was the scene we left...and the one we came back to.....
Spring looks like this:
Spring--schming, we've been getting an inch of snow every night for three nights now, and now they tell us to expect another foot of the stuff on Monday--
And we have another concert happening next Friday.
http://www.butchmorgan.com/
He's from Devine TX...Maybe some of you know him?
Don't know him, but I used to live in Devine, TX. when I was a youngster.
I don't know if that's a tall tale or not. You were a youngster? :eusa_think: :disturbed:
So, we set a new record high here in Tribune, Kansas yesterday. 86 degrees.
I was a youngster a loooong time ago. BTW, MIL lives in Devine and to keep on topic, it's supposed to be 95 deg there on Monday.
Quote from: zrct02 on March 16, 2013, 01:22:10 PM
I was a youngster a loooong time ago. BTW, MIL lives in Devine and to keep on topic, it's supposed to be 95 deg there on Monday.
My Irish Lager?
Mother in Law
It has been snowing for 3 days now, with at least one more day....
Had to go through the city (Edmonton) today and had to put the truck in 4 wheel drive most of the way, including through the downtown core......
Heads up stetto...the system is heading south east........
Yah Nony, the warnings have begun. Funny, too, until a couple days ago this entire week was "forecast" to be in the 30s and 40s...
Blizzarding...Again.
-20 tomorrow morning, instead of the +35 they predicted like 3 stupid days ago.
I'm ready for something completely different, like unicorns or global warming... :eusa_wall:
Our mailbox... :disturbed:
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Where? Cooled down to 79 here. 8)
I was wrong. That's where our mailbox USED to be. Plowboy took it with him on one of his passes through yesterday. I just went out to do some glacial archeology, and found the post, all by itself... :sadness:
dang mailbox thieves......they'll stop at nothing!
on a related note, we have had 37" of snow this month. With a melting warm period in the middle....more snow again tomorrow night......
Wow, we have had 37" of snow the last 3 years combined, maybe.
Sorry...that should have read 37 cm.......about 15" or so......
We had 36" in the month of April about 6 years ago. Of course Spring temps made quick work of it, so it was a sloppy mess.
I dunno how much we have this winter--Didn't start to snow til well into January or so. When 3-4" falls our driveway fills with 3-4' drifts that span the entire, so amounts don't matter in that regard.
Something that's been gnawing at me though-For years I've been told by "experts" and farmers and gummint officials that "Snow pack determines ground water levels". Now that we finally have a snow pack to crow about I'm told "It makes no difference how much snow we have, snow is ALL just run-off". The drought lives on!
The crybabies in Fargo are wailing about what are the feds gonna do about their flooding problems. A state that has multi-billion dollar surpluses every year, and they refuse to pay their own way. I got no sympathy, the whole silt-slum can sink.
We might have had 15" all this winter, if you count the 1" snows that blow away immediately. Its looking pretty bleak for summer water.
gawd......we have had that much snow this morning! Yes....another blizzard.....
...and it is a nasty one.....and it's cousin is just north of you Stetto.....
My brother sent me this picture....
Oh but doesn't that look fun...Our forecast, just last night, was for "light flurries maybe" in the evening, with occasional unicorns...
This week last year it was in the upper 70s...
I remember snows like that, unfortunately now we get some light snow if lucky, and then the wind comes along and sucks it all up. We had that 6" or so last week, 4 days later had some 50mph wind and the dirt was blowing so bad it looked like a Iraq sandstorm.
Well, we didn't get any snow, but it pollened pretty badly last night. About an inch or so at my house, with more flurries expected through this afternoon. Hopefully, it'll rain later today and ease the situation.
Hey, Nony, how nastii was it?
they' re calling it "snowmagedden" Massive accident involving around 100 vehicles south of the city. Driving conditions were terrible.
On. the bright side, there was not a single reported case of anyone getting bitten by a moose.
Well there is that, moose bites are nasty.
My sister got bit by a moose once....
so, she was moosed was she? :disturbed: anyway it is pretty much blizzarding here... but we only gonna get a few inches of snow, unfortunately.
April 6, still over a foot of snow in the shallow spots. And of course it's snowing...Nope, raining...Uh, wait, snowing...No-no-no, raining again...Uh-oh, now it's both.
This is getting to be a miserable spring. I can do nothing outside without chisling through solidified drifts, and by this time most years I'm prepping the 8th acre...
No moose, though. We had a sharp-shins in the yard yesterday, messing with the bird feeders and the chipmonks that came out of hibernation last week (HA! Jokes on YOU, ya little bastiges!), ans Canada & snow geese are everywhere, but none of them look very happy either.
At this rate we won't have ice off the lakes until mid-June. :eek5:
so... ahhhh :icon_lol: you are draggin around in all :icon_lol: that deep snow, eh??? :disturbed: sounds like a :icon_lol: case for :icon_biggrin: blueballs :eusa_doh: :disturbed: :thinkerg: :eusa_naughty:
No Ron, I shovelled paths for those.
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Hard to believe as a crow flies there is about 500 miles between us and it may as well be a different world. Been 60 and 70s and dry with some wind, 3 times this week we had Iraqi style dust storms as in you could not see the road in front of our house for a couple hours. But since its WY we can't be left out of any kind of weather. Tuesday is supposed to be 25 for a high, 15-20mph wind and 4-8" of snow. :eusa_doh:
can a crow carry a coconut ?
Northeastern, or Western Rocky mountain coconuts?
Well we got our winter finally, it decided to come all at once, we have about 10" -12" all piled up in places up to 2 or 3 feet so far, its not done yet either revised forcast is calling for 16" with continued 25-35 mph wind. We lost power at 6pm last night, which is very rare for us, its still out and been on generator since. I'll post pics if my wife manages to force me outside again. :icon_biggrin:
Huh, we get to sit this one out until the tail of it whips northward on Thursday (so they SAY, mind you :eusa_think: ).
Looks like a biggun too. If it was January I'd say Bring It On! Right now we get just above freezing and minimal melting.
Lots of crows, all competing for nesting plots. No coconuts yet, but I'll keep an eye out.
I forgot to ask if they were African or European crows.......
Ugh, hard to tell because it drifted up, but around 18-20" drifts up to about 4' in places.
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I didn't even wear a coat for a 3 or so day just up to 3 days ago. I sure welcome the moisture but... :eusa_doh:
A person forgets how frickin hard it is to move or do stuff in deep snow.
You lucky dog you. We got the 43 mph wind sure enough, along with temp last night of 12 degrees, and maybe 25 snowflakes or so.
Wow. Nice bit of snow. The last couple years all the really big storms have blasted south of us, this one too. We're supposed to catch a little of the tail end tomorrow, but no 18 inches.
Our problem is that the temps won't moderate. It should be a mudfest by now.
wow....that has got to be tough......why, I can hardly see the ski chalet through all that snow....
Last time we had a storm like this was April of 09 ironically. Sure needed it,, sure don't like it right now. It was so wet and piled up deep enough, our neighbor to the north had a machine shed roof cave in, took out probably 60' or roof. I haven't got out yet to see how everyone else faired.
fwiw.........we got rain! First time this year....
heads up....we've got another winter storm arriving tonight. It will spend the weekend here ;-( then head somewhere south.......
Yeah Nony, heading for us this time--The guessing panic mongers are calling for upwards of 16 inches on Sunday.
We've had April storms like this before, but the stuff would melt away in the next two days. It won't get warm...
It was a real blizzard here I guess, even killed a woman in the Nebraska panhandle when her car got stuck in adrift on the way home from work. She was close to home evidently, so her 19yo son walked out to her, found her hypothermic and tried to carry her back, they got disoriented, he could not carry her anymore, and left her in the snow to get help. They found him the next morning in an abandoned farmhouse, frost bit and hypothermic, and found her frozen. Pretty tragic. They moved here 2 years ago from Vancouver WA and had never been in a blizzard before.
I guess people don't believe stories that you can lose your way just feet from a house or whatever, I have had it happen a couple times where I am feeding etc and a white out blows up, its not just that you can't see, its the sense of movement as the snow blowing by and not being able to see literally 2' removes all sense of direction and distance. If on foot I just hunker down until a lull and I can see something to get bearings. I had it happen while on a tractor, and just kept going until I hit something, and hoped it wasn't an Eskimo. :icon_smile:
well we got about 4" of snow then it warmed up and turned to rain, so it was a non-issue........
We saw a few clouds and had the wind blow over 30mph again. We had to get the chisal out and use it. Man it sure is dry here. Father in law is 90 and says he has never seen it this dry, even in the dustbowl he went through.
Erg, they are calling for another 4-8" Monday and Tuesday, with lows to 9.
Nasty wet snow yesterday and today, not even going to bother with a shovel. It'll melt or it won't.
Eric, your storm will be our storm on Wednesday...But the temps will hover around 32.
They keep posting temps in the high 40s "ten days down the road", but that ten days is still ten days every day...These idiots are going to need armed protection if they keep parroting computer models instead of doing their jobs like they used to.
Chicken bones and tea leaves? :icon_smile:
I dunno, our forecasters seem to be pretty bang on.... they can see the moisture in the air from satelite and doppler maps...they know which way it is going, and the temperature when it gets there, so predicting what will happen is not that difficult. Timing is sometimes off (the snow started at 11:30 Friday night instead of midnight as predicted) And too, sometimes systems evolve differently than predicted, but usually milder that expected.
We had a killer tornado up this way 26 years ago, and a couple of dozen people perished....they have really been on the ball with the forecasts and weather warnings. ( especially if funnel clouds are possible..)
That is the gubmint forecasters....all in all, they do a pretty good job.
Now, if you are listening to commercial forecasters...up here called the Weather Network - they are awful. Their forte is predicting the past, and they are pretty good at it.......forecasting the weather ten minutes from now is a bit of a problem......and it is even worse as they go further into the future.
This is nuts, we really are getting our February in April, missed much of the snow yesterday that stopped just south of us, I mean literally you could see the bluffs get whiter and whiter through the day, but we got nothing, until after dark it started to snow here, they are calling for snow until Thursday now, with up to 10" and temps in hovering in the high 20s. Just 10 days ago we had some major dust storms and 70 degrees, go figure.
Nony, what our "forecasters" do nowadays is depend on "computer models", and it can be jaw dropping when they explain it. They take a Nat'l Weather Service forecast, dump a bunch of their own "variables" into their computer, get ten or more different "models" out of it and just PICK ONE, often randomly. The geeks here have been right about two storm tracks this winter.
There used to be a guy here years ago, Dewey Bergquist, who would sweat over weather maps with pressure gradients and moisture contents and the like for most of each day, then using his brain instead of "picking" a computer model, he would quite accurately forecast the next 24 hours, usually saying "...Though no one will EVER be able to accurately forecast beyond 12 hours". That was a famous quote of his in the early 70s...It's still true. Hurricane Katrina is a perfect example.
These guys doing it now are wrong in that 12 hour forecast on a regular basis. Being a paint contractor, this infuriates me...
Oh, and Honcho, nuts is exactly what this is...Contrails, man, contrails... :disturbed:
I knew it!
We have not a heck of a lot of snow like last week, but its been steady since Monday night, quite a bit of wind moving it around, and as an added joy we had some freezing rain yesterday afternoon so we have a layer of ice on everything. And its not supposed to quit until tomorrow sometime.
well, you wanted moisture..... Hopefully the animals have learned to feed themselves so you can stay inside where it is nice and warm.....
Yeah, needed it bad, but would have been nice to have winter in say, I don't know, winter time?
They've "predicted" 40 degree weather in the extended forecast for about a month and a half...Magically always staying just 10-12 days in the future. Now they're calling for 60s THIS weekend and 70s sometime next week.
I'll believe it when I see it.
you can take some solace in the fact that if they were not "forecasting weather", they would be out selling used cars to the unsuspecting public....
Good thinkin', Nony! Leave 'em right where we can keep an eye on 'em, eh? :eusa_clap:
Calendar year for 2012 from our local state experiment station (7 miles from our house) is 7.49 inches of moisture. This has set a 100 year record for low moisture in a year. In the last 365 days so far, we have received 5.5 inches of moisture.
I feel for ya Frazz, we have had a wet April so far, they say its still below average, but I think they are guessing low for me specifically because they said we only had .83" of moisture this month and I think its been well over an inch or so. But even at that this is the 1st month in 18 or more that we have even come close to normal average, and it looks it.
We just slept through the first night this year that didn't dip below freezing.
My garden starts are usually a couple inches tall by now, I haven't even set up the shelves for them yet. Hoping for a very late fall, our growing season is short in a good year, and we desperately need the vegables...
...just had a preview of summer!!
Last Saturday we had a mini blizzard. today it is a very, very balmy 68 degress; blue sky and sunshine with a bit of wind...99% of the snow is gone
Yay!! It has been a very long winter (7 months so far) so we are enjoying the turnaround......tempered by the fact that we could see snow any time in the coming month or so.....but summer is coming......
Ha-a-a-a-a-a-ay! We're forecast to get out first thunder-boomers of the season tonight! 1 & a half inches "possible". Boy, could we use it!
Frazz and Honcho, hope you get yours too...
well....the cruelest practical joke came to bitter end this morning. Warm and sunny all week..people doing yard work..motorcycles and classic cars out jiy riding....the sound of lawnmowers in the background......alll those springtime things.
this morning - SNOW! Thick wet heavy stuff. ycccch!
We have done alright lately considering, or I should say by contrast to last year. We had that 20", a week later had another 5 or so its just drying up and they are calling from some more wet and cold stuff, possible 1/2" to 1" of moisture worth today into tomorrow. I hate the cold and mud, but its been nice to see the ground stay put in the wind.
Ours last night was a false alarm--Oh, somebody got their rain, north and west of us. We got a lightning show at 2:33 am.
Anyone ever say "We could sure use the thunder..."? :disturbed:
We got one of those late spring snow storms, the kind where the snow is made of glue and lead. about 6" or so with a good rain preceding it. Can't even shovel the stuff, push it up to a 12" pile and its like pushing a block of concrete. If you mange to get it lifted, it takes a chisel to get it off the shovel.
I love winter, have I mentioned that? :icon_confused:
Hey, if it soaks into the dirt you'll have groundwater for a month! 'Nuff to grow you a good first cutting. :eusa_think:
We dropped 15 degrees today, maybe tomorrow too. Then another springlike warmup--Some asshat said 91 degrees for next Tuesday...The rest of them say 79 (.9 even!).
Summer has arrived in our part of Texas.....!!
Looks like we skipped spring this year...temps up to 75 today and ro the coming week.....
Hopefully there is enough moisture in the ground to keep the wildfires to a minimum this year.....
We have been stumbling along, its been warm during the day, but freezing at night, got down to 20 night before last, that doesn't make things grow very well.
Warm dry winter, cool wet spring, I wonder how summer is going to go.
what's left?
torrid hot and humid, or glaciers....?
Hey...we got up to 86 today!! That doesn't mean that we can't see a surprise snowfall between now and june, but it sure takes the sting out of 7 months of winter!!!
Well our l;ate winter has probably saved our asses up here, I was out plowing yesterday and it was damp all the way down even some mud in places. Last year when I plowed this late it was dry all the way and coming out in blocks.
It may be all we get but at least we get a start.
that didn't take long.......we got a fire ban already.......
I actually tilled the 8th acre yesterday. Ground was "moistish", but usually this time of year my tiller tines load up so bad I can't get through a row.
Getting a little nervous, especially considering that the garden had 4 feet of snow on it just a few weeks ago...
Full inch of rain yesterday. They predicted "maybe" hundreths of an inch. The leaf buds are finally opening and it looks like most of the trees in the grove have survived last years 6 inches of moisture.
We got chokecherry bushes filthy with black knot though. Just can't keep up with it.
Another inch last night. The town just west of us (about ten miles) got 7. Dumb luck.
Supposed to do this for the next couple days. Boy do we need it!
109 out ... 6 percent humidity... 20 mph breeze. The pee evaporates before it hits the ground. :icon_smile: :icon_smile:
Well, wouldn't ya know it... 110 with gusts to 36. Can't wait for summer.
Fraz!!! you escaped !!! :eek5:
...the fear was we would never see, or hear from you again......it has been way too quiet here... :icon_mrgreen:
Heh, yeah we hit 103 with a good breeze too. I thought for sure we would shrivel up and all be dehydrated mummies by morning. But then last night the dew was so heavy it was dripping from the roof this morning. Oh yeah, "move to WY, it 'll be fun." :eusa_wall:
we had a tornado warning this aftermoon....a twister touched down way to the south of us....but no damage reported. We got lots of rain, hail,wind, and lightning.
We finally have "summer". There was no Spring, and everything is late. Rain is, so far, actually average, that is if the forecast for tonight :eusa_think: comes true...
Our friends in Co. Springs and Florrissant are suffering a more damaging heat. My buddy the guitar store manager said he could hear propane tanks exploding, and he's in the northeast part of town...
Yeah its bad down there. For a while the other day they could not get away from the fire fast enough, had slurry and water drops just to make safe paths for people to get out.
Been hot and dry here, but not unbearable. All of the sudden all the snake are out though, I stepped on a 4' rattler yesterday morning, it was so big I thought at first for a second it was a bull snake
yccccccch! ah hates snakes!
sure wish I could share this 120% humidity, and balmy 54 F temps with you guys.....we have been pummelled with storm system after system.......which ironically are coming from the south..
Our forecast was a dud. I went out and tilled the weeds around the "crops", then watered. The peppers are not liking the dry. I'll take Nony's weather, thank you.
I forgot to order dry bean seed, so just opened a bag of Walmart redbeans and stuck 'em in the dirt--$1.89 instead of $10 for internet seed--They're coming up like crazy! Learned a big lesson there...Probly Monsanto tho, so might not see a crop... :sadness: :eusa_wall: :eek5: :disturbed:
We're getting back into the same weather pattern as last year. Dry, with dry and some dry added. I was really hoping to get an inch a week this season. :disgust:
Finally got our inch of rain last night night. Now they're predicting a minimum 1"/day for the next four days. :disturbed:
Cool. We had a thunderstorm actually give us a relatively gentle 6/10, no hail, just some wind. Of course the next day it was 95 with a 25mph wind and 2 days later you would never know. :icon_confused:
Rain? What the heck is this rain you talk about.
Can you ever have too much rain? ...the answer is "YES!"
Major flooding to the south and north of us
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upwards of 100,000 people evacuated so far, and 3 fatalities to date...the worst is expected over night...
And here we are starting to dress like Bedouins and raise camels. :sadness:
yeah..it is too bad the moisture content was not more evemly distributed......
A friend in Wheatland says it's really hailing hard and tornado warnings are busting out--You gettin' any of this, Auntie Em Honcho?
I take it back, had to dodge a couple tornadoes and some baseball size hail, but we got a good 8/10 last night about 5. But you know you are in trouble when standing on the porch and watching it rain you hear the sirens go off in Lyman and all the computers and phones were blaring alarms. Especially when all you see is a gray wall to the west. but we got just a little bit of marble size hail, not enough to tear up much. But man the last 4 days we have had some nasty storm roll through the area, lots of big hail, 60mph winds and 4 tornadoes now, luckily mostly away from much.
I'm beginning to get the idea that this rain you talk of is water falling from the sky. Preposterous.
Quote from: zrct02 on June 23, 2013, 08:30:29 AM
I'm beginning to get the idea that this rain you talk of is water falling from the sky. Preposterous.
Like Amnesty, Obamacare, buh-blah buh-blah buh-blah? Yes Virginia, water falls from the sky...It's a scientific consensus, dontcha know... :eusa_clap:
Uh, sorry for that last, the opening was just too...You know... :eusa_sick:
We're getting wet, just NOTHING like the alarmists up here are chicken little-ing about. They cry wolf a few more times and they'll get folks hurt.
Got an inch the other night, a good lightning show--No stronger storms than we are used to up here. Today there's a slow soaker going on, we're at a half inch as I type. Almost done.
I was hoping for a new roof...These weather guys are politicians, can't keep a promise to save their butts...
But water from the sky? Unbelievable. Methinks someone has been reading too much sci-fi.
Quote from: zrct02 on June 24, 2013, 07:28:26 AM
But water from the sky? Unbelievable. Methinks someone has been reading too much sci-fi.
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I think he got into that sugar water/alcohol mix out on his porch :disturbed:
........d@mn rain! Grrrrrrrrrrrr...............
Well Nony, we're getting pieces of your prain; 2.25 inches last night after three strong cells went through. My insomnia decided to have me watching all three. The guage says 2.25, but the water was moving sideways, so I don't know how accurate the amount is.
50 miles southwest of us they got 9"... :eek5: :disturbed: :eusa_doh:
We have an iron-framed hammock, weighs around 100 lbs, was moved about fifty feet from where we left it last evening. Quite the show.
105 degrees here right now, adding in all that water in the air that you guys want so bad, it feels like 110. Pretty normal for this time of year, so I still can't figure why people are surprised. The weather guessers are surprised, but that's no surprise.....
They're on a campaign to get everyone on board with the global warming scam. My friends in Phoenix told me the other day that the weather frauds down there are running around waving their arms in the air like it's the apocalypse. OOOOOOH a hunnert-sixtEEEEN! Never mind that this is the desert and 116 is THE AVERAGE TEMP IN THE DESERT IN JUNE!!!!
They also bank on the brain-numb panicking on cue, and they do....
OK, so you guys up north are finally doing something useful. All that rain you're getting has sucked all the humidity out of the air here, and it's actually bearable for the first time in months. It's actually cooling down in the mornings and evenings, and the humidity last night was in the low 30's. Don't know what y'all are doing, but keep doing it!!
Stetto, I can remember working on the ramp in Tucson when it was 110. For a week straight. People didn't seem to complain as much then.
Desert? Since most of the country thinks the US is New York or California, they don't know what a desert is...
Finished wheat harvest today, er this evening. Some fields made 2 bushes per acre up to 18. That's not counting the fields we sprayed because they were going to be even worse yielding. And of course the millet and milo got hailed bad 10 days ago.
Ugh, one of those years again. That sucks, I guess the good thing is you didn't send a lot of time and fuel trucking it?
We have actually had some showers here, we had the big snow in April which put some submoinsture down, then it turned off dry and windy, early then we finally had about a half inch a month or so ago, which kept us staggering along . Had a thunderstorm drop about 8/10 with just a little hail, and then day before yesterday we got a hard 8/10 of rain in a shower, so its not looking too bad other than the little hail and some wind damage. Almost like a normal summer before AL Gore invented Global warming. ;)
3rd of an inch here yesterday, it is tapering off quickly. The gawden has finally got more vegetables than weeds in it (from a distance, anyway), and the heat has the corn knee-high. Any severe wind/hail/torrential rain stuff usually waits until there are near-fully-developed ears on the corn...
Those Walmart redbeans are doing quite well, but our storage onions (grew 'em from seed this year :eusa_wall: ) still look like little green toothpicks sticking out of the dirt.
I think I'm gonna till in a truckload of manure this fall or next spring...That black primordial ooze is kind of a disapointment this year...
Quote from: stetto on July 07, 2013, 08:55:54 AM
I think I'm gonna till in a truckload of manure this fall or next spring...That black primordial ooze is kind of a disapointment this year...
I can see El Stetto and crew out at the café one evening for a meal. Family style restaurant. The conversation waffles about the room as it does, where you can hear bits and pieces of a conversation.
All of a sudden at a table where 4 trucker guys are eating, a guy raises his voice just a wee bit and says " You know what? That's just a load of bullsh**." El Stetto's ears perk up and tells his family to shush while he finds out about this load of ehhhh manure. :disturbed: Hey that ought to be a good story about stetto and his load of manure
Yah Ron, you funny too... :eusa_doh:
Ah, I know what you mean by water falling from the sky now. Some birds flew over and wet the driveway this morning.
After lots of false starts, we finally got some rain Monday morning. 2 inches in about an hour. It was raining so hard, the storm drains couldn't keep up and the water was up to the sidewalk in my front yard for a while. And in town a few miles away, they didn't get a drop...
Now the humidity is up to about a thousand percent.
We have been particularity soggy, for us anyway. Had a couple showers over the past couple weeks that gave over well over an inch between them, but the humidity has been all the way up in the 30% to 50% area! :icon_biggrin:
Actually it has been feeling pretty damp, we even had fog and some drizzle until noon or so yesterday, which is really weird for July. The weeds like it. :eusa_doh:
Humidity, yeah...70-90% here. The basement floor has a layer of "wet" all over it, mostly because the AC's condensator tray can't keep up. I have a dehumidifier down there, tank fills to 3 gallons, and I'm emptying it twice a day.
...And we get a little rain once in a while too; 1/4 inch here, half inch there, while the weather experts continue to forecast "violent" thunderstorms with INCHES of rain.
Eat yer hearts out, fellers. It rained yesterday, it's raining now, supposed to rain tomorrow, too.
Now I'm going to have to mow the damn grass again.
Oh, it's raining now, a light sprinkle that's hitting the ground and immediately evaporating into the 90+ degree, 70% air...
Ugh... :eusa_wall:
Yeah, we have had some of that as well, had a good thunderstorm dump over an inch in about 20 minutes, and then follow up the next 3 days with small showers, and even when not getting showers its been like living in the bayou, with humidity spiking up to 70 or 80% at night. I had thought I lived in an arid region. :P
hey...it's summer again!!
Oh, so that's where it went! We have had unrelenting 95+ degree days, with 50% or more humidity for 3 weeks or more. Then yesterday like a switch was thrown, its fall, 70s, kind of damp with afternoon fall type drizzly rain showers, and the feel and smell is completely different.
Ditto here, Honcho.
mid to high 70's is a heatwave here....not a cloud in the forecast for the coming week........
They're calling for frost north of us tomorrow...They're usually off by a couple hundred miles. I'm going to have to spend some time in the 8th acre today...
Man when the pendulum swings back...
For 2 years we have really had no soaking rains, it would get cloudy, and maybe a little drizzly but not soak anything. we would get some storms now and then that would dump a lot fast and then move out, and that kept us going, but it was dry down deep. Now this summer, or I should day since the end of August we have had regular thunderstorms every 3-5 days, south of us in CO they were complaining about how they have had none of that, though they had some gully washers mid summer.
Well a couple weeks ago like someone flipped a switch it changed, everyday it clouds up, humidity 50 to 80%, the last 5 days we have had some light soaking rains, maybe an inch or little more now over the last 5 days or so since its raining now. Temp fell from the mid to high 90s down to 70s and even 60s for highs.
And in CO? well you probably have seen the news. I have seen the Poudre river over the banks before, but not like this. Its a river normally 50 yards across, in spring maybe 100, now in places its has spread out to a mile. Everyone knew of the flood plain for it, even the 500 year flood plain etc, buts reaching beyond that even, pretty incredible. The only bridge that remained open was one they had built recently and raised to 20' above seasonal high water level, and the water is 4' below it they said. :eek5:
The Big Thompson river just south of the Poudre flash flooded pretty infamously in the mid 70s, we have a repeat with out the 20' wall of water going 30mph down the canyon, but the water marks crept up nearly as high, and the damage is similar to the houses along it etc. Where it crosses the interstate is usually as slow flowing meandering stream, yesterday both rivers were bottle necking on the bridges enough they closed the interstate from WY down.
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we've had a typical west coast summer....wet cool and cloudy. Trouble is.....the coast is 800 miles and two mountain ranges away. But everything is amazingly green.
We just got some warm sunny weather a week ago. The first trees are starting to show yellow leaves....something that normally occurs late august because we are so far north...
Ok, so first all you notherners leave the gate open and let all the cold air down here. Then you left the skylights open and all this water came in. Some of the areas west of us got up to six inches of rain last night, and my rain guage was sitting at two and a half inches this morning and it's still raining. We sure needed it though. Supposed to be a cold front coming through tonight - it's going to get all the way down into the sixties..... :eek5:
Its been a weird year, started out hot and dry, went to hot, humid and sometimes wet, now its cool and dry. Actually there has been some perfect weather the last couple days, dead calm to 5mph, 75, low humidity and sunny.
Quote from: Onepoint on September 22, 2013, 07:57:38 AM
Its been a weird year, started out hot and dry, went to hot, humid and sometimes wet, now its cool and dry. Actually there has been some perfect weather the last couple days, dead calm to 5mph, 75, low humidity and sunny.
Don't let 'em fool ya, man! They're setting you up for an un-forecast blizzard...Or dust storm...Or typhoon...Or... :eek5:
So I should expect localized global something?
Wind blowing like none other. Both east/west and north/south highways in our county closed due to high winds, low to no visibility, and several accidents and pileups. The democrats must be a yappin.
Yeah Ron, we had two days of 35 mph breezes here, but the temps continue to hover around 50s at night, 70s daytime. Calm today, grass as green as anytime in the early summer, very little change in the leaves yet. I love a late autumn, but I'm usually done mowing by mid-August. I just cut the grass yesterday and will likely have to do it one more time before frost, which isn't even in any forecasts for my neck o' the woods.
Good thing too. We're supposed to get some roofers on our house this week or next, and a dry, warm week will get them OFF my roof all that much sooner...
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Don't let 'em fool ya, man! They're setting you up for an un-forecast blizzard...Or dust storm...Or typhoon...Or...
tidal wave...yeah, that'll catch them off guard <snicker>.........
fall arrived today....or at least a morning preview...wet drizzly grey stuff with lots of wet leaves on the ground..... then summer came back this afternoon......
I think its probably safe to say our drought is broken. The last part of summer had been increasingly wet, fall has been no exception, with rain shower spaced apart every few days until about a couple weeks ago or so and we got 1/3 of rain and 6" of heavy snow, then 4 days ago we got 2.6" of rain over night, and have gotten another .6" the last couple days. (guess who is still trying to put up hay :sadness:) Its been relatively green all year, when it did finally dry up and turn, it cooled off, got damp and now there is green undergrowth. I'm sure the deer and cattle grazers will be happy this winter or would be if we are not buried in snow which is looking more and more likely. What a change from last fall which was one of the mildest and longest I can think of.
so, I guess that means once you get this crop done, your shift is over and you can relax for the rest of the winter, huh....
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Yeah, although my wife says I am relaxing all the time as it is, only she doesn't quite state it like that. :icon_smile:
perhaps there is not enough differentiation between work and relaxation ( in her eyes )........the answer is obvious....you are not relaxing hard enough!
Heheh, well I am not a kid anymore, and I can only take so much relaxing.
well, y'know nothing worth while comes without a bit of effort. Granted, it doesn't get any easier with age which is all the more reason to work harder at relaxing. You're not going to let those young whipper-snappers show you up, are you? It would be a shame to let all those years and years of experience go to waste when a mildly rigorous program of relaxing would help you keep that edge that you worked so hard for. After all, goo...I mean relaxing.....is an art and skill not to be wasted......i
So I let her read over my shoulder, she seems to think pretty highly of my relaxing ability as it is, something about not needing much more practice, and if it paid anything I would be a top earning celebrity. I'll just take that as a vote of confidence.
Our first snow of the season is coming down as I speak type. Got potatoes and dry beans in yesterday...
thanks for keeping it cornered down there......
Okay.......................one of you southerners left your back door open, and look what escaped !!
Bring it on, Nony. Got the gear tuned up and ready. Deer season starts Saturday and we could use an inch of tracking powder...
I pulled about 36 hours over the weekend and Monday standing on rail cars for grain samples, and then woke up to about 5" of snow on Tuesday. My conclusion is no matter how many times or how far apart I try this work stuff, it breaks the weather. So I am going to have to stop working to save the planet I think.
Good news everybody....
Due to the generosity of mother nature, it looks like we will once again be able to repeat the offer from last year........
We had a delivery of about 4" of that stuff, but I think the delivery guy must have broken the thermometer, it says -9 and I know we don't live above the arctic circle.
Only 5 above here...-10 tomorrow, so they say. No ice particulate deliveries expected.
OK Nony, that was pretty funny, now shut it off. :icon_neutral:
We had a night of -10 a couple weeks ago, but it came right back to the 50s. However the last couple days cold air moved in like pushy relatives and decided to stay a while, we got about 7" of snow (that was supposed to be 2-4 over 4 days) and 20mph wind with temps near nothing which made it a brisk and fun day yesterday. Got some new snow sculptures in the yard, which would be great if there was not vehicles under them. And then last night old man winter must have knocked the thermostat off the shelf because we sit at -23 right now. Even the air is too cold to move right now fortunately. 'Sposed to be this for anther 3 or 4 days and then finally heat all the way up to the 20s, maybe even 30s :eek5:
Thank God for my chainsaw and wood stove :errrr:
We aren't that cool yet, only 3 above for a high though...Sposed to get to -23 Saturday morning.
All the way to -23??
This is not funny. An hour ago, it was 74 degrees. Now it's 55 and dropping. Would one of you northerners take care of that open door, please? :icon_mrgreen:
F-F-F-F-F-F-frozen.......C-C-C-C-c-cold...............
-20ish with 30knot winds....... damned Alaskans!!
Guess whose furnace broke down??
...and truck driving friend of mine is down in Texas this week complaining of the 98 degree heat !!
frigid, freezing, cold, icy seem downright tropical compared to the temperatures outside right now......thank goodness for that gas fireplace we put in a couple of years ago... it and the (fixed) furnace are keeping the inside somewhat cozy...
It is so cold up here, the glaciers are headed south for the winter.....my complaining truck driving friend is stuck in Dallas Ft Worth which he reports is pretty much shut down due to ice.......
Yup, we got the -23 early this morning. There is right around a 5 degree difference between here and the closest reporting station 12 miles away.
Yesterday we had a high of -5, and look who stopped by to show off his new winter coat!
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There was an opportunity to take this one, but PuddinFace wouldn't have any part of it...
Yeah, its pretty dang cold still, we have been -15 for lows since the other day, almost got up to 5 yesterday for the high. We are supposed to warm up to the 30s next week, with lows in the teens, it will feel like spring after this. They said its was the coldest air we have had in a couple years, I think they were right, maybe longer since we hit some record low highs.
We had a nasty spell last year, in February I believe. Had a couple of -30 mornings.
I was rewarded with this darn near spiritual scene as I finished up the drive:
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He's back again today.
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May get to use that deer rifle this year after all. There's an abandoned barn next door, I bet that's where he hole's up. Our dogs aren't smart enough to leave him be, and I know that he ain't smart enough to leave them be if he gets hungry enough. Besides, I have a friend who's a furrier. Anyone know the going price for a well-heeled coyote pelt?
...I just don't feel the love for going out coyote hunting when it's -15 with a 20 knot straight wind...
That looks almost exactly like the sun dogs we had here, I never saw it since it was foggy, but there was pic in the news.
We have at a couple foxes that got hungry enough to try a turkey. They didn't quite get it done but there is blood and feathers all over the yard. Unfortunately they don't seem willing to present themselves in daylight.
the temperature went up 40 degrees!
it is still below freezing......but much better than last week!
We had a warm up of sorts yesterday, it got to about 17, but came with a 25-40mph wind, all the snow that blew away came back and buried everything again and it was way too miserable to be outside But today looks a little more promising if the wind stays down, its already 20.
-26 this morning. Almost 11 o'clock and still -15. They keep predicting "teens" above in the five-day, then by the time we get to the fifth day they're back to teens below. The furnace has been running 15 minutes for every 5 that it's been off. The local farmers jacked the price of propane by a buck a gallon by failing to prebuy for their grain driers (on the BAD advice of county agents) and we're looking at a pricey winter if temps don't moderate...
It actually has warmed up here, we got to 30 yesterday, and supposed to be 40, now it will be slush and ice since we have some 4'- 5' drifts with all the wind.
Mr. December just rolled into town......and he is staying the weekend.
thank goodness for snowblowers!
-32 here now.
Make sure you send that east and not south.
Getting a one day reprieve from the Siberian Express, +30-something today, then back to the sub-cellar til after New Years.
This needs to translate into an early Spring...
We have had a major warm up, in the 50s. But the snow covered with dirt is slow to melt, we have ice berms in places, and the ponds are still froze solid. I was out ATV skating yesterday. :icon_smile:
we had a mild week so far...too warm....everything was melting and mushy......that all changed this afternoon! The snow is going sideways about 30 knots with sub zero temps.....
it is coming from the north, heading your way guys, so you may need to hunker down ..............
Yeah Nony, we were told to expect windchill temps exceeding -70 tonight...
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Then again, these guys are no longer in the business of forecasting weather accurately and here at least we get a lot of "sky is falling" sensationalism. So I will simply defer to you fill me in on what's coming at me :notworthy:
tBrrrrrrr.......if they are even half right, that is freekin'cold!!
Well yeah, but those are probably metric numbers, if you convert through the mystical power of math... carry the 2... divide ...6.... its only going to be -4532 degrees... er, or something :eusa_think:
They strike with the fear tactics yet again; Temp got down to -20, absolutely no breeze whatsoever. They even had a blizzard warning, but the only flakes in sight were the fearmongers on local tv and radio... :P
I checked the forecast for Winnipeg somewhat north of you...temps were a balmy -40 including wind chill, so yeah, a little embelishment there........
Did all you cold weather guys make it through the snap ok????
i saw on the news where even our resident southerners were a might nippy.
We did OK , it went from bitter cold to living in a dry hurricane non stop for about a week or so. Its making everyone cranky.
We interrupt winter to bring you.....some un-global warming....
Temps nudging 50 on the plus side!!! And 65 mph winds....
It will be warm and melty for the next week or so........
Quote from: balsum fractus on January 05, 2012, 08:39:41 PM
Normally this time of year temps below zero (sometimes well below) and we have 2 to 3 feet of snow.... Yesterday over 50 , no snow, but we got rain!! We had one cold snap back in november for a couple of days, but it has been unusually, and pleasantly mild since then..
Hmmmmmm ........found this I wrote almost exactly 2 years ago.......i guess it ain't so unusual after all.......
Well, we burned through 400 gal. of propane in record time. Usually the tank doesn't need refilled till the end of February, this winter it was just after Christmas. @ current prices we be lookin' at $1000 for a 400 gallon fill. We certainly don't need can't afford anymore snaps like that...
Yeah we already burned more wood than all of last year. But it has warmed up, today supposed to be 50s and breezy.
Its weird all our snow drifts never really melted, some are still there under a dirt blanket as big blocks of ice, and some simply disappeared as the wind blew hardly making a trickle of run off. Normally the 4'+ drifts will make a mess when they melt.
We won't be seeing any 50s here till April or May, but 20s is normal and we'll see the occasional 30+. It was -17 again this morning, but we're supposedly trending upward. I really hope it's so.
The annual Drift In Front of the House is officially taller than Terrin's Blazer and has become a snow fence of it's own, catching more and more of it as it grows. I think next fall I'm going to try some unsightly fencing out towards the road to see if I can minimize this thing...
Early spring teaser......waaay above freezing and sunny......supposed to be that way for the next week or so.....
I know we will pay for this......
This morning:
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The old Dodge, which has never seen the inside of a garage and has no block heater (but DOES have an Interstate battery) started in this. Sounded like it wanted to spit the rods right through the hood at first, but once the oil pump kicked in she run like she always do...I have no doubt it wasn't good for the moving parts, but whaddaya do?
"They" say it's going to be 64+ degrees warmer tomorrow. "They", however, say a lot of things...
...Oh, and yes, the inside temp is correct--The unit is about a foot from the window... :icon_confused:
Ok, y'all can brag about the weather all you like, but why did you have to send it down here? We're supposed to have two inches of freezing rain and ice tonight. Those winter storms of yours shouldn't even exist down here....
Just for that, a pox of double digit summer humidity will descend upon the great white north!! :disturbed:
Patience Stettohopper......strong north-ish winds will blow our plus 40-ish temperatures down your way real soon.......
I don't mind the north winds at all...When the blow anywhere southish though, we get this:
I cleared the driveway just two days ago...Woke to this today, and we only got an inch of snow. :eusa_wall:
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Jaime, this from a friend of mine in Lufkin. I think they close schools for this down there...
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The doors on the truck were frozen shut this morning. Had to get the heat gun and thaw them out. Broke my ice scraper, too. Now I have to make a trip home to get a new one because they don't sell them here! Lows were in the 20's and it rained for most of the night, so there's a nice coating of ice on everything. We cancelled a bunch of flights today.
Stetto, I think they got snow in San Antonio and Austin as well. It's supposed to be back into the 60's by tomorrow.
Man, that is a pretty stout snow drift!
We got another inch last night, but the gales blew from the north. :eusa_clap:
Now I'm told to expect another 3" tonight and blizzard conditions tomorrow. :eusa_doh:
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It's usually the second half of February when I start saying this, but since mid-January came in early December--
I'm ready for it to be over now. Definitely ready... :'( :icon_cry:
Well, our bubble of warm air is leaving us tonight.....heading somewhere down south.... :'(
Back into the deep freeze tomorrow..
It was near 60 yesterday, but with usual 15-25 mph wind. We are are supposed to get your cold stuff backed up over us for a few days, but we have not any snow since Xmas, and with all the wind, you would not know it snowed at all this year. Can sure tell the wind blew, we have traded trash and small animals with the neighbors.
The NWS has issued a half dozen blizzard warnings here this winter, none of which qualified by definition. Not once have I been unable to see my mailbox for even a moment, which is MY definition of a blizzard.
We're under yet another "blizzard warning" today...WTF? Are they attempting to make people afraid to venture outside in the winter? Is this some Climate Change tactic? :eusa_sick: Yeah, we've been cold, and yeah, the wind blows like it does every winter, but what's with the Chicken Little gag?
I was testing an iPhone microphone this morning. Yes, it's weather related...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTB6Jkz4XxI
This winter thing is getting old. 70 degrees yesterday, 50 today, lows supposed to be down into the 20s with a chance of snnnn......ssssssnnn.....that white stuff tonight and tomorrow. If you don't like the weather around here, just wait a minute. Maybe the cold will kill some of the mosquitoes.
And of course, it this had to happen during my weekend. :sadness:
Quote from: jetmex on January 27, 2014, 05:04:19 PM
Maybe the cold will kill some of the mosquitoes.
I am told that these cold snaps up here are eradicating the emerald ash borers which were beginning to become epidemic in this part of the country. About half of our trees are various types of ash, so that's a good thing.
The hard freeze continues, one fool forecaster predicting that we won't see above zero temps for at least the next month. I say, well, at least it ain't a leap year... :disturbed:
31 degrees when I came to work yesterday. 62 this morning, cloudy and a chance of rain. Is this winter or what?
Heh. Last night I ran across this hoaxumentary from 2007about global warming and how these 2 particular walrus and polar bear were struggling in their melting world. It droned on and on how the end was nigh and their babies could never know the great frozen north again. .
And I was thinking the bear could just go dine on those scientists that are stuck in the ice, probably enough there to hold her all winter. The walrus has not been seen since the ice is so thick she drowned.
I read that the cold weather is due to global warming.
30 here this morning with freezing rain, sleet and snow. Have about a 1/4" of ice, with about a an inch of sleet/snow on top. Good day to stay in the house.
It was 67 degrees when I got up this morning. Now it's raining and down to 44. That Yankee groundhog up north says there will be another six weeks of this crap!
Hey Carl, good to see you check in.
We are set for another week of cold and snow again as well, today is the nice day at 25, Thursday maybe above zero. At least we can say we had a winter finally.
Yeah Carl, nice to see you pop in now and again...While you're here, can I borrow that trailer-bound bar-b-que of yours? I want to park it in the livingroom... :disturbed:
Deep winter up here, and being a pretty resourceful country, some folks decided that if you can't change the weather, take advantage of it.........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i_bsfwPE1s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i_bsfwPE1s)
Yeah, well I just hug my wood stove like a teddy bear myself. :)
Not being a frozenlander, I could never see the point of ice fishing. But this was pretty cool until the feds got involved:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/04/the-faa-shuts-down-beer-delivery-drone/
Watch the video....
Heheh, that was awesome, the FFA can KMA. I wonder how big of a battery they are using, because when it gets cold the lipos really fall off in reserve power.
Honcho, I've been reading up on the quadcopters, thinking I might like to have some micros to play around with. Some of the bigger ones can lift 5-10 pounds and are running up to 12 volt lipos. They can be made completely autonomous, but it ain't cheap! I'm guessing if you keep it inside until you're ready to fly, the cold isn't an issue.
Weather update - sleeted and snowed here this morning. It was 33 degrees when I got to the airport this morning. It's 37 now...
The big stuff is largely operated illegally. They fall under drone classification and requiring licensing and permits. Many operators do not have a clue what they are doing......and then there is the invasion of privacy issue......
Last I heard, something like 5 states were proposing anti- drone laws. One town in Colorado is issuing drone hunting licenses......
The little ones are fun. The best bang for the buck is the little Proto X by Estes......incredibly stable, and only $40... Next would be the Helimax 1Si..... Four times the size and twice the price....but stable and easy to fly....
I have thought about one for a camera to aerial view fields. There are times it would be handy to see where you are missing with water.
Drone ops is truly a gray area unless the feds are using them, in which case there are no regulations!
Honcho, some of the smaller drones can carry cameras easily. The only problem you might run into is flight time, and that all depends on your setup and batteries. Do you have a Kindle? I just downloaded a free book on getting started in quadcopters that has a lot of good info in it. There's a print version as well. Don't have it with me, but I'll get the title and author for you.
No sleet today, but still cold.
We are what the buffoons now call a "snow-drought". This term is not found in any dictionary source without "quotation marks", and even then it's only used in news stories.
They're at it again.
It continues to be somewhat seasonal, though the night temps are teens below. We haven't had measurable snowfall in some time, but there's a few feet of it on the ground. Problem is the dagnab wind. I've about given up trying to keep the driveway clear. If anyone wants to visit us, harness the dog team. When the snow is driven @ anything over 20 mph the resultant drifts are dense as granite.
Jaime, clear the guest room. I'll bring a shovel for just in case.
Come on down, Stetto! And could you bring a few ice scrapers with you? Can't buy them here... :sadness:
Our weather guessers here invented this thing called "wintery mix" (also always in quotes) to describe the sleet we've been getting. I wonder how much they get paid to think that kind of stuff up?
Its the warmest its been in 5 days, its 14 degrees. It was supposed to be 35 yesterday, we hit 12 for about an hour and it drop to single digits again. Supposed to be 30 today, but we are to get another 2-3" Who ordered this winter stuff anyway.
Every time I think about the drone, I remember all the planes I have that I don't fly now. :icon_neutral:
You have a heat wave, you lucky so and so!!!! Minus 33 windchill this morning.........
Jaime...if you need ice scrapers, i can send you down some......unfortunately, they don't come with directions....... :icon_frown:
It is a heat wave! 55 degrees here now, supposed to be in the 70's tomorrow. Saw the sun today for the first time in a week.
Ice scrapers with no directions? Do they need batteries or something? :eusa_think:
No, but they require a skilled artisan's touch to operate them..........
We did have heat wave yesterday, for just a little while it was 40 degrees, and it was like, wow, so this is what its like not to have snot freeze instantly in your mustache. Of course we paid for it with another 6" and 20mph wind this morning, a -15 or so windchill. :P
HA! The NWS is issuing and REissuing windchill warnings on almost an hourly basis here. I sent them an email (as a taxpaying contributor to their diligent perseverance) this morning asking them if it wouldn't have saved money if they just issued ONE windchill warning in December that would expire at the end of April...
I will be really happy when this winter is over. 60 degrees yesterday, 38 and windy today. Supposed to be close to 80 by Saturday. The weather guessers are earning their pay this time around... :disgust:
The view out front is only aggravating the situation...
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So some weather guy yesterday morning steps on his tongue and declares the End of Hostilities. Four hours later we had 35 mph straight winds and a HIGH of -4. Now another storm is due tonight.
GAD I can't wait to be smackin' mosquitos again...
Reminds me of the snow forts we used to build as kids. But yours has a window in it! ........and probably central heating too.............
A-a-a-a-a-a-and....Blizzarding here again today.
...Uncle...
Quote...Uncle...
Stetto, you moved from......uuhhhh.....Arizona??
Sun is shining today for the first time in a week. 57 degrees. Maybe it'll stay nice enough for me to actually go outside this weekend.
Yes this is a winter, none of that mamby pamby stuff we had the last few years. We thawed out yesterday, near 60, lot of wind, melted about everything, even most of the ice clumps from the 1st blow. Last night we got a surprise 2" more of wet slushy stuff. :eusa_doh:
Quote from: jetmex on February 13, 2014, 01:48:29 PM
Quote...Uncle...
Stetto, you moved from......uuhhhh.....Arizona??
Sun is shining today for the first time in a week. 57 degrees. Maybe it'll stay nice enough for me to actually go outside this weekend.
Yeah Jaime, we moved, and just in time. We got twice what we paid for our house
after just five years, and as we left the state was in the middle of being overrun by Kalifornians. Terrin's accounting business up here is growing faster than she can keep up, in AZ she'd still be working for a wage--She is happy.
I love winter; the snow, the cold (within reason, which we aren't talking about here), but the effin winds just haven't quit this time around, always from the one direction that fills our driveway with 3-4 foot drifts. I've run over 5 gallons of fuel through the blower this season, more than twice as much in any year since we moved here, and we've gotten a fraction of the snow. These drifts are slammed in so hard that you can dance on top of them but not drive over...T says I'm getting a plow truck next year, I say wishful thinking.
This week alone I've blown out the drive 4 times. We've gotten less than an inch of snow in the last two weeks. I HAVE to blow out the drive because this is tax season and a huge bidnez time for the wife. The clients need in and out. I'd be happy to lock myself in my little studio and play my guitar, but...
...The weather people here have found their own version of "Hopey-Changey". They have been predicting a warmup for the last few weeks, but ALWAYS a "week from now". It never comes. We're planning and plotting our 8th acre for the year and will be ordering seed next week, but I'm getting skeptical as to whether we get a growing season this year.
You see, one of my favorite parts of winter is Spring, and last year we didn't have one of those either...This is the first winter of my life that I've looked back fondly at swatting hordes of mosquitos...
You could have moved to Amarillo, Stetto. No Kalifornians, horrible cold snowy windy winters, mosquitos, the Cadillac Ranch, deer out the wazoo just a few miles away and, you'd be in TEXAS!!! :notworthy:
What's a "snow blower"? I thought that was what the wind was for... :icon_mrgreen: 66 degrees here now.
Sounds like a snow fence would be a good idea after all........
Now I'm picturing Fraz dropping by in his Cherman akcent und making choke dat der Zigfreid line vas bedder dan der schtetto line.......
Quote from: jetmex on February 14, 2014, 10:00:04 AM
You could have moved to Amarillo, Stetto.
No, no I couldn't....Been through there, 'nuff sed.
QuoteWhat's a "snow blower"? I thought that was what the wind was for...
This is:
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Ja, Vayne, das Schtetto Line. Mit der schnowenblowermachinenwagen fur mit to blow das schnow back into Kanada!
Damn, Stetto, all you need on that thing now is a .50 cal and a heater. :icon_mrgreen:
Hey you schpekken bedder cherman dan Herr Fraz! Vell dun!,
A small block blower.....now we're talkin' ! Drop a 6-71 blower on top, put some methanol in the tank, and you can blow them drifts clear over to a distant ranch. :icon_razz:
The main problem we have this year is that there's been no temps high enough to crust the snow over; What fell in December is still blowing around. We've always gotten a few days every winter where the temps get above freezing for a day and cap the snowpack. No such luck this time around--At least (so we're told) until tomorrow and Tuesday when it's supposed to get up to 38 degs.
It's a hopey-changey thing that I refuse to believe till I see...
Where's the nitrous oxide tank?
Well, there ya go. Got around an inch last night, blew itself into the obligatory four foot drifts. I got one pass with the blower and the drive cable broke. I'd like a skidsteer now, please.
Got you beat there Stetto......had a water line break in our front yard last night. Me and the neighbors were digging though the snow and ice (with shovels!) trying to locate the source of the leak.....it was right on the property line, so it coulda been my pipes, or coulda been the neighbors.....either way an expensive repair bill loomed. The city crews didn't arrive til after midnight and determined that it was the fire hydrant on the street causing the mess (and what a mess it was....) so fortunately the city pays, and fortunately no major damage....just the lawn, which now has the makings of a fishin' hole....
-20 again this morning. 2nd tank of propane is down to 15% already. I dunno what the price is now, but was near $5/gallon in Jan and spiraling up. Might have to sell the house to keep it warm.
Yeah, -13 here too. Don't feel bad, its going to look like Mongolian steppes around here if I keep having to cut trees down.
Enjoy that nice warm weather.......minus 38 here with the windchill.
......but it is sunny!
Spoiler alert...........
Strong north winds are a blowin' .........temps hovering near -40.......
You southerners may get to enjoy this too!
...not that I wish this bitter cold on anyone.
Yeah we are supposed to get slammed starting tonight, some more of the refreshing brisk northern air, i.e. cold from the dark side of the moon, some nice moist air from the west coast and its all supposed to meet right over us. I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to the change of pace from seeing sun a couple hours a day and having the snow stay where I put it.
We got sun here, but it is no match for the flippin' frigid air that those North Poleons are sending down here. The thirty knot winds do nothing but enhance the experience :disturbed: :sadness:
We're lookin to get a smaller piece of your lovely chill tonight, Nony. The cold has finally seeped through the exterior walls enough to freeze a toilet feeder line. Took an hour & a half to thaw with Mama's hair dryer. Just glad I didn't have to break into the wall. I'm also surprised it took this long to freeze up.
They say this has been the 19th coldest winter up here on record, but they don't appear to have data on the windiest. My vote is THIS year.
Supposed to have a high of -12 today, the 1st of March. I ordered seed for the 8th acre yesterday, but the frost is so deep this year that it may not even be tillable until July...Water pipes are freezing all over the state, so far our main from the well is ok, must be deeper than 6 foot...
Someone from down here finally went up north and shut that damn gate. 78 degrees here today and cloudy sunshine. Supposed to get to 80 tomorrow with rain. Too bad those warm southern breezes don't reach up to you guys like those frozen northern ones reach down to us...
Minus 43 here tonight.... :sadness:
urrgh, we ran -24- to -29 windchill all day yesterday. I think I frost bit my eyebrows.
I spoke too soon. The gate is open again - 32 degrees here this morning with a north wind about 15 kts. Weird winter - it was 70 this time yesterday.
82 here Saturday, High of 27 yesterday, was 9 when I got up this morning. This is one wild roller-coaster ride!
For you suthna's Carl, yeah. Up here we've had stretches of below zero without a break, and have seen only 3 days above freezing since November, so it's been pretty consistent.
It's about to get nasty though; The frostline is deeper than most folks ever remembering it getting, pipes and septics freezing left and right (knock wood). When the frost comes up out of the ground, it doesn't come peacefully. Roadways heave and break up, foundations crack and fail, I think this spring will be a carnival of minor disaster. The ice on the lakes is over 40" in places, more than enough to create major fish kills in a lot of lakes, and when the ice goes out it tends to "walk" out: Mighty spring winds blow an entire icecap right up on shore, taking just about everything with it including houses. So if we have a severely windy spring, like we did all winter, there are going to be expensive lake homes lost and you may get to see it on the news...
So we're still waiting on our roller coaster to pull in... :sadness:
Looks like a bit of a storm sitting over Fubar ranch this evening. I was on an aviation tracking site checking on jr's whereabouts and it showed a storm cell over your corner of Wyoming, and a much larger one over Stettoland.
A refreshing :icon_frown: dump of powder snow here overnight accompanied by NO WIND, and a very balmy minus 20 degrees.
I know Spring is coming cuz our cat is shedding like crazy.....
Actually we missed it all, they picked up an inchor more just south. Spring is thinking about springing. 50+ to day 60 tomorrow, 40 or so for Fri and Sat and back into the 60s on Sunday. The ground is froze so everything is just running off right now.
Yah, it's slowly warming here--they're actually predicting a rainy mix for tomorrow night. Maybe low 40s by Monday/Tuesday. Lots of wind to accompany. Melt running off around here winds up on the Red River, causing wailing and gnashing of teeth over federal tax money to fix their flood plane. No one has any sympathy for them anymore. They had plenty of their own $$ 20 years ago and could have had it all done already, but no, we demand someone else pay.
Temps are rising. So is the wind. We get a two foot high pillow drift across our county road whenever it blows this hard from the south. The plow guy usually has to make three or four passes to get all. Yesterday he took out the mailbox, which had $500 in checks in it written by donors to Dylan's European trip that Terrin signed over to the organization in charge. Yes she should have taken them to the post office a mile away. She will from now on. Those checks are likely two counties north of us by now...Not a happy day around here.
It's spring!! No, it's winter!! Well, maybe it's spring again. Until tomorrow. Damn weather... :eusa_wall:
We went from that way below zero windchill, to spring in about a weeks time, the ground has started to thaw a little so the rain we got didn't run off, its just like trying to walk through a marsh.
I notice as I get older that remembering how miserable I was when it was 110 last summer isn't helping me tolerate this stuff much better anymore.
We are 80 degrees warmer than this time last week......despite that, we are expecting freezing rain today, which should put a nice glaze on everything...
Heh, there is hope, I woke up and it was 50...above! I suspect before you start seeing abomni abomibl ...yetis move into the neighborhood up there, you will see mosskeytoes.
Yetis are smart. They stay up in the Himilayas where it is much warmer...... :icon_wink:
The freezing rain never happened, but we are into our second spring thaw this year....water everywhere and brown ooze covering anything close to a road. I washed my van today ......so I could see out the windows. That will last about 10 seconds on my next trip out..........
They've forecast a 90% probability of "precipitation" for tonight through Tuesday. It's that time of year; "They" can't say whether it'll be rain or snow or petrified rabbit turds. We actually had a 50 degree day last week. Brought back fond memories. The front coming through (from Nony's neck of the woods perhaps?) is said to pack lightning and thunder, and maybe a downpour or two. With the frost down to 7 feet this year, none of that moisture is going to saturate.
An interesting week coming...
Heh, got online several times yesterday to check the radar...EVERY time I checked they had changed the forecast for the coming 12 hours, until they had all but completely left any rain/snow/thunder out. It's all hundreds of miles south and east of us.
Near 50 today is the latest, severe clear, severe sun, severe melting. "Maybe" a snow flurry tomorrow.
These guys are paid for this, in case anyone was wondering. :eusa_think:
We were 60 sumtin yesterday, most of the snow has ran off with just a few mushy places. Tonight we get anther winter blast, snow and 50 mph winds, but its definitely springing
Our second spring thaw has come to an end.
Wednesday, I was sweeping dust from the sidewalk ..........yesterday, I was shovelling snow!
I'd love to start feeling optimistic about actually having Spring this year, but it's the last week of March and we aren't out of February yet. Bee-low Zee-ro at night, bare teens during the days, bogus promises by the talking heads of "50's" within the week, then it starts all over again.
I actually like winter, but when they slap two together end on end... :eusa_wall:
Well we get both in the same day. I hauled hay Sunday over night to Monday to CO. I was up and out at 5:30, and it wasn't bad. Like 30ish and dry, by 8:30 am visibility was down to 1/4 mile and snow piling up on the hay and hood of the truck and windy. I had to wait in line to unload at the auction for 2 more hours. I watched ambulances fly north and then come back carrying the remnants of several crashes between Ft Collins and Cheyenne, and it was still snowing but getting wetter, I was starting to think it would turn to rain. (None of which was called for just the night before.) But about when I got unloaded and had it tarped, the sun came out, by noon the roads were dry, and afternoon it was 45- 50 degrees sunny and calm at home.
I am more used to sun and warm in the morning and snow by afternoon kind of thing, that was a little weird. I'm blaming AL Gore.
I wish Al would come here and lay hand upon our weather. Global Warming is a joke, but one I wish were true...
The robins are back this morning. Temps are to be in the mid-high 40s...Then tomorrow;
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The NWS says the snow totals will be on top of what falls as rain. We are in the NW corner of the 2nd county just east of Fargo. Storms like this happen every spring, no surprises. Except that our temps are 20 degrees below normal and when this kind of snow should melt within a day or two, it won't have any reason to.
With all the big snows falling through the Iowas, Nebraskas and such this winter, we've had very little compared. Our problem has been 30 below and sustained Wyoming windspeeds consistently since December. The misery index is extra special high this year, to the point folks actually believe there will be no summer...
Its definitely springing here, had 70 yesterday, other than being breezy it was pretty nice the last few days. Last night however the wind came in from a cold front and just roared all night, with a snow shower, windchill is back down 15 degrees or so, that's hard to take after 70 and calm. :disgust:
Its been an odd year for birds, we had robins a month ago, saw a meadowlark a couple days go and we have had more Geese and Cranes than I have ever seen up here, one field about a mile away was so packed with geese and so noisy you had to speak loud in our yard to hear each other, it was crazy.
Air conditioning has been running, got up to 87 a few days ago. No snow, but there are piles of yellow pine pollen everywhere. It's raining right now....
Yesterday, I saw 4 motorcycles, a small flock of geese, and a bicycle...... Could it be....?
Nope.....winter is back!
6" dump of snow overnight
:sadness:
Heh, But we did have 4" of snow last weekend, however I think we are done with snow for the year pretty much. We hit about 80 yesterday, thought I was going to melt.
Lesseee...today we had clouds, then sun, then rain, then wind, then heavy rain, then hail, followed by blue skies and sunshine.....
I think we hit all four seasons if you count the snow two days ago.....
We had warm and clear with a good chance of sunburn. :)
We are getting into hybrid weather...rain/snow overnight, then warm and sunny by the afternoon.....
The trees are starting to show some sign of life.
I had thought we were done with winter, but had some of it yesterday again, it started to rain, snowed most of the day then turned back to rain and stopped by dark. At least the wind is constant in this storm. Silly me thinking that stuff planted that had sprouted meant that maybe spring was here to stay.
Three & a quarter inches of rain over the weekend. Still like the 1st of March, temp-wise. I fear another late spring. At least there's no snow in the forecast.
I guess we were lucky, we only got nearly hurricane straight wind, and not that high velocity twirly stuff. I can't tell you how sick I am of 20 degree windchill, it seems its been that since it rose above the negative windchills we had earlier this year.
Count your blessings..
It's snowing again.....
Winter is not giving up!
Well its was low 80s here yesterday, mid 80s today, I was out on the lawn mower yesterday wondering why I am sweating. Just couple days ago I was worrying about frost, and we had some.
And anyway that's what you get living with Santa as a neighbor, just so you get your Xmas presents 1st! :icon_smile:
We're cursed with 50s for the foreseeable future.
One day closer to summer....or next winter...
Fog today....and probably a hundred year fog, because we just don't get it here in this dry climate....
Its was foggy then hazy here yesterday too, but that's not unusual, but they are calling for rain turning to snow tomorrow here. I am thankful we are getting moisture, I guess its dry to the point of being a problem in western WY and even northern CO. But I am not missing snow so much.
Looks like we are going to get all our weather n the same day or so. Supposed to be severe thunderstorms today, possible tornadoes, and then rain turn to snow with highs in the low 40s tomorrow. :icon_confused:
They were not kidding, after all day of dark threatening sky, we had 2" of pea sized hail yesterday afternoon, this morning I wake up to 1" of snow on everything.
guess we have a chance of some moisture tonight and maybe some this weekend. So far weeds are not growing and the native buffalo grass is still dormant. Only thing green is what has been watered.
The wheat is still holding on but starting to look bad in places, some of the ends of people's fields have been blowing dirt and wheat is gone on the ends. A few places the blowdirt has parts of fields almost covered in dirt up to the stubble tops.
We had 1.5" of rain /snow. unfortunately its been frosting, between that the hail, nothing is looking too good here either, getting ready for another shot of the same stuff this weekend, and hopefully when it warms up, there will be more than weeds left to grow.
Dang! We got this green stuff growing all over everything.....can't rightly remember what it is since it seems like we been staring at snow for the last hunnert years......
Don't miss the shovellin' and don't miss the snow!
Us too. Finally starting to moderate. We had 3/4" of rain yesterday morning, but it became severe clear @ around 4 pm, and stayed that way!! Still in the 50s/low 60s though. Could use a little AlGore action up here...
I heard a good one on the radio the other day.....
"After the winter we've had, let's just hope that Summer falls on a Saturday this year..."
:icon_mrgreen:
Heheh, what's summer?
We had 1" of rain last night and so far 8" + inches of snow today. :eusa_wall: We don't have puddles, we have islands and water obstacles.
Ychhhhhh!
A little bit of everything yesterday, snow, rain, hail, sun, wind.......
But all in all it is probably the mildest November we have had this year........
Yeah its been a heck of march, lasted for 3 months now.
Quote from: Onepoint on May 12, 2014, 06:54:26 AM
Yeah its been a heck of march, lasted for 3 months now.
Oh yeah. Still wet & 40s here. Better than -40s, but we're about saturated. Sump is running every nine minutes, and we're on high ground!
You lucky dogs. We are officially drier than the dust bowl days. Got the sidewalk wet over the whole weekend.
Sorry Ron. I'd gladly split our last week's rain (now 5") with you. You'd have to trade about 30 of your degrees though.
YEah I have been hearing how dry it is even in western WY, we had about 4" of moisture in a week, there was still water standing on top of the high spots, which was really bizarre to see, it looked like it had just rained a downpour or something and I see I have new pond on some fo the stuff I had seeded, that always helps, hail, snow, and then flooded, I expect that be a great field now. I suppose if it survives, it will be plenty 'hearty'.
We've gotten about three inches of rain at the house the past two days. We needed it, but now I'm afraid Stetto's mosquitos will migrate south in search of warmer weather and more water... :icon_mrgreen:
Okay, who's the wise guy that sent all them hungry bugs up here??
Started raining here Friday evening, we are catching a break right now, total so far is 5.1 inches. We desperately needed it and more.
Got the eighth acre planted over the weekend. Hot and dry, though "they" predict rain every day, we aren't gettin' any. I get up extra early just to watch the weather buffoons come up with more and more inventive excuses for being wrong. We have ground water, that's good, but until my starts develop roots to tap into it, I'm running the well pump to death.
"They" predict rain, I irrigate.
We have had break with showers for the last couple, unfortunately the hail has wiped out most of the alfalfa 1st cutting. But I do have nice crop of mustard and cheat grass. Unfortunately we're supposed to have rain showers for the week because of a pacific hurricane moving moisture up to us. Which creates a dilemma because the weeds need cut right now, next week they will start going to seed and start to dry out even with the rain and really be crap for feed. So old dry crap or rained on crap. I hope I get to eat better than cows will this coming winter. :icon_cry:
I have a friend who may make you a deal on square-bale grass. He doesn't deliver...Be a great excuse to come visit. 8)
Heheh, to heck with hay, you can come visit anyway. :icon_smile:
Well well well them; Now we are to expect upwards of five inches over the next four days. It's 90 degrees w/70% humidity, it'd be nice if we got a break. Went from March to July overnight.
Yup, I'm watering anyway.
All I know is I mowed more already this year than I did in all of 2011.
Day 3 and we so far have a total of one and a half inches. Subtract the three, carry the seven, compensate for Chicken Little syndrome...Huh, they're practically right on!
Yah, way green way fast here too. I'm cutting asparagus twice/day now!
We have had about a couple tenths, but man its been pretty dicey dodging the hail and tornadoes. I watched one from a near perfect vantage point yesterday, many miles away with it backlit by the sun. It was kind of neat to see, the top was a dark funnel, the bottom a glowing while tail that snaked along the ground. 30 minutes later we got a tornado warning. No, ya think? It never got close enough to get a good picture without a 1000x zoom, which is fine by me.
The rest of the excitement was wondering if we get any of the quarter size hail that has been coming through the last couple days, like 2am this morning with the thunder and lightening waking me up. Which BTW hit a tree along the county road a couple miles east on state line road and left a big white strip down it.
Well that was fun, in case I missed fall or early spring we had dark over cast skies and 55 degree highs with drizzle for 2 days. I guess I should feel lucky just south about 70 miles they had tornadoes.
We're actually getting some realistic precip amounts, +/- a half inch every three days or so. Nothing too severe to report here but north and south of us folks have gotten pummeled. The quack grass is already hip high and I find myself mowing about once a week.
This last winter took a toll on the trees this year though. The ten feet of frost and three months of thirty below crippled our three year old honey crisp, no blossoms, half sized leaves and very sparse...The goodland, only 20 feet away and the same age, is lush compared and full of blossoms. The old flowering crab had blossoms on it for one day, the petals all fell off the next. And some of my prized wild chokecherry trees have the ugliest, toxic looking fruit on them I've ever seen.
Oh, and the lilacs refused to bloom at all...
I sure hope global warming starts soon!
The trees here look pretty sparse, especially the tops and west sides because they got hammered twice with hail early. The grass and weeds seem to have not minded though.
Wow. Two and quarter inches of slow soaker today. I hope potatoes like wet, that end of the garden is a LAKE! Had a big old doe whitetail in the yard around noon. I was sorely tempted. No meat in the freezer.
Hay! Happy Father's Day!!!
Nother three inches yesterday. Thirty mph south winds for the last week, no end in site. Corn in the eighth acre is flat on the ground, as is the brussel sprouts and anything high profile.
Rain forecast today, tomorrow, temps in the fifties. Welcome, July!
Its trying to be summer here, 95 yesterday, barely 80 today, but dry and sunny. We did get 2" in about 45 minutes a week or 2 ago, a couple showers in between that was result of dodging the hail bullet. Can't complain too much all in all.
Hokey smokes! July 14 and we're looking at FIFTIES for highs. The corn & tomatoes could sure us a little AlGore style warming right now.
Heh, yeah I just came in from changing water and at 50 degrees my hands and where I splashed on my pants were wet which made a brisk drive back into the yard from a 1/2 mile away. Just a couple days ago I thought I was going to melt. Its been this way all summer so far, hot then exceptionally cool for this time of year. We have had thunderstorm in the mornings, and then clear off in the afternoon, which is the opposite of what we normally get.
QuoteThe corn & tomatoes could sure us a little AlGore style warming right now.
Don't you know that AlGore has said that cooling is a result of warming?
We have a small splasher pool that we bought when the kids were smaller......had to drag it out and set it up so we good get some relief from the heat...
Air conditioning is a waste of money this far north.......but not this year! We don't got it, so have to make do with an inflatable Koi pond......
We are supposed to have 65 for a high today... a HIGH. its also foggy and damp this morning, feels a lot like early fall. :eek5:
Rain is a welcome relief from the hot spell....we were choking on smoke from several big wildfires yesterday, so the rain (at times heavy) helped cool the temps , clean the air, and hopefully helped the firefighters.......
Big wedding next week, so we are heading out to the Sunny (and hot!) Okanagan....
Wednesday evening a storm rolled in, and dumped 4 inches of rain in 38 minutes. We have a wet weather creek that runs through our place, and it was rolling. I will see if I can get pics up.
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That works. We get flash floods with that kind of rain.
We were supposed to have some gully washers all last weekend into the middle of the week, we got about 4/10 over 4 days. Around us a few miles in any direction had a couple inches.
We dried out and got hot through the middle of July into the 1st of August, when I was trying to get everything wet. I cut about 30 acres of hay and we get 1.5" of rain and showers every day this week. :eusa_wall:
"I'll take 'Guess the Weather' for $400, Alex......"
" for $400, the answer is ' You don't normally expect to see this fall from the sky in early September........maybe in December, but not this early in the Fall:"
Yeah? don't feel bad, its possible that even we are going to wake up with white stuff falling Thursday morning. I still have all of 3rd cutting to go and just had the water shut off. :eusa_wall:
I see a freeze warning for eastern Wyoming. Sorry to hear. We started covering tomatoes last night. I was really hoping for a warmer fall this year. Ah well, so it goes...
Yeah, woke up to a light white dusting in the windshields, and 32 degrees. Not sure how cold it got overnight but I suspect that was the worst of it at dawn, they were saying some low areas could get down to 25 if it cleared off early enough.
Yesterday was fun, I had to be on rail cars for half the day with it drizzling and hovering just under 40 degrees and a stiff breeze at times for good measure, my clothes were damp to soaked when I finally got on the road at noon, it turned to mixed snow about dark. Hard to acclimate when we hit 90 on Monday. :eusa_doh:
Shorts and T-shirt weather is back.....and on a weekend too! Got some overdue painting done on the outside and got most of the lawn chairs and stuff packed away .....
I pulled the air conditioner last week, now they are saying 95 for Thursday. But then again they said it was going to be 77 and severe clear yesterday and we had fog until noon and 68 was all, so I suspect they just throw darts at a chart for prediction.
Must be monsoon season. We had three and a half inches of rain at the house yesterday and it's still raining today.
We don't usually shut the air conditioner down until December.... :eek5:
We ended up in the 90s for the last 3 days, I'm about tempted to put it back in!
Nice here, dry, upper 60s to mid 70s with a threat of 80s in our near future. I have everything in from the eighth acre but Brussels and tomatoes, even got some tilling done. I'd like this to last through thanksgiving.
It had better last that long, because it seems like that's how long it will take me to finish haying.
Yup......summer is back.....
The worm is in the act of turning here...Got the last of the ripening tomatoes and limas and chiles out yesterday, got a dose of mid-thirties last nite, a frost is predicted for tomorrow morning and I can harvest some post-frost brussel sprouts if that happens...
Other than that, I don't have ANY winter-prep done. Waiting until it's a panic situation, I get my best exercise that way!
Big storm came through last night and dumped an inch and half of rain at the house. Temps dropped quite a bit as well. It was a Tijuana Brass cruise with the windows down into to work this morning. Hope it stays that way for a while.
Well it is cooling down again.....a lot of naked trees around, but still many hanging on to their leaves. But it has been windy...really windy.....like 30 - 40 knot gusts from every direction....
My mom says there is a big storm over the gulf of Alaska that is supposed to make landfall this weekend....those ones usually cut a diagonal swath across the continent.......have to wait and see....
We have been bouncing back and forth between warm fall and cold fall weather. Trees are turning and dropping leaves, and its getting windier.
Surprise! Summer came back again....
Stilll windy, but it is a warm wind.....
Oct 18th and I had to use the A/C !! .....and the bugs are back...probably next years batch that hatched a bit early.
I am not minding this at all ......it gives me a chance to finish up some fixin' up on the outside...
Yah, we have a great fall going on here too! My Brussels are continuing to thrive, so I'll leave them out there til threat of hard freeze. Darn lawn is still June green as well.
Yeah, if we did not have the hard freezes earlier, you would think this was early Sept, other than 35 degree nights. Not complaining either, I am still picking away on the siding, and did bring in all the roofing material to start on that too.
Stetto how do you fix your brussel sprouts to eat? I really like to splash olive oil, then some salt and fresh ground pepper on em and then roast for 30 min or so in our convection oven. Any other ways to do it healthy and tasty? ( I kinda need to leave that cheese stuff alone :) )
Frazz, we usually steam them for 10-15 minutes, but I'm open to some new recipes. I'd like to try roasting, and though I don't get cheese either, I played the Bacon Gambit on Lima beans once and it was so good I know I can get away with it again...I'd also like to try them in a ham and bean soup, in lieu of chopped cabbage...
QuoteAny other ways to do it healthy and tasty?
Yeah fry them up with onions, once the onions are browned remove the brussel sprouts and eat the onions. :disturbed:
Finally getting some much needed rain. Over an inch this morning and still raining.
We needed it, but I really didn't want it, its had been about 6 weeks since we had anything and it was pretty dry. However, I am trying to reroof and reside part of the house and got it about 1/6 done when this came. :eusa_doh:
It's been a wonderful autumn up til today up here in Bullwinkle County, TX. Snow today, temps dropping, next week highs forecast below freezing. Of course next week would be deer season.
Some are predicting a repeat of last winter. If so, watch for the suicide rate to rise precipitously around here...
Today can offficially be called the last day of fall........we are looking at snow for the next 4 days as well as Stetto-like temperatures....
Its winterrrrr! (http://www.sksboards.com/smf/Smileys/default/crybaby2.gif)
Its been cool, but high 50s and 60s mostly, now the bottom is falling out today, by Wednesday the low is supposed to -3 and stay in the singles and teens and then climbing up to the still sub freezing clear into next week. :errrr:
Arrgh, in just the last 30 minutes since I posted this, we have had the wind come up to 25mph and snowing hard enough to be near like blizzard. :disgust:
Deer season here...Highs in the upper 20s, wind NW at 10. Not bad, except there's no deer. We have a dusting of snow, and there are tracks, but nothing coming through during legal shooting hours. I quit early today just to write this post...OK, no, it was neighbor kids playing in the woods where I hunt. What is wrong with some parents? No blaze orange, about six little turd droppers racing up and down the hills on the west side of the property.
That storm you got, Eric? We're at the northern edge. Will see the low temps but not the snow. I was wishing for an extra couple inches for tracking purposes, but there's nothing to track. Let's hope they move in, there's a lot of shooting going on in the distance, and the guy who built the road on Dad's property has abandoned the place for some hunting digs he bought 50 miles south, so I'm alone in these woods for the first time...Uh, that would be me & the dang neighbor kids... :eusa_wall:
Is there a limit on neighbor kids? I wonder what they would dress out? :icon_biggrin:
We didn't get a lot of snow, most of its moving still, so if you see track there is probably something in them if you look far enough. I definitely did not miss wind and cold. Of course I did not miss that 100 degree stuff either. Maybe I can import some Hawaii weather.
-16 this morning, even the sun is frozen.
Brrrrrrrrr
Quote from: Onepoint on November 13, 2014, 06:41:19 AM
-16 this morning, even the sun is frozen.
The rule in Minnesnowta is "One layer of clothing for every degree below zero". They have one for above zero too, but that one has to do with how long the legs of your shorts should be...
Last day of firearm deer, five above with 30 mph west winds. This. Is. Just. Miserable.
If our freezer wasn't devoid of meat I'd say screw it...
Yeah, we had a single day of respite since last Monday where it got to about 20, but everyday is either plain cold, or has a nice stiff breeze to make it feel even more bitter, like this morning. Sunny and 20 and 25mph and all the snow wants to relocate in piles.
'Sposed to be in the 40s later in the week though, but I am skeptical, it globally warmed us good so far this winter already, even after a long nice fall.
We had a mini warm spell, it rained!! Snow was all gone.......for about 12 hours, then we got a refill.
Wonderful weekend, mid-40s, started raining last night. Froze and turned to snow with NW winds @ 35. Roads are testy at best, just in time for a lot of driving I have to do this week...
We haven't had much wet, but the air is moving pretty fast and its a bit chilly. I had to take a load of hay to CO overnight, coming home against the wind I used almost as much fuel as going down loaded. :icon_neutral:
So we had a skiff of snow last night, but you wouldnt know it by the local computer model meteorologists. They had us buried under untold feet of snow by now. But their enablers, the NWS, issues warnings and End of the World advisories with just about every snowflake that falls.
I must not be the only one to complain tho...One of the local stations has actually begun advertising their weather reports as "No hype, no scare tactics, no sky is falling, just accurate forecasting", which though refreshing, is still not very accurate.
Suppose to be above 30 tomorrow, which a lot closer to average than 10. But only for a day, then back to sub-zero lows...
Yeah it looked like you got the cold end of the stick again, we were probably near 60, but windy, supposed to be even warmer tomorrow then 20s for highs Sunday.
Had the grandkids home this thanksgiving. It was 75 today and believe it or not... we had a bunch of kites. Man did they have fun flying them today. We had about a 10-12 mph wind and was perfect for flying them.
PS whilst all of ya alls were shivering and cussing that record cold a couple weeks ago, :eusa_whistle: wife and I were in a warm spot almost sweating, what with all that turquoise water all about. :eusa_whistle:
You guys enjoy your tropical weather while you can......The ice age is coming your way... -34 with a biting 20 knot wind.
Not as wintery for the moment. We've even been above freezing a couple days and are supposed to see 40s this weekend. That'll be good for propane consumption.
If this keeps up we'll be doing Cinco de Mayo for New Years...No really, we even have a Mexican cook coming from CO with hot sauce & refries.
What was that old joke about the Mexican weather report??? Chile today and hot tamale (tomorrow) :disturbed:
We survived the blizzard...
We survived the ice age......
Now we are in the meltdown. Temps way above freezing. The 2+ feet of snow we had 2 weeks ago is virtually gone
Now it is just sunny and windy.......
We just had a week of late fall weather, highs in the 60s not even much wind to speak of. I managed to finish the house, built come corral and swap out our pressure tank on the well all without being miserable in the process. 'Sposed to be mid 30s all next week though.
And the worm turns I guess, we got slammed with a white Xmas snow of about 10-12" forecast of 30mph wind which thankfully has not shown up, yet. Temps in the 20s then dive Sunday way below zero. Ugh, you would think you would see polar bears around here.
Brrr, we dropped down to -29 last night, I watched the windchill bottom out to -40 at times. (http://www.fubarhill.com/emoticons/cold.gif)
Well, you can close that gate anytime. It was 14 when we woke up this morning and it struggled to get to 19 for the high today. Now they are predicting up to a 1/2" of ice by morning. Us thin blooded Texas ain't used to this.
Vickis aunt and uncle in Boulder City NV said they never got over 30 yesterday either. We did get to 20 for a high, but with all the snow it still was cold. -13 this morning, at least its trending the right way.
Yep. Got our first significant snow of the season last night; a whole inch and a half. Funny part is that it wasn't forecast.
Had some -teens here for lows, but nothing like last year. They are forecasting below zero for highs next week.
Winter's going to be interesting.
It is raining up here right now.......
Well, that was a sneaky diversion......the tmperature dropped aut 20 degrees, and it snowed..
Winter is back..
Warmed up nicely here yesterday and melted the 1/2" of ice that was covering everything. Back down to 24 this morning, with a high of 35 today. Then back down to 14 tonight.
A brisk -40 this morning....but it is sunny....
Only one more week of this, and I will be under a palm tree sipping umbrella drinks......
The sun came out!! After seven totally overcast days where the temps never got about 45. It's up to 60 on the back porch right now. I don't know how you guys handle this winter stuff....I just about went nuts without the sunshine.
Three months from now I'll be complaining about how hot it's gotten! :icon_mrgreen:
We had a warm up finally, the last couple days got to 40s even 50s and started to melt the 3" of ice in the driveway. Today is supposed to cool back down to the 30s for a while and the slop will be mostly frozen again, which is preferable to the wet glass we have had, I was walking around like I was 90 years old trying to not break egg shells. I swear you could time me with a calendar just getting across the yard. All of which is preferable to the 0 degree average we ran for so long.
Winter here had a chilly start, but we've been having a lot of 30+ weather lately, and I'll gleefully take it. There's not but an inch of snow on the ground, if the temps go sub zero long enough without a good two foot blanket of the white stuff, there will be great wailing and gnashing of teeth for the frozen pipes.
But they're claiming warmness into Feb and perhaps beyond, and we deserve a mild one after last year...
Well after about a week of beautiful weather, the clouds rolled back in, 2.4 inches of rain since noon yesterday. Weather forecasters are saying it is going to change to snow this afternoon with 4 inches possible. :eusa_wall:
Snow? :eek5: I had to go look exactly where Baird is, I thought it was still pretty far south. If it makes you feel any better, we are supposed to be in the 50s and 60s starting tomorrow for the next few days, which would feel like 80 for you guys to us.
We got a quarter inch of rain last night. Rain. Consider the part of Texas where I live, consider the average HIGH temp here this time of year (right below zero), and guess what a quarter inch of rain does...
...I gotta wonder what AlGore is gonna charge us for this...
Another week of cold and wet, which was not a bad thing since I've been in the bunker. Sun is out today in time for the weekend. Hope this is it for winter. Anyone want to hunt some groundhog this year? :disturbed:
no complaints from down here (last week)
Thats cheating!
Yep, That's just wrong Nony. Well we wound up with 2.8" of rain, and the snow didn't happen. Bought a 300# steer last week to feed out. Been researching some grass to plant for hay and grazing. Think I have decided on WW. B-Dahl. Eric have you ever heard of this up there?
Looks to be a really good dry land grass. Guess we will see.
Okay, so I was out of bounds for a week......we came back to another spring thaw. Water everywhere! My son a couple hunnert miles south has flowers blooming already.....they are doomed as February can be very wicked.
Nope that's a new one for me, it may be we are too high or cold for it here. Looking it up, its a blue stem variety which should well with some rain so long as it doesn't soak it. Some of the Bluestem we have are pretty stalky and tough, a lot like the intermediate and tall wheat grass that grows in the sub irrigated places.
Back on topic, it's January 26 and 40 degrees ABOVE zero here. It's not noon yet.
Mike did a round trip from the west coast to Mexico. He said the jet stream is absolutely stupid crazy.....they were in turbuience for the 5 hours down and 6 hours back.
No wonder the weather is acting strange
We finally got our thaw, 70 yesterday and today looks like, then back in the 50 and 30s by Saturday.
But yeah I have been watch the jet stream on the news , it is whacked.
Sorry Boston, I got no sympathy. This has been the mildest winter here in quite a few years; February 10 and I haven't had to pick up a snow shovel yet.
Good thing too; I can't get the cheap POS Chinese Honda clone in my snowblower to run...
It's snowing now, expecting around an inch if it doesn't change to rain later.
We are back in a winter wonderland......until thursday when it will all melt........then snow again next weekend.......
Winter snuck back in last night. -17. Going to be in this neighborhood for a while, it looks like.
We have been awfully spoiled with 60s the last week or 2 with a little cool down here and there, the last couple the wind hasn't even been an issue. But I better enjoy, winter is coming again this coming week, and it doesn't sound fun at all.
Freezing rain, with a chance of ice pellets, they said.......
That looks like a mini-van. I thought you guys used snowmobiles and dogsleds to go get groceries and such. :icon_lol:
I thought they rode polar bears. :icon_smile:
Thats OK we had pellet snow yesterday, it was supposed to have moved out, so maybe they can explain the whiteout this morning. :disgust:
We dug ou the mini van and moved it out of the way so I coulld get my 4x4 out of the garage....
We've had so little snow that I still haven't pushed a shovel this winter. Finally, on Feb 18, it fell below -20. March in ten days, not that it means anything in this part of Texas...
It seems we have had more rain, and freezing rain this "winter", than snow. We are going through a weekly cycle of freezing with snow flurries, and then a warm up and melt down with rain.... Its either a skating rink or a mud bog out there depending on the day of the week.........
We got 1.4 inches of rain yesterday, then it got cold and turned to freezing rain and sleet. Now everything is covered in ice with sleet on top. Now it is lightly snowing. We have reached our high for the day....24
....at least that will keep the 'skeeters away.........
We have had 2 days of 80 degree weather, I thought I was melting. Now its 38 and wind blowing, and the way I bundle up, you would think it was below zero. Can't get used to change that fast. :P
Hey we're getting the same, only not so extreme...I'll take it because it beats the heck out of the "spring" we had last year...in May.
Our second spring (much warmer and longer than the first...) has ended. It is snowing now, and will for the next three days.........
wd are varying from 50 to 70 and dry, which is starting to be concerning. I saw the forecast for next week in the 30s and possible snow and rain though, but I'll believe it when I see it.
And here it is Ladies and Gentlemen.....
....you've waiting for it all year....
Well, wait no more.....
...it's here!
Mother Nature is proud to present........
THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING !!!!!!
sin e Feb, we really have had no moisture, just a lot of wind, and some record high days. A couple days we had dust storm ala Iraq, that changed the last couple though with alost 2" of rain. Which I guess guess are lucky, south of us they got 8" of snow and had a 70 car (mostly semis) pile up they are still trying to untangle
We just had a little rain last night, around an inch if you like exaggeration. Been May-like for a month though, and leaves and bugs are racing out the gate. Last night's rain was the first measurable since, I believe, January. And my yard hydrant quit last week. :eusa_wall:
What I really despise about these beautiful warm early Springs; the inevitable hard freeze that kills it all and makes it start over again. Supposed to dip below 20 tonight.
Yeah, we have been getting in the 50s and 60s, and 20s at night.
Yccccccch!!
Yeah, we have had about 5" of rain the last week, and are supposed to get some of that Saturday night and Sunday, but I hope its not like that, that happened last year and screwed up hay the whole rest of summer
Well guys, we've been blessed up to today, 60s & 70s every day since my last report...and less than an inch of rain in the same time...The hydrant out back started working again, I got a new spool and O rings, I figure after 8 or so years maybe some maintenance is in order.
50s and maybe a frost the next couple days, but no snow in the immediate forecast.
Heh, 6 to 9" tonight and tomorrow supposedly for us. I suspect it will be mostly rain, moisture supposed to equal 1 to 2" which will bring us up to around 6" in a little over a week. But we will see. Even the ducks are looking for umbrellas.
Wierd.....two days after the picture above, and we are back to t-shirts and flip flops.....
2 days since then we have about 14" :disgust:
We finally got to the half inch Mark and it's still raining. Notice I said raining. Sorry for you guys, but we're having one of the biggest blooms ever and a well deserved early spring.
Quote from: Onepoint on May 10, 2015, 08:42:39 AM
2 days since then we have about 14" :disgust:
You're welcome.........I guess......
That was a little close for comfort. I went to town yesterday, had a thunderstorm build south of town, about when I was ready to go home the town siren and phone alarm went off and said to take cover immediately with a tornado on the ground about 2 miles south of where I was. I went out and you could see a wall of hail andrain coming, but no tornado, so I hurry, along with several others to get the hell out of there. But we were all held up because ta the tsop sign someone was busy gawking at the storm. :eusa_wall: When we finally got to go, I went north to the hiway and east, and along there people were stopped gawking again slowing traffic, here was a wall cloud and funnels and people are out of their cars looking, unbelievable.
Later last night the pictures started to be posted, this trailer house was rolled over within about 1/4 mile or so of where the dumbasses were waiting to see the tornado the radio was talking about. I missed it by 5 minutes, I never saw it, it was blocked by the rain to see from where I was.
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Wow, that looks more like turned inside out than rolled over. I've been reading that "they" are saying it's a very mild tornado year, too...
Stay safe.
Gah, the rain. When it rains, it pours, and doesn't stop apparently. We were bone dry, had up to 85 in all of March and April for the most part, it was looking like drought. So far in May its so wet you can't get in the fields, the corrals are slop holes, mushrooms are coming up everywhere and I saw some moss yesterday on the shady sides of some trees..MOSS? I didn't know I had been transported to Oregon.
May 30. The tomatoes have been out for a week, even went to the trouble of trying red mulch this year.
...It's 33 degrees right now, they didn't announce a possible frost until after midnight. Too late to cover, about to learn just how hardy tomato plants are.
We are continuing to be inundated. The neighbors tell me we have had 12" of rain or wet including what the snow added up to since the end of April. I think the fish gets bigger everytime its told about in that case, but we are truly over 7" of straight rain now since the 1st week of May. And we are lucky. North about 80 miles or so in Lusk WY the town was isolated from all roads washing out, even the railroad was cut off and stranded between bridges I hear. Power out, water out, they have the guard up there evacuating a smaller town just west and bringing in water for them. They did get the road south open, but the others will be a while since it took out bridges. And we still have 3 more days of high threat of heavy rain and tornadoes. Its been a wild year so far.
After yesterday's inch and a half we're well past ten for the last month, and we've been mostly bypassed.
...our sump is running every 46 seconds, something it's never done in the six years since we put it in. We aren't flooding, the rain isn't falling all at once. I fear what's going on under the house....
Sheesh you can't even sleep at night, every other night for the last few days thunderstorms have built up and rolled through at 2 or 3 AM waking us up to thunder and last for an hour or more. We dodged most of the rain this week until last night, we had one roll through about dark and then again at 2am that dumped on us.
We could use a bit of that rain....warm, windy, and very dry up here..
Dry? I forget what that was like, another 1.25" and this yesterday afternoon.
We got rain....one thunderstorm at a time!
Back to summer after tomorrow's storm rolls past.
Arghh! After the Mother of all Heat Waves...105 degrees in the shade ...(keep in mind that 80 degrees is torrid hot up here..) way to hot to do anything--including try to sleep!
But today, we got rain! We got rain! People are almost out dancing in the street welcoming the relief from the scorching temperatures.......
Yeah, amazing what just a couple weeks change does. We went from being near mossy and wet, to our usual dry and hot, just short of triple digits. and howinthehell did it get to be July already?
We haven't seen the sun for three days now, and there's been nary a cloud in the sky. There's so much smoke coming from fires in Canadia that it's dusk all day...
We are getting the Canadian fire haze here also.
Frank
We even had some out of state smoke haze here as well, but its not as bad as we have had in the past.
We had such a wet spring the grass is taller than anyone remembers, if it t=dries out could make for some true wildfires. I thought maybe we would, we had a stretch of a couple weeks of dry and hot, but today and the next couple are supposed to be 70s and wet again.
OK We got full effect of the smoke yesterday and today, it was thick enough at times visibility was down to 1/8 mile, could not see the end of our trees at times, probably because we had some upslope going on keeping us cool and damp as well. We went from a triple digit high on the 4th to maybe 72 yesterday with it twilight all day long.
Mike just got back from a charter to Guadalajara to fly in 62 fire fighters to help combat those fires....
..any help is appreciated....
It's raining! It's raining!
A welcome end to chapter 2 of the torrid heat wave....a good ol' thunderstorm with lightning, and hail and wind, and lots of rain......hope that helps the fire situation.....
Boy can summer wrap up quick around here. Not going to see sixty degrees for the next couple of days, drizzly, snotty days and the smell of Autumn already.
Had a decent run in the 8th acre. Bumper rows of corn, onions, carrots and lima beans, and as usual a great mass of tomatoes that we're not sure will get ripe. The russets have the biggest tops I've ever seen on a potato plant too...We actually have a good crop of Apple's on the three year old trees, Goodlands and honeycrisp. Wild raspberries up the yangying too. It pays to blast the rabbits on sight!!
We were hot, with a lot of severe thunderstorms for most of July and August, but this lat week we had some 70 degree highs, and set records for lows night before last, we got down to 38, some places were 34 and 35 :eek5:
NOT ready for that yet!
Everyone keep saying this is going to be a hard winter for our region with El nino stronger than its been in 15 years or so.
I could use a couple dry days to facilitate replacing an in-tank fuel pump. To complicate matters I had topped off the 26 gallon tank the night before the pump went. Timing...
A friend who owns a 97 Ram (mine's a 98) said to cut a trap door in the bed. My diesel/a-p mechanic brother says to pull the bed altogether. The guys making $75/hr flagging this kind of stuff say to drop the tank. None of them have any useful suggestions regarding paying for the fuel pump.
Ugh,I hope it goers better than mine did in my 93 ranger, I went through 4 pumps before I got one that stayed working more than a couple months. Didn't matter if I pooped for the better ones or not. The only good thing about that was I could take a couple boards off the flat bed and get to it, would have been a royal pain if I had to drop the tank every time.
That's my fear, having to rinse and repeat. One is $240, the cheapest aftermarket pump overseen is $79, but there are 15 others in between. This is the second time the pump has failed, first time was at 7000 miles.
Oh, and I find I don't have all the tools for this either... :sadness:
I almost went through the same thing with my old chev. The fuel level sensor went, and was part of the pump assembly. From what I read, it would have been somewhat easier to pull the box off. I just filled the tank, and sold the truck ..
Oh, and my son lives 3 hours south of us. They had snow last friday! Freak storm and it didn't last, but snow in the middle of August??
Pretty darn glorious autumn going on here. I'll finally have to cover some plants tonight if I'm going to coax any more peppers to mature. Octobers a couple days away and I'm ahead of the game on a bunch of around the house stuff--even got a couple cords of ironwood and ash cut and split and stacked for the firepit. Ok, there's some red oak and birch in the mix, but NO BOXELDER!!
I'm thinking about transplanting some pesky day lillys out of the chive patch for the nice lady who lets me live here, but a nap in the hammock sounds better!!
We have been dryyy dry, except for a thunderstorm about 2 weeks ago that dropped about 3/4" that disappeared almost immediately, been hot too, was ta 90 day before yesterday. Today we are maybe going to get to 70, cloudy, low clouds and damp. You would think I could get up decent hay in all that dry hot weather, just one more mystery of the universe I guess.
Sorry for yer dry, we've been blessed with a very consistent moisture pattern, my skepticism aside.
Our garden has been ridiculous this year. This is what out tater patch is producing:
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No, the hand grew up on me. The two monster russets weigh in at a pound and a half each.
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These tomatoes are advertised to be half this size...They are all meat, almost no mush to them at all. Yes. The PuddenFace has gone blue...
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Planted two very small bare-root apple trees three years ago. This is what they both gave us on year three. This one is a Goodland, best pie apple I've ever tasted. The other is a Minnesota obligation, a Honeycrisp, good, but in my opinion overrated...
Y'all get hungry, come on up! Bring beef... :icon_razz:
I think summer is officially over, we had a our last 90 degree day about Monday or so, the last few have been cloudy, breezy, fog & drizzle and much cooler, not a lot of rain to speak of, but sure a change. Was out yesterday cleaning a pen and wearing my winter coat thinking maybe my ear winky hat would feel good, ended up running the 1st fire of the season last night too.
Our mornings are cool, but I picked another load of tomatoes this morning. No rain for quite some time, but we're good in the moisture department, no worries. Daytime in the sixties, notes around 45. Not bad for October in Minnesota!
I had an accident in the woods last week, looks like I'll be having yet another surgery. I was clearing the hunting trail behind Dad's house last Wednesday and ripped one side of my bicep from my left elbow when trying to clean & jerk a 150lb. deadfall log. What really ticks me off is that I had the Huskvarna in the trailer behind me and even considered cutting the damned log before I went all stupid. Felt like being shot (ok, what I imagine being shot feels like). I see a surgeon tomorrow morning. This will make 7 surgeries in 6 years. I am become a mess.
Depends if you still have your own body parts, or if they are slowly turning you into robo-stetto...
Hope the surgery works out okay!
QuoteI am become a mess.
Wow, now we know who coded that old video game and wrote "All your base are belong to us." :icon_lol:
That sucks though, start messing with torn muscles and ligaments and its a long heal. Maybe they will get in there and see its not as bad as they think.
They did an MRI Monday and found that the muscle tendon had separated cleanly, a good thing for reattachment I guess. The surgery was done at non yesterday, took all of an hour. My surgeon is a boy, doesn't look 30, but he came in wearing camo shrubs! Another Great White Hunter. We got along really well, and he accepted the invitation to do some whitetail hunting in my section, since I'll be stoves up til January or so. He will share...
...I am on 2mg's of hydromorphone every four hours for pain, and boy do I need it. My left arm is a constant four alarm toothache. Before the surgery he has no lifting more than a coffee cup for six weeks. After the job was done he said not even that, and my arm is splinted for the duration.
I don't recommend anyone detach a major muscle...ANYWHERE...
Oh, and Nony, it wasn't the fuel tank after all. It seems that the distributor had disintegrated from the inside...yay.
I apologize for syntax and spelling errors. I'm on hydromorphone and letting auto correct right this......
Ugh, how long immobile? That means rehab, as if being hurt to start with wasn't enough.
Yep, rehab. At least I already know all the girls at rehab. At least ten days immobile, total six weeks lifting, pushing, supporting nothing, gradual increase from there.
It certainly isn't like losing a limb, but for three months it's gonna feel like it. I lose hunting seasons, hadn't gotten to putting up summer outdoor furniture and winterizing the house, still have taters and dry beans to bring in, I was given a 89 Ford Ranger 4x4 that needs a new throw out bearing, heck, what CAN a one armed guy do?
...and no guitar playing...
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I would have said "no flying", but I haven't done any of that in over ten years anyway...probably ought to have a sale...
*edit* What clue do you see that the meds are working--on my fashion sense, anyway... :eusa_think:
Damn, Stetto, I disappear for a while and you go and do that to yourself. Time to get yourself a bunch of Mexicans up there to get stuff done for you... :icon_mrgreen:
Been pretty busy here. The last of the kids is getting married at the end of the month, youngest grandbaby will be a year old in December, our 33rd anniversary is the day after aforementioned wedding, our company CEO got fired for bribing people in NY (after he made us all take anti-corruption training) and it's still too damn hot down here. It's October, right?
Apart from the obvious, how is everyone? Puddin Face grew up a bit while i was gone....
Jaime, you obviously aren't living right...you want life to slow down? Tear off a body part. I'm not even suppose to lift a cup of coffee (my doc changed my limitations after one day. I now lift nothing.). A buddy of mine, chief of police of the larger town south of us, called me just this morning to confirm the DON'T LIFT NUTHIN!!! advice. Exact same thing happened to him a year ago, and he re-ruptured his after only a week. He says the re-surgery is worse than the original. Makes one try to take it very, very easy.
Today the arm is so swollen that it's trying to bust through the bandages. I'm afraid to guess why, but the nurse sez not to worry. Life continues to race around me, but I'm at a virtual standstill. And yes, the PuddinFace is growing up right past me.
I did take myself off the meds yesterday; they made me feel wonderful----with a four alarm toothache in my arm. I was hoping for a different effect...
Heh, yeah its October but you wouldn't now it, yet. We re going to have a couple days here that are going to break record highs maybe.
We are always busy i guess, juts busy doing different stuff. My wife decided she might have a free minute a day, so bought another milk cow thats due to freshen any day, then it will be milking morning and night. I am still trying to wrap up haying for the year, got tons of fencing to do and and a zillion other things to do before it freezes, assuming its going to any time soon.
Can't imagine what you are going through Stetto, and really have no desire to find out. Hope you pull through this "discomfort" as quickly as possible.
Us, we are doing just fine. Our youngest just turned 29 last weekend. I am 20% retired now, with Fridays added to my weekend. Love the extra time to tackle the backlog of stuff that has been waiting for my attention. The bank account doesn't like it, but we'll make it work out. My wife is looking to do the same thing real soon...
It is been warm here too. I was mowing the lawn in my shirt-sleeves yesterday - on October 9th! Unheard of! Now we have a week of really windy weather (gusts up to 40 knots) to look forward to. But it is coming from the south, so that will keep things warm-ish for awhile....
Bring on warm-ish!!! 72 today, a promise of 80+ tomorrow, had! The things I could get done we're I not banging my stupid left hook...Still, the warm-ish is just fine with me.....
We saw 85 yesterday. I one-armed a few simpler weathering tasks with a caulking gun, we got the last of the chiles roasted and put up, then watched fall come screaming back in 45 mph gust.
High for today? 51...Welcome to Autumn...
Ok, winter is here. 58 degrees this morning and I left my parka at home. Should be a balmy 92 later today.....
32 here this morning, was 80 degrees yesterday, rinse and repeat that again today, welcome to fall. Actually its one of the warmest driest falls we have had in long time.
Well, it's officially over. 22 degrees as I type this. Got 150 lbs of restaurant grade baking russets out of the ground two days ago, the shelling and dry beans are in, none left but to till...
Winter is here. 60 degrees and fog this morning. Hope the airshow this weekend doesn't get snowed out.....
How's the arm, Stetto?
Quote from: jetmex on October 16, 2015, 06:49:11 AM
How's the arm, Stetto?
Ow. They took the plaster splint off yesterday and started phys therapy. I now have tendonitis in every joint from my elbow to my fingertips. I had to go back onto the pain meds.
The good news is that I'll have my arm back in about three months...
The even better news is that my surgeon has offered to fill my deer tag next month, and I'm going to let him! :notworthy: :eusa_clap: :devil:
We are enjoying a second go riund of summer - still mowing grass, using the a/c, driving with the top down....
With the natural order and balance of things, we will pay for this in the future, but right now, everyone is enjoying it.
Solid overcast right now except for the hole right above the house that the sun is shining through. It's supposed to rain, but the weather guessers have been saying that for three days now and we haven't gotten a drop.
WE got whats left over from Texas and AZs storm, starting to feel fallish with cold drizzle and wind.
Pat was not terribly amused that the latest hurricane bore her name, even less so when the weather guessers here started referring to it as the Mexican Monster. We're getting rain from it now.
Five and a half inches of rain last night, and a half inch so far today at the official Jetmex weather station/rock. It's supposed to stop raining tomorrow...
Wow.....that is a LOT of rain......
Getting our first snowish-ness today. It's coming in a mix, scheduled to continue mixing through the night.
We came close yesterday, just some really cold drizzle in a shower that went by, but I notice the 70s are gone and the highs are 60s and 50s now
Ok you Texans, cool it with the Even More Flooding stuff. The pics I'm seeing are scary.
Four and a half more inches of rain here at the house today, and we didn't get the worst of it. Austin and San Antonio got hit pretty hard and the southern parts of Houston are submerged as well. It's still drizzling here right now, but hopefully this has passed and that will be about it for the rain for a while.
Well we finally got our 1st real snow. Unfortunately not the quiet peaceful pretty stuff that piles up and looks like a post card picture, but the sharp, cold and moving stuff. So winter isn't coming, its here. :P
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Well we finally got our 1st real snow. Unfortunately not the quiet peaceful pretty stuff that piles up and looks like a post card picture, but the sharp, cold and moving stuff. So winter isn't coming, its here. :P
...And us today, except we're getting the quiet peaceful pretty stuff. It's supposed to be blasting with wind, but not so much. I doubt we get an inch, and that won't stay long.
We have friends with big hearts up here: The surgeon who did my arm got his doe the first night of MN deer-rifle, and plans to harvest one for us this weekend. We're letting him hunt the woods I usually hunt, so the venison should taste the same....uh, right? :disturbed:
My buddy the butcher found out about my injury, and since he has six kids who ALL hunt and ALL filled their tags called the other night to tell me there were two nice does with my name on them hanging in his cooler. With friends like these we'll never starve...Though it really isn't the same as taking my own...
They are saying that we will have our first freeze of year Sunday morning, supposed to get to 28, pretty big difference from the low 60's high 50's we have been having. Have received a little over 11" of rain in the last 4 weeks. That brings our total for the year to 55.6" for the year. Our yearly average is usually 25-28".
Wow, thats a lot. We started out pretty wet, but ended up dry. Temps have been getting cooler every week despite the record or near record highs recently. We had a 11 degree low yesterday, and supposed to be single digits tonight with a high this afternoon in the 20s. Really could have used some wet with all the warm earlier this fall.
So far, winter has not really arrived yet...a few temporary sprinkles of snow, but temperatures still pretty much above freezing ( just....)...
But it has been windy! 20 to 40 knot gusts from every compass point the whole month......
Yeah we had some wind even by WY standards, they reported a gust of 104 up north somewhere, and we had some 85 or so locally. We also got down to nothin last night after light snow all day. Defintely time to put away the Tshirts and flip flops.
Wet and soggy yet again! Started raining Thanksgiving morning, and has just now quit. 1.5" Thanksgiving day, 3.5" Friday, 2.5" Saturday, and finished up with .25" yesterday and last night. Almost 8" in four days. Hope the sun comes out soon!!!!
Sheesh, we will be lucky to have that much the whole last half of the year when its done soon.
Surprising un-winterlike condions here......we are supposed to get rain this afternoon.......
For the last week, I've been building a large boat. I'll start gathering the animals next week.
We had a 60/ 60 day, small critters displaced in quantity I think. Supposed to be winter again this weekend so I hear.
Well, not 60, but we've had 40s all this week, which has been mighty nice. Two years ago this week we were in the -20s...
Good thing too. I can't get the snowblower to run...again....
How is the arm?
****** FLASH. ******
We got 1/4" of snow !
Film at 11
Nony, the arm is improving, thanks for asking. Still not worth all that much, but the band played a Christmas party last weekend and it didn't fall off...
I'm up to 10 lb weights, 25 by the holiday.
Good to hear you are making music again...!
Whoa, lookout!
We'll be getting it tomorrow night.
We are getting it now, a real winter storm, with snow and everything. Supposed to maybe get 6" but with wind and single digit lows. Did I mention I really don't miss that when its gone?
Heh yeah, the local paper has a huge article on the Children's Blizzard of 1888 on their front page. Not sure what they're trying to say, to run for the tropics or hey, this ain't nuthin'.
One thing I do know: I just spent 4 hours trying to get the blower to run and all I got for my efforts is the halo of gasoline vapors.
It's going to be a long winter.
What a difference 7 hours make, we have about 13" so far, and its supposed to go on until tomorrow sometime. At least its not very windy, enough for some 18" plus drifts, but I managed to get the cows fed without plowing 1st. Of course the wind is supposed to pick up tomorrow, which means I better get one of the diesels running in the morning to move some hay around.
Winter found us! Windy, snowing and cold!
No white Christmas this year! :sadness: Forecast is for light rain and fog, high will be near 80. Santa might be a tad overdressed for a visit here....
I guess that winter thing is still real despite global warming, we had some below zero lows, double digit negative windchills and looks like we had the most snow in a 75 mile radius for some reason, 14" last week that never really went away, and another 4 on Xmas that piled up 3' in places, highs in the teens. Hope it gets it out of its system soon, I am going to have to chain up a tractor to get around with all the ice.
10 below this morning. Supposed to get up to a high of -9.
-23 forecast for tonight. Honeymoon's over.... :sadness:
It is BRRRR-RR-RR up here too !!
35 here this morning. High supposed to be 47. Brrrrrrr. Winter has REALLY arrived.
Yeah, we are just catching the edge of the really cold stuff, it was 1 this morning when I got up, we got to about 30, but had a pretty stiff breeze with it so it didn't feel warm at all. Supposed to be in the 40s this week, which would be good so maybe a little of this snow will go away.
......and now it is raining.......in January !!!
Yeah Nony, and I thought last winter was mild. It got up to 42 here two days ago, is forecast close to that today. They forecast rain for today here too.
We had the one short cold snap and it's been almost nice since. We'll see what the groundhog sez this Tuesday....
We had our Jan thaw for real here too, was near 60 yesterday, but not really enjoyable with the 60mph winds that came with it. That's the way its been all week, the temp matched the wind speed. But at least some of the ice is melting away, and it thawed enough to make it muddy. Looks like we are going to dodge a bullet the next few days where south from Cheyenne on is going to get it good I hear.
Just as well I am stuck remodeling the kitchen, I guess just to remind me why I detest remodeling. Funny how a new floor turns into new cabinets, countertops and sink too. :eusa_doh:
Don't hate me for this, but it's 75 degrees and severe clear in the swamp right now. This is supposed to continue for a few more days.
Has everyone up north dug out from the ssssnnnn........sssssssss.........snnnnnnn...white stuff yet? :icon_mrgreen:
Great mosquito weather!
Most snow is gone.....but replacement is on the way, I heard....
Yeah, ours is mostly mud and ice patches, but we ha a dusting, and now they are talking we may get some of that stuff coming up from the south. Doesn't matter, I am condemned to the kitchen until I die from fatigue, but I hear outdoors is nice.
Ok, it's 35 degrees, there's maybe an inch of new snow on the ground, heavy and sticking, and we've been issued a blizzard warning. I may have to issue a retraction later, but Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
We had winter storm Kayla go through last week. I had to laugh, the rest of country gets to deal with what I do all the time, plus it snowed. :icon_smile: We really didn't get it that bad, they claimed we had 9", but I think we only had 4 maybe, it really never piled up too high despite the 30-40mph wind from the east we had with it, actually was worse drifting the last couple days with higher wind from the west. But it was worse around us, especially south and west, they can't keep the interstate open it seems, the last 5 days its been shut for several hours each day. And they have 3-5' drifts to deal with. I have some knee high ones that seem to regrow everytime I bust through them.
Ok, it's 38 now, but I have to retract. Can't see the mailbox.
I'd kill for a plow blade. Wrong time of year to be shopping though.....
I got stuck with a tractor in the middle of the yard on a frozen ice puddle. I was starting to think I would have to get another one going to pull it off. :eusa_wall:
I watched a tractor mounted snow blower go for 420 bucks in early Nov on an auction, and I was thinking the guy was an optimist because it was bone dry and 60 degrees, looking back I should have bought the dang thing.
Egad......and we are warm and melting....
We need some snow, or it will be a very, very dry summer!
Yeah just a couple days later we thawed out too, more wind, mud and water standing than anything right now. We didn't get that much snow from the last one, but folks south had 16" and its starting to melt and they are getting street and road flooding because the sides of the roads and gutters are still piled with ice and snow.
Ooooooooo! We got some snow....a couple of inches, more to come.
Not a fan of these premature thaws, besides leaving everything covered in sand and mud, it leaves a layer of ice under the snow. It should be an interesting drive into work this morning!
Severe clear and about 66 degrees here right now, on it's way to a high in the upper 70's. Been a little windy, though.
unrelenting southern and easterly winds, can't even try to keep ahead of drifting. Found a plow guy, but @ $40 a pop I'll be broke by this time next week............. :eusa_wall:
Still windy, just west of us they had some gusts that went over 80 MPH, amazing what flies you think wouldn't when it gets like that.
Yeah, breezy here too. We got a bit of snow, but it mostly melted. The farmers are going to be hurting this year if we don't get some moisture in the ground .....ie a good slow melting snow pack.
It could be a dust bowl this summer....
Global warming alert!! Feb 26 and the forecast is for 47 today, 55 tomorrow.
It's gonna be a sloppy mess around here! I did have crushed asphalt put in the driveway two years ago, no mud this time.
Well, the motorcycles are out enjoying the sun yesterday......very mild April we are having this month.
We did get a splash of rain today.....
Last couple of days its been real springy, in fact Friday was one of those rare perfect days of about 72, calm and sunny. But the last couple we had a return of the wind, and its really dried out now, we have a bunch of fire warnings out.
That's just weird...fire warnings in February !!
Yeah and not just warnings, we had several fires around, one went through 4000 acres of grassland. 70 mph wins they could not drive fast enough to catch it.
OK WTH? We just had a hail storm go through, left the ground white with hail up to 1/4" big
Aye, we be roller coastin' into Spring this year. 50s just4 days ago, then single digits and WIND (not 70 knots, though), then this weekend "they" forecast upwards of 60s. I'll be happy to get out of the season without having to pay for another plow-out.
OK, at the risk of having it rubbed in, can I get a weather report for the next week south of....Oh....Maybe Dallas? The PuddinFace is really looking forward to sunning on the coast over the weekend, gotta have sunshine and NOOOOO TORNADOES (I know it's that time of year, used to live in Tulsa).
It's going to be cold this Thursday and next Monday. The rest will be cool but not bad. Wear warm clothes as those two days the temperature is supposed to drop all the way down to 68.
I remember in Phoenix when temps got down into the 60s and the parkas started showing up. Sounds like a wonderful weekend coming up!
It got to over 80 up here yesterday. The wind was like Wyoming though. Can't just have a nice day, can we...
We got near 80 here, and I guess the wind was shipped up to you, but we are in for a big spring surprise from the sound of it. Big low anchored on the 4 corners is pumping moisture up from the gulf and supposed to dump on us for the next several days, talking 2 to 4' of snow in the hills and 1-4" of wet here whatever form that it comes in. they are saying Cheyenne should expect like 12" of white stuff.
Looks like we are about to get wet for an extended period. Starting this evening and going through next Thursday. Predicting 2-4 inches of rain Saturday and Sunday with flash flooding a very real possibility.
Man, Honcho be right. That system is sittin' and spinnin' about 200 miles west of us, drawing all the way down to west of Carl. I heard five feet in the mountains outside of Denver.
Dry as a bone here. But windy. I'll take the dry, for now. Rain would ruin too much of my day.
We had about 3/4" of rain so far, nothing like they were predicting, looks like its hanging east and south so far.
Warm, dry, and windy here.........it could be a dry dusty summer....
5+ inches of rain last night.
Quote from: zrct02 on April 18, 2016, 07:44:43 AM
5+ inches of rain last night.
I was checking the radar this morning and saw the mess you folks have yourselves in. North Texas is even wetter.
We've had two really nice, mild winter/spring cycles back to back up here, doesn't bode well.
I take that north Texas part back, Roger. I jus read where Houston got 16+.
Poor Jaime must be breathing through a straw!!
We got a bit lucky, a good amount of mositure, timed just right and not too much, about 1.3" some of it being about 3" of wet snow. But ya know I 'll take it with out any news worthy storms.
Stetto,
Our rain gauge maxes at 5". From the look of our tank, we got a whole lot more. BTW tank = pond
Heh heh Roger, I lived in AR, OK & MO in my evile youth. I knew what you meant by "tank".
Don't let all of Texas wash away--I'd like to come back sometime.
Oh, and with all the wet going on around us, we've accumulated a whole 3/8" in the last week.
Monday night was pretty bad here, but we didn't flood. My rain gauge tops at five inches and it was full this morning, but I think we got more than that as well. The kids and grandkids all stayed home yesterday, youngest daughter's cul-de-sac was under water and my friend's hangar out at Hooks airport flooded. Compared to the water they got all around us, we were lucky. What always amazes me is that we have underpasses that routinely flood to 15 or 20 feet and no one has thought to do anything about it. Looking at some of those, you'd think it never rained around here....
More rain in the forecast.
As of this morning we have received 8 inches of rain since Saturday evening. We are wet, wet, wet! Both tanks are full and running around.
Man....its mid April, and we should be shovelling snow, but it is dry, windy, and dusty....with fire bans out already......we could use some of that rain!
We'll see what we can do. 8) Going to be 80+ here today, the mud is starting to isolate in the low spots. Just in time for more wet snow next week I hear.
Wow, alert the media! Stetto has no complaints for a change. Temps are mild (got up to 80 once so far), mostly 60s, a little drizzle now and then, frosty/dewy mornings, winds finally calm, no catastrophic meteorological events scheduled, I can get a way early jump on the outdoor work....yeah, call somebody!
Quote from: Onepoint on April 22, 2016, 06:45:07 AM
We'll see what we can do. 8) Going to be 80+ here today, the mud is starting to isolate in the low spots. Just in time for more wet snow next week I hear.
Thank you Honcho......we got rain! And a bit of snow.....supposed to continue for the next few days. It is very, very welcomed!
Yah, we're getting ours too. Not 20+ inches, but if what's in the rain guage had come down as snow we'do be in the 15 inch range. Expecting another +/- inch through the day.
I have a full pickup load of unsplit firewood that needs unloaded. When can you guys be here? :disturbed:
Half a cord......shouldn't take more than 10 - 12 minutes to unload......if you are properly motivated. :icon_biggrin: :icon_biggrin:
Nony, have you SEEN me lately?
Yeah......but you got teenagers n'est ce pas? 😉
I had my fill of throwing, piling, cutting, and splitting wood as a youngster..it was our only source of heat in the winter, so got lots of practice every year....now I could toss two, maybe 3 small logs, and I would have to sit down and rest.......
I hear them burly Wyoming ranchers are pretty good at unloading trucks.......
😀
Heh, yeah they are, but I have trouble with it still. :icon_smile: We cheated this year, I had wood brought in. That's way too easy to get used to. Of course it looks like we will run the thing until August at the rate its going, cold and rain, and even snow predicted for the next 4 days.
My teenagers turned urbanite on me. The boy has discovered the freedom of automobility, and while the Puddinface loves to drive the mower, any hand tools of any size, weight or shape might as well be soaking in the pit beneath the outhouse. I thought about spending the $$ on a splitter, but while my arms work the wedges and 5 lb sledge is my splitter.
The wood is "junk", mostly basswood, but it will do fine for the firepit out back....
I tilled the 8th acre on Saturday. I have NEVER been able to till before the third week of May. I planted onions and dry beans yesterday. We've been picking asparagus for over a week. I am so into this global warming thing!!! Bring it on!
Global warming? This is the 3rd year in a row we have had snow or a heavy frost on the ground on may 1st. Maybe I misunderstand that global warming thing, but isn't it supposed to be warmer?
Up here we've had two very mild winters in a row followed by nicer and earlier spring weather. I jest with the global warming, but before Krakatoa exploded there were reportedly vineyards on Greenland. My hope is that we're finally getting back to normal.
Don't burn up Nony.
I didn't know there was any Canada left to catch fire....
Oh you heard.....
We're okay...just hot dry and windy,,,,,,the whole city of Fort Mac is being evacuated, much of it destroyed by fire.....
The floods appear to be over for the moment and it's been absolutely beautiful here for the past few days. Lows in the 60's, highs in the 80's and a breeze to keep things even more bearable. I can live with this for a while longer before hell sets in.
Yeah Nony, our local news is full of you guys this week, when they aren't bragging about the FOUR NIGHT concert engagement of Garth Brooks.
Jaime, we've had that 80s for a couple days now, without the 30+ inches of warmed snow.
I bookmarked the webcam at the beach resort we stayed at in Port Aransas, I notice the sun comes up about an hour later for you guys than up here.
http://sandollarsity.com/SandollarSityBeachHouseRentalsBeachWebcam.html
We went from 40s for highs to mid 80s, and then we are supposed to be back down in the 50s over the weekend, my body doesn't know what the hell is going on. Do I sweat?, do I shiver? what?!?
Yup, it's Spring. Been in the 70s, even 80s, last two days in the 50s, expecting a freeze on Saturday morning. Everything is green and blooming, not sure how all that will fare.
Going to Denver for four days tomorrow. Anyone want to meet up? :disturbed: :icon_mrgreen: :P
Really, dang it, I just ran down to CO yesterday, if you would have told me sooner I could have made it next week. Watcha doing down here?
Terrin has a BFF celebrating her 50th tomorrow. They're throwing a surprise party, I guess we're the surprise. We'll be in Littleton til Tuesday morning.
Our flight is tonight @ 7:45. Wouldn't ya know it but my mom's favorite presidential candidate is in Fargo today, ginning up the Bern. Hector field only has four concourses, all linked at the center of the terminal. Can you imagine the circus we may have to navigate to get on a plane? 😲
Oh, and I haven't flown since 1998. They tell me I'll have to surrender my shoes at the gate?
Stetto, I think all that sssssss........snnnnnnnn.......white stuff melting is all running down here. We had four inches of rain in two hours yesterday afternoon and it's still raining now. The water came up to the sidewalk here at the house, which is about knee deep if you're standing at the mailbox by the curb. It was thigh deep at the intersection a few doors up from where my daughter lives just around the corner from my house. Haven't seen that much water in the street here in a long time.
Looks like it's time to lock myself in my room and build some model airplanes....
Its been so dreary and damp here that this morning my wife told me I am looking at at it all wrong and that I should enjoy the free teleportation of Scotland to here that saved me all that money on travel. Which would be great if I had going to Scotland on my need to do list.
Quote from: Onepoint on May 16, 2016, 01:58:04 PM
Its been so dreary and damp here that this morning my wife told me I am looking at at it all wrong and that I should enjoy the free teleportation of Scotland to here that saved me all that money on travel. Which would be great if I had going to Scotland on my need to do list.
Dunno about Scotland, but Denver has really been a drag for weather. Honcho, really sorry we can't get together this weekend, but we will coordinate a visit this summer. Life is just too short.
No problem, sometimes things just don't work out, but sounds like you enjoyed yourself anyway, hows the head this morning? :icon_cool:
Our world tour continues, yesterday Scotland, today London, visibility is literally about 50 feet. I suspect tomorrow we will slip over to the emerald isle, with it being so green.
Honcho, you crack me up !!!
😂😅😄🌜🗻
We're having breakfast at the airport, was served my last of an incessant line of alcoholic beverages at around 9 last night. It's London here too, but back home in the tundra they're on their way to a glorious sunny 70 degrees.
The head is not good. Haven't really slept in 3 days. These 50 year olds are a rough bunch!
Sun is out for the first time in nearly a week. 78 degrees and the humidity is actually not too bad at the moment. The weather guessers think it will stay nice like this for at least a few more days, hope they're right! At least I won't have to water the grass for another day or two....
Hey Roger, did you stay dry?
It got to 75 yesterday and today, with the sun and all, I thought I had sprung a leak I was sweating so bad.
I bet Stetto is finally maybe just recuperating from his wild weekend. :)
QuoteI bet Stetto is finally maybe just recuperating from his wild weekend.
Ya think? We haven't heard from him in a few days. Too young to die, too old to rock 'n' roll!! :icon_mrgreen:
OK, here I am, what's left of me.
I'm not made of the stuff they dished out last weekend. It's the next weekend and I'm still catching up. We have 3 weeks til Dylans graduation party and I'm in a remodel that will take 4. The rock n roll is become political, the band wants to hire a 60s Era keyboard player and I'm aginnit.
But I'm here and I'm....uh, here, and I have an 8th acre to put in and the weather here ROCKS and the second till starts tomorrow and I'm not gonna get a minute to myself for the foreseeable ever and a drive to Hawks Springs will make my summer later....
OK, are we up to date?
The wind got downright NASTY yesterday. Thought the house would be on its side this morning. A front went through and dropped a quarter inch of rain, and you'd figure the wind would quit, but no, blowing the trees almost over again today. I'm supposed to be planting the 8th acre in this...
:eusa_wall:
Yeah we had a bad wind Saturday, out of the east and south east which is the opposite direction we usually get it.
Not dry. Ground is so soaked a 1/2" of rain means 1/2" of standing water.
We got lots and lots of rain. Strange as it may seem, it is very welcome!
3/4 inch yesterday, most in a downburst around midnight. Grass grew 5 inches since then. We're on notice for t-storms for the foreseeable. Mosquitoes are going to be thick this summer.
Quote from: zrct02 on May 25, 2016, 03:04:31 PM
Not dry. Ground is so soaked a 1/2" of rain means 1/2" of standing water.
Weather guesser here just mentioned 16+ inches falling north and west of Houston. You and Joyce got your hip waders on today, Roger?
Been raining here since late yesterday afternoon. 2 1/2 inches at the house last night and Roger is right. Ground is soaked, so it's all standing. The mosquitos are having a field day, the grass grew a foot since I mowed it last weekend and all the lakes in the state are finally filling up, so I guess the drought is over.
Sure would be nice to see the sun sometime soon. The upside to that is it hasn't hit 100 or even 90 yet....
We got at least 12" the other day. 2 1/2" in morning + 3 1/2 in afternoon + overflowed 6" rain gauge.
Sheesh, that about what we get all year normally. We have hada a few sprinkles but its starting to dry out a little, I see the highs are supposed to be getting in the high 80s toward the end of next week, so I suppose this cool wet spring is about over for us.
Were in the 20-30 inch/year neighborhood, but a goodly portion of that comes frozen. You Texans need to stay dry and keep us posted.
And then 55 today. 30 mph gusts, first of June in minnesnowta, right? Second day of unrelenting drizzle, not getting anything done outside.
I think we broke even....after that hot windy dry spell, we had 2 weeks of rain....everything is lush and green now...
Raining hard again tonight. Six inches already about 15 miles west of us and a flash flood warning was just issued until 2200 tonight. Might have to swim to work again tomorrow...
Four more inches of rain last night, ten inches total for the past week. Sure would be nice if this stopped for a while.
Roger, are you all right out there?
We only got about 2 inches last night. No flooding at the house but some of the low areas have about 4 inches and the creek is pretty full. Yes indeedy, we have had enough rain for quite a while.
What is with Texas and the feast or famine bit? Now I know why people down there were asking "Y'all gon stay?" They need more oar men.
We got over our rain I guess, we are hitting 90s now after all that cool weather and I think I am melting.
I think we've gotten more rain so far this year than we did for 2011-2014 combined.
So all that wild weather that went through the Honcho's back yard on Monday night came through here last night. Reports of tornadoes to the south, huge amounts of rain to the east and the West, and my rain gauge filled up to....a paper thin wet spot on the bottom. Can't win. Now I gotta go water the 8th acre...
Torrington got 5.5" in about 45 minutes last Sunday, had major street flooding, winds knocked some big trees down, it was a mess. We got 1/10th inch and are burning up with a lot of 30mph wind and near triple digit heat. Still, I 'll skip the flooding.
We have had rain and thunderstorms for the past 3 weeks....
I think we have broken even now......the good weather can come back any time...
I'd just be happy with a half inch in a slow soaker.....
Well, the rain stopped here for a few days and now we have temps in the mid 90's, unbelievable humidity and B-17 sized mosquitoes. I missed some of it, though, because I was sitting on a beach in Florida for a week. The weather was just fine there!
Funny how just a few weeks changes everything. We have had no real rain since mid May, and other than the tall grass you would think we don't get rain. We hit 106 yesterday. :P It stayed up around 104 for 5 or 6 hours. Fortunately cooled off into the 60s after 11pm, but man what a scorcher. Today highs in the 80s, which while thankful, WTF? we have been bouncing between triple digits and 80s, but no rain with the fronts.
Hmm, we're having pretty much a classic summer. Close to an inch of rain every other week, one day of 90s, otherwise 70s and low, dry 80s. We did lose half a honeycrisp apple tree in the wind on Father's Day, I grieve for that, but bumper crop of asparagus, the garden looks healthy, I even got the Alumacraft registered again after sitting in the weeds for 3 years. Might even float it.
They're really ginning up the panic over the heat in the southwest. How short can memories be? I remember throwing frisbee in 1992 at a park in Mesa, temp was 122. It's the desert, dummy!
But 106 in southeast Wyoming? That should be on the news....
We set a record that topped one by a degree from 1889 supposedly. Figure that into global warming. Yesterday was down right nice, mid 80s, nice breeze, a little smoke from fires to the west of us but I would take a day like that anytime.
July 1 and 43 degrees this morning. Tomatoes and corn don't like it much when it gets chilly.
I didn't have to plant potatoes this year; found enough "volunteers" coming out of the dirt that I simply transplanted them into rows. I got heritage spuds!!😆
Yeah we woke up to a cloudy low scud day, not so cool really, but humid as heck, which is switch from being hot and dry.
I hope yesterday was our "big'un" for the season. 2.75 inches in about an hour. There were tornados, just not here. We got 80mph straight winds though. The corn and peppers are flat on the ground. Surprise though, the sump is NOT working 24/7. That's a first. I did a lot of grade work last fall, maybe did some good...
YEha, we have had those popup storms, hit or miss, we have been getting a 10th maybe a 1/4" in a cloud burst, but places around us get 2" hail and 2" of rain. Right in our little hole its bone dry, the neighbor decided he didn't want his hay stack and lit up some weeds despite a burn ban, and quickly spread to his hay stack in his yard. All kinds of pretty lights at the neighbor last evening.
Dang, the corn had finally got itself right end up and we got another inch and a quarter last night.
You Texicans must be used to this, how do you keep the corn standing? Bring it in at night?
I think they give it hugs. :icon_smile:
Quote from: Onepoint on July 10, 2016, 08:20:22 AM
I think they give it hugs. :icon_smile:
Corner fluffers? :eusa_doh:
Just took a stroll out to the back. We lost a few good size trees last night. They were just boxelder, one of the rodents of the tree world, but someone will have to get out the Husqy and clean it up....
Another inch and a half last night. This one woke me at 2 and kept me up. It's still raining, "they" say another 2 inches coming along with more high winds.
Let's see, since Friday night I calculate right at 5 1/2 now with more on the way. The sump is running every ten minutes or so. It'll be much more frequent by this time tomorrow.
Glad I don't live in Texas. :eek5: We have a creek trying to overrun in the back, but it's quite a ways downhill from the house....we ain't quite as flat right cheer....
We have had 7/10" over about 3 weeks, but it may as well have been nothing, bone dry, grass fires popping up everywhere from anything from exhaust to sparks from metal hitting rocks. We had a wet spring and the cheat grass got tall and thick so its fire just waiting to happen with triple digit temps, teen humidity and breezes.
QuoteGlad I don't live in Texas.
Why? It's been a balmy 98 or so for the past week, with enough humidity to preserve your skin and raise the heat indexes to 108 or so. What more could anyone want? :icon_mrgreen:
Not much corn around here. What there is pops when the temps get high enough so we just put butter and salt on it and put on a good movie.
http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/texas/funny-maps-tx/
Quote from: jetmex on July 11, 2016, 09:22:42 AM
QuoteGlad I don't live in Texas.
Why? It's been a balmy 98 or so for the past week, with enough humidity to preserve your skin and raise the heat indexes to 108 or so. What more could anyone want? :icon_mrgreen:
Not much corn around here. What there is pops when the temps get high enough so we just put butter and salt on it and put on a good movie.
http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/texas/funny-maps-tx/
Jaime, drive into Corpus from the west on I37. You'll see square miles of corn... :icon_wink:
We already get the mid-heat temps with the astronomical humidity, plus the bluejay sized mosquitos. Without the salt water...
apparently we have been subscribed to the "Storm a Day" club.....thunderstorms rolling through every day from every direction. Remember all the rain we didn't get last spring.....we got it with interest.... not so much as you southerners, but way more than usual...
Us too Nony, another 2 inches last night. Sump running every 70 seconds, I had diverted it into a slop sink last year while we did yard work, never got around to putting the pipe back outside. I fear for the drain field...
Our chance of more rain tonight is down to 60%.
Rain, I have heard of that before. Funny how it contrasts. We had the lowest humidity yesterday in 16 years, 3.6% officially, it was combined with a 30 to 50 mph wind in places, and unfortunately made any spark explode into a 50mph inferno. We had a grass fire start about noon yesterday 17 miles north of Torrington, by dark it covered about 25000 acres. We also have a forest fire burning on the CO border west of Laramie which is about 150 miles as the crow flies from us that has crossed into WY and is about 20k acres now. That's a lot of smoke in the air at times, cheeyenne was socked in yesterday in the afternoon with it.
sounds like a convection oven....
We actually had no rain yesterday. Figures, I spent most of it redirecting the sump.
3% humidity...wow. We might get around 10% in February when it's 40 below, but in the summer? That's mummification weather!! :eek5:
Forecast said today would be the driest day of the week just two days ago....this morning? 100% chance. But it's a low-accumulation drizzle, for now. Sump is running every 32 seconds and I have a floor drain backing up regardless, and it's only 2 feet from the sump tub.
OK, I take back the drizzly part. Set in rain, over 3 quarter inch so far, puts us over 8 inches since Friday.
Very nasty storm through northern mn last night. Power still off after 7 am. Sun's gonna light her up again today.
I guess we're victims of a major. Power went out at midnight, right now (1:00 pm) we're told to not expect powered restored for up to three days. And us with 3 freezers full of meat. :eusa_wall:
Who wants to come for barbecue?
After a VERY WET spring, we are bone dry. Two inch (that's 2") cracks in the soil. Haven't seen temps below 100 for quite a while now. We have to give the chickens ice water but the are still laying hard-boiled eggs. Have to get to the popped corn early in the morning, before it's all shriveled up. Can't put butter on it as the temp goes above the smoke point.
Heh, yeah its been warms here too, at least a couple days we pegged 106, and several triple digit days in a row. What little rain we have had from any thunderstorms is gone in a day. Could be worse, north just a couple hours they are in a full blown drought, already feeding because pastures are gone. I am as well between the dry and the grass hoppers, the only difference is I have irrigation water and hay, they are having to go find hay elsewhere because nothing grew this year. Going to be tough year for those guys with falling cattle price and this.
Whoa Roger, no butter? I bet laying a brisket on the hood of your car cooks it up just right, eh?
We very rarely see anything over 100° here, but when it gets in the high 90s the wind quits and our humidity hovers around 90%. Then the violent stuff comes through and knocks our lights out. Speaking of which, our power was restored sometime last night. This morning they're forecasting violent weather for tonight.
Not to rub it in, but we are greener than green up in our little corner of Texas. Y'all are still invited for that barbecue.... :eusa_clap: :eusa_clap:
After reading the posts above, I have nothing to complain (or brag) about... We get a bit of sun and our daily thunder shower.... It is wetter and cooler than normal, but the grass loves it! We cutting every couple of days...
Stetto, 0nly 90% humidity. I'm envious. probably could do a brisket but, unfortunately, beef (and other red meat) is off my menu since my operation. BTW, I'm down about 115 pounds.
Quote from: zrct02 on July 22, 2016, 01:04:36 PM
Stetto, 0nly 90% humidity. I'm envious. probably could do a brisket but, unfortunately, beef (and other red meat) is off my menu since my operation. BTW, I'm down about 115 pounds.
Dang, you were looking pretty good when we met up in March! Joyce is gonna need to put a bell on you just to keep track.
Another half inch of rain last night. I picked 5 quarts of choke cherries this morning to make a little jelly, it's a couple weeks early but all this rain and an early warm spring makes the cherries plump and full of pectin. I'll leave the rest of them on the Bush for another week. It's going to be a good harvest if I can keep the chipmunks down.
The Temps are mediating into the high 70s for now, the garden is showing signs of good growth, if weed generation is any indication... :disturbed: :eusa_doh:
Anybody got a good eggplant recipe?
70s, I remember those, we were in the mid to high 80s yesterday, even had a thunderstorm give us a 1/10 inch of rain, felt like spring. Today back to mid to high 90s.
5+ inches of rain last night.....4 miles south of us. Our guage shows 3/4" this morning.
We got that much yesterday afternoon thanks to a surprise thunderstorm....had about a foot of standing water in the parking lot for a couple of hours....lots of flooding in low areas and underpasses. Yet 10 minutes away in any direction, got nothing!
We are getting out turn at severe weather, we had a T storm roll through day before yesterday and gave us 3/20, but yesterday we dodged a major bullet, twice. I had to go to Sidney NE, got the warnings on the phone could see the big nasty cell, it was actually pretty as I drove around the northern edge as it moved south, but it hammered Pine Bluffs WY, major hail damage to houses with golf ball size hail driven by 50 mph wind, high winds even pushing over some big trees and knocked power out for a few hours along with street flooding.
Later after I got home, and it got dark another big cell developed northwest of Torrington and made a straight path southeast hitting Lingle, Huntley and headed for us, but swerved west before it got us and then continued southeast across the border into NE wreaking devastation with tennis ball size hail. Who ever was looking out for us cannot be thanked enough.
Wow, I remember Huntley. Just a turn in the road and a big brick abandoned school building, right?
Stetto,
Try allrecipes.com.
Yep, just a couple houses and the old school.
Quote from: zrct02 on July 28, 2016, 09:08:33 PM
Stetto,
Try allrecipes.com.
When I lived in AZ I went to a party hosted by one of the hoity toity country club chefs, and he served a veal parmigiano that I wound up pigging out on...the next day he told me it was eggplant.
THAT'S the recipe I want.
Quote from: Onepoint on July 29, 2016, 06:39:17 AM
Yep, just a couple houses and the old school.
Dunno why I remember that so well, it's like a photo in my head....that building is just so out of place.
Hey, they just announced that the mosquito count up here is the highest seen since they started counting--120 years ago! They travel in large gangs and will jump people in the sunlight and drag them back into the shadows. Enough rain already!
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/223358/crunchy-eggplant-parmesan/?internalSource=recipe%20hub&referringContentType=search%20results&clickId=cardslot%2024
Roger, looks can be yummy yet do not taste like meat.
Quote from: stetto on July 29, 2016, 03:56:57 PM
Roger, looks can be yummy yet do not taste like meat.
True. I just happen to really like eggplant. Might just have to call 'em and hope he still works there. :). Good luck.
Quote from: zrct02 on July 29, 2016, 04:20:50 PM
Quote from: stetto on July 29, 2016, 03:56:57 PM
Roger, looks can be yummy yet do not taste like meat.
True. I just happen to really like eggplant. Might just have to call 'em and hope he still works there. :). Good luck.
Heh heh, you might need a sentry on your mailbox in a few weeks....
So I went to town this morning to pick up some Off/Cutters/Repel and learned after an hour long search that there was a run on the stuff last week. There isn't a store in 50 miles that has a can.
We have a huge outdoor country music festival starting this next week, the venue is set in a swamp. 50,000 campers and no mosquito sauce. Ought to be entertaining.
Meanwhile I picked up some killer that goes on the garden hose. The family would like to get some use out of the fire pit this year....
Hunker again, Texas? Just saw a news report saying you were about to get another round of record dampness.
Don't become Louisiana.
Wow. Did we have a show last night. Only 2 and a half inches, but i could have read through an entire newspaper by the constant lightning.
We are shaping up to go into a drought here, minimal rain for the last couple weeks again, nothing to measure when it does, just enough to screw up hay.
Sorry to hear that, we're wetter than just about ever up here...Don't wanna poke any Texan bears, tho :'(...
We lost the rest of our honeycrisp last night. Saved some apples, and there's a small branch still intact, but I have a feeling this tree won't survive winter.
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Well, it begins....predicting frost next week.
Yeah, no frost here yet, but low 40s for a low this morning, definitely are turning seasons now.
ETA- I take that back, we had a frost last night, bit some of the broadleaf weeds and the pumpkins pretty good.
As much as I love the Fall up here that first frost is a painful thing. I have a lot of chiles to bring in, will start tomorrow morning. Spuds and onions will be ok, green beans maybe no....
Gotta love fall, frost yesterday, 94 frickin degrees today.
Yay !!! Summer is back....after a couple of wet dreary months....
We had a couple wet dreary days, almost got the bottom of the rain gauge wet.
Miserable dreary rain and drizzle here. I have a 50 foot gutter that has decided to clog right in the middle somewhere, water pouring over the side into a sliding entry door. Time to install a downspout...
Well, so much for it being "fall". 99 degrees here today with high humidity and heat indexes in the low 100's. At the rate we're going, we might not get any snnnnnnn..........ssssssss..........that white stuff until next year. And I was so looking forward to getting a Ski-Doo.......
Yeah we hit 93 yesterday, teens humidity, but that's changing, depending on which guesser you listen to, low 60s maybe only 50s for highs this weekend, and lows in the 30s. and may be even some of that stuff they call "rain" though I think its just a myth made up by people who have never been here.
Oh my, I guess the easy days are coming to an end, it's been nice, really warm and no wind to speak of, and very dry. But later this week, they are saying depending where this low sets up, we could be in for 40s for a high and s- s- snow showers. :sadness: It would be nice to have some sort of transition from summer to winter instead of one day be sweating the next huddled around the wood stove.
Nothing much to report up here at the north pole......wind, rain, thunder, lightning, wind, sunshine and cooler temps......pretty boring stuff.......
Yep, the party seems to be over. 30s for lows now, below 32 forecast later this week.
I have a s-sn-sno-snow blower that needs service or a sledgehammer, haven't decided....
77 yesterday. Snow possible today. Welcome to Minnesota. If you don't like the weather, wait a minute....
Sunday we hit 92 after a low of 34 then night before, was supposed to be maybe 80 for a high, today mid 60s, tomorrow mid 50s low of freezing, roller coaster fall temps sure make it tough to get used to anything, I am either dying from heat or freezing right now.
We got the first s***fall last friday......it has almost melted, but more coming in the next 4 days...
Folks that read the farmers almanac say we are in for a dooozy this year.
The good news:
-the mosquitoes are gone
-no noisy motorcycles
-don't have to mow the grass
-don't need the A/C any more
-the snow blower still works
-only 6 more months til Spring
- I get to use 4WD for real
the bad news:
- winter is here :eusa_doh:
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We got the first s***fall last friday......it has almost melted, but more coming in the next 4 days...
Folks that read the farmers almanac say we are in for a dooozy this year.
A weather guy was saying yesterday that "dooozy" predictions are exagerated. Apparently the last two extremely warm cozy winters have given predictions for this year the impression of doom and gloom when temps and snow amounts should be close to normal.
Heh, we had a low of 20 a couple nights ago, yesterday was 70, today 80, tomorrow 85. They can't decide what we are going to have for winter, they say it's setting up to be la nina, which could mean either way for us since were usually on the boundary but we have been dry enough that despite the lack of official declaration we are in a drought. We don't get some serious moisture before spring its going to be tough one next summer.
As always, the offer is always open....all the moisture you want (as long as you don't mind it being cold and white..) - just come and git it !
Heh, that's one of those things I want it until I get it. :icon_smile:
Not that it means anything, but we have a thunderstorm going on.
These are kind of rare this time of year...
Hmmmmm..... that was an unusually short winter! Snow is all gone, now it is back to raking leaves, washing cars, and enjoying some warm sunny weather.........for now...
Yeah, its back to warm and dry for us too, except we only got a sprinkle. They keep telling us we may have a cool wet winter, or warm dry one depending where the boundary sets up.
We here have had two of the nicest, mildest winters in a row, it would be really nice to think this is the new normal, but us sensible people know better. We brace for the worst, regardless.
Our Fall has been the usual mixed bag, I still got limas drying on the vine, so no super hard freezes yet, please. Deer season opens 3 weeks from tomorrow, and though the hunters here like a few inches of sn*w on the ground to track by, my best harvests have come with the warm dry mildness...
Good grief, Charlie Brown! It was 75 yesterday, and supposed to be near that today !!
In November!!!
Now I have to dig out the lawnmower again.....
Yeah us too, we have had a few 80s even. Of course the bad part is it was the warmest october on record, and the 3rd driest as well. :icon_neutral:
Yah, here too, and deer season starts in the morning....I lucked into the sweetest spot for my blind-3 converging trails, LOTS of traffic, rubs and scrapes all around. It hasn't been this game rich in many years!
It's Nov 11th, and I hhad to dig my lawnmower out of storage and cut the grass!!
Heheh, well I can see the bright side to being dry now, we may be as warm or warmer, but nothing is growing. Too bad i am wasting so many if these days on the road or doing w.. w... stuff, when I should be shooting and flying.
We had gallons of rain this summer, couldn't get out and do anything in the muck that is the 8th acre, but it's been dry the last few weeks, so I tilled yesterday. It was like breaking sod all over again. The rain had settled the muck as tight as cement, and this kid is all stoved up from manhandling the tiller for four hours yesterday.
Ow. But it's a dry ow.....
Nony, you sending snow down this week?
Nope.......somebody came and got it all a couple of weeks ago....now we are back to fall or spring type weather - I can't tell which...
Ok. I was wondering who's supposedly shipping the "winter storm" forecast for Friday. Naturally, you came to mind.... :disturbed:
Friday? They are talking 2-5" for us tomorrow. But today still 70s and perrrfect, tomorrow 'Vinter colms.'
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Friday? They are talking 2-5" for us tomorrow. But today still 70s and perrrfect, tomorrow 'Vinter colms.'
Hmm, how nice for you....
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Good morning...
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Hard to tell with the wind, but I'd say there's 6 inches so far. Heck of a thing to have to wake up to.
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Heheh, yeah that's about the normal forecast, until it's snowing and already have a couple inches on the ground, and then they are positive its going to snow, with some accumulation. :icon_biggrin:
We had about 3" yesterday, started about 2 or so, lasted until about 10 pm, some wind but it's all sunshine this morning. It is shock to the system since the day before was 70+ degrees.
We didn't have 70s the day before, but upper forties counts, I guess. Thing is, the lawn was still lush and green, that doesn't happen every year...
This is crap snow too, about two inches into it the heat of the ground underneath has it warmed to slush, just about enough to break a plastic snow shovel...and my sacariliac.
Ya notice there's very little comment from the tropics of Tejas?
......still dry ground up this way.........
(For now.....)
It turned to winter yesterday. High in the 60s. Brrrrr...
We might make that today, may not even need a coat of the wind stays down. :)
Oooh goodie, ice storm today. :eusa_clap:
Rain, then snow, and then cold wind for us. For some reason I am missing that 70 degrees.
Haven't seen the sun in over a week.
Plenty of sun today anyway, but plenty of wind and cold too.
It's fall!! No, it's winter. Well wait, it's sort of summer. And now it's fall again, but it's raining. So I'm wearing a parka over my shorts, rain jacket and insulated flip flops. Will it never end? :sadness:
Jack Frost paid us a visit!
We have had a lot of fog lately with overnight temps dipping below freezing, leaving all the trees with a magnificent layer of frost on them.
Fair warning to you southerners.....We have an arctic front moving in tonight, dropping temps another 20 degrees......it will probably visit y'all as well.
Ah, the hoar frost! We too have been seeing a lot of that. Melty snow today, more frozen snow to come most of the week. We had a red fox den in the burn pile this fall, shows him/herself often, drives the dogs crazy by playing in the snow when the dogs are in. I don't think I'll shoot it, doesn't seem a threat. Not til the chicken coop is built....
They keep the rodent population down. We had a mama and her 2 babies in our storage yard this year...no mice damage to anything!
Quote from: balsum fractus on December 04, 2016, 08:49:39 PM
They keep the rodent population down. We had a mama and her 2 babies in our storage yard this year...no mice damage to anything!
I'm hoping this one works the rodents as well, Nony. The dogs haven't scared it off, and they are nosy! I'd love to get the rabbit epidemic under control, and after 7 years we have a competitor for the fox squirrels; about a half dozen gray and black squirrels have taken up residence in the grove.
We have not had a enough moisture to make much frost so far. Supposed to get a winter wake up call tonight, low around zero, highs tomorrow low teens, maybe. Not really looking forward to it, especially if the wind shows up again.
Foxes are not bad to have around, unless you have birds. We have had one come in once in awhile, but I have not been able to catch it yet, I suppose with the open weather its fat off gophers so far. We have had a possum around again, usually I don't get wound up about them, unless they start getting into the eggs or taking chickens, moots of the time they are stealing the chicken feed.
Okay.....now it's c-c-c-cold!!
Yep, woke up to 40 degrees yesterday, -2 today. :disgust:
20 here this morning, but under a blizzard warning. They have a foot of snow just 50 miles north of us, we have a dusting in our back yard.
That dusting is swirling pretty good though... :eek5:
we are about -30 with the wind chill. It is frippin' cold!!
-15 here, but no wind thankfully, at least until tomorrow.
15 ABOVE for us, but the Snowblower From Hell has struck again, and we have just enough wind that the snow keeps filling back in.
The family wants me to go down to Phoenix and drive my brother's truck back up here. Phoenix sounds nice about now...
The drive back passes through Wyoming, wink-wink..... :eusa_clap:
Heheh, that would be great, I just hope it's not like this, or all you will see of fubarhill is the front of the wood stove. :sadness:
'Sposed to hit 37 below with the wind chill tonight.
And it is coming from the North, so you guys to the south of us know what that means.........
Uh, Nony......I think ALL of us are south of you, one way or another... :disturbed:
BINGO !!
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-15 this morning, only one vehicle out of 4 would even turn over.
A lot like a normal winter. Yuk.
We were that a couple days ago, with 15 for a high, today in 40s and melting the ice that had built up on everything, but sounds like nony is sending us some xmas love in the form of damn cold again. :)
Wow! It has warmed up 10 degrees!
A balmy 32 below with 30 knot wind...........
Yeah, but its a dry cold.
You got that right Fraz!
Good to see you back in the ward...it's been kinda quiet since you've been gone.... Are you doing another cruise this winter?
I checked in once in a while to see what was going on. Nobody got out of hand so I didn't need to intervene. Its about time for one of our famous stories to start up again though.
Glad you had a good trip, Ron. Now you can feel free to shiver with the rest of us.
-20 right now.
Hey, if this storm gets much bigger me 'n the Honcho will be shoveling the same snow!!
Heh, yeah, but you can have my share if you want. It is damn cold BTW.
That is a huge storm system you guys have rolling through. Looks like you can thank California for that one!
29 below. I think that says enuff.
Yeah, we were -21 since about 10 last night, still -18 with a slight breeze, I don't want to play anymore.
We got down to -19. Its -3 at 8:25 as I type this. Yeah, when it gets this cold, a few more degrees doesn't seem to matter too much.
Its everything we can do to keep vehicles running. I've got and Interstate in my truck, but nobody else. Wearing out my jumper cables and no block heaters in the bunch.
Weather idiots claim this should be the coldest of the year. They think I'm stupid? There's only 2 weeks left in this year....
Heat wave !!!! It got almost up to freezing today. That's up 50 degrees warmer than yesterday !
Oh you cheater! we only got to about 20, but it was so cold for so long that nothing wanted to move even though it warmed up some, I still have a water froze despite a heat lamp under it. Supposed to be high 40s today though, so maybe stuff will finally thaw out.
As of today I officially hate my driveway.
Heheh, we have not had enough snow to make me dislike it yet. But ice, if it weren't for margaritas and mudslides, I may start having a serious dislike for it.
After 3 days of below zero the cow waterers looked more like art deco inspired ice sculptures rather than drinking facilities.
Ice blizzard scheduled for Sunday-Monday. Mom's in Phoenix with my brother, Dad alone at the house. Going to be perhaps the least Christmas-ish Christmas in memory.
I continue to hate my driveway, or at least the west side of it.
Hate to mess with you guys, but it's 77 degrees and cloudy here. Been raining on and off for a few days, but I'm hoping it stops long enough to get the luminarias out for Christmas. None of that snnnnnnn.........ssssssnnnn.........white stuff anywhere. Well, maybe in Dallas...
Here in Houston, the cops are writing tickets for cars parked in people's driveways because the cars block the sidewalk. Government at its best.
We actually warmed up the last couple days, been near 50, so its felt like its warm. Supposed to have a white Xmas though, with horizontal snow, so I don't know if Kayla is going to make it or not. Hope so, or its going to be a Chrcistmasy free Christmas here as well.
So if you can't park in your drive way, where are you supposed to park?
That's a tough one to answer; I'd hate to lose my man card....
We've had a constant 30 mph west wind for over two weeks now. Every. Single. Day. And some days twice, I've had to get the broken down blower out and take out a drift that insists on filling back in. I have snow fence but put off installing it until it was too late.
So when I don't get out there in time someone drives through, packing the snow and growing an unblowable hump. Which then drifts over again.....
If I had money or even credit I'd have a four by with a blade on it and be busting this shite up and keeping it clear....er. When the thaw comes I'll have a 3 foot deep slushpile...
80 degrees here today. Santa was able to fly a VFR approach this year and had no need for the anti ice systems!
Don't any of y'all up north get any ideas about leaving that gate open....
We ended up with a mini blizzard, I was hoping to miss it, but no such luck.
Yup, a big yukky one. We have warnings of all kinds, won't be much travel in our part of Texas for the next few days.
Jaime. Shut up.
After nearly freezing our butts off in the low 60s it turned to a nice balmy 80 yesterday. You're welcome Jaime, someone needed to tell it. :)
Oh man how did you ever manage. :icon_lol:
We have a reprieve more or less, highs in the 40s, lot of wind making it feel cold though. But I saw on the long range forecast another shot of 0s for highs, and -10 lows after the 1st. I hope they blow that forecast for sure.
A balmy 51 here...er...15. I've gotten into tropical hot peppers this year, but they need such a long growing season that I started them in November...They give me a reason to go on.
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The bigger ones are Peruvian Aji Amarillos, the two smallish looking guys to the right are Trinidad Moruga Scorpions.
Tell you what,Roger, there's supposed to be one of those arctic cold fronts that Stetto is always talking about headed this way. It's going to get down to the really low 60's tonight, so I may have to dig the parka back out. This winter has been brutal... :icon_mrgreen: Hope it doesn't get too windy. It might blow the rest of the leaves off the tree.
At least I won't have to mow the grass until next week.
....and how are the mosquitos this year?
Heh, yeah at least snow flies don't bite.
Quote....and how are the mosquitos this year?
Well, Nony, the little ones are about the size of a Cessna 172 and the big ones are C-130-ish give or take. No one's drained their hot tubs yet, so there's lots of swanky places for them to breed!
It's only 68 degrees here right now.....brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :disturbed:
Hopefully you feed them well so there is no need for them to migrate north....
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We had a cold front come through yesterday. 54 degrees and me without an engine block heater.....
Nony, if the temps here drop too much more, those mosquitoes will be heading your way looking for warmer weather!
Uhg, -21 this morning air temp, no breeze thank God, but Laramie is -36, and has a wind chill of -50 right now they just said on the radio.
Our Cheyenne radio had this story in their email, the headline is misleading, Russia still had the top 5 coldest sities in the world, but WY and CO had the next 5, and and thetemsp were as low as -36 in multiple places in WY http://kgab.com/five-of-the-coldest-cities-in-the-world-right-now-are-in-wyoming.
This winter thing is highly over rated. :errrr:
Sorry to hear. We were at -20 last night at about 10 o'clock, this morning at 6 am it was up to -9. We're on the warm up, may even have lows above zero within the next week.
As much as I'd like to complain about a rough winter, we've had a couple sweetheart winters in a row here, so this is what it is.
And I got the &$#*^%$%^$@ snowblower running good, first time in ten years. Just washed out the fuel tank... :sadness: :eusa_doh:
And it looks like I will NOT be going to AZ to drive a pickup home.
It was below zero until midday, then we got a "chinook" brought the airtemp up to single digits and windchill down to -15. :eusa_wall: Its cold enough it froze the pipes going out of the well house to the livestock, I thought I was going to have to get creative to get water to everything, but they finally thawed late this afternoon. I managed to get the tractor going yesterday and baldes the yard, thankfully in time to have it drift shut now. :) But there is light at the end of the tunnel, supposed to be 40s by sunday.
Well that sucks, not that I envy anyone driving this time of year, but I was hoping you could get by this way. But things happen for a reason, maybe this summer.
It is, shall-we-say, cool-ish here, but a massive cold air mass is s'posed to be sliding south next week. They say -40 will be on the warm side of what to expect.....
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We started mapping a drive to Denver/CO Springs for the last week of May. Guess who's on that map..... :eusa_clap:
Nony, you keep that up, and I am going to have trump build a wall on the north border. :)
Snow in Charlotte.....19 degrees in Austin.......
Yup, global warming is here!
Down to 24 degrees last night at the house, it's 37 here at the airport now. If the weather guessers are correct, we'll be back into the 70's by midweek and can go back to watching winter on the nightly news.
Someone should check in on Roger and Joyce. I'd hate to find out he couldn't get a window to shut all the way and had to rent a dog to keep the feet warm....
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Down to 24 degrees last night at the house, it's 37 here at the airport now. If the weather guessers are correct, we'll be back into the 70's by midweek and can go back to watching winter on the nightly news.
......only if you don't perish from hypothermia.....
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Quote from: stetto on January 07, 2017, 03:34:32 PM
Someone should check in on Roger and Joyce. I'd hate to find out he couldn't get a window to shut all the way and had to rent a dog to keep the feet warm....
Dang that is just like me to be a day late and dollar short, I have several I could've rented out. Lost money making opportunity!
Sounds like you had one of those three dog nights, Honcho! Down to 21 last night, but it's in the low 50's now and not supposed to freeze again for the rest of the week. I guess I can take off one pair of long johns now... :eek5:
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It is, shall-we-say, cool-ish here, but a massive cold air mass is s'posed to be sliding south next week. They say -40 will be on the warm side of what to expect.....
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They backpeddled on this forecast....missed us, and only got down to 18 below! But persistent, and constant snow. Tiny, tiny snow that doesn't accumulate much, but never stops. Now they are forecasting temps well above freezing for the weekend....that should be fun.
Yah, they'll be referring to this winter as "the nuisance winter of '17" in future years.
Drove through one of the strangest "snowstorms" I've seen yesterday, neither defrost or wiper blades kept up with the microscopic junk that stuck to the glass and made me stop every 10 miles or so to scrape.
I think I saw upwards of 50 whitetail on and near the road, all wearing white blankets.
Yeah, we have had more freezing rain or mist than I remember having as well this year, the layer of ice it created the 1st time is just now starting to melt a little, but our warm up is about over so we will have a glass smooth ice ring.
Its downright treacherous on the front walk right now with the snow and ice blocking anyway for it to drain off, and ice underneath then a new layer created every night, then it melts a little the next day and I defy a mere mortal to walk on it without doing moves like Michael Jackson. Not that it matters, because I am not peaking my head out until spring, I am officially hibernating.
Remember that part where I said the snow didn't accumulate?
I was wrong...
.40 knot winds today rearranged all the snow into inconvenient drifts . Normally, the city crews do a good job of keeping the roads bare and dry.....they can't keep up this year. I have been in full time 4 wheel drive for the past 3 days. And it is freeking cold
I hear Mexico is nice this time of year.....
Uh guys......it gets worse......pretty much a blizzard now....blowing strong and hard out of the north........which means it is heading south. Temps 45 below, 30 knot winds, and snow everywhere! Suggest battening the hatches.
The good news is that it will be much warmer on the weekend - like above freezing.
It was 83 here yesterday, but we have a cold front headed our way. Supposed to get down to the 40's with 4 days of rain! Y'all stay warm up there in north Texas!
Been raining here for the last two days, 4 inches at the house yesterday and it's still raining today. There was an article in the paper about why Houston floods every time it rains, but nowhere did it mention that being a swamp next to the Gulf of Mexico might have something to do with that. :sadness: 57 degrees, should be back into the 70's by the weekend.
Hey Roger, are you still above water?
88 degrees and dry a few hundred miles south of you. Too hot for me!!
One strange winter, kiddies.
We spent the two middle weeks of January above freezing. We aren't used to going through those weeks above zero, fercryinoutloud.
It's 30 degrees this morning. Feels cold. :sadness:
I can't wait to see what February has in store!
We had a thaw here as well, maybe not quite that warm but after singles and teens lows following the big chill, it was welcome. We had actaul rain last night, followed by a dusting of snow, which tells me I better have my ice spikes on.
Ice fog here.......trees are all coated in a thick layer of frost.....
Been cold and hot, hot and cold. Dry and wet, wet and dry. 3.75" rain last week. Now cold and dry.
Cold (57) and dry today.
Hope ya'll are doin good.
Well heck, Roger, don't catch a cold.
27°f here, day and night. Holding pattern. Waiting for the February Surprise.
Only thing of note lately is I got bit on the finger by a spider. Taught me to wear gloves - duh.
Had a bit of a warm spell for two weeks, but winter is back. Snow, ice, and cold wind........not as cold as it was last month, but cold enough to get your attention...
We had a nice break for a bit as well, almost melted everything, some places were even dry in the yard, but we got another round of cold and that dang freezing rain/ drizzle, I got stuck on the flat with a tractor carrying a bale yesterday. I thought I was going to have to get another tractor to pull me but dropped the bale and managed to get it to move past the slick spot. I hate that stuff.
finally re-sized a couple of pictures from a week ago. This is what ice fog does to vegetation:
Heh, they just had a bunch of hoarfrost in Cheyenne the last couple days, sure is pretty. We just got ice this time around.
Brrrrrr for the next week or so....lotsa snow to the south and west of us...
Up and down time for us. -14 tomorrow morning, 35 by Saturday....then March.
My peppers are doing real good though--
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Quote. 8:13 PM MST Tuesday 07 February 2017
Extreme Cold Warning in effect for:
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park
A period of very cold wind chills is expected.
Extreme cold temperatures are expected once again for much of Alberta as a cold arctic airmass lingers over the area.
This 30 below nonsense is wearing thin......
Yeah, we are slowly morphing into spring more than dead of winter, but cold is cold whether it's below zero or 40mph wind chills even if above zero.
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Up and down time for us. -14 tomorrow morning, 35 by Saturday....then March.
My peppers are doing real good though--
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Wow, I thought musicians grew other stuff besides peppers :icon_biggrin: :disturbed: :disturbed:
Shhhhhh!
My daughter was laughing the other day about the lesson she tried to give to her pre-school class about winter. How do you explain winter to a three year old in Houston who has never been through one, or describe that ssnnnnn.......ssssssss........snsnsssnnn....stuff? Son David was in Colorado a few weeks ago and saw measurable amounts of sssssnnnn.....sssssssn.....white stuff on the ground for the first time in his life. He's 21! The grass is going green, the trees and azaleas are blooming and it was 86 degrees here today. But there's a cold front on the way - down to 72 by the weekend. BRRRRRRRRRRR...... :disturbed:
How nice for you, Jaime. I'm sure that you and zika will be very happy together.... :P
It's gonna be 40 here today, and if one could believe the guessers, won't dip below 30 for daytime highs for the foreseeable future. Nice. I remember Februarys that never got out of the minuses....
We were 70 or so today and no wind, man was it nice. Of course I spent it doing the things i have been avoiding like the plague, like cleaning pens, but it was at least nice doing them.
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My daughter was laughing the other day about the lesson she tried to give to her pre-school class about winter. How do you explain winter to a three year old in Houston who has never been through one, or describe that ssnnnnn.......ssssssss........snsnsssnnn....stuff?
You should take them on a field trip to the snow belt.....I bet Stettoland still has a great winter exhibit..... :icon_biggrin:
37 below last weekend +44 today.....thats an 81 degree increase in a week!!
Up north here it's supposed to get down to 61.
Yeah, heck I saw the high in brownsville was only like 68 or so, I bet a lot of people thought it was an ice age coming.
Shoot, they officially predicted 50s for the weekend. Middle of February. I'm going to get used to this and then WHOOOOOSH! Back to 20 below.....zero.... :eusa_wall:
Well, we got those 50s, even up to 60 a few days ago. A thunderstorm got me up at 4:30 this morning.
It must be end times, I tell ya!!
We were to 70, and calm for the most part, too hard to get used to, I really miss the days of wond at 70MPH, or 40mph and 20 degrees.... not. Wind has been bad this year, not so much for us right here, but straight west of us about 40 miles they clocked a gust at 92 mph the other day. :eek5:
50 all day, the rain comes and goes, but the clouds are so thick and heavy that we have a dense ground fog and it looks like night at noon.
Strange days indeed!! :disturbed:
83 yesterday. Supposed to get warm today. :)
A week of spring......all the snow melted or evaporated, then mildly winter weather came back. Now it is cool and windy. But anything can happen... Febuary can be our coldest month!
Well certainly paid for all the warm weather in Feb, got about 12" and some thigh high drifts so far.
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Well certainly paid for all the warm weather in Feb, got about 12" and some thigh high drifts so far.
All south of us. We hover between 15 and 40 degrees, some wind, and an early flood warning from snowmelt....
Yeah, no 40 for us until next week, got another couple inches, at least the wind quit, but what a mess. Just north, and I mean like just a few miles, they got more snow than we did, Torrington was all but shut down yesterday, and the county never even made it to the secondary highways much less busted drifts on the county roads. Hard to comprehend I was in a T shirt on wednesday and sweating.
Quote from: Onepoint on February 24, 2017, 07:17:27 AM. Hard to comprehend I was in a T shirt on wednesday and sweating.
Aha! So that's what upset the delicate humidex balance.......... :icon_biggrin:
Yeah, must have been it. Therefore I better not do anything that causes me to sweat from now on. :)
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Yup.....now who is going to tell Vicki ?
I nominate anyone other than me. :disturbed:
Not to interrupt your man-made weather theories, but I'm interrupting nonetheless.
Sweaty Tshirt or no, the powers that be, whether Mr. Gore's tribe or one of lucid sensibility, we have good old regular winter for another ten days, snow flurries and under 30 degrees. Not enough to make anyone panic, but certainly waking the cabin fever bunch back into the usual late February grumpiness.
It's ok, the snow pack is all but gone and there are no bee-low zee-ro temps predicted long term (unless you like that celciussy stuff :devil:)...
Oh yeah? We were below zero last night, and it was breezy as well, so I laid awake half the night worrying about the 2 newborn calves we had yesterday that I didn't learn about until half way to CO, cussing myself anyway because the wind was blowing snow and making it really difficult to stay on the road at the times on the way to a farm auction.
Side note, would you believe Kayla turned 21 Friday? We just came back from Cheyenne having dinner with her and her grandma. (which was another adventure busting drifts)
I think I am officially sick of frickin winter now. That winter wonderland stuff was fine at Xmas, but we are starting to calve and lamb now, and it's not funny anymore.
Sorry Honcho, I meant at MY house.
Congrats to Kayla on the milestone. Dylan turned 19 the previous Friday, T turned *mumble*yone just last Wednesday.
As far as the ranching woes go, I'd take one o' those calves off your hands. Problem is that the PuddinFace would give it a name, and we all know how that story would go....
Me, I got Peruvian chile peppers starting to flower with two and a half months before they can go outside. What's a poor mother to do?
March 6, write it down. Thunderstorms w/possible tornados and upwards of 60° until tonight when it changes to 3-5 inches of snow w/blizzard conditions, low 20s for overnight temps.
You'd think we were in Wyoming.....
No if you were in WY, you would be loading rocks in your pockets, and wearing 3/8" chain for jewelry right now.
Arghhhh! It is cold and snowing again........and today is supposed to be the warmest day of the week!
Snow skipped us altogether. The wind is crazy, but hey, what's new?
It got up to 62 yesterday, but the wind ruined the effect. Today it is 22, supposed to stay there for a week or so, with a one-night revisit into the minuses....
Today I get to drive the PuddinFace to the dentist in a town 70 miles from here, a place that didn't get missed by snow.... :disgust:
I had to drive down to Brighton, (north of Denver) Semis were laying on their side all the way from north of Cheyenne to half way to Denver, it was downright scary to pass the few semis that werre still traveling. I heard on the news SW of Cheyenne they clocked a gust at 87mph. It sucked. Of course signing ourselves into truck payment didn't improve the trip any.
Yeah, I-29 over in Nodakistan is having the same problem. Just not a good week for travelling north/south.
Every day on the drive home, I pass by the lot where they dump all the snow removed from city streets. Usually there are several bulldozers plowing it up into a large mountain range a couple hundred feet high. (It can survive most of the summer before the last of it melts).
This year, it is just a mound....maybe 30 feet high. So, for all the snow we thought we had, there is not much to show for it.....
Yeah, we had a big snow of about 14" but you would not know with all the wind, and it getting to 80 the last couple days. Its a little less summery now with some showers, little cooler and some wind of course, but we are still dry.
Temps are climbing here, 60s by middle of next week.
We had thunder pass through yesterday that made me looking for blown up propane tanks. Dishes rattled, floors shuddered. If we had a chandelier I bet it would still be swinging.
75 degrees and severe clear here, after a bad thunderstorm day yesterday. 30 kt winds, rain, hail, tornado warnings, everything but a hurricane. Airport was shut down three times from 10AM until 2 PM and then it was gone as fast as it came in. We got was two and a half inches of rain at the house.
So far this year we have had 3 warm spells. The last one took all the snow away. The motorcycles and convertibles were out. That ended last Friday when we got a foot of snow! It has been snowing off and on all week, but with daytime temps creeping above freezing, it is battle the winter is slowly losing....
We are full into spring here, near 80 a few days, but we are dry, had a big snow awhile back, then wind and warm which dried it put, then got and inch and half of rain, the wind came after and its all gone now too. But supposed to have a good chance for some more later this week. No late spring snows like we have had in recent years thankfully, but no real soakers either.
An inch of all-day rain yesterday, temps in the 40s-50s. Forecast for more rain, just not as much. It was getting real dry. The asparagus has been coming up for over a week, but only gets an inch or two tall and quits. This should kickstart Springiness a bit.
The lilacs and fruiting trees are starting to pop, boxelders too (where the black squirrels haven't stripped the bark off the branches).
I had a toenail removed last Friday, slow healer, the doc says. Maybe should have got it done before this busy time of year got started... :sadness:
...and it is still snowing.....
Our big rain was a bust, got a 1/4" over a couple days, its already dry again. But they are predicting showers all week, and maybe snow for the weekend. :icon_neutral: Stuff is greening up, Some of the stuff I planted is popping up, don't need a hard freeze again.
Amazing what being in zone 3 can do for the wait for Spring. It's been solid damp-wet-snowy-damp-wet for a week, no change coming soon....they say.
3 inches of snow tomorrow.....they say.
Good news, no biopsy for me, they're going the MRI route.
This was today about 2 hours ago and 10 miles southwest of us, too dang early in the year for that stuff!
We did get some rain though.
Yikes. What am I driving my family into in a month?
Hopefully not that. :)
It's just a baby funnel cloud......
Yeah, but about 6 weeks early, even if it was a "cold air funnel". I don't want no funnels, I don't even like funnel cakes.
Not even with chocolate ???
I'll take the chocolate, without the funnel.
Ha ha......
We get those funnel clouds from time to time and people really freak out thinking another killer tornado is going to hit....they always dissapate..
The cold air funnels are pretty rare around here, usually when you see a funnel, you better be looking for shelter.
I see we aren't the only ones getting that late spring snowblast. We're melting (again) today, back on track for summerishness tomorrow.
Yeah, April showers bring snow plowers. :sadness: 40s today and breezy, not really supposed to warm up a lot until late next week. At least its wet, but we are going to get a hard freeze tonight. :eusa_doh:
We lost at least a whole dinners worth of asparagus night before last to freezing. It's already coming back, will cut tomorrow evening 'cuz there's another hard freeze forecast for Monday morning.
Back to spring for us. Last weekend I was snowblowing, this weekend, took the convertible out of storage and went for a top-down drive........
That storm a couple days ago dropped 15" on us with 35 to 50 mph winds. Was out of 'lectricity until this afternoon. Man who would have thunk hot water and and electric juice were so luxurious? Actually water period too. lol The storm kind of caught us by surprise as it was not expected to be that bad until the wee hours.
I just heard this morning it pretty much flattened out a lot of wheat your way, how did you guys fair? We get those kind of storms once in awhile that sneak up, it's why I have a generator, because I don't function without my morning latte. :icon_razz:
Absolutely beautiful here right now, temps in the lower 80's with 60's in the morning. There were some pretty nasty tornadoes north of here a few days ago, though none of that made it here. It's supposed to storm tomorrow, then return to spring.
On the wheat, we will just have to wait until the snow melts and then go inspect it. We got about an inch of rain before it turned to snow. It looks right now we should have some rice planted.
I have a generator. Long story, but here is short version. The farm has 2 wells that are connected with pipe and valves. Since my mother and father in law have been in the rest home for a couple years, (we live about 50 yards from their farm house) we don't use the well closest to their house and had shut the valve between the 2 wells off. So that well that I needed access to was buried under 6' plus drifts and also had a tarp on top to keep the cold air out. That well was also the one that I had an electric adapter I could use but couldn't get to the valve to turn it on. :sadness:
The next day we were told it might be a while before the electricity would be restored. So went down to the round top, found some wire, plug to fit the generator receptacle and made a cord. Voila. Unhooked wires from a junction box and hooked up plug and voila again... got water.
I had bought a factory cord that was the 30 amp generator/rv ends. And I have one of those whole house switches to either be utility or generator feed. For some reason our furnace (propane) did not like the generator electricity and the electronic igniters and stuff did not want to work.
This is the first time it had been used. I never tested everything when it was installed, as lights worked and stuff so I figured was good to go. Lot of learning going on here. Of course it would have been a nightmare to get the generator close enough to the house to run a regular extension cord to the furnace and bypass the whole house thingie. At least now I can get water easily if something happens again. As far as heat... :eek5: wife and I may have to like each other. :eek5: A lot :disturbed:
Luckily the utility company came through and got most people up and running in record time. I have to say I am really impressed with them.
On a related note, one of those toilet seat thingiebops that hook up into a pickup hitch is not a stupid thing to maybe have hanging around collecting dust out in the barn, you know, hanging right next to the generator :disturbed:
Farmers up here have been planting for the last week. My pepper and tomato starts have been living outside all week. This is truly a marvelous Spring in nort-vestern Minnessoda...
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Shortest spring ever ....3 or 4 days.......now it is summer....blazing hot air conditioning weather for the next week or so......
Yeah, we go from 50s to near 90 for highs in the span of 4 days. Yesterday was about perfect, 70 and calm. 80 today, 88 or more tomorrow, but only for a few days, come next week more storms and highs in the 60 and 70s supposedly.
Ahhh.....30 degree temp drop overnight......brief, but welcome relief
Dangit, too dam nice here. I second-tilled the 8th acre yesterday (the lack of a toenail made it slow), and since we're leaving next Saturday (my sistah's gonna house/dog/cat/mailbox sit) I'm thinking of taking the risk and plant 2 weeks earlier than textbook "last frost" for this neighborhood. I have exotic peppers that I've invested several months in early starting that have been outside for weeks now.
I think I'm going to plant...Then the day after we leave we'll get that frost....But "they" are forecasting 60s and 70s and 80s clear to actual Dirt Day...
Dangit.
I don't envy farmers who do this for a living....
Heh, yeah, right now we are bordering on drought again, all the weather seems to be passing us by, the mountains and west have 200% of normal, so we have plenty of irrigation water but right here it's dry with no good soakers so far, which means by july its going to look like afghanistan around here.
Wet.....cold, miserable, damp, dreary, misty, drizzly, dull, and just plain wet! The vegetation is loving it, humans....not!!
It hit 90 just a few days ago. :disgust:
Ow, and here we come. Mukluks are us!
Whoa! Looks like November.......
We spent time in a very broad spectrum of weather types this last week, including driving DOWNhill in a near whiteout. It amazes me the number of experts driving these mountain roads at lunatic speeds. Being as I look the part I drove like a little old man. Our hosts here have me seriously considering an H-D lowrider purchase in the future.
We'll be in the Buckaroo's neck of the woods for an all too short visit tomorrow. I'd just as soon spent the week up there, should have had T drop me off.
Happy Memorial day, guys!
Dry. Supposedly rained every day we were out west. Not a drop since.
I think we are over our wet season too, we may get a thunderstorm or 2 but no more soaking rains I think. Up until the last couple days its been really cool, now we are going to hit the 90s.
Just west of us has been "officially" declared a drought, while we rainless fools to the immediate east are simply (yet still officially) "abnormally dry". That must be good news, as the last time "they" declared a drought up here local farmers brought in record breaking harvests, to where mountains of corn piled up outsode overfilled graineries.
Meanwhile, 90s. For the foreseeable.... :eusa_doh:
Yeah 90s today here, I'm melting.
What do you do when it is 105 ??
Bake. its this going from 70 to 90 in a day or 2 that gets ya.
We are staying with friends who have a charming little place up in the mountains.....cool ( like october cool) and a smidge above freezing overnight....
Well that wasn't much fun, we escaped most everything but a little rain, but all around us got up to softball hail and 8 tornadoes, and the front is still spawning them tonight as it moves east. Dodged a bullet on that one for sure.
Yep, and here it comes at us.
These weather people though!
I have to give credit where its due, they started out the day before warning us, showed the maps where the worst of it was going to be, and they were pretty much dead on. I also have never seen so many storm chasers before, there were 3 NOAA trucks all loaded with sensors in Scottsbluff the day before, and a whole batch of out of state people with weird cars driving the roads, like lots with duct tape on the windshields etc so they can drive through hail I guess. I suppose it paid off for them, multiple videos and pics posted of tornadoes and big hail. I counted 22 tornadoes within 70 miles of us yesterday. :sadness: Fortunately damage was minimal for such a large area that was effected, the worst was probably in Carpenter WY, which is east of Cheyenne on the CO border, went right over a house and barn, destroyed the barn, took part of the roof of the house and took away the attached garage with a F150 in it, and left the truck 1000' away. A 14yo girl home alone rode it out, her dad was in Torrington at the time and was on the phone with her according to the interview later, I bet it felt like a million miles away at the time.
I watched some of that vid. We rarely get that kind of rough weather.
We have a good old traditional thunderstorm coming through right now, they say if the sun comes out later we may be in for armaggeddon, stay tuned.
What I was saying about the weather folks here was referring to the look of absolute glee as they tapdanced through their expanded time on air. It's been a very quiet Spring.....
I take back some of the 'minimal damage', some ranch North of Torrington lost all its out buildings and tractors and had several horses cut up. They lost their pastures, hay and fences last year to a big range fire as well so its especially tough for them now. Bayard NE which is east of Scottsbluff lost the roof off a retirement home. Softball sized hail basically destroyed a few houses in from Wheatland to FT Laramie, and did some damage in Cheyenne as well. Lots of power lines down, some people won't get it back until wednesday. We got a 1/10" of light rain, and I am so thankful. Here I was bitching because we have had trouble with our well pump, it went out last weekend, and a new one was bad as well, fought it all week to make it run right and it finally quit altogether saturday late evening, finally got one that works by sunday noon, so it's resolved hopefully, but I don't think I want to trade troubles with any of them.
Well, we got some pretty intense weather last, but nothing as severe as the Honcho's corner of WY. An untabulated number of tornadoes appeared just south of Fargo, 50 miles west of us, but other than some semis knocked over and nuisance damage it was wind and rain.
3 inches in my back yard. Be careful what you wish for.
We watched an HBO tv western last night, Deadwood. I've never heard hard language like that in my life. I'm no prude by a far piece but an otherwise well made historical drama was pretty much ruined with the F & C bombs. I bring this up because the show went well with apocalyptic weather, and the streets of Deadwood were ALWAYS made of 4 inch deep mud, though they hadn't shown a rainstorm one.....
Back home again. Grass grew about a foot in the week we were gone. Lots of rain, mixed with periods of sun in between. The vegetation and mosquitos are thriving!
Somebody had a rough one last night...
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Little town southwest of Minneapolis.
My 8th acre appreciates being spared this stuff.
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In the 15 years we've been up here I've never seen this kind of hail, though they get it like this almost every year just 50 miles west. Something to do with topography, I'm told. The river valley separating us from Nort Dekoda acts like a breakwater...so I'm told.
Whoa! Scarey looking weather!
Oooh, thats bad. Wehadsome like that round us earlier this year, been hot and dry mostly now, we are in a belt of dry, where north and south of us has had some showers. Which will change the second I start cutting hay.
Quote from: Onepoint on July 10, 2017, 07:05:31 AM
Oooh, thats bad. Wehadsome like that round us earlier this year, been hot and dry mostly now, we are in a belt of dry, where north and south of us has had some showers. Which will change the second I start cutting hay.
Boy, do we resemble that remark! Almost every year we miss out on a lot of wet activity when north and south of us get near Biblical rains.
This year we're holding under an inch/week, which is pretty darn nice for a change. They continue to claim drought to the west, there must be a particular dry spot out there that repels the many storms that have come through this summer...
Uh oh, tornado warning, something nasty is bearing down on us as I type. Will update afterward, boys. Say a prayer for the 8th acre!
I guess you made it? We have been lucky I guess that we have not had much for severe weather so far, other than severe dry. Cheyenne has had showers for a couple weeks, and it looks it, it's still green down there. Here its looking a lot like Afghanistan right now. At least it's cloudy this morning and cooler, not with the sun blazing and by 8 its already 85 and climbing. Though next week is supposed to be a triple digit scorcher again.
Ow! Sorry man, I am not a fan of that heat either. Supposed to be 90s through the weekend here.
The sirens went off at 9:30, sent the herd into the cellar, this fool went looking for trouble outside....There's a vid I'll try to get up later. Our power just came back on a half hour ago.
We have a lot of really small branches all over the place, someone told me is a sign of a really weak cyclonic wind. We lost a few trees.
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A new "window" into the neighbor's field:
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Mama's lilacs took a hit.
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The corn was blown down, but will pick itself back up like it always does. Otherwise the 8th acre fared really well. From radio reports this morning we got off lucky. One entire small town over on the NoDak border lost every tree in town, clocked the wind at 140mph.
They're predicting 100s in the Bakken, but that's normal for them and a few hunnert miles due west of us.
That's enough excitement, other than the trees you got away ok looks like.
Just some lightning and clouds and sirens....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWZULAiu7Bw
Well then, just heard the "official" NWS report. No less than 3 F2 tornadoes in that storm, one passing within a mile of us.
It was a wild night.
Ugh, too close.
We had clouds yesterday, it was surreal. :)
We are under a severe thunderstorm warning right now.....so far just an average storm, but tornado(s) reported to the south of us .......
Weren't nothin' here....just a bit of rain and a lot of noise. Twister touched down to the southwest of us. Lots of rain and big hail to the north and to the south.......
Now back to the summer in progress.....
We've been under a tornado warning since noon and it's storming now. We've been shut down at the airport here for the last hour and a half. At least I won't have to water the grass this week....
How'd you fare, Jaime?
Wow, we actually caught part of a thunderstorm last night, got almost 7/10" rain, the 1st measurable rain since May and hopefully the end of a string of near or actual triple digit temps. It was reported by a weather station near us it hit 107 yesterday before the storms built up. :eek5: We were gone most of the day to CO where it was merely 100 until the clouds rolled in. There are no puddles by this morning already.
Going to be 10 degrees or more cooler today, but higher risk of severe thunderstorms, which I would just as soon wish they not come, because they usually come in large pellet or twisty wind form as much as rain this time of year.
Yup, this is the time of season that my garden can suffer most; downpours and blowdowns. Have been lucky to not have real hail damage right here, but wind? Might as well live in a wind tunnel.
That day, it rained cats and dogs here at the airport and we didn't get a drop at the house 9 miles away. It's storming again today, and as is usual every time it rains, we're shut down until the storm passes. I always find it amusing that we fly some of the most technologically advanced airplanes on the planet and they won't fly when it's raining...
Pat's mom passed away a few months ago, so we're headed back to El Paso for the third time in a month to handle estate stuff. All that has made it difficult to keep up, my apologies for not being present here more often. The nice thing about the storms is that they will make the trip a little cooler. It was 112 in Ft Stockton two weeks ago when we went through there.
Ugh, its merely 90 here, which seems nice for a change. We are getting monsoon moisture from the gulf, so humidity is up though.
Smoking hot here, 101 but the heat index was 108. Sure making it hard to trap hogs!
Our drought continues, according government weather "experts". Temps are tolerable, humidity not so much, we're averaging around an inch of rain per storm, and they are regular.
There are a couple of very large corporate "farmers" in the center of this so-called drought area that is getting close to the same rain we are. Some things never quit.
You guys be careful out there, the sky is falling! :icon_mrgreen:
107 here Saturday. Don't know what the heat index was.
We had a lot of 100 digits a cou[le weeks ago, now its cooling down an getting damper so mid 90s feel just as hot, but they say we are in for a 75 degree day on Thursday. Can't say I am not looking forward to it.
We're stuck in the high 80's, 60+% humidity. Supposed to get our 75 degrees tomorrow, accompanied by an all day soaker that should shut the Chicken Little Drought Whiners up.
We finally got some much needed rain, started Tuesday evening, rained most of the night, and finally stopped yesterday afternoon. Got a total of 2.1". Now the sauna will be fired up!!!
Low 40s this morning. Looks like an early Autumn.
I hope not, I am way late cutting some of this hay, almost sept and I am still dinking around on 2nd cutting.
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I hope not, I am way late cutting some of this hay, almost sept and I am still dinking around on 2nd cutting.
Some of us didn't take Monday off.... :eusa_think:
I didn't either I baled hay while the moon was still partially covering. :icon_biggrin: Wouldn't you know though, we caught a thunderstorm with a good shower this afternoon, with a whole bunch of little bales sitting out in the field.
Looks like Jaime & Roger might be busy soon battening hatches and sealing their hulls. 30 inches in one storm? I'll wait here, thank you....
Hopefully they will miss the brunt.
Yep, there is a hurricane coming. Not so much concerned about the winds here, but we're supposed to get a bunch of rain in the next few days. What I am worried about is the damn thing looping around and coming back at us like Allison did a while back. I am really happy though, that we are on what passes for high ground here (at a whopping 62 feet above sea level) and not further south where it floods on a regular basis. Roger is west of us, not sure how bad it's forecast to get in his neck of the woods.
And I'm on vacation next week.... :disgust:
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Yep, there is a hurricane coming.
And I'm on vacation next week.... :disgust:
Hunny doooooo, hunny daaaaaaai, hunny daaayyyyyyyy, hunny YA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
How close am I, ese?
About the time I think I want to go where it is warm in the winter and see a bunch of water, something like Harvey makes me think high and dry kansas is not tooooooo bad :'(. I darent let my wife see that though :icon_lol:
QuoteHunny doooooo, hunny daaaaaaai, hunny daaayyyyyyyy, hunny YA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The plan is to escape east to Florida, assuming there is enough highway above water to do so. If not, Pat is already making up the list, which hopefully I can put off until it stops raining sometime next week!
At work now. We've been shut down for two hours already and no end in sight. It's raining buckets.
We're doing pretty well. Only about 8 1/2 inches so far. A typical shower here. I think it might be a wee bit wet in the Houston area.
We have a crap-nasty fine mist drizzle going on here, all day style, may even get a half inch before it's over.
ALL my chores today are outside.
And no, you guys in southeast Tejas don't make me feel like a whiny baby, not even a little.
T. asked this morning, "Is this miserable stuff part of that storm?" I said yes.
I guess that one plus of being in the high and dry, its about 90 and and partly cloudy with puff ball clouds. Of course the down side to being in high and dry is it is dry.
Still raining here. I emptied the rain gauge in the back yard again this morning; it's full at 5 inches. Emptied it last night when I got home from work, so we've had at least 10 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. South Houston is pretty much under water again, but at least this time someone had the foresight to block off all the low lying underpasses around downtown.
And I'm really glad I'm not at work right now....
Ugh, I am seeing pics of some flooding in Houston, Hope you see none of it.
Honcho, we're about 20 miles northeast of downtown Houston and are high and dry so far. 22 inches of rain here at the house since Saturday evening, more on the way today. Hobby airport is under water, IAH (10 miles west of me) is shut down because all the access roads are flooded and almost everything south of us has reverted to the Gulf from whence it came. The people north of us along the San Jacinto river are bracing for water release from the dams up stream, so they too will need all the floating things they can muster.
Hope Roger is ok, they got pretty wet, too.
Please keep the people in Rockport and Corpus Christi in mind. They got hit by a Cat 4 hurricane but no one remembers that because Houston is flooded.
Yeah, we sure hope you guys are going to be able to ride it out. I just cant fathom that kind of rainfall. Here our average is around 18" a year.
So how do you keep track of your rain? Do you go out every couple of hours and dump it and write it down?
Report in when you can, guys. The media is practically having them dragging the streets for bodies.
This is a great example of why I'm no fan of weather alarmists.
I just saw they say its going off shore to gather up moisture and energy and come ashore again between Galveston and port Arthur, Sounds like you are in it for a long while. :sadness: Think dry thoughts :icon_smile:
Morning, everyone. Still raining here. Has anyone heard from Roger?
Frazz, I have a cheapo little tubular rain gauge out in the back yard that reads 5 inches when full. It had about three inches in it when I started keeping track Friday night and I've emptied it (overflowing) six times since then, so it's been at least 33 unofficial inches here at the house. I haven't looked at it yet this morning. The weather station at IAH ten miles west of me reported 28 inches as of half an hour ago, Hobby (25 miles south) reported 33 inches. Houston is so spread out it's hard to get a total. The paper said that several weather reporting stations have gone off line in the last 24 hours, probably due to flood damage.
We are dry, but are stuck in the area because the freeways and low lying roads around us are flooded. It's a little weird to see bridges and overpasses under water.
The kids are at the grocery store now getting supplies. The stores have been open limited hours, because their employees and suppliers can't get in, and to avoid the long lines which invariably form from all the people trying to get food. Pat and I are good for at least another week assuming the power stays on, but this is supposed to start moving out by late tonight.
The rescue scenes from here are pretty amazing. Mostly by volunteer boaters, the city and county are a bit overwhelmed right now. It's hard to describe just how many square miles of this place are under water. The retention ponds, bayous, rivers and reservoirs are all overflowing and there is just nowhere for all that water to go. One company sent about a dozen huge dump trucks to flooded areas and are using those to get people out. Seems like everyone who has a winch equipped helicopter is out plucking people off roofs. One of their biggest problems is navigation - many of the street signs are under water or gone and there are no real natural landmarks here, so GPS is getting a workout. Trying to get boats down flooded streets littered with submerged obstacles slows things down quite a bit. It's very surreal. At least it isn't hot, temps have stayed in the high 70's.
Last I heard there have been five fatalities so far. I'm sure once this starts drying out, there will be more found. No word on injuries or deaths from the actual hurricane, which hit farther south. The media seems to have forgotten about them.
Last night they reported 9 so so far, I'm sure it will climb. Pictures are nuts. Hopefully the power will stay on for you, they said its have been lucky that most of it has stayed up since not a lot of high wind, now its just the poles and trees are falling because of the water. Hope all you TX guys hang in, its supposed to stop raining one of these days. :sadness:
Thanks for taking the time to update us, Jaime. Considering the circumstance I'm going to admit that we on dry safe ground can't be up there on YOUR priority lists. We do pray for you & Pat, Joyce & Roger.
You guys have our numbers if you need anything.
Eric don't lie, we're getting extreme doom out of the media, but a LOT of Texas spirit gets smuggled to us as well. One of Carl's friends on fb posted that the TX Nat'l guard will shoot looters on sight, no doubt nothing more than a deterant statement, but then again.....I would.
Way way North Texas is with you guys!
Thanks for checking up on us, everyone, you have no idea how much we appreciate it.
Daughter Danni is pretty much trapped in her subdivision right now, but is still dry and they have a second story to move to if the water starts moving up. They aren't very far from the San Jacinto river, which has been out of banks for a day now and has flooded parts of Humble, TX, which is about two miles south.
Houston PD, Texas DPS and the precinct constables have all issued statements to the effect that looting will not be tolerated and will be dealt with immediately.
There's a facebook thread going about a Bass Pro Shop northwest of here that pulled out all their flat bottom boats, installed motors on them and told law enforcement to come get them. The manager apologized for not having more. Apart from the Coast Guard and National Guard, haven't seen much government presence and it doesn't appear to be slowing us down at all.
Just emptied the rain gauge again. 38 inches and still raining.
No problems here. Only got a little over 25 inches. Drying out in sunshine now. Lost a few dead trees but now I just have to cut them up and not cut them down.
Glad to hear that Roger, news coming out of Houston keeps getting grimmer.
Good to hear from you Roger, glad you're ok. For sure better to cut trees up than cut them down. How is 290 out your way? We're wanting to get out of here for the weekend and Fredericksburg was on the list if we can get there.
Stopped raining here late yesterday afternoon and the sun is out. Not too hot right now, but when the cloud cover clears it's going to be huuuuumid! Clouds of mosquitoes expected as well.
Yep, glad every one has checked in and in reasonably good shape.
Good for you guys. We worry about you kids.
I've been listening to KBAP in Dallas for about a year now on iHeart. They're a heck of a lot more informative and factual than any of the cable or interweb news outfits. Their afternoon guy, Rick Roberts, has really been pushing the positive side of you resident types down there.
.....sitting here kinda helpless when help is needed so far away...
Glad you folks are okay and the area can begin the recovery.....
It's been an interesting few days. Weather is back to normal for early September, still humid but not as hot as it has been. There are airliners flying over the house again - we're supposed to be back to full schedule tomorrow.
I spent yesterday afternoon with son David at his friend's house in Kingwood, which is about 8 miles north of us. Driving into the neighborhood was one of the most heartbreaking things I've done in a long while. The piles of stuff along the side of the road were astounding, a mix of trash, broken or soaked furniture, rolls of wet carpet and padding and all sorts of mud covered kick knacks, toys, old kitchen appliances and the like. The house we went to yesterday flooded six feet deep on the ground floor. We spent the afternoon tearing out sheetrock, carpeting on the stairs and the hardwood floors. I can't even begin to describe the smell, a mix of stale water, rotting vegetation, wet wood and carpet. The Powells had a beautiful house, and by all accounts should have been bitter and angry, but they told me it was just stuff and the most important thing was that their family was all ok. The thing I will remember most is the hugs and the thank yous I got from Mrs. Powell.....every 20 minutes! Neighbors were all out helping one another and what I heard most was, "If y'all need any help...."
Spent today with my best friend Wally at Hooks airport, where his hangar had ten inches of water in it. He was still cleaning up from the last flood last May, so a lot the stuff we moved then got flooded again. It is amazing to me how much mud there was to clean up. The three airplanes in the hangar (one is his and two are tenants) and his cars were coated with it from the slurry that leaked in from the roof and we'll need to go back in later and inspect all the landing gear parts that were submerged. We had tarped all the RC models in the loft upstairs, so only the models that happened to be on the floor were damaged. A lot of his personal items in boxes - photos, etc, were in the office and are now just piles of soaked cardboard. Didn't take long to fill the dumpster outside. I got a few pics, when I figure out how to get them off the phone, I'll post them here,
I have to admit to some guilt at having come through all this high and dry, but I feel better now having been out to help. I'll go again in a heartbeat if asked. And I talked to Roger yesterday on the phone - he and Joyce are just fine.
Best moment of the week for me - seeing a photo of the white house press secretary wearing a ball cap that read "Make America Texas"...
I watched a video on facebook of someone driving down the street and huge piles of household stuff along the curb block after block. I wonder though, some of it looked like solid wood stuff and things that would not necessarily be damaged or beyond repair, and the were just piling it up with the the rest, makes you wonder if some are just trashing everything and not sorting much. Which is understandable when you start having to haul out everything to the studs and subfloor.
Glad you guys missed the worst personally.
Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum, most people are watching TX dry out and clean up, but the whole northwest is burning up it seems, most of western MT is within sight of a fire, as well and northern ID, with some scattered fires in UT and WY as well. We don't have any close, but we are getting the smoke, visibility right now is about a mile, and the eyes, they buurrrn.
Good on ya, Jaime, that is Fubar Spirit in Texas!
Eric, even we are getting smoky skies. No smell or burning eyes yet, but some spectacular sunsets.
Not to worry, Jellystone is fixin' to take care of all of us with one big POP......
Hope those fires don't get close to any of you. Those are even nastier than floods. My mom, brothers and sister are all in the southern PRC just outside Los Angeles and I always get antsy when there are fires there.
I couldn't even to begin to explain what gets thrown out or why, but I think if I had to rip out a room like that I wouldn't be saving a whole lot. What got me was the refrigerators and freezers. A lot of people had meat from hunting trips stored away and that's all out on the street with the rest of it.
To change the subject, first frost here this am. I got the sprinkler going on the 8th acre, haven't got any ripe peppers yet.....
41 degrees this morning in Western Kansas. Couple of days ago we had the smoke pretty bad here too.
Yeah, we hit 101 Saturday, set a record in torrington and tied one from 1899 in scottsbluff, today I get up and its 38 degrees. :sadness:, I don't see any frost, but have not been out and about yet. I know Alliance NE and the Sandhills were under a frost warning for the next couple days still.
Quote from: stetto on September 06, 2017, 06:31:06 AM
To change the subject, first frost here this am.
Booooooo! I haven't finished my summer yet!
......aaaaand we got snow today! It didn't stick, but it still snowed......👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
Uhg, we have not, but I see its creeping closer, snow between Laramie and Cheyenne yesterday, and still around this morning
Ah, Vedauwoo. Many a good times had there.
We had an inch and three quarter of rain last night. Would have made for a mighty snowstorm. I saw Nony's radar, all blue-mixed-with-green. I hate those mixed storms, inpossible to keep windshields clear.
Supposed to get rain snow rain today.... driving will be fun!
We had snow a couple days ago, I can't say I really missed it that much. Had to get new tires so I could get up the dirt mud road. Appareantly they don't give them away either. :eusa_eh:
Tell me about it....had to buy 10 tires for various vehicles this year!
Forecast for snow were greatly exagerated.....
Hard freeze last night. Set up the deer blind yesterday, the DNR designated my zone as "intensive" this year, so I can take 3 if I see that many. Found Thee Olde Man's favorite 150 year old maple split into 150 year old deadfall, was a sad discovery.
Deer hunt and winter, hopefully in that order.....
We are bouncing back to an indian summer, supposed to be near 80 for a couple days and no wind. Which is good, need to finish the farming for the year, get some fencing done and work on a loafing shed all before the ground freezes.
Weather is surprisingly decent for this late in October. Cooler, and windy but temps staying above freezing..
Next weekend, my bride and I are heading down to Vegas for a few days, where it will be well above 80's ......that may be a bit of a shock to the system
Here too, very breezy. Deer season is in two weeks, that'll bring temps back in the 30s where they belong :disturbed:
Yeah, "breezy" here too, I have sand dunes in the driveway. :sadness:
Ok Nony, what do you know about this "winter weather advisory" we have here for tomorrow? 4+ inches of snow & 40 mph winds?
I had plans, man......
Yeah, those sneaky canucks, 80s today, 40s tomorrow and possible snow late. I know its not coming from mexico. :eusa_naughty:
It's them Alaskans, I tell ya.......we are supposed to get a bit of snow this afternoon, then bounce up to un-seasonably warm for the rest of the week......
Hate to tell you guys this, but it's 73 degrees, severe clear, and forecast to be that way for the rest of the week. Lows in the upper 50's - we're finally into the two weeks of really good weather that we get around here. Didn't even have to mow the damn grass this past week!! :eusa_clap:
None of That Weird White Stuff That Falls From The Frozen Sky in the forecast....
None of that weird white stuff here in Lost Wages....
Oh man that looks nice opposed to the 10 degrees this morning.
Yeah Nony, we really need one more "Rubbitin" Jetmex in the room.
Watch it, there may be a shovel job waiting for you when you get home..... :disgust:
You were bang on in your prediction Stetto! Palm trees yesterday, snow shovel today.....
What a coincidink....We have the stuff coming down, up to 5 inches by Saturday, when I'm supposed to trudge into the woods and retrieve Bambi. A year ago we were in 50s and 60s.
Ick.
We were surprised with about an inch yesterday morning, weather guys never said a word about any precip. But by last night at 10, were nearly 50. Fall can't decide what its doing.
Cloudy and ((80 - 32) * 5)/9
Nice even in Celcius....... -20 here (that's MINUS.......as in frippppen cold!)
Oh hell no, its too soon for that stuff, you keep that up there.
20s F here for the next week. A year ago it was 50s. I remember because I was hunting deer in a blaze orange T shirt.
We are 18 degrees windchill and drizzling rain right now, I just stepped out and did a impromptu moon walk and break dance walking out on the porch, I didn't know I still had the moves, in fact I don't recall ever having those moves. :sadness:
Quote from: Onepoint on November 05, 2017, 07:20:09 AM
We are 18 degrees and drizzling rain right now, I just stepped out and did a impromptu moon walk and break dance walking out on the porch, I didn't know I still had the moves, in fact I don't recall ever having those moves. :sadness:
Got video? You know they say without vid it never happened.
No, sadly I was alone and unable to do a selfie video at the time, just going to have to assign it to internet myth I guess.
come to think of it, I don't think the hay feeder ever made it to video, and it certainly took on a life of its' own.......
OK, just to be clear, I didn't shoot Bambi, the PuddinFace shot Bambi. That's my story, and I got evidence, as opposed to those who would claim Disney on Ice in their front yard...We were in the blind a total of 1 hour.
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This was her first hunt with me. She did great. Why we didn't start years ago, heck I don't know. But she's moving to Denver/CO Springs next summer, at least that's the plan.....
I got two bonus doe tags, gotta make up for the 150 lbs this one didn't weigh. He's prolly dressed at 60 lbs or less.
BUT WE GOT VEAL!!!
Nice ! 1st one is always special.
Mid 50s for the foreseeable future (that, realistically, is no more than 3 days, but "they" say 10).
People here are whining about a "white" Christmas. Once it snows, they will find something white to whine about.
Winter has descended upon us. It's a frigid 72 degrees right now, might get down to 50-something tonight. I might have to go out and get some of those Carharrts that you guys keep talking about. Already have one of those tookie things the Canadians wear on their heads, but that was a leftover from a winter in Dallas late last century, eh.....
We were at 75 here today, I have worn T-shirts for the last couple days and no coat even in the mornings. This keeps up and people are going to expect me to come out of hibernation or something.
Dang, been 30s & 40s & I just quit watching weather or checking the interweb weather kooks, & today it's raining & 38 at 8 am....I come up from the studio 4 hours later and it's snowing sideways and 20 degrees.. .
And there's a blizzard warning on the local tee vee. :eusa_wall:
our big snow was a bust, but the 30mph wind and 20 degrees was just as unwelcome.
We've had 3 weeks of winter so far...... then it warmed up........during the day, and freezes again overnight!
Life is one big skating rink.....
Uh, hey Tejas, what's with all the blue stuff on the radar down there?
Someone dreamin' of a white Christmas?
Yeah, hat the heck, Texas has more snow than us?
California is on fire Texas has snow, and we have spring up here at the North Pole......... :eusa_think:
Yep, it snowed. Enough to cover the truck and the grass. And I missed it because I'm in Florida for our granddaughter's birthday, but it's been in the mid 40's all day here and the sun finally came out for the first time all week. Go figure....
We got rain yesterday!
Death by a thousand cuts up here; we're getting fractions of inches of snow at a time, all of it slowly accumulating. Temps keep hovering in the mid 30s, but the party's over in a few days. "They" are predicting -25 ° for Sunday morning. It doesn't get better after that.
Fun time is going to be over for us starting about Thursday or so. Real snow accumulation heading in and temps plunging from the mid 50s to 10 and then low singles, and negatives for lows, with wind of course. Talking wind chill warnings of -30. Not looking forward to it. The only good thing is I just finally brought in 2 full cords of pine all stacked and tarped, so the stove will be blazing hot for sure. Now if I could just avoid going outside for a couple months.
You convinced me....you have my approval to stay inside until spring!
Ha! I just heard a radio weather report from a Dallas station: most of the south look to be close to 20° on Christmas morning, maybe including Houston and Brownsville....
That's a real coincidence, because we are forecast 20s as well!
Only difference will be what side of 0° we're on!
Ugh, -12 this morning and about 5" of snow, kind of hard to swallow that after hitting 62 2 days ago.
We had -10 last night, a real warm up by morning with +3. Not a lot of snow here, folks are fretting that -25 is going to mess up some pipes without that insulative blanket. Ours have never frozen, everything here is buried 10' or more.
Dylan owns a Prius, which has a dead drive battery. This is going to be an interesting winter for the boy....
Our mild temps have gone south of freezing. A few flakes of snow the other night, but clear, cold and sunny for the next week or so....
It's 80 degrees here now, but that cold front Stetto mentioned should hit us late this afternoon, so it will only be in the 60's tomorrow. Last weather guesser mention I heard of low temps was in the 40's for Christmas. Who knows? If you don't like the weather here, just wait a minute. No sssssss........ssnnnnnnnnn.............ssssnnnsssnnn...... of that stuff.
Big freeze up here -40 tonight.....And similar temps for the rest of the week.
S'posed to be sunny tho.........
We're a little over halfway there, -22 and falling. The happy-think in me wants to believe that if we just get through this spell that'll be it for this winter, then I wonder if Custer was thinking that about attacking waves of Souix warriors.....
We have 'only' about -12 or so, but a foot or more of snow to go with it, thankfully little wind so far.
Some Yankee left the gate open again; 45 degrees and rain today. That's above zero...... :eek5:
None of the computerized vehicles would start today. T's Journey actally went into lockdown mode and I had to call a Dodge dealer for override destructions.
My truck, however......vroOOOOM.
We're looking at at least a week of this fun & frolic.... :eusa_wall:
Dang, an honest -21 last night, no wind thankfully. We also had about a foot of snow all said. That's no record or anything, but just a week ago we hit 62 for a high, and this body is not prepared for such shocks.
Quote from: jetmex on December 26, 2017, 01:19:27 PM
Some Yankee left the gate open again; 45 degrees and rain today. That's above zero...... :eek5:
You folks in the tropics don't appreciate how good you got it.........😂
QuoteExtreme wind chill minus 45.
They say we won't see the + side of 0° till sometime next year. I predict a shortage of plumbers.
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Is it ever flippin flappen c-c-cold !!!
Yeah, we hit 44 yesterday before noon, by about 4pm the wind chill was -4, this morning its -22, and this is warm in comparison to some places.
QuoteYou folks in the tropics don't appreciate how good you got it.........😂
It's supposed to get to the mid 20's with wind chills in the teens here in the tropics in the next few days for the next few days. None of the white stuff is expected, but we might get some freezing rain. I'm hoping the cold kills all the weeds in my yard so I don't have to deal with them come spring...
Y'all can close that gate any time now.
On the bright side.....we can leave ice cream outside without worrying about it melting......
Yeah, but its probably not a plus when you can leave liquid nitrogen out and it stays liquid too. :sadness:
I put a bottle of Moosehead outside last night and it froze.... :disgust:
Quote from: jetmex on January 01, 2018, 08:17:32 AM
I put a bottle of Moosehead outside last night and it froze.... :disgust:
Meh, we freeze beer a lot around here. When your Herradura turns solid, THEN you got issues.
I spent most of Saturday evening hunkered under the toilet with a commercial heat gun. Keep yer water tricklin' during these heat waves, boys!
Quote from: Onepoint on January 01, 2018, 08:17:18 AM
Yeah, but its probably not a plus when you can leave liquid nitrogen out and it stays liquid too. :sadness:
I didn't want to be a show-off..........😁
I think I want some of that global warming back. 24 degrees this morning and a light dusting of snow on the truck. Should make it back up to the low 30's tonight. Y'all can have this winter thing back if you'd like.... :sadness:
We have warmed up to a bit above freezin! Thats 79 degrees warmer than a week ago!
We are good for a couple more days, then snow, then back in the freezer......
Whew! I though this winter thing was going to keep going, but it is now 60 degrees and severe clear again. I guess I can put the parka and mukluks away now. :icon_mrgreen:
I guess our part of nature had to realize its thawing temps again. We got to 40 yesterday, but the snow hardly was melting, just enough to make it slippery and it was hardly dripping from the roof. This morning its 40 already, and it dripping and making puddles in the yard.
After a few "mild" days, winter has made a significant comeback....
Yup, today is our last day of above normal. 41 at noon, supposed to be -5 by bedtime. Along with a half foot of snow, so they guess....
Of course the storm is early, so freezing rain it is....... :eek5:
Yeah we were 45 this morning, now I just looked at the wind chill at 4:30 and it was 2.6. I was out and it was sloppy earlier with a rain shower, now all that rain and wet flash froze on everything.
My truck driving buddy spent the night in Louisville, Ky, and they had freezing rain. His rig was coated in ice when he got up in the morning......
We had some mini snow, and then freezing rain last night too, not enough to be bad to freeze stuff shut, but enough to make it miserable driving or even walking across the yard where the puddles froze over.
They called for -22 last night, only got down to -11. So they're going to try again, predicting -22 for tonight.
...then it's supposed to get tropical for a week, highs in the mid-30s.
Tejas, prepare for the consequences of doors left opened by those born in a barn....... :disturbed:
They can close them barn doors anytime, 15 this morning, with a high of 22. Supposed to almost get to 32 tomorrow.
Can we burn the barn down? At least we'd get some heat. 27 degrees and sssss----sssnnnn-----sssnowing here right now, supposed to get to the high teens tonight. We have no water at the moment because of a break in a main line somewhere. They say they can't fix it until tomorrow or until it gets above freezing.
Now I know why northerners are so cranky all the time.
Ha ha. :eusa_angel: We are supposed to have sympathy for the above poster. :eusa_boohoo:
We might even get some snow this weekend. I think it is approaching 100 days since we have had any measureable moisture.
QuoteWe are supposed to have sympathy for the above poster.
You are. You haven't lived until you've shared three major freeways with three million people who have never seen ice on a road before. And not a snowplow to be had anywhere! :disgust:
Forget the barn, you guys might need it for something. It went from 19 degrees and ice on Wednesday morning to 58 degrees and rain today.
We are living on both sides of freezing....above during the day, so everything is mushy and muddy from all the sand they put on the roads. Then it freezes again overnight, so they put more sand on the road......mud races anyone?
I knew what mud was yesterday, today anyone up for ice skating?
Still lots of mud here, but at least all the mosquitoes froze to death!
Not too many times you can say "I'm glad I got a snow blower".
Today is one of those times!!
We got bupkis for any real snow. They got over 15 inches in the cities a couple days ago, us, nada.
I think the Texas contingent gots more than us....
We have been overly blessed with generous quantities of snow, and it is still falling.
If antbody wants some, don't hesitate to ask.....😄
Quote from: balsum fractus on January 26, 2018, 03:09:13 PM
We have been overly blessed with generous quantities of snow, and it is still falling.
If antbody wants some, don't hesitate to ask.....😄
Wow, I just looked at the radar over your house, it looks like it isn't going anywhere.
Well, your pipes are safe now..... :disturbed:
We had a couple snows, one over XMAS and one 2 weeks later. I just made a trip to CO yesterday, and we have more snow in our little 5 mile radius than anyone within 60 miles. Everyone else got less and it melted off mostly while we are still all white mostly. Complete opposite of what we were all fall. We were warmer and dryer than everyone around us. Must be global climate change. ::)
And somebody has a layover in Peurto Valliarta and is sending me pictures of palm trees.....🧐
We finally had some snow with moisture in it. Lol .39 of an inch but we will take it. Went 97 days without measureable moisture. Yeah that drizzle once or twice really adds up I tell ya.
We were like that from the end of Sept right up until xmas, and then it decided to be winter for real, so far. I don't mind the moisture, but why does it have be cold... and wet... and windy... and cold... with clouds.
We're not bone dry but this hasn't been a "wet" winter by any means.
Colder than Billy Blue though. Funny, got up to 6° above today with full sun, and the roads are awash with slush.
It's cold. It's hot. It's dry. It's wet. Not always in that order. The weather guessers are beside themselves trying to figure out what will happen next. Right now, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping and it's 44 degrees outside. An Arctic cold wave of epic proportions...
Thank you Mother Nature! -35 and windy for a week, then yesterday it warms up and we got rain!! ....and it froze overnight.....ice, ice everywhere!
We got to 65 yesterday, actually started to dry up some of the mud and melt the ice in the shade. Summer was great, today 5 degrees and snow, back to the ice age.
Holding pattern here, temps floating back & forth between -5 at night and 15-20 daytime, no end in sight.
But we are heading into our "wettest" time of year, March. We got a few inches last night and are supposedly looking at snowfalls of the fame every 3 days until April.
Weather guys have been wronger this last year than any I remember. They keep picking the wrong computer models. I think the computers need left out on the sports writers desk.....
70 here at noon yesterday, cold front rolled in, rain started, 4.5 inches in 5 hours, temp dropped to 32, then the freezing rain and sleet started. Never got above 29 today, and everything is frozen solid.
Ice skates ??
We are a bit early into the zee-row viz fog & mush season, but after a tiring below zero winter I'm glad to see it. Mid 30s daytime, down to 0-to-10 at night.
Gonna start my tuhmaters and peppers this week. A good head start for zone 3 growing..... :disturbed:
Foot of snow the previous weekend....now warm and sunny and melt water everywhere....
They are calling for snow flurries all next weekend.
We have been trying to be springy here, tries to get warm during the day, but takes a long time and doesn't stay warm long with lows down in the 20 and teens some nights, but it dried out after getting a lot of cold and snow in Jan into Feb. followed by a lot of wind which has dried everything out again. Supposed to get a shot of snow tomorrow night, we'll see.
So far a pretty agreeable March here, melting days and freezing nights, river dwellers love it because it holds the floods at bay.
Politicians hate it because they can't shill for taxpayer money to build flood diversions. It's all really entertaining...
supposed to get to 90 tomorrow.
Quote from: zrct02 on March 15, 2018, 11:54:33 AM
supposed to get to 90 tomorrow.
Please post pictures of you & Joyce running through the sprinklers.
We'd certainly do it for you.....
Well so much for that early spring thing, rained last night, turned to snow at some point and we have a very sticky couple inches. At least its fairly warm hovering just under freezing, which is good, I have several cows just about ready to pop.
we got .17 inches of rain out of that.
It's Snot Week in Minnesotakstan. Lots of moisture, coming down in 2-3 different forms, often at the same time. One year we had Snot Month, but that doesn't happen as often as folks are led to believe.
Temperatures hover steady from 32° to 40°, guaranteeing a little something for everybody. Except me. I'd like some sun....
Got to use my snow blower last weekend.....then a mini spring during the week.....more snow tomorrow
Spring has finally sprung here, announced by tons of yellow pollen falling out of the sky. Low temps have been in the 60's, highs in the low 80's and the humidity is starting to return. Not many mosquitoes or love bugs, I think the ice back in January took care of them.
You're likely going to pay for that comment, Jaime. The bugs usually overcompensate for extreme weather. Ask me or Nony....
We're porpoising this week. One day 3 inches of snow, next day 45 degrees, next day 3 inches of snow.
We were darn near all melted away, too.
Suppose to be arctic by Easter (they claim 19 degrees), that doesn't happen too often, even here.
We have had a couple days in the 70s late last week, but got the reality check of 18 degree low this morning and the next few days are supposed to be cool and breezy with snow showers. And what the heck, how did it get to be Easter already?
Snowing like crazy here.....
In the bullseye: Woke up to 4 inches of snow this morning, expecting 8+ more by noon tomorrow.
It's not a wet, heavy snow either. This stuff is gonna drift up pretty good.
More snow here too......<sigh>
Spring has slipped out of our grasp. A good 8 inches of snow over the weekend and it's snowing now, more predicted every other day this week.
No temps above 30°, and they claim it will be -3° f on Wednesday morning.
And here I am, refusing to run that blower anymore.....
Got to experience the wrong side of zero this weekend, with a bunch more degrees subtracted by the windchill. Funny thing, when the sun comes out, even though it is well below freezing, the snow is evaporating.....
Gaaaaaaa!!! Forecast changed....more snow for the rest of the week!
Only get to "enjoy" one more day of this, then we're off to the tropics of Las Vegas for a week..
We have been all over the place, one day will be 60 to 70, the next will be 40s and snow. Had a inch of snow last night, and wind after being 60 degrees but cloudy all day, tomorrow 60s again, then Friday drops in the 30s for high and snow again. I can't figure out why my spring farming isn't done yet. I guess I will have to blade the snow off to plant at the rate its going. :sadness:
Well that was pretty funny mother nature ha ha, tease us with some near 70s, then the next night singe digit wind chills with 3 or 4" of snow. You are certainly the life of the party with the practical jokes. :disgust:
Quote from: Onepoint on April 07, 2018, 07:23:46 AM
Well that was pretty funny mother nature ha ha, tease us with some near 70s, then the next night singe digit wind chills with 3 or 4" of snow. You are certainly the life of the party with the practical jokes. :disgust:
At least you're getting above freezing once in a while.
We've got some severely serious seasonal depression going on here. My kids are threatening to cack me in my sleep for moving them away from Arizona 16 years ago....
It was 95 with a 50mph wind yesterday in Vegas....a much milder 83 degtees todsy, but dry as a bone.......only 5% humidity.
Once one successfully divorces oneself from the myth that modern weather forecasting technology is any kind of "advanced" beyond the Wyoming Weather Rock, these weather guys are kind of fun to watch pretending they know what's coming. This weekend, for instance, is only 3 days away. This mornings forecast:
Maybe 10-18 inches of snow and gale winds, UNLESS
The temps are warmer, which means 1-2 inches of rain/mixed precip, OR
The entire system slips a couple hundred miles south.
Even the newsguy & gal gave this rocket scientist a WTF look.
Only 3 days out. And they want to tell me how my summer's going to go (warm & dry, btw)
No doubt they'll know more this weekend.... :disturbed: :eusa_doh:
Heh, yeah they once showed all the models they use on our local, it was like a dozen of them, and most of them different, several of them way different, and they said they pick the ones they like best. Sometimes I wonder if their favorites are the ones with pretty colors or something, because they can't predict shit. :icon_smile:
Back home yesterday...it snowed last night......all gone by this afternoon.....more snow tonight.......and so on for the rest of the week.......
Yeah, we are on the forced participation weather roller coaster right now, 78 yesterday, with 40mph winds, today still 70s but predicted 35mph gusts, then later possible thunderstorms, tonight snow with 45 MPH wind, and 35 for high tomorrow. I'm so confused I think I am going to wear Bermuda shorts and flipflops with a arctic parka over the top.
Same here. One year ago today it was 80 degrees. We had a rain shower that turned to snow last night, the BIG STORM scheduled over the next three days has officially become a "glancing blow", whatever that is.
I wrote an email to the three main TV weather guys yesterday asking them to maybe just present us with ALL their forecast models every day and let us pick what we like. No response. I sense jobs being threatened...... :eusa_eh:
It's the middle of April, and it is snowin' and blowin' like the middle of December!!
Quote from: balsum fractus on April 13, 2018, 09:07:22 AM
It's the middle of April, and it is snowin' and blowin' like the middle of December!!
Nony, our illustrious and animated president has repaired Global Warming, you in Canada are simply benefitting.....
Enjoy! Mosquito season is right around the corner!
After the blizzard this morning - I had to put my truck in 4wd to get down our street - the sun came out......it warmed up......and every single snowflake has gone......just bizzarre!
I wish it was that way here, we had a pretty good ground blizzard most of yesterday, it melted almost as fast as it came making a sloppy mess but still left us about 3" and a lot of ice when it cooled off over night. East of us though is worse, they had a real blizzard, had a 15-20 car pile up on I-80 a little west of Sidney NE. I was reading people say on face book they spent 5 hours stopped on the highway. I was just across that stretch on Wednesday and was running the air conditioner.
I think....I think...winter is over. Seems like every second day we have had snow storms (which melted away on the day in between...). Now forecast is for sunny skies and temps well above freezing!
Ha ha....take that, Winter!!
Finally above 50. I actually have my garden starts outside today.
Why am I amazed that I have my garden starts out? The average high for today is suppose to be 70.... :eusa_wall:
Another winter like this last one will have us buying a piece of beach in Costa Rica.
Who's up for snow showers tomorrow? We are ! yay! :disgust:
Awwwwwww.....lucky lucky you!
Dang.....those annoying &#$@(*/=& loud motorcycles are out !
So Jetmex.....did you dig out your parka and mukluks?
Watching the race in Hooston......everyone is wearing sweaters and jackets....
First actual rain of the year.
We now get snow showers overnight, thunder in the afternoon. Spring is very confusing.
Oh boy, we go from snow to sever thunderstorms. Yesterday had a tornado warning along the river, today they are talking it supposed to be large hail, possible tornadoes along the WY / NE border. :icon_confused: Maybe they will be as accurate in forcasting as normal.
Huh. Nothing severe here, except the irritating nightly frost. Plants are in-out-in-out-etc.-etc...
The birds are here to bankrupt us via the feeders. Never seen so many orioles in one backyard.
Our thunderstorm season is apparently being delayed. Nothing forecast, anyway....
We have had 3 days off them, all of it bouncing us so far and hitting NE, but 100mph wind, tennis ball hail etc. fun times.
The weather has been most agreeable lately.....warm and sunny during the day, and cooler at night.
The only problem is that the snow melted and ran off before the ground thawed....so everything is dry. Brush fires, and our annual fire bans have started early this year...
We had a reminder of what wet is, 3.25" here over the last couple days, but up to 7" in some places around us. So much for the dry May prediction.
Wind, wind, wind and then wind. A week of it, along with climbing temps. I should have my starts in the dirt, but I'm behind in EVERYTHING this year.
Oh, and "they" predicted storms yesterday. We got a downpour that lasted a literal total of 15 minutes.
The lilacs are so strong it's sickening...
We had been cool and comfy and wet, now its turned off hot, almost 90 yesterday, mid 90s today, but then cooling off again, but man talk about feeling like you are melting after all the cool weather.
And we're in the 90s too, the "15 minutes" from my prior post was 15 SECONDS. We had moved stuff for rain and got what amounted to the bucket of water on the door gag.
But it isn't 30 below. I could do without that again. Ever.
It's raining!!!
Not that I like rain, but it is needed everywhere to kick us out of this dry spell and get rid of those pesky fire bans. Up til now, we couldn't even use a propane firepit.
Sheesh, I hope its done for a while here, we had some thunderstorms roll through last sunday and rained for several hours, we ended up with 2.5", that comes up to a total of close to 6" of rain in about a weeks or so. Its that rare green, where the green is greener than normal here now.
Laramie made our local news. Hope you guys north and east of there are safe!
Yeah that was wild, a tornado at 7000 feet. It usually doesn't get warm enough to make a super cell that will spawn one that far west up on the high bench plain.
Lots of incredible pictures and video here. http://kgab.com/tornadoes-touch-down-near-laramie-photos-video/
(http://laramielive.com/files/2018/06/Lyndi-Speiser3.jpg)
Wet, wilfd, and windy here - no tornados, but d@mn windy!!
Hot. Humid. Same tomorrow.
QuoteBut it isn't 30 below. I could do without that again. Ever.
Come on down Stetto. It's never been that cold here!
There is a strange blue-ness in between the clouds....which have stopped leaking! The winds have slowed down enough that I could get up on the roof and replace the chimney cap that blew off (......and hit the wife's car....😞)
Two good size rain events this week, an inch Monday and another inch today.
Expecting a big ol' mosquito storm in the next week.
Ok, another inch and a quarter just now, with more coming. I actually grilled in it....
We hit triple digits Wednesday, today was socked in and drizzle with high of about 60, never know what to expect.
We had a total of 4+ inches last week, and are in a lull of precip, temporarily glad we aren't in SE Texas.
We had the single largest hatching of dragonflies in human history over the weekend. Never seen the likes of it...Not a mosquito to be bitten by.... :notworthy:
We had a string of wet 60 something days, had to run the wood stove for little bit the other day. On top of that we had no internet for about 12 days or so, just got it back. :sadness:
Quote from: Onepoint on June 21, 2018, 09:56:11 AM
... we had no internet for about 12 days or so, just got it back. :sadness:
Don't worry, the world stopped for you :devil: ...
Apparently not, I have missed most of the newest "for the children" thing. At least it saved on duct tape.
Quotetemporarily glad we aren't in SE Texas.
11 inches of rain at the house in the past three days. Looks like that is done, but now the heat is back with a vengeance. 94 right now with heat indexes in the low 100's because of the humidity. All the mosquitoes are down here!
You can keep your tiny pet pterodactyls, we have had surprisingly few mosquitoes so far despite being wet, deer and horse flies have been trying to make up for it though. Makes you look like one of those exotic dancers from India with all the arms flying around trying to keep them off.
The weather can't decide whats its doing this year, lots of bad thunderstorms, most have missed us thankfully, but 2 days ago we hit 107.toodamnhot, then today I get up to 57 degrees with a high predicted in the low 70s.
Hot n muggy here too, 90s though, no hunnerts yet.
I planted corn way late, so I soaked it for a day and a half in fish fert before putting in the ground. It came up in two days. That's almost as fast as that GMO stuff they plant around here for the ethanol plants. I've seen that stuff come up THE NEXT DAY! :eek5:
It's raining. You'd think by watching the weather guessers that the swamp was going to float away, but it stopped raining sooner than their predictions, so now they are scrambling to find something else to scare us to death with. As usual, the lower parts of the city flooded, just like they have always done and will always do because all that water has to go somewhere. I'm sure being halfway between two large rivers and the Gulf of Mexico doesn't help much. My weather rock is swaying gently in the current, but as usual is 100% accurate.
So all the major 4th of July festivities got rained out, but the city of Houston is going to do their big fireworks display anyway. Assuming they can get the fuses lit... :icon_mrgreen:
We've been getting pretty regular doses of wet, not the Noah's Flood variety, but it's definitely wetter and greener than normal....then, ON the fourth of July, we were kept indoors for the bulk of it because the mosquitos came, all at once, and so thick that they didn't even keep to the shadows. As I type this there are more than a dozen rap-a-tap-tappin at the glass door on the other side of the office...in full sun.
Never seen so many here. Out in the jungles of northeast MN and the boundary waters, yes, but never here.
T wants to move. I want to go with her. It's like a Stephen King movie.... :o :wobble: :eusa_shifty: :o
HOT.
HOt, cool, HOT, threats of oversize hail and twisty wind. You would think its summer or something. We have actually been lucky I guess, just North in Torrington and east in Scottsbluff they had 2" of rain in an hour the other day, Turned them into temporary Venice without all the cool architecture and culture.
Weather guessers are saying the daytime temps will be over 100 (without the heat index figured in) for the next few days. Another balmy Texas summer...no mosquitoes, though. They all went to live with Stetto!
Had a beautiful all day soaker yesterday, totaled about a half inch.
Today I can hardly breathe for the smoke. Apparently the Canucks are doing another uncontrolled burn up in Ontario....
Feels like an early Fall will be had this year. Chokecherries are 2 weeks early, blackbirds already grouping up.
Not August yet and I'm thinking snow fencing. What a year....
We have been dodging bullets of supercells as they make their way, good for the most part but making it awfully dry. Last night we got clipped with a T storm and left an nice steady 1/2". But we have had a significant cool down the last couple days, from the mid 90 with jumps to triple digits to 70s and even into the 50s last night. In fact here we are almost 8 am and foggy and 58. Not complaining too much, its nice for a change. I'm sure summer will come back and make us pay.
This has in fact been one of the more 'normal' years weather wise, its frontier days right now, so the weather is supposed to be chitty. And for the most part, we had snow when we were supposed to and rain as well, and some nice hot haying weather, it may not have been always when I ordered it, but what ya gonna do with service these days.
But All the towns around us have been getting lost of street flooding and of course the mid July snow in Cheyenne.
I remember snow in July in Cheyenne. Nuf sed.
We're roller coasting with the temps here now, 90 yesterday, 65 today, back to 90 tomorrow, so they say. My peppers don't get it, they're dropping flowers like crazy. I'm smelling an early Fall, I tell ya.....
We are climbing back out of early fall back to summer, 90s for the foreseeable and dry they say. Lot of mid 50s at night though, which is a little cool normally for now.
We had a cool spell recently 95-98. Went to 100 yesterday and maybe for the foreseeable future.
We have never had more than 3 consecutive days of dry weather...lotsa thunderstorms wind and rain.....and then, just to keep things interesting, extreme hot in between........
Yeah, so much for our big dry spell too, we had 3 whole days it didn't rain, I wake up up to it showering this morning and they say supposed to be showers all through Monday now. Are you in the drought down there Roger?
Hot. And smokey here!!
Quote from: balsum fractus on August 10, 2018, 09:21:00 AM
Hot. And smokey here!!
Here too. Not a lick of breeze for days.
We got a trace of rain yesterday. First in about a month or so.
WY has had some wild weather this year, we have had about a 100 severe weather warnings in SE WY since May between tornadoes, flash floods and hail, something like 20 tornadoes statewide which is unusual for us.
As bad as they were the hail is the worst, the last month we have been treated to some relatively small but really bad thunderstorms, they may only be a 5 or so miles wide, but baseball or bigger hail and one storm had straight winds clocked over 100 mph. Driving around its pretty wild to see one field of corn green and tall and 1/4 mile away it looks like it was mowed.
Right at the port of entry in Cheyenne, the hail wan't all that big, but came so fast with high winds it took out windows on one side and scoured the grass off in the surrounding area of a couple miles, I went through a couple days later and it looked like they had mowed it at ground level and sprayed.
Two days ago we were melting in the oppressive heat.......today it is cold (47 F) and raining!!
Been hot and humid, with rain and thunderstorms late afternoon the last few days. We've had about four inches of rain this past week, temps have been in the mid 90's. Pretty normal for this time of year around here.
Nony, that 47 degrees of yours sounds pretty good right now!
This is rare: We're overcast, without a cloud in the sky.
Is there a part of Canada NOT on fire?
Yeah we have had a lot of that London fog too, but ours imported from California.
All the dust clouds here are more exotic - they were imported from the Sahara desert according to the weather guessers. I didn't really notice, dust is part of my normal environment! :disturbed:
Who turned on November??.....it's frickin cold!
Not cold yet here, but definitely a bite to the air in the morning
Not cold here yet, but usually when Nony's done with a weather pattern or event he passes it on to us, so....
I predicted a short, cold autumn this year, just felt it. I'm wishing I'd have built the high tunnel/greenhouse I've been threatening myself with, Zone 3 is a crap short season in a good year.
Inch of rain last night, looking at about 10 days of it, off and on.....
.....in that case, you have a lot of smoke coming your way......🌫🌫🌫🌫🌫💨💨
I saw the map of smoke coverage on the weather last night, basically everyone north of the 4 corners and East to about MO is under a blanket. And its weird because you would think when the wind blows it would clear it out, but apparently it just pushes into the valley here instead.
Getting chilly here. High just barely making it into the low 90s.
Heh, we have hit some low 40s, but its not been too bad with 70s and low 80s except the scud covered skies from fires. Really dry though, seems all around us they got big rains this summer, we missed them, which I guess would be the price for missing the big hail too I suppose.
Its fffffall. besides the feel of the air being different etc, the last of irrigation water went out this morning, there is a thick layer of cool fog winding its way around the pasture and trees, which are suspiciously looking a bit more red and yellow than they ought to be.
There was frost yesterday morning, fortunately not here. Heck, I still haven't picked an ear of my late sweet corn yet.
We've been getting some hellacious thunderstorms in the afternoons, which cranks the humidity waaay up. But it hasn't been nearly as hot, if you consider low 90's better than high 90's.
Fall is here...trees are turning color, and temps are way cooler.....though not frosty yet..
ARRRRGH!!!
QuoteA cold front is forecast to drop southward out of the Northwest Territories bringing with it weather that is decidedly more like winter than summer. This front will bring ample precipitation with it. Current indications are that somewhere between 5 and 15 cm of heavy, wet snow will fall in these areas
I have been kind of expecting something like that for us, a turn of the switch and bang its winter, but for now we have returned to summer, dry and low to mid 90s.
D@mn ! They were right....it's snowing .......😱😬🙁🌨
Yccch! And double yccch!!!
4 straight days of mixed rain and snow......it is downright miserable out there!!
That's odd, it's 90 here and severe clear.
40mph winds ruined it for everyone though.
Well, we survived a week and a half of November.......now it is early April - the snow is melting, everything is dripping wet, and blue skies and warm sunshine!!!!!..😁
Its been mid 90s, and half the state on fire it seems, it was about as smokey as I have ever seen yesterday visibility down to 1/8 mile at times. I like the smell of wood smoke, but come on!
Wow, 90s.....
We have severe snot for the remainder of the week, capped off with a hard freeze on Saturday morning.
What an absolute crap season, and I blame you climate deniers.
We hit 95 4 days ago, sitting at 29 right now, still dry as a bone though. But yes its pronbably my fault, I don't believe in climate.
Heavy coat weather here. 70.
GAAAAH !! More white stuff!
They keep talking about it, but we are just getting some drizzle and snow flakes and low to mid 30s, definitely a change from 3 weeks ago when we hit 95.
We're officially in the alley, expecting around 3" by Thurs morning (7" plus just a hunnert miles west).
None of my outside stuff got finished. "They" claim there will be no Indian Summer this year either (nor Guatemalan, Pakastani, Brazilian, New Zealander, Norwegian, etc.).
It's just that lousy year they'll compare to for the next 20. 1997 is 20 years gone, need a new one.
Ack, winter showed up as an angry drunk. Beautiful morning, about 3 ish it was looking dark and started to drizzle, turned to rain, to snow, then wind picked up about dark and now we have wet sticky snow coming down at about a 45, sticking to everything, including power lines apparently. I'm posting on gen power after spending 30 minutes trying to get the generator running. But hey, at least its not a hurricane.
Ycccch!
We are just coming out of a cold and white snap, and looking forward to a warm sunny week......if the forecast is to be believed.......
Most of the leaves were still on trees, and we had about 6" of white heavy glue. I bet the linemen are pulling their hair out. Power was off all night came on for couple hours then went off, and now back on again for the time being.
I guess this is why we had problems with the power that night. :eek5:
https://www.facebook.com/Wyrulec/videos/719175615108442/
Wow, them lines are sure whipping. Rain started here last Friday the 12th, and finally stopped last night. In that period we received 18.2 inches of rain. Lots of flooding in lots of places in Texas. We are soggy wet, and rain is supposed to be back in the forecast starting next Wednesday.
Strangely, we have a reprieve from winter, and are now enjoying nice warm sunny fall days - that we should have had in September! (Instead of that white crap!)
:eek5: 18" is about 4 more than we get all year. Right here at our place we have hardly had any rain all summer, though they had some gully washers and super sized hail all around us. But we only had one that gave a quarter inch or so a few weeks ago, and a fairly big one in August sometime, still less than an inch. The 6" of snow we had last Sunday lasted 2 days and has since been dried up so you wouldn't even know we had anything.
Hopefully you will skip much of that coming so you can dry out a little Carl, that or grow gills.
Golly, I'd love me some dry. I can't get out to till the 8th acre, the primordial muck clabbers up the tines in ten seconds.
We had three bald eagles pass low through the back yard this morning. Seeing more and more of them. Thank Gawd Obama gave those wind turbine guys a pass on killing them, it's the only way to thin the pests out!! :eek5:
No, seriously. The eagles (and all birds of prey around here) are getting thick. We see them on road kill almost daily. Bastiges are HUGE....
Can't complain.....weather has been pretty nice lately!
Yeah, T shirt weather for ab out a week now and nearly Nov. Its dry but I ain't complaining about nuttin yet. I got over zealous with fire wood, bought 3 cords....thats a lot of wood for us.
Think positive.....you may need it!😂
Sloppy snotty drizzle here.
Yeah, its like guns, better to have and not need. But I was tarting to feel like a hoarder when we finally got it stacked. Which makes you feel stupid when its still T shirt weather. going to be mid 70s today, with some wind supposedly.
....and insurance and seat belts! Almanac says Feb is going to be epic cold....
Well winterrrrrrrrrrr is back ..... but it is November, so I guess it is acceptable...
Quote from: balsum fractus on November 02, 2018, 10:23:42 AM
Well winterrrrrrrrrrr is back ..... but it is November, so I guess it is acceptable...
It was bound to happen....I've been warning folks since May. :disturbed:
Uncanny how you are able to predict the future like that, while the rest of us just stumble on from day to day...... :icon_lol:
yeah, its freaky. :icon_lol:
Y'all ain't seen nothin' yet. I predict solstices too......
Oooh, hes like a shaman or something now.
Dangit, got a whole 1/4" of snow last night and the power coop is having fits, 'lectricity cutting in and out all morning.
But then, I knew that was gonna happen, didn't I...... :eusa_think:
Yup.....Prolly had the generator all gassed up and the root cellar full of vittles in anticipation....
Us, we are living in a snow globe........
Ok Roger, Jaime, hope you took pictures!
Snow in Hoostin???????🙀
Ooooh, fun time is definitely over, it got white and cold over night, the last couple days I have been threatening to even go out and fly an airplane or something becaue the weatehr has been pretty nice, Not happening today for sure.
Although the news tells me we are in a el nino, an will be warm and dry mostly this winter.
QuoteSnow in Hoostin???????🙀
Ummmm....no. There was a little bit of sleet and some ice pellets that fell for a few minutes in some parts of town, but nothing that could really be classified as sssssss........snnnnnn.........snsnsnsnsnsnnn.....well, you know. Probably a case of mistaken identity since few of us have ever seen the stuff. It was so underwhelming, it made the local news :eek5:
I did have to scrape ice off the windshield of the truck a few days ago.
Over embelished in the news, I guess.....
Over embellished? That's got to be the understatement of the year.
A White Christmas has befallen us........haven't seen snow fall on Christmas day for a number of years!
We had been fortunate to have a relatively nice and calm couple days of Xmas Eve and day, but that's over, catching the western fringes of a pretty major winter storm in NE, and looks like freezing drizzle this morning and the freezer is going to crank up later in the week with 20s for highs.
Quote from: Onepoint on December 26, 2018, 07:07:24 AM
We had been fortunate to have a relatively nice and calm couple days of Xmas Eve and day, but that's over, catching the western fringes of a pretty major winter storm in NE, and looks like freezing drizzle this morning and the freezer is going to crank up later in the week with 20s for highs.
Comin' right up our alley, Boss.
Just last night they predicted six inches, at 7 this morning they changed their minds to "10-to-15 inches", likely blizzardy on Thursday.
Make some popcorn, watch some classic Christmas movies....Diehard first.
Ok, I "think" we got around 10 inches, that's what's being reported anyway....Wind blows it all into the driveway, so for all intents and porpoises we got 37 inches...
Below zero, got just enough of the driveway blowed out so T could get out, then the auger belt on the MTD tore itself up.
I got no heated shop... :sadness:
We got bupkis, lot of wind, lot of cold but all the snow went to you and parts east. Today was still in the 20s for a high, but no wind thankfully, I had to be up on rail cars and even the little breeze was miserable.
Well, I made it work, but am paying the price in years off my life. Parts are on the way, hope it's a warm (ANYthing above 20 degrees) day, twisting nuts & bolts @ -8 feels just like it sounds...
Fuh-fuh-fuh-fuh-REEZING up here this morning. 20 below ('Merican). Ha-ha-ha-ha-hap-p-p-p-py Nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-newyears!!!!! :errrr:
Yeah, we were at -10 earlier without wind, now its breezy but on the positive side of zero.
Brrr....it has been cold, windy and snowy all week.......we are supposed to get rain tonight !!
There is a rumor its going to be 40 tomorrow. But I know how the weather guessers just like to toy with emotions. I just came back in from feeding, windchill is down to 5 or so. It was warmer feeling when it was -5 and calm. (http://www.fubarhill.com/emoticons/cold.gif)
I don't know if it is just me........but 0 degrees seems a heckuva a lot colder now than when I was a kid !
Quote from: balsum fractus on January 07, 2019, 08:51:25 AM
I don't know if it is just me........but 0 degrees seems a heckuva a lot colder now than when I was a kid !
Huh, my 89 year old dad tells me that I'm going to notice that when I reach your age....
It's been hovering between prettywarmforwinter and notthatcoldforwinter here the last week. Ice storm last night shut everything down in a 200 mile radius....
Heh, when I was about 13 years old, I went out and rode horses when it was windy and 20s in temps, I got cold but didn't seem to bother me that much. Now if its below 40 I would probably be open to surgically melding the wood stove onto me.
First time for everything--There's a danged robin under the crabapple tree today. I've that a robin might stay through a mild winter, but have never seen it.
Yeah, mild winter. -25 two nights ago, -30 last night, our boy Dylan buried his Prius ina 6 inch snow berm and is now being buried further as a blizzard warning was just declared.
...I quit..........
Temps are all over the map here.....freezing cold with blowing snow, then a couple of days later it warms up enough to melt everything into brown mush, then freezes again.....oh yeah, it is windy too!
Sounds like us, probably with less snow. You would think its winter or something.
This has been a windy winter, even for WY standard, we usually only get the real hard wind in spring and fall, but they had some 75mph gusts just to the west of us again yesterday.
I high-centered my pretty Ram 4x4 last night trying to get out of the driveway. 6 inches of snow, 35 mph wind, 4 foot drifts AND the pretty Ram 4x4 refused to go into 4x4. An hour and a half of shovels, cat litter and profanities later (at -17°F) the "auto" 4x4 finally engaged and I bulled my way through...but wait, it gets BETTER...
The high temp tomorrow and Wednesday is forecast at -20°.
Then the kicker: Terrin is flying to Denver tomorrow morning....by herself. For a week. I will be here, trying to clean up the driveway....
Yes, I know the temperature in Denver, been hearing about it for a week.
Like I said....
Wanna borrow my shovel?
😂😁
No, I have more shovels than I can get anyone to use.
Ok, 3:30 pm, -28°. Terrins flight was cancelled 15 minutes before it was to take off, something about "too cold to de-ice", so I drove back to Fargo to get her.
-39.7°F.
No thank you!
Stay warm!
And to think I was complaining about it being +21 night before last. Supposed to be 70 on Friday!
:errrr:
-42 tonight !! Brrrrrrrr....
We have had a warm spell, never got below freezing last night after being near mid 60 yesterday.
So much for our warm up. Had to abort a trip to CO yesterday because the storm came a half day earlier than they said, and there was already over an inch of snow by the time we got to Hawk Springs by 8:30am. We turned around and went back home. Woke up this morning to about 5" and -12, yesterday after noon we flirted with -20 wind chill. Thankfully so far there has not been much wind. Still not like the upper midwest and the arctic Canada gets, but still plenty too cold to be tolerated, especially after 60 just a few days ago.
6"...3-4 more by nightfall....-25 overnight...
This pic I took an hour after digging a path for the dogs to get out this morning....
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The saving grace is that the wind is blowing @ 20mph...From the northwest, which is behind the shelter belt, least damaging re:drifting.
Yeah, Terrin may stay in Denver til Spring, what with my weather and hers....
Yeah we are just on the edge of that stuff, but its not moving anywhere -15 with no wind chill this morning.
Quote from: Onepoint on February 08, 2019, 07:01:06 AM
-15 with no wind chill this morning.
That is our high for today.
I've been trying to talk myself into going back out in this, but I already know I'm going to fail at that, so I'm not trying very hard...
-30 to -40 for the past week.....thank goodness for fireplaces!
It is srill frilkken frakken cold!!!!!!!!!
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We actually went above freezing yesterday, which was good, the cattle waterer finally unthawed.
I thought it was bad here.........Mini Snowda made the news!
Quote from: balsum fractus on February 12, 2019, 09:33:11 PM
I thought it was bad here.........Mini Snowda made the news!
Huh? Wha--? What'd I miss?
I admit it's been a particularly miserable winter this year, I attribute mostly to my advancing agedness, but we've had 2-3 really nice years of weather here until last Spring & summer, when it stayed wet and cold.
So I figured we were due for a little Back to Normal....Doesn't mean I have to like it. Which I don't. But apparently I don't get a say....
Heh, well apparaently you do in regard to climate, all you have to do is give up using energy, and the world will become the garden of eden again. But just as a warning, any attempt to separate me from the wood stove will impair their life and well being.
Brrr. 65 today. Supposed to be 78 on Friday.
More snow........but it has warmed up to a balmy 0 degrees!
We are getting more winter too, for the most part we have been missing the really nasty stuff, but we are getting a few inches of snow and wind tonight, wind chill in the nothin range.
I've given up on shovelling snow. We get around 3" every other night, I'm just going to have a neighbor plow it once a week.
The snowflakes in the cities are really whining about it. We finally have a normal winter and they want a refund....
Nony, Buckaroo, I don't know about you guys, but our "long term" forecast is not looking good. The guessers have no idea when the final climb out of sub-zero is coming. "By June" they joke, but hey, this is getting stoopud.
We just filled a third 500 gallon propane tank. We went through one and a half the whole of last year, and just one the year before.
36 inches "plus" of snow still predicted for the next two months. I hear the housing's cheap in Costa Rica....
Ugh, winter sucks, -16 again last night, about 5" of snow and wind that brought it in piles and feel like about -25 again.
Guess what??!!!!
More snow coming tonight!!
31 degrees Tuesday night. 60 degrees last night. Now if it would just stop raining and the sun would come out, life would be good.
I finally saw some of that "snow"! I was in chicago for a few days last month and it did that. Not sure what you guys like so much about that stuff, though..... :icon_lol:
Jaime, there is a word for guys like you....Just so you know....
Hey! "They" are forecasting muchos nieve next week, starting Saturday morning. Up to a foot, potentially more.
But the temps are supposed to get out of the minuses at last. We were -15 this morning. Mid-30s by Wednesday...We all know what that means:
Farmers crying 'cause they can't get into their flooded fields!! It's an annual thing in these parts, and the news outfits LOVE mud season....
13 inches. That is even more impressive in centimeters.
No wind though, made snowblowing consistent.
Rain, rain-snow, snow come midweek.
Oh, and I didn't mean FARMERS, I meant seed peddlers..... :disturbed:
Yeah, I stupidly worried we would not have any snow. We are getting it all in March apparently, got 5 the other day of wet stuff, another 1/4" of rain and 2" of wet snow, and Wed they are predicting maybe a "significant" snowfall, which always makes you worry when they get all crytic like that since the Yahve been undershooting totals and temps for the last couple months.
Been in the low 80's the last couple of days.
Heh, I felt a true 45 yesterday with some intense sunshine. It was uncomfortably warm sitting in the truck with the window down.
But they are now predicting we are going to get walloped about Wednesday, setting up for a classic spring blizzard. :disgust:
Yesterday, after cleanup.
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We have today and tomorrow. Then it starts again.
We have nothing close to that thankfully. About 4" or so and melting fast, though probably not fast enough. They have posted blizzard warnings for Wed to Thur noon, calling for 8-12" and 50mph wind, maybe. Definitely not looking forward to it, Having cows that are going to pop any time and so muddy now I can hardly get around to feed.
Nice job there Stetto....my driveway is only 40' long, so I can appreciate the kind of effort to clear that grand boulevard leading to the Stettoland Estates........
Biggest snow fall of the hear on Friday, then the temps jumped up 30 or 40 degrees and now it is warm and sunny and melting (Very Welcomed!!!)
Thanks Nony, life up here ain't for Texicans, is it...
It's 37 today, nothing like the sound of running melt-off in the mid afternoon.
Supposed to rain tomorrow, then turn to 6+ inches more snow. Slush party at the Stettos!!!
Sorry, but I am firmly hunkered in for the duration, we have had blizzard warnings for 2 days, every forecast is more dire, the entire southeastern part of the state is shut down tomorrow until Thursday, maybe longer if the wind keeps blowing. I suspect by tomorrow morning it will be announced the apocalypse is on us, and if you didn't run out and get your extra loaf of bread and gallon of milk by then, may God have mercy on your soul.
And of course had our 1st calf just a little bit ago, hopefully it will get dry before the cold and wind comes, don't really have a good place for cover for them besides the tree line when its real bad, I have 4 in the corral that may go, but that's just so I can keep tabs on them, it's not great in there with slop up to their knees on the low end, and if the storm blows from the direction they are saying, there is no real cover for them anywhere. :disgust:
Man is this ranching fun or what?
Sounds like a recipe for ice !!
Sorry for your troubles, Honcho. Believe it or not we're in the same Blizzard warning, an inch or more rain today, 6-16 inches of snow tonight.
Our livestock, however, sleep in the basement .
Stay well.
"Bomb cyclone"? Really?
How you doing with those 90+ mph winds out there, Onepoint?
Not been quite that bad right here, though just south about 20 miles they recorded one at 89, its been steady 30 or so, gusts more. We got around just afternoon to feed and found our calf to bring in on the porch, but its bad. Not sure if I can make it around with anything powered, drifts around all the tractors and truck is 3'+. Have to go back out and try to get some bedding for the cows in the corral, and help carry milk for the bum lambs. And hopefully everything will hold on until tomorrow. But they are talking the wind will keep up until Friday some time.
But yeah this a real deal blizzard, winter sucks.
I'd help ya if I could... take care of the livestock!
This is just not fun. The mother won't take the calf, no way to get in the pen with the chute to catch her up. The worst of the drifting was today, most of the fences and gates are drifted over, I can't even get to half the hay or feeders. 6'+ drifts in the tree line. Spent 2 hours blading paths just to get around the yard. Hopefully no more calves for at least another couple days. Tomorrow I get to see if I can get out to the highway. They still have all roads closed today anyway, but I imagine they will call Vicki in tomorrow.
All those years I watched 3 point mounted snow blowers sell on auctions, and I thought 'well there is an optimist'. I could have made 10x the money they went for with one in the next day or 2 just from neighbors.
Damn man, that is rough. We got severe wind but after the rain, nothing for precip. Our outside thermometer reads 57 degrees, it's gone mental. Can't be over 30. I think warm under-the-deck air is funneling in.
Luck to you, Eric. If I could I too would come help...
If it is any consolation is is 40 plus degrees here, and getting warmer......bound to be heading your way soon..
It was as bad a storm as we have had since we moved here. We have had a couple pretty similar, just not timed with our calving. So must be the apocalypse being the worst storm ever! according to the global warming idjits. As bad as it was and still is, I would not trade for the eastern NE flooding.
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Well, still snowed in Friday at noon. I went out with the tractor to open the road, spent a good hour opening the big drift only to find the road past our neighbors is solid 18" or deeper and packed hard. I guess we wait for the county V plow to come through.
1st pic is the drifts I plowed through this morning, the second is the gate I usually go through to feed. I expect I should be able to use it again by, oh I don't know, July or so. (http://www.fubarhill.com/emoticons/doh.gif) Last one is 7+ footer.
Hope it's warming up and the dig out is done, Honcho.
That nightmare would have had me moving way south, way fast.
Which, according to T, is exactly what we're going to do.
Heh, CO is not near south enough to avoid that though. It varies from slop to frozen drifts to melting snow right now, which I don't know if that's better or not. I have to get out early enogh to feed that its still froze enough to be firm, but so froze the ice chunks make it almost impossible to carry a bale around.
Neighbors lost a calf across the road half way out to the stack yard, and all kinds of critter have been dining, Coyote ran off the 1st morning I went by, and 2 bald eagles have ben making it theirs for the last day.
What a difference a week makes!! Last weekend snow up the ying yang....this weekend - warm sunny and melting. Kids are out on bikes, people in short sleeves.......severely spring happening here!
Its warming up here too, but the drifts are reluctant to give way. And of course I think even the concrete is soft to walk on right now, where its mud is like wading. Its pretty wild, I got to town 15 mile NE of us didn't get near as much snow, fields were blown nearly clean, where down here there was a solid 8" or more plus the drifts. Looks like there was a band really heavy snow between the N Platte river and I-80, Cheyenne says they got 14", I think we got at least 16", a little town on the border between us and Cheyenne got 24" all in 24 hours.
April fools a day early for us--it's snowing....
This crap just doesn't want to end.
So Honcho, you guys still getting shat upon out there?
Only about twice a week or so, one day we get 50s, maybe 60s, then we get 30s and 40s and a couple inches of "no measurable precip". This spring has been a challenge for sure. I had a list as long as my arm I was going to do in march, that might get done by June.
Spring-ish here........
It's spring! No, it's winter! Is not, it's SPRING!! I think.... :eek5:
We had record low high temperatures Sunday and Monday. It was 39 at the house Tuesday morning, then the high got to 70. Low of 65 with rain last night, it's close to 80 degrees now. The temp seems to stay fairly constant when chemical plants aren't blowing up around here. :disturbed:
We finally get taste of spring too, been calving since the blizzard and the weather has imoproved since then despite some more snow and rain, things are starting to dry up finally aside from the quicksand spots where the drifts had melted down on. I was remined why I don't drive over those for a good while.
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Idiots are predicting +/- 36" of snow south of us Wednesday night. As much as 8" here.
So...is this the roller coaster going up or racing down?
Yeah the warnings went out for us too, possible 12" and 15 to 50 MPH wind. We have been calving like crazy, have like 23 babies on the ground, hope its nothing like the last one, not enough room in the house for them all. :sadness:
90 degrees here today. Another cold front on the way for next week - lows in the 40's and highs in the 70's....
Yeah it was 77 here, but I spent most of the day getting ready for it not being that for a few days.
Rain and first thunder of the season here......
We're not even in the snow yet, but the radar says we're gonna git it pretty soon--NOT rain.
I kinda dread the Honcho reporting in, his radar didn't look very good yesterday... :icon_cry:
It sucks. Maybe 12" but it was melting as it built up so who knows, wind is blowing it around despite it being so wet, sticky and heavy you can hardly shovel it. Not as big of drifts as last time thankfully, but wind kept shifting direction from NW to NE so not much cover kept dry. From what I can tell all the calves are OK, at least the cows were not fussing. Heading out now to decide how to feed. Hopefully this shit will quit sometime and the wind will die down. Really looking forward to fighting through a week or so of slop again. :disgust:
We just started snowing about an hour ans a half ago, and we have severe white out going on now, but if you look at the ground it makes you want to chuckle; maybe a half inch. No wind whatsoever, so it's staying where it lands. We're under the same blizzard warning and they claim we'll be under 18" by tomorrow noon (it was 4-8 last night, 5-10 just this morning), but the alarmist tact they take is kinda insulting.
Anyway, I gotta go find the garbage dumpster, it got left out by the road this morning and I can't see it anymore... :eek5: :disturbed:
Wind is now coming from due west, just in case it missed a spot to drift over. Cows were thankful for the hay I rolled out, but geez walking through that stuff is running 4 stories worth of stairs.
Well that spring thing was short lived, had a couple near 80 degree days, some rain showers, even thunderstorms, but right now its blowing from the north putting wind chill in the teens and gave about 3" of wet heavy snow overnight. Winter just doesn't want to give up this year. :disgust:
Oh, you too ??
Hey West Texas, you & Billy Sue alright out there? We got the tornado notice way up here in north Texas!
Hope it missed them. Seems to be the thing, day before yesterday an hour or so east of us had a line of tornadoes go through, south of us just across the border had grapefruit size hail. We missed it all because we never got warm enough for storms to get that bad over us. We had a warm spell last week, got up to 90 last Thursday, now we are down to 35 and windchill saying 20s. supposed to stay that way until next week sometime. This spring time thing sure is fun.
Well that was the shortest summer I recall, must be an age thing. Woke up to 33 degrees and 6" of snow this morning. They predicted snow for the higher elevations, but not for us until it started to turn to snow. :disgust:
Gonna be one of those years I'm afraid. Besides all the flooding and stuff happening in the south and east, I watched on radar a super cell spawn a tornado due west of us about 40 miles, to the east of I-25. I saw pictures of hail 4" deep that shut the interstate down for a little while. Nothing too unique about all that, but that cell that was on the edge of little towns of Slater and Chugwater on I-25 and was moving against the flow which was everything moving NNE, but it was basically stationary and crawling SSE. In 4 hours it moved about 10 to 12 miles covering an area maybe 5 miles wide hailing the whole time, at times they were saying grapefruit size hail. Fortunately there is not much for people there, a few ranches and grassland, but I bet it's biblical kind of damage. I don't recall ever seeing a storm cell last that long when it should be sheared away by prevailing winds fairly quickly.
It even got funner yesterday afternoon, big band of storms lots of hail, tornadoes spotted on radar about a mile west of us though I neve saw anything besides funnel clouds to the south, but we did get 1.36" of rain in about an hour from it, and another 1/2"+ over night, and still raining. Its like Noah back yard wet.
At least you won't be eating dust for awhile........
Nope, got almost another 1/2 inch since I posted. I am all wrinkly, and it's not just old age.
Smoke.
Canadian smoke.
Alberta fires, they say.
Keeping our temps down into the 80s...
Canadian haze. I thought it was all that legal dope getting lit at once. Doesn't smell like dope, as far as I remember.
More like burning tires.
Otherwise dry here...
Naa, just burning trees up north.... kind of surprising, since we have had a lot of rain this spring.....
Wow....smoke is really bad here...visibility is bad, lots of junk floating in the air. ....and it is dark.....like 11 PM ..,...and it is only high noon!
...the street lights are on! ......at 1:00 PM !!
Wow, its so wet here I can't even imagine anything burning. Well besides what ever is driving the mosquito factory.
Wind changed direction and bjew it back up north. My son said there was smoke up at 39,000' !
Had a hell of a storm blow through here yesterday. 50kt gusts and heavy rain for about 45 minutes, and then it was gone. The weather rock departed the field and is lying somewhere at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Of course, the airport shut down. They had to pick tree limbs off the ramp that had blown in from somewhere. Ten miles north, where I live, nothing happened. Funny how that works.
Been really wet this summer so far.
We went from an Oregon spring to full on summer in the span of a couple days, hit 101 today, but fortunately had a rain shower come through and cool it off. Getting sick of mowing so much already though.
Rain.....lots of rain....sunshine....more rain...sun...thunderstorm...rain....a bit of sun....even more rain.....(rinse and repeat....)
one nights worth
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I know, I know, it ain't 40". We don't get 40" here, you Texans get it all....We're lucky to get an inch and a half at one time every year...Up here the crop insurers call 4" inches of rain "The Apocalypse"...
:eek5: We had a gully washer go through the other day that gave us about 2 in a couple hours, but nothing like that, back east in central NE they got some bad ones, Kearney is underwater so I hear.
We have a possible hurricane sitting about 300 miles east of us. Again. Right now, weather guessers aren't sure where it will go, but they sure seem to be looking at a lot computer models, all of which are different. We're supposed to get some rain, but there's no idea how much.
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We have a possible hurricane sitting about 300 miles east of us. Again. Right now, weather guessers aren't sure where it will go, but they sure seem to be looking at a lot computer models, all of which are different. We're supposed to get some rain, but there's no idea how much.
Ah, stay inside, no heroics for you!
I see they finally named the dang thing, likely so they can blame some poor unsuspecting president if things get out of hand...but
Barry?
Quotebut Barry?
Well, they were bound to name something besides a memorial waste water facility after him sooner or later....
96 degrees here now, heat index is about 120 on the ramp. We're supposed to get some rain tonight and tomorrow, but it sure doesn't look like that now.
Good thing Barry didn't hit Houston. Fear mongering appears to have ruled the airwaves, a lot of people got conned into spending money they didn't have to prep.
We're doing a 90° week, Texas humid too.
I think hell just froze over. It's 68 degrees outside right now. In Houston. In July. Whoda thunk that?? :disturbed:
Cool.............literally!😂😂
Well, the cool front didn't last long. We're on day 5 over 100 degrees. The weather guessers think there's another cool front coming that might drop the temps into the mid 90's. Imagine that!
What's funny is that people are surprised it's this hot. Not like it never happens or anything.... :eek5:
In 2 weeks it will be the 1-year anniversary of our last first hard frost.
...and it smells like Fall this week, low to mid 60s and all-day rain.
Time to start scoping out new digs. If T wasn't so eager to move to the Springs (no CO for me), we'd be packin'. I'm ready to sell Tshirts on the Mustang Island beach....Hurr'canes or no.
Yeah, its only been a couple degrees cooler the last couple mornings, but there is a feel in the air already.
Not a good day in the swamp. Imelda has dumped about 15 inches of rain at my house so far in the past two days, most of it today. The water came to within an inch or two of our back door, it's waist deep at the mailbox in front of my oldest daughter's place around the corner about a half mile away. Youngest daughter's house in Kingwood flooded again, about six inches this time. She's upstairs right now with my grandson. Might be a while before we can get in there to get her out, but at least they still have power. We're shut down here at IAH - the Houston ATC center flooded and all incoming flights are being diverted or sent back. Another fine week in the swamp. Mosquito report to follow....
Maybe you should have put out the welcome mat for the rain.
That's sucks though, flooding is a mess. Hope she and everyone stays safe and sound. We are having near perfect weather for a few days which I'm sure we will pay for not too far down the road.
It was not fun. I was stuck at work because all the roads into the airport flooded. Talk about feeling helpless.
We got flood insurance after Harvey, even though up to now, we've never felt the need for it. Came real close to having to use it this time.
We have dodged the bullet all summer, until today, we got some quarter sized hail that pretty much pulverized everything ad a tornado warning though I never saw it. Late in the year for this kind of stuff.
Still not trading you though. :icon_smile:
Sorry to hear that, guys....been really nice up here...
Damm Jaime, that puts the weather up here into a different light....
Speaking of making light, and I'm sure you could use a grin right now, you know if it were snow you could shovel it out of your way, right?
Quoteyou know if it were snow you could shovel it out of your way, right?
And then it would melt and get back into the house anyway!! :disturbed:
Spent the last few days at my daughter's house getting that taken care of. She had 8 inches of water in the house, 18 inches in the back yard and about four feet on the street at her mailbox. Ruined all the new floors they put in after the last flood in May, and we pulled that out as well as a lot of wet sheetrock. Glad they didn't have carpet. Wet carpet sucks. My son in law was quick about things and got a bunch of fans into the house the day after, so they're not dealing with mold at the moment. The AC unit outside still works after being partially submerged, hopefully they'll get a new one. All their downstairs furniture was ruined. Son in law's gun safes were up on blocks after the last one, so the family arsenal is intact! And the pool is a stinking mess, won't be able to drain it until the remaining flood water drains off, there would be no place for it to go. The insurance adjuster is there now taking stock of things.
On the positive side, the entire neighborhood dove in to help out. When I got there, there were half a dozen people in the house that none of us knew. Danni said they showed just up on the front door and asked to help. One of them told her they had flooded during Harvey and had been helped by neighbors, so were returning the favor. We didn't have to get food, as several local restaurants loaded up food trucks and went block to block feeding people at no charge. It was amazing.
Pat and I were very lucky in my part of the swamp. Several of our neighbors down the street flooded, something that has never happened in the nearly 30 years we've been here.
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Stetto, I've heard that an inch of rain is about a foot of snow. The Houses would have been buried under something over 40 feet of snow in some places.
Yeah 30"+ of rain in any form almost anywhere is going to a major problem unfortunately.
Expecting First Frost on Saturday morning.
I have a couple dozen exotic and domestic pepper plants to bring in to finish their season. Anyone know a better aphid eradicator than neem oil or pyrethrins?
lady bugs, but they are not going to appreciate being indoors. No frost warning yet, but some predicted highs the next couple days in the low 60s, maybe only 50s.
Well its officially not summer, sitting at 26 right now, looks like we skipped the light frost and went straight to hard freeze.
Only supposed to be 95 or so today. Brrrrrrr
Ugh, I would probably dies from the heat now.
45°.
Getting Chili.
2 more days of fine fall weather and then the wake up call Wed thru the end of the week with 20s for highs, teens for lows and some sort of torture device called "snow" which they are suspiciously not giving amounts for yet. :icon_neutral:
It's 78 degrees here right now. That "cold front" they've been talking about for months finally arrived and I'll enjoy it for however many minutes it lasts.
At least we don't need to build any of those snnnn......sssssss.........snsnnnn......fence things.
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2 more days of fine fall weather and then the wake up call Wed thru the end of the week with 20s for highs, teens for lows and some sort of torture device called "snow" which they are suspiciously not giving amounts for yet. :icon_neutral:
Huh, us too, exact same "forecast". They're letting the peasantry guess WHERE as well. They tossed in the B word for effect...
...all the while claiming this could be the worst storm in years.
Well they are not going that far here, just "record lows for this time of year " and "several inches possible" A whole lot of people have just knocked down their hay, I guess they figure better to get snowed on in the windrow. Hopefully I will finish baling the last of mine this morning.
A cold front rolled through Calgary last night. It was still snowing when we left, but only a few inches accumulated.....
Back home closer to the north pole, just a dusting of snow, and warming up through the week....
Hell froze over last night. 67 degrees when I left the house this morning, and I couldn't find my parka. Had to leave the windows up on the drive into work, and was pretty close to having to run the heater in the truck. Haven't used it yet, hope it works.
It's only 80 degrees right now.
22 this morning, snowing with about about 3-4" so far piled up, but we were treated to a pretty impressive thunder snow storm for a couple hours starting about 8 last night. You know, just in case we thought we were normal and forgot we live in WY or something.
Interesting......sunny here. I have to pick cherries, and mow the lawn today....
Quote22 this morning, snowing with about about 3-4" so far piled up
Looks like I made it out of Wyoming just in time.... :icon_mrgreen:
Hell thawed out. 92 degrees right now.
Hey Nony, you can come mow my lawn too, if you'd like! :disturbed:
Naaaa.......I got the rest of the cherries cleaned off the tree, but didn't get my own lawn mowed..
( they are sour cherries, and if the birds don't eat them, they rot, ferment and make a greasy, slimy mess under the tree......)
13 this morning and about 3" or so still hanging on, supposed to be in the 70s later in the week, but seems like fantasy right now. I keep feeling like I should be putting up Xmas lights. :sadness:
Ok, hell is having second thoughts - supposed to be in the 50's over the weekend here. And I still don't know where my parka went!
Honcho, you need to do what I do, just leave the Christmas lights up. I did, the grandkids love it. I had to move them to the back patio, though, because some grinch down the street complained. No culture at all in my 'hood :disgust:
Aww, c'mon Nony. You need to stay in practice for when the next spring arrives!
A friend in Devils Lake ND sent me this about ten minutes ago...
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Din't say what the temps or wind is, but he's ground zero in a blizzard warning. Our snow is melting as it lands. Bless the NWS, eh? Guaranteed to be at least half as bad as they forecast....
I'd be staying home in front of the fireplace!!
Half as bad or twice as bad, you just have to guess which!
That's a hell of a dust storm you have going on up there. The dust is a funny color, though... :icon_mrgreen:
Another "cold" front today, down to the mid 60's from the upper 80's a few hours ago. The whole state is looking for jackets right now...
Quote from: jetmex on October 16, 2019, 03:03:37 PM
Another "cold" front today, down to the mid 60's from the upper 80's a few hours ago. The whole state is looking for jackets right now...
Funny, we're looking at warming UP to the mid 60s the next 3 days...The whole state is going swimming...
Yeah its the time of wild swings, low teens for lows the other day, heck been getting in the 20s almost every night, but 75 yesterday and 80 for a high today, then 40s and maybe snow showers Sunday.
75 degrees and severe clear right now, and I'm stuck at work. There oughta be a law against things like that... And I found my parka!!! :disturbed:
Hope this weather holds through the weekend, going to the Wings Over Houston Airshow Sunday. Thunderbirds will be flying. The Snowbirds were supposed to be here also, but they lost a jet in Georgia a few days ago and cancelled this appearance.
Nice fall day here......got ahead of the weather curve by getting the snow tires on the wife's car and hung up the Christmas lights ( they won't be turned on until December )
Okay Winter, we're ready......do your worst!
We get the reminder its not picture postcard territory today, predicting 70-75mph wind today which is already at 25 and getting stronger. :icon_confused:
Ugh, -1 this morning, about 5" of fluffy white stuff, we may get to mid 20s, but with the snow and starting out so low I doubt it. January in Oct.... I'll pass.
Hasn't gotten out of the 30's yesterday and today, with drizzling rain both days. Supposed to clear off tonight and have a hard freeze down to about 26 in the morning. But not anywhere near -1.
Yikes, -1...
We've hovered in the upper teens this week for lows, barely getting up to 30°. Average high for today is 49°F.
T sez we're selling everything and moving to Port A, find us a resort to manage....
Kind of a roller coaster, yesterday not bad at all relatively, sunny and 45, to 30s today and light dusting of snow again this morning, but supposed to be back in the 50s for the weekend, then low 40s next week. Winter is going to let us know what it thinks of global warming I guess.
Quote from: stetto on October 31, 2019, 07:16:01 AM
Yikes, -1...
We've hovered in the upper teens this week for lows, barely getting up to 30°. Average high for today is 49°F.
T sez we're selling everything and moving to Port A, find us a resort to manage....
Port Angeles ??
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News flash!!
Winter has arrived!
QuotePort Angeles ?
Port Aransas. Texas. Where it isn't winter now but may be tomorrow. None of that funny white stuff, though....
Freezing rain tonight here. Bleh.
By rights we deserve Spring in February next year.
This truly has been a horrible year for farming, cold and wet to start with, lots of bad hail all summer, no water for many and then 2 early hard freezes. I was fortunate for the most part, but now the sugar beet growers have had their beets frozen in. And I didn't realize they are allocating how much they can bring in because they have to be processed right away, so we get accouple decent days they can get them out, and they can only dig so much before they have to wait. I bet that is frustrating as hell. Corn guys are not doing much better, they started to combine corn, then we got some snow, and just about the time it dried out, they got a day or 2 its dried out and we got freezing rain and drizzle which has kept it to wet to harvest.
supposed to be early fall like for the next couple days and then plunge down in the 20s for highs for the 1st of the week. I just hope it gets all this out its system before calving time starts next spring.
We got January in November. They're claiming warmer in 10 days or so, but their computers can only look so far ahead, then they switch to seasonal averages for a forecast. It's the best they got...
It is well and truly the white season here with 10" of "stuff" arriving while we were out of town for the weekend. Temperatures well below zero too!!
We are bouncing around, had 70 Saturday, yesterday it topped out at 25 with 3" of new snow overnight, and today we are supposed to be mid50snear 60 for the week mostly.
Quote from: balsum fractus on November 11, 2019, 06:07:22 PM
Temperatures well below zero too!!
Canadian zero or the real one? We were -2F this morning, "normal" is 25. We may get a high of that today. Sure won't be seeing any 70 again this year...
...glad I chose not to go deer hunting this year....
Quote
Canadian zero or the real one?
-26 Canadian or -14 'Merican...........
THAT is cold....
Spring yesterday, 76 degrees until about 4 in the afternoon, then it became winter. 38 degrees last night, supposed to be in the upper 20's tonight. It's ok, though, I had my parka out from when it got down to below 60 last week...
Front blew in here yesterday morning about 7, was 63 before it hit, then in less than 20 minutes it was 36 with a north wind blowing 25-35 with gusts to 45. Got up this morning it was 15, did finally get above freezing this afternoon, but not for long.
Ugh, that is cold, we have had a couple -1 , -2 mornings, but not negative numbers more than I have fingers. Actually we are getting a reprieve for a few days, supposed to be relatively mild and dry for the next few days.
Hmph!! Now it is raining!
At least it is warmer......
Ugh, winter for real again, about 8 to 10" of wet heavy stuff, hard to tell since its coming in at angles and piling up with some wind, and its supposed to keep up most of the day.
I hate this time of year where it seems like we get about 4 hours of daylight.
Yeah, our weather alarmists made a big deal of your snow, Honcho, and have been trying to gin up panic with "Is it coming our way?"...not "It's coming our way", but "is it?". Then you tune in to local news and lo & behold it is not, it is heading for Minneapolis, around 200 miles to the south and east.
Our 10" of snow is supposed to come on Saturday, from the vicinity of Nonyland...
We got.......oh.......maybe an inch of snow overnight, and it is coming down very lightly....
As Novembers go, this one has been refreshingly mild! Usually we obscenely cold spells this time of year......
74 degrees, fog and rain right now. The current humidity is 131%.
30, fog / freezing mist then sleet that turned to snow, and under a blizzard warning, but we ain't got no damn mosquitoes. :disturbed:
Well that was fun, power has been out for about 7 hours now, thank god for the genny. Internet was down until just a bit ago as well. Got some 4' drift to contend with tomorrow to feed, but for now we are doing OK.
Next day at noon, still no power, possibly might be tomorrow before they get it all up again they say. Juyst spent 4 hours moving snow with the loader to be ablke to get into any of the gates to feed, but at least it's done and everything is taken care of, except us who are going to bust the drifts and go get a damn margarita and some gas for the generator. In that order.
Feel for ya, Honcho. I just got done blowing the drive and half the back yard of "8-12 inches" (it was maybe 6 if you pushed the ruler in at a slant) of wet junk, in what was supposed to be a blizzard that turned out dead calm instead. No fun, but NOT what they were ginning up all week.
Not the worst storm we have had, but the longest we were without power, about 30 hours. Fortunately the genny held out despite being temperamental with some water in the gas I suspect, and me accidentally knocking the shut off valve off breaking off flush with the tank, got it macgyvered up for the time being and its moot now anyway, I hope.
We have it drift across this gate from time to time, they were not amused being 'locked' in.
Is that horse really up to its belly in ssssss........snnnnnssnnn.........snnnnnn.....white stuff?
72 degrees and absolutely beautiful here today. Supposed to stay that way for the rest of the week, then it might rain and drop into the 60's. Lows in the upper 40's.
Its a little deceiving, the snow was actually chest deep on him, and up to the chins on the cows, but it was hard enough they could stand on the edge of it and look over the drift. Its been warm the lasts couple days now, so much of that has turned into slop., which turns into ice at night, walking in the mornings is treacherous.
Snow, snow, snow, snow, and more snow as far as the forecast can see.....
But....microscopic little snowflakes that take a long time to accumulate into anything worth worrying about....
I don't have to go anywhere, so I'll just hunker down for a couple of days and pretend it is a big snowstorm......😁
-22°F this morning. This is turning out a repeat of last year's nightmare.
It would be a lot easier to believe in Global Warming if it would just happen...
Well we certainly don't have that, get snow flurries about every 3rd day, but not much to account for like Nony, but we are still melting off the last big one temps are bouncing all over the place, but its definitely not July.
Quote from: stetto on December 11, 2019, 06:14:34 AM
-22°F this morning. This is turning out a repeat of last year's nightmare.
It would be a lot easier to believe in Global Warming if it would just happen...
Dang! That's cold!! You should send some down to Jaime.....that would be funny!!
QuoteDang! That's cold!! You should send some down to Jaime.....that would be funny!!
Hey, it got down to +40 last night AND it rained. Man it was ccccccc-cold...... :disturbed:
What was really funny was the piece on the weather channel a few days ago on how to prevent injuries while shoveling snow. They got into all sorts of things I never thought of - metal or plastic shovels, how to tune up your snowblower, tips for keeping your portable generator from freezing, how to use your legs to lift instead of your back, how much snow to put on the shovel, how to get the insurance company to pay for damage to your car if you hit it while looking for it after it gets buried, and even what kind of boots to wear. Of course, they missed completely the #1 way not to get hurt shoveling snow - move to where there isn't any!!! :icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen:
Yeah, but we don't gotta worry about tennis elbow from swatting pterodactyls mosquitoes... half the year.
No mosquitoes right now, they all froze to death during the last "cold" snap. Been in the 70s for the past few days, supposed to get colder starting Monday.
Pretty nasty weekend here, 12" on the ground, 8" more forecast...temps oscillating around 32°, windy but not legal blizzard windy. Hunkering in with Christmas leftovers, happy we don't have livestock.
They predicted widespread power outages, so far they've been wrong, yay.
...that is all....out.
Yeah, we have had about 8" that I can tell, had some wind, not as bad yet as last time, but definitely has piled up in places. It was also hovering around freezing here until the snow moved out, now we are sitting at nuthin wind chill this morning, bleh. :errrr:
First of all, it has been a remarkably mild winter so far.....we have maybe 6" of snow, and only reached zero once.....most of the time the temps are a couple of degrees below freezing...
Having said that, my ability to cope with "mild" yet cooler temperatures has noticeably diminished...
Some might attribute it to the aging process, however I prefer to think of it as a growing reluctance to leave the comfort of a nice warm fireplace........😁😏.
Out door obligations include daily walking the dog, moving snow around with my trusty, but under-powered snowblower, and a desire not to become a large round couch potato..........so bundle up, and outside we go!
Quote...my ability to cope with "mild" yet cooler temperatures has noticeably diminished...
Some might attribute it to the aging process, however I prefer to think of it as a growing reluctance to leave the comfort of a nice warm fireplace.
I hear you there brother.
Its been a fairly hard winter here so far, lots of snow and wind, not the bitter cold thankfully except a few days, but still under average. Makes me hold a grudge against winter. I just hope it gets it out of its system before I have to worry about babies on the ground.
Well, winter arrived! Lots of snow and plummeting temperatures.....
Oh well, it's only for another two and a half months.......
I guess, we had winter clear up until late april last year. :sadness:
74 degrees and cloudy right now, but the weather guessers are predicting tornadic hurricane like winds and rain for tonight. That's supposed to go on until early tomorrow, then it will be sunny and clear again. So they say...
Quote from: jetmex on January 10, 2020, 01:39:49 PM
74 degrees and cloudy right now, but the weather guessers are predicting tornadic hurricane like winds and rain for tonight. That's supposed to go on until early tomorrow, then it will be sunny and clear again. So they say...
Yeah, you got NDSU playing their 8th FCS champeenship up in Frisco tomorrow. THAT explains your weather.
Us? We begin the annual Hover Below Zero celebrations, lasting into the question mark that is Spring...
We have been getting the turn you into a white haired gnome wind. So we either bounce around in the teens and 20s, or 30s maybe 40 with correlating wind to temps. Apparently mother nature is obsessive compulsive and stand the unequal numbers or something.
Well, the tornadic hurricane went north to turn Honcho into a white haired gnome, so all we got was about an inch of rain and a bunch of slightly embarrassed weather guessers. Clear and sunny now, should be in the high 60's for the rest of the week. What a difference 24 hours makes. Now if it just stays this way for the rest of the year... :disturbed:
Anyone want to come up for a visit? We could play some fun games, such as:
Pin the icicle on the snowman;
Where's my nose?
Frozen fingers of doom?
And the ever popular "lick a metal signpost".......
Quote. A multi-day episode of very cold wind chills continues.
Wind chill values of minus 40 or colder will continue through the coming week and into next weekend. Some brief improvement may occur during the afternoon hours.
As an Arctic airmass descends southward across Alberta this weekend, this extreme cold warning will continue to be expanded.
Extreme cold puts everyone at risk.
What!? No takers??! ⛄️☃️⛄️☃️
The whole neighborhood was out yesterday with snowblowers and shovels.....braving the -30ish temps to clear the overnight snowfall from driveways and sidewalks.....
This morning, after another overnight snowfall, and even colder temps.........everyone is staying in side!!🌨🌨🌨🌨
That sounds like a plan. Itys actually not too bad temp wise, but sure is windy, even by WY standards.
Coupl'a inches last night, coupl'a more tonight, then Friday the Fear & Loathing in Fargo bunch is forecasting 12 to 18 inches.
And the whole time temps will flirt with miserable...
"Miserable" got petrified frozen outside somewhere.....I expect to see liquid nitrogen falling from the sky at any moment....
QuoteCoupl'a inches last night, coupl'a more tonight,
Coupl'a inches of what?? :icon_mrgreen:
Looks like winter here but doesn't feel like it. Cloudy, wet, muggy and almost 80 degrees yesterday. The winter mosquitoes are coming out of hibernation. They're not too big right now, but they're getting there. Sun's trying to poke out, so maybe it will be a nice weekend.
Still in the deep freeze......s'posed to warm up by Monday.......
Well, so much for the sun. Been warm, cloudy, muggy and wet all week, though the weather guessers assure us the sun will come out tomorrow, but with lower temps. The mosquitoes have disappeared...
800's.....
Nony, the one on the far end is a 767-300.
I shoulda caught that, since that is what my offspring is flying these days... AC just retired one with 134,000 hours on it. Boeing bought it back to analyze the airframe.....
OMG.......it has warmed up to freezing.......it is positively balmy outside.....seriously!
From -41 to +32F is a huge difference!!!
Yep, anything plus side after below zero seems warm.
We have been getting faux spring, been in the 40s close to 50, and hardly any wind for a change. Almost all the snow ids gone except some left over drifts.
It can't decide what to do here. It rained all day Wednesday, was cool and sunny Thursday and Friday, cloudy and wet again today, then supposed to clear up again for the rest of the week. It's been cool, but not unbearably so. My weather rock is in need of therapy....
Now we are getting freezing rain!!
We are having a fake spring, near 60 today if not over, and probably that much wind, then a reality check come tomorrow so they say.
Dang, Honcho, beatin' us by 20 measly degrees, and yeah, back into the hole tomorrow....
Its 67 right now, and a mere 20 mph wind! Sure feels like its balmy, because we are running around trying to catch up projects that we have been ignoring because of weather. Now its on to hauling hay in and get ready for the harsh reminder.
That sounds so much like work, without actually saying so.........
It was not all bad, I had time to shoot a bit, if I had known we were going to have a lull in the wind I would have had batteries charged.
Beautiful weather here for the last 3 days, but that is all about to change. We are being told that there is a major winter storm heading our way. 6 plus inches of snow predicted for Tuesday night and Wednesday. :eusa_wall:
Did everyone get thawed out, or dug out??
Its been winter like, variable cold and snow once every other week or so, to a mild day once in awhile to melt off everything, with lots of wind . Hasn't been a hard winter like last year, but sure wasn't one of those mild ones so far.
We're porpoising our way to "spring". It's about to get sloppy here...
Wesa melting!
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Well, if you don't like the weather here, just wait a day or so. It's been cold and wet, warm and wet, sunny and not so sunny, all in the last week. Heat runs one day, AC the next. Another fine month in the swamp....
Yeah, we have been fairly mild the last few days, but mother nature is such a tease, we are back to winter again with the roads closed and blowing snow.
It's spring again! 65 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. That will probably go away as soon as I reach my weekend....
Blizzard today....tomorrow sunny and warm(er)...........
35 to 40 for daytime highs for the foreseeable...We're bein' set up, I tell ya!
We were over 60 yesterday, up to 5" of snow by tomorrow starting about mid day so they say. But I actually saw a 70 for next weekend or so on the long range tease cast.
Good ol WYO, We hgad an inch or so when said and done, today was warmer and windy and it all mostly melted off already. But man, I-80 from Laramie to Green river has been a problem this year. I read a story the day it snowed that they had close the interstate 54 times since OCT last year. Should have closed it sooner yesterday, over 100 cars and trucks in a tangled mess, 3 dead, dozens injured. A video posted on facebook showed some guy walking it through it, while you could hear them still banging into each other on the tail end. Crazy stuff. I'll be glad when w\see the lats of bad roads for a while.
Ummm......it might be the drivers, not the road.......
I think we see more of these because volume is up. Its the 3rd mass pile up in that stretch this year. More people, more idiots.
Nasty wreck. I watched more than one vid, from different views. I used to drive that stretch quite a bit...
You'd think in weather like that all the OTR drivers would be networking the CB reports. They were just barreling in...
I was reading that a lot of the corporate trucks won't allow CB in them anymore, that was one thing that always was helpful in avoiding stuff like before.
A shame, truly.
And here's me, just happy to see the driveway again...
Mo' snow comin' fur us today, tommorra, the nex' day, an' da nex'.........
we have the 1st 70 day since late Oct, too easy to get used to.
About 12 years ago we got around 40 inches of snow in April. It came a foot or more at a time, every steenkin' weekend. It was way too nice for weeks prior...
Kind of like it's getting now....
This is what they are predicting!:
Quote. Snowfall warning in effect for:
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park
Snowfall with total amounts of 10 to 20 cm is expected.
A Pacific weather system developing over southern Alberta will bring 10-20 centimetres of snow to central and eastern Alberta beginning overnight tonight. The heaviest swath of snow is expected from Forestburg to Cold Lake. The City of Edmonton could see between 10-15 centimetres total, especially eastern portions of the city. The snow will taper off Sunday morning as the system moves into Saskatchewan.
Just as a translation courtesy to you southerners, that would be about 8" of snow.....
Pfffft.....I remember as a kid waking up to 2 or 3 feet of snow that fell overnight.....life still went on.....we still walked to school....dad still went to work.....
After being teased for a couple weeks with decent weather, we have blizzard warnings up. Not looking forward to it. 4-8" with 50mph wind, No thanks! :eusa_hand:
I may have calves during it, hopefully they will hold off, but some are getting close. Power companies in the area are already saying get ready for extended power outages. Combine that with the panic buying of people over the corona virus stuff, and stress level is through the roof around here.
Wish you well, Eric. That can't be fun.
Me, I gotta go to town for essentials. Haven't been there in over a week, the way the "media" talks it should be shuttered up and tumbleweeds rule the streets.
We can't seem to get much above freezing lately, the guy across the road finally cut corn yesterday, but because of snow in the fields his blades were set at hip high.
A couple 40+ degree days would serve to brighten my outlook...
Hope it is not as severe as they are predicting...
You ought to chaperone your lady cows a bit better so they don't get pregnant during the winter.🤣...
Hoping you guys still have your sanity because most of the world has lost theirs...I've given up on social media, TV, the news, etc until this thing blows over. Meanwhile, we can't go anywhere as all the fun places have been closed, it is still too cold to go outside, so just sitting around the house twiddling my thumbs.....
Quote from: balsum fractus on March 18, 2020, 08:42:31 AM
Hoping you guys still have your sanity because most of the world has lost theirs...I've given up on social media, TV, the news, etc until this thing blows over. Meanwhile, we can't go anywhere as all the fun places have been closed, it is still too cold to go outside, so just sitting around the house twiddling my thumbs.....
Heh heh, I'm taking glee in poking hoarders with a stick...Toilet paper's on the shopping list, but I have little optimism...
Here ya go:
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Reusable-Toilet-Paper-/143555954150
:icon_lol: Mankind only evolved because of the invention of toilet paper by cavemen.
What gets me is they have shut down whole states instead of just areas of hot spots, the economy is going to free fall especially in the small towns. CO has ordered all public places like bars, restaurants gyms etc closed to public for a month, in places where the infection is shown that's probably prudent, but in remote small towns 400 miles away and off any major thoroughfares, it's going to be devastating. But that is govt SOP, one size fits all, and if it doesn't they will make sure it will fit by force.
Same here!!
Well thankfully as blizzards go, it was pretty mild and short. Snowed hard for about 7 hours or so, got about 6", breezy but not 50 mph like they were predicting, and the snow was wet and heavy enough it drifted a little but nothing to block anything. East of us wasn't so lucky.
Of course I had a cow that couldn't wait, calved the evening before, but we got her in before it got bad. Have a bunch that are close, so they will be dumping them in snow which is always fun. :disgust:
I've never been in a grocery store after being ransacked by looters, but this last trip to town has whatever faith I might have kidded myself into having about human superiority over the beasts and lesser creatures of the earth all gone now.
The obvious was an empty aisle, and the stock clerk told me that "they" know the truck schedules and barrel in just in time and in appropriate numbers to keep those shelves empty. Limits apparently have been defeated by stealthing family members in one at a time, each grabbing the limit "per person". For these "people" there is apparently no such thing as enough TP...
...or eggs...or bread...or flour...pasta...dried beans...canned goods...butter...frozen potatoes, bread doughs, and pizza...etc....
And every "special" and discount was unspecialed and marked back up.
It was remarkably quiet and easily navigated, but that was because the last truck had been in the day before. Store employees were leary of everyone, and I don't blame them; the truth of how base the human animal will go as fast as they have is in full display.
At least my meat guy still loves me. He puts stuff aside for us...I keep thinkin' it's time for a trip to Baird for some pork, before some knowitall bureacrat talks the guy in charge into closing interstate travel...
Come ahead,
Running a special Corona Virus hog hunt through April, Unlimited hogs, lodging, meals, and transportation while hunting for only 2 ea, 24 count Charmin Ultra TP! LOL,
Just kidding, :icon_lol: :icon_lol:
Come on down.
:icon_lol: I use to count the money as it went down range, now I count it going down the drain.
Not quite as bad here the day before yesterday, but ridiculous anyway, all the TP, lunch meat, cheese and fresh meat was gone for the most part, cookies, pop, eggs, wonder bread and milk gone. But there was some fresh fruit and veggies, and a shelf full of non sliced sourdough and wheat bread, because a person would starve if not for sliced bread apparently. Also quite a bit of frozen stuff available.
Certainly people are a herd animal and flightier than a flock of sheep in wolf convention.
if the bad guys ever get wind of how much damage we can do to ourselves with generous help from social media, TV, and politicians.....
Hey Carl, I'll take you up on that! The kids were worried we'd run out of TP, so every time one of them goes to the store for their weekly rations, they get us some. Is the processing included? And is it ok if some of it is slightly used? :disturbed:
Funny you should mention unsliced sourdough, Honcho, because I went through the same thing a few days ago. I just needed a few things for my work lunches and that was all the bread that was left. It's almost like john q public has no idea what a knife might be for. It's really good bread, too.
We're in full 9-11 mode here at the nation's largest third world airline. Just sent a flight to the Bahamas with nobody on it (don't ask me why they didn't just cancel it, unless the pilots have girlfriends there), and the first of the 100 or so airplanes that will be parked here in Houston are arriving as I write this. For now, I'm still employed, but it's going to be dicey for a while until this stupidity finally ends. Three years and 21 days until retirement....
Anyone have any 12 gauge 00 buck shotgun ammo? That all got cleaned out, too. Along with the 9mm, 5.56mm, .45 ACP, .38, 30.06 and 105mm howitzer.
And it's been raining for three days straight...
Not a lot of choice
https://www.ableammo.com/catalog/federal-premium-power-shok-f12700-gauge-pellets-1325-buffered-lead-buckshot-rdbx-p-73315.html
Couple places have mini shells of it
https://www.jgsales.com/12ga-nobel-sport-centurion,-2.2-mini-shell,-10rd-box,-00-buck,-6-pellet.-p-3243.html
And I bet its well over week before it gets to you.
In unrelated news......I took my Christmas lights down today....😄
Now back to your regular programming........
:icon_lol: That social distancing sucks when it makes you do chores you have procrastinated on like a pro.
Thanks Honcho, I finally found some. Got thirty rounds, it was all they had and you're right, should be here in about a week.
Sun came out this morning, should be in the high 80's today. With all the rain, the mosquitos should be close behind...
And in case anyone needs a distraction for a few minutes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4wLr8_Kaw4&feature=youtu.be
Typical Spring here: Wet & cold.
Jaime, I saw that Connie's tail right at the beginning of the vid, thought they'd show more.... :sadness: That was a favorite of my Dad's. They had the Bataan on display at an airshow in Williams AZ around 20 years ago, got to tour it, check out a lot of MacArthur memorabilia, a really neat aircraft...Dad flew from NY to Minneapolis in one when he mustered out of the Navy in '54...
Spectacular video Jaime! What a treasure trove of aviation artifacts!!
Thank you for sharing that!!
Winter is not giving up! It is snowing again.......
Huh....we woke to robin song this morning. First of the year.
There was a squadron of cardinals on the back fence this morning. Still in the high 80's, but cloudy and a nice breeze blowing.
I think we slipped back to November - snow, cold, and windy for the next few days.....
At least our weather people have a sense of humor:
Quote. 4:44 AM MDT Monday 30 March 2020
Special weather statement in effect for:
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park
Spring is on hold, and central Albertans are encouraged to remain home.
Heavy snow will begin this evening, with total accumulations of 10 to 15 cm possible by Tuesday morning.
Uhg, winter yet again. We were enjoying some 70s just a couple days ago, today coating of ice from freezing drizzle over night 17 with 15-20 mph wind out of the NE, wind chill is hovering around 3 or 4, awful hard on babies. Its probably not too much of a joke, we have prewinter, winter, still winter and construction for seasons.
It was absolutely beautiful here yesterday, clear and sunshine, temps in the mid 70's. Cloudy today, supposed to rain later this afternoon and drop into the 50's.
Us, 40's and falling slush. "They" say snow later, then 50s in a few days time...
If you are getting the same weather we are up here on the DEW line, then more cold is on the way
..sunny, but cold......
Winter came back here today. Low 50s this morning with a cold north wind and rain. At least the rain is keeping the pollen count down.
Was 70-80 for like 8 days here, now it is 38 and raining.
78 on Saturday. Currently Monday morning at 10:20 its 26.3 on my Davis weather station. Had some pretty fair winds on Sunday, didn't even go out of the house all day.
It got warm enough to rain! But turning to snow tonight.......
Beautiful again here today, upper 60s and a bit windy. Upper 40s for the low tonight, but it's going to get warmer as the week progresses.
We went from 70s late last week, then Sunday to 30 and snow, today was about 40 but windy, and next we get treated to 3-7" of snow tomorrow night. :disgust: Man I am sick of winter.
They weren't kidding, 3" or so of driving snow out of the east this morning, windchill is about 14 degrees. Supposed to do this most of the day. Of course had a girl decide to wait until last night to calve. :disgust:
Yeah, saw you guys on the radar this morning. It seems all the real nasty veers south of us.
We aren't expecting our first 60° + day until next week, though.
Ended up with a good 6" left over after the melting was done as it fell, now comes the slop. I saw reports of 12" to the south of us. But supposed to be warmer by the weekend , I saw 70s in the forecast again, the only good thing about spring storms is they don't last long.
Holy Cow! (Pun intended..)
It got up to nearly 50 yesterday! Between the sun and the wind, most of the snow disappeared almost over night. It was a very dramatic and sudden change......and quite welcome!
Yep, here too, it was gone except in the piles and shadows by afternoon yesterday.
Spring is here...washed my truck, hosed out the garage, and took the snow tires off of Pam's car.......summer is coming! I'm sure of it!
Lots and lots of people out walking (appropriately distanced, of course...), kids on bikes, and those damn noisy motorcycles are out.......
Funny how long it takes to get used to bad weather and how fast you get used to nice weather. It was OK today, at least the wind wasn't strong enough to knock you over and a coat kept you fairly comfy, but it was not all that pleasant to be out today, supposed to be much better the next couple of days though, and I may have to actually mow some grass if I want to fly.
Man, our weather guys are as wide left as I've ever seen. Forecast for today just three days ago: 63F. Actual high for today: 45.
Last weekend they had nuthin' but 60s and 70s and severe clear predicted for this entire week, now it's wind, rain/snow, and maybe 60 once or twice...
If you can't forecast more than 12 hours ahead, please don't.
Pet peeve, sorry. I depended for years on accurate forecasts to decide which job, how many crew, whether to even get out of bed. I swear these fruitcakes are getting worse with every graduating third grade weather guessing class...
Well, we must have stolen your weather, mid 70s, low single digit breeze, and random puff ball here and there in the sky. The only down side is trying to cram all of the spring work into the rare near perfect day when I really just want to be goofing off.
86 degrees and clear here. Rain tomorrow, then back into the 90s for the rest of the week.
OK 75 is hot! It was 74 this morning and I was rocking a T shirt 1st time this year, thinking this is great. Now there is this blazing thing directly overhead and I am dying, keeps this up and I am going to be forced to make a margarita, for survival sake.
Been absolutely beautiful the past few days, but they just shut the airport down (like we can be shut down any further) because there are some big thunderstorms coming.
Its officially spring here now, we had our 1st real soaker that wasn't in pellet form or delivered in the matter of minutes nor in crystal form that piles up. Good thing too, because I was already starting to plan on how to deal with the drought.
Happy for you guys. We've had it good here too, got all manner of outside stuff done including a rain collecter, but....
We have the kids home this weekend, the PuddinFace turns 20 tomorrow, so we're making rather merry...I have my garden starts (mostly peppers, toms and tomatillo) out on the deck to harden, but have been bringing them in at night. Forgot to last night. It got down to 29°. They don't look dead, don't look affected at all...29° is a pepper killer, though.
Around 70 plants...cross my fingers....
This was the weather at our house yesterday afternoon. It was not predicted nor were we warned...
https://youtu.be/Lgd42PWIBmE
https://youtu.be/2_SmDJX6rTU
Wow, burning off corn? Must have been an insurance claim.
We had another 1/2" of rain yesterday, though it hinted of coming in pellet form for a little bit.
Okay! Who ordered the mosquitos??
They got delivered here in error!!
Heh, not quite yet here, we just have the ticks having a convention. And of course roller coaster weather which is fluctuating between 90s and severe thunderstorms like summer and 60s and cold like and wet like spring.
We've had a half inch of rain in the last six weeks, though there's been rain within 50 miles of us pretty regular.
Woke this morning to a nice soaker, as of 8 am we're a fuzz under a half inch.
I planted over a week ago, earliest I've put the garden in ever. 60s &70s mostly, got to 80 yesterday.
First mosquito bite of the year was yesterday, but I've been pulling ticks of the dogs for over a month...
Finally...2 & 1/2 inches last night. "They" predict more all week, though temps, which are high 80s to low 90s yesterday and today, are supposed to turn back to June tomorrow and the rest of the week, 60s and 70s...
IOW, we're getting the pattern the Honcho had a few weeks ago...
Nice to finally get some wet, though!
We have had some wild stuff mostly bounce around us, but have stayed fairly dry. Although SAT we had a 70mph gust from a storm cell, and when I say gust it lasted for about 10 minutes, lost some good sized branches and it erased about 5 acres of cut hay, you could almost tell where the windrows were, but it scattered it out and carried about half away to parts unknown. I hate to speak ill of older women, but mother nature is starting to piss me off.
Heh, gotta love WY, freeze warnings are up for just west of Cheyenne tomorrow night., and up to 4" of snow for Laramie.
I shouldn't laugh, but Laramie had 8" of snow last night!
Be thankful it wasn't you.....!
If memory serves, Laramie is at over 7000 feet. I worked at the University for three years and saw a lot of that, just not 8 inches of it.
Hell, Terrin & I got snowed on at Frontier Days once, during the wild horse races. That was in July.
On a current note, we got another two inches of rain last night, and today is promised as an all-day soaker...
We were drydrydry for two months, now I've learned to be careful what you pray for....
They had the interstate closed between Cheyenne and Laramie due to winter conditions. And sure, they might get snow once in a while this time of year, but not usually like that. :icon_eek:
I just read this was the worst late spring snow storm since 74, so doing the common core math its the worst in 4056 years!! Or do I divide by 5 and then ask what it identifies as, I can never get that straight.
"They" claimed we'd hit 93 yesterday, we got as high as 80. Today "they" are doubling down with 99-100. :eusa_wall:
"They" just don't give me much to count on, do "they"....
A week later after that snow storm down in Cheyenne and we are going to push triple digits today with some wind as well supposedly. They are saying keep an eye out for smoke.
Wet, wet, wet!
Mosquitos are loving it! Mind you, so is the vegetation......everything is lush and green like a tropical rain forest....
Not so much here, hot and dry dry, except the places who have been catching the thunderstorms, where they get a months worth in a few minutes. The plus side is we are missing most of the hail.
116 degrees right now at 7:00 pm. Power has been off since 3:00. Power comes on, then goes right back off. Think its time for a whole house back up generator?
Uhg, we hit several days of triples or near enough last week, but yesterday it only got in the 80s and today was 70s for highs, it was nice, not very wet though, had a sprinkle yesterday after noon that just made it muggy and hardly even settled the dust.
But no power? get that genny fired up!
3 -1/2 days of rain and thunderstorms, then 1/2 day of sunshine.....repeat.......then repeat again.....
Oh, did I mention wind?.......it has been a blowy, wet, non-winter season so far.........
Wow! The rain stopped...sun is out along with the very first heat warning of the summer....not complaining....
Heh, rain? I have heard about that stuff. Ours seem to come in pellet or flake form mostly though. We are teetering on a full blown drought, all around us have been getting showers when the thunderstorms roll through, so the reporting says we are just dry, but we have had 2 measurable rains since around the 1st of June, the last was the other day we got around 4/10 of an inch in the evening, it was gone by the next day, I had just cut some alfalfa, it has been dry enough the hay just soaked it up, and the ground pulled it out underneath, I don't think it slowed it up but maybe a days worth of drying. Usually that much will make me have to turn it and it will get yellow, this stuff was still nice and green.
Considering how a lot of people have been getting golf ball of bigger hail, I am cautious what to wish for though.
We finally got 2/100's yesterday afternoon. Made it feel like a sauna the rest of the day.
We been gettin' the rain lately, over an inch/week. Maybe great for the garden, but the Kohler on the mower blew a couple gaskets the other day.... :eusa_wall:
Hoo---eee!
Got hammered with lightning last night, no wind, only a half inch of rain, but this morning one of those dech---uh---dech...wind-packed, lightning rich soaking squalls is coming at us, should be here within the hour...
I actually roped my small stand of corn yesterday, hopefully to keep it all standing through this. :disturbed:
102 outside right now, should be about the same tomorrow. One of those famous "stalled high pressure systems..."
We are in a full blown drought, whatever storms come through just mostly bring wind. The places who are lucky enough to get some rain tend to get hail along with it. Today is not bad at all, 84 right now, but was triple digits yesterday, and supposed to be back bouncing around in the 90s tomorrow and throughout the the weekend.
Jeez guys, you make me feel guilty....We wound up with about 2 & 1/4" of rain all told, came down in half-hour long quarter inch at a time downpours. The temperature yesterday never rose above 63...Farenheit...
There was no wind to speak of, regardless the panic ginned up. They might have had a gust somewhere, but it wasn't here...
Needless to say, the corn is still standing...
I officially have two weeks until Official Expectation of First Frost. Last year on Sep. 1 we had a hard freeze. I hope the vegetables are aware of this.
70s & 80s "predicted" for the next ten days, with lows in the low-mid 50s. Kinda makes a Texan want a vacation, eh?
Quote from: Onepoint on August 14, 2020, 04:55:40 PM
We are in a full blown drought, whatever storms come through just mostly bring wind. The places who are lucky enough to get some rain tend to get hail along with it. Today is not bad at all, 84 right now, but was triple digits yesterday, and supposed to be back bouncing around in the 90s tomorrow and throughout the the weekend.
Did they get that irrigation tunnel fixed?
they dug it out finally last fall, but its just temporarily fixed, they have put in arched braces, which reduces the flow, we are down to 80% of our allocation, but I think they are shorting even more than that right now. They did say we should have it fixed permanently and be back to 100 percent by 2022 or so. :sadness:
Hey Humble, you hunkerin' or getting out?
You too Joyce & Roger. Stay safe, the panic machine is running full on, never sure what to make of these storms of yours...
West Texas, well....I imagine you could use the rain right now...if is comes that way. :disturbed:
You are so right Stetto, we are about to dry plumb up. Not even going to come close to us.
Whew, looks like we broke the heat wave, still dry, but instead of being 70 at 5:30 AM it was 46 this morning, that's kind of a shock to the system. I also see a forecasted high for the day of 54 and a low of 33 next Tuesday. :eek5: I can guarantee the heavy coats will come out that day if so.
Ah, first frost cometh, eh? Well it was inevitable, I guess.. :icon_frown:
We're at 45° right now. At least no hard freeze on Sep 1 like last year.
We finally got some much needed rain. 1.5 inches so far, and temps that are actually bearable.
QuoteHey Humble, you hunkerin' or getting out?
Actually, we bugged out, but it was a planned trip that just happened to get a hurricane thrown in. We went to Florida to visit the oldest son and the Princess, and even though the hurricane missed us in Houston, we got the residuals from the storm for several days in Florida and on the way back in the form of heavy rain. Laura was a big one...
We passed through Lake Charles LA on the way home. Been a week, they still have no power and there are still miles of power lines down all around the city. Whole neighborhoods are gone, the damage is unbelievable. But what's really sad is that there is now little to no mention of the storm by the media. I think if it had hit Houston, we'd still be front page news, but since it hit smaller cities in Louisiana, it now seems to have been forgotten altogether. So if y'all need a cause to donate to, send something for the folks in southern Louisiana. They could use it.
104 today here in beautiful downtown Uhhhhmble....
I just wanted to post this so I can refer back to it and annoy myself
Gee, that's how you peel tomatoes, ya know...
Hmm, I might feel a little red and plump....
It actually hit 101 according to my weather station. 95 today The new predicted low is 20 Tue night, with 27 on either side for lows and now they hint at possible accumulation, looks like growing season is done no matter if it warms up again.
It just keeps getting better.
Yup, and here we are. Frost tonight, freeze tomorrow night. I have a lot of veggies still trying to gain pickin' size, mostly peppers.
End of a screwy season, boys!
Could be worse I guess, Casper had 10" and I saw pictures of soemwere west that had 3' drifts. :eek5: We had snow off an on yesterday, made it white on roofs and grass but melted as it came for the most part making it pretty soggy, got to the high 30s, and as of right now 33 for a low, which is 10 degrees warmer than what they were saying, although its still cloudy, I imagine tomorrow night will be chilly. I am going to have a lot of hay to knock down as soon as it gets dry enough to get on it. :sadness:
Maybe at least it will damp down the fire areas some, the Cameron peak fire in CO west of Ft Collins ran away, it jumped from 30k to 95k in 36 hours, the wind shifted direction and it was making crown runs faster than people could drive, heading to the east where all the people live. Had them spooked enough they ordered a ton of evacuations basically 60 miles from where it had started up a canyon one over from where they evacuated people. Hopefully its has a wet blanket on it now.
Boy, that's a hard one to follow...
No snow here, but 30° most of the morning and everything frosty white but where I got the sprinkler running. Never tried to ward off a hard freeze, but it's supposed to be temperate by tomorrow, so....
Good grief!!
https://youtu.be/Gc0CqIf70fg (https://youtu.be/Gc0CqIf70fg)
We finally got some much needed rain!! We are currently at 7.5 inches and still raining.
All of our mountains are snowpacked.
Wow Carl, that's awesome. I wish we would have got more, but looks like we got just a little over 1/2" which is already soaked in and will be gone before we know.
As to my hard to follow post, it was pre coffee, leave me alone. :disturbed:
If it is any consolation, I understood it.........I think.......
We dodged the bullet through all of this mostly, until last night, it's 30 right now, still dark, but I see a thick frost on windshields.
Quote from: Onepoint on September 09, 2020, 07:56:31 PM
As to my hard to follow post, it was pre coffee, leave me alone. :disturbed:
That's not what I meant. Try "tough act to follow"....
I'll be the first to let you know when I notice the Biden's Displexia symptoms beginning to show... :devil:
Finally stiopped raining, finished up at 9 3/10ths. All the stock tanks are full and the creek is running.
Thats is dang near what we get all year normally for rain, the rest is snow. We got a couple more showers and are pushing almost an inch worth! At least its enough for some honest mud puddles and didn't disappear within hours
We're used to seeing the occasional smoke haze from fires in Manitoba and Ontario, but this Califorknia stuff is thicker...
Go figure, CA is exporting their gloom, doom, and environmental malfeasance all the way to northern Mn...
No rain here, but it sure is hot. Mid to upper 90s all week, no end in sight. Hoping it might cool off a bit for the Bomber Field event this weekend, but I'm not holding my breath....
We went from triple digits to 30s for a high, and back to mid to high 90s for a couple days now again. Supposed to move down into the 80s maybe 70s for the foreseeable, so I guess we get a reprieve from mother nature throwing darts at the weather wheel on the wall for now.
Looks like there's another hurricane coming our way. Big temp drop today, only in the mid 70's and raining. But the weather this weekend held long enough to get in another great Bomber Field event!
Its got to be getting soggy down along the gulf coast regions I imagine. Complete opposite here. At least we have seen the last of triple digits for the year. Actually has been fairly nice, it was windy yesterday, which ended a very rare period of no wind at all for several days. The day before was so smoky for a while I think the celling was low enough you would have lost a plane above roof height.
I suppose I should be thankful. We took a drive over to the mountains, and that last snow broke a lot of limbs trees off, couple places looked like roads were blocked from downfall, but man was it dry over there as well, even after the snow which looked like made a mess of dirt roads and trees, it was dry as a bone again with a lot of springs and creeks dry that usually are lush and green until it freezes. Might be a tough winter for wildlife even if winter is not that cold, there just isn't that much reserve feed with leaves falling off from being dry already and grass short and sparse.
What a coincidence--We had a 25-30 mph breeze all day yesterday as well...I smoked a slab of bacon in it.
But yeah, dry.
We've got a dose of a WY breeze today, mighty stiff. At least the temps behaving.
Seems we had a bear out back last night, the birdfeeders and sheperds hooks they were on were laid to waste. The dogs didn't make a peep. :eusa_wall:
Wow, that's disconcerting to be sure.
We have only has an owl hanging around to pick off our young guineas. Just to note those hanging owls don't work on owls apparently. :icon_smile:
But we are deep into drought, no rain since 1st of June but 2 measurable ones that added up to a about 1.3" in all that time between now and then. Water holes, small ponds and springs are drying up I notice. even the small creeks are just trickles. If this doesn't turn around over the winter its going to be real serious come next spring. Like dust bowl serious in some places. Weather guessers say we are at an end of the 80s starting today, and 60s and 70s will prevail, but we dang near hit 90 day before yesterday. And no real wet in the works so far.
While WY hasn't had a lot of fires, the ones that have taken off are unstoppable, we have one on the CO border west of Laramie that is about 175k acres, every time they think they can contain it the wind comes and jumps fire lines. Smoke alternates from covering Northern Colorado to north of us, and gets thick as fog sometimes. It is pretty cool that the water bombers are based in Cheyenne and you ogle them along the road, but not worth fire to se them here.
We hit 101 today, too stinking hot for the middle of October. We did get some much needed rain about a month ago, 9.3 inches, been dry since then though. High tomorrow supposed to be 78.
You haven't heard me complaining lately, because it has been pretty nice here since the labor day weekend...it had been a wet, soggy, and windy summer, so some mild, and dry weather was much appreciated. Got a bit of a deluge last night, and it is going down to freezing tonight.......
22 this morning. snow forecast next week (which means MAYBE-MIGHT-BUT DON"T COUNT ON IT).
All I know is there's a fat lady singin' somewhere out there....... :icon_cry: :'( :icon_cry: :'( :icon_cry: :'(
55 degrees and rain this morning, a real cold front! Well, sorta, because it's gone now and it will be in the 70's tomorrow.
70 today, after 21 last night, but dry, now they are saying we are going to be in drought all winter. So there is hope, since they are hardly ever right.
Inch on the ground, looks to drizzle snow here all day.
A big sloppy, wet cold low system wandered in from the Pacific, sucking some frigid arctic air down from up north. Result, first snowfall of the year with about a 20 degree temperature drop........
Oh well, it will only last 6 months or so.........🥶
I don't know what's worse, dreading/being sick of winter, or hoping you have one.
Honcho, you can have ours.
https://www.kvrr.com/weather/
About now I would take it, we are going to get a couple low 20s for highs about Sunday and Monday, near zero lows, but they are not talking much with it besides wind and "chance of snow". I don't know what's worse, waiting for it to snow and it doesn't, or dreading it going to make up for it in one shot.
Our clowns are saying that right now our weather is coming by way of Colorado. That be true you should have a good 5" of snow now, with upwards of 10 more coming today.
I don't know what's more entertaining; a "weather man" who can't guess the right forecast from a bagful of computer models, or a "weather man" who can't guess the right forecast from a bagful of computer models OR read a flippin' map...
I left a LOT of stuff undone outside, including a 45 gallon rain barrel still plumb full that I was supposed to drain and put up. It's now solid and just going to be there till Spring, unless we get a real indian summer, which doesn't appear to be in the brochure this year...
But we have a 450 lb sow black bear with "maybe" a cub in tow scrounging the neighborhood, most neighbors have requested a nuisance permit. She's already tore up our feeders, haven't seen her since. Still, the dogs are old and slow and as stupid as they were as pups, so I've been going out with them after dark, just in case.
https://youtu.be/oQ7Rt71W6YI
Egad Nony! Our meat freezers are in the garage, with only a door to deter them! I can just see setting a grid up and then forget it's on one night when I go out barefoot for a roast.... :eek5: :disturbed:
Look at the bright side - It would remind you to wear boots in the winter!😄
Looks like it is pouring with rain in Hoosten!
QuoteLooks like it is pouring with rain in Hoosten!
Not really, at least not where I am. Got about a half inch a few days ago and some drizzle yesterday, but that's about it. It was in the low 50's this morning, with a 15 kt wind from the north dropping the wind chills into the high 40's. Went to the local RC club's warbird fly-in this morning and it was cold! I think it limited the attendance a bit, but the sun came out after lunch and we're in the 60's now.
I was watching the race in Baytown, and they got soaked when that front went through......
It was funny seeing everyone bundled up with coats on.......that is shorts and T-shirt weather for us! 😄
Tired of summer? no problem, its gone. Woke up this morning to about 5 or 6", still snowing, and wind blowing it around, 13 degrees which is supposed to be about our high today with around a 5 degree wind chill. Supposed to bottom out -6 or something tomorrow night. Has anyone figured out the weather controls yet, I would like to shut this thing off.
What? You don't like freeze dried moisture???
About as much as like freeze dried icecream. Rarely and even then only when desperate.
Nothing like going from August to Jan in 2 weeks. -8 this morning, we also got over a foot of snow over the weekend days. The moisture is welcome, the cold isn't so much. At least it has put a blanket over the fires and helped at least stop them from running wild. But man is it going to be a tough winter for a lot of critters, wild and domestic.
Quote from: Onepoint on October 27, 2020, 05:40:10 AM
But man is it going to be a tough winter for a lot of critters, wild and domestic.
Yeah, we get AgDay in the mornings, they're getting a little drama queen about it, but I do feel your pain. Supposed to be a light "warm-up" here for the next week, into the 40s, but the swift onset of winter had the local farmers scrambling to cut soy & corn. Sugar beets got burned last year, so few planted it this year to get the market back, but they usually pull beets starting Oct 1, lasting into November some years...Not this year.
We ended up with a little over a foot, about twice what they predicted, the corn will likely dry out if it didn't fall over, but the hay is all done now. The -10 yesterday morning by the time the sun came up didn't really help much of anything either.
Well at least winter was quick, we are back to sprall or whatever, we get about 7 seasons a year now apparently. Supposed to be mid 60s or higher this coming week, until we drop into the 20s again.
We've enjoyed almost a week of 50s & 60s. I'm actually hoping to get caught up on outside winter prep if it holds another day or two.
I actually got a good look at our resident bear last night, just after dark. Would never have known but one of our geriatric dogs was trying to tree the dang thing. It was too big to climb, IMO. All fatted up for winter.
BIG bear, I now believe it's a boar, maybe not 450 lbs but awful close. He stood @ a good 6 feet when trying to climb the big white ash out back. I called the dog off and he "ran" into the grove. He was back an hour later, scrounging where the surviving bird feeder stands. The only flashlight I had at hand was on the end of an AR, which I thought was appropriate.
I was too stupid to have my phone close. He was in no hurry to leave, less than 50 feet from where I stood with the taclite on him. I have a trailcam on the feeder now, we'll see if he gets the Yogi urge for a midnight snack.
I called the idiots at the state DNR, who told me I would be arrested for shooting it without BUYING a license. I'm sure that my reaction to that got me put on yet another list...
So now the dogs will require armed escort when they go out after dark....
...and me without freezer space.... :eusa_doh:
Only if you get caught!!!!
Still waiting for winter to arrive. It's been in the mid to high 70's all week and looks to continue that into next week. Got down to 48 a few nights ago, but that's as cold as it's been. I could get really used to this...
After the early snowfall, we had about a 2 week reprieve with some very mild weather up until yesterday.....today we are living in a snow globe!
We were near 80 this last week, set all kinds of records for NOV it ends today, by next week 50s, with maybe something wet.
can't wait until we rejoin the Paris climate shakedown again, then this weather will get all sorted. :eusa_eh:
Had some spring- like weather the past week or so...warm, sunny, and mushy.......with most of the snow melting.
That ended quickly......now it is freakin cold!! The north wind doesn't help much, either....I used to be able to tolerate colder temps.....not any more!
Yeah us too, we hit 70 last Thursday calm and clear skies, by Sat it was 30s and snow, got about 4" and yesterday we topped out at 20 or so. Its been much worse, but this is not helping the drought too much, more annoying than anything.
-6° this morning. First minus of the year.
Snowing like crazy today - not as bad as New York, though.......
Well....it's blizzard week. At least the arm waiving panic monkeys say. The PuddinFace is in Fargo, just 50 or so miles away, and come to find out the heat in her car quit.
Just goes to show ya, it's always somethin'....
Yeah, we had a little shock to the system, after some 50 degree days and relatively nice, cold front came through last night, temps dropped into the 20s wind chills into the singles or low teens. Some razor snow, or feels like it when it hits your face, almost made the ground white. Not fun out right now
72 degrees and sunny here. Been dropping into the mid 40's at night, but it warms up right away as soon as the sun clears the trees.
Unusually warm here for January...above freezing all week! Most of the snow is gone, and what is left starts melting during the day, and freeing overnight...so lots of ice. Not so bad if you are driving, but pretty precarious if you are walking.....
Dry, sort of warm, like 40s, and we get a stretch of high wind about every 3 or 4 days. Besides not getting snow with cold snaps its mostly normal I guess.
Pretty unusual for us, but Saturday night into Sunday it started snowing. When it finally quit about 8 pm Sunday we had 8 1/2 inches of heavy wet snow on the ground! :eusa_doh:
:eek5: I heard you guys had snow, but wow, 8"? We have not seen that here since I can't even remember exactly. Shaping up to another dry tough year.
I think we've had maybe 5" total this winter so far.
Quote from: wtxsflyr on January 12, 2021, 06:48:08 PM
Pretty unusual for us, but Saturday night into Sunday it started snowing. When it finally quit about 8 pm Sunday we had 8 1/2 inches of heavy wet snow on the ground! :eusa_doh:
Wow!!! They must have moved the North Pole, or something..... we are still sitting at late Fall......waiting for Winter to arrive.
......and I spoke too soon! We have a mini blizzard rolling through here now....
It was winter! Then it was spring! Then it was winter again, complete with sn........snnnnnn......ssssnnnnn.....about 30 miles north of here and freezing rain here. Then it got warm and all the ssssnnn.......ssss.......snnnn.....melted. Now it's windy and getting cold again. But there are no mosquitos!!
We had a white out day before yesterday, for about 10 minutes. 3 hours later it was sunny again. Night be fore last we also dipped down into the low teens. Right now at 5:30 AM its still 35 and spitting rain. The thing I said about a mostly normal winter...never mind.
Well, the weather has become more seasonal now - BRRRRRrrrrrrrrrr!
Still not much in the way of snow....
Our "get out of the house" getaway in Banff. There is not a whole lot of snow on those big Rocky Mountains!! Very unusual.....
Looks like winter may decide to show up, going to get some snow, they say from 1- 4" don't really say for certain of course. But we go from 60 the last couple days to -30 Windchills supposedly by Sunday. :errrr:
Winter has arrived! Temps have plummeted..cold, cold stuff flowing down from the north!
You southern guys down in the tropics might want to brace yourselves for whats coming.....!
....and it gets even better! Extreme cold warning in effect......windchill factor down to -50 (that is -58F for you Fahrenheit fans........)
Our windchill is down to about 10 right now, and thats cold enough after all the warm weather we have had.
Still, you better throw another log on the fire, and another dog on the bed......😁
Another dog on the bed and I will be sleeping on the floor. :icon_lol:
Yep, cold.
There's not a single above 0° day or night forecast for at least the next ten days.
With only a couple inches of insulating snow on the ground we will soon be witnessing the great wailing and gnashing of teeth that comes with entire communities' pipes freezing...
Well, it's 65 degrees and sunny here right now, but the weather guessers said someone in the great white north left a gate open and we're supposed to get a "wintery mix" and temps in the 20's come Thursday. That ought to shut us down for a few weeks....
Quote. Extremely cold wind chill values between minus 40 and minus 55 will continue. This prolonged cold snap will persist into the weekend for most of Alberta.
Still cold.....
Yeah, we are not getting that, but windchill has been below zero for about 2 days running, and we have yet to get the "cold air". But that's supposed to move in tonight with real temps bottoming out -15. Not supposed to move out until Monday or so. Sure makes it hard to keep waterers open and tractors running when it's like that. (http://www.fubarhill.com/emoticons/cold.gif)
QuoteAnother dog on the bed and I will be sleeping on the floor.
Isn't that what the Aussies call a three dog night? And where did Vicki sleep? :icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen:
So that Canadian cold thing is supposed to get here early next week and possibly drop our temps into single digits. Haven't seen that in a very long time and I do wish y'all in the great white north would keep it up there where it belongs. It was 81 degrees and sunny here yesterday, 40 and raining now. Them what is supposed to know things tell us if it snows here, it won't get as cold....
Well, y'know that cold air is heavier than gravity, and has a natural tendency to roll downhill.
Now, if you look at this globe here..........
Prolonged subzero has laid waste to my Ram's MDS, even the 5w-20 won't flow. Also the digital compass has taken a powder and I don't know which way I'm going...
Jaime, I'm thankful to you Teksins for taking a bit of the bite off'n us up here in far north Teksis. It ain't working yet, but I have faith. You, Roger & Carl should keep it up! :disturbed: :disturbed: :disturbed:
You shoulda bought a Lada diesel car Stetto :disturbed: I've been watching a lot of sub zero starts on youtube on various vehicles. We are projected to get to -15 in a couple nights ourselves.
I watched video of yesterdays pileup in Ft Worth. Maybe you Tek-sins might do well to just stay home the next few days.
Listening to WBAP is almost like a local station now, considering the weather guessing going on down there. Pipes burst at temps like 1 degree, plus or minus doesn't really matter. Keep a faucet trickling to hedge your bets, and good luck...
And snow!! You finally have to learn to say it, ese!
Hasn't been above freezing since Monday here. 21 right now and light snow falling. They are calling for near blizzard conditions here starting Sunday into Monday. High Sunday is supposed to be 19, with an overnight low of 1, then Monday the high is predicted to be 15, with an overnight low of -3. I think I may have underestimated Biden, in just 3 weeks he has stopped the global warming!!! :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
,......or else, Hell froze over!
😂
That pile up in Ft Worth was really bad, even worse at points because first responders couldn't get there.
QuoteAnd snow!! You finally have to learn to say it, ese!
Damn, don't let anyone else know that! The only reason I'm remotely hoping for sssnnn......sssssssn......snnnsnnssn... is that it's supposed to keep the temps a little higher, but that was an eddimicated guess by a weather guesser who's never been up north!
We have new pex pipes in the house and I just finished wrapping all the outside faucets. It's 36 degrees here right now, with a 20kt wind out of the north. Not supposed to be above freezing until the middle of next week, and they're predicting power outages....
Yeah, its been pretty brutal here too, thankfully for the most part not a lot of wind, we have only seen -15 a few times for windchill so far, but we have not seen the positive side of zero for a few days now. Held steady ay -15 all night apparently. Frost is seeping deeper, not helped by the 6"+ of snow that was supposed to be a "trace to 1 inch", now maybe to 8" or more. Supposed to get another gift of cold from the arctic tonight, and more snow until Monday. Winter stopped vacationing and showed up I guess.
Last two nights were between -25 and -30. Vehicles are NOT happy and very uncooperative.
Looking at breaking -30° tonight. High of -15 forecast tomorrow...Then it supposedly magically gets up to 20 ABOVE by midweek.
T is in a depressed funk. I'm hoping a Trumpy Bear will cheer her up.... :icon_mrgreen:
We're in the pink (it's fb, so if you ain't you might not see)
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I hear South Padre calling your name Stetto, though this week might not be the best to make a move south! :disturbed:
The good news is it'll be back in the 70's by next weekend...
It starts warming up......relatively speaking....to zero-ish by Monday, but then the wind picks up!
Looks like we got close to 8" of snow and -10 this morning, but no wind, so as it goes we have dodged much of the bullet, besides the snow they said we wouldn't get. At least the water line to the corrals thawed out yesterday afternoon, packing water in buckets sucks. By Tuesday we are going to be in high 20s supposedly, and maybe by Friday we can deport this Canadian air back to the great white nort'.
We are currently setting at 4 degrees, have about 6 inches of snow, and still coming down like crazy!
22 degrees here Carl, wind chill around 2 or 3. We only got an inch or so of sssnnnn................sssnsnssnn................ssssssssbrrrrrr....but there's half an inch of ice under it. Supposed to be in single digits tonight.
-25, hopefully the last one this year. Got the vehicles on 6amp life support, I think a new Interstate batt is in my immediate future...
So we had the propane tank filled the day before all this started almost two weeks ago. It'll be interesting to check the guage later this week and find out what mileage got put on the furnace...
Yeah, was not fun. I went out last night about 9 and gave more straw to the outside dog in his igloo because I was worried, he was fine. The wind quit, but we bottomed out at -18
Good news! Heat wave coming!!!! Going to all the way to nearly the melting point of ice!!
Sun came out late this afternoon and melted off most of the ice, but the wind hasn't dropped, so it's going to be a little chilly tonight. 16 degrees and falling right now. We didn't have water for a few hours, and son and daughter haven't had power all day. And speaking of power...
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-texas-green-new-deal-climate-catastrophe
Seems all of our wind turbines are frozen.... :disgust:
I saw that, not just yours, but even up here where supposedly they are designed to work in snow and cold. Carl said on FB that they will have been without power for more than 24 hours. Looking at the map I can't tell if we are in the rolling blackout zone or not, if not we are just ion the edge of it. But we have not lost power yet so I guess we are good.
Kind of telling how cold its been when I get up and am thankful its only -1
Wow Carl, I just looked at the radar down there. I'm awful sorry, you folks in the Abilene area look to be in the crosshairs of storm #2.
Hope you got a genny fueled up.
Sorry to hear of all the grief you guys are having. Can only hope for a silver lining somewhere - like maybe some stupid people will die off........
Quote from: balsum fractus on February 16, 2021, 10:12:57 AM
Sorry to hear of all the grief you guys are having. Can only hope for a silver lining somewhere - like maybe some stupid people will die off........
Maybe some Californians will go home...
We were without power for what seemed like forever, total electric house didn't take long to get unreasonably cold. Neighbor down the road saved our life by loaning us a Dearborn propane heater. It has done a reasonable job of keeping the house bearable. Yesterday, had a cow have a calf when it was 11 degrees, I was worried about her last night, the temp got down to -4. But she was fine this morning. We actually had electricity from about 3 to 7 this morning, then it went off again. Then had it from 2 to 6 this afternoon, but it is off again. Having to haul water from the house 3-4 times a day to the cows, horses, chickens and dogs is getting old. We are supposed to get another couple of inches of snow tonight. I will be glad when Friday gets here because it is finally supposed to be above freezing. Been having to use Billie Sues car for all our running around and chores because the diesel in my truck is gelled up. And I have a 8500 watt generator, worked on this summer, had it running like a top, would not even consider starting yesterday in 11 degree temps.
Hang in there, guys. Let us know if you need to come up north to warm up...
Oh, and the farmers here calve all winter long, the critters are pretty tough. I'm sure the Buckaroo can vouch...
glad see you got it back and were not shivering the whole time. I have used 2 bottles of rescue 911 in the tractors during this, that should have been enough for like 300 gal of fuel. :eek5: They still chugged along at times trying to gel. I don't get any grade one fuel as its usually not needed, and of course stock up on starting fluid for everything normally for winter anyway.
We were lucky I only had to carry water for a day, other than that it was the 1st actual 'normal' winter we have seen this year. Snow was so cold its relatively dry, compacts down to hardly anything when moving it, but its not going anywhere either since wind has not been an issue, yet.
Calves are fairly tough, if they can get dry right away, you might have some short ears come summer. We are going to start about mid march.
Hope you pull through okay...I never realized a lot of houses use electric heat down there.
Pullin' for you!
Warm weather is on the way! +32 today, and supposed to be +50 F on Sunday!!
Quote from: balsum fractus on February 18, 2021, 04:57:05 PM
Warm weather is on the way! +32 today, and supposed to be +50 F on Sunday!!
Yeh, we'll get a weekend warmup, then a week of average, then the guessers are claiming a return of that wonderful -20s for the first part of March.
Good thing I'm skeptical, or this would depress me... :eusa_clap:
https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2020-02-21-march-2020-temperature-outlook-forecast-the-weather-company
Finally above freezing here for the first time in five days, going to be a balmy 42 today. The weather guessers say one more hard freeze tonight and we're back into the 70's Saturday.
Carl, I feel your pain. My place is all electric as well, but we were only out of power for about 18 hours. Always seems they turn it off at night, so it got a bit chilly. My daughter was out of power almost three days, which caused a water pipe break that flooded her house. We've been dealing with that for the last few days, which is really fun when it's cold and there's no power. Back up and running for the last 24 hours, hope it stays. Whoever manages the electrical grid here in Texas should be shot after spending a week in the cold with no lights.
Silver lining....how glad are you that you don't have to go to work??
Today was our first day above freezing since February 8th. Nony, almost all houses down here are total electric. We are about to change that here. I am going to have a propane tank set, and plumb the house for propane heaters, and cooking stove. I have a generator that can run lights and refrigerator. I can tell you 3+ days in the cold and dark is no fun. Neighbor up the road loaned us a Dearborn heater that was a lifesaver. We are both so tired, of chopping ice and hauling water in 5 gallon buckets to fill up the water troughs for the cows, horses, chickens and dogs.
Glad you got through it... up here everyone is on natural gas...even the fireplaces. Wood burning ones got a nasty rap with all the smoke they produce, but sure would be handy in circumstancesl like those you just went through... If I remember correctly, Fubar headquarters has a wood burning stove.
I, myself, have a generator in the garage, along with a propane heater.......just in case....I really, really hope never to have to use them for that purpose - we hit 50-something below one night!
Anyways, hope you get thawed out, and rested!
Yeah, well aside from cost benefit, I will never be without a woodstove and generator. Too many times the power was out, or the roads were shut even you wanted the propane truck to get out. Granted it's different if you live in town, but a woodstove in this climate is just simple prep, and I guess TX has SE WY climate now. :eek5:
Shelter, heat, water and food are the basics of not just survival but comfort, and comfort goes a long way to aiding endurance.
.......and a wood stove sure provides comfort........especially considering the alternative!👍
Here I said that all bragging etc, and the damn stove pipe must have sluffed down a bunch of creosote overnight and blocked most of the chimney and tried to smoke us out this morning when I threw a log on. Had to pull out the burning logs and let it cool to clean it. That will teach me to be all smug. Thankfully its not blistery cold like last week and the windows could be open to air the house out.
Still not giving it up though. :icon_smile:
We are actually at 48 right now, I am starting see trickles of water through the yard and walks, and its looking kind of soggy on the edges. I bet tomorrow morning is going to be treacherous though.
Definitely going to get myself a generator once the screaming hordes attacking Tractor Supply settle down. This bad winter stuff only happens once in a blue moon here, so there's never been a need for one, and we've been really lucky during the hurricanes. I think we're on a power grid with the two fire stations that are within walking distance of the house, so it could have been worse. And I guess it's probably time to clean out the fireplace here in the house we've never used....
Didn't get as warm as they thought, but 60 degrees and no ice is a beautiful thing.
63 here yesterday, most of the snow is melted and things are getting plenty soggy around here. 56 already this morning, but the stinking wind is blowing about 30.
Pretty astounding what the earth and her nature can do without our interference, eh?
Other than the 10 day cold snap though, we've had a mild, fair dry and relatively wind free winter this year. Go figure...
We had a relatively warm winter until the middle of Jan, but had a lot of very high wind, even for WY, 105mph just west of us? Who ordered that stuff. We have had 200% of normal snow for Feb so they say, but it was only about 8" of some cold dry snow that is melting down to little real moisture. And of course wind again today that takes our mild feeling 33 degrees to about 19 windchill.
Yes, I am never happy with the weather. :icon_razz:
Quote from: Onepoint on February 21, 2021, 09:27:47 AM
Yes, I am never happy with the weather. :icon_razz:
You'd fit in well with the local agrarians. Genetics?
Oh look! They found some new weather that we haven't had yet:
Quote. Partly cloudy. 60 percent chance of showers overnight with risk of a thunderstorm.
Quote from: stetto on February 21, 2021, 09:52:59 AM
Quote from: Onepoint on February 21, 2021, 09:27:47 AM
Yes, I am never happy with the weather. :icon_razz:
You'd fit in well with the local agrarians. Genetics?
Unrelated except by occupation. And I should know, I question a lot of peoples ancestry. :disturbed:
What a difference a week makes. Last Wednesday about this time it was 26 degrees with wind chill into single digits. Today it's 80 degrees and cloudy, looks like it should be freezing but sure doesn't feel like it. Hopefully we're done with that winter crap so all of you in the great white north can continue to enjoy it! :disturbed:
Careful there, mouthy. We sent you folks a taste. :icon_evil: :devil:
QuoteWe sent you folks a taste.
So long as y'all don't send the full course, we'll all be fine!
BTW - it's 74 degrees on South Padre right now, and 72 here in the swamp.... 8) 8)
These sugar beet nibblers in local weather guessing positions are giving us a different forecast from the one just a day before. Last night they claimed single digit lows and 20s for the next ten days, this morning it magically switched to lows in the teens and 30s & 40s for highs. You can NOT plan a backyard BBQ by these buffoons. Or a walk to the mailbox...
But hey, they are the AUTHORITY, right?
:eusa_wall: :eusa_wall: :eusa_wall: :eusa_wall: :eusa_wall:
Mini freeze happening up here (18 below tonight), but back above freezing by Monday.....with a bit of snow to remind us what season we are in....
Yep......she's a-snowin' !
We have had the usual cold dry and windy, around the mid to high 30s, but tomorrow and especially later in the week its supposed to be warm, like almost 60s warm...and windy. :eusa_wall:
48 ( on the plus side!!!) today, and supposed to be warm and sunny all week.
Bye bye snow! (That may hurt us in the spring if there is not enough moisture in the soil....)
The sun is out (!) for the first time in nearly two weeks, but it is a bit colder than it has been lately. 60's for the next week or so, but it will drop into the 30's for a few nights later on.
64 today, but windy, so it felt cooler, still not knocking it considering.
I see the weather "forecasters" :eusa_eh: here are as sensationalist in Callaway. UP TO FIVE FEET OF SNOW? Everyone around us says that translates to 3-5 inches, but hey, 5 feet is a great attention getter. So far 60s have been our week.
Thought we'd stop by on Thusday, Honcho, if you'll have us.
If you can get here on Thur, roads may be dicey between us and Cheyenne. But its not like I am going anywhere else so come on if you can.
They are predicting maybe an inch or 2 from now until Friday, but a pretty good one this weekend, which could be anything from a couple inches to over a foot or more. It will suck after the nice taste of spring we have had, but I figured we would pay for it one way or other.
The roads were great, like I told you, till Lusk and then the Stephen King novel we drove through in the Black Hills.
Monument to almost Fort Collins was a different kind of pucker-string drive, would rather never do that again either...
We got home to 8 inches of snow in the driveway--they "forecast" 1-3. Nothing changes. I noticed no apocalyptic snow disasters on the Denver radar this morning, nary a cloud in the sky, though they all but guaranteed 5 feet by Sunday. I'll wait here.... :eusa_whistle:
Spring must be here because we had to run the AC for the first time today. 86 degrees and humid, sun is out, and the oak pollen is gently turning the entire city yellow...
We are roughly at 6" heading for 12-24", and the wind is starting to pickup, running about 20 right now. I was skeptical, but my luck they are going to error only on the timing this time.
Spring - like weather here. Way too warm for this time of year.....gonna mess with the farmers, and if we don't get some moisture in the ground post thaw, it will be tinder dry, and ripe for wild fires.....
Well we got walloped, started out as cold drizzle rain Saturday, got almost an inch, had about 12" of snow once it turned through Sat evening, stopped during the night melted all but a couple inches , Sunday morning it started up again with wind this time, I think we had 18" more, but it melted down to around 12- 15" as far as I could tell, heavy wet cement type stuff drifted a little but not much being so heavy, so some 30" piles in places. Then it froze over night turning the top into a crust. Could not hardly walk in the stuff, tractors front wheels don't roll, they just push a path busting chunks out like an icebreaker. Then we we were blessed with 4 more inches of fluffy stuff yesterday and last night on top to bury all the tracks and hide everything I had dug out. So a real total of nearly 3' though its 'only' about knee deep. Fortunately the cows have crossed their legs so far so I have not had to deal with calves yet, but anytime now.
During all of this our internet went out Friday, came back yesterday for a bit then went out again, and right now is sloooow. :eusa_wall:
To top all that off 1st thing this morning, I look out to see a RAV4 stopped in front of the house on the road, someone followed GPS "to get to Cheyenne" down these county roads that are barely passable to 100hp tractors. She high centered and was digging, so I did my good deed and got a tractor running and pulled her out and bladed a path back to the highway, all before coffee. :icon_confused:
Yeah, those roads...It reminded me of those old movies from the twenties and thirties, Model T pickups and such stirring mud rivers into deeper mud rivers. You folks would really benefit from crushed asphalt, we put it in our driveway for the same reason. That stuff drains, doesn't pond up or turn to muck, worth every $40 yard...
We have snow pellet "drizzles" right now, though they predicted 40s and light rain. 60 by Saturday, if you believe they can actually forecast that far.... :icon_confused:
I did see a pic of a neighborhood in Cheyenne yesterday morning, looked to be +/- 3 feet, and some are demanding a disaster declaration...that town sure got light in the loafers since I lived there...
We are on the other side of bizarre weather......deep into Spring at least a month too early. Motorcycles and bikes are out....some kids are wearing shorts....
Somewhere between me and you, Honcho, there has to be a happy medium with normal weather!
Having said that, I would not be at all surprised if we get another dump of snow.....I'm not pulling the snow tires off yet.....
Stay tuned.......
The Chinook has arrived, and I don't mean the neat two-paddled military models. It's really roaring outside.
And the maples have started to run early. That's NOT a good sign if we get any hard freezes in the next two months. Last time we had weather like this the ensuing freeze took all the new leaves and it didn't green back up until well into June...
Unfortunately there is no crushed asphalt around here, at least competitive to gravel. They have been reusing it as road base when they repave the roads so there is no piles of it to crush. But we do have a gravel pit a mere 70 miles away, so we get red crushed rock, which we have done in the yard, I think we have had around 3 or 4 belly dumps worth over the years, so the base is fairly solid. The roads though, if they have gravel, the maintainers seem see how fast they can scrape it off after they spread it out.
This snow was so wet, that when it gets warm it melts but doesn't really shrink, great for the grass, annoying to try and feed anything in. Looks like we get a cool down and a little more of it as well this coming week.
We're finally getting a good soaker here, looks like a pretty big weather system. The weather hawn-yawks have set up the sensitivity on their radar to where it all looks like downpours (deep reds, oranges, purple), but it isn't doing that at all.
I overseeded some bare spots in the lawn just a couple days ago, timing is everything...
"They" predict snow for next Monday... :P
Day 2 of same. I failed to put the guage out yet, so I can only guess at how much has fallen, but we did need the moisture...
We are on the roller coaster, 70 to even 80, then 40 to 50 and rain or snow showers, next day back up again. I am not throwing my arms up and going weeee!
Thirty days ago we were at -4, Today we hit 92?
January was typical winter, with less snowfall than usual..
February was freekin' cold and windy.....
March was surprisingly warm and mild..most all the snow melted
April continued that trend.........until last night! We had a dump of wet, wet snow!!😱
We're told to hunker for three days of your snow, Nony.
Now why you go and do that for? :eusa_doh:
My momma always taught me to "share, and sharealike"
😃
We got an inch of much needed rain today! Had about 15 minutes of pea size hail too. Thankfully it wasn't bigger or last longer.
The sun finally came out today! Hadn't seen it since Tuesday, when it started raining. Finished up late last night with 7 inches total.
Wow, we had just over an inch last weekened, this we nearly hit 90, but are in the 50s today, not much rain though. Despite a big late snow and the rain, we are borderline dry already. We should have had a good soaker yesterday, but only got a few drops despite some heavy clouds rolling through.
Probably my fault, I put up a new rain gauge. :eusa_doh:
That will do it, but you can counter act it by hand washing and waxing a vehicle!
Our last measurable precip was around the 12th of April.
We. Be. Dry.
I can hardly get a spade to bite the concrete our topsoil has become, I'm supposed to be transplanting spruce & basswood trees this week.
We were starting to get that way, lots of talk of drought still, but we got about 8/10s over a couple days of drizzle, so its pretty damp right now. Good timing for grass and new planted hay etc. for a change
Hmph! .......not impressed.....
Quote. A large area of rain will develop Tuesday over central and northern Alberta. Starting Tuesday evening, cold air from the Northwest Territories will move southward, causing rain to switch over to snow. At this time, snowfall amounts remain uncertain as ground temperatures are quite warm.
I think we are done with snow, though they are still getting it pretty low to the west of us, but its been cloudy and damp, yet no rain to speak of, not that we are dry yet. Could be a turn in the pattern, though they say we are in for more cloudy cool and damp except for Thur, clear into the weekend I don't see a lot of rain, most of it is staying south. This part of the country can turn dry and hot like throwing a switch so I think we are all just kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop to see if we are over the drought or not. We had a good start at least.
Well, she's a-snowin' ! About 7 hours ahead of schedule....wet goopy stuff.
Tomorrow should be fun!
I saw that blue patch over Edmonton on the radar yesterday. My dad once told me that he's seen in snow in northern MN in every month of the year...We had snow in Cheyenne in July once, there's a memory... :sadness:
With it being so dry here I'm amazed how much it's greening up. The turf is like concrete. I've done two really good cuttings of asparagus and will need to do a third in a day or so. There's obviously moisture being tapped, I just don't know where from.
Supposed to get thunderstorms tonight and for the next 4 or 5 days, so just in case I'm putting the garden in early (end of May is normal here). I know I'm guaranteeing a hard frost by doing this, but I can't help myself....
Difference a day makes. Half inch in the gauge, supposed to come off and on into the weekend. I actually got 4 rows of peppers and *yikes* 4 rows of onions in before it was time for an adult beverage. The tomatoes went in the day before. I have yet to transplant trees.
It actually thundered for the first time this year. It just sounded good.
Yeah, we had our 1st honest thunderstorm of the year roll through, big fat cold drops and some scattered marble size hail, not much to account for anything besides wind.
Yeah, the wind. It won't quit, been a constant 15-30 mph for four days. Was NOT in the brochure, but I should have expected it.
Our gauge finally got to a full inch. Expecting more because "they" say there will be. All I do know is that it's going to blow...
You never know what you will get, they predicted partly cloudy and chances of T storms, so far we have had fog which gradually lifted some and became low solid over cast with about 80% humidity and about 55 so far.
It's been raining here since we got back from Florida. 9 inches in the past three days and it's still coming down. I heard a rumor this is all supposed to end early next week, but for now I'll have to wait a few days for the mud to subside and for the ground to get dry enough to cut the grass.... :disgust:
At least it isn't cold.
Not much different up here Jaime, we have had 11 inches in the last 3 weeks, and it has been cloudy and drizzly here all day with some showers moving through.
And here us in the lush farmland of the sticks of MN have had an inch of rain in two months. OK, 1.4 inches.
Haven't even seen a mosquito yet.
Try to stay dry, guys. Anyone heard if Roger and Joyce are still above water?
After our surprise snow fall, it has been fairly dry and incredibly windy!
We got a taste of late spring yesterday. Started it was fairly warm in the 70s, but cloudy, almost drizzle, sultry, sticky and breezy. It felt unsettled. By 10 am the tornado watch was out, by noon warnings were happening. We missed most of the excitement, but 20 miles north and south got a little thrill of tornados on the ground, no damage that I have heard, mostly were out in the open. A cell that passed east of us through Scottsbluff left some tennisball hail, but not in town. We had some marble sized, but not much, and some rain, we had a 1/2" fall in about 30 minutes, then continued to rain off and on to give an 1" total. If that's the worst we get, I'll take it.
If any of you want any of that rain stuff, come and get it. Started raining about 1000 this morning and hasn't stopped. I can't see the grass in the back yard because it's all under water, and there's a pretty good imitation of a river running into the storm drain out front. This is the kind of storm that worries me - it may be good for the drought and all my freeze damaged plants, but people are going to be swimming out of their homes in the low lying areas tonight. The rain gauge overflowed again, so there's been at least 4-5 inches here at the house today.
It always amazes me to hear about that much rain. 1 time the whole time we lived here, heck for that matter my entire life, we have seen 8" of rain from one storm, and that was over about 3 days. It had water across roads and fields flooded etc that I have never seen. Hilariously, the county to address the drainage problem at out intersection and the one to the east of us that both had water covering the road for a week after, instead of putting a new culvert in, put up a sign that says "high water". I can count on about 3 fingers the times we have seen 5" or so in one shot. In fact IIRC in 2012 that was about our total rainfall for the year. And it seems you guys down there get that kind of rain regularly. Do you have to keep moving to avoid moss growing on you? :disturbed:
I guess I'd take 9" over tis:
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I just got the garden in, against my better instincts. Some days you grow food, some days you let the grocery store do it...
Oh, and they say the wind will quit just in time for Friday morning's event...
That much rain all at once still amazes me, too. Being a desert rat, my idea of a lot of rain was 6-8 inches per year. Here we sometimes get that much in a day. There will be mud and mosquitos for the foreseeable future....
And the weather guessers say it's not quite over yet. :sadness:
Woke up to thunder boomers again this morning..... another 1.7 inches. Under severe thunderstorm warnings now, with flash flood warnings, golf ball size hail, 60 mph winds, heavy rain.
So then, frost last Friday, this week they claim we'll see 100.
Don't like the weather in MN?
Wait a minute...
New forecast. I'd rather have Carl's rain...
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Peppers pretty much shut down @ 90 degrees. Peppers is what I grow most of. Ask the Buckaroo...
Corn & 'maters will love it, I guess.
Yeah that's wild, we are supposed to be mid 90s come Saturday, but mostly in the 80s. I started cutting hay today, it was plenty wet underneath still.
Quote from: stetto on June 02, 2021, 09:08:55 AM
New forecast. I'd rather have Carl's rain...
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Peppers pretty much shut down @ 90 degrees. Peppers is what I grow most of. Ask the Buckaroo...
Corn & 'maters will love it, I guess.
Gaaaa! I feel your pain, Stetto... we are showing 108 on our back deck.
Us polar vortex bears can't take that kind of heat! 🥵
Whoa that's serious heat. :eek5: We are getting our shock, going from the pleasant to cool at times low 70s jumping to mid 90s starting tomorrow, and then stay 90 for the next 7 or so they say right now.
We are only supposed to be in the 80's for the next ten days or so, with a chance of rain everyday, Got another 1/2 inch yesterday morning!
Same here, Carl. Been raining the past two days with more on the way. The Bomber Field Warbird Fly-in scheduled for this weekend was postponed because half the field is under water.
But at least we aren't roasting like Stetto is. Not yet, anyway..... :disturbed:
T-storms and rain scheduled for the next 2 days. That'll cool us down.......!
Quote from: balsum fractus on June 04, 2021, 08:19:26 AM
T-storms and rain scheduled for the next 2 days. That'll cool us down.......!
Boy, do I wish. We're usually in the 70s here until just before the 4th o' July, when it'll climb into the 80s or so til the middle of August. Field crops seem to love this. There are claims of "possible" "isolated" showers next week, not enough to keep me from a constant tax on the well....Odd season, indeed... :sadness:
Forecast was bang on! We got a downpour with sound and lighting effects.....ground was so dry, it soaked it all up..... more on the way.
I'm not complaining......I appreciate the drop in temperature!
Almost two inches last night. I feel so special.
Another 1/2 inch yesterday morning, 1 2/10ths this morning.
Nada drop, breezy and 95+ since last Thur. Been threatening some storms, nut most have dissipated or went around, which is fine, knee deep in haying right now.
No rain for the last few days, it's cloudy, though. 92 degrees yesterday and the humidity is about 114%. All the standing water in the back yard finally dried out and we now have mud runs where the dogs have been doing laps along the fence.
Oh, and hurricane season started.....
Quote from: Onepoint on June 08, 2021, 07:59:54 PM
Nada drop, breezy and 95+ since last Thur. Been threatening some storms, nut most have dissipated or went around, which is fine, knee deep in haying right now.
Do NOT grow peppers. They quit at 90+ and it takes a week to talk them into continuing once (if?) the temps moderate. I got no clue how they get them Hatch chiles to grow and produce under these conditions...
Very moist here....good for growing moss and incubating mosquitos. Lots of wind too......from every direction.
It reminds me of living on the coast with the cool, wet air blowing in off the Pacific.....
Ugh, bringing the heat here, been mid to high 90s and breezy all last week, this coming week triple digits, maybe as high as 105 on Tue or Wed they said last night. Not a drop of rain in sight, kind of getting to be groundhog day drought summers. :icon_frown:
Two 100 degree days in a row. A little cooler today, only 93 right now, but there's supposed to be a "cool" front coming. That ought to get us down to 92 or so.... :disturbed:
We hit 100 yesterday, 101 right now, have a 15 mph breeze and some clouds showing up now, so it goes from oven to tolerable and back again. Assuming I have not withered away by then, they are forecasting some 80s toward the weekend. I don't how people can live in such frigid conditions as that after the last couple days, but I guess I can dig out the winter coats.
Three hours ago it was still 93 degrees. Now it's pouring rain and 74 degrees.
So the power people who mismanaged everything back in February are now telling us to conserve power by not using the AC as much. At least we won't freeze to death this time....
Rain, I vaguely remember that. That's the like thge white stuff that's more wet right?
we got two inches of rain at the house last night. Now it's 99 degrees with 121% humidity again. More rain possible tonight.
Happy Fathers Day, group.
We're having a welcome and needed all-day slow soaker. Up to a half inch @ 11:00 am, won't likely make it to an inch, but we take what we get.
Warm and dry for us, which is at least welcome from the hot and dry we have had. Not really wanting any "showers" because they have been coming with Ping-Pong size or better pellet form "rain" that they have been getting them around us. Can surely use some rain though, amazing what 3 weeks of 90s and triple digits does.
We are at the leading edge of a heat wave....way up into the 90's - far above my heat tolerance level!! Others may scoff, but at least we have water and electricity.....
Got the ac fixed on my wife's car a week ago after not having it for almost 2 years. The timing could not have been better!!
Hope everyone else is coping!
We are kind of on a roller coaster again, we actually had a 1/2" of gentle rain the night before last and cooled off to 80 for a day, jumped back to the high 90s, maybe triple digits today, and hot again for a day or so, then drop back down to 70s and possibly more rain or sever weather into next week.
Been a weird year for weather so far, we have dodged the bullet so far, but the hit or miss of this stuff is truly unpredictable.
I guess the significant part of your weather report is that you have to go outside and work in that heat! Myself, I can barely function, let alone do anything productive! My hat is off to you! If that were me, my family would have starved long ago...........
Meh, you just get up early try to cram everything in a couple hours, and then go hide in the middle of the day mostly. It gets pretty quiet in the neighborhood when its midday and scorching.
H-h-h-hot !!!!!
Normally 70-ish this time of year....this week we are going to see the wrong side of 100!!
Uncomfortable, but we will figure out how to cope with it !
After our sizzlefest of triple digits, we cooled off nicely, been 70s and 80s with a little rain even. Been nice, in fact not supposed to get hot again for a while. Whacky weather this year.
About to get 5 days of mid-90s with 80% humm-idity.
Don't forget, this Saturday, starting around 4:00. We'll have cool beverages and tater salad and a loud blues-rock band to keep you distracted from the afore-mentioned 90s...
We finally got our first rain since middle to late June. Got fairly lucky in having almost an inch in about 20 minutes and little hail with it, some places have got some tennis ball sized "rain", so I have not minded missing that. Of course the down side is I had to cut some hay to make that happen. :eusa_wall:
It's rained every day for the last five days, total of about 6 inches. Then it clears and gets hot for the morning and early afternoon before it starts raining again. Makes it a little steamy....
Yeah, we been really humid here too, about 40% during the dry part of the day, I thought I was going to die as no one can sweat that much and still have water in them. We don't consider it 'dry air' until its hits single digits normally.
Being a native desert rat, that humidity thing goes against every grain in my body. Yardwork is an excuse for getting soaking wet, even in the evenings when the sun is behind the trees and it's a degree or two under the high temp for the day.
That's why this place is known as "Corrosion Corner".
Hot and smoky up here from all the wildfires in BC..
Not very comfortable outside!
Here too, though our smoke is from Manitoba/Ontario.
High 80s & mugggggggggy.
40 percent humidity? Tell him Jaime... that's a dry winter day down south... Especially in Houston!! :icon_cool:
Hey we are 53% this morning, its like a sauna. :icon_lol: Its been humid compared to what we usually are but still little rain, supposedly we are supposed to be in our monsoon, but the moisture that is dragged up from the gulf and lower west coat of Baja but the jet is cut off, part of the drought I suppose. A week coming of high 90s to triples and no rain so they say. You can tell its a drought because Frontier Days starts this week, normally that would mean wet weather, instead of blistery hot.
We go from 90% PLUS to 30% in the course of a day. The 30% is rarely during a useful time of that day.
Suns not up yet (whats up wit dat? :sadness:) and its wet out and 77% and 70ddegrees. Kind of makes it hard to do hay when its sopping wet every morning.
Yeh, right now (9:00 am) we're 78° and 73%.
It's a little cool here at 11:30am. Only 77 degrees but humidity is 90%. It's been raining every day here for near a month now, sometimes we get 90/90 or 90/100 on those days when it rains with the sun shining.
QuoteHey we are 53% this morning, its like a sauna.
Sauna? Don't need those around here, all you have to do is walk outside! And to think there are people who pay for that experience... :disturbed:
Power was out for about 8 hours yesterday afternoon. Transformer exploded, got replaced and blew up again. Fortunately, we had some cloud cover for most of the afternoon, and the added insulation and new windows in the house paid for themselves, so it didn't get too bad inside.
94 degrees, 55% humidity right now. Feels like 103 outside...
Hey Greg, where are you living these days? Sounds like you're not too far from this part of the swamp...
I'm still over here in the soggy Georgia woods about 30 miles south of Atlanta city limits. I'm starting an involuntary mushroom farm. Rain, rain and more rain. Rained a solid 12 hours last night into this morning and more on the way this afternoon and through the rest of the week..
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I'm still over here in the soggy Georgia woods about 30 miles south of Atlanta city limits. I'm starting an involuntary mushroom farm. Rain, rain and more rain. Rained a solid 12 hours last night into this morning and more on the way this afternoon and through the rest of the week..
I was going to ask the same question....I forgot where you hung your hat 😃
It's raining! It's raining!
Our hot, dry, windy heat wave is over (for now..) we were not in as bad a shape as the west coast, but the coolness is refreshing......and the vegetation is getting a good watering.
"They" have been promising thunderstorms for over a week now......it finally happened tonight!
A brief reprieve.....we'll see what tomorrow brings.....
Great! And the sun rose here this morning. That's just to make sure the sauna doesn't go cold though.
Hit 100 a little earlier today, 98 with 55% humidity right now.
Greg, I guess your part of the swamp isn't all that different from mine apart from suburbs trying to secede from Atlanta! Or maybe not, lots of people I know (including myself) aren't too crazy about Houston, either!
We actually have returned to livable conditions, I have even been seen outside in the middle of the day from time to time. 90 or so, humidity down in the low 20s and a breeze. Supposed to change back to the oven next week I hear, predicting more triple digit temps.
Man has it been scorching the last couple days, we bounced around 103 for a bit, but it was 100 starting about 11 yesterday and was still 90 at sunset. Now they say we are hot today again, but chance of storms, severe of course, and then cool off to mid 80s for a few days. Any rain will help, I got like 30% of second cutting just because its been so hot and dry and I could not get across it all with irrigation water before it was too far gone.
We are on the leading edge of another heat wave.....nothing like you are having, but hot for us!
We're back into the 80s for a week or so. Still no rain here. It seems to dry up as it gets within 50 miles or so.
But the creepin charlie, quackgrass, dandelions and thistle love it dry, so I still mow.
Have had a couple of 100 degree days here. I was at Bomber Field yesterday for the rescheduled June fly-in and it was miserable hot, looking forward to cooler temps for the September and October events.
It's been clouding up in the late afternoon,, but no rain so far.
Same here, still relative high humidity, getting a lot of moisture from the south, just nothing making rain much. Had a storm roll through a couple nights ago, barely got the concrete damp. Yet every morning there is a lot of dew, which is unusual if its hot. I have to say the last couple days we have been in the 80s which has been a huge relief from the high 90s and triples we had for 2 weeks. Unfortunately we have a lot of smoke from the western states and now a local fire.
Officially one month since our last single drop of rain. The ground here is crunchy and beginning to develop some nice fissures.
The field corn across the road has developed the classic leaf curl of a drying, failing crop. Sad too, the stalks were getting impressive, at +/- 10 foot.
Our well is 485 feet deep, that's a hefty tab if it dries up and needs redrilled...
We finally got a rain yesterday, a quick deluge of about a half inch in a thunderstorm. I went back and looked, our last measurable rain was 6/23. Now they say we are back in the heat for a few days again after today.
Bridesmaid here, checking in with another no rain report. Plenty coming down north, west, east and south of us though. I guess that should make me feel better.
At least we're done with hot/humid for now.
Usually about mid August, it starts cooling down and some trees actually start turning color.....this year is no exception....we are about 15 degrees cooler with a forecasted trend to stay that way for the foreseeable future....
So, if this trend wanders down south, you guys may get some relief...
Triple digits today, in fact we have some odd dry thunderstorms rolling through right now. Wind, and dark clouds, not a drop of rain but some thunder and still 93 degrees. I saw on the news yesterday that someone in NE had hail with no rain, some pretty good sized hail they said, like some was golf ball, but not a drop with it, it was hitting the county road and making big dust puffs, truly bizarre.
But some Canuck air coming down about Thursday is going to being some relief, maybe even a little wet with it they say.
They said it was going to be big change and it was, after being over 100 a couple days ago, Wed night had a thunderstorm roll through and give us a pounding, 60 mph gusts with driving rain, gave us near a 1/2" in 10 minutes, and another quarter in the hour after, was cool most of the day and cloudy but the rain didn't show up like they said Thursday, but today we wake up to nice gentle rain that shows about a half inch already and looks like it will keep for for at least another hour or more. Man did we need it too.
Well it would have been better about 2 weeks ago, before I was dragging pipe around trying to get fields wet trying to get fields wet, and could have done without the micro burst that knocked trees over on our Ranger and the fence in the pasture.
That same system is going right past my house, about 20 miles west of me. Lightning, thunder, nice show, lots of rain, storms travelling north-northwest...20 miles west.
But the day is young, yes?
October came early this month - cold, wet, rainy, and windy!!!
We're finally getting our first all-day soaker of the season.
And here I was, about to put the mower up for sale.
Hot, hot and more hot. Been in the upper 90s for the past week, though it's doing the lightning and thunder thing outside right now. So far, it's all show and no rain. But is has been getting a little cooler when the sun starts going down. Hoping the cool arrives in time for the Bomber Field B-17 event in a couple of weeks.
We bounce between mid to high 90s and 80s, missing most of the rain still, had one day that felt pretty dang fallish.
I could kick myself, I had the water shut off for a few days so I can catch up cutting hay, had plenty of time and still totally missed the legends tour last weekend in Scottsbluff. Fifi the Super fort and Diamond Lil the B-24 was there. :eusa_doh:
Been feeling kind of fallish, yesterday we got to 80 by late afternoon, after being cool and cloudy all morning and finally clearing out a little, but was short lived after clouds moved in again and became breezy and damp, ended up getting 3/10" from a thunderstorm, but the air just feels like fall and days are certainly shorter.
It hasn't been below 80 here in a week. Looking forward to another week of near 100 degree temps, but the weather guessers assure us the humidity is lower, like 49% instead of 50....
Well, I think hell froze over last night. 68 degrees when I went out this morning, and the humidity was, and I'm not making this up, 28%. That either means fall is right around the corner or something really bad is going to happen.... :eek5:
We go from low 50s and 70% or more humidity at night, to mid 80s and 20% in the day, with the day highs fluctuating into the mid to high 90s a couple days a week. But I suspect we will get a real taste of fall before long.
Had a big system roll up from Montana overnight.....lots of rain.....everything is soggy wet. Even today, it is not quite raining, but the humidity is about 120% with the temps only 40 degrees.....
Cold and damp!!!
We have yet to see that, I suspect we will go from our 90s straight into freezing weather but stay mostly dry until this drought breaks. We hit 100 day before yesterday again.
At least it was good weather for an Airshow.
Still no frost here, none forecast. The peppers love it.
Sposed to get that rain mañana, but temps stay good.
I mowed. Gonna rain. It's the way of things...
Another tropical storm come and gone, pretty much a non event where I am. We got about two inches of rain, and it's a little windy, but not bad. Best part is that it hasn't even gotten close to 90 today, hovering in the high 70s at the moment.
Our scheduled frost for tomorrow night was called off for some reason. And here I was going out to pull all the peppers...
We are supposed to get into the 30s tonight, unlikely to frost yet though, but sure was cool today, 60s most of the day with some light showers. They had said we were going to see some more 90 degree stuff come the weekend, but I saw they revised that down to 80s. Looks like it may get to be fall yet.
The nice weather finally arrived! Highs in the mid 80s, got down to 57 last night. Low humidity, nice breeze out of the north. Hoping this lasts until next May....
Well that was a quick fall. We had some rain finally, but a couple inches of wind driven snow with it night before last, west and north an hour or so had close to a foot, almost 2 up north in spots. Looking back a couple posts I was right unfortunately, straight from 90s, which we hit just a couple weeks ago to lows down into the 20s last couple nights, and highs in the 50s. Supposed to be nice this weekend, back in the 70s, but another front coming early next week. I don't mind the moisture, but can we get it in liquid form for a bit? Well that's a enough whining, I have to hug the wood stove for comfort now.
Dang. I saw the news footage. Odd year for having weather, I guess.
We here in the Arctic Vortex are expecting our first actual frost tomorrow morning. Temps have been s l o w l y trending cooler, but for the now-and-then days in the mid 70s. I'll be picking the last of the chiles and bell peppers today, along with the last of the Serranos. Then I till and put the for sale sign on the tiller.
T turned the furnace on for the first time last night. It was like some kind of rite of passage.
First frost last night, but the days have been warm ( for this time of year) and sunny. Still have one strawberry trying to ripen............
I think hell froze over again last night. It's 60 degrees right now on the way to 73 for the high. Caught me off guard because I can't find my parka and mukluks!
😱 oh nooooo! Better throw another couple of logs on the fire!!
However will you make it through? I suppose you could break up furniture for a camp fire. We are supposed to have a heat wave of low 70s the next couple days. I just wish the 'normal' would ever be the weather we get. Instead of her cousin, Abby.
"A sedagive!??"
😃
:icon_lol: " Sank you hel doctor"
QuoteHowever will you make it through?
I have no freakin' idea. It was 55 this morning and those missing mukluks are starting to be an issue. Our fireplace is pretty much non functional, so I thought I'd put the fire pit thingie from the backyard into the living room. My Yankee wife was not amused and promptly opened all the windows in the house. Now she's complaining about trees not changing color. Have no idea what that's all about....
Heh, well thoughts and prayers etc. :icon_lol:
"Some varm milk?"
😃
Well, it warmed up into the high 70's, so the better half made me put the fire pit thingie back outside. Still haven't found the missing mukluk, but I bought a bunch of wool socks and my parka is ready just in case it drops below 70 again. Never can be too careful about stuff like that.
I know you are not used to extreme weather like this, but as a precaution, you should get your garage to put winter air in your tires......😁.....otherwise you would have to plug in your tire chains, and fill your block heater with antifreeze!
.......you're welcome! ...just another service that we offer 😂
Make sure you have the winter version of blinker fluid as well. Nothing worse than the blinker getting froze in one direction, happens to them older folks all the time around here who obviously overlooked that..
Good point! I forgot about that!!
I don't know if you can get winter air down here unless you import it from Yankee land, and it might cost a fortune because there are no truck drivers to ship it. My air compressor is definitely a summer version, wonder if there's a conversion kit?
Is the winter blinker fluid blue or pink?
What are "tire chains"?
Winter false alarm. Got wet and muggy this morning, then a cool front came through and now it's 72 degrees and severe clear. Still have the parka standing by,, but Pat won't let me bring the fire pit thingie back inside. I think it had something to do with the smoke, but I'm not sure.
When are you moving down here, Stetto?
Surprisingly mild, warm and sunny up here. Leaves are all off the trees. We are all ready for the next season......even got the Christmas lights up (but not turned on!)..
Bring it on!
Quote from: jetmex on October 27, 2021, 01:48:25 PM
When are you moving down here, Stetto?
Hmm, a lot later than I wish. BTW, I did wish in one hand this morning, but the other part I'm still trying to rationalize in my head...
But I am going to be halfways closer to Baird than I am now... :eusa_dance:
I think that ultimately T & I will wind up selling t-shirts in Port A and asking the tourists if "Y'all gone stay?"
Quote from: jetmex on October 20, 2021, 04:09:20 PM
What are "tire chains"?
Well, some of my best friends are yankees so l'll help you out. They steal a lot up there and if you don't chain them tars, guess what? They'll be gone in the mornin' sure as shootin'! That's what they told me anyway..
I'll come down and buy a t-shirt or two from ya, Stetto. Hurry up and come on down before winter arrives... :disturbed:
Greg, why didn't some one tell me about those tar chains? Turns out I had one, but I've been using it to keep the hood on my Chevy peekup shut... :icon_mrgreen:
Really windy here today, gusting 30-45 mph. Had a few gusts up to 60 mph yesterday, and the parka is coming back out because the temps are supposed to be down to the 50's tonight.
We had an absolutely gorgeous day today, mid 70s, mild breeze. Of course I had to be busy doing all the stuff I put off doing when it was hot 'before the bad weather comes', now that its that time of year I tried to play catch up in one day. And we are going to pay for it it seems, predicting highs in the 30s this weekend. And here I was minding my own business enjoying a mild fall. :eusa_doh:
Wet, chilly and just general yuckiness here all day. Upper 40s.
Got into the mid 50s yesterday, supposed to again tomorrow. Good thing too: I'm painting outside.
House goes on the market on Monday. It's not ready, nor am I.
SPECIAL NEWS BULLETIN:
........no snow yet!!
Unbelievably mild for this time of year!
We are getting extended fall. A year ago we were -10, we were 70 the same week this year, we did have a couple inches of snow and miserable weather, but it gave way to some really pleasant 60s and 70s. I hope it holds for a bit yet while we finish moving my mother.
It's the good time here. Lows in the upper 40's, highs in the low to mid 70's. Gotta have the parka in the morning, but as soon as the sun clears the trees, it's back to t-shirts. Going to the RC show and fly-in at Round Top, TX, this weekend, hope this weather holds up!
I guess we won't be beating the snow. They aren't estimating depth (mostly because they can't), but a "major" is supposed to come in as rain this morning and turn to the frozen stuff tonight/tomorrow, then into Friday.
And my lawn tractor sits out by the road with a for sale sign on it...
We have not had any major storms yet, we get a weekly shot of cool damp and wind, and the average temps seem to be falling off pretty quick week to week, gonna miss those 60s and 70s. Knock on wood it holds out for another couple weeks or so.
So much for our blissfully mild fall.......first blizzard of the year stuck overnight. Our neighbors on the left coast are getting flooded by rain and overflowing rivers. A couple of towns have been evacuated, highways washed out, mud slides, etc.....
Wind. Snot. Above freezing, so snot on the ground too.
This move is going to be messy.
Dry, warm and windy so far, hit 70 yesterday with 50 mph wind, which did not help contain a wildfire just east of us, again. Hope that holds for another week or so, then most of my moving is done and it will be just driving down to finish clean up and do meetings.
Warm (relatively speaking) and soggy yesterday...lots of slush and melting snow. Today, much colder, with a wicked north wind blowing!
Normally November and February are our coldest months with temps plummeting to 30-40 below. Not anywhere near that yet....thank goodness!
Mild here, thank God. Gonna dip for the holiday then rebound a bit. The PuddinFace has been taunting us with the 60s we're missing in the Springs, drat that mean-spirited child.
Six days. I can do six days.... :eusa_wall:
Whoa! When I said "dip", I thought teens or single digits, but it's -1° this morning, first below zero of the season.
They forecast 30s & 40s for the rest of the week, which will make loading on Monday a much more tolerable chore.
It was about 60 when I loaded out mom's final load on Tuesday, yesterday we unloaded, stared out about 40 with a stiff breeze, was down in the low 30s and spitting snow by the time we were done. Still not going to complain, not one time did I have to fight slick roads or wet weather and it's done. back to mid 50s today 60s tomorrow and looks like we run a temp roller coaster from 40s to near 60s for the next week or so. I am going to start worrying if we don't get winter at some point.
Wet and cold here, started out in the 60's and dropped after the cold front went through mid morning. Been raining most of the day, but it looks like the worst of it has passed and it will just be chilly for a few days.
They're having a blizzard in the town I moved away from last week. It was 65° here today.
Kinda brings the idea of divine providence home, don't it now... :notworthy:
I guess you timed that right, about a 20 mph breeze and was snowing here today. Kind of hard to stomach after the record 76 we had the day before yesterday.
Jack Frost made an appearance overnight, and he took away all the temperature!! Brrrrrr........
Yeah, I spoke too soon. 18° this morning.
Honcho, did you unpin this thread? Just wondering........
Not on purpose if I did.
It's been a beautiful couple of weeks here, high temps in the 70's and low 80's. We got some rain yesterday, and it was 55 this morning, but otherwise not bad at all. The cold front coming at the end of the week will drop the highs into the 60's. And I still haven't found my mukluks. I do have some Carhartt's now, though....
Would y'all please keep all that winter stuff up north? Had enough of that last year!
Heh, what good is it to be wealthy in something if you can't share with friends. :disturbed:
Oh you mean I've bee filthy rich with winter weather all these years???
There is more wealth falling from the sky, as we speak..............
Freezing rain night before last....laminated everything with ice. Warmed up enough during the day to melt the top layer, which froze again overnight, making everything nice and slippery....
Lots of fun trying to walk the dog on a leash!
We may be getting some of that. Started drizzling about 3, tuned to freezing rain and then snow, but the ground is still warm so its melting some, come tomorrow morning when it's in the teens it's going to be fun. I bet the handles are frozen on everything and the porch is going to be treacherous. Calling for 5" for us, so nothing too severe, though they are calling for 30mph tomorrow to pile it up inconveniently.
I have never seen the ice so bad! The roads are okay - they got right on top of them.......but sidewalks, parking lots, and driveways are glare ice! Why, I can even do the entire Ice Capades show just trying to walk down my driveway....
No, there is no road salt to be had anywhere............
Sorry for you guys and your ice capades, it's been comparitively tropical here in the Springs.
Lows 20s to 30s, dry, highs mid 40s to mid 50s.
When I said "dry", that's the downside. 15% humidity has my sinuses swollen and my ecxema acting up.
Bought a humidifier yesterday, our other is in storage in Fargo, waiting on a driver to volunteer. They said another 10 days "or so".
Well the major winter storm was a bust, for us anyway, a couple inches, and lots of wind and cold, but not too bad today. Up north a little ways they got it pretty good though, 60 mph wind really makes a mess of fresh snow.
So......if you didn't get a foot of snow last night, your welcome........we took it for you!😁
C-c-c-cold and sunny tomorrow, then more snow.......
We didn't, supposed to get some flurries and showers today, but some hurricane wind to go with, none of which has shown up yet. Not sure who to thank for that either way.
Oh yeah, windy here, straight out of the north. The front yard is full of very large tree branches, one came down right behind me as I tried to salvage what mail hadn't blown away yet. About 4" at the butt and 12 feet long, it missed me by maybe two seconds. It came straight down, too.
It's a prize winner, that's the truth.
82 degrees and cloudy today. Wind is pretty gusty, but at least it's from the south and not from that northern polar vortex that never seems to go away. We just got back from Florida, and it was about the same out there, just a little wetter. Lots of people out there going to be spending Christmas on the beach, I suspect!
Quote. Warnings
3:40 PM MST Thursday 16 December 2021
Extreme Cold Warning in effect for:
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park
Extreme wind chill values of -40 to -45 will affect most of central and northern Alberta tonight. The Peace region could be affected by wind chills as low as -50.
I look forward to staying inside for this one!!
Eewwww, no thanks, it was actually OK today, only got to around 40, but it was calm and felt downright balmy after yesterday and the hurricane force dirt blizzard so many saw.
Quote. 3:39 PM MST Saturday 25 December 2021
Extreme Cold Warning in effect for:
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park
Extreme cold wind chill values are expected into next week. The coldest wind chill values will be between minus 40 and minus 50.
......anyone wanna trade location?
Sorry Nony, we just got here, haven't even found the local Krispie Kreme yet....
Or else I would've....said no thanks anyway. We got daily hi temps in the 50s, plenty chill for me....
Quote......anyone wanna trade location?
Uhhh.......no.
80 degrees here yesterday, cloudy and 72 right now. There's another cold front coming later that's supposed to drop us into the mid 60's, though. Not quite parka weather, but close! :icon_mrgreen:
Yeah, solid nope from me as well. I whine about going outside when the windchill gets to the singles on the plus side as it is.
The only real downside to this beautiful weather is that even this late into December, I'm still having to mow grass. Dueling lawnmowers is not exactly what might be considered Christmas music.
I'm thinking about asking Texas A&M to come down here and make my yard a study project on about how many different weed species can exist together in a suburban back yard...
Uhg, I'm not seeing any 50 and 60s in the forecast, even long range. Looks like 20s are 30s are the rule now. We are dry, one barely measurable snow since 1st of Oct, and it looks it, we are crunchy dry. And so far doesn't look too promising, we have settled into a pattern of 20 to 30mph constant wind broken by occasion hurricane force stuff ahead of fronts coming through, several places have seen gusts in the 90s, some even had 115 mph gusts last week, mostly west and along the I-80/ I-25 corridors, but we have had a couple days I saw some 50s on my anemometer which is somewhat protected depending which way its blowing. Not much fun here right now for sure.
84 degrees today, supposedly set a record for the hottest January 1st ever here in the swamp. Supposed to be in the mid 30s tonight when the cold front hits a bit later ..
We got our wake-up call it's winter, its zero right now, had a couple inches of blowing snow last night, but thankfully the wind is zero as well, so it's fairly tolerable.
Just cold and sunny up here! We got a relative reprieve today when it warmed up to zero.....but back in the deep freeze for the coming week.
11° for the low yesterday & today. I'll take it. Got mebbe an inch last night, but will be back in the 50s this week.
A tough reality, but I'll soldier through it... :disturbed:
Yeah, and you are not on fire to boot.
Would one of you please close the gate? It's 41 degrees right now, which would not be too bad if not for the 30mph north wind. At least the sun is shining...
Quote from: jetmex on January 02, 2022, 02:45:03 PM
Would one of you please close the gate? It's 41 degrees right now, which would not be too bad if not for the 30mph north wind. At least the sun is shining...
Sorry man, it is frozen open and covered in ice, and that cold North wind is blowing right through.....☃️ 🥶
It went from 78° to 30° in a day here! Of course, high winds, rain, and lightning ushered it all in. Wayne, or anybody up north please close that damn door... :eusa_eh:
This winter thing is just annoying, yesterday wasn't so bad as things go, almost 50 and calm, this morning wind is already to 30, supposed to be 45mph by afternoon with 65mph gusts. Followed by sideways snow starting tonight, up to 8" depending on where it sets up and then low teens for highs and low negative teens for lows tomorrow. Feeding cows is always so much fun in that stuff. :errrr:
Well, looks like one of you got that gate partially closed, just enough to blow all that ice into Virginia!!
68 degrees and severe clear here after a chilly 38 degree night. It's supposed to warm up for a few days, then get cooler, but not as cool as a few days ago. It would be nice to get that gate closed completely. Work on that, would ya?? :disturbed: :disturbed:
Jaime, I coulda swore you Texicans learned your lesson last winter. Relax, it's good for the pores. :P :P :P
Happy Anniversary to this thread!
Started 10 years ago today.....bunch of us OF's complaining about the weather for 10 years!! Over 2 thousand posts, and 231,000 views.....
Now if we could only figure out how to make money on this like Facebook or Google........
:icon_lol: Some things just provide timeless satisfaction or lack thereof.
Quote...bunch of us OF's complaining about the weather for 10 years!!
Damn! I was still in my 50's back then! :disturbed:
Another beautiful 76 degree day today. Please leave that gate closed until April......
Quote from: Onepoint on January 05, 2022, 06:47:48 PM
:icon_lol: Some things just provide timeless satisfaction or lack thereof.
......and it has kept all of us in touch over the years......
That it has! :icon_mrgreen:
Well, the gate was banging open and closed for a while, but now it seems to be shut. Back up to 77 degrees and it's raining pretty hard. I got together with friends to work on the latest hobby shop project, a 120 inch B-17, turned out to be a good day for it!
I caught this today. I also saw an article about how climate has changed for some places, but apparently here in the Rocky Mtn / high plains west we are still within 1% of the normal 100 year climate average.
still, 120 degree swing between seasons, 86 mph wind, who the hell wants to live here? :icon_lol:
You gate guardians are slacking again, that north wind is back. Just barely made it to 50 today. Would someone please take care of that? I still could find only one mukluk. :disturbed:
Well, hop! :disturbed:
Don't look at me! We are finally above freezing (and substantially below freezing) for the first time in 3 weeks! .......and no wind!!!
QuoteWell, hop!
Tried that, fell down too many times. But I found the missing the mukluk!! The dog chewed it up, but a little (well, maybe more than a little) duct tape and it was good as new!! :icon_mrgreen:
It might make it to 60 today.
You guys get all the good weather drama.
We be hovering 50°~60° every day, +/- 30% humidity (OK, closer to 20% in the house), and little wind since New Years.
....yawn....think I'll stoke the smoker today...
Yuck! A couple of degrees above freezing and the snow gets soft and melty....then mix in the sand and salt the city put on the roads, and everything is covered in brown goo!
It only takes a couple of days to go from winter wonderland postcard scenery to giant mud-pit! It might even rain tomorrow!
Three bouts of freezing rain so far, mixed in with real rain, snow, warm melty days and freezing nights leaves us with a lot of ice everywhere.
However, on the bright side.......the mosquitoes have not been too bad for this time of year.....😁🙄
We had a couple 2" snows a couple days apart, one was cold and dry, the second made a lot of slop for being just a couple inches. Finally we get a little moisture. Weather guys are bragging how we are 2" above normal for the year, which is like me saying I haven't bought a gun all year. :icon_biggrin:
Quote from: Onepoint on January 23, 2022, 09:16:20 AM
We had a couple 2" snows a couple days apart, one was cold and dry, the second made a lot of slop for being just a couple inches. Finally we get a little moisture. Weather guys are bragging how we are 2" above normal for the year, which is like me saying I haven't bought a gun all year. :icon_biggrin:
We see Denver, just a hundred miles north, getting snow & wickedness, but we get a dusting and immediate Melton. Temps pretty consistent every day at least upper 30s well into the 50s. Still acclimating, folks here actually lecture me for not wearing a coat. Got my truck plates on Friday, I guess that seals the deal.
Honcho, you seen those 8.6 Blackout rounds? The danged slug is almost bigger than the casing. Who comes up with these insane machinations?
Heh, yeah just saw that the other day, they were all giddy over it, and I'm thinking I really don't need a water buffalo round, and 5.56 still works on 2 legged varmints well enough. Not really seeing the point of another 2 buck a pop round. But that will probably appeal to the guys who liked 50 Beowulf etc.
We are in the 3- 4 day cycle of a shot cold and snow and then calm and relatively mild enough to make slop. If I recall correctly, they call that 'winter', but it seems its the 1st I have heard of it this year.
I forgot to remind you, enjoy that now, because summer is going to be 'interesting' to hear about. :icon_razz:
Quote from: Onepoint on January 24, 2022, 05:28:23 AM
..........and 5.56 still works on 2 legged varmints well enough.
What??? Kangaroos, or chikkens?? Them pesky varmints!
Quote from: Onepoint on January 24, 2022, 06:34:01 AM
I forgot to remind you, enjoy that now, because summer is going to be 'interesting' to hear about. :icon_razz:
I've heard. The PuddinFace gave us almost daily reminders of how hot it gets (high 80s?) She wines at the drop of a pudding cup anymore.
Besides, I'll likely spend a bulk of my summer sharing YOUR weather... :devil:
Nony, think
prairie dog. :icon_razz: :icon_mrgreen: 8) :eek5:
Quote from: stetto on January 24, 2022, 02:13:48 PM
Nony, think prairie dog. :icon_razz: :icon_mrgreen: 8) :eek5:
Okay, but last time I checked, they had 4 legs....😁
Chupacabras, goblins and zombies, but probably not Sasquatch or Godzilla, I guess I should have been more specific. :icon_biggrin:
Quote from: balsum fractus on January 24, 2022, 03:33:00 PM
Quote from: stetto on January 24, 2022, 02:13:48 PM
Nony, think prairie dog. :icon_razz: :icon_mrgreen: 8) :eek5:
Okay, but last time I checked, they had 4 legs....😁
Ah, but how often are they seen using more than two of them?
Huh, snow. About 6" here in northwest CO Springs so far, where the PuddinFace is at Cheyenne Mt they have about 14", just 5 or so miles away. Supposed to continue, ÷/- another 3 through the day.
No wind though. Still, this town has virtually shut down. They seem to approach it differently here, no panic mode or doomsday tones like they'd do in Fargo, these people are celebrating the inconvenience.
Kind of refreshing, actually. I just don't know if I should trudge out with the garbage, no one else on our street have...
We got a shot of cold, had almost 60 and hurricane wind Monday, was cooler yesterday and started to snow just before dark, that stopped at about an inch so far, the predict 2-4" for us, but the cold air is slinking down from the north uninvited, supposed to be low teens today, and if it clears off negative teens tonight. :errrr:
Deep freeze here.....and windy..... but supposed to be above freezing by the weekend. Oh Yay, more ice!!
The seesaw continues. 74 degrees yesterday, now it's raining and 41, will be dropping to freezing later this afternoon. It doesn't look like we'll be getting any of the ssssnnn........sssssss.........snnnnnnn.....that they're getting further north, but there could be ice on the ground by morning if it keeps raining. You northern gate guardians are slacking again.
Bad news Jetmex.......the gate is gone.......the wind done blowed it clear off its' hinges and into the next county.......prolly buried under a glacier by now!
QuoteBad news Jetmex.......the gate is gone...
Don't make me come up there and fix it. It'll be winter forever for y'all if I do! :icon_mrgreen:
Well, the rain stopped, so there was no ice, but that wind has the chills into the low 20s. The ice line stopped just north of us.
Quote from: jetmex on February 04, 2022, 08:14:42 AM
QuoteBad news Jetmex.......the gate is gone...
Don't make me come up there and fix it. It'll be winter forever for y'all if I do! :icon_mrgreen:
Reckon it would take a professional fence mendin' hay feedin' mid west rancher type to fix this one!
Heh, if my fencing works like it does for my cattle, buy a coat. :disturbed:
QuoteHeh, if my fencing works like it does for my cattle, buy a coat.
We've got some leftover pieces of border wall down here if you think it will help! :disturbed:
Much better today - sun is shining and it's 62 degrees outside!!
And if you think you had a rough day:
https://www.tpr.org/texas/2022-02-04/traffic-jam-continues-after-motorists-get-stuck-on-i-10-at-kerrville-overnight
Some people were out there 18 hours. I-10 west of Kerrville is a series of pretty steep hills. An 18 wheeler couldn't make the climb because of the ice on the road and jackknifed, blocking both lanes. Took a while to get recovery vehicles there because the backup was more than a few miles long.
Rain! ....in February!!!!
Our furnace quit last night. We're at 59° inside.
Timing. Expecting snow and dropping temps tonight.
Got a new furnace being installed as I type, glad we aren't doing this right now in MN. Dylan says they have another blizzard going on.
At least you don't have to write that check. Cold and windy here, 37 maybe a chance of flurries, but probably not. Just wind for the next few foreseeable.
Last week was absolutely beautiful, temps in the 70s all week. Had another winter yesterday when it only got to 40, now the sun is back and it should be nice again for a few days. Seems like the cold fronts always hit over the weekends. What's up with that? :disturbed:
Quote from: jetmex on February 13, 2022, 08:08:19 AM
Last week was absolutely beautiful, temps in the 70s all week. Had another winter yesterday when it only got to 40, now the sun is back and it should be nice again for a few days. Seems like the cold fronts always hit over the weekends. What's up with that? :disturbed:
Yeah and you're retired, so your weekends are 7 days long!!
Winter is back.....snow and snow flurries forecast every day for the next week.....
Aye, there be a bitter, cruel wind blowin' from de Nort......
QuoteAye, there be a bitter, cruel wind blowin' from de Nort......
Well, keep it up there, would ya? :icon_mrgreen:
We were down right springish today, 60 and calm for a change. Going back to winter tomorrow though, then maybe warm again by the weekend. Not doing much for the drought, but I don't mind not freezing my butt off.
They kind of blew that forecast, supposed to have maybe an inch, farther south to CO maybe a couple, had more like 4". Now supposedly the wind is going to pick up as it warms up into the 40s today, this will be a mess for a while.
We got a forecast of 2-4", got less than 1/2.
But it did get to 12°.
Gonna take some getting used to these roller coaster winters. Sure, we'd get the 30-40 degree spreads, but usually -30° to +10°. This is very different.
Roller coaster is right. It's been a beautiful week here with temps in the high 70s, until the gate guardian failed us again and left the door open. There's a 20kt wind out of the north now that's dropped the temp 10 degrees in the last hour, and it's supposed to freeze again tonight. Hopefully, that's the last cold snap before spring. Looks like I might have to replace the duct tape on my mukluks..... :eek5:
Well this is going to be fun, we get Nony weather the next week. Monday starts by snow and cold, no accumulation numbers yet, sounds like the snow will be mostly north so far, but Tuesday and for a couple days, the north gate is blown off the hinges, 0s for highs and negative teens at night and then we get back into the teens for highs until the weekened. :sadness: I'm just glad I am not calving, but this is going to be stressful on the poor cows.
Mmm, 65° yesterday, 55° today, and now I hear the high on Wed is forecast at 11° (Fahrenheit, Nony :disturbed:).
Someone claimed upwards of a half foot of snow, and mountain accumulations to be measured in feet...but then the "experts" immediately shift to the global warming agenda, warning "continuing drought".
How do you translate 120% of average moisture into drought?
Yeah, you are going to miss much of this fun, its 11 degrees right now, and that's our high for the next couple days or so.
Quote from: Onepoint on February 21, 2022, 04:26:03 PM
Yeah, you are going to miss much of this fun, its 11 degrees right now, and that's our high for the next couple days or so.
Careful you don't get sunstroke or dehydrated in that heat wave! We are at a much more manageable -40 ( on both scales)!
😂
We are not quite that bad, just -4 and -18 windchill. Going to be a challenge to feed cows today. :eusa_think:
Oh yeah, you got the animals to look after.......
Freezing rain this morning, 41 degrees now. Haven't seen any animal outside since Wednesday!
Well can't say I enjoyed that much, got about 4" of snow but had few days of below zero, down -20 windchill a couple times. Finally, yesterday it got above freezing, had to have wind with it of course, which made it feel like 20s. Today though supposed to be 50, and windy, as tomorrow, but then come mid week they are talking mid to high 60s, which will be welcome after that cold shot.
I'm just glad I wasn't trying to calve during that like some people were.
I saw a great meme from Crawford livestock, it said-
"Look at this weather being all cute and springy, like it didn't try and kill us just last week" :icon_lol:
Hope y'all are starting to thaw. The sun came out today for the first time in nearly a week, and it's finally above 40. Hopefully this was the last winter of the year and it will start getting warmer. And, of course, in a few months, I'll be bitching about how hot it is.... :disturbed:
We are a smidge below freezing - which is how it should be this time of year. Wind has died down a bit, but comes from every direction. We still get snow flurries, but they are light and don't amount to much....
Update : we got a large dump of snow! Huge system moved in off the coast of Washington, up thru Montana and visited us overnight........
Now its just teasing us, most of last week we were near 70, even had a day of no wind, now we have 3" of snow and 27 and breezy, could have as much as 10" they say.
We ended up on the low end of snow total, about 4", which blew around pretty good, but negative 1 degree this morning. OK jokes over, let's have some spring now.
We got an inch, which is said to hang on the ground until another Nony Vortex comes through later in the week.
Then 57° on the weekend....
Where we moved from this IS Spring.
Well, it's winter here again. 41 degrees and raining, will be that way until after the weekend. The northern gatekeepers have failed us miserably this year, I vote they be replaced! Either that or move Canada further north.... :disturbed:
...or move Tejas further south!!😁
Clear, cold and sunny here. Wind has been from every point of the compass, and always cold.....
Heh, move either farther those ways the cold will come from the south. :icon_smile:
we got a shot of snow, about 4 honest inches so far, and teens.
Urrg, -10 this morning getting kind late for that kind of stuff.
Spring is coming.......
Spring is coming.....
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Someone down there is using up all the temperatures! The wind is from the South today, and it is a bitterly, bitterly cold wind!
QuoteSomeone down there is using up all the temperatures!
See? I told you moving Canada north would help us down here! :icon_mrgreen:
One more night below freezing tonight, then the weather guessers say that will be the last of it. 60 degrees and sunshine today, going to be that way for the rest of the week!
Very nice day here, 65°, clear and calm.
I only bring this up because nice days don't get a lot of mention on these hallowed pages. Thought I'd give this one a break...
Because when its nice, we are out in it. Been pretty decent here too, a little breezy but tolerable for the most part, and 60s, that's supposed to end tonight for a day or so, but tehn nice agin until next week.
You are so right, Stetto!
Well, here is my sunshine report:
We are enjoying spring-like weather here...the sun is out, and those warm rays feel oh, so good! The winter residue is melting, and the wind is almost nothing.
We could have a setback come Sunday, but it can't last long!
Saw the first motorcycle on the road today! Spring can't be far away.......!
We hit our 1st honest 70 today, we started calving this past week, so its welcome. Of course can't have that without paying for it, so we get 40s and snow tomorrow, but at least its not as cold as last month was.
It was a beautiful week here, all 60s and 70s. Thunderstorms today and tomorrow, but at least it isn't cold!
This is fun to watch! Winter and Spring are battling it out. Mid 60's warm and sunny, one day, then cold blowing snow the next, the cycle is repeated every couple of days. Spring is winning though, as the snow (and ice) pack is melting away......
Spring has sprung. 81 degrees, severe clear and all the good stuff, except for the oak pollen, which is off the charts! :disgust:
Winter will not give up!! I will be shovelling tomorrow.........
Yah, Nort Dekoda got 36 inches in places last week, and it's snowing again today...We had a record 83 degrees here yesterday. Expecting very dry mid 70s today. Lots of fire 🔥 warnings...
Yesterday was an exception it was warm and calm, but we have had wild wind, even by WY standards for weeks, cool and very windy. We are also looking at some ominous signs for the drought, right now officially it is only severe, which has been for about 3 years running, but right where we are at, we have missed a lot of the moisture that has been skipping through, and it shows, the grass is low and stunted, lots of signs of blowing dirt, many of the small springs and ponds are dried up, including ours. If we don't get a good shot of moisture before it gets hot, we are going be in for a rough summer.
And it could be much worse, poor ND, the east side has no drought, the west and almost all of MT and big chunk of NE and N central WY is in extreme drought. I suspect its going to get even more expensive to eat later this year.
Man what a wild one we are going through, the Dust bowl returned. Wind up to 55 mph out of the south, and single digit humidity had the dirt flying, at times visibility was about a 1/2 mile or less. Then this morning I wake up to fog and 78% humidity. :eusa_think: Supposed to be 85 today and more wind, maybe not quite as bad, then we fall off to the 40s for high tomorrow and possible snow and/ or drizzle. But I will take any form of moisture to be had right now.
Could be worse, those poor people up in MT/SD/ND area, including NE WY have been hammered, with a blizzard last week, got a shot of snow over the top and now get another blizzard starting today. They have been in worse drought than us, and I imagine they would have been much happier to live out the saying, when it rains it pours, rather than when it snows it blizzards.
Been cloudy and really windy here, gusting to 40mph at times. Temps have been in the high 70s or low 80s and the humidity is all over the place - one day wet, next day dry At least there's no snow, but no rain either.
Here's to a few all-day soakers, Honcho. My boy up in NW MN tells us that the farmers there are complaining that all this wet weather and goofy temp swings are delaying planting. Different end of the spectrum, I guess.
Jaime, I just don't know what to tell you....muscle up, you'll be flying again in no time!! :icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen:
Yesterday was a Jeckyl and Hyde day, started out beautiful, got hot feeling in fact to mid 80s and relatively humid which we have not seen anything close to yet this year, and actually calm for change. By 7pm, temp was still around 65 or so, but the wind came up from the south, including some impressive gusts here, must have been worse to the east.
A house fire in Lyman just across the park from moms burned to the ground, luckily they got it out before it came, but not so lucky East of Scottsbluff of few miles , one of the little towns called Minatare was partially evacuated after the wind gusts took down some power poles and started a fire in that 50mph steady wind they could not control. Visibility was zero from the smoke and dust, so I bet evacuating was a challenge itself. Power was out in parts of Scottsbluff for the night I heard too. Not a great way to start spring.
We did get some wet, but so far its just been a drizzle and not much real moisture, but supposed to continue through out the day. Most of this is going north as snow looks like.
Sorry to hear about the lack of moisture. I truly hope you get some relief!
Up here, the Seasonal transition is directionally correct - got the first bug splat on the windshield yesterday!!
We got a little, but not much or nearly enough. Just north they picked up quite a bit, 20 miles made a big difference here this time. In fact Gillette WY and north, about 150 miles or so from here, got hammered with a blizzard again, 12-15", 50 mph wind gave them 7' drifts etc. I have been seeing all kinds of wild pictures. I guess I should stop complaining, we got a little snow, but didn't get a blizzard. We got wind but didn't get 100 mph like they did just 25 miles east and took down a couple dozen power poles and sparked fires in the high wind. And who knows, it may rain yet.
Just 4 days ago I was getting harassed by bees and flies out working, went through the shot of winter and now supposed to get nicer for a bit, that is spring in WY, situation normal I guess.
It rained here for the first time in nearly three months. Nothing heavy, but at least my new tree and sod got a good soaking today. Hopefully more on the way, but a lot of this front went north of us, so someone else is getting most of the rain.
Well I guess I can't complain since we got moisture finally, would have been nice to get it in liquid form, instead of the quasi slush balls falling now. Flakes are so big and wet its like getting hit with snow ball in the face when you walk. But looks like over 1/2" of moisture so far in the gauge, which is likely more since its in arctic mode right now and looks like its supposed to keep it up until noon or so. But maybe it will warm up now and with the moisture some grass will grow.
We were forecast rain for this morning. Nope. Full sun, bright & shiny like a billy goats hiney!
So in this week's tales from the wasteland, we got some wet stuff from the sky. Apparently it has done this before, but it must have been like 120 wind years ago (feels like years). Now in the past of recent history, the wet from the sky would let you make tracks in the dirt and other fun things. This time however came something from the ground I don't recall in our written history. It was oozy and cold, and out where the cows had stomped around, smelly. This was immediately obvious coming from satans spawn upon this cursed land to vex us mere mortals.
It seemed odd the front tires of the tractor looked flat on the bottom as I drove out to get a round bale, but no mind as long as it moved forward as I parted the white ground like a pair of ships making wakes. The landscape looked like a fluffy blanket of white cotton. Almost picturesque, like everything had just been endowed with my pillow stuffing by angels, but it was deception. Because once you stepped off the tractor step into it, it sucked you onto the very precipice of oblivion. As I held onto the tractor as if it was the last lifeboat on the Titanic, debating if I really wanted that boot or if it might be enough to placate the angry gods, and wondered if I had the strength to retrieve it anyway, I realized the trap that had been set. Once in there was no going back, but through.
In the end I did make it back to the relative comfort of the porch, It was not without an unkind word, or 4. And I don't mean to sound heroic, but I managed to go in with a leg and half, and came back the same, maybe not on the same side or anything, but the count was there. I have googled it and I read it will go away eventually on its own, though I remain skeptical, it is the internet after all.
Sounds like a pretty scary day! Did Linda Blair make an appearance?
Not yet, but the days still remains!
Winter is definitely over here. 90 degrees with winds gusting to 20kts out of the south, which brings the humidity back. It's supposed to thunderstorm tonight, but who knows?
We're heading into 80s daytime, 50s to 40s at night. Pepper plants HATE that kind of temp swings, blossom drop is 100% right now.
We had what the locals called an "all day soaker" two days ago, but it amounted to a tenth of an inch in my guage. I guess I have a lot of redefinition to work on out here.
Raining here......much needed as the snow runoff went into the storm drains rather than into the soil, so everything is pretty dry, and there have been somw wildfires already. Rain is good right now.....
We got a bit over an inch from the last storm and was most welcome, it's almost all soaked up already except in the corrals etc. But its 80 with a 30 mph wind, so its going to dry up fast. Supposedly we might get a shower or 2 the next couple days though. Which would be good, because despite the good shot of moisture the grass is looking pretty paltry.
Quote from: Onepoint on May 06, 2022, 04:22:28 PM
......the grass is looking pretty paltry.
Oooooooo....that could be serious when the PGA comes to town for the Fubar Open......😊
Heh, thats just all part of the challenge, we use camo balls so you have to watch closely to see the dust puffs to see where it hits.
Gonna have to revise the official golfing dictionary in regards to "replacing your divits" :icon_razz:
We are dry as a popcorn fart here! Temp yesterday was 102, today it is a record breaking 107......
Quote from: stetto on May 07, 2022, 01:06:40 PM
Gonna have to revise the official golfing dictionary in regards to "replacing your divits" :icon_razz:
Yes, absolutely.....but at least the dust will keep the alligators off the course!
Holy cow, 107 this time of year? We hit 80 and I thought I was going to boil over after all the cool weather we have had.
Another challenge to WY golf will be trying to hit the ball into the 50 mph wind, without beaning yourself when it comes back! You will have to be trained by a professional boxer to evade shots.
Well, it wasn't finished yesterday, topped out at 108. Today we topped out at 107. Going to be 100+ for the next couple of days, and then high 90's for the next 10 days.
Quote from: Onepoint on May 08, 2022, 09:02:43 AM
Another challenge to WY golf will be trying to hit the ball into the 50 mph wind, without beaning yourself when it comes back! You will have to be trained by a professional boxer to evade shots.
....but you could probably hit 350 yards with a putter downwind!!
There is no downwind in WY, nor downhill. It's like campfire smoke, no matter where you are, its always in your face. :icon_smile:
It's surreal how dry it is, considering that where we moved from has so much moisture that residents of the little town we moved from are being evicted and their houses condemned for the flooding.
And they're on high ground...
I find myself wondering if the old sump we had installed 12 years ago is keeping up. in a normal spring the thing would run every two minutes or less for a couple days, but there's a lot more rain/snow runoff than they've had in a few decades. I saw that they're getting another day of intense rain/lightning/thunder today. Local weather guys, who are proving as reliable as the clown act in Fargo, say there's NO rain in the foreseeable future for us.
But they also predicted 85 for yesterday, we hit 70, and it took all day to get there. :eusa_doh:
I heard on the radio this morning that half the US is officially in drought, just about all is in the west, especially bad in the SW, but pretty severe in the wheat belt. We have actually improved in this little slice of heaven, officially anyway after picking up about 2" in the last week or 2. brought us up a level to moderate drought Still there is little reserve moisture deep, so when it dries up and heats up, it's going to look very Afghanish. And the areas that improved were pretty miniscule compared to the severe areas.
Heck Carl is well into the triples already and most of TX is in drought, weren't you just flooding and rain gauges overflowing the year or 2 before?
Not nearly as hot here as where Carl is, been mid 90s and lower than normal humidity. Makes for some pleasant evenings once the sun gets behind the trees. It's been windy as well, which helps.
Out here, the drought is measured by all the pretty colors on the maps the weather guesser's use. Whether they're based on reality is anybody's guess, because the maps are all different depending on which channel you're watching! We haven't had any significant rain in a few weeks.
Carl sent me a pic of his place last year this time
Mildly moist up here....
Forecast is for 90° today...
Use that as a reference point, it's been hot & dry like that for some time...
We're to expect 6-20 inches of SNOW (say it with me, Jaime) tomorrow into Saturday. I wonder if I'll ever get used to this...
Ssssnnnnno........snnnnssnnsnnsnnsss...........ssssssnnnnnnsssssnnnnnn........
A ten step program may not be enough. :icon_mrgreen:
93 degrees and cloudy in the swamp today. More of the same tomorrow.
Starting last Thursday, 108, 105, 105, 103, 107, 103, 106 today, 102 forecast for tomorrow. Lots of wildfires again as a result of the drought, high temps, very low humidity. There is one that is about 50 miles west of us that started Tuesday. It is close to 10,000 acres and only 5% contained. And a new one started about 15 mile northwest of us today, good think is the wind is out of the south.
No snow, but damp and 39 this morning, all kind of freeze warnings for tonight
https://youtu.be/poRFKHO9W9w
Heh, that's a mess, aren't you glad you moved south where the winter isn't bad?
We didn't get snow, we got about 1/4" of rain and some wind, but got a hard freeze last night, lots of stuff laying flat this morning. Supposed to do it again tonight which will do a lot more damage.
Yeah, it was spooky making that vid, couldn't hear it on tape, but the sound of cracking tree limbs was happening all around the neighborhood. I'm sure the next big wind will be knocking more down wholesale...
94 degrees and windy again today. There is rain coming, they say.....
Any of you fellers up north need a mukluk? I won't need it until December. :disturbed:
2 inches of rain Saturday night, more on the way tonight and tomorrow. It's 79 degrees now, supposed to be below 80 for the next few days.
Actually, it is quite nice here....mildly warm, sunny, blue sky with puffy white clouds....
it was low 80s here today, after 60s for several days, I thought I was going to melt mid day. but winds are light and its welcome, before the memorial day cool down anyway.
We are on a trip to the coast to take care of some family affairs that my siblings wimped out on.
The weather.......rain, drizzle, showers, and more rain. I do not miss this at all!!
We are in that in between right now, last weekend and start of the week was cool and wet, now is a little warmer, and dryer, but just at the edge of being really nice, especially in the afternoon when clouds build and breeze comes up. Could be worse we have had some bad thunderstorms and big hail in the past by now. But you can tell, most hay fields that would have been cut by now look stunted. Yet the weeds don't have a problem, my hobby is mowing right now.
Egad....wet, dripping rain continually! While everything is lush and green like a rain forrest, there are no tropical temperatures to go with it.. If the rain stops, the trees drip excess moisture until the next rain shower hits! Everything is wet....yccch!!
We head home to drier climate in the morning.
Heh, I remember the days you used to like that or at least were used to it and talked about float flying standing with a rain coat on. :icon_smile:
Those were words from a much much younger person with much less wisdom (at the time...)
Well we got our 1st real thunderstorm of the year last night, hail, torrential rain etc. Got 1.1" in about 15 minutes. We need the moisture but to quote one of my favorite people right now, come on man.
100 degrees out on the back porch right now. At least the humidity is not as high as it usually is, so it feels like it's only 105...... :icon_mrgreen:
76 degrees, sunny and breezy.....sittin' on the deck ignoring the world......
Well that didn't last long!
Deluge!
Huge system moving through right now.....but it is a weird one......coming up from North Dakota/Minnesota up north through Winnipeg, then circling down to us from the north! I'm not sure where all the moisture came from, but heavy, heavy rain with 30- 40 knot wind!!
Deluge? Is that anything like snnnnnn........ssssssssnsssss..........snnnsnnnsnnns......?
Only 94 here today. There's a high pressure system above us that's keeping all the tropical stuff away, so the humidity isn't anywhere near what it usually is. But there was enough of that Saharan dust in the air to make mud when I hit the windshield washer on the truck this morning.
Yesterday we hit triple digit hot by mid day and a nice dose of NM smoke to boot, but the cold front that had dumped the rain on Yellowstone and made such a mess swept down and by 7pm it was in low 70s. Its mid 70s still, with a 35 mph wind. Now I have hay rolling up into balls all by itself. Maybe I should patent the self baling hay or something. I would look to see what they predict for tomorrow, but I suspect it will be as specific as saying we will have weather.
Quote from: jetmex on June 14, 2022, 01:28:21 PM
Deluge? Is that anything like snnnnnn........ssssssssnsssss..........snnnsnnnsnnns......?
No, liquid H2O in copious quantities...... I was looking for my plans to build an Arc, but the torrential rain slowed down to showers and drizzle.
103 on the back porch right now. Several more century days predicted before we get a cool front that drops us into the high 90s... :eek5:
T'under storms and downpours interrupted by brief periods of sunshine....weekend is supposed to be nice, though....
We have been vacillating between scorching and hot, i.e. near to or at triple digits or 90 for high, but its been dry, I saw the humidly dip down to 11 yesterday. This weekend is only going to be 70s, lows in the 40s which will make morning water change fun, probably gonna want to wear the heavy coat I have hurried in the closet. One thing we have had in spades this year is wind. Seems like I can count on one hand the days that were anywhere close to calm.
It's going to rain, they said. And it did, everywhere but here! They're going to try again today, but it might be better if I sacrifice a chicken after I wash my truck. 101 yesterday....
Super nice in the Springs. 80-90°, humidity steady @ 23%, light breezes...And no dew all over the deck furniture in the mornings!
I could get comfy with this...
Was blazing hot here yesterday and today, starting to cloud up a little this afternoon. I spent a week waiting on swather parts, finally got it to together yesterday and enjoyed some AC cutting weeds, er hay..
And we got rain! I had to sacrifice a field of hay, but man I don't care, we were getting pretty desperate. All stock ponds were dry and pastures burnt up, there was a video on facebook of a guy I know west of me 10 miles or so of dirt blowing off his corn field, that he had just that morning put 1/2" of water on with a pivot sprinkler. We have gotten about 6/10s so far, still light rain, no hail, or high wind like yesterday that scattered windrows out to where you could not tell if I cut anything.
You would not think this stuff would cause so much stress, but every day with hot wind worry was building up, and this is a huge relief even if it won't do that much. It at least buys us some more time to irrigate and stretch grass out some`.
No rain here yet, but I thought it was going to. Only good thing about that is that it only got to 85 degrees today. Them what knows more about weather than I do still swear we'll get rain. Someday....
We got a good half inch last night, expecting more every evening for the next week.
Yet they're banning aerial fireworks 🎆 regardless.
It rained! For a little while anyway. I don't know how much because the little glass tube on my rain gauge shattered from the heat a few days ago, but it was enough to get the humidity up to about 137%....
Bags of rain up this way more than 50% more than usual. The pond at our campsite is overflowing....standing water everywhere.
. I wish there was some way to send some down to the Fubar world headquarters.....
Yeah, it be nice to export weather.
Do you have ERT?
(Email Rain Transfer)
😂
37 days so far over 100 this year, and its just now summer!!!!
Quote from: balsum fractus on July 02, 2022, 04:49:32 PM
Do you have ERT?
(Email Rain Transfer)
😂
Yeah, but it works as well as EMT, email money transfer. :icon_smile:
Okay, who turned on October??
After 2 nice warm dry days, today was cold, wet, and miserable! I even had the fireplace on to warm up the family room!
We got a little monsoon going on, well not really much rain unless you happen to be under one of the cell that blow up, just a lot of humidity. 95 degrees and 57% humidity, how do you even breathe in that stuff. Supposed to be cool, like mid 80s the next couple days, then the burners get turned up, so I hear.
Whoo, it's a warm one today, 106 right now, and 18% humidity
Just came back from a few days with the kids in New Braunfels, TX. Temps were 101, 103, 100 and it was 102 when we left to come home this morning. It was like that here in beautiful downtown Uhhhmmmble as well, but the humidity is a LOT higher. 100 here at the house right now...
102 outside right now. Again.... :disturbed:
We hit 100 yesterday......way too hot for me! And the same day that a buddy asked me to help him on a contract job. I spent all morning emptying a 100 gallon diesel tank with a hand pump!
Somehow I survived.....
Uhg, thats sounds like wo...wor...er someone else should do it. Going to be blistering here the whole next 7 days, and we are already deep fried.
Well, we finally have consistent highs in the 90s. And even just 20% humidity feels muggy.
Peppers shut down over 90°, so I'm bringing mine in for the duration.
Well that was as scorcher today, record in fact, 107 here at the house, at one point humidity was 12% with a 20mph wind. Everything shriveled, including me despite 14 glasses of water today. Only supposed to get to 97 tomorrow, yay.
Hope all the chocolate is protected....🤣😁😄😜
Oh we had all those little Eskimo squirrels in the air conditioners jacked up on cocaine all day to make sure it would be OK.
QuoteOh we had all those little Eskimo squirrels in the air conditioners jacked up on cocaine all day to make sure it would be OK
We'd have to air condition the squirrels down here! 102 outside now, forecast 100 or over for the next week. The low last night was 82....
Sunny summer with puffy white clouds.....forecast to stay that way all week. Mosquitos are ferocious this year!
It was actually relatively pleasant, merely 97, and started out in the 50s, supposed to bounce around on each side of triple digits for the next few days then maybe next week 80s for highs on Wednesday. There have been thunderstorms, just not for us apparently, Lyman which is 6 miles as a crow flies got a 1/2" night before last, and south along the border into CO has has 4" of rain over the last couple week, looks like late April down there right now, we look like Oct after a frost.
.....failed to mention, a couple of twisters touched down waaay south of us last weekend. We were out camping near a small town to the east of us, and watched huge systems rolling by....every one missing us by a few miles......we sat in blue skies and sunshine the whole time.....
We finally got some rain yesterday afternoon, maybe a 1/2 inch, but it's better than nothing. Didn't quite make it to 100 degrees because of that, but now the humidity is 236%...
After being cloudy and humid and watching it rain elsewhere for a couple days, we finally caught a little, got about 6/10" in 20 minutes, and was raining again when I got up this morning, but gentle. Probably last another 1/2 hour or so looks like. Not much, but much needed after baking so bad the last month, the crops have been hurt by the drought some, but we have water if you can get it over it, what has been devastated is the pastures and trees. Nice part is so far no hail or high wind like they said would come with it. Going to soak this up today, temps in the 80s and at least the dust won't be an issue for the day.
You guys may laugh......but anything over 85 is considered a heatwave here...
Well, we are having one of those.....😅
Our average normal is about 90 for July into August, so we are just a little below that in the mid 80s right now, but we have been humid for us, about 50% or more for a few days now, feels like I have moss growing on me. Supposed to be short lived with triple digits again this weekend and next week.
Anther scorcher yesterday, and tiny bit of relief. 104, and when I say 104 it was that from about 10 am to 4 pm, when finally, some thunderstorms rolled through, gave us our customary 5 drops, couple 40 mph gusts and moved on, but at least the clouds were welcome respite despite humidity spiking. The silver lining is we are only the mid to high 80s today, and low 80s tomorrow with possible rain, before we turn the heat up again next week.
We booked our pricey summer camping vacation for these next two weeks, and the summer gods seem to be very cooperative........not a cloud in the forecast!!
We're monsooning here, a barbecue killing dose smack dab in the middle of the barbecue & adult beverage hour. Temps pretty consistent in the mid-upper 80s with an odd 90s tossed in to keep us from being barefoot on the asphalt...
73 days now over 100, I am so tired of this heat. So far, we have only had about 2.5" inches of rain this year. Puts us about 15 inches below normal.
Yeah, you guys down there make this look pleasant unfortunately. We are only about 4" short, but we get like 12-14 total anyway. And it's been spotty, some places have gotten about normal, and just a few miles away have not gotten anything besides sprinkles all summer.
How is the hay situation up there? I would normally be getting ready for second cutting, but with no rain, I haven't even got grass high enough to cut the first time. Pastures are bad, I have been feeding hay all summer..
QuoteYou guys may laugh......but anything over 85 is considered a heatwave here...
Heatwave? That's a cold front here! :eek5:
We've had about half an inch of rain here the past few days, expecting a little bit more in the next few. That has done nothing to help the heat, still mid 90's right now.
Hay is tight, not as bad as down there but its bad. Most everyone had only 1/2 to 1/3 of normal 1st cutting because it was dry and grass was short, and weevils had pretty much devastated the alfalfa so quick because of conditions and the govt banning Lorsban, the chemical most sprayers were using for control. Some of my neighbors never cut 1st, just let it lay and waited until it regrew after irrigating. The center pivot sprinkler guys have had to run it over 2 to 3 times to get it wet enough, they get across fast just to get it to start to grow then come back over it to keep it growing, those who didn't even 2nd was short.
The alternative chemicals were either twice the money or less effective. After hearing reports of the cheaper chemical wasn't working well, I opted for the expensive one, which did work fortunately. Still, I had some fields that only made 1/4 ton to the acre 1st cutting, and had 100 bucks an acre into it before I cut a stem or watered a drop because aside from the expensive chemical, I also decided to fertilize during record fertilizer prices :eusa_doh:
We were lucky enough to have enough irrigation water, though the water season is short, supposed to shut out the 1st of Sept last I heard. At least they did cut the allocation so much that I could not get enough to irrigate right like they were talking earlier this year. I have been working it pretty hard to get everything wet which has paid off with some heavy 2nd cutting. We will get 3 looks like. But its going to be tight, and cow hay is already $250 ton up here. With all the grass grubbed down already, we will be feeding heavy from late Oct to next May, what little winter pasture will be hay fields, and I am already supplementing a round bale to the cows on pasture every 2 to 3 days. I am waiting to see if I have to sell down some cows.
Its one of those years that tests your ideas of how things are done, and I suspect a lot of guys are going to be selling out come spring or carrying a lot of debt if the bank will float them.
I hope you guys push through down there and some winter rain helps you out Carl.
Just saw an ad for 100 4 X 5 round bales of Coastal Bermuda for $240.00 per roll. That is cow quality hay. I think I am going to have to buy a truck load of cow hay. I am down to 14 bales! Right now it looks like we could get a little bit of rain Tuesday night into Wednesday. If it would just rain enough so that my hay will grow, I can make enough to get through the winter. Already sold my calves, and trying like hell to hang on to the cows.
Ouch. We had a couple days of cool damp weather, they got inches of rain south of us 70 miles or so, got over an inch north about 30 miles, but we got zilch. I need about 200 bales to get through winter, I have about 140, and am nearly done with 2nd cutting, and feeding already, it's not looking good.
It's raining hard here, first appreciable rain we've had all summer. The storm drain in front of the house is under water....
Hot and windy here again, triple digits since Tuesday, supposed to hold to that until Friday, then maybe next week a cool down and chance of showers. Which at this point feels like about the same chance of winning the lottery
We have fried for 4 days, literally have baked down so much that anything that was not getting watered is starting to lose leaves, last night about midnight we were jolted awake with big booms of thunder, this morning we are pleasantly surprised with 8/10s of rain, not spectacular, but what a relief. And we are supposed to get more in the next couple days.
We definitely got a welcome shift in weather pattern, been mild mid-eighties and dry, dare I say almost pleasant? In fact it was kind of rude to have a 48 degree low this morning after weeks of never dropping much below 60 and several nights staying in the 70s just a couple weeks ago, on top of that I notice the sun is getting lazy about getting up when I do. Who schedules this stuff?
If the sun ain't up, I ain't up. One of the joys of being retard.... :icon_mrgreen:
Two days of rain, was much needed. Totaled about two inches and dropped the daytime temps below 90 for the first time in quite a while. There's supposed to be more rain coming.
We have been sweating under what Jaime calls a Texas Cold Front for the past 2 weeks! !! Fire bans everywhere....the a/c in the trailer could not keep up to the relentless heat.
Now that we are back home, thunderstorms and rain tomorrow......which will be welcome!
Over a month of hot, hot and humid, hot and dry, and hot and windy.......
Those promised thunderstorms never showed up.........until today! Cold, wet, and windy......quite a shock to the system.......
We have been having decent weather, dry mostly except a couple really foggy mornings, hovering around high 80s to low 90s, sure makes putting up hay a no brainer. Cows are kicking up dirt in the pasture and wondering when they will get fed next, but could be worse.
Man, summer just isn't going to quit, been hot again, 98 yesterday, and supposed to be that way for the next week straight, maybe by the end of next week we will drop down closer to near seasonal, and still no rain in sight. Just a couple years ago we had snow on Sept 8th, this year looks like the AC will still be running.
We finally had a break in the heat, and got some measurable rain. Highs have been in the mid 80's, and we received 1" of rain on Tuesday, 1/2" Tuesday night, and another 1" Wednesday.
A little bit of rain here, too, Carl. Not too much, but the cloud cover has kept the temps down. I don't think it got to 90 today. Today was the first day in quite a while it's been cool enough in the garage to paint some model airplanes.
What a difference a few days make.....after nearly melting over the hot long weekend, the coolness has come back, and the leaves are starting to change color, and it is raining (thankfully.....there have been a number of grass fires locally...)
We just baked the last 6 days mid to high 90s, couple of triple digits and relentless sun and breezy at times. That changed last night, finally Nony sent us us some cool our way, got a little carried away with it, supposed to be 60 for a high today and tomorrow with possible drizzle and thir, thir, thirties for a low. But I suppose its not Nony, he just sends what's ordered, it's the national weather service, their 'service' sucks, I guess they don't understand you have to ease us into the idea of summer ending, not just dump mid fall on us after we have been dehydrated like apples.
It's beautiful here this week, 86 degrees, low humidity and a breeze from the north. It's shaping up to be a fine weekend for the Bomber Field event in a few days!
We went from close to 100 one day to 60 for a high the next, I froze, but hey, at least it's a dry cold. :eusa_wall: We did bounce back to some pleasant mid-eighties to 90 and forecast to stay that way with occasional clouds that rain on someone else.
It is cooling down.......
Most of our winds are from the south.......someone down there must be creating a vortex!
Its been such a dry and just odd weather year, we have had just a handful of thunderstorms, and of those nothing too severe, mostly wind. Mid Sept here usually means we get cold fronts that bring cold rain showers and maybe drizzle if not snow. Yesterday we had a wild lightning storm roll over us, had a strike pretty dang close somewhere, I looked at the trees but haven't seen if one was hit yet, but there was a loud pop, like a gunshot and then the thunder. And we did get a 1/2" of rain with no hail which is a good thing. Looks like one last hurrah of 90s Monday, and then summer is over for real with some 60s for highs after.
I. Like. 60s.
After a week in Blue River CO my focus is officially switched from temperature to oxygen content. It was grueling work seeking those rare and invisible molecules of breathing stuff. The Springs ain't bad @ 17%, but 13% made my survival questionable.
Well, I thought it was fall. The Bomber event sweltered under 90+ degrees and a whole lot of humid, and the forecast for the coming week includes a couple of 100 degree days. But there's always a "trace" of rain in the forecast!
(http://www.rccanada.ca/rccforum/picture.php?albumid=115&pictureid=27051)
I'm not complaining.......
Me either, though I don't know if it's reward for all summer or taunting us for what is coming.
I'm smoking a butter-rub encased pork butt this weekend. Y'all come! Looking at mid 70s and severe clear for Saturday!
Fall finally fell! 58 degrees this morning, it's 81 now with a nice breeze coming from the great white north. Drove all the humidity out as well, and I suspect the 90+ degree days are over for a while.
Yeah we had a spate of warm weather, I suspect the last of the high 80s we will see until next year. Now its 60s and 70 the next few 40s at night, with 'unsettled' weather, meaning I will get pelted with a rain shower if I stray too far from the house without a coat. Not been too bad of a fall so far though.
Been unbelievably nice for the past several weeks.....the summer we should have had!
(I'll come back and read this in February when I am trying to chip my fingers off a metal flagpole...😁)
We haven't had weeks but I'll take it anyway, its actually cooling off quick, had our 1st frost yesterday morning, it was down to 29, but warmed up to the low 70s, and its been nice that its calm.
I decided for my fall project, I would paint the stock trailer, what an idiot, hope this weather holds for a like 2 more weeks at the rate I'm going.
It's been absolutely beautiful here the past week. Lows in the 60s, highs in the 80's, low humidity and since it hasn't rained, no mosquitos!!
No frost here either. We got to 37° the other night, but that was it. We're seeing 40s to 60s for the foreseeable.
OK, it's chilly. Snow on the mountains. Dylan had 75 yesterday back in MN, we got to 51.
That's just...backwards.
We hit 49, but that's the public relations version, it was 43 most of the day cloudy and windy, and I am not used to that yet but any definition. You can tell we got a good killing freeze, everything is crispy that shouldn't be and mushy that should.
Another beautiful week here, lows in the 40s and highs in the mid 70's. All about to get ruined, of course, by one of those infamous "Canadian cold fronts" in the next few days. Could you please do something about that, Nony? :disturbed:
Hopefully that won't affect the last warbird fly in of the year this weekend at my local club...
Not us!
It has been warm and sunny all month here.....still got fire bans in some areas...
Temps, however, are on the decline, and we are inching closer to the frozen season.
We have slowly clawed back up to 50s, supposed to be 60s the rest of the week, maybe even a 70 might show up, of course we get some "breeze" with it this time of year. But all in all it wasn't too bad today
Well........somebody flipped the switch! Our pleasant Indian Summer has been rudely interrupted by a dusting of snow.....with more serious additions today and tomorrow. .....
We are scheduled for a reality check come Thursday, but in the meantime its like picture perfect, but for some wind.
Quote from: balsum fractus on November 01, 2022, 06:41:03 AM
Well........somebody flipped the switch! Our pleasant Indian Summer has been rudely interrupted by a dusting of snow.....with more serious additions today and tomorrow. .....
There is some kinda bonus program that I didn't know about ........
Get 2 days of snow, and they will throw in a 3rd day absolutely free!
That was just rude, went from 70 for a high to 39, and 14 for a low with a couple inches of some sort of white stuff.
Quote from: Onepoint on November 04, 2022, 11:17:04 AM
That was just rude, went from 70 for a high to 39, and 14 for a low with a couple inches of some sort of white stuff.
OK, OP, don't get Jaime stuttering again...😉
Thats OK, he won't have to try and pronounce it for a while again, looks like we are in for a 60/60 day, degrees and miles an hour. :icon_confused:
In that case, we are in for a 5-50 day with frequent seasonal reminders that anything green ( or any other color) is soooooo last month! Landscape white is the new in thing........
White stuff?? Like powdered sugar on beignets?? :disturbed:
Mid 70s and sunny here right now. There was a storm last night that was supposed to blow us into the Gulf, but it sorta died out before it got here and all we got was a little rain and a lot of hype. It was nice enough to get into the garage and do some RC building stuff.
Hoping the Astros will finish off that other &#@%&^ yankee team in the World Series tonight.
I have spent the past week shovelling and blowing Jaime's powdered sugar! !
The temps have plummeted to negative numbers, and the wind - the wicked wind of the North - is in the double digits. It was such a sudden and drastic change. You guys down south are on your own.....the back gate got buried in a snow drift somewhere.......
We had some of the worst wind out of the southeast we have had in memory yesterday, some places clocked wind over 100 mph, one gust hit 111 blowing every trailer off the road in a stretch. We were not quite that bad, but it was bad, stuff flew past I didn't even know I had.
Hey! Can you guys down in the basement throw a couple more logs on the fire? It is freakin' cold up here!!!
Yeah we are hitting our 1st single digits tonight. I want to reorder summer, but its backordered now.
I have the wood stove stoked, but it still looks like you guys are having to add degrees to get back to even.
Quotethe back gate got buried in a snow drift somewhere.......
And I think it was open! Cold front just got here, temp went from 85 to 65 in half an hour and it's raining sideways right now. Not going to get near bad enough for wood stoves, but it won't make me unhappy if you northern types keep that cold stuff all for yourselves! :disturbed:
Hmmm....enjoying so spring-like weather this week...I'm sure we will pay for this later....
We were in the 60s near 70, a little breezy, but not bad all in all, have a shot cold tonight and tomorrow and then back to seasonably warm or better. Incredibly dry still though.
Reality check again, 18 degrees, which is our high for the day already according to the forecast, and about 3" of snow so far for a change.
Same here, though a tad cooler.........
Same, low 20s. But we have 50s forecast after tomorrow.
79 degrees and cloudy right now. Three days ago, it didn't make it out of the 40s. We had thunderstorms, it got cold. Then it got warm. Now there are more thunderstorms coming. AC is running this week. I think Nony dug a trench out to the gate, put a return spring on it, then forgot to latch it so the wind blows it open and closed... :icon_mrgreen:
Jetmex- I will let you know if I ever find that gate. Meanwhile, you just keep a roaring fire going in that furnace........it's getting cold upstairs here, and it's a-gonna git colder!
😂
Heat last night. Down to 40, it's in the low 60s right now with about a 15kt wind out of the north. But, the sun is out and it's clear, so it could be worse. Back into the 80s for a few days until next week when the gate blows open again... :eek5:
We got our dose of winter, ended up with about 3" was all but it got down to -9 night before last, but we warmed back up to low 30s yesterday and looks like about 10 for the low overnight, supposed to be nice today, about 50, and then the wind starts tomorrow to push the next front through for Monday.
And people wonder why WY has so few people though "It's so beautiful".
We got this going on......
QuoteWarnings
3:58 PM MST Thursday 01 December 2022
Extreme Cold Warning in effect for:
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park
☃️🥶
We will be a little better than that, but I don't know how much better it will feel.
"temperature rising to near 37 by 10am, then falling to around 21 during the remainder of the day. Windy, with a west wind 15 to 25 mph increasing to 30 to 40 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 60 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%."
Still you can keep that - 30 stuff, dob't feel as if you need to share. :icon_razz:
Mighty blowy here.
QuoteStill you can keep that - 30 stuff, don't feel as if you need to share. :icon_razz:
Ditto that!!
64 degrees here right now, on the way to a high of 75. It'll be in the low 80s a few days next week. Maybe a rain shower or two. Hopefully the gate is frozen shut so you guys can enjoy the balmy weather... :disturbed:
Tumbleweed storm predicted...
QuoteExtreme Cold Warning in effect for:
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park
Extremely cold wind chill values near minus 40 are expected tonight. A few areas may see wind chill values approach minus 50.
You guys down in the basement......please stoke up the furnace, and throw lots of extra wood on.....we gonna need it tonight!!
Brrr, we are more or less pleasant, kind of cool at 40 or so, but calm and mostly sunny.
QuoteYou guys down in the basement......please stoke up the furnace, and throw lots of extra wood on.....we gonna need it tonight!!
Not cold enough here for the furnace to even come on and we haven't used the fireplace in 20 years! It was 85 yesterday, supposed to be 87 today and will remain that way the rest of the week. It rained for about thirty seconds yesterday morning, but it's sunny today.
Hang in there and stay warm, Nony. Spring is only five months away! :disturbed:
Ugh, looks like we are going to get a reality check that we still get winter. Starting Monday night, 1-3" 30mph gusting to 40. Then same all day Tuesday and petering out through the day Wednesday, Thursday it just blows around what we get. No blizzard warning yet nor snow totals, but if the predictions are right... duh. highs in the low 20 for as far they show. The map shows minimum 4" possible. Which means 1- 14 inches may happen, though you won't know since it will all be piled behind anything that stops wind.
Of course the snow part may be off and much less, but we can always count on the wind and cold.
Yeah I see a huge system brewing down that-a-way........
It is still December here......
Well they finally put up the blizzard warning and gave some updated snow totals for us, over the next 3 days from 8-15", heaviest on Tuesday with 45mph gusts. Snow to taper off Wednesday, wind continues through Saturday at least. But Don Day our local weather guru was honest enough to say it will be tough to measure and will keep moving for days.
Not looking forward to this at all. I will feed cows enough for 2 days today, but come Wednesday it may get dicey if I can even get out to them, and I have my big loader in the shop getting a new clutch. :eusa_doh:
Sorry to hear, OP. A year ago and before we pretty much shared the exact same weather. Right now warnings are going up in Fargo. Here in the Springs they're stressing over 30° and the fact that while we might get no snow, support centers will be open to treat them the local weather guys panic.
It's kind of embarrassing, really...🥺
Yeah, must be setting up just right for us, they upped the snow total for the 3 days to 10-18" and 50 mph gusts through the Wednesday at least, already the holiday activities and local meetings have been canceled, I look for schools to close if we have 4" by morning.
I mean it's not our 1st blizzard, but the 1st in a good long time, and it's easy to get used to sub-tropical winters and not like I really missed them. I already have enough stories about going to school in the snow up hill both ways, and heck I can just lie about it rather than actually live it anyway.
We prepped as good as we can, now we just hunker down.
And it looks like we get treated for some freezing rain to kick it all off. :eusa_doh:
Well so much for prepping look like the heat element went out on the automatic waterer, wind chill cold enough to freeze the hose threads instantly. going to be some thirsty cows come morning. :eusa_wall:
Oh geez........
Wasn't the worst blizzard we have had, though it still going. I spent a couple hours on the loader digging drifts out to feed, still haven't thawed the waterer out so am using tubs and a hose to water 30 head of cows, what a PITA that is. And I wanted to be a cowboy :eusa_doh:
The bottom pic was about a 5' drift right in the gate out to the pasture. 2- 2 1/2' drifts in the yard. No idea how much we got for total.
Yah, pretty dicey up to your nort'west. Dylan said his 12 mile drive home last night was mostly sideways, they got a half inch of rain before it turned to another 7 inches or so of snow. Heavy wet stuff.
What dusting we got is all gone already, what I'm told is the main reason to live here... :eusa_think:
Roads are still closed across the entire NE panhandle. Lots of stories how people had to go around barricades to get home yesterday.
I did manage to get the waterer thawed out, temp got up 27 so stuff stayed unthawed, if it wasn't for the wind picking up and drifting most of what I cleared again I would be almost content.
Just a suggestion....you guys might want to hatten down the batches......another system coming out of the North (yes, more North than us!!) bring snow, wind, blowing snow and minus frigid temps! #blameAlaska
Yeah I see, this one coming is the 'cold' air. :eusa_eh: I mean seriously? Its frickin cold now. Although it must be sliding east more because they are moderating the cold warnings, started out we were supposed to see 2 days of near zero highs and nights at double digit negatives, now it's one day of 10 and - 8, thankfully someone cancelled that order.
The wind is just relentless with this, doesn't seem to slow down in the dark and has not abated, in fact got stronger for a while yesterday, I have dug some drifts out 3 times already and the ones I haven't, have grown.
Ok, somebody close the gate. Cold, raining and windy right now, with the weather guessers saying we'll be in the 20's this weekend. What's up with that? At least there won't be any ssssnnn.....ssssssnsssn....snsnnnsss...well, you know.
Going to share the joy, tis the season.
Finally at about 4 pm yesterday the wind slowed, still blowing but not howling, I guess it decided enough snow was moved from the field to the yard. We may even make it to freezing today.
Kind of funny how you go from wondering for months if winter is going to happen to living what seems like months worth after just a couple days of having it.
Bright & shiny like a billy goats hiney here up against Pikes Peak.
And should be in the 30s today. We're just west of the "super freeze bubble" the local alarmists were calling for.
Brrrrrrrr.............!
It's cold........but not as cold as it could ( or will) be.....but outside is not a place to be right now.....
Hunker down boys!!
https://youtu.be/yaRf4pesoVg
Yeah, the polar express is roaring through here about mid-day Wednesday, that night supposed to be -27 regular temp for a low and "breeze" to feel like -50 so they say, Thur -10 for a high, and another negative 20 or less night. The coldest wind chill I have been in is -65 in Cheyenne about 45 years ago, and I really didn't want to do it again.
Trying to get ready for 48 hours of misery for cattle and try to keep water flowing if going to be fun. Really hoping it drifts more east so we miss the worst of cold.
Ironically Xmas day may be the warmest day we have seen in the last 10.
The front end of that polar express is here now. Low 40s all day and raining. It's supposed to warm up a bit tomorrow and Thursday, then below freezing through the weekend.
And the idiots at ERCOT assure we won't be in the dark... :disturbed:
I got to thinking if we hit the -27 they predict, and we hit 108 this summer, that's a swing of 135 degrees! Gotta love WY.
Heh, nature is such a tease, its 34 right now at 7 am, after being about 10 when I went to bed, but the front is poised about 40 miles north and behind it is the freezer.
You have be spared......for now!
Us:
QuoteThe coldest wind chill values will occur in the overnight and early morning hours. Some areas may see wind chill values of minus 50 or colder this morning and again tonight.
A warming trend is expected by the weekend
Yeah, that was a nice 4 hours of tolerable weather,
It was kind of wild, we got up to 39, and then it started down. I had to go get a battery for a truck about 11 this morning, and in the 20 minutes it took me to get to town it went from 30 to 3 when I got there. By the time I got back home it was reading 2 and windchill said -12. Right now it's -6 and - 25 windchill and snowing. It dropped a degree as I was writing this post. (http://www.fubarhill.com/emoticons/cold.gif)
At least it let us prep the animal a little.
Not bad here right now, 53 and about 6/10 cloud cover, but the bad northern stuff is on the way. The worst of it will get here Friday night with temps in the teens, and wind chills below zero. That will go through Saturday and it will start warming up on Christmas day. You fellers up north can feel free to just keep all of this up there if you'd like! Swamps are just not set up for this kind of thing... :disgust:
Yeah, poor widdle Texas...after last year I figured you guys would have a lot of ceo types rotting in prison, but don't be surprised if this year you get second verse, same as the first.
We're forecast for -11 tonight, high of maybe -1 tomorrow morning. Then back to 40s+ for the foreseeable. I'll accept that.
-19 and the weather station say we hit -42 windchill, but it's still bouncing around -36. Looks like a couple inches of snow just to rub it in as well. We get by tomorrow I may thaw out, of course it will take that long just to get unbundled from today. I think that's the worst, is all the extra clothes make moving 10x harder.
Quoteafter last year I figured you guys would have a lot of ceo types rotting in prison
Naw, they all contributed to the ruling class political campaigns, no way anyone is going to touch them. Them rulers in the big fancy capitol houses don't have to worry about any of this, because they either have backups or will just leave the state and go somewhere warmer.
But - global warming!!
Well, it's winter. 16 degrees with a wind chill right around zero. The wind has been steady from the north at about 20kts all night and doesn't look like it's abating at all. At least the sun is out, so it doesn't look like winter.
Back into the 60s and 70s next week.
Says we are at 16 too. Doesn't feel that warm with snow cover, but the wind is down to 10 or less so its way more tolerable to be out in.
No breeze to speak of, but we in the eastern nether region of CO Springs are at 10°, have been all day.
Some said Calhan got to 42° below last night, but the jaybirds in this area seem to think that windchill IS the temperature...
Almost up to 0 today!! Wind - and lots of it- is from the East, which is weird......
Sun is shining and it's 40 degrees outside right now. I hope the worst of the cold is over, though it will still be in the 20s and 30s for a few more nights.
We hit 40 as well, and calm, everything is thawing out but the waterer, hope it didn't break anything.
Mid 50s here.
Xmas we got close to 50, it was windy but felt warm anyway. The waterer thawed finally and now the drifts are starting to melt and run off a little, makes some interesting morning walking through the yard with spontaneous dance out bursts trying to keep your feet on the bottom side of you.
Slowly thawing out here. 60 degrees and sunny outside, though it will still probably drop to freezing for a few more nights.
What a difference a few days and a closed gate makes! 76 degrees and raining right now, will be clear and sunny for the next few days. I suspect the fence that the gate is attached to ended up with some big ssssnnnnssnsndrifts piled up against it, which blocked the wind.... :disturbed:
Yeah we warmed up a bit too, all but the deepest drifts are gone. Raining here too, but it's only 37. They are predicting another 'big snow', 5" (or possibly 15") for us starting Sunday, but much less wind and 40 degrees warmer than last time.
I guess I can stop whining we won't get a winter
It has warmed up to just a tad below freezing.....which is perfect this time of year....keeps the snow frozen. The worse thing that can happen is the snow melting during the day, then freezing into ice overnight.......definitely do not want that!
Clear, sunny and 71 degrees after a few days of rain. It'll be like this a few days and then the next cold front hits, so we'll be in the 40's to upper 60's. Spring is only a month or two away!
Happy New Year, y'all!
We were unposed to get a "significant " winter storm, predicted 6-12" of snow and got about 3" and 6 hours of freezing drizzle. It's wet at least and not intolerable hovering around freezing.
We had some rain Sunday, but other than that, it's been beautiful here. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s, lows between 45-55, clear and sunny during the day. This is what winter should be like!! :disturbed:
We warmed up for a few days. Then yesterday had a "shot of snow" forecasted that turned out to be 4" of wet heavy stuff. Temps tolerable around freezing in the day and mid 20s at night, which is cold but much better than that bitter way below zero stuff we had. This keeps up and I will start to think we have broken our drought after 3 year or more now having a real winter with snow and everything. For the first time in I don't recall how long the forecast errored on the plus side of what we got.
For those of you who haven't lived this close to the North Pole 😁, in the days around the Winter Solstice ( the shortest day of the year..) it starts getting dark around 4:10 in the afternoon, and by 4:30, it is pitch black. The good news is we are past that, and the days are getting longer.....in the past 3 weeks, we have gained an extra hour of daylight!
The other side of this story, 6 months from now, the sun sets around 10:15, and you start needing a flashlight around 11:00-ish..........although the sky is still lit up to the north of us.
Being several parallels south, we were having sun set at 4:30 and getting dark by 5 or so, summer solstice we stay light to about 9:30 and its bright enough at 5 am to not worry about headlights. Still your days are longer when warm and shorter when cold than us. I noticed that difference when we lived in MT too, we were close to the west edge of the time zone and it would stay light until 10:30 in the summer, since we were in a deep Mt valley, the twilight lasted forever it seemed. That took a little getting used to when we moved here a little further east on the plains, when the sun goes down, the twilight doesn't last long.
Look out, Honcho, looks like we got a good one blowin' in tomorrow!
Oop, my bad. It thought they said Wednesday.
It's today. We've been skirted by these larger storms, but apparently not this one. Expecting snow today, how sideways it falls will depend on your particular wind tunnel. :disturbed:
Yeah, they are not saying much about wind, but the snow total keeps creeping up, last Friday it was flurries and showers, now it's a day and half and 5 to 10"
Pretty mild-ish here.....temps hovering around freezing, but going up next week, then down, down, down. No wind, lots of fog. Roads are a mess with the melting slush and sand mixture....the road surface is bare, but you get this brown goo sprayed all over the vehicle...
80 degrees here today, should be the same tomorrow before winter comes back and drops us back into the 60s. More rain on the way as well.
I have a feeling our drought may be over, the predictions for the last 3 years for amounts have either been way under or totally missed. The last 3 storms they have been on the top end of what they predict,
Looks like about 6" out there and still snowing pretty good.
How much can you save til mid July???😁😅
Right now it seems like it will be here until then.
The dog likes it awayway.
Dayamn! We got a stupid half inch, just enough to make the Louisianans & Florida's screw traffic into a standstill.
Glad to hear that your drought is over, or at least getting better Honcho. Ours is just getting worse!!!
Hey Carl, you look to be getting a reprieve this week. Don't forget to report!
OK, I don't want to play winter anymore. We still have about 8" of the last stuff left, I have been moving it out of the way as best I can but still seems like it encroaches where you walk. Everywhere I did manage to blade the deep stuff after the storm is about 3" of white ice now. Temps were mellowed a little, so a few spots of dirt could be seen in the drive way, which freeze solid overnight. Now temps are trending down again. We get dustings of snow at least every other day. Now the wind is coming back and temps fall into the 10s for highs and below zero lows for the next week they say.
I finally got my tractor back with a new clutch for the loader which will help, but I have 2 of the littler ones chained up just to get through the slop or make it across the ice chasms left by frozen tracks. It's been a long time since I had to chain up tractors for ice.
:disgust: Blech, feels like the 35th week of January already.
We get cold and snow on normal winters, but we get warmups that melt it away, we don't usually get cold and snow like this for this long at one time. I'm starting to expect to see polar bears, caribou with penguins around the pond. I mean what the hell Nony? I enjoy a good prank as much as anyone, but let's pick on Jaime for a while.
Quotebut let's pick on Jaime for a while.
Hey, it's not my fault we don't get that white stuff down here. The voodoo dolls I have of y'all sure help, though.... :disturbed:
Winter (or what passes for winter here) came back this week with a lot of cold rain, high winds and temps not much above 40 right now. Tornados hit just a few miles south of us yesterday when the front blew through, just a little too close for my liking. Got to gusting about 40mph yesterday and it's still windy today. At least the sun came out, so it doesn't look like winter.
Y'all are welcome to come down for the winter. I might have room for a cow or two in the backyard. And the feeder...
For what it is worth, we are down in Mexico (50th anniversary) and it is windy and gets pretty cold once the sun ( that bright light up in the sky) goes down. Lots of people in sweaters and jackets! With the wind out of the north, we are blessed today with LA smog!
Happy anniversary to you 2!
But you forgot to close the window before you left, now Mexico won't let you come back.
This just gets better and better. The wind picked up to about 35-40, clouds moved out, we are getting ground blizzards and white outs that with the sun so bright and glaring you can't see in them, and its drifting roads shut all across the region on top of it.
Wow, and here I am, nothing to report. Though I could continue the dialog on the terroristic driving habits of Texans, Louisianans, Floridians, Californians, Illinoians, New Mexicans, South Carolinans, Alabamans, Georgians, New Yorkers, Virginians, Oregonians, Kentukians, etc., etc., etc al in what should be a fair common sense-based street environment.
It's worse when they see or suspect that there may be snowflakes in the vicinity.
Do these people leave their driving sensibilities at home when they come here or are they unqualified for the streets there as well?
Oh, 36° without a lick of wind (just to qualify as a weather post :icon_wink: )
Well I can say officially winter sucks. Vicki got stuck in her Wrangler on the route about 4pm in a drift going across the county road, about 3 miles north of Morrill NE. As of just now she is waiting for her postmaster to show up with a tractor to get her out hopefully, he already tried to pull her out with his F350 to no joy. I asked if she wanted me to come up, and said no, if he can't get it, it's going to take a big tractor or wrecker. And they get to work in the dark now. :eusa_wall:
That was fun. Fortunately, she was close enough to town and her boss luckily has a newer little tractor with cab and snow blower and blew out a path to get to her and pull her out, she got home about 7:30. Journal entry starts with - "day 389 of January..."
Sorry to hear your tribulations up there. We're in some kind of Vortex of Snowlessness here. We get the occasional nastiness, but more than 2 inches is a true phenomenon so far.
We did get it like yours in MN, but clearing the driveway was always my headache. The kids would get stuck in the drifts there, but they'd just come in the house and sulk about it.
Soldier on, Honcho. We are shoveling beside you in our hearts 💕
We got 1 3/10ths in of rain this last time. It was so needed and we are so grateful to get it. Later that evening it starting Canada snowing!!! Snowflakes the size of silver dollars, and so heavy. Tried to post a video, and pic, but no joy. It didn't stick because it was to wet and warm. Supposed to get bad again starting Monday evening.
Wow, that's a good shot of moisture, we have some as well but still locked up in ice. Supposed to get another 4" over then couple days and back into the singles for highs. I hope it gets it out of its system by march when we start calving, or this is going to be real fun.
I guess we were starting to clear off a bit, so Mother nature is giving us another 4 to 8" by Monday morning, and we probably have 4" already. Of course its being efficient and blowing as it snows to save the fuss in between and smooth out all the places we had cleared off.
All that white stuff you guys have melted by the time it got here and we got the result. It will be raining here through Wednesday. And the temps will be all over the place again for the next week or so. I'm glad the gate finally got closed, but maybe one of you could put some weatherstripping on it? :disturbed:
Back to the snow and cold ......only 2-1/2 months of winter left......
So we got about 4" so far as I can tell, still snowing but not piling up much, fluffy stuff, covered every bit of ground, so you can't tell where the old drifts are, ruts piles or anything else, walking an adventure and just a little dangerous trying to drive, you can't see where the road ends. Even where its bladed, there is snowpack or ice, so it's all white. just bright enough with a light cloud cover its so glaring, with the snow having smoothed everything out yiou have no idea what you are driving in. I even got off the tractor, walked to where I have a crossing over a small ditch, thought I figured out where the end of the culvert was, but must have been on a frozen drift and still drove into it, and just about got stuck. We get winters so it's not like we ebenr see snow and cold, but this just absolutely sucks right now. But at least we are 8 above. :eusa_wall:
If I didn't have white hair before I surely do after this, like a gnome, I may come out of my cave at the summer solstice.
You gots white hair??
😳
Whats left of it. :icon_razz:
Geez....I remember a dashing cowboy/rancher type with a 5 year old daughter.......
Yeah I vaguely remember that too, I have no idea where he got off to, but an old curmudgeon is who keep looking at me in the mirror.
I had two five year old daughters once. But that was sometime late last century.... :eek5:
Awright already. Someone up there left the gate open again. It hasn't been much above 40 the last three days, though we just missed, but not by much, the ice storm that hit north of us. 38 degrees and raining right now. It's February, winter can be over now....
Heh, we are still in some sort of hellish snowscape, with undead snowmen standing staring at you at some houses and some sort of bundled up big foot type things wandering about, and apparently trucks and cars when it gets cold like to pile up and snuggle on the roads.
I'm sure this is normal in Canananada, which now has opened up a whole new realization, Canadians are insane, because there is no way you can remain nice throughout this stuff.
This is really unusual though, we get snows, sometimes blizzards and deep ones, but normally it warms up and melts off in between, at least in all but the shady spots. The 1st one from mid Dec piled up, still have some drifts from it that are essentially ice mounds now, the next one in mid Jan that gave a deep wet blanket over that, and even stayed on the tin roofs still only partially coming off, so there are snow curtain hanging, then we get another 4" and it is a distinct layer on top of that. All the places you move it too just are getting higher not slowly melting down. Though it hasn't been terribly cold except the last 2 or 3 days, (night before last Lyman had -28 real temp again, though I got up to -9 at 5 am here), but it's just cold enough it's not melting much.
And we have been getting wind off and on, and that drifted up the snow that's around, some of the county roads were unpassable this week again. I went out yesterday with the tractor and spent an hour pushing snow around the yard, I had some stealth drifts sneak up under me and got me stuck in the tractor for a bit, and no sooner got done than I saw a great white wall of blowing snow coming from the west which put a thin layer of snow back over everything and then moved on. :eusa_wall:
Could be lots worse I realize, western and central WY have been slammed, way deeper snow, and much colder, they were -38 for 2 nights in a row I hear over ins Shoshone though that's not as abnormal there than this is. But it's bad enough this feeding cows thing is like a real job. And just walking through the un shoveled parts is some sort of forced crossfit training nighmare.
Quote from: jetmex on February 01, 2023, 07:48:28 AM
It's February, winter can be over now....
'Fraid not.....although it typically is the last month of hard winter.
I will empathize with you guys though...that is chilly!
My fear is that it gives ammunition to the climate-change zealots........
45 and severe clear here. 55 tomorrow, Friday and Saturday...
I'm told that we in CO Springs are on the northern edge of what is called a "snow-hole", hence we and those in the Pueblo area are given free use of the word "drought".
We have not been above freezing since early Monday, continuous freezing drizzle and rain, and we have a solid 3/4 inch of ice on everything.
I guess we are picking on you Carl, we finally had a melting day, got up to 40 and it started to get soggy. Now we get the slop fest if the temps hold out like they predict, but at least we may see some brown spots and it won't be a slog through drifts, I had to get up yesterday and get the tractor going just to get Vicki through our county road because it had blown shut again.
There is a blip in the space/time continuum.......it got way above freezing and the sun is shinning! It is supposed to be warm until the 15th, then dip down to more seasonal temperatures.....
There was a blip indeed! 60 degrees and severe clear here, sun is shining, birds are chirping and hopefully this winter crap is done for the year. We're headed the same way as Nony - really nice for a few days, then some cooler weather, but not nearly as cold as it has been.
Well, all the ice has melted, now we are slopping through the mud. Was 54 yesterday, supposed to be 70 today, and 75 tomorrow. Then another cold wet front coming on Tuesday.
We are a long way away from 70s, but we hit near 50 yesterday. Vicki says up north on her route the roads are already deep slop mud, here still snow packed and slushy, the yard is still snow packed and icy with water standing in a few places, another day or 2 of warm and it will be mostly mud and slush. Not too excited about the mud, but glad the snow is going. Normally a little snow is no big deal to contend with, but these were big snows, one was a lot in accumulation but the 1st and 3 snow came with wind and I have some impressive drifts still in the tree line and out back along the fences and equipment. You know it's bad when 100 hp tractors are getting stuck, and with it melting off its going to be worse in the slop for a bit. I am thankful for the moisture, but I dreaded this part of it and we are no where near done with snow yet.
I guess my bitching was justified a little, Jan was the snowiest and wettest on record officially, beat out 1894s record. Over 2' and 1.7" of moisture in it. For the season we have had nearly 4' of snow they say. I think we here are little less, they had a 8" snow we only got maybe an inch out of, still, Jan tends just to be cold, not snowy so much. We would get days of a lot of hoarfrost type thing and have some left over snow. Feb so far looks dry and relatively mild. Which is good, I have to do some traveling to CO and Cheyenne this comng week and the road between can truly be an adventure even just a little snow and any wind.
Hope you can save some of that moisture for mid summer.
We are having a teaser Spring thaw this week .....46 degrees and lots of melting....
We have been getting a thaw as well, and what a mess. We actually have large brown areas now in the yard, but have to be careful where you drive or leave deep ruts despite all the gravel I have hauled in over the years. We get the grand lakes by afternoon, and skating ring by morning. Makes for interesting walking, even the cats tip toe. I hear it actually dries up eventually.
Now that the level snow is subsiding, the drifts really are standing out, we had some huge beggars in the tree line that I didn't realize how deep, a couple are probably still 6' despite having lost a foot or more of snow cover. Some 4" still on the north side of a stack of bales where i have some scrap piled that I just now have been able to get close to see.
The wacko winter continues here - it's 80 degrees out right now after rain this morning. More 30 degree overnights on the way, but the daytime temps will be from the 60's to the 80's depending on what time it is. I suspect that the gate is being opened and closed often by people fleeing the Great White North. :eek5:
Yeah well, we got weather coming in this morning. hat skirted to the south yesterday is now a blizzard coming to a Fargo near you, and Colorado's expecting "The Big One" tonight and all day tomorrow. What they call a blizzard here is laughable compared to what I'm used to, but I never had thousands of foreigners making the roadways way more dangerous than simple snow and wind.
It's like "Don't you go out drivin' in that, Bert", responded with "Oh, don'tcha worry nothin' hunny, I saw'r this in a cartoon once, so I'm purty sure I can do it!"
his is why we stay housebound. It's not that we can't. It's that they can't... :disturbed:
Geez...all we get is a few snow flurries.........next week we're back in the deep freeze!
Looks like the Springs is getting it today. Yeah, its not like Minnasnowta, but like you say Californians have a genetic disposition to be complete idiots on icy roads.
I had to go to CO last Wednesday with a stock trailer, the road report said "blowing snow, icy in spots". That is WY code for make sure you have a shovel and 4x4. We hit sections on highway 85 for 1/2 mile that were one lane and 6" of slushy and sticky stuff and 3" of packed from drifting despite plows out. Went by a car who had plowed into the drifted barrow pit with a statey parked assisting and the guy scratching his head looking at the whole front buried to the hood. A little bit later came across a pickup that had rolled earlier buried in the deep stuff. I was worried they would close it before we got back through. On the way back it must have cooled off enough it was just ice and not as bad to travel across.
I was supposed to take my mom to Cheyenne for and eye appointment the next day, it was only slightly worse, "blowing snow, icy in spots, limited visibility, no unnecessary travel". I noped that right off, the last time I traveled that in no unnecessary travel was the absolute worst drive I have ever had in winter, took about 3 hours to travel 60 miles and about 5 years off my life.
Anyway, we got maybe an inch, its blowing and pretty cold but still mild compared to the last 3 storms we have had.
We aren't the worst off, the brunt is hitting the eastern plains, but we're right on the edge of the eastern plains, so we get our share. A few mountain passes have over 2 feet already, outside the patio door it looks like +/- 6"...so far. A mile south they're reporting 11". The snow is supposed to continue another 4 hours, the winds 12 hours after that.
Yet this is nothing compared to storms we got in Fargo several times every year, but then again, there is no California component in ND.
We have had some relatively nice days, it's been windy of course, but in the 50s.
But here we go again, another artic blast roll through starting Tuesday night. Rain switching to snow, 3-5" possible overnight. High on Wed near 10 and 30mph gusts, dropping to -17 for a low, snow until Thursday where our high is supposed to be around 8 with -3 that night, Friday we might get close to 30. blech.
Hey! That's the same forecast we got !!!
Well I don't mind sharing but let's do it with something more pleasant!
Gate's closed. The cold weather finally broke and we've been in the 70s and 80s for the past few days, and it looks like it will be that way for a while. Nice to be back in shirtsleeves instead of wrapped in a parka!
Throw another couple of logs on the fire, woudya? It is freezing up here in the attic!
Quote.Extreme Cold Warning in effect for:
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park
Extremely cold wind chill values near minus 40 will continue.
The wind chill may moderate during the day but extreme cold will continue through the week.
Ugh, not quite that bad here, it was 0 this morning, 7 right now and just slightly breezy, had freezing rain last night before dark which froze my wind meter and all the hinges and door handles. Now the snow is so cold its squeaky when you walk on it and sounds like I am walking across Styrofoam, can hear me coming for a 1/4 mile. :icon_lol:
Friday, the end of a week of muggy days in the 80s. Got a little rain last night, just enough to stir up the dust on my truck. More of the same coming up, though it will be getting a little cooler at night, 60s instead of 70s. None of that semi frozen humidity falling from the sky here!
Wow, did everyone get frozen in? It's been a beautiful week here, severe clear and temps in the 70s and 80s. It is yellow pollen time, though...
Yeah, it has been pretty quiet round here...
Nothing much changed.....still winter here.....
Yeah, just going through the winter slog. Finally got warm enough to melt mostly, frozen ice humps where the drifts were, it quit puddling up in the drive finally and is starting to dry out, but out in the places it can't run off are mini lakes. Got another shot of winter coming this week, cold for this time of year, again and snow though they are not saying how much. Its been a rough winter.
CO Springs is currently distributing a nasty cold/flu bug. I woke this morning with symptoms, so weather, for me right now, is inconsequential. From what others who've had this virus have told me, it's pretty mild...for about 5 days, then gets nasty. T flew to MN yesterday, says she feels fine.
But to stay on topic, it's sunny, dry and 50° here now.
Gonna see some mid 60s today, We were pretty close to 60 yesterday, but it felt cool despite what it said, but then I was running around with no coat on. might see a 70 by Wednesday, then get punished for thinking winter may be over towards the end of the week.
W. T. F. It was 40 degrees this morning, weather guessers are saying low 30s tomorrow morning. The gate must have blown open again. Once again, hopefully this is the last of it, as temps will be back in the 70s and 80s next week. Maybe...
We were at 10 yesterday morning for a good while until the sun warmed it up, never got above 40, but all the snow is finally gone except maybe in the deepest corners. They are talking like it will be springy until midweek, and then maybe snow again.
Sunny and melty here.......thanks for sending some heat up.....!
Almost the end of March and it just won't be spring, we have been mostly dry since the 1st of the month, but cold and windy a lot except for a few days. It has finally melted all the drifts away and dried up everything. But not many days has it felt good to be out all day.
I don't know if anyone has seen the pics, but seeing 648" of snow at Mammoth CA that had the chairlifts buried to the top of the towers is just incredible.
It is trying to be Spring, but we keep getting these pesky snow showers ...
We are below normal temps and snow for the month, cold and windy takes swipe on my sunny disposition.
Started calving a week ago or so, the up and down temps are not making momma cows happy either.
So does "Happy cow, happy life" apply here??
Yes, if not happy, at least not miserable.
Not many cows in the 'hood, but the longhorns on the oil lease land a few blocks from here are out and about looking for them... :icon_mrgreen:
74 degrees, humid and 5/10 cloud cover. It's been really windy the past two weeks, and while the weather guessers have been pontificating about rain, it hasn't happened. We'll be looking at some 90 degree days next week.
Hmm yes, windy. Fires south of us, fires to the west. We have friends pretty close to the one south of Florissant, they'll likely be evacuated today. We can see an on again off again plume rise behind Pikes Peak. They're saying the wind and temperatures are going to be the same today--55.
..and humidity in the single digits do nothing to help.
No longhorns down the street, but a good size heard of Angus grazing, with 20 or 30 pronghorn trying to blend in.
It may be April, but feels like November. About equal parts snow and bare ground, but cold, cloudy, and persistent snow flurries...by cold, I mean a few degrees below freezing, though when the wind hits, you do feel it.......
We also have been having a seasonal identity crisis, maybe not as bad as that, but one day might be 60, once in a while relatively calm and nice, then get hit with the next 3 of cloudy cold and windy then might get in the 60s for a day then bounce between 40s and 50s until the next system which have been coming every 3 to 4 days. Been a lot of snow north and west in the state, but we have missed most of it, though we are supposed to catch some, maybe 3 to 6" today through Wednesday, but with a high of 25 and some single digits lows, which is getting pretty late in the year for. We can use the moisture for sure, because the dry wind the last month has sucked out most what we had banked. March being our snowiest month supposedly, at the house we had no measurable the whole time. We are supposed to turn out cows a month from now, and grass is only just thinking about waking up.
This stuff just wont go away, woke up to a couple inches of blowing snow, and have got 4 more through the day. Almost at freezing so it's wet not miserably cold, but what a crappy time to do this. We have a calf on the porch wondering where mom went.
Seasonal identity crisis is right! Chilly and raining for the past few days (only supposed to get to 61 today), though we did need the rain. The coming week looks like it will be pretty nice.
The noisy motorcycles are out, so it must be Spring!
We finally get a taste of spring, 60s, near 70 today, they are talking 80s Tuesday. Yesterday was the 1st day in I don't honestly know how long there was no wind, not just mild breeze, it was as calm as could be. I just have to do a months worth of work in a couple days so I can enjoy it.
Yah, 60s und 70s hier auch....
Remember how I was complaining that it felt like November? That was a week ago........now, virtually all the snow has melted and it is seasonably warm!!
Since the ground is still too frozen to absorb the moisture, I expect us to go into fire season soon......lets hope not!
We got a big ol high pressure area, it was near 80 today, supposed to be mid 80s tomorrow. All the snow is gone, nearly all the mud too, grass is even starting to wake up. We are about 2 weeks late for starting field work, so I'm rushing around like I am trying to catch all the rides at the amusement park in one day.
We have a flood advisory due to high temps and potential runoff, we had about 7" last week, up north they had 30" on the flat and 4' on Casper mountain which is right next to Casper WY, could get interesting for those folks.
Something weird happenin'............the sky is leaking!!
We went from blustery winter type stuff to one day of spring and then got hot yesterday, 87 and blazing sun, I wore a T shirt and sunburned the heck out my arms. Same today before the reality check this weekend of 50s and maybe a shot of snow and drizzle.
According to the movies, you rugged outdoorsy types have skin like leather and never sunburn........
😂
Well, it's like dainty leather, all wrinkly but white, because I have turned into a gnome in the winter months and just now have poked my head out of the cave. Should do like the groundhog, "nope, too peoplely"
Winter just will not let go, not much moisture, but cold and windy for days again now. 40s for highs and 20s for lows don't make grass grow.
Had some pretty heavy thunderstorms last night, left us an inch and half of rain. When I went out earlier this morning, the sky was blue to the west and gray to the east, but now the sun's out, 68 degrees, looks like it's going to be a nice day.
Honcho, I hear saddle soap is good for dainty leather, but don't use Armor-All afterwards. It's got alcohol in it and may cause cracks.... :disturbed:
Neatsfoot oil.
Udder balm.
Cool, now whatchgot for the ugly. :disturbed:
QuoteCool, now whatchgot for the ugly.
Jack Daniels. Lots of it.... :icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen:
We're told to hunker down for up to two feet of snow tonight.
And here I am in falcebook jail again. Apparently among all the things one CAN post on one's page, video of a well spoken, well prepared parent exposing government payoffs to school board officials is "inciting violence" to the underlords at government controlled social sites.
At least I have Billy Boyle and Uncle Ike to keep me company...
We need to CNTL-ALT-DEL our whole society!!
Quote from: balsum fractus on April 26, 2023, 07:08:14 AM
We need to CNTL-ALT-DEL our whole society!!
And these so-called "weather forcasters". They predicted 2 feet of snow as late as 10 o'clock last night, we got under an inch...of rain.
We got a 1/2" or so of rain, and welcome it was over the snow they said might have come. Despite the predictions we would have wet spring, it has been dry again, better than last year but certainly nothing to brag about. Its been cold and windy plenty, we just keep missing the wet. In some cases I am thankful we dodged the 12 to 24" snows they have had north and south of us, unfortunately that doesn't make grass grow very well.
It has been quite pleasant up here.....warm enough for shirt sleeves, lots of sun, a bit of rain, but lots of wind.......and it is dry. I think most of the snow evaporated rather than melted, so the soil is probably pretty dry.....
Trees are starting to bud, grass is starting to turn green, and our first strawberry plant poked out of the soil......
Probably a good thing spring is as stubborn to come as winter is to leave. I had to take Kayla to DIA last Saturday, I drove through snow showers, I picked her up on Friday this week, and it was already noticeably greener. I notice the weeds are growing pretty good in the protected areas here.
I also realized I am a neolithic recluse after going into the real city, its like we aren't even the same species, but that's a whole other topic. :icon_biggrin:
We're heading to DIA this afternoon to pick Dylan up so can be the surprise DoorDash delivery guy for the PuddinFace' 23rd this week.
I dread this drive, but at least we only skirt the city to get there.
Puddin' Face is 23? Already? :eek5: Now I feel a little better about my oldest turning 40 last month....
Weather here in sorta sunny north central Florida is sorta sunny after a week of thunderstorms and rain.
It worked...Puddin's roommate made a fake call to Popeyes. Dylan was the delivery guy...
https://youtu.be/ubhEfSLA_SA
Ha good one. "you guys suck" :icon_lol:
Proud of you.......that is something I would have done! Well played!!
Meanwhile - back to our regularly scheduled program - "complaining about the weather". Summer has struck!! 85 degrees F.......hotter than the surface of the sun for us Northerners.
Oh yeah....it is very dry and windy......excellent breeding ground for wildfires!
Quote85 degrees F.......hotter than the surface of the sun for us Northerners.
You know what they say about paybacks, Nony, dontcha?? :disturbed: :disturbed:
Only 85? :icon_mrgreen:
Quote from: jetmex on May 01, 2023, 07:30:42 PM
Quote85 degrees F.......hotter than the surface of the sun for us Northerners.
You know what they say about paybacks, Nony, dontcha?? :disturbed: :disturbed:
Only 85? :icon_mrgreen:
Actually, it peaked at 90! When last I visited the Fubar World Headquarters it was 104 in the shade - that was brutal!!
Someone initiated August 1.0 ( very hot, very dry and very windy)....
We were just starting Spring....trees and grass were just starting to turn green....now this!!
Well sorry my farting cows broke the weather, maybe I should raise bugs?
Well this wildfire situation is getting too real! We have one a couple miles south of us, and another a few miles north. Both areas have evacuation orders..........
Man, pretty early in the year for that stuff. We have picked up about an inch of rain the last week, but Lyman just 7 miles away as the crow flies had almost 2 in an hour, had street flooding up to the tops of wheels on cars.
The situation has improved...the fire to the south of us is out, and the one to the north is controlled. Evacuation orders have been cancelled.
I tell ya....it was pretty tense here last night...being caught in the middle like that! It has cooled down and we are supposed to get showers tonight and tomorrow......not much, but it will help!
Yes! It's raining!!
Great! always a relief with a fire threat.
They are saying we could get some heavy rain, even issuing flood warnings already, if so it'll be the 1st time in 3 years to have it set in and give us a soaker, but I will believe it when I see it.
We just got back from a trip to San Antonio to visit family. It rained the entire way home, and it's raining now here in beautiful downtown Uhhhmmble. Inch and a half last night and more on the way. We're supposed to get a break for the next couple of days and then it will start raining again.
Talk about your all day soakers! It started with a lot of bang yesterday around 5:00 pm and has been pretty much pouring since. T got me a rain guage for Christmas that I haven't put up yet, but I'm sure we've had over an inch so far, with no end for hours to come.
Of course "officials" claim it will do nothing to change our drought status. Funny how much gub'mint money there must be in perpetuating the consensus.
That was some bad ones that rolled up from CO yesterday, we missed most of the rain, maybe a 1/4" or so, but where they got it, it was no joke, the Scottsbluff monument got 3.5" yesterday afternoon and evening, been some baseball hail and tornadoes on the north CO /NE border.
We have had 4 days of thundershowers. That helped put some moisture down....badly needed moisture! Now we look forward to a week of hot dry weather again!
I think it's safe to say we have broken our drought finally, We had about an inch over the course of a week, which helped kickstart the grass, and now we got our spring soaker we have not had in 3 years, and over 5 or more to have this much at once. Almost 3" of rain in the last 72 hours and still raining, 2" since this time yesterday. Thats about what we got last year in a 3 month space for contrast. What PITA, but man it's what we needed to replenish deep soil moisture. Might actually get busy this summer if we have hay grow.
Yup, here too: Official CO Springs Airport (1.5 mi. south of us) 48 hour total is 3.79 inches, with more rain expected over the next week.
Our sump actually kicked in yesterday morning, and for a while ran every 3 minutes or so.
Had a couple of days of dry, enough to get the yard cut, now it's raining again. Supposed to be like this for a few more days. I'm not complaining, we needed this, but the folks further south where it tends to flood are not looking happy.
91 degrees yesterday, 82 right now.
We have been cool and drizzly if not outright rainy for a week. I think Saturday was the driest day, and still had sprinkles by evening. yesterday it rained another .7" throughout the day, which brought us up to 4.3" for the week. Supposed to warm up and dry out slightly, but still a good chance of showers and thunderstorms through Friday. Not used to dealing with slop like this, thank goodness most of the cows are out on pasture.
The ditch company has plenty of water so far, so they gave an early run, but decided to shut it out due to lack of demand, those who have brought it in and were running now have new ponds in a lot of places there used to not be any. Can hardly wait until mosquitoes throw off the winter coats and come out.
We in for another hot and dry spell......fire bans everywhere!
2 years ago was a bad fire year for us, we had a wet spring, but by June it dried up. So lots of early undergrowth that dried out, and many thousands of acres burned both on the grass range and forests. Last year we had a dry spring, still had some pretty bad fires, but not near as many just because the grass and brush was short. We were shaping up to have even less growth until the last week or so, now its all kicked into over drive for growing.
Quote from: Onepoint on May 15, 2023, 05:25:55 AM
Can hardly wait until mosquitoes throw off the winter coats and come out.
I haven't seen one mosquito since over a year and a half ago.
This statement is NOT to be misunderstood as a complaint.
Bright, shiny, a nice 73 degrees...then the hail came. A good half hour of marble sized stuff. About killed my pepper crop. Thankfully I hadn't planted out like I planned last weekend. They'd have been flattened. I got pelted pretty good but got them in before total decimation...
I was warned. Doesn't make me feel any better.
Gonna be making hoop houses before it's done.
Quote from: balsum fractus on May 15, 2023, 10:30:47 AM
We in for another hot and dry spell......fire bans everywhere!
Well that didn't last long! One fairly hot day, and now a huge low pressure cell over Winnipeg is scooping ice cold air from the Arctic circle and blowing down on us. Temps just slightly over freezing with the wind chill.....
Lots of smoke in the air from all the wild fires.....
I appreciate the thought, but you guys could have kept the smoke. Woke up to some drizzle and I thought wow it's really socking in, until I stepped out and smelled the smoke. Actually is pretty thick right now, which is kind of surreal for as damp as we are.
Quote from: Onepoint on May 18, 2023, 06:21:39 AM
I appreciate the thought, but you guys could have kept the smoke. Woke up to some drizzle and I thought wow it's really socking in, until I stepped out and smelled the smoke. Actually is pretty thick right now, which is kind of surreal for as damp as we are.
Cough....cough....hack....!
It's worse up here!
Yeah I saw the plume map, we got a day of really heavy smoke, and then several of heavy haze.
No haze here, but we have been under "unhealthy air" warnings for a few days because of ozone.
Mostly sunny apart from the storm that hit us late yesterday afternoon. Sun was out, then it got really dark, rained really hard for half an hour, then the sun came back out and turned this place into a sauna. If you don't like the weather here, wait a minute...
We finally have hit our late spring pattern of warm breezy days and thunderstorms by early aftertnoon, some have been pretty severe, but we have missed most of them except rain. Sunday was a rare picture perfect day, spent it out mowing and then shooting and getting sunburned. Looks like another week of unsettled thunderstorms coming for us though.
But what a difference from last year, or even last month that was looking so dry, everything is green and overgrown instead of stunted and grey.
We're getting rain almost everyday. Unfortunately every storm has come with hail.
My Serranos aren't going to take much more.
I bet row covers will be a good investment.
Quote from: Onepoint on May 31, 2023, 07:29:07 AM
I bet row covers will be a good investment.
Yeah, I have one on the way, but the neighbors say they don't have stability for the 60+ mph breezes they get here.
Hopefully next year I'll have the greenhouse I was promised.
Make them from PVC and rebar stakes and hail cloth, they hold up OK in our wind if they are low.
Just a quick northern update......thunderstorms and rain showers have made a welcome appearance!
Our storms have been merging and becoming massive. Start out with a cell that blows up into a orange patch on the map that covers a 5 mile radius, and by the time it's over the red and orange part covers a 50 mile radius or more as it moves. Last night it was a 100 mile strip 40 miles wide moving through of red and orange on the map. Still hit or miss as to the worst of it, but we have picked up at least a 1/4" of rain every day, and some close calls with hail, and are supposed to go clear into the end of next week this way. Made the hay grow, but I don't know when I will get a chance to cut it.
We're getting hammered every day now. Same types as the Honcho, they seem to develop almost directly overhead and wind up with some manner of hail.
But mornings are gorgeous, and the bulk of afternoons warm and only slightly breezy. Then the sky falls down.
Lots of aviation activity yesterday: I think a C17 is stationed here, or crews are training on it. A10s aren't near as loud as the F16s and 22s. We have a small number of C130s fitted for fire duty that do touch and goes for a good part of the afternoons, but yesterday you'd have thought that a climate conference was going on for all the private jets! Military brass here for the Academy graduation? I dunno.
A10s get more noisy when they go brrrrrrt, especially when its coming at you. :icon_biggrin:
We have gotten 1/4 to 1/3 of an inch every day since last Sunday, its getting kind of soggy here now, which is a switch from Afghanistan dry.
No rain here, just hot (92 degrees), muggy and cloudy. There have been thunderstorms all around us, but nothing here.
There are no airplanes here, apart from the usual airliners going over the house. Did get a bit of a break last week when I went to the Lone Star Flight Museum with a friend. The museum has gone downhill quite a bit in the last few years, but Lewis Air Legends A-20 Havoc was visiting, which was a nice surprise. My dad used to work the the guy who originally owned it and somewhere in his stuff is a picture of 9 year old me sitting on a milk crate in the cockpit of that airplane while it was being restored the first time. The other surprise was watching the NASA WB-57 shooting touch and goes at Ellington Field. That was worth the trip!
This is just a weird year for weather. Yesterday we got to 60 and light drizzle just about all day, not really wet, just damp and breezy. They keep predicting heavy rain but we have seen none of it so far. I keep putting off cutting hay because they say "the next couple days are going to be wet before it warms up and dries out" and that was 6 days ago already and they keep pushing it ahead. Its been neither particularly wet, yet hasn't warmed up either. And all the hay in in overdrive growing, starting to lay down its so heavy and tall And of course too wet to mow much, so it looks like the place is abandoned.
Farmers, never happy with the weather.
....more smoke!
Well at least you are sharing with NYC instead of us.
Almost two inches last night, no hail. I slept right through it.
Forecast is for more today & tomorrow, then hot and dry. Since it hasn't been hot and dry yet this year here it'll be novel to witness.
Three days of thunderstorms, and now this. Forecast is for 100+ degrees for the next eight to ten days. Guess that means summer is here! :eek5:
We had some late calvers, had one day before yesterday, last night about 7:30 or so I want to check on it after it rained, it was laying in a ditch, when I touched it to make sure it was OK, it bolted up and took off, and didn't stop running until in went through the fence, across the road and in with the neighbors cows. Then the rodeo/comedy show started trying to get it out and back home. Ended up tackling it and carried it home on the back of an ATV in dim light. :eusa_doh:
When I got done I realized how wet and cold I was, like soaking wet from running and then rolling around in tall wet grass. I can't remember the last time in mid June that has happened, that's a March/ April kind of thing to deal with.
As of when I wrote this fog has developed both around us and along the bluffs south
My favorite event at the rodeo was always the wild horse races, but you just made calf ropin' sound like a Benny Hill skit!
Our 24 hour total was 5"...and they're saying more to come😪😪😪
Quotebut you just made calf ropin' sound like a Benny Hill skit!
Was Yakety Sax playing in the background? :icon_mrgreen:
heh, thats not exactly what was going through my head, but probably appropriate. That or circus music.
Well that was unexpected. About 8:30 last night a thunderstorm was starting to encroach on us, not really a big deal, wasn't a particular big or sever cell. Then came a huge *POP*, what sounded like the loudest gunshot ever I heard. Lightning hit a tree next to the house. We looked out and the top of the tree was on file, probably a bird nest or a clump of dead branches, it burned for about 15 minutes until the rain came. No way in hell I was going out to stand with a hose until the storm passed by. :icon_lol:
It wasn't even stormy yet, the main cell was still a couple miles Southwest of us and lightening a way's off until then. So I guess they aren't kidding when they say lightening can strike miles from a cloud.
I have had a close strike many years ago, when still in CO, probably about 84 or 85 or so, I was in a 100' long metal building and lightening hit a far corner, blew a sheet of tin off which was spooky, but even this was much closer, about 30' or 40' from where I was sitting. Never felt a thing besides the heart rate jump when it hit. We had some hits on trees in the pasture in the past, one blew the bark off one entire side and ended up killing the tree, this one blew a strip of bark 3" wide intermittently down the trunk. Wild stuff. Amazingly there were 2 Guinea hens roosting in a low branch that were unharmed, the lighting must have run down the trunk and not branched off. Might have helped that a metal wire panel is against the tree, and probably grounded it partly, some of the leaves on a branch that go through it look brown and dried.
I hope that's the worst weather story I have to tell this year.
Closest lightning strike here was about three or four houses down during a thunderstorm a few years ago. No fire, but it blew the poor tree damn near in half.
101 degrees here right now...
It's been one of those days when you go outside, you bring sunglasses and a snorkel.......you never know which one you will need 60 seconds from now.....
The good news is that we got some badly needed moisture into the ground....I hope that includes the area northwest of us where all the wildfires are. .....
I hope so, we have been getting all the rain it seems down here. We are under a flood watch today and warning of torrential rains again. We look a lot like Ireland or something, it's been a long time since we have seen it this green and lush. Sure shows if the mower blade is dull.
I still have not really started on hay, waiting out rain, maybe I will start Sunday or Monday. I did cut outside rounds a week ago on one field for it to get rained on multiple times, the grass if poking through the windrows already. A few people have been impatient and laid down a bunch, even yesterday despite forecasts and wet heavy looking clouds to the west, it got 3/10s on it last night for the effort, and more in some places I'm sure. I have seen some have it lay through 3 big rains, and then as soon as it was dry on top, go out and rake and bale, that stuff should be hay stack fires or just plain nasty when they open it up.
Me no mow no mo'.
But this xeriscape stuff is NOT low maintenance, not by a stretch. Landscape fabric may keep weeds from coming through, but windbourne dust and dirt settle in the rocks and hydromorphic sand, blended with various weeds and grasses, and I wind up baling by hand...the pussy willow crowd we live around see my jug of Roundup out in the driveway and you'd think I set off a biological disaster...which is kinda entertaining, but we gotta live here too....
On to the next weather crisis! Heavy rainfall warning. Up to 4-1/2" in the next 3 days.....and it has already started....
2.09" of rain yesterday....just light showers right now, then more dampness overnight....they had snow in Jasper (4 hrs west of us in the Rockies)
We finally had a taste of summer, got up to 90 yesterday, it's been so cool so far this year I thought I would melt. Finally started cutting hay a couple days ago, 2 weeks later than normal and the alfalfa is all laid down flat which makes it slow going, the grass is about chest high now and heavy. I turned bulls out with the cows yesterday, hauled them out and noted I could have cut the pasture this year for hay it was so tall. Completely opposite of last year.
QuoteIt's been one of those days when you go outside, you bring sunglasses and a snorkel...
Need both here every day this week. Sunglasses because it's severe clear and the snorkel to help you suck air through the humidity. 102 degrees, 53% water right now. But, no one is wishing for the winter weather we had last year!
93° here today. Made it without the ac til today. Outside isn't that bad, humidity is fair low compared to 70-80% back in MN.
Gonna be one of those years, we had an inch or rain yesterday afternoon again. I only had about 25 acres of hay down. The rest is laid so flat already that I have to go as slow as possible to cut it, and that was even before the torrential rain. :eusa_wall: But once past today it might dry out, for a few days util I get more cut most likely.
But we missed the baseball size hail and tornadoes they predicted. Sunday we ran down to Akron CO to pick up an auction buy, it was a nice day, just about perfect, I hope they enjoyed it. I noticed there was a lot of puddled up field bottoms and pasture low spots and some hailed places, then yesterday they had tornadoes down there for several hours all along the highway I drove down and around the town itself.
Another inch today, I think I am growing webbed feet.
Luck ran out, had a tornado swipe us to the south about a mile away, no damage in the yard, but the golf ball hail sure did a number on the hay. Rolled a semi over on 85 straight west of us when it went through there.
Then this passed over us, about 40 mph straight line wind and teh NWS issued a warning that line had softball sized hail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLiEjbpAbW0
Yeah, those shelf clouds can spawn some pretty nasty stuff!!
We had another one roll through about 10 pm, gave us another round of hail, not as big, but heavier yet. :eusa_wall:
It's been no secret that the government has been working on weather manipulation for many years. Maybe we're seeing the "benefits"...?
https://www.fox21news.com/news/national/feds-spend-2-4-million-on-cloud-seeding-for-colorado-river/
Heh, if it really worked we would not have seen the drought when they dumped tons of silver iodide into clouds the last 3 years. This is all mother nature showing who is boss. The cloud seeding might explain the surge in soy boys though.
They did that in SoCal a lot of years ago....anyways, it started raining and raining hard, and flooding got pretty serious. But they kept on seeding the clouds. Why? They claimed if they stopped, it would be a tacit admission that cloud seeding actually worked, and they would be held liable for all the flood damage......so they kept on seeding the clouds throughout the flood....
Gotta love the way govmint thinks...........
I'm disappointed - it only made it to 104 today. Being outside right now is sorta like being sprayed with boiling water while standing on the surface of the sun.... :icon_mrgreen:
Carl, are you doing ok out west?
Heh, we were treated to cloudy skies, breezy and almost 70 for the 1st half of day. But we did get a tornado in the area and some more softball hail again, this time farther south, I guess you can't get enough of that. (especially if you sell glass)
We just got a sprinkle here is all.
It has been brutal out here. 12-13 consecutive days of triple digit high temps with 30-50% humidity. Heat index up to 140!
I don't know, but maybe someone is trying to tell me something? We had another tree hit by lightening next to the house. I was on the tractor on the field west of the tree line not far away when I heard he giant pop again, it looked to me like it hit in the pasture across the road, so I ran over to see if it hit any cows, Vicki said it sounded like it came from the west. A little while later she said there was bark by the well house, sure as hell, it hit one of the trees by to the west if the house. Not only have we never had trees hit this close, but certainly never 2 strikes so close together, about 40' from the one the other day. :eek5: Kind of making me a pussy when it starts lightening, and a guy in NE was hit and killed along with his horse while roping the other day.
We have dodged the severe thunder storms, but there has been some massive hail and tornadoes around, most just south between us and Cheyeene moving off into Nebraska. Enough oif this already.
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I feel for the triple digits, but I don't know if being cool with these storms is much better. Are you still dry down there? We have completely reversed our drought, though they still say we are in it, but the ground water has come up enough the pond is actually full to obver full from rain, last year i could fill it and it would be gone in 3 weeks.
We have gotten some decent rains earlier, but haven't had any in about 3 weeks. Things are starting to burn up and turn brown. My hay is looking good, Hope to cut it next week.
Well that's good anyway. So far I have about half of my 1st cutting done is all, it all got hailed an rained on, and supposed to have a couple more days of severe storms they say, so I am waiting it out yet again. A lot of guys cut it all and it was ruined, a lot of it so bad its probably unpalatable. I bet there is going to be a lot of "hay" sitting around or sold to the hay grinders this winter. but they are done and growing 2nd cutting, and I 'm still dicking around.
So lake Fubar is full?? We can go water skiing??😁
Yes, I can't recall when the last time it was actually overflowing. But probably the best water skiing is going to be on the permapuddles on the dirt road!
another 2/3" last night :eusa_wall:
Another natures surprise! Wicked thunder and lightning storm - 4 different ones rolled through during the night with torrential rain. No damage, but everything is sure wet!!
QuoteSo lake Fubar is full?? We can go water skiing??
Skiing? No, this is cause for the first (ever) annual Fubar Float Fly!! Mud Duck would be the preferred machine for this event, and maybe Honcho could get some of the local ladies to mud wrestle!! :icon_mrgreen:
Still 100 degrees here...
Great idea! Bring waders.
What a wonderful day! Started raining about 10:00 this morning, and rained most of the day. 1.5 inches. But the temp never got over 73 all day!
I bet that was a relief after the heat wave, that's kind of what he have been about every 4 days except tornadoes and hail to go with it, then with 80s, maybe a 90 in between. I'm still waiting for mud to dry enough to cut some more hay.
Carl, I hope some of that moves our way! Only supposed to get to the mid 90s here this week with a possibility of rain, which will probably only raise the humidity another notch or three.
https://youtu.be/ii46SWfIrZA
Tornado touched down about 2 hours south of us...
Looks too familiar. We had to run out to the sandhills of NE yesterday, went by a house east of Scottsbluff that was demolished by the twister last week., less 1/4 mile in the path further a large barn house and multiple out buildings were untouched. But that house looked like it had imploded.
Man this year has been wild for weather, we picked up another 3/4" of rain last yesterday and through the night. Cheyenne had a thunderstorm roll through and dumped 2.25" in about 30 minutes, and just up the road at moms house in Lyman she got an inch in about 10 minutes, she had called and we were talking about the weather and if we're going to do fireworks, her phone dropped the call, she called back in 15 minutes or so and said she had just gotten an inch or rain in her gauge.
This morning I look out and its solid gray/white on all horizons, looks like we have been walled in, yet no fog right here. I'd suspect someone sawed the rest of the world off if not for the radio blasting news at me to get out of bed.
So now they say that this hot weather is killing all the skeeters!
https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/houston-weather-mosquitos-18185245.php
Only supposed to be 94 today....
Oh man summer finally showed up, mid 90s and low humidity yesterdday and for the rest of teh week until thursday, I thought I would melt after highs in the 80s in the warm stretches, and 60s & 70s for so long. This year is so screwed up, I am just finishing cutting 1st cutting, normally I would be well into 2nd, and I have yet to start irrigating.
We are under another heat advisory warning! It was 113 yesterday with 42% humidity.
I'm back at my old stomping grounds, Detroit Lakes MN, and I can't believe the July weather: 70s and dry, dry. Even with the T-storms the humidity is way down.
Driving back to the Springs tomorrow, can't wait 🙄🙄🙄
Another week of 100 degree temps on the way, 102 yesterday, forecast 103 today. But, the weather guessers say there's relief in sight! It's supposed to be down to 99 by Friday!!
What did people do before A/C was invented?? 🙀
113 right now, with a heat index of 122. Sure makes an old fat man sweat profusely!
OMG.....I can't imagine enduring that!!!
We were a mere 95 or so, but humidity was in the 40s even through mid day, normally it drops to the 20s. Certainly not hot compared to you guys down south, not even compared to last year here, but considering it keeps teasing us with 70s and 80s and then slams us with mid 90s my acclimatin aint acclimatin so good.
We actually got up to 100° yesterday, potential for it again today. But @ 19% humidity makes it tolerable (in the shade at least).
Lots of whining & crying in CO Springs, we seem to be overrun with weather pansies here.
Its been relatively cool this summer, we had some 90s and several high 80s, humidity has been high for us, like 40 -50% which makes it feel hot. We are used to some teens and 20s for humidity this time of year. Just 100 miles south is a different story, they have been hot, triple digits and more wind than us.
We have been getting at least sprinkles every 2 or 3 days, not much for us here the last couple weeks, but all around some torrential rain and mass hail. Today we won't get to 80 they say and some high probability for rain. I just yesterday finished 1st cutting, and have yet to run a drop of water for irrigation, and have some 2nd cutting getting close to ready. What a strange year.
The hail (and tornadoes) this year is the story for us locally, I have never seen such big hail or so much of it, golf ball is common, many have seen up to 3" and I saw someone holding one bigger than a softball, about the size of a large cantaloupe. :eek5: And for us, lightening, 2 strikes here in the yard, and another in the tree line across the road the other day.
It's been hot here, but not unusual for this time of year, we've been through all this before. What is different is that the population in my area has exploded in the past ten years. It used to be all forest and swamp around here, now it's asphalt and concrete. The amount of trees that have been cut down to accommodate all that is staggering. So, no shade, more concrete - you're damn right it's gotten hotter.
102 yesterday. I always post the temps here at the house and not what the weather guessers put out. No rain in the last three weeks, but no mosquitos either!! :icon_mrgreen:
Thunderstorms today, but the baseball size hail they forecast hasn't shown up. Just in case I parked as much of my truck into the garage as I could fit.
Just over an inch right now @ 3:55 pm, but alas! It continues...
Oh, and we got a comfy 61°
We will be seeing triple digit temps tomorrow, then some relief as the temp plummets to the high 90's......😀
Was 106 at 11:00 am this morning!
We were hot, but not near that, hit 99 for a while. Hard to like when it was just 70 the day before yesterday.
We're doing hard mid-90s this week, but @ 15-20% humm-iddidity it's pretty darn nice.
Sorry for you Carl. I'm building freezer space for a trip to Baird, but Terrin took our Port Aransas money and turned it into La-Z-Boy purchases....but Baird I can do!
"Only" 97 up here but feels like 200 with a 20 knot wind from the south.....going outside is like walking through a ha ir dryer!
Today will be day 14 at 100 degrees or over. Forecast is for this to continue until the middle of the month, then we'll get a cold front that drops us into the upper 90s... :eek5:
Headed off on vacation tomorrow morning. Our midway through the trip destination in Pittsburgh PA had a low in the upper 50s last night.
We are trending down, was more or less pleasant the last couple days, in the 80s, in fact mornings are feeling more like late summer than early August, it was 51 this morning and foggy. I also just read the next 30 days is going to be a cooler pattern.
That is great, we are at 23 days over 100, with no end in sight. It was 84 this morning when we got up. 103 right now at noon.
76° at 46% humidity. Other than the odd 2-3 inch hail we've been getting (1/2 inch hail right now), it's real nice...
Dang, we were down ion the 40s this morning. supposed to be severe weather today. I keep putting off cutting the rest of 2nd cutting because they keep telling us it's going to rain, but hasn't aside from some sprinkles.
Oh well , what's another day. I'm still nursing sore ribs anyway.
Thunderstorms and rain.......'sposed to nice for the next few days....
Yeah we finally have hit that midsummer stretch of dry and warm and I can finally finish up some haying. Now if I can just get the ribs to heal up.
Had a freak little thunderstorm pop up yesterday evening. Got a 1/4" of rain, and today it is like a sauna outside. 110 degrees with a hear index of 125.
Dare I say it's actually pleasant here? That hasn't happened much this year. Feels like 87 it says, 90, low humidity, breezy and partly cloudy, it's pretty comfy out for the moment.
On a road trip a couple hours north.....,
The leaves are already starting to change color!!
I think Ma Nature is telling us something....
Had a cold front come through yesterday. High of 71 but was under 65 by dinnertime.
And I still haven't had blossom one from my pepper plants. I hear a lot of same from other growers, but above 6000' in elevation mostly. We're @ 6610 or so on his side of town. Not hearing any sobbing come from the Pueblo farmers, they must be doing alright.
Heading back to the 90s in a day or two...
We were fairly cool the last couple days too, Sunday was downright fall feeling, yesterday hit 80, but calm and nice, and its 47 right now, but thats ending sounds like, supposed to be 93 today and I saw a few 99s 98s and 101 temp forecast. (http://www.fubarhill.com/emoticons/sun.gif)
But a lot of people are starting to be concerned over this coming winter. Horses will shed their summer coat when it starts getting cool, it has not been that cool but I heard someone saying their horses are shedding already, other things like currants made berries early this year etc. and Nony mentioning the leaves were changing way up north already. I kind of that last winter was hard being cold and snowy, don't really relish the thought of another one starting in Sept. Especially since Vicki has me for forced labor to tear down and rebuild the milk barn bigger this fall.
The yellow leaves are starting down here.....warmish today, with thunderstorms later on tonight, followed by a day of rain, then who knows what........
We are back into full blown summer for the moment, triple digits or close for the past few days, last night never got below 71, which was our high a week ago for one day.
85 this morning at 6:30, 114 yesterday afternoon with a heat index of 123. I am so over this! 42 days over 100.
I can't imagine enduring heat like that!!!
(http://www.fubarhill.com/emoticons/ohcrap.gif) Jeez Carl, I melt those temps. Of course we get the benefit of both temp extremes, but I won't trade ya.
And the heat here continues as well. 109 day before yesterday, should be 103 today. Woke up to no water this morning due to a broken main at the end of the street. There's a lot of that going on all over Houston due to the heat. We haven't had any appreciable rain since April...
We have been bouncing around, after triple digits most of last week, we had some 70s for highs and now 80s until midweek., and mornings feeling fallish. We were supposed to get wet , but that never happened, though some places south along I-80 like Sidney NE got 4" in a day.
A slight break - we had 10 minutes of rain day before yesterday along with a wind shift now from the north, so today it's only 96. Water main break is fixed and they just lifted the boil water notice. After all of this, I may have to break out the parka and mukluks if it gets below 80..
Back into the oven for us, we sorely missed all the rain, and just a couple weeks of 100 degree plus stuff you would hardly know we were in a record rain year.
Feels like October! Trees are turning color, wind is cold, and sun is obscured by smoke .....
We have been triple digits or near for a couple weeks now, today we got a thunderstorm and some hail, tomorrow supposed to be only 70s, but then warm back up. But its coming, the days are shorter and mornings are fallish despite the heat.
100's all last week, 100's all this week! This past August went down as the hottest ever since they started recording temps. But, next week our highs are predicted be in the 80's. Looking for parkas and long johns now.
56 right now, I had to dig out the heavier coat to change water this morning.
Frost on the ground this morning.....
Fair warning to any thin skinned southerners out there.......😁
Quote100's all last week, 100's all this week!
Same here, Carl. It rained west of us last night, but not anywhere close. All that did was drive the humidity up. 101 here at the house yesterday...
The sun now sets at 8:07, and it is dark by 8:30.....
We are dark dark by 8, sun sets at 7:20, 7:18, 7:16... Sure seems like they shorten faster than they got longer. Its likely we have seen our last 90 degree day today barring some late heat wave. Our average high is like 68 by the end of the month. But that will actually be the best time of the year if it stays calm and dry.
Hmmmmm.....I would have thought you would have a tad more daylight than us......days are definitely getting shorter!
I suspect it has something to do with living in the arctic and 24 hour sun or something. :icon_biggrin:
I know when we lived in MT, were close to west side of a time line, summer it would be light enough to see at 10:15 pm or later for a few weeks, here 9:30 you might still have a glimmer in late June. That took some adjusting.
Broke another record yesterday, 108! But, next week is looking great, high 70's to mid 80's with lows in the 60's. Rain predicted every day!
Good on ya, Carl! We supposedly had our last "hot" day of the year today. Pert'near 100° down in Pueblo, where we spent the day visiting the farm stores and pepper roasters. Made me miss my 8th acre. Picked up a half bushel of Anaheims and a half bushel of Pueblos (Fresnos or Moscos, depending who you talk to). Nice people, but way too many. Glad to be home. Will get to packing chiles tomorrow.
We get 60s for highs the next couple days and showers.
Had a thunderstorm that jolted us awake during the night with a downpour and some hail. After the initial thunder crack that woke us up I was groggily wondering if that roar was wind, then it doubled intensity, turned out it was just rain coming down in buckers for several minutes, then moved on, gave us like 7/10 in a few minutes, I was not watching the clock probably seemed longer than what it was because I was expecting way over an inch in the morning. We don't get many of the late night thunderstorms, usually they are done building by dark and have moved east. Better not be any tornadoes, I will just roll over and doze off until the roof comes off.
We finally got some rain! About two inches over the past couple of days, the long good soaking kind. I think fall finally fell, temps in the mid 90s now, but it's noticeably cooler in the mornings. Parka is standing by for when it gets to 60...
We have been fallish all week, into the 40s at night, 60s and drizzly for a day and then down right pleasant 70s. Supposed to warm back up a little, but only into the 80s. Irrigation water is out for the year and I have about 1/3 of the hay done for 3rd cutting. Some I cut so late for 2nd and it's cooling off so it's not growing very fast, I might not get a 3rd, but we already have enough for feed so it's just extra to sell.
Just have to start on Vickis barn project of tearing down what we have and making it bigger for her milk cows. Hard to believe we have been here long enough I have to tear down stuff I have built. :eusa_think:
Well, the weather guys actually got one right! Our high this week was 86, most of the days were in 70's.
Rain started on Monday, and has continued... We are at 4.75 for the week! Got some 1/2 to 3/4 inch soakers, then yesterday morning we got a hard 1.25 inch that gave us some runoff, and this morning another 1 1/2 hard rain that gave us more much needed runoff. The creek behind the house is full and running hard again. The stock tanks have caught some much needed water. The small one is full and the big one is probably half full.
<hack....cough...cough> it could be considered a <hak> beautiful fall <cough> so far, but the <cough...cough> smoke rolls in every couple of <hack> days.......
We must have burned up everything flammable last year until next year, no fires close so far, the only smoke we get has been from you or ID/MT.
I was enjoying those nice 70s we only had for a few days and then we bounced back to almost 90 the last couple days, and I thought I would melt. Funny how that works.
Fall has definitely fell here. Lows in the 60s in the morning, low 90s during the day, but the humidity is way down, so it doesn't feel as bad. And no rain and all the heat killed off all the skeeters!!
Spoke too soon, it's back to being summer again. 98 yesterday here at the house and the humidity has returned with a vengeance. Cold front coming, though, will drop us into the mid 90s!
It was definitely fallish here, we have seen the last of the 90s until next year, it was 60s most of the day and windy, kind of raw feeling, went out on the tractor when it was about 70 and was regretting not wearing a jacket when the clouds rolled over. But get by today and we are back into the mid 80s for a while.
The sky is blue, the sun is warm, but not too warm. The breeze is cool, but not too cool. The fallen leaves crunch beneath my footsteps. The trees are ablaze with brightly colored leaves as Summer displays it's grand finale.
We all know what lies ahead.......skiing season!!!
I think you misspelled feeding season. :disgust: :icon_smile:
Hello 30s, (not my old friend)
or my age
maybe my IQ somedays
But right now, temperature. th-th-th-thirty nine
Yuh, we're at 44° right now. They're still forecasting highs in the high 70s to 80s for the next ten days, not that it means much.
I actually don't mind it too much. Around here the only bumper crop we could coax out of the ground was weeds this year. Really miserable season for peppers. Even the Pueblo variety sucks for any heat this year...
Well Honcho, at least there's no ssssss.....snnsnsnnnss....snnnnnn.....well, you know!
Much needed rain last night, about an inch or so at the house in about a half hour. Now back to the 90s all the way into October.
Still Fall..........starting to see frost overnight..........
No frost, but the geese are flying and it was just a bit chilly today, mid 60s and windy. 1st day I have worn a long sleeve shirt since spring, but since its Oct, that isn't bad.
Not cold, but it is raining. All day yesterday and it's drizzling outside now. Still in the 90s during the day, but next week it's supposed to be in the 80s with a few mornings in the upper 50s. Sent my parka to the dry cleaners this morning...
Windy, windy, windy!! Many trees are now leafless!
We had some wind, not the howling relentless stuff of last year, yet. We are 50ish and breezy today with a freeze warning for tonight, with some mid 20 lows. But then we warm up again all next week.
First frost/freeze here last night. Got down to 29°.
Hoping for an indian summer in WY next weekend.
Summer is back for the weekend...very warm...shorts and T-shirt weather...
We never had the cold materialize, mom along the creek bottom got down to 26, we satyed at 31 and only for a little bit. Then 70 felt balmy today.
It's winter!! :eek5: 53 degrees this morning when I took the dogs out. And my parka's still at the cleaners... :sadness:
It is UNBELIEVABLY warm and sunny out - just a gorgeous Fall weekend!
Yeah, it was just perfect today, little wind, mid 70s sunny. Was great to work in. :disgust:
Leaf raking season is here!
Man it doesn't get much better than this the last couple days, mid 70s, calm, blue sky.
Amen to that, Honcho! Severe clear and 70 degrees here in beautiful downtown Uhhhmmble, TX. Hope it stays that way. My daughter scored free tickets to the Formula 1 race in Austin this weekend so I'll be watching race cars zoom by for a few days with her and the grandkids. Bucket list item for sure, would love to get to Indy one of these days.
Second round of golf today, 70s and dead calm. I could do this more often.
We had a small pack of coyotes stalking us down the 4th fairway. I don't want to read too much into why they stuck with OUR foursome, but they made me wish I had a varminter with me.
They say we may get 2-3 more weeks of Indian summer, but as always, I don't hold my breath.
Very seasonal weather....sweater weather...and coats......and, a first for this year - gloves!
Below freezing this morning, and tonight we get the first snowfall of the year
It's been Indian summerish here, I have sweated a lot the last couple days working on the barn. And here I thought once I got the calves gone and hay done it would be easy days :eusa_naughty:
Been very nice here also, got my 2nd cutting of hay put up. Have had 2 calves born, with another coming pretty soon. They are predicting rain all week for us.
Everything is severe white this morning! ......and not in a good way!
Upper 70s here til Saturday. Then not any more.
Looks like the fun is going to be over for us soon, today and tomorrow are supposed to be great, Thursday it starts to fall apart losing 10 degrees a day for highs until Sunday when we top out low to mid 30s, with maybe(which they won't know until it starts snowing or doesn't) 5-8" of s... sn...white stuff.
I am just getting a good start with the barn with all but 2 posts in, where I was hoping to at least have it framed and and maybe roofed before this stuff came. It will come along more the next couple days but not that far. I decided to order some trusses for half of it to get a clear span on one end for more room for her milking setup, wish I would have thought of that sooner. :eusa_doh:
Its not all that big, but is turning into more of a project than I had imagined. We had a 12'x28' shed with small open loafing sheds at each end, made more for goats or sheep, but she graduated to milk cows and for some reason that wasn't big enough. I tore down everything but the north wall and are making it 24'x28', with one loafing shed on one end and a 3 cow head catch stanchion so she can milk them all at once.
If she decides she wants buffaloes or camels next I am leaving.
Still have the goats?
Nope, after her last milkers got old and died a few years ago, she found some milk cows to replace them instead.
It's been raining on and off here all day, 80 degrees. We're supposed to have winter next week with lows in the 40s and highs in the 50s. I'm set - parka's back from the cleaners and my mukluks are ready to go! Of course, you northern types can just keep all that up there if you'd like. Won't offend me any... :icon_mrgreen:
We got taste today, I had to take mom down to the eye doctor in Cheyenne, drove through clouds that were resting on the ground most of the way and 30 degrees most of the day, but at least no snow yet, that may come Saturday though.
Snowin' again!
Urg, snow for real this morning, just a dusting so far, predictions run a dusting to 6", Glad they nailed that down so I could prep. Certainly not the earliest we have had it, but am not in the mood regardless.
Ch-ch-chi-chi-chilly this morning...Down to 16°. We're above freezing now, but tomorrow is not to get out of the 20s. The forecast is for 1-4 inches, but they've been really off lately, so..........
5" on the Ground, still coming down, 17° F...
We didn't get it like they said, maybe an inch, and 18 for a low, but today is supposed to be 30 for a high, but a 20 mph wind. Not windy yet, but if it starts ... (http://www.fubarhill.com/emoticons/cold.gif)
38 and wet here in Texas this morning. They are saying we will have our first freeze Tuesday morning.
We now have 10", maybe a fuzz more, but a friend a few miles to the south has 14-15".
I shoulda come up last weekend..🤬
Yeah, shoulda, its not all that bad for snow, but cold and windy enough we would not want to be out in it long.
I seem to recall you have one of those woodstove things inside........
Yeah, but it's not very portable.
Dayamn, 3° this morning. And I'll be playing a round of golf Friday morning! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Positively balmy here compared to you guys. 48 degrees, wet, and someone up north left the gate open again and let that Canadian wind through. Would y'all take care of that, please?
We have one of those wood burning things in the house, but I have no idea why. We've never used it.
Quote from: jetmex on October 30, 2023, 07:59:35 AM
Positively balmy here compared to you guys. 48 degrees, wet, and someone up north left the gate open again and let that Canadian wind through. Would y'all take care of that, please?
According to my wind map, your north wind is coming from Minnesota...us, on the other hand have a South wind coming from Colorado. It is a cold one, so must be coming from the top of the Rockies........
QuoteAccording to my wind map, your north wind is coming from Minnesota
Minnesota is just southern Canada, right? :icon_mrgreen:
I thought it was North Texas !
A bit of a reprieve...it has warmed up (40-ish) and all the snow has melted.......
It was kind of weird here, warm enough at mid 60s, but cloudy and breezy, looked like it was going to rain, but never did.
Two weeks of warm-ish weather 5-10 degrees above freezing..tomorrow is supposed to be stupid warm (for this time of year). Lots of sunshine too! Next week s'posed to be cooler, but no snow until the 23rd forecast.......
We have been relatively nice, 50s and 60s, even had a near 70 in there. Yesterday we had the 1st rain since Sept I think, it's really dry here again. They are talking change for Thanksgiving here on the 24th, 30s for high, maybe snow.
I just hope I can get the roof on the barn by Monday, I go in Tuesday for the 1st cataract surgery, then I can't do anything for a week.
Actually, if your experience is like mine, you will be good to go the next morning....just have to wear those dark sunglasses if it is bright out...
They told me no bending over like picking up something on the ground or lifting more than 20lbs the 1st week, which rules everything I need to do except feeding cows. Looks like the weoaethr will be bad anyway But I may fudge toward the end of the week if its nice.
Yeah, tell that to your boss!😁
Meanwhile way up here......shirtsleeve weather yesterday and today!
Looks like the party is over, supposed to get 5-8" through Sat morning, and be pretty cold as well. But I had my eye done, it went well, I finished the barn mostly, so I/m about as ready as I am going to be I guess.
Are you getting the other eye done as well??
Is there a pirate eye patch involved? :icon_lol:
Quote from: jetmex on November 23, 2023, 07:45:23 AM
Is there a pirate eye patch involved? :icon_lol:
Ooooooo....good one Jaime!!
Yeah, I have the other one scheduled for the 5th. Funny you should say that Jaime, I had a patch for about 4 hours, and when they told me they were putting it on, I said I was not wanting the hook along with the peg leg and patch set. :icon_smile:
I didn't realize how bad it was, but man I can see stuff that I could only do with binoculars before, can't wait until they are both done so I can focus the same with both eyes.
Quote from: Onepoint on November 24, 2023, 06:59:17 AM
I didn't realize how bad it was, but man I can see stuff that I could only do with binoculars before, can't wait until they are both done so I can focus the same with both eyes.
Yeah, amazing difference, isn't it? Between my first and second eye getting done, I could look at a white wall with my good eye and it was pure white....switch eyes and it appeared yellow with the bad eye!
Yeah same here, and my left eye I thought was pretty good, which was relative to my right, but after getting a true clear eye on the right, the left is cloudy with a tint.
I knew they were getting bad, I have been struggling to see, the eye doc said they weren't that bad because I could read a chart OK, but I must have been psychic because they said I was 20/20 when I went in the following day, and I could see all the way down the to the bottom, where I could only see down half way before.
This sucks with one good and one bad eye, trying to focus and judge distance is an effort with both eyes.
Doesn't help we have about 4" of snow That's drifted up. so I walk like a drunk out there. :icon_smile:
End of November, and still no snow! Typically, November is our coldest month - like -40!!
No warm here this morning, 37 degrees, but at least the sun is out and it will warm up to just above arctic later today...
Been kinda quiet here lately, how's everyone doing?
Beautiful weather here this week, highs in the lower 70s and lows in the 40s. Hope it stays this way until spring!
I was wondering the same, Jaime.
Had our last "nice" day for a while, 60s but danged windy, thought I'd woke up in Wyoming for a minute there...
We got some snow overnight - about 3". Temps still slightly above freezing in the day time, and a bit below overnight......not a typical winter for these here parts!
The wind has been ferocious today, fairly warm, but I wanted nothing to do with being out in it.
Got my eye done Tuesday and had a good excuse not to. Dang its nice to see again. I can spot small dogs flying by to NE from 400 yards now.
Looks to be a white Christmas 🎄 this year. Been suffering 50s & 60s lately, but those who study computer models and guess anyway are predicting nieve for Xmas eve.
Dylan is flying in tomorrow night, so it'll be the first all-together holiday in four years...
Great to get the family together for Christmas!!
It is sweltering hot here......+32F !! Nothing but sunshine and blue sky.....
Almost zero snow.......
Kayla isn't taking chances, she is coming up Friday incase the roads get bad Sunday. :icon_lol:
Gosh, how old is she now? Seems like a couple of decades have passed since we were last down there.......
She will be 27 in Feb. Hard to believe time slips away that fast.
I finally finished the barn project except for putting in the head catches for the milk cows. Only took 2 months, about a month longer than I thought. :eusa_doh:
We have been in the 60s, and wind about every other day, but nothing hurricanish for a bit. The modeling for Sunday has between 8" and maybe a dusting, but will get colder yett not bitter.
Pretty mild here so far this week, lows in the 50s and highs in the 60s and 70s. Gray and cloudy today, Christmas will be in the 70s with rain, as usual. Our oldest son moved back to Texas from Florida this summer, so we'll be spending Christmas at his new place about an hour north of here. That sure beats 14 hours east!
None of that ssss........snnsnsnnn.......ssssnnssnsnns......stuff for us!
Guess who missed his flight last night....
He was lucky enough to get a flight out this morning without any additional fees. He should be here in a couple hours.
Severe clear and climbing to +/- 60°...
.....back to complaining about the weather.....
Cold and frosty here (ie. Mild for this time of year)
Temps take a dive on the weekend with promises of some snow.....
Aye, snowstorm tomorrow down here, then a snowstorm Sunday night into Monday. Almost like winter...
The big freeze is starting! Zero-ish now, with temps plummeting during the week........and a bit of snow..
Jaime, you'd be best advised to brush up on your Arctic survival strategies if this cold front keeps moving...
BTW there ain't no gate, and there ain't no back door! Someone stole the wood to build a fire! So don't ask! 😁
QuoteBTW there ain't no gate, and there ain't no back door! Someone stole the wood to build a fire! So don't ask!
Nony, as the guardian of our northern border, it's your responsibility to maintain the keep the cold out of Texas gates in good working order. Should this downward trend continue, we'll be forced to stop sending you BBQ, really good Mexican food, cowboy hats, old Selena albums and jet fighters.... :disturbed:
Weather rollercoaster down here. We'll get a couple of really nice days, then it will get cold and rainy for a day or two. Highs for the next week will be between 50s and 70s, depending on what day it is. The white stuff is forecast for my home town of El Paso this week, and my friend in Tucson sent video of it falling in his backyard yesterday. Hopefully, all the blowhard "civil servants" in Austin will create enough hot air to divert this cold front back to the northeast where it belongs!
We received 1 1/2 inches of hard rain this morning! Now we are under a high wind advisory. Wind 24-35 with gusts to 55!
We were riding the warm fronts, staying ion the 40s and 50s, but that's over now. 40 tomorrow, but 50 mph wind, then the bottom falls out, Thursday a high of 17 and low of 1, then a little bump back the 20s Friday before it falls off with -10 below lows and teens for highs. Snow all through it, but no real accumulation so I have heard so far.
It's hailing outside right now after a few hours of on and off hard rain. We had 60mph wind gusts a little earlier this afternoon, will be interesting to see how many tree branches and garbage cans will be scattered over the neighborhood in the morning...
Quote. Nony, as the guardian of our northern border, it's your responsibility to maintain the keep the cold out of Texas gates in good working order. Should this downward trend continue, we'll be forced to stop sending you BBQ, really good Mexican food, cowboy hats, old Selena albums and jet fighters....
While there may be cause for some sympathy for your situation vis a vis winter weather, may I point out that those expectations have been put forth without any mechanism for compensation for said guardianship. It should come as no surprise to you that lack of compensation has been met with equal portions of neglect of any caretaking responsibility of said gate - even if it did exist....which it doesn't! In any case, not watching a gate that does not exist provides the same result as watching a gate that does not exist! I might suggest a more prudent strategy of preparedness closer to your domicile location....such as mukluks, parkas, and ski masks.😂😁😅
Well wait a minute, whaddya mean you don't get compensated? You literally live next door to Santa, so you get presents almost before anyone except maybe Nanuck the Eskimo. And you get the added benefit of elves working cheap doing side gigs to fund their cookie habit in the off season. Surely its easy enough to drive over to the north pole and flip the cold switch to off.
Meanwhile down in subtropical WY, its 4 degrees this morning, which was substantially less than advertised, I am considering cancelling my national weather service subscription and just do home grown weather, with more sun and warm.
7° here. They threw a blizzard in my hood yesterday, but I guess the Springs wasn't invited. All we got was the 40mph winds.
Some outfit predicted 30+ inches of snow for this week, but there's no accountability for fake weather forecasting any more than there is for fake anything else these days, so this dude simply abides...
Nony's sub-zero party is slated for later this week. Thank God we got out of MN, yeh?
Quote from: Onepoint on January 09, 2024, 05:26:38 AM
Well wait a minute, whaddya mean you don't get compensated? You literally live next door to Santa, so you get presents almost before anyone except maybe Nanuck the Eskimo.
Lumps of coal do not count!!
QuoteLumps of coal do not count!!
Ah, but you forget, my Arctic friend, that we Americans are no longer allowed to have coal, thus removing a vital source of heat. It also occurs to me that the really desirable parkas and mukluks are made in Canada, and come not only with hefty price tags, but with outrageous import taxes which allow only celebrities to own such things. We have to settle for the Old Navy knockoffs...
I was assured by several people from both Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, and its Canadian sister city that said gate is indeed in Canada. When was the last time you heard of a "Texas cold front?"
If this keeps up, there will be no more F-18s for you! :icon_lol:
I suppose you could use locally sourced materials and knit one out of sagebrush, and line it with gopher pelts.........😁
Uhh, a lump of coal would be welcome for the fire the next couple days.
And its Texas, so they have to use mesquite and Chupacabra fur. :icon_smile:
The Canadian weather guessers who have made Texas their home in order to escape the sub zero summers have informed us natives that yet another Canadian cold front is about to bless us with temps in the teens and 20s early next week. Attempting to order one of those expensive Canadian parkas in order to prepare for said front resulted in an expected shipping date of 2026, though if I was in Europe, I could get it tomorrow.
Chupacabras are rather rare in this part of the swamp, so we have to settle for squirrels and armadillos. The resulting winter garb might not only be warm, but bulletproof as well, with the added benefit of making you look like one of those mechas in a Japanese anime movie...
Quote. Over the weekend, morning temperatures will reach minus 40 degrees Celsius in many areas. Wind chills will approach minus 50.
.......anyone want to come up for a visit??
Yeah they upgraded our forecast to be 13 and snow tomorrow, and then Sat and Sunday we may not see positive temps at all. So no I can enjoy the frigid north from my very own home.
Yessir, even we in the subtropical paradise that is southern Colorado are going to see minuses for the next 6 days.
And me without 3 dogs.... :sadness:
It just keeps getting better. We were supposed to maybe 4" by Sunday altogether, we have about 5" now and still snowing and blowing, high temp today about 15, negatives tonight, 20 tomorrow then -1 for a high on Sat, probably that Sun , negative teens at night, and all through our refreshing brisk breeze to take down into the - 30s wind chill at times . Gotta love winter.
I guess Gathering of the Clam II will have wait a bit then...
I guess that depends on how solid we want the clams to be.
It's 76 degrees here right now, that will start dropping tonight in anticipation of next Monday's hard freeze. We're all a bit on edge, the last time this happened, the power was out for a few days and the pipes in my daughter's house froze and burst. She ended up with all the interior being replaced, I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to go through that again.
This area is just not built for cold weather, extended or not.
The clams could come to Texas come spring for the gathering...just sayin'.... :icon_mrgreen:
I can picture you tropical people sipping on your Mai Tai's and listening to Bob Marley in the background.......meanwhile, it is -40 here and will get colder overnight...brrrrrrrrr
Neutral clam ground: Port Aransas. Carl can take us fishing!
Bomber Field wouldn't hurt my feelings either. T & my trip plans came to a crashing thud last year, but who knows?
I do like the Hawk Springs locale, though. Terrins mom was postmaster there eons ago.
I know where we are not doing it right now, anywhere! because I think I am froze to the ground. -15 this morning, but thankfully calm and foggy.
Supposed to get up to 18 today, then it gets cold. :eusa_think: -6 for the high -17 for the low, and I hope they at least are right instead of error on the low side like they have the last couple days. singles and zeros for high until Wednesday or so where we break freezing, but with a "breeze"
Down to 8° above here this morning, supposed to get into the 30s at some point. Our hard drop begins tonight and 3-4 inches forecast for Sunday night.
O to be an nfl player in Kansas City tomorrow night!
-42 here this morning...
Yeah but its a dry cold.
......you got that right! Mouth and lips dry out like crazy.....and wifey has nasty cracks on the skin of her hands. I have to apply CA to the open wounds every night......
Quote. Temperatures will continue to fall through the weekend. Saturday morning and Sunday morning will be the coldest, with temperatures ranging from -40 to -48, and wind chill values near -55. Wind chills could even be a bit colder in open and exposed areas.
The weather news gets better and better.....
Ugh, not quite but close enough as bad down here for wind chill, "Mostly cloudy, with a low around -20. Wind chill values between -35 and -40. Northwest wind around 15 mph." and essentially repeat for 3 more days until Tuesday except add another 1-2" of snow in there somewhere. Thankfully we have not seen much wind, yet.
Still...(https://www.fubarhill.com/emoticons/cold.gif)
....and you are out in the open prairie, too, so that would be cold!!
Anything below zero is too cold for me!!
I just did a check.....for what it is worth....-55C is -67F !! My thermometer does not go below -60.
Count the blessings - we can stay inside and keep warm.....
We at noon are -5, the "breeze" showed up, and wind chill is bouncing around -24. And looks like I am bucketing water to the bulls the next couple days. :eusa_wall:
It was 67 here this afternoon, about 4:30 the wind turned out of the north and the temp went to dropping. It is 24 right now with a forecast low of 10! High tomorrow is supposed to be 23.
I hear ya, Carl! 64 yesterday, now wind from the north (that's Canada, y'all :icon_mrgreen:) and temp this morning was 34. Should make it to the 50s this afternoon, then into the 20s and 30s for the next few days.
-11° in the Springs. I walked down the street to get the mail (my Cutco knives finally arrived!), and it's a ghost town out there. Having grown up with this kinda stuff it doesn't get to me like the powder puff crowd who moved in from Florida, Georgia and *yup* Texas, but the quiet is a bit unnerving...
Forecast colder tomorrow and Tuesday, then global warming comes back to thaw us out.
We got all the way up to +5, after -25 last night. Which lasted long enough until I went out, and then dropped to 1. Diesel tractor wouldn't start, even after plugging in for 4 hours, jumping the battery and rescue in the fuel, it was having none of it. The 70 year old Farmall M did though, it protested and groaned but fired off, hydraulics and gear oil so stiff I didn't think I was going to get it in gear. But cows are fed and bedded, water hauled and I am inside defrosting toes and sipping my giant sized mug of Swiss mocha. :thumb:
Was 9 here this morning, got all the way up to 12. Kubota UTV fired up after cycling the glow plugs twice. Heaters in the water troughs are working good. Heat lamps on the dog houses are keeping the big dogs warm.
We had a high of 7° at midnight, at 10:30 this morning it's -5.
Crazy man...
Wow! It's warmed up to almost freezing!! From -40 to +29 is a pretty noticeable change!!
Once again, the gate minders in the great white north have failed us miserably :disgust:. 28 degrees with freezing rain and light sssss.......snsnnnssnnsss.......ssssssnnnnn....well, you know. Not enough to make little round frozen white men, but enough to pretty much shut a lot of the city down. Ground stops at both airports, and a few highways going north (of course) are closed down for wrecks. I suspect the schools will be closed tomorrow, but they'll wait until o'dark thirty to let everyone know. Just another fine January day in the swamp. Possible temps in the teens tonight....
We have hovered around -5 today, but with nice cooling breeze so you don't sweat
Quote from: jetmex on January 15, 2024, 03:58:17 PM
Once again, the gate minders in the great white north have failed us miserably :disgust:...
As I said before, if you guys down in the basement would throw some logs in the furnace once in awhile, it wouldn't have gotten so damn cold! 😉
-26 last night. or still I should say. Supposed to get up in the 20s, with a breeze, which will likely start moving around the 7" of snow we ended up with.
Who ordered this winter stuff?
QuoteAs I said before, if you guys down in the basement would throw some logs in the furnace once in awhile, it wouldn't have gotten so damn cold! 😉
I don't think there are enough logs around here to build a fire big enough to thaw us out. It would be much easier if you northerners would just please close the gate... :disturbed:
18 degrees with wind chill in single digits. Wind is 15kts coming right outta Canada, bypassing that snow fence in Kansas. Our pumping station is partially frozen, so we don't have any water at the moment. One more day of this, then we're supposed to be in the 40s on Wednesday.
I just looked at my recorded temps, we were -29, Mom in town said hers showed -36. No wonder the UTV didn't want to start
I sincerely hope that you weren't on the streets yesterday, Jaime. The interweb is flooded with traffic videos from the Houston area. Not a good thing
Stetto, I don't go out on days like that unless I absolutely have too. People in this place can't drive when it's clear and sunny, God forbid there's rain or snow. We're not set up for cold weather here, so it's always a new experience when something like this happens. Not to mention the fact the population has exploded since we got here 30 something years ago, so now there are literally millions of people freaking out. Honestly, if Pat wasn't dead set against it and the kids weren't all close by, I'd be moving away from here.
Above freezing for the first time in two days, but will be back in the high 20s tonight.
Mother nature is such a practical joker. Woke up to 30mph winds, but it was 39 degrees, above freezing for the 1st time in seems like, Oh I don't a decade or so, water running off the roof, snow melting on sidewalks, making it like greased glass to walk on. 10am I glanced at the temp, 20 degrees. What!? And its starting to snow. By noon its 16 and an inch of snow. :disgust: Everything is now frozen to what ever it was touching.
Such a kidder, can we stop playing winter now?
Nature tease happening here, too. 66 degrees and sunny right now, on a way back to lows in the 20s over the weekend. Then back to the 60's and rain next week.
Got up to 70 yesterday, 18 this morning with a high of 30. Supposed to repeat this through Sunday and then 50's for highs with mid 30's and rain next week.
Almost the same forecast here, Carl, but we might be a little warmer next week than you will be.
We may finally break out, 30s tomorrow, then normal 40s, which will feel welcome after this crap.
That north gate is still open. 15kt wind all day, been hovering around 40 since early this morning. Supposed to be warmer and raining tomorrow...
Oh it will get better, we hit 43 today, 1st time in a couple weeks.
37 here and raining
Out of the freezer, got some snow, and now it is going to melt........
Rogue commandos from south Texas today invaded Canada and closed the gate north of Frostbite Falls, MN that was allowing arctic air into the United States. As a result, temperatures in Texas were a more seasonable 72 degrees with severe sunshine today, reversing a weeks long trend of the phenomenon known as "winter". It is hoped that the commando action will achieve permanent results until spring....
Dang something strange is happening, its actually nice out, clear, calm and supposed to be 60 today. It will be sloppy as our snow is slow to go, but hopefully will be bare by the end of the week when they say some more snow is on the way.
The few days or so before we dropped into the arctic, we had the 7" and then we had a day of 30s, I tried to blade some of the snow, but ended up just making some paths as wide as the vehicles with snow berms to the side, then it froze sold. I think it was worse trying to walk over the frozen snow mounds than if I just left it. The ground is still so cold the snow is reluctant to melt despite it being warm most of the week. This reminds me of winter, Do Not Like. Might have to leave a bad yelp review.
Guess who is under water restrictions in January??
Yup....us!
Not weather related, though......one of the water treatment plants broke down....they have no idea when it will be fixed!
Well at least you don't have to worry about the lawn burning up. :thinkerg:
Would you believe it is supposed to get up to 55 F today?!?
It was 62° here yesterday, supposed to be 65° today, then 67° tomorrow and Thursday...
....snow on Friday...go figger
Ah......but only if "they" are right.......😄
Yeah, 'they' are sure making a lot of noise of the storm coming for it only being 1-3" and back in the 50s by next week.
After a miserable, wet weekend, the sun finally came out and it's been beautiful here the last few days. 72 yesterday, should be 74 today.
40's and 50's here the few days...most of the snow is gone......
50s and 60s here all week, today was 40s and rain. But feels pretty springy for being early February.
We interrupt this interruption to return to our regularly scheduled season - Winter!
*click* *click* *click* (trying desperately to change the channel)
Woke up to 16° this morning. Around 2.5" on the ground, the light fluffy kind you could create quite the localized blizzard with the right leaf blower or industrial fan...
"They" claim a high of mid 30s today, then slowly warmer through the week till the next snowstorm...
IOW our nice tilt-a-whirl winter continues...
We dodged this one, but just east and especially south got it pretty good, Greeley CO got over a foot I hear. Its 40 already here today, melting off our little bit of freezing rain we got yesterday, supposed to be 50s until the end of the week when we get another front.
Can't decide whether it's winter or spring here. 38 degrees this morning on the way to mid 60s. Then we have a week of warm before it drops back into the 30s and 40s again for a day or two. Then it will be March, and the Canadians can have their cold back! :icon_mrgreen:
We have been not so bad lately, running in the 50s and nice, until yesterday. Winter came back from break and didn't like our enjoying the weather. Our 1-3" turned into 5" or more, our lows in the teens turned into -5 this morning. Supposed to warm up, but get windy they say now.
Could be worse I suppose, my cousin in Rapid city said they have at least 14"
We had a severe fog bank settle in yesterday @ 25°. It left a half inch of ice. Then 3" of snow to conceal the ice.
Definitely a lounging at home weekend.
I think sprang is about to sprung. 78 degrees yesterday, should be into the low 80s today. We might get a few more cooler days in the coming weeks, but thanks to whoever finally shut the gate up north, life here is good again! :icon_mrgreen:
Feelin kinda springy here too, 50s and 60s, had a rumble of thunder yesterday. Not usual for this time of year, a wake up call is scheduled for next week they say though.
Looking at +/-60° today, ahead of a storm these poor weather people can't seem to get their heads around.
Gonna go to the driving range today, I actually shot a 52 last Friday, yeah, 20 over, but my best yet...
We have been bouncing around but trending cooler. Last I checked which was yesterday we were supposed to be high 40s with some possible snow showers, I just looked and now it says high of 35, 40% chance of snow after 2 pm. Wut hoppen? :disgust:
Spent the last couple days herding a tree service around the yard trying to clean up or cut down the dead and dying trees, 2 of which were hit by lightening last year. I guess the weather held out for that at least, and I have fire wood now.
No need for firewood here. Temps in the low 80s the last few days and everything is covered with a layer of that lovely yellow oak pollen. It's supposed to rain tomorrow (yeah, right) and then back to our usual spring weather. The tree in our backyard went from bare to full leaves in about 30 seconds... :disturbed:
First thunder of the year! Please don't be the first hail...
We had a nice shower yesterday evening. Then more rain overnight to give us almost an inch of rain. Then had a couple of thunderstorms roll through this evening giving us a little more moisture.
Snowed all night, but little accumulation, though its solid white now. I would welcome some rain, this stuff is damp but not the soaker we need.
Yuh, the guessers guessed wrong.
Storm is benefitting Carl, but we got little or less. A scant 1/4" with no more but a floo-ree or two today, then 50s over the weekend to melt the course I'll be on Monday.
After a week in the mid 80's, there are thunderstorms rolling through the swamp right now. All kinds of lightning and thunder, but not much rain yet. That is supposed to arrive a little later tonight.
Big storm in CO, some places like Estes Park in the mountains had over 2' of snow. 4 to 5' at the casinos like Blackhawk west of Denver. Cheyenne had about 5" Kayla was in Alabama for the week for a conference, and had delay coming home for a day.
4' on Pikes Peak. Snow totals were amazingly varied. We on the Kansas side of the Springs got a whopping 4-6". Shoveled the drive and sidewalk in a total 15 minutes.
Sometimes bridesmaid ain't the worst thing to be... :disturbed:
Going through the spring but not spring phase. 60s all week, snow Sunday/Monday.
Yep, was mid 60s day before, cool and breezy instead of being even warmer yesterday, today supposed to b 70, but windy, and then by Monday 30s for a high. Weather whiplash.
It's been raining here most of the day. The weather guessers said this is the first round, supposed to be more later this afternoon. Temps are in the mid 60s right now and it's been a little cooler than normal at night. We did need the rain, and maybe it'll stay cool enough for a while longer to keep the mosquitos at bay.
That second round was a doozy. Woke up about 2 this morning to horizontal rain beating on the windows. There are broken tree limbs, garbage cans and downed fences strewn all over the neighborhood this morning. But it did wash all the pollen off my truck!
Apparently it can't decide what it wants to do, we are bouncing between cloudy cool and windy and warm and nice every other day or so, and now back to cool calm but foggy, last evening it looked like we were going to get some rain, it spit for a bit, but not enough to make it even feel damp.
There's been a blizzard warning declaration just south of us. It's 53° right now. They were wrong the last time they tried to pull a weather emergency, nothing like try try again...
It got chilly, breezy (gust +/- 40mph), and what minimal snow fell blew off into the wind.
I have a 10:50am tee time on Thursday...
35 here this morning. Wind has blow like crazy the last couple of days.
The days have not been too terrible, cool and breezy, but dang the bottom still falls out at night, 15 night before last and we are at 20 right now. Never di get get much besides some fog, not that I am sorry we missed the snow they got east of us since we started calving, but kind of worried about moisture for pasture and crops now if it keeps up, supposed to be another round this week end, we'll see.
Finally got some rain out of all these fronts going through, not much, but at least we have a puddle this morning, its starting to get worrisome how dry its been since fall.
Wind. 61° and wind. Was going to smoke a beef tenderloin today, but the wind!
Looks like I'll be cutting filets...in the wind...
The week started off wet and has now turned beautiful. Lows in the upper 50s, highs in the upper 70s, severe clear. All the really nasty stuff that was headed this way went well north of us. It's supposed to be raining again this weekend, then back to the nice stuff.
We have been enjoying some nice weather, high 60s then high 70s, windy but not so bad to be out in most of the time. That ends starting today so I hear. Still warm today, but wind by late today supposed to be gusting to 50. 48 Saturday, rain by the afternoon changing to snow over night winds up to 50, 2" to 4" predicted of snow and rain over an inch.
Got calves popping out all over the place now, so glad I held the bulls out so I would calve in good weather. :eusa_doh:
Ugh, that was not fun, very little moisture, which I was thankful for, they had a blizzard 70 miles north of us. But we had some true hurricane winds. Records set in Cheyenne and several other places, Cheyenne clocked 90mph at the port of entry south of town for one example. Someone who has a weather station like mine posted a picture they had 106mph steady wind with 122 gusts near Laramie WY. :eek5:. 9 semis went over in a 30 mile stretch between Wellington CO and Cheyenne in about 6 hours time frame.
Nebraska faired worse, 250+ power poles went down over 5 counties in NE and WY, but mostly in NE, some areas in Gering to the east of us will go without power up to a week they said. Multiple reports of trees down and roads blocked
We never lost power, but did internet for about 4 hours, it was brutal.
Wow
Turned out to be low, almost 500 poles across the 2 states, most of them in one power company district, but crews have come from all over and they had 190 back in yesterday already.
Its been 'unsettled' for the past week, a couple nice days, then maybe a shower, nothing real wet so far, which is concerning, its a dry spring, again.
ON the other hand I would keep it this way than suffer what eastern NE went through, those tornadoes they had were apocalyptical, it scoured the earth in some places.
We have hard snow falling that started out as thunderstorms earlier. I hear it's raining just a couple miles south.
I played golf yesterday morning, mid-60s.
Looks to be an all day (and night) event. Got the rain guage up, I'll update when she's done. It's heading north-by-northeast, Honcho. You might get a taste.
Well, we wanted some rain and we got it. Five inches at the house so far this morning and it's not over yet. Backyard is about two inches deep in standing water and for a few minutes the street was underwater from curb to curb. There was hail, too, about the size of M&Ms. Supposed to be more tonight and tomorrow. And I have no idea where my Mae West is... :icon_mrgreen:
Yah Jaime, you can have all that. We wound up with a fuzz over 1".Just enough to get apple blossoms exploding.
Severe weather here last night, and again this evening. There were several tornadoes yesterday evening just north of Abilene, which is about 35 miles from us. Lots of large hail up to baseball size.
We had a sprinkle, looks like a dry year again. :eusa_doh:
Gotta be careful with that anymore Jaime, you start talkin Mae West, and some start thinking of you in a dress and makeup. :icon_smile:
QuoteGotta be careful with that anymore Jaime, you start talkin Mae West, and some start thinking of you in a dress and makeup. :icon_smile:
Well, ya know what they say, Honcho, if ya got it, flaunt it! :icon_lol: Stetto has better legs than I do, though..... :icon_mrgreen:
Still raining. We got a break yesterday, but it's pretty wet this morning. The subdivisions a few miles north of us are half underwater with mandatory evacuations ordered for the neighborhoods along the San Jacinto river and Lake Houston. Water release from the dam at Lake Conroe further north isn't helping things any. It's supposed to ease up late today, then into the 90s next week.
Quote from: jetmex on May 05, 2024, 07:31:44 AMQuoteGotta be careful with that anymore Jaime, you start talkin Mae West, and some start thinking of you in a dress and makeup. :icon_smile:
Well, ya know what they say, Honcho, if ya got it, flaunt it! :icon_lol: Stetto has better legs than I do, though..... :icon_mrgreen:
Better than you maybe, but the Buckaroo will ALWAYS have the best calves of any of us!!
I don't know, Carl may give me a run for the money. :icon_lol:
I know for those northerners its may not be a big deal, but man we have had some fantastic northern lights the last couple nights. Night before last was the 1st time I remember being able to see them in plain sight without using a camera, and the pictures have been incredible.
We're too far south for the lights, but it wouldn't matter anyway because it's been raining for the last week and we wouldn't be able to see them. It just stopped a few minutes ago, and now we have a bumper crop of mosquitos to go with all the wet. If this round of rain anything like last one, the sun will now come out and boil us all to death... :eek5:
Send some of that up here, we are in severe drought again. :eusa_wall:
No drought here, but the cloud seeding they've been doing sans the will of the governed is making for some spooky weather. Hail season has commenced and now I'm looking for a padded cover for my truck...
After a couple of 90+ degree days, it's raining again. Not good news for a lot of people around here, as the flood waters still haven't receded in some places from the last storm. Any of you who need rain are welcome to come take some of this. And the mosquitos, too!
Man, did we have a storm last night! 65mph winds here at the house made it rain horizontally. It got a little exciting here for a few minutes wondering if the oak trees next door would be on the house. There are uprooted trees and blown out skyscraper windows in downtown Houston, and a bunch of those big electrical transmission towers came down southwest of us. We have power, but a bunch of people don't, and there are 90 degree temps coming..
Y'all got hit hard! We have a niece and nephew that live in Cypress. Got pretty western in their area also. Glad y'all didn't suffer any damage.
I saw the pics of the transmission towers that came down :icon_eek: Do not want.
We are supposed to have a good chance of rain 1st of the week, Ill believe when we see it, we can measure rain in tenths since the 1st of March, its even drier than a couple years ago which was bad.
Dang near 90 a couple days ago, and this morning was 44 and damp, I dislike boomerang weather.
33° here this morning, and I put peppers out a week ago because the "forecast" called for nothing below the mid 40s.
Not gonna win this season either, I guess... :'(
As usual, we went from one extreme to the other. A week ago half the city was underwater. Now they're still underwater and it's 96 degrees outside. I'm beginning to believe that it's entirely possible for the humidity to be above 100%. I'm told the fishing is really good right now, though. Right off the back porch.... :icon_mrgreen:
We got about 6/10" of rain a couple days ago, not much but welcome. But its cool, yesterday was windy, like 37mph steady and low 60s, right now is 62 and a good cold stiff breeze. Kinda ready for some nice spring weather, but what's going to happen is from this straight into summer I suspect.
Heh, I have a pile of "layers" on the camphor chest at the end of our bed, changes of clothes for different times of day. 75° was predicted for today, but won't get close to that. Tomorrow on the other hand will likely reach 85°, like it did yesterday. But it's a dry heat... :disturbed:
I could use some of that dry heat here. 94 yesterday with 116% humidity. At least most of the standing water has dried up and the mosquitos aren't swarming like they were a week ago...
we are lingering in some confused state that we are not sure what season we are supposed to be. Warm, then a day of cool, though I think we are done with the 60s now. Get a day of hot wind, then yesterday it was cloudy and sprinkled half the after noon on and off, not even enough to make the sidewalk damp, but too much to be able to mow. Now we are going to see 90s, with constant 25mph wind for the next 3 days. Already had severe storms miss us barely and it just started the sever weather season, like 3" hail, tornadoes and torrential downpours. Weather wise this year has been screwed up so far.
I'm thinking of a trip north. Soon. I need a serious break.
Annnd its summer, just like that. 90 and hot wind today.
Yep, you should, but whatsamatter, 9th hole post partum? :icon_razz:
I actually don't mind the 90's, it's the 100's+ that kill me, we had our first 100 degree day, 107 with 60% humidity on Tuesday, today it was only 102!
Ugh, it was 96 in Ft Collins yesterday, going from the 50s over night to that was enough, you can keep them triple digits for a while.
We got home yesterday from an unplanned trip to the Olde Country greeted by 92° IN THE HOUSE.
When I turned on the A/C, bupkiss. Supposed to be hotter today.
Got a guy coming this afternoon. I know nothing about this stuff other than turning it up or down...at least it's a dry heat (25%).
96 degrees here right now, but not as humid as usual, so it only feels like 107. It will be like that the rest of the week...
We may not be the levels you guys down south get, we scorched yesterday, 98 and a hot 25 mph w3ind all day, you could just se what little grass we have shrivel as the day went on. Supposed to be back in the 80s today, and maybe a chance of thunderstorms.
Mid 90s all week with humidity in the low 100s. There are storms coming early next week, life rafts and Mae Wests are standing by...
We have missed most of the storms so far until today, and still missed the worst thankfully, but watched this one touch down west of us a few miles and the hail was about 10 miles west, we got a little quarter sized, but the wind tore off several good sized branches again.
Glad you dodged the bad stuff.
Wow. Our local guessers have been batting +/- 5%. Their "severe" forecasts have been off by 100 miles or more every day for some time. They virtually guaranteed baseball size hail last week, and yes, it happened...in Kansas. But I spent over an hour duct taping quilts to my truck, for no more than some sprinkle and one 30mph gust.
It was even worse than I knew, lost internet last night after I posted, apparently the 300' radio tower we get our broadband off of went down in the micro burst wind as it went east of us, large trees uprooted, rail cars tipped over, power lines down, a few barns demolished and house roofs stripped. all about 10 or 12 miles east of us.
I am using my phone as a hotspot which works about 25% of the time, and that's my internet for the foreseeable future until they figure out how to put up another radio antennae
They must have found another tower to mount the radio to, because we had internet back the next day, but we have been baking since, I think we hit triple digits for 4 days straight. Now we cool off with the chance of sever storms again.
The last round had 3 tornadoes local, did quite a bit of damage, took out 2 tractor dealers /salvage yard buildings across the road from one another between us and Scottsbluff, as well as a couple barns and out buildings and several pivot sprinklers south from a separate one. They said the south one, on Vickis mail route, which would been east of us about 6 miles was an f3 :eek5: She showed pictures of scoured fields from hail and wind.
Glad y'all didn't suffer any of the bad stuff. Nothing but hot here, been 100+ for the last week with 100+ forecast for the next 10 days.
ugh, we are going to bounce around between high 90s and some high 80s, but with a chance of thunderstorms, which right now only means maybe some hail, or worse lightening in the dry grass. Already been a couple big grass fires in the area.
Took the mutts out for a walk at 0700 this morning and it was already 83 degrees. The sun hadn't cleared the trees yet. It rained a little last night, so the humidity is in the mid 100's.
On the bright side, I got new garage doors installed yesterday to replace the 50 year old wood ones that were original to the house. They are insulated, so my garage may once again become a habitable place to do stuff in....
Dry here. The apocalyptics are back with doom reports, but our 90°+ days @ 15-20% humidity are actually quite nice. They're hitting the hunnerts in the Arkansas Valley tho, not good for pepper growing 😕.
We got our 1st measurable rain since late may I think, 2/10ths! Didn't even come with nay hardstuff or twirly wind, just a good ol down pour for a little bit. It will be all gone to where you wont know by afternoon today, but it was nice to get up with it damp for a change.
Alright!
It's only 83 so far, been raining on and off all day. Someone said there's a bit of a storm coming... :disturbed:
We hit all of 80 yesterday, mostly 70s all day, a little breezy, downright cool for this time of year, still dry though.
I hope you have your hip waders on though Jaime, looks bad all over around Houston right now.
Really windy right now, but not as much rain as I thought there would be. Downtown Galveston is flooded as usual. Still have power, and my daughter's back fence blew down, but so far we're all fine.
Power went out just after my last post and his been out ever since. We got lucky, oldest son had power back Monday night, so we bugged out and went there. I was at the house yesterday to empty out the fridge. Been in the mid 90s with high humidity, though it's supposed to start raining later this morning. Still a bunch of people without power and no one is happy with the electricity provider right now...
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/houston-centerpoint-beryl-power-outage-19565741.php
Had a thundersprinkle roll through yesterday afternoon, unfortunately it brought more lightning than rain, and we got this to the west of us now.
Over an inch of rain while we slept last night. Forecast :eusa_think: says a repeat performance is scheduled for tonight.
No hail so far, but being at the foot of the Rocky Mountains creates a lot of flooding without massive amounts of Iluvia...
Raining here, too, for the last three days. We've probably gotten four or five inches in that time and it's drizzling now. They say it'll be like this into next week, then it will get hot and muggy again..
We have been dry and burning up, 103 yesterday with a 20mph wind. Then we are going to bounce back and forth between mid 90s and low 100s, with chance of thunder in there a couple times until august they tell us. At least mowing has not been a problem to keep up with.
Hey West Texas, you & Billy Sue had a rumbler this morning then?
Be OK, please.
We are good, that storm dropped an inch and a half in 38 minutes. Billie Sue is currently in the hospital, she had her osteomy reversal surgery done yesterday.
Wow, we have seen an inch and half all summer since may.
Hope she is doing well this morning, as well as the worrier in charge right now. 8)
She is doing better this morning, she was sick to her stomach most of yesterday. They finally got an anti nausea medication that worked. Her surgeon came in this afternoon and finally started her back on clear liquids. She hadn't had any food intake since last Wednesday.
Give our best to Billie Sue, Carl. Hope she's feeling better today!
Back to hot and muggy here. 94 yesterday.
Thanks guys, hoping that she gets to come home today. Dr hasn't been in yet this morning. They put her on a regular diet yesterday. All normal gut functions appear to be working. Well, she called at about 6:30 yesterday evening saying she was getting released. I had to hurry up with finishing my chores and run to Abilene to the hospital, almost an hour away, get her and bring her home. Things are so much better now.
Glad to hear Billie Sue is home and doing well!
Back to just damn hot here. 96 degrees right now. It was supposed to rain, but it didn't happen. Might have to wait for the next hurricane for that.
Yeah we were 104 for about all of the afternoon yesterday, it was a scortcher, supposed to be hot until Thursday, then switch up with 70s for high and maybe some rain. Which would figure, I just got the swather running late last week and have a bunch of hay down or ready to be cut. :eusa_doh:
The new word du jour around here as of yesterday morning is "monsoon".
Inch and a quarter last night, more expected through the week. Temps which had been mid 90s will drop by 10-20° for a while.
First pepper blossoms are starting to come, only three months late 🙄
Yeah they promise its heading our way. so just in case I will cut some hay to sacrifice to the rain god so we might actually get some.
I got the last of my hay baled Sunday. Just in time for about 10 days of record heat. My weather station showed 116 this afternoon! But it it out in direct sunlight. Official temp was shown as 108.
Ugh, we are not that hot, but we have hit 104 / 105 a couple times this last week set or tied some records. I should have been done with 2nd cutting by now, but something went wrong with the hydraulics on my swather, and even the dealer mechanics can't figure it out, got it working halfassed right now, enough to cut, but it was a full month being down so put me way behind.
I have had my fair share of breakdowns, lost the bushing in the cutter bar on my mower conditioner, ripped the lacing out of a belt on my baler, had the A/C compressor on my tractor explode (literally). Hope you get the hydraulics figured out and back to working like it is supposed to.
I saw the exploded pump, that was wild.
Damn guys, now I don't feel so bad. The only thing that happened to me this week was a failure of the left hand thread flobulator rod bearing on my GrassMauler 2346.2, which caused the main retract actuator to implode, spraying headlight fluid and flight line all over the damn place. Now the double dumper injected carburetor blower won't inject AND the damn thing won't cool, so now I have to sit on the porch and drink warm beer. Of all the luck.... :disturbed: :disturbed: :disturbed:
Seriously, hope you guys get your machines back up and running. I sorta know what it's like when a bunch of them all break at once!
102 here today...
:icon_lol:
I went in a chatted with the mechanics today, Basically the combobulator isn't working, so one would think it must be discombobulating, but no, its actually over combobulating. That was maybe not the actual technical jargon, but I get the idea they have as much clue to what its doing as I do.
Honcho, do you have a Holley combobulator or an Edelbrock combobulator? Makes a difference, you know... :icon_lol: :icon_lol:
Knowing Honcho he has probably upgraded to the FItech injeculator!
Maybe that's the problem, its a Delta combobulator, and I should upgrade it to a FItech. :eusa_doh:
We had a nature shock today, was only 60s for a high, 61 now in fact, and its kind of chilly compared to the 90s and hunnerds we had just the last few days. We did get a little rain, but not much.
Injeculators! I forgot all about those! :disturbed:
I don't know why we have weather forecasters here. It's either hot and humid or hurricane and even I can tell the difference. Mid to high 90s all week with a few 100 degree days thrown in just to break things up a little.
Every day this month except for have been over 100. Forecast is for another week of triple digit temps.
We had the short shot of relief, but back to high 90s and triples for a little while now. Would have been nice to get some rain out that deal, but not for us this year I guess.
Finally we caught a real thunderstorm, about 3 pm had some heavy clouds roll over, could see it raining and lightening just north, then lightening hit here I watched one hit across the road about 300 yards out in the neighbors hay field, and another within seconds at the far end on the trees. Just a minute or 2 before that I heard the crack and flash and when I looked out saw smoke columns about a half mile west, but before I could worry much about it, came a deluge and put everything out. Got 1.5" in about 20 minutes, actually had water standing everywhere.
Man we needed something like that in the worst way, rained hard, and no hail, but by dark very few puddles remained on everything, it soaked up like a sponge.
That is awesome.... We could sure use some around here. It got up to 114 here today. :eusa_wall:
Ugh, we are not anywhere near that, but been bouncing up close to triples the last several days, until yesterday, only got to 80, that with being damp and high clouds was nice for a change. Of course always something to ruin it, a 200k acre fire along with a couple other smaller ones around Gillette WY had us socked in with smoke.
I see Abilene getting a good shot right now, but Baird is looking to be a bridesmaid today, eh West Texas?
It made it here about 7:30, lost power, finally got it back on after 22 hours. Thank goodness it only got to 105 today. Got a solid 2 inches of rain out to that storm.
So how long does the wet last when it gets that hot? here even a couple inches of rain is gone in a week if it hot like that.
We got a break. After a week of 100+ degrees, we're now down to the mid 90s with a little less humidity. Supposed to rain all next week, I'll believe it when it happens.
Really depends on the amount of sunshine and wind. If the wind doesn't blow we will still be wet on the surface for a couple of days. I have seen it rain 2 inches, then clear out, bright sunshine and 15-30 mph winds dry the surface in 4 hours.
We have sandy loam/ clay in low spots and for the most part, roads get get greasy slick when wet. Doesn't take too much to get that way, but dries up fairly fast if breezy. A couple inches of rain would have water standing normally, years like this its like a sponge. We had years when we had several inches of rain and every low spot is a pond or stream, but that happens so seldom it has to reshape the water ways to accommodate.
Well, we had a cold front come through on Friday afternoon. Got some spotty showers through the weekend that resulted in a little over an inch of rain total. Then Sunday evening it started raining and it hasn't quit as of now. Right now we are just over 9 inches, and still raining. The creek is running good, and my stock tank is now full and running around the spillway. Temp right now is 68.
holy cow 9"? I bet you are freezing after the triple digits you had.
We got a 50% chance of showers tonight and tomorrow but if we get any it won't be inches. Temps are going from mid to high 90s to 80s for a few days. If it were for the shorter days and cool mornings it would feel like mid July rather than Sept.
Summer over, maybe? It hasn't hit 90 here since late last week and it has sorta rained a little on and off the last few days. Weather guessers say a cool front is coming, but I'll believe that when it happens.
Rained some more overnight and this morning bringing our total to 10.5 inches.
Our side walk got damp. :icon_smile:
I think fall just fell. 68 degrees this morning, the start of a beautiful weekend leading up to a week full of another tropical storm. :disgust:
Well that was a kind of a shock to the system, we have been warm, not in the triples but lots of 90s and staying fairly warm at night, but last night we got down to 43. Sign of things to come.
That would be nice, we are pushing 100's again, with high humidity.
So Francine was a no show, and now we're back to summer again with high 90s for the rest of the week. We got about two minutes worth of rain, then some really nice mornings and now it's over. It'll get cooler in October. Maybe...
We had a thunderstorm roll through last evening, dropped 4/10ths in short order, but man the lightening was as bad as any we have ever had. Spared the trees around the house but several hits across the road as I watched, one must have vaporized the water on a tree, because it had a small mist of steam surround it for a few seconds. In a square mile around us the lightening indicator map showed about a dozen hits compared to the 2 or 3 when lightening is bad. It was like the gods playing lawn darts.
Fortunately with the rain no fires that I know of, which is good, because it seems half of WY has been on fire. Here its been almost of month for any rain at all and despite being a good one, it was hot and sometimes breezy so it was back to bone dry.
Have we become this? :icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_mrgreen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9MgbexiVkA
:icon_lol: Probably worse, but still better than the local coffee clutch at the convenience store. :icon_lol:
Absolutely!!!!
Whoa, 37 this morning, and I have been complaining its been chilly in the high 40s. Unfortunately this cold front brought no rain that they promised.
It's coming our way, supposed to be here this evening. Good chances for rain the next 4 days.
Cold front showed up at 7:00 pm yesterday evening. Started raining shortly afterwards. Woke up this morning to 59 degrees, and 2 inches of rain in the gauge.
Man we are so dry again/still, I put up about 240 bales of hay, which is about 145 ton, but been supplement feeding since late July and am worried I won't have enough because the hay fields are not growing back for winter pasture we usually get. 2" of rain would be game changer for us, but there is none in the forecast, and the last thing we need is an Oct cold snap and frost with it dry before hand.
I'll attest to the Buckaroo's dry comment. Woke up today with quite the wind burn and it wasn't even that windy! I had a blast Eric, and yeah, I'm paying for it today!!!
:icon_lol: I figured, I had to drive most of the day, so tomorrow I'll be feeling it from both days. And don't feel bad I was wind/sun burned a little too.
Was there a Fubar get together?
It's been a beauty of a week here. Lows in the mid 60s, highs in the mid 90s, but the humidity is way down so it's actually possible to be outside for more than a few minutes and now it cools off when the sun goes down!
Quote from: jetmex on September 30, 2024, 07:37:01 AMWas there a Fubar get together?
Believe it or not Jaime, it was discussed. I'm only 4 hours away, so I took an opportunity to drive up for a visit. A lot of Fubarian names popped up, Ray Hightower, Big Mike, George, Frank (Buzzbeak), and it was mentioned that if we do another Gathering it better be soon, the way the Olde Guard is dying off...
By the way, anyone hear from Nony lately?
A mini gathering I guess. Would have been perfect for one today for the most part, nice and cool.
My daughter won a guided hunt trip in the bighorns, she was up yesterday shooting the deer rifles, forgot how much those things buck.
It's been a beautiful week here. Lows in the 60s, highs in the upper 80s. No rain in sight. It'll be a good night to watch the grandson march in the halftime show at tonight's football game.
Been pretty nice here but for the smoke, temps in the 70s and 80s, dry mostly cloudless, but we have yet another monster fire up north in the state just west of Sheridan and have had smoke at times pretty thick.
My daughters hunting trip turns out to be an annual fundraiser for the Rotary club that they call 'Gunpowder and buckskin', an outreach program where they get a half dozen hunting licenses for out of state people, usually Rotary club members, she didn't win it, but was chosen as a replacement for some other woman who couldn't make it at the last minute, she was asked by a woman she has worked with in the Sheridan main street program to fill in, she feels she won though because she is not nor ever been a Rotary club member.
It consists of week long worth of fly fishing, rifle target, clay trap competition, a calcutta auction for participants and followed by a deer hunt and a awards dinner.
So it turns out having a gun dad is not so bad, she had not shot a rifle in years, she came up last Sunday, I gave a crash course and she ran some rounds through to pick the rifles to take, and I sent up with her my 270 win and a 22 bolt action rifle. She had no idea before she got there it was all a competition or of the calcutta where she was the item sold. She did missed the fishing part, but had a womens outdoor group who went fly fishing the end of Sept and had a ball with it. This weekend was the shooting, she won the competition and got a little Annie Oakley trophy. :icon_lol: Then she generated $3000 being sold in the calcutta.
Today is the deer hunt, so we'll see how that goes, but she is having a blast with it all so far. This may seem all natural to people considering where she came from, but what most don't know is the girl hardly went outside except when forced as a teen ager, in college all she was worried about was cloths, the newest Iphone and friends. Funny how adulting works sometimes.
I'll let you know how it turns out.
Early bird gets the...deer?
Apparently. She is so excited can't even come up with the words. :icon_lol: 1st hunt, 1st deer she is beaming.
Quote from: Onepoint on October 12, 2024, 10:19:32 AMEarly bird gets the...deer?
Apparently. She is so excited can't even come up with the words. :icon_lol: 1st hunt, 1st deer she is beaming.
Atta girl! When's elk season? :icon_smile: :eusa_clap: :notworthy:
Awesome!!! Way to go Kayla!!!
Its been a full month and not a single drop of rain again, had some clouds roll through last night, gave us some thunder and sprinkled for 5 minutes, not even enough to make concrete damp.
But up north they got some much needed snow on the Elk fire out side of Sheridan, that thing has been a monster. It has grown to over 96k acres, but its along the front range up there and stretches 30 miles long now. I read they have had 13 to 15 aircraft on it running drops non stop now for 20 days and had no serious containment, had to evacuate 3 small villages and many ranches and out lying acreages.
Out of it has come the hillbilly hotshots or so they are called, local ranchers and others who have got together and helped firefighters with their own equipment try and save some buildings and places, and have been successful at times, they stopped a branch of the fire from crossing a fireline along a road all by themselves apparently that allowed some of the 1st containment of it. The fire fighters were doing as much as they could, it was just too erratic and unpredictable as to where it would push to get a good handle on it. Thank god for people who look after themselves.
Anyway .5 to a full inch of rain has fell on it, snow and cooler temps late afternoon gave the firefighters a much needed break, they pulled everyone from the line as it stopped encroachment and let the regroup and rest for next week when its supposed to dry out again.
We have rain coming through now. I don't expect much but it's welcome.
We had a low on Wednesday morning of 29°. Unbelievably my non-productive Serrano plants survived unscathed, go figure.
We've been getting some Wyoming smoke, but it's been amazingly unscented. I had a cardio stress test yesterday and they said from what they read they had no idea why I was there.
That means I'll be complaining about the weather for a while... :disturbed:
Great news Stetto!
SMOKE
And lots of it.
Dust. Its been so dry here the roads are all powder, worse now that they are combining corn and trucks rolling up and down them, and a fine silt is covered everything inside and out. I can understand how the dustbowlers felt when it would sift into everything.
Sounds like we might get some wet and cold early next week, if we get enough the silt turns to slop, fun times. Though I will believe it when I see it.
Rain. And a lot of it. Been raining here for the past three days and there's another hurricane in the Gulf heading who knows where. The weather guessers say the cold front hitting will keep it away. It is a little cooler than usual, 68 right now, but still eight degrees away from parka weather!
The temps sort of say we are in late fall, but we sure have not seen the weather to confirm it so far. We had a day of drizzle that settled dust for a day, and that it, now they are talking snow showers for the next day or so, but nothing to measure. I don 't really care for winter but I'm hoping for kind of wet soon.
Nieve, and lots of it.
4 inches with 4-? more forecast from now to tomorrow night. Then more on Friday. Maybe some more on Saturday...
It's OK, I gots a shovel...you getting any of this Mr Honcho?
We got the cold, not the wet, 13 degrees this morning after a high in the mid 30s yesterday. Tomorrow we get 80% chance of drizzle and snow showers through Sat, but no accumulation or measurable moisture.
Its starting to look dustbowlish here, silty sand everywhere, even mild wind blows it and a yellowish haze on the horizon everyday. Drought monitor says we are in the extreme drought area, but I bet right here we qualify for the exceptional rating, I would have to go back through my posts, but I bet we have only got about 4 or 5 inches of rain since last March
Day-amn! We've got over 7 inches now and forecast at least that much more by tomorrow night.
Sorry for your dry, I'd glad truck some up for you, but every highway out of town is closed here...
Yeah I hear its pretty bad down that way, gets worse the further south and east you go from I-70. I'm kind of dreading when it makes up for the dry up here.
We got a little bit of that, About a 1/2" of rain and a frosting of snow that's melting about as fast as it comes down but enough to make the ground white so far, never got below 34 and yet snowed, go figure. At this point we'll take it no matter.
I just shoveled the driveway and front walk for the third time this morning. Wet heavy stuff this time (42° at noon). We live less than a mile from Peterson SFB, where they measured 19.5 official inches, +/- 2 inches of equivalent moisture for the last three days. Glad it's over, though I need the exercise.
7 foot snowdrifts were reported in Calhan, about 10 miles to the east. We used to get those several times every winter back in MN, my son tells me they haven't seen a flake yet this year...
We got 1/4" on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday for 3/4" total. No rain on Wednesday, but starting Thursday morning it really started raining. When I got up Friday morning we had 5.9 inches in the gauge, then got another 1.2" inches for 7.1 inches total. Creeks are running full, stocks tanks are full.
It's been getting cooler as the week progresses. We broke some high temp records early on (upper 80s), but the low this morning was 58 and the daytime temps will be cooling into the 70s. No rain, though.
We have had a stretch of some pretty nice weather, and I never thought I would regret that. Yesterday was calm and low 60s, I was out without a jacket most of the afternoon, which is odd for this time of year, in the past we have been down around zero at times right now.
Unfortunately, its as dry as I have ever seen it, we did get an inch of rain a couple weeks ago from that last storm, but now you would not know, the dirt roads are back to powder and all the ponds are drying up unless spring fed. The nice weather is supposed to end, and we have a chance at snow, but its not really slated to be much, if we get any, but it will get breezy and cold, how fun, cold and dry. :eusa_doh:
I took out the garbage barefooted yesterday morning.
I have a 9:50am tee-time with the guys this morning.
The third weekend of November hasn't been this nice since we lived in Arizona... :disturbed:
A little unseasonal warm today, must have drifted into the sun or something. :icon_lol:
WOW
Winter finally got here. Been in the upper 30s and lower 40s for a few days, with rain to boot. It's supposed to warm up during the week into the 70s and hopefully we'll see some sunshine soon.
Has anyone seen Great White North Gatekeeper Nony?
It was cool and wet all day yesterday. High was 44, and we got an inch of rain.
25° and light snow (for now).
I don't know what that rain stuff (or snow for that matter) is, but we were only in the 30s today and about a 25mph wind gusting to 40. Do not like.
Me neither, Buckaroo. Terrin starts a new job @ 7:30 tomorrow morning, and if had seen the video of the Floridians, Texans and Californians clabbering traffic here this morning you would be very very afraid for us tomorrow.
Snow's done, maybe 5", but it will be frozen in the morning and I have to drive her across town in 10° weather in a town where nobody's from here.
Pray for us.
I did see a pic of I-25 an absolute mess way south of you, south of Pueblo. I'm in that weird position worried we won't get snow, hoping we do but dreading when it comes after all the nice weather. No one will remember how to deal with it. But we are dust bowl dry now, doesn't take much wind to make the sky brown.
Woke up to 5°.
It's going to be an interesting commute.
We were skating around these hodads yesterday.
https://krdo.com/news/2024/12/09/emergency-responders-have-busy-monday-morning-due-to-weather-road-conditions/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHFSZRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbnrsma_YCfjZd1IPh9kn1wDGONleY0RbOVkAYxXoy17sqETK-xjdBHclQ_aem_9KlGUUdNi6_P70IIULKfCA
There was frost on the roofs this morning. 38 degrees now, warming up into the 60s later.
There is frost on rooftops almost every morning here, but golf weather (high 50s to mid 60s) after sunrise for the foreseeable future. They do hint at a momentary white dusting on Christmas night.
Same here, figures, longest period without moisture we have had in many years, but with my luck will probably get enough to make traveling for Kayla on Xmas day and me the next back to Cheyenne for an eye appointment for my mother, an adventure.
Well waddayaknow, winter finally showed up. little bit of snow, maybe 3", but the 50s and 60s are just a memory for the year now, it's 0 this morning, been in the 30s for highs for a few days now, looks like that's where it will say for forseeable.
Was 18 here this morning. Up to 32 already with a forecasted high of 40. Wednesday through Friday they are saying we could get 6 to 10 inches of snow!!!!
Us too, 7" forecast for tonight, lows to 8° for a few days. Nothin like we got back home in the tundra though.
Our northern gatekeeper is missing and the gate is open! 30 degrees last night with a north 15kt wind, so it was a little chilly this morning. At least the sun is out, that takes a little of the sting away. Woke up to a dead thermostat and furnace this morning, and had visions of dollar signs dancing in my head until I found the tripped breaker. Life is good again...sorta. Keep the sssss.....snnsnsnsss....snnn...that white stuff up your way, please!
We have 3" that won't go away since it gave us another dusting over night, and I want more? This is going to trip my breaker. :icon_smile:
Most of the cold and snow had stayed east and south of us, we just get the free sample version, so far.
I do feel for you southern guys, you are not used to this kind of cold, probably need to swap coffee out for the lighter SAE variety so you don't grind to a halt.
We're at 1-2 inches, the 7" forecast was magically poofed into 2-4" just since my last post. SS,DD.
But the chill is on for the foreseeable...
Our 6-10 inches has dwindled to 2-3, and then about 1/2 inch of ice from freezing rain.
We had snow flurries, but not accumulation, but the -8 windchill this morning is not welcome. :eusa_hand:
We woke to 1° this morning, but not a lick of wind.
They're forecasting 40s & 50s here for next week. Sure man, sure...
Not quite as cold here, got down to 29 last night and we won't see 50 or sunshine again until next week. It's supposed to start raining tomorrow, so I'm hoping I don't have to go anywhere if the roads start to ice up. Houston drivers are bad enough without adding ice to the mix...
Wind today. We'd have had blizzard conditions if these 40+mph gusts occurred along with yesterday's s-sn-nieve...
We got about 1/2 inch of rain, then it turned to big ole marshmallow snowflakes. Got about 1 1/2 inches on the ground then quit.
I hate winter.
Up at 0400 to get the son and granddaughter on a flight to Florida. Through Atlanta, which is under a few feet of ssssss.....sssnnnnnnn.......snsnsns....They got there 20 minutes ago and are now hoping to get to Gainesville sometime tonight. Freezing rain in that forecast.
Twenty minutes after I got home, the furnace circuit breaker tripped. The AC guys are here now looking at it, but it's been a little chilly today. 42 outside now, but they say sunshine back tomorrow!!
Nieve, Jaime. You can just call it what the vatos do.
Nieve.
Nnnnnn......nnniii......nnnssssnnssnnnnn......
Nope. Can't do it! :disturbed:
You are pretty close in German, just draw it out and use angry voice "Schnee!"
I tried, Honcho. Really, I did. But the last three letters always keep coming out "itt...."
Heater is fixed. Turned out to be a bad circuit breaker. And I got a new multimeter out of the deal when my old one finally gave it up. That one had a Radio Shack label on it.
Sun is out, 51 degrees. :icon_mrgreen:
Well this is going to be fun. We have had a about a couple inches of snow that just won't go away for a bout a week now despite highs in the 30s, when it melts even a little we get a snow shower to top it off.
This coming few days is going to get interesting, going to get near 50 Thursday, so I expect it to get muddy since it has not really been wet yet, then the bottom falls out, 36 and snow again Friday, but Sat 15/-10, Sun 7/-15 Mon 13/ 0 for highs and lows, all those days accompanied by 15 mph breezes. At least we get above freezing again Tuesday supposedly.
Its winter, it happens, but I hate this part of the dead mosquito season.
We're forecast the same, Buckaroo. Down as far as -20°Sunday & Monday mornings.
Nothing like we used to get in NW MN, but yeah, bad enough.
You guys need to quit talking about that sssnsnnnn.....nnnnniiiessss.....schh.....because now they're forecasting that stuff for us next week! 52 degrees and raining here now, but temps are supposed to drop into the 20s and 30s early next week.
Did I mention I hate winter? :sadness:
I have been lazy since my mid 30s about the middle of Nov, about when the temps started to drop to where it wasn't comfy to be out, and found a lot of excuses to procrastinate on doing stuff. It was mostly unimportant like a lot of fence maintenance, vehicle repair and corral cleaning. You know, stuff no one who is blind, and maybe deaf would not notice. Some turned into real projects, that were still ignored, because well, I have become good at procrastination. Yesterday rolled around and was the 1st really nice day in long time, so of course I try and cram 3 weeks of jobs into one day to get ready for the coming blistery cold. For some reason everything hurts this morning, I got about 2 weeks worth done though. :thumb:
For starters, the bulls got to pushing and fighting last winter and broke off 6 or 7 several apparently rotted railroad ties in the corral that have probably been there like 75 years or more. I don't know if you have ever had to dig out a broken off post, especially a RR tie, but that's is one job I hate, I mean haaaaate. I have been picking away digging them out, one by one for like 3 months now, finally before Xmas I got the posts reset.
I bought some used oak ties last fall and they apparently made them heavier now. A few I could not lift, like could barely get an end up to get a chain around, WTF, that's just rude. Then last week I went and bought some 2x8s from Menards (a chain store like Home depot), that felt a lot like balsa, so had to double them to make them cow proof. I thought, well that won't de so hard to handle right? Well yeah, but nailing into the those fricken concrete like posts, not so much. It was warm enough I think I sweated beating the poor nails until the post or I relented, it was close, but I think I won. The board are on the posts ready for cows to show how wrong I am about "cow proofing" anything. (And they wonder why they get ate)
Anyway, back to a regularly scheduled whining about the cold.
Wow, Menards. Brings back a lot of memories. Like spending 3 hours going through AC2 2x8s & 2x6s to find enough straight ones to build a 12' by 35'deck. Most of their lumber was bonfire grade...
Yesterday was nice though. Supposed to get a good snow tonight before the roller coaster starts its downhill run. Can't wait to initiate procrastination mode.
Being old and cold is a fine reason to procrastinate. Not like I do that or anything... :icon_lol:
Quote from: jetmex on January 15, 2025, 03:52:17 PMYou guys need to quit talking about that sssnsnnnn.....nnnnniiiessss.....schh.....because now they're forecasting that stuff for us next week! 52 degrees and raining here now, but temps are supposed to drop into the 20s and 30s early next week.
Did I mention I hate winter? :sadness:
Dood! I have a Webcam shot of Port Aransas under a healthy layer of nieve, taken just a few years ago. You guys oughtta be used to this...
It can go ahead and schnitt in Port Aransas, or anywhere else. Just so it doesn't do that here! :sadness:
City is already in panic mode. The usual runs on water and toilet paper are under way, even though this is only supposed to be for a few days. The state's failure to keep the grid running a few years ago weighs on everyone around here and not many trust them completely to keep it going this time, either. I think a lot of people who routinely go through winter storms don't quite understand how bad it is when those storms hit a place like this that doesn't normally see and is not equipped or prepared for them. This is a result of that global warming, right?
I found my parka and mukluks, by the way! :disturbed:
I didn't get up until late this morning, sun was coming up already, but we had -7 and -20 windchill. I did not spend a lot of time out there so far, but didn't feel that bad to me, but I was not in the wind either. Coldest day in a year so far though.
37 degrees and dropping. It's supposed to be in the teens tonight, with the snnn.....sssnsnnns....niiiii....scchhhhh.......nitt starting early tomorrow.
When I went to bed last night it was -9 and -28 windchill got up to 14 above and only 0 windchill, supposed to be in the 30s today but windy, but at least the tractors will start and waterers thaw out.
But Jaimie I feel for you guys, 28 in Houston right now and radar says 1/2" of snow. I can imagine aside from those running around driven insane and frolicking in it, most people are huddled like gnomes around camp fires in their living rooms.
The sun is out!!
3 inches of snow on top of a quarter inch of slush last night. It's starting to melt off now, but we have a hard freeze into the teens tonight before it starts warming up. There are schnittmen and schnitt angels all over the place and the kids are having a ball. The Houston airport authority had to hire out of state contractors to clear the runways at all three airports.
I do happen to be equipped with decent cold weather gear, but could any of you give me a recommendation for a good pair of wind and waterproof gloves that aren't too bulky? I sure could use them...
Tried to download a pic, but it won't take for some reason...
A guy I know in Louisiana, west of New Orleans had over 5".
For gloves when its really cold, I have some heavy leather insulated, otherwise just some cheaper leather ones from the farm store, once they get wet, swap em. Sometimes I use the knit ones with the rubberized grip palms too. I have no magic answer for that, if I have to do something tedious, they come off. There is no trade off, bulk is warmth. Fancy ones made from neoprene or whatever wear out too quick around here.
Cold night, for here anyway. It was 19 about an hour ago, but the sun is out and we're up to 24 now. Thankfully the wind isn't blowing. The wind chills were supposed to be in single digits last night. Some parts of Houston north and east of us got up to six inches of the white stuff, and Beaumont, which is 70 miles east of my got their first ever blizzard warning. Spring can't come fast enough this year!
I've had a pair of cowhide choppers with wool mitt liners for over 20 years. Most faithful pieces of snow gear I've ever owned. I don't think they cost more than 20 bucks.
Try you something like these Jaime. https://www.amazon.com/NeopSkin-Neoprene-Snorkeling-Spearfishing-3mm-Black/dp/B07X53ZBGH/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=15H6DADXNSGG3&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SyUuqsjUG7jMiEljLE9frK_PJcx_8VIaxanmWvXZLbz4qcIpb8STQOPZa7qStrOuzhfEn8j9HJ78k2v_x4gXQr8L4WtqiaYoHiQCUtcawhGtU7AfcvbWGAf1zCJO5rFwGfCumvJkcsmu2SWHS0b_kGsky-tnRa3hqVC8x3Xu4a-RHP2nIG8AN6XzzVW0S2Ye7vjWsPfmmrs-OcNzKnG7FjJIKqP52PXazJC9tp4bAhob_qoYFl4jvWgo69ltXf1zaxTVfEgsNCLGohe1maJNvoxuUFsZuZO3DthTu82X8MU.YgI91dsbmY701J6wLKUCXmjYA65PUpRHc9oagau0xng&dib_tag=se&keywords=neoprene%2Bgloves&qid=1737573805&sprefix=neoprene%2Caps%2C274&sr=8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&th=1&psc=1
Thanks for the glove advice, everyone. I'm not looking for work gloves per se, just something to keep the wind and cold off while I'm out wandering around. If there's anything to be done, my gloves come off as well, Honcho. They just tend to get in the way and I can't feel anything wearing them.
42 degrees now, a lot of the schnitt is gone and the roads are clear. Should be back in the 60s by the weekend. Schools and airports reopen tomorrow. I'm right on the approach to IAH and haven't seen an airplane going over in three days. That was a little weird.
Not that Jaime would have the metal things hunt him like stuff does around here, like hay feeders etc, but I had a pair similar to those diving gloves several years ago I bought for breaking ice out of the stock tanks. I thought it would be great to be able to grab the ice and throw it out instead of wrestle chunks out with a pitch fork and not freeze your hands. One of the cases of theory and practice being 2 different things.
I opened a barbwire gate and caught it on the 1st day so had a little hole off the bat, then about the 2nd or 3rd time wearing them on a particularly cold sub zero day I chopped out ice chucks, got them wet and they stuck on a steel panel I grabbed and instantly froze to it, then I ripped them for good getting them off. I laugh now, but I had some pretty colorful language at the moment, especially finishing feeding with no gloves.
None of that will be an issue for you Jaime, you should check them out.
I think I will, Honcho.
The metal objects that chased me around were more like propellers, turbine blades, pitot tubes, antennas (running into one of those without seeing it gives you a whole new perspective on all sorts of things) wing leading and trailing edges and heavy stuff like CSD's, tires, brakes and generators. Never got stuck to anything, but I did fall off a DC-3 one sleeting night late last century in Dallas while trying to service the oil. It iced up under my feet and when I tried to shift my weight, down I went. At least I fell off the low end. Never knew before then it could rain when the temps were below freezing...
Don't need to be dive gloves Jaime, just. Good neoprene gloves. They are great at stopping the wind and water.
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What a difference a few days makes. We went from freezing schnitt to warm and raining. 65 degrees and pouring right now, supposed to rain until Thursday or Friday. Won't need those gloves for a little while longer... :icon_lol:
Snow on & off today. "They" claim it'll get up to 40° at some point.
Tomorrow: 51°
Saturday: 55°
Sunday: 60°
Then it's forecast for low to mid 60s for the bulk of the week.
Nuts, I tell ya, the weather is nuts.
86 here today, and 80's for the rest of the week. It's this hot in February, I don't see me surviving July and August!
We were pretty warm, but really windy day before yesterday, then yesterday it barely got to 30 and wind, single digit windchill all day, -3 wind chill and 13 this morning so far. But dry as a bone, if we don't get some serious moisture the next couple months we are in real trouble around here. We have sand drifts already. :sadness:
No cold for now. It's been beautiful the last few days, temps in the low 80s and sunny. It's supposed to cool off to "normal" next week, but I'll take this as long as it lasts!
Two weeks ago, the leaves finally fell off the tree in my backyard. Now they're coming back. 81 degrees right now, this is what winter here should be! There were two cold fronts headed this way that were supposed to hit us over the weekend, but they are stalled and moving northeast. It will be a little cooler, but at least there won't be any more schnitt!!
81 here this time yesterday, now it's 39!!!!
66 the day before, 30 and crisp yesterday, 41 and windy now, and then the bottom falls out for a few days, 20 or teens for highs and near nuthin or below for lows and chance of snow everyday until Thursday or so.
18 degrees here this morning! NONY! Shut the damn gate !!!!! please?
Yuh, -9° crispy ones here in the Springs this morning. Went out in 3° yesterday to get Terrin's car serviced, gonna wind up over $1500 when they're done.
I miss my shade tree guy back home...so does my wallet.
We had several days of cold, low 20s or teens for highs, nuthin on the bottom end, wind chills were down -10s, yesterday it warmed up a little, getting to almost 30, now we are at 25 at 5:30 this morning, so there is hope I won't mutate to grow a fur coat like a buffalo yet.
Oops, I looked at teh forcast for next week, round 2 of the same, I guess I will stay warm chopping wood. :eusa_wall:
It's winter again. For today, anyway. 45 degrees and a really cold north wind. I'll second that "Nony shut the damn gate" request. Tomorrow will be in the high 70s and raining, then it will seesaw between 30s and 60s all next week. Been a very strange winter this year.
sounds like us, except any meaningful moisture and less about 30 degrees.
Quote. Extreme Cold Warning in effect for:
City of Edmonton - St. Albert - Sherwood Park
Extremely cold wind chill values between minus 40 and minus 45 are expected tonight.
Wind chill values will moderate somewhat during the daytime hours.
These extremely cold wind chills will continue into early next week before coming to an end.
Enjoy the warm weather you have down there in the tropics....
We had a little of that last week or so, not so much that it was so cold, it was just around 5 to 0, but we had 50+ mph wind with it for a few hours, which is actually kind of rare when its that cold, usually the wind brings warmer temps with it so it feels just as cold. It's teens now but calm and sunny, doesn't feel all that bad out.
We were down to -10° the other morning. Having come out of that we're expecting another round of it this week. From Canada. Of course. This is our 4th winter in CO, so far no two even close to the same. Our first was darn near tropical. I'd love to have that one every year.
After that first 9 seconds and ensuing 3-1 loss by the Canadian hockey team last night, you'd almost think this weather is some kind of....revenge...😳
Ugh, -24 wind chill this morning, and straight out of the east which is the worst direction, most shed face east or south so not much protection for critters, fortunately the house and out buildings is blocking most of it for them, also have about 4" of snow looks like, piled up to 7 or 8" drifts mostly. Winter sucks
QuoteWinter sucks
Ditto that! 52 degrees right now, but it'll be in the mid 20s tonight with wind chills in the who knows how low range. We have it better than most of you, but it hits us just as hard because we are neither prepared for or used to this kind of thing.
Winter can end any day now.
Never really warmed up, got to +4 for less than an hour, then back to zero and now -5 when the sun went down, and the relentless east wind. On top of that they blew the forecast on snow, we have about 7 to 8" with 2'drifts in places, its so cold its dry snow, but still a PITA. Looks like another day of it and then it starts to move out, they predict maybe 60 next week.
46 when we got up this morning, then about 10:00 wind turned out of the north and temp started dropping. It is 15 right now with a predicted low of 9 in the morning. High to tomorrow is supposed to be 22.
Who would think I would be thankful its only -5, but here I am. :icon_neutral: That's about 5 or 6 more than they predicted, and thankfully there is no wind, still light snow coming down. Supposed to be 11 today. Some time this morning I will have to go plug the tractor in and feed today, cold like this it has warm for a couple hours and run for 20 minutes or more before the hydraulics free up enough to turn or lift the loader. I'm just glad I'm not calving yet, I imagine many are having losses right now in this bitter stuff.
This weather is exactly why i moved my calving back to October, November.
We pushed ours back to late Mar/ April, still might get some cold, but not this bitter stuff.
It actually got above freezing today, 40 degrees. Going to be another 20 degree night before it starts warming up. Still need someone to shut that gate up in the great white north, though....
Coming out of the latest poke in the eye, weather-wise. 16° this morning, 3 & a half inches shy of predicted snow, forecast high today 40°, just goes up from here.
But we got wind, 20mph this morning and gusting to 35, suppose to get stronger as the day goes on.
I know you guys are dying to know: NO. Golf. Today. The courses here are all 9 4s in Colorado Springs 😭
QuoteI know you guys are dying to know: NO. Golf. Today.
No golf?? Say it ain't so!! That could be the sport of the decade - Schnitt Golf!! Clubs with scnhitt shovel heads, schnittmobiles for carts, a Super Soaker to freeze the greens for putts, twenty foot poles with the little flags on them to mark where the holes are, and ground penetrating radar to find your balls after you shank them into a schnittbank! I might even pay to watch that! :icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen:
38 degrees and windy....
43, sunny and calm, feel downright tropical after the least few days. Actually have enough snow, might have some mud to deal with by Sunday or so.
Kindly allow me to digress: 65° and sun and soft breezes Monday...
Tee time @ 12:45.
8)
The sun came out!! 68 degrees and severe clear!
83 here now!
60 here, but with a 50 mph wind. :eusa_wall:
Yesterday was miserable, Got woke up about 3:30 am by a severe thunderstorm, minutes later the power went out. Wind started blowing around 6:30, steady at 40-50 with gust in excess of 60. Lots of trees blown over, branches blown out. Power finally came back on at 6:00 yesterday evening..
Been windy here, too, Carl. 30-40mph all day yesterday, with thunderstorms in the morning. Down to 20 today mph today, but the sun is out. Been a little cooler as well, only high 60s right now. Power has been blipping on and off all day, but only for a few minutes at at a time.
Went to the Houston rodeo yesterday. Can't for the life of me understand why anyone would strap himself to two tons of beef on the hoof while it break dances across the arena floor, but it was fun to watch. Reba McEntire was the concert for the night. I'm not really a country music fan, but I will admit to suddenly becoming partial to redheads... :icon_mrgreen:
We had a shot of real winter, some measurable wet snow for a change, less the bitter cold we had been getting. Not much, but any moisture at this point is welcome, supposed be near 70 this coming week they say.
The pro weather people here in the Springs forecast up to 7" here overnight.
We got clouds and a brisk breeze.
I think I'll go play golf on Monday morning.
Did someone say "golf"??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSXMS8ABAAU
One of my favorites!
"They" are forecasting blizzard conditions this Friday. Mebbe no golf for another week. I shot poorly yesterday, but is was glorious anyway...Robin would have had plenty to say... :disturbed:
Yeah, they are giving us the heads-up warning that Friday we may see possibly a trace to blizzard of 49, whatever, what it means is the end of our 70 degree stuff we are enjoying right now.
64 degrees and raining at the moment. It's clearing off, should be in the 80s later on. Those northerners keep sending chunks of winter down here (it was 40 here a few nights ago). Time to knock that off, it's March, fer cryin' out loud! :disturbed:
Once again, wind, clouds, and enough snow for it all to melt as soon as it contacted anything solid on the ground. Supposed to snow again today but that's all past us.
Science, pffft...
No snow, just wind. Actually wan't too bad yesterday, just chilly with the wind, but it howling this morning gotta love the spring... and winter... and summer... and fall windy season. :eusa_doh: I see north TX got WY wind the other day, didn't fair too well unfortunately. I also saw some footage of south central CO had damage as well.
We got some of that Wyoming wind also, along with several inches of west texas top soil!
Yeah, it got pretty strong again yesterday afternoon, I note its looking pretty scoured in the open area and the edges are deep powder, Gotta dig out what was buried before the weeds start.
It finally sprung around here, low 80s yesterday, mid 80s today, and very little wind. 1st time I have worn a T shirt since fall. Supposed to end come Saturday, but they are promising some wet, so its welcome.
Raining and a little cooler here today. Not a gully washer, thankfully. They seem to have saved that for the folks north of us...
Quote from: jetmex on March 27, 2025, 04:05:10 PMRaining and a little cooler here today. Not a gully washer, thankfully. They seem to have saved that for the folks north of us...
I was reading this morning that places along the open border got big wind and upwards of 15" of rain last night. Maybe they saved some for our friends in the coastal areas?
We woke up to 6/10 in the gauge this morning.
It's been really windy here the past few weeks, which might be a good thing because it's blowing all this damn pollen to the north! Temps in the high 80s, but there are storms coming, so it's supposed to be cooler all next week.
We had some rain, enough to make mud for a change, we also had some thunder and hail. Which is kind of odd for this time of year and temp, hope that's not a foreshadowing.
We had about an inch of nieve this morning, all gone now.
More snow coming, fun week ahead!
Got woke up is morning at 5:20 by a tornado warning on my phone. It got a little wild around here for a while , but no damage. Did get 1/2 inch of rain.
Was winter yesterday, low 40s and spitting snow all day. Supposed to spring up slowly the next few days though. Which is good, I have a some field work to do, I put it off until we had some moisture to work with.
A week of beautiful weather here in the swamp. Highs in the low 80s, lows between 45 and 60 depending on what day it is. The pollen is gone, the winter killed all the skeeters and life is good. A winning lottery ticket would make it better, though.... :disturbed:
Its been springy sans any real moisture here. The inch or so of it we got became memory disturbingly quickly. Temps have been cool low 50s to comfy 70s +, with some wind on occasion. I just pretend its going to rain at some point and planted the little bit of hay I planned anyway. Now I see next Friday they are talking snow again, which would figure, later spring storm that should be rain, if it happens at all.
I was out driving pastures yesterday, this could get interesting, very little grass is growing, some places is just dirt, cows don't like that much for dinner.
Heh, the year we moved to the Springs in December of '21 it was like summer to me except for the total lack of humidity. Other than the occasional blustery day it was great...until the middle of May of '22, when we got 3 feet of snow over a weekend.
Nope, no Speedos for me till June... :disturbed:
Woke up yesterday morning with 1.3 inches of rain in the gauge. It rained and stormed most of the day and night. Got up this morning and had a 24 hour total of 4.1 inches of rain in the gauge.
Man lucky you. We had a big storm front roll through last Thursday to Saturday, started with light drizzle progressed to snow, snowed pretty steady but light for a day and half, got maybe an inch of it at any one time as it melted as it came, but in the end, got like .002 of moisture out of it, can't even tell already it ever did. Driest winter and spring I have seen it in the 30 something years we have been here.
We too got that storm, Honcho. They predicted 2-5 inches here but we wound up with an inch or so overnight Fri-Sat.
I went into the mtns yesterday to rehearse with a new band in Victor CO, a gold mining town at 10,000 ft elevation and the 11 inches they got was all but gone already. As was any oxygen I could find.
Rain for the past two days here. Temps in the upper 70s. I get to miss the next few days of the rain as we are headed to the PRK to watch the grandson race go-karts. He races in the teen league at a place called K1 Speed, and placed second in the state to go to their national competition this weekend. Looking forward to that, and it'll be nice to be away from here for a bit.
What and where is PRK Jaime?
I enjoyed some mid-morning golf yesterday and watched a dozen or more chemtrail planes paint a nice tight checkerboard of thick non-evaporating lines overhead, horizon to horizon.
Coincidentally they're predicting dangerous thunderstorms this afternoon and evening.
I'm sure the conspiracy nutcases will add the intensity of this coming storm to the list of lessthancoincidentals. I know because I'm becoming one of them.
We were socked in with low clouds then to variable ceiling all day yesterday, but not a drop fell, started to get some mist late in the day but that was all, then at 9:30 last night we got an honest shower of about 2/10ths. Normal years would have been rain all day, for the last couple, and the next for that matter. Going to be another tough year. :icon_neutral:
We got another 6/10's yesterday. With decent chances for more tomorrow and Monday through Wednesday next week.
Expecting more than 3 inches between now and Thursday, including ~50 inches of snow on Pikes Peak.
Nice change. We're pretty short on precip lately. This system is moving practically north by northwest. Here's hoping the Honcho reaps some benefit.
QuoteWhat and where is PRK Jaime?
Carl, the PRK is the People's Republic of Kalifornia. Most of my family lives there, though I'm still not sure why. Must be the taxes and $4.89 a gallon gas... :eek5:
Rain here until tomorrow. They say 3-6 inches, depending on how far north we are. It's about 73 degrees here right now.
1.3 inches in the past 24 hours. We are wet! Grass is growing like crazy, been having to mow every 3 days. Hay is growing great also.
Well finally payers have been answered, we have 1.5" in the gauge this morning. 1st real measurable stuff since the 1st of Apr, and that wasn't much. I think we had one rain of a 1/2" all winter, and a couple light snows, and it looks it. Had some pretty big puddles in the yard last night. I don't know when the rain stopped, but by noon I bet there are no puddles in the dirt or gravel. But man it saved the little bit I planted, and will give the grass a kickstart ahead of the heat we have coming they say.
We have some irrigation water, they say it may be limited as snow pack fell way off late, like 50% of normal this last couple weeks. But they have banked some reservoirs so we should be OK other than probably having to irrigate non stop starting next week. :eusa_doh:
I'm sure the weeds will love it, they have been laying around complaining like the panhandlers on busy intersections, with little signs "will grow for water".
Well, it was nice while it lasted...the rain finally stopped, we had two or three really nice days and now it's about to be summer again. Forecast upper 90s with the humidity coming back starting Wednesday through next week. But, there haven't been any skeeters. Yet...
We have all them blood sucking bastages up here!
We had that great rain which soaked in pretty good, probably saved pastures and hay crop this year. then had a warm up, 90s the last couple days and the next one or so, then we get another shot of cool, maybe some more damp sounds like.
Hey, you Texicans, cayatè el la voca on the 90°, humidity and mosquitoes already!
You want her to r-u-n-n-o-f-t before she even gets there?!?
84° and dry here yesterday. Golf Thursday, maybe my last in the Springs.
Well we got some more wet, not too much, about .6". But we dodged the bullet of tornadoes, high wind and hail, just barely. A couple miles east had every thing that was up flattened by hail. Scottsbluff had many large trees and power poles go down due to high straight line wind. North of us I saw something about 1.5" and washout on a road, but not sure where exactly. Tornadoes all over the place east and south from NE CO to central NE. We lost internet for about 3 hours, fortunately after the worst had passed over us already.
What a difference a couple rains make, looks like I will have to mow for real when it dries out. Might be more today, high in the 50s and windy, but far less chance for severe stuff.
QuoteYou want her to r-u-n-n-o-f-t before she even gets there?!?
Well, Stetto, it's either that or endless winters! And, like I said, there aren't any skeeters. Yet. So far...And it's not quite as humid in wackoland Austin. Not quite....sort of.... :disturbed:
80 degrees here now on the way to 92. Summer came a bit early this year.
Ahyuh,don't tell me that gub'mint cloud seeding don't get no results... :icon_evil:
Man I hope its not a sign of what is coming this summer. Thunderstorm rolled through late last night, and some big hail wit it, not much thankfully, but a few quarter size or more making some big thunks on the roof. Lot of lightening too. Mostly we get lucky dodging it, but once in a while we get it bad. Kind of defeats the whole benefit of rain when it just mows off everything that grew. :sadness:
I think we can say the drought has been paused if not broken entirely, is been weirdly low overcast to foggy and drizzly for 2 days straight, and supposed to last through Monday, getting about a 1/2" every 24 hours average since Thursday night now, with intermittent thunder storms. A few miles North of us had 1 1/2" of rain in a a half hour and 2 inch hail from one, so its kind of a whack a mole if you get the bad stuff.
I'm sure the people huddles under their awnings and the campers by all the lakes in the area are cussing, but I'm not minding it so much.
We had bad storms to the north of us yesterday. There was a tornado and hail the size of a cd up in the panhandle. We got 2/10 of an inch overnight.
I saw a weather chaser had posted a pic on facebook of a hail stone the size of a cantaloupe. :eek5:
We had a hell of a storm last night. Wind gusts to 70mph and I don't know how much rain we got. There are tree limbs and garbage cans all over the 'hood this morning. 80 degrees now and the humidity is in the 100+ range...
Ugh. And here we come... :eusa_doh:
We had two days of solid, miserable drizzle with a bolt of lightning mixed in. Denver and east got the wrath of .gov cloud diddling, numerous tornadoes and torrential rains.
Today we're supposed to get the real thing, I can see thunderheads growing to the west of me...
...and the Air Force Academy graduation is Thursday, more storms forecast.
We have had more rain off and on all day yesterday, not much in the gauge, buts its finally getting soggy and mushy. This morning was fog, visibility about 100'. Its supposed to warm up now, weeds are already in overdrive.
Lots of hail here yesterday. Quarter sized. The Academy graduation looks to be wet, it's already heavy overcast and they start @ 9am.
Do the Thunderbirds perform in this stuff?
Once again we are were in a seem between some harsh stuff, picked up another .6 of rain though, and supposed to be rain showers this morning, through Thursday. what a difference a month of storms ns has made. Its almost lush around here.
Lotsa rain last night, along with some big thunderstorms. Power was on and off for several hours, finally came back for good around 6 this morning. More on the way, they say, but not as much. San Antonio got hit pretty hard by rain and flooding.
77 degrees and 137% humidity right now.
We have been pleasant to too warm, hitting 90s and muggy, for us anyway. Been mowing like crazy to keep up, and knocked hay down a couple days ago, to be able to time it right catch a thunderstorm last night and get it a little rained on. Timing is everything in this bidness.
Have to say that was not a worry just a month or so ago.
We're heading into prep for Texas mode, 90s and semi-humid. OK, maybe not as humid, 30+% for the week. Better than a poke in the eye I guess.
We had an Osprey flyover the other day. Real close, almost directly over the house. So rare here, as the only Marine presence in the Springs that I know of are recruiters and retired vets. His "wings" were at +/- 30°, which made it more fascinating to watch...
And just now a pair of B-1 bombers flew over. I thought they were mothballed in the 90s.
Don't tell that to Dyess AFB here in Abilene. They are one of the B1's bases. Along with Ellsworth, Andrews, and Mc Connell.
Naw, heck the ones out of Ellsworth, went down to Dyess with their airwing and launched from there to do some airstrikes with them on Iranian Quds force in Iraq and Syria last year. Funny How the "He's going to start WW3!" chanters weren't making noise then.
I had to take Mom down to Cheyenne for laser eye surgery on Monday, F16s were making simulated runs on the airport runway is all I can figure, they weren't doing touch and goes, at least 3 of them would come down low fly just off the deck, I never saw wheels down, then turnout out burn hard and climb hard to pattern altitude, come around immediately and do it again, did it several times. I don't know, maybe a general wanted an airshow or something. Was cool to watch anyway, what little I could see.
Anyway, we had a teaser throwback to spring yesterday, rain at 5am, and barely made 70, didn't get much, couple tenths, which is fine because someone still has hay down. Once again we got lucky, missed the down pours and huge hail and twisty wind others got, But the next few days has us in triple digits they tell us.
Good to know the AF has everything under control.
We had to have gotten an inch or more yesterday. Lots of hail too. Tornadoes in the mountains even. Woodland Park & Divide both had close calls.
Whew, had a scorcher yesterday, 104 for several hours and a 25 mph wind. 90s this weekend then supposedly going to drop back into the 70s Monday, and then a string of days with thunderstorms and showers, but man it cooked off all the moisture we had hanging around in all but the deep ponds.
We got to 98 here. The A/C quit at around noon.
Since I haven't complained about the weather lately...
It's been hot and dry, but the last week or so has been weird, triple digits or near for a string of days, and one of low 80s, then back up hot again. Today in fact only supposed to be low 70s, with possible showers, I will believe the showers part when I see it. This time of year I almost would rather skip it unless its set in rain, t6hunderstorms bring the hard version, and twisty wind. But we went from a relatively wet late spring back to drought and any rain would be appreciated.
Already the middle of July too, how'ed that happen?
In two weeks I'll be whining about the weather in yet another state. The wife has officially declared that she is not a "stationary soul". I am greatly a'feared for my sanity. Yet the Dude shall abide...
You guys & dolls should come up to to the gold fields this weekend. Weather will be 60s-70s up there. 'Sides, you know one of the rock stars!
I would, but I'm chained to the plantation. Besides I would sit in the back and heckle you anyway. :disturbed:
97 degrees and 136% humidity right now. It's been thunderstorming nearly every day like clockwork about 3 or 4 in the afternoon, but right now it's just thundering and windy. It'll rain for about half an hour and then the sun comes back out and starts baking everything again...
100 right now with 52% humidity! Heat index 117🥵! Been trying the whole month to get 3 days in a row with no rain. Hopefully tomorrow I can get hay cut.
There were dead on yester day, about 73 for a hihg and a couple rain showers that didn't do much but keep it humid. Its down right cool this morning 57 with a 20mph breeze, I left the window open in the living room and all the dogs were giving me crusty looks when I came out. :icon_smile:
Better enjoy it, looks like low 90s until Sunday then high 90s for the foreseeable.
I need to start cutting hay too, but have only irrigated about half so far, going to be strung out now with me cutting one end and irrigating the other.
97 and some clouds. The humidity has gone down a bit, so now it takes me five minutes outside to get soaking wet instead of five seconds. Haven't yet decided if that's an improvement...
Two inches of rain yesterday and more on the way. Didn't cool down much, though...
We get high 80s & mid 90s pretty consistently here, but humidity is stupid low. Right now for instance it's 87° with 21% humidity.
I'm expecting to require acclimation. Just remember I was raised in the lake infested north of MN where humidity was near zero through January and February, and close to 💯 through June and July.
We have gotten no rain, which is good since it seems its coming in pelleted form. 100 right now, probably tomorrow too, then a cools down to low 80s and 70s until next weekend.
Man did we get slammed last night, went to bed about 11 and a line of storms was bearing
- down on us from the north west, but was still 80 miles out, but just in 30 minutes another line developed right on the WY/NE/CO border and quickly coalesced north up to us and gave us some rain and lightening as we turned out the lights. Got jolted awake about an hour or so later by lightning that hot close somewhere and flashed rumbled and poured for about an hour or more. Then this morning I look at my rain gauge and it shows 1.83". Don't know how much was hail;, there was a little in it at least. Its not light enough yet to go assess damage.
Wooohooo, we are getting some rain! 1st rain in 4 weeks.
Nothing for us, but considering the pelleted form everyone is getting this year it becomes a nail biter everytime the sky gets cloudy. Kayla had a $8000 of damage on her car from a hail storm a few weeks ago.
Its been hot here for a week now, last couple days have been triple digits or close. But that's all going to change starting tomorrow, mid 80s, then 70 and I just saw the high for Monday is 69, and 70s and low 80s for the foreseeable after.
Already the days are shorter, the morning air feels different despite not being all that cool. Feels like Fall is on the way already.
Good rain here today. Right after mowing the back and getting introduced to the local fire ant collective it started booming and rain rain rain. After an hour of hard rain we look to be having a textbook all day soaker.
Likely to make mowing the front tomorrow a hazard pay situation.
But my pepper plants are thriving down here!
Lotsa lightning and thunder, but not much rain. It poured for about three minutes yesterday afternoon, then the sun came out and the humidity went triple digits . If you don't like the weather here, just wait a minute or two...
Finally got over 100° here, humidity floating around 30%. It actually felt ok, though I wasn't working in it.
I planted some Serrano peppers yesterday, being as the two Thai plants I brought down from Colorado have tripled in size in as many weeks.
Supposedly gonna get wet over the 3 day weekend, looking forward to it...
We finally got a little real rain after missing many of them, had a thunderstorm give 4/10s a couple days ago, then last night it built up right at dark over us and gave a nice rain of nearly an inch by this morning, it got kind of nasty as it rolled east, but we just got steady rain for a couple hours. A little late but still welcome. Another chance today then we dry out which is good, time to knock more hay down.
They are predicting an early and wet fall, but they said something about that last year and ended up being warm dry and very windy.
Today and tomorrow in the triple digits (they claim) then some hurricane in the Pacific is to shunt over most of Texas.
Sure, sure. The humidity was down near 20% yesterday, so I mowed. Sweat like a pig anyway. Yes, I need to sweat more, my girlish figure has been demanding it.🙄
We dried out again since the end of August, they predicted a day or 2 of rain over this weekend but so far have gotten a little over 1/10 is all. We'll see how the day goes.
The weather guy on the Austin Fox station is the glummest guy I've ever seen in that position. Yesterday he promised weeks of cloudless, rainless days of hot & dry.
...he was wrong about the clouds...
Yep, hot and dry here also. The last two fronts that came through they claimed were going to saturate us with rain. We got a total of 2/10 from both of them combined.
Yet the Navajos are being hit with multiple tornadoes this weekend 🤔
You know, I'm willing to give "the end times approacheth" crowd an ear, if only this didn't reek of .gov diddling with our weather...
Well, it's supposed to be fall today, but it's already 90 and on the way higher. Been a little cooler in the mornings lately. No rain for quite a while here, but the weather guessers keep teasing us with it and it rains everywhere but beautiful downtown Uhhmmble. Wish I could get paid that much for being wrong most of the time!
Sad part is they are the most trustworthy part of the news anymore and wrong most of the time.
We are fallish, short days, showers about every 3rd day, and highs bouncing around 60 to 90.
Spoke too soon - it's raining now. First time in quite a while. Cooled off a bit to 87.
Actually TODAY is the first full day of autumn. It started yesterday afternoon sometime, but I've rarely had occasion to note the "change" on that date. For instance, we're forecast to be 100° today, with 80s and potentially up to an inch of sn-er, rain tomorrow. Then back to our regularly scheduled heatwave immediately thereafter.
BTW, I'm not sure I told you guys: The PuddinFace started college a couple weeks ago at Austin Community. She wants to be a pastry chef...and here she is, allergic to both gluten and dairy...🤢
Mmmmmm, rain. 75°.
We got 9/10's early this morning! High yesterday was 103, today it was 83.
Well, whaddaya know!
95° right now, quite severely clear, and just 23% humidity...definitely a bit of alright!
Fall is arriving, albeit grudgingly. 87 here right now after a beautiful 68 degree morning. Still a little humid, but not nearly as bad as it has been.
Aaaaand bam, its October already.
Been pretty nice here lately, little breezy, clouds once in a while, going from mid 40s overnight to 80s for highs, supposed to be 90 tomorrow, I have gotten acclimated to the cool mornings already that mid eighties seem hot now. But all in all its not been a bad fall so far. Going to get another taste of fallish weather this weekend, cool and showers, only 50s for high on Monday, then back up, but only 70s. Every hiccup in the weather seems to take the highs down a notch now.
I am almost done with hay for the year, hopefully before Saturday, which is good, its always a gamble cutting late September on. I have had years I cut in late Sept and had to have it lay for 3 weeks waiting for it to dry between rain and snow showers.
We didn't get rains in September like we normally do, so no second cutting of hay for me. Turned the mama cows and the babies we have had so far in to the hayfield yesterday.
32 straight days of zero rain in Travis County.
...that is all...
We haven't had rain here in Uhhmmble for quite a while and drought warnings and burn bans are being issued. Not unusual for a desert rat like me, but all the green grass yard people are not happy. The upside is the humidity has been almost non-existent for the last few weeks, so it's been really nice. Lows in the 60s, highs in the low 90s.
I agree, Jaime. But yeah, we got the green, front and back. It's Bermuda though, and I refuse to water weeds.
At least the pool is wet :icon_mrgreen:
QuoteBut yeah, we got the green, front and back
So do I, unfortunately. St. Augustine and Virginia buttonweed. I don't want to water any of it either (they're both non-native invasive species). I keep hoping it will all just die so I can desert landscape the yard, but I have yet to be that lucky. The *&^$%#%*(!$ HOA probably won't let me do that anyway.... :disgust:
I hate yardwork, BTW.....
Well slowly but surely we creep out of the comfort zone. Highs have been 60s and even some low 70s, felt great but for wind once in a while.
Had a weird day a couple days ago, Woke up to 98% humidity and 50 degrees, not unheard of but it never burnt off or warmed up, the predicted 70s we barely hit 60, was foggy then hazy all day, but dead calm, had dew dripping all day until dew point got high enough in the late afternoon and humidity got down to 90%. It was like being in the coast, and there aint no dang beaches around here. I don't know how you guys do it, I could sear the moss was growing on me already.
Now its back to normal mid fall, no snow yet, but 50 maybe today and a hard freeze tonight they say. It will be our 1st this year so far.
for the 1st time in I don't recall how long wood is scarce, starting to see some ads, but its higher than last year which was high anyway. And after cutting some I decided I have too delicate a disposition to do much of that anymore, though I suspect attitude moderation will be when I am cold with a short wood pile.
QuoteAnd after cutting some I decided I have too delicate a disposition to do much of that anymore, though I suspect attitude moderation will be when I am cold with a short wood pile.
Time to move to Texas, Honcho! Carl, Stetto and I will be waiting for ya! We're all getting too old for that winter s--t.....
Spent the last two days in Luling helping friends put up a asphalt shingle roof. We'd quit when the shingles started to get squishy underfoot. This morning woke to mid 70s with 100% humidity, heavy warm fog. My buddy has 10 acres of flat, wants to build a "compound" for like-minded folks to park an rv or even build on. 2 miles from Buc-ees. Went in there yesterday for ice ($1.99 for 16 pounds!) and it was completely
different since August. My mouth watered the whole time.
Supposed to start seeing 80s next week, maybe some rain...and a drop in humidity!
Had a front come thru this morning, temp dropped from 72 to 61 in about 20 minutes, and got 3/4's of an inch of rain.
Heck Jamie, the problem with that is moving is exponentially more hated than doing wood. I guess that poem is right, I am froze to the ground here. :disturbed:
True, but you'll only have to move once (unless you're Stetto!). You'll be cutting wood until there are no more winters, and I'm pretty sure that won't happen anytime soon! :sadness:
I moved once, that's why it's not happening again. :icon_smile:
Just once??? :icon_lol:
Well, the weather guessers are saying we're going to get between 4 and 6 inches of rain this weekend. I'll believe that when it happens, because right now it's severe clear and 72 degrees!
Its been gorgeous here too, 60 and 70, mostly calm, the only nit pic is the 20 degree lows at time over night. Keeps this up I may actually get caught up with the stuff that has been put off.
Rain is predicted for overnight. I imagine Carl & Billie Sue are seeing some right now.
The Austin area hasn't seen a drop in the last 42 days, but the wishful thinkers and their AI forecast dohickies are claiming between 2.5 to 5 inches. I think the 5 o'clock weather tonight will admit that northeast Oklahoma is getting that, and we'll maybe get an inch...in any case, I got my high-falutin' Jeffersonian rain guage set up...
Things are dry here in KC area. The weatherfibbers say it was the second driest period here from August first to tonight so far since the 1800's and whatever odd year.
Oh and we bought a place with leaves. Never had to deal with leaves before. Come late fall, the leaves have a surname, like f'ing leaves, etc etc. I've bought a gas blower, got an electric one too that vacuums up leaves, bought a bag kit for riding mower, leaf bags, pole saw, rakes... yeah baby.
Heh, I usually let someone in NE deal with our leaves, of course I usually have to deal with somebodies tumble weeds from the west.
My leaf problem got solved a few years ago when hurricane Ike destroyed both of the trees in my backyard. We replaced them with a single one that got wiped out in the winter storm in 2020. The red maple that's there now is doing really well, hasn't even dropped its' leaves yet. When it does, I just mulch them up with the mower.
Damned if we didn't get some rain last night. And thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening as well. There are trees and branches down all over the neighborhood and the sound of the week will be chainsaws. They say there's more rain on the way...
Yep, we got an entire 2 inches here. No wind damage that I can see, but the landlord was going to brush hog the creek out back today. He's going to have to wait a week...
OK, another inch tonight. Y'all Texicans have some weird weather, when you have weather!
Ok, just a little wake up call for us, dry and nice mostly, but bottomed out at 14 degrees this morning. I guess the growing season is officially done now.
Quote from: Onepoint on October 29, 2025, 07:11:10 AMOk, just a little wake up call for us, dry and nice mostly, but bottomed out at 14 degrees this morning. I guess the growing season is officially done now.
I saw the map. Almost into Carl's neighborhood. We're looking at lows to mid 40s next couple mornings, highs 60s and 70s. My peppers only just started to bloom, and the aphids are as busy as ever. I think I could fall for zone 9!
If you don't like the weather around here, just wait a minute. Someone up north left the gate open again, so we have 30-40kt winds blowing through here right now. Wind chill was in the mid 30s this morning, and if it wasn't blowing so hard, it would be a pleasant 67 sunny degrees outside. No rain, though.
As always, you northerners can have that winter stuff all to yourselves.
By afternoon it was plenty warm, almost too warm for a long-sleeved shirt. Was kind of weird throwing ice out of the waterers and not wearing a coat mid morning. Better enjoy it I guess, I'm sure that will end all too soon.
It was 34 here this morning!
Two mornings in the mid 40s here in beautiful downtown Uhhmmble, but it's warming up. Highs in the upper 70s with lotsa sunshine - doesn't get much better than that!
Until someone up north leaves the gate open. Again. :disturbed:
Nah Jaime, this is stupendous! Two of my pepper plants are nearly 5 feet tall and just started to pod up! Glorious 70s & 80s with an occasional and sparse 60° day? This is Eden, and I don't mind the humidity either. I just need to get back to Baird for some pork, eggs and that Barnes hospitality!
It has been absolutely beautiful here the past week. Lows in the 50's and 60's, highs in the mid 80s. AC was running today and it was pretty foggy this morning. Going to enjoy it while it lasts before that gate pops open again...
Getting to be time for a get-together, Stetto!
Its been pretty nice here, especially considering its Nov, except maybe the wind. That infamous WY trait showed up this week, yesterday had dust blowing and tin rattling, and made the 65 or so feel a lot cooler. Supposed to slack off today a little then pick up again tomorrow but only crawl up to 50 or so.
71° today. Actually feels like fall.
There are freeze & frost warnings all over north and northeast of us, I'll be bringing my smaller pepper plants in for the night, but my Thai peppers are close to 5.5 feet, the Mamma unit won't want those bug attractors inside, so I'll cover them or put in the shed...
I could really get used to the rarity of this colder weather tho...
41 degrees and windy this morning, but the sun is out so all is well. Looks like this will be a Texas winter "storm"; here today, gone tomorrow. Just the way it should be. Back into the 70s and 80s by the end of the week.
27 here this morning for our first freeze.
Heck we have been warm, was like 40 this morning and still almost 60 at 9pm, but sounds like the fun will be over, at least the warm temps, they're talking 40s for highs next week.
We got a little bit of rain this morning. Enough to wash all the dust off the cars, but not nearly what the weather guessers were predicting. It cooled off a bit, too. Mid 70s right now.
We have been dry and relatively pleasant, little breezy now and then, but essentially shirt sleeve weather, which as not normal for this time of year.
That's going to end by next weekend they say, and arctic blast is going to roll down from Canadaia, 20s for highs, and singles for lows, at least for a few days. Still dry though, biggest chance for any kind of moisture is only in the 30% range.
Out of the 5+ inches forecast for Friday we got .8"...Looking for more wet tomorrow but I'm not gonna bother watching another "forecast" until they make a freeze announcement for frost in Austin. My peppers are thriving right now and I'd love them to stay that way. We're heading up to the Springs for a funeral on December 15, might have to stop in Baird to buy some eggs on the way home... :icon_mrgreen:
We got 1 3/4 inches Thursday, and it is supposed to rain this evening and tonight. We are under a flood watch. Stetto, let me know how many eggs you want and i will make sure we keep them set back.
A little excitement today. A tornado was reported northwest of us earlier today, so first we got the warning which was then downgraded to a watch, which is still in effect. Pretty weird, sun is shining outside the door right now.
Dang Jaime, I'm watching some major lightning from my back porch. To the southeast of us, where (H)umble is! You be safe tonight!
All we got was another .10 of an inch.
We will,, Stetto, thanks. It's raining here right now with lots of lightning, but not heavy rain. The tornado watch was extended to 0300 tomorrow morning and then this should be past us.
Well that wasn't even funny at all, mother nature is not a good practical joker. It was supposed to cool, like highs in the 40s, lows in the 20s until the weekend when its supposed to get cold, instead we are sitting at 6 degrees right now and a little breeze. Maybe its just me, but there is a pretty big difference between 26 and 6. :eusa_wall:
We have a niece and nephew that live in Cypress, she said the twister was very close to them.
C-c-c-c-c-cold tonight. Expecting a mild freeze tonight. My peppers are in the shed tonight, with fingers crossed.
No moisture beyond a pathetic drizzle....tonight.
Tonight, anyway....
We have not been so cold, missed all but one rain/ snow shower of the batch that went through the area and slammed Cheyenne and western NE a few days ago, but now the infamous WY wind shows up. I mean its been breezy, like up to 35 mph gusts some days, but for the next couple days its going to be bad they say, already this morning clocked 40 mph one and you can hear it roaring outside. They warned that the wind prone areas could see 85 mph gusts and the NWS said 100 mph would not surprise. :eek5: Not for us, but I would not be surprised to see some 60+ mph here at the house, and as dry as it is I suspect it's going to be brown day.
38 degrees here last night, but will be warming up to near 80 later in the week. No appreciable rain, and the leaves haven't fallen off my tree yet. I'll take that all day long. Sure beats the hell out of that winter stuff they're having up north.
38° here as well. They predicted freeze temps but, again, missed the mark.
Jaime, how you rate 80s? We're to expect 70s and that's a good thing, but you guys get 80s? :eusa_think:
QuoteJaime, how you rate 80s?
It's one of the joys of living in a swamp. Whenever the wind blows from the south, it brings the heat and humidity up from the Gulf. Not nearly so much humidity this time of year! But not so much fun during the summer....
This has been yet another odd year, middle of Dec and the temp at 5am is 51? yesterday was gorgeous, mid 60s sun blaring and nearly calm. Makes it hard top get in the Christmas spirit. But as always it never lasts. Wind is supposed to make a comeback, more 60mph stuff they say, last time I nearly turned into a white haired gnome, still have the white hair to prove it.
Cold snap here. Last two nights right about freezing, but it's starting to warm up gradually. They say we'll be back into the 70s during the day for the next 10 days, so no white Christmas! :icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen: Won't complain about that at all. Thinking enchiladas for Christmas dinner this year...
Warm and dry forecasted for Christmas here. Delia's tamales on the menu for us.
My peppers died alone and friendless in Pflugerville on Monday morning. We're here in Colorado Springs for a funeral, the whole week a total chaos of spontaneous crying, spontaneous laughing, drinking, drinking, drinking.
The ceremonies were unbelievably dignified and awe inspiring. The grieving process here is insane and perpetual. I'm going to visit a childhood best friend who has stage 4 bladder cancer and fighting to stay alive tomorrow morning. We leave for home and dead peppers Thursday, OH God thirty. Dylan flies down Saturday.
But like Jaime says, toasty for the foreseeable. Joy.
Sorry to hear that all stetto.
Looks like we will have a warm dry windy Christmas here as well if the forecast holds.
It's a Christmas miracle! I lost 1 (one) pepper plant!
Maybe a Texas freeze is different from every where else :eusa_think:
We also had a half dozen packages on the porch since last Saturday THAT WERE STILL THERE LAST NIGHT!
The weather was 30° warmer than when we left the Springs, but a hella wind blew us all the way home. A friend in Divide CO was getting 124 mph gusts! Makes me wonder how the Buckaroo fared yesterday...?
Oh, and I'm really sorry Carl, we passed right through Abilene but we're on a mission to get home in a day, which we did. I'll get there soon enough!
Yesterday was a brisk wind compared to today, today we scoured everything off, had some honest brown outs, had to stop a couple times on the way to town because the road disappeared. Lots of trees and power poles down, not for us though fortunately. Still miserable, even for WY standards.
80° and humid forecast for Christmas here. Bring it!
Dylan got here safely on Saturday afternoon, and is truly enjoying the break from 15 below.
Now that we're past the winter solstice I expect my peppers to commence to take full advantage of this great weather!
79 degrees here, beautiful day. The leaves are finally starting too fall from the trees and I had to mow the damn lawn today. But it beats the hell out of ssssss........ssnnnnnnsnnsn........snnnnnnnn......well, you know.
It ain't Christmas 'til this happens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjGtsu00K1k
Choo Texicanos, evry bawdy noes Christmas starts wit:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ztXf6UO8usg?si=XKz82oTr4R6Hups-
-37 here with lots and lots and lots of snow!
WOW!!!!!
Yeah, it should be something like that here, but we have been in the 60s since before Xmas and dry, so much so the only drifts we have are sand. Cooler today, was 11 when I got up, but still dry.
Quote-37 here with lots and lots and lots of snow!
Lots of what?? :disturbed:
A cold front is supposed to hit us late tonight. It's 76 degrees here now, but the high will only be in the 50's tomorrow. They're talking upper 30s Monday night. Hopefully this turns and goes north so the yankees can get some more of that white stuff they seem to love so much!
Still can't find my damn parka.....
It's been a couple of weeks of temps in the 80s, which is about to change again. Cold front tonight will drop us back to the 50s and 60s for the next week or so. They said it might even rain! My tree hasn't dropped all its leaves yet, so it looks a little nekkid from the waist up... :disturbed:
It was good chatting with you the other day, Honcho!
Its been springy warm, until today, bitter wind about 30 for a high. Not so bad normally, but hard to acclimate to after 60s.
Piddled on Pflugerville today. Forecast for 63°, it's 52° at noon and I don't see 60 from here.
Got my TX d license this morning. I am officially bona-fide. Now I gotta go into deepest darkest Austin to straighten out my social security.
Heading back to the Springs soon. My childhood best friend is having his plumbing tore out to sacrifice to the cancer gawds. He's 20 days younger than I am...
Piddled a little bit here, too. Got up to 55 and went no farther. Hoping the sun comes out soon, this doom and gloom cloudy crap is for yankees.
I lost one of my best friends to cancer four years ago now. That one hurt for a long time.
We got the 1st measurable rain in I don't even remember now, a whole 1.3 tenths last night, Other than that its been bouncing around in the 50s and windy mostly, was 60 yesterday, forecast is the same for the foreseeable except the weekly front that moves through and drops temps for a day or so and gives us the wind on either side.
Driest winter we have seen so far.
Someone up north left the gate open again. Been in the low 30s here the past few nights and will probably be that way again for a few more. The sun's been out, though, and it has been warming into the 50s by late afternoon. At least all the ssssssnss.......ssnnnnnn........snsnsnsn....is well east and north of us. They can keep it, I'll watch it on the tv news.
And I found my parka! Now if I just knew where my heated socks were.... :disturbed:
Yeah, you know its weird when we are warmer with less snow than the FL panhandle. :sadness:
Mid 60s today, mid 70s tomorrow, Friday who knows, low of 18° forecast for Sunday morning.
Found my touque and my choppers, I'm good 👍
Looks like our non winter is taking a break for some real stuff, not snow or ice so much, but the clod is supposed to creep in. Today we get to 30, tomorrow we get to 10, maybe, and -6, not accounting the wind that's supposed to be 20mph or so. But then jumps back up to 14 for a high the next couple days, then supposedly the Canadians come and take their weather back to send to China I guess, and we get back to what has been normal all winter.
Not the worst we have seen, maybe this year, but as things go, not so bad. Still don't like it.
Looks like it's going to get a little chilly here over the weekend. We're being warned about single digit wind chills, death and destruction. I think the weather guessers are doing their best to scare the crap out of everyone, so the panic buying at the grocery stores is on once again. It amazes me how stupid people can be. It's only going to be cold for a day or two.
That said, we here do have a phobia about power outages after what happened a few years ago. The state assures us all the problems have been fixed, but that's like all the political candidates telling you how they're going to fight for you if they get elected. I can still remember sweeping water and hauling wet carpet and drywall (it was about 20 degrees that day) out of my daughter's house after pipes broke and flooded it. The power was out for three days here, and for a week in some places. And being a desert rat, I hate being cold!
Carl and Stetto, stay warm. I think it's going to be worse for you than it will be here in the swamp.
If we don't lose power, all will be great. We are predicted to be 6 degrees Sunday morning! It is 50 and raining right now, supposed to drop this evening and get up to 1/2" of freezing rain before turning to sleet and then snow.
The pipes in this house were replaced a decade ago with Pex, so no freeze worries here, even the outside hose bibs, though I removed the hoses just because.
I've started taking 5 mile walks every morning the last month, and rain hasn't stopped me. Ice might, I didn't bring my tree climbing cleats to Texas. Or my skates, which I sadly had to leave behind in Colorado.
This all needs to be history by middle-late next week. I'm driving up to the Springs to support my cancer patient buddy through a rough surgery. They told him he was in for THREE MONTHS of recovery, so I may be reporting weather from there for a time.
We have pex as well, did that about five years ago to replace old galvanized pipe.
Winter is here, for now, anyway. 44 degrees and falling, light rain, and north wind 10 - 18 mph. I think what's going to get us is the water on the roads freezing overnight. Half the freeways are chock full of overpasses, and since people here can't drive even in clear sunny conditions, the Monday commute ought to be pretty interesting. The best part is that I no longer have to participate!
Found my parka, and I know I have gloves around here somewhere... :disturbed:
It's been 30° here for a couple hours, dropped to 28° over the last half hour. Been dry since an inch & a half of rain overnight. But....
Carl can tell us better what's headed our way tonight.
Feelin' just a little Minnesota...
Well, we got 3/4" of rain yesterday, then the cold got here. Temp dropped from 50 to 28 in just over an hour. Had some freezing rain, but not bad, turned to sleet and light snow. Got up this morning it was 10 degrees, light snow falling. We probably have 2 inches on the ground. High for today was 12, currently 10 with a projected low of 4. High tomorrow is supposed to be 24, we will see.
21° here now, maybe a quarter inch of white on everything. Only vehicle I've seen on the streets this morning is a guy in camo Carhartts on a 4 wheeler.
Glad it's getting it out of the way now, I'm supposed to head to Colorado later this week.
33 here right now, on our way to a high of 38. Wind chill is at 18 because of a 15mph north wind. It's stopped raining and there are actually patches of blue showing through the cloud cover. This is supposed to be past us by late this evening.
Sounds like I have shared enough to make us all miserable. It was -14 when I went to bed, no wind though thankfully. Sitting at 6 right now and light snow, maybe have 1/2", supposed to get all the way up to 10, but I doubt it since its supposed to fall off by 2 and be -8 again tonight. Tomorrow they say 40s, but its coming with wind so will feel like teen most likely. Gotta love winter.
QuoteGotta love winter.
No we don't!! :eek5:
It snnnnnnn.......sssssnssnsns.......snsns....did that white stuff thing back home in El Paso last night.
I haven't lived through a winter without below freezing temperatures and snow since 2002.
I still haven't... :icon_confused: :sadness:
They say this is the last day of this, I hope so, because its -31 windchill right now. (https://www.fubarhill.com/emoticons/cold.gif)
QuoteI haven't lived through a winter without below freezing temperatures and snow since 2002.
Maybe next year! :disturbed:
23 degrees last night, wind chill down to 13. We lost water for most of the night when one of the pumping stations in the 'hood froze, but it's back on this morning. One more night of this s--t and hopefully we'll be done with it until next January.
Welp, ol' Stetto killed his accident-free streak this morning...First time since January of 1979. Yessir, this fat old dwarf went for a walk in 19° ambient temps and slipped and landed on his tuckus on the skating rink that was the street in front of the house. Smacked the back of his soft skull too.
No damage, at least no more, but he keeps talking about hisself in the 3rd person...
Want the go-fund-me address, anyone?
:icon_lol: Sorry buddy, but like for us all, stupid doesn't pay, unless you're Antifa.
Are we gonna have to send you back to Minnesnowta for winter refresher training? :icon_biggrin:
Is it just me, or are sunrises slower in winter? Sun came up an hour ago and is just now clearing the trees. In summer, that takes about 30 seconds and the temps go from 80 to 100 just as fast. Right now, it's 26 degrees. An hour ago, it was 25 degrees. Sheesh!
So then, I got a question: What is the definition of an "historic storm"?
I remember hurricane Camille being the benchmark of "historic" storms for a few decades. And blizzards from the 1800s and early 20th century were spaced one every 10 to 20 years...
But now it seems like, if it's Tuesday, we either just went through an historic storm, are in an historic storm or one is bearing down on us. I understand media sensationalism, but it's desensitizing to abuse the verbiage.
BTW, my use of "an" instead of "a" before "historic" is a knee-jerk syntax habit on my part. Apologies to anyone who may cringe :disturbed:
Roller coaster winter this year. 66 and severe clear right now, absolutely beautiful day. That will all end over the weekend when we drop back into the 20s overnight. At least nothing frozen is falling from the sky...
78 and severe clear. This more like it!
Got up 82 here today, absolutely beautiful, no wind, bright sunshine.
Yeah we got to 65 calm and sunny as well. I came down with some sort of bug overnight so didn't get to enjoy it much, but at least it wasn't hip deep snow and blowing and have to deal with that and not feel good.
Hope you get to feeling better quick. I got a sore throat and head cold last week but several extra doses of ivermectin knocked it out quick.
Yeah was just some weird 24 hour thing, never had sore throat or upset stomach, just chills an fever. Feel fine today.
76 degrees today, been really nice this week. We're going to have a wet weekend, then back into the upper 70s for a while. I guess someone up north finally got the gate closed.... :disturbed:
Yeah, its ben nice mostly here too. Relatively warm, so warm in fact that we are acclimated to 50s, so when the 40s roll in it feels cold now, and not a drop or flake to be seen, and nothing even threatening for the next week or so.
It started raining here sometime after midnight. We are currently showing about an inch and a half, with more on the way.
That's probably the storm that coming my way, Carl. We're supposed to get a lot of rain and high wind later tonight.
I guess I dodged a bullet down there. I've been in CO Springs since Jan 28. We've had nothing resembling weather but sun and warm days partnered up with quiet chilly nights. My buddy is slowly recovering from his surgery, I'll be here well into March before finding another weather station to report from...
After a downright chilly couple of days, we turned the corner and it's getting nice again. 51 this morning, but now the sun's out, the birds are chirping and life is good. I can finally open the windows! 73 outside now.
Wow, actually woke up to snow, they were predicting some, I heard something about 4" possible last night, but we have about an inch or so, not quite 2", still lightly snowing but looks like its about to move off. Its cold though, 3 for windchill, 15 on the thermometer. Been used to 60s since the 1st of the year for the most part so not used to it at all. We need moisture desperately, but this isn't it, this is mother natures middle finger I think.
We ended up with a good 2", and it was fairly wet and heavy, still not much moisture, but at this point we take what we can get. The down side is its -8 without wind this morning as well, after the last few weeks where we never went below 40 some nights this is a shock to the system.
Another, and hopefully the last, cold front hit us last night. 42 with wind chills in the lower 30s. It's 63 and sunny outside right now, but that north wind still has some bite to it. Back into the 80s by the end of the week.
Only 83 here in Cancun......back to the freezer in a few days.....
Good choice for vacation, sounds like the other coast is 50% chance of lead rain. :sadness:
We are headed for a week of warm and windy again.
Yeah lots of cancelled flights into there. Surprisingly cool and cloudy today!
Gate closed, sun shining, birds chirping and I'm above ground. Life is good. 77 degrees right now, been getting into the low 60s at night. The pollen is starting to fly, so it must be getting to be spring.
Its been nice here mostly, had a little snow a few days ago but can't tell now. Had all week of wind, but the last couple days have been very nice. Of course I had to go get some teeth pulled, so have not been enjoying it much.
Nice enough here ( Monroe Wa) that I'm scared that i will have to start thinking about mowing for the first time this season, or going out, and trying to kill off the rogue blackberry bushes before they start to grow again for the season...
On the other hand, my kid is in his first year of the Air Force, and freezing his nutz off in Minot :)
Its been nice here, mostly, but its been the driest warmest winter I have ever seen here. We did get a 1/4" of rain last night, the most we have had since like Nov or something, and they are promising more this week. TX had a harder winter than us, at lest on the eastern side of the state.
Looks like we are predicted to get some serious storms and rain starting tomorrow evening and lasting through the weekend. I sure hope so, we need rain bad.
I played golf yesterday. Today I took my 5 mile walk in a snowstorm. Monday is forecast for clear and 70°.
Welcome to Colorado.
QuoteI'm scared that i will have to start thinking about mowing for the first time this season
Too late. Had to get back to doing that last week. Damn grass didn't die when it got cold, so I was out mowing this morning while it's still cool enough to do that. The 40lb sack of weed killer / fertilizer that was $30 three years ago is now 34lbs and $68. I'm going to give up yardwork for financial reasons!
77 degrees and really windy right now. Supposed to get a lot of rain tomorrow.
We got almost 2/10" of rain, spit snow for a while but that's it, supposed to be 70 tomorrow. If this is our big March storm we are headed for record drought this year, after 3 of being in one already.
We got 1.2 inches this morning! Yesterday it 80, today the high is 55.
We got about 2 inches of rain over the past couple of days, with a little more expected mid-week. We needed it, but I'll be happy when the sun comes back. It's been kinda nice not having any mosquitos... :icon_mrgreen:
Had a couple of rounds of severe weather last night. Two different tornadoes spun up about 5 miles from our house. Lots of places had golf ball to baseball size hail. Thankfully we didn't get any of that. Did get 1" of rain.
Were getting hammered with winds,and ice storms but nothing like you all.
I'm getting more of a kick out of my kid who is stationed in Minot, and the weird weather they are ( or are not) getting.
Just when you think winter is done, someone up north leaves the gate open. 46 degrees last night, windchill was in the upper 30s. It's warming back up (we'll be back in the 80s by tomorrow), but it's still windy enough to be blowing branches off the trees.
And it rained just enough that I have to mow the damn grass....again.... :disturbed:
Heck we are 64 degrees right now, and 60 MPH gusts. :eusa_wall: It was steady at 55 for a bit. Its a brown out again. I know its WY and all, but maybe we can lay off the extreme weather for a while?
70-something yesterday. This morning? 23° with a projected high of 29°. Wind of 25mph.
80s by the end of the week.
Minnesota bound in a week or so, then ?
Yeah 73 yesterday, 8 degree windchill this morning and a dusting of snow which they said wasn't going to happen. Be short lived though, 70 tomorrow, 80s the rest of week, one day flirting to 90s.
And the wind has been horrific even by WY standards the lasty few weeks. 39 trucks tipped over in one day in a 100 mile stretch, 9 of them in a 6 mile stretch by Arlington WY, an d 3 in one spot on a Hill just south of Cheyenne, Crazy stuff.
About 60 miles east of me as a crow flies a grass fire started during some 70mph wind that snapped a power pole, and has consumed nearly 550k acres by now, which is bigger than the OK and KS fire earlier this year, and no containment, moving so fast I read its jump ahead of trucks before they can setup or make a line. Running SE with the wind down the North side of the Platte river.
It's been pretty windy here as well. We'll be in the upper 30s again tomorrow night, but are expecting sustained winds at 20-25mph and gusts up to 40. At least all that wind is blowing the pollen north and east! Back in the 80s by midweek.
Actually got some snow.... Well overdue.
In other news,
My son is stationed at Minot, and has been for the last year. His buddy ( may aswell be my 2'nd son) just graduated his Air Force tech school, and got orders to FE Warren AFB.
I get a little bit of a chuckle, because they both were in it " For Adventure!"..
Poor kids :icon_mrgreen:
What, WY is not an exotic far off place? :disturbed:
The way the wind has been this year, if he brings a kit to strap on his back, he can be a pilot too!
Wyoming would actually be on my list of places to retire.
The National Museum of Military Vehicles in Dubois is amazing, and I would give my left nut to be able to get a "Retirement Job" there. :icon_mrgreen:
The boys are just a touch past 21, after listening ( And seeing ) the environment that my son is in...
It's so much different than what I experienced. I was stationed in exotic places such as San Antonio Texas ( 10/10) with lots to do outside of work. " Almost got hitched to a gal from Plentywood Montana there. ( We are still very good friends to this day, and even have several mutual friends though we grew up in different states).
Ft Sill Oklahoma was just OK, not much to do. I did go to my very massage place there :eek5: other than that, I did my very best to blow that base off the face of the earth with artillery shells, along with dumping every blank round of ammo I was ever issued ( they would make your rifle so dirty...mine always seemed easy to clean) :icon_mrgreen:
Ft Irwin in California was a desert hell, and HOT... lots of time in the field playing a grown up version of capture the flag, and other than a bowling alley trips to vegas was a fun weekend. it was okay..
Yakima Training Center playing with tracked mortars, and flying around as a flight medic was fun.
All of those places had things to do on base, and the food wasn't bad. Always had girls to hang out with.
Minot AFB has NOTHING... The Movie theater is has been closed down for several years, the Chow Hall is so small, and just garbage for food ( Air Force always had great food, and lots to do when I was on their bases) My boys live is pretty much... Goto turn wrenches in B-52's, go do some PT, goto sleep, repeat. The city of Minot is small ( I like it) but nothing really to do.
I have a buddy that was at FE Warren, and said its pretty small, and not much else to do for young Airmen aswell.
They really have seemed to change since I was in the military. No real clubs, or was to socialize... Everyone just does their job, and plays in their computers.
Both the boys like to hike, and camp. They dabble in hunting, and fishing. ( thats good, except for the hoops to jump through to get a rifle onto base, since they live in the dorms). My kid told me that he wanted to go on a hike one day, and there are no mountains for 8 hours drive, and the average age if single women is 75 :D
I look forward to seeing how Ethan does in Wyoming. Both the kids are laughing because they can each drive 5 hours to meet up in the middle if they want to meet up for a hike, or hunting weekend. lol
36 degrees here last night, wind chill in the upper 20s. The weather guessers assure me that this is the last cold weather of the year. Sure hope so, I'm getting too old for that s--t!
I was a military contractor in my younger days, so spent some time at several air force bases. My favorite was Pope AFB in North Carolina. Myrtle Beach SC wasn't far and if I wanted to see different airplanes I could bop over to Seymour Johnson and watch the 4th TFW Phantoms do their thing. The most interesting gig was at what I consider my "home" base, Holloman AFB in New Mexico, which is not far from my home town. The 49th TFW was there, Phantoms early on and F-15s later. Also been to Hurlburt Field and Eglin AFB in Florida, and Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. That was a long time ago....
If you haven't been to the Air Force Museum at Wright-Pat, you need to go. Well worth the trip!
We went from one extreme to the other, was 75 yesterday and the wind died down to tolerable, and it felt pretty warm, today and the rest of the week is 80s, and maybe a 90 thrown in, and I think I'm going to melt.
FE Warren i.e. Cheyenne isn't so bad as it used to be for social life, Ft Collins is 40 minutes down the road so long as the roads are good to travel with all kinds of bars and stuff to do for people used to cities. It's like Denver lite anymore. It's a liberal hell hole now, but has a diverse night life. But for outdoors there is plenty to do, Vedauwoo and Curt Gowdy state park just outside of town on the way to Laramie has a lot of stuff to do from rock climbing and hiking to fishing for day trips.
The airman bars, i.e. strip clubs have had a set back with an old iconic one called the Green Door that had been around for 60 years shutting down the last year, still one down on state line. They are tame by comparison of the ones up in Rapid City which probably isn't such a bad thing. Several brew pubs and burger places now that have good food that never used to be there.
It is a small town despite being WYs largest, so it is limited, but its not so isolated they can't find things to do. But its tough adjustment for the kids coming from urban centers, who tend to end up hating it, but will wear it like a combat tour and talk about the winter there for 40 years after. :icon_smile:
Minot just about dried up for several years, but the oil boom brought it back to life somewhat, but even at best its a cold windy isolated place only North Dakotans could appreciate, and maybe make sad jokes about lutefisk. Of the 2 Warren is the lucky draw.
I lived and worked in Cheyenne Wyoming for 3 years.
If they gave the earth an enema, Cheyenne Wyoming is where they'd stick it in....
It's funny how we all we all categorize different parts of the country :icon_smile:
whatever it is, these young men are "in it" and it will shape their lives. To this day, I would swear that Lawton Oklahoma is the biggest hell hole on earth :icon_mrgreen:
Living where I do now ( Monroe Wa, north of Seattle which is Portland Oregon lite) I'm ready to get the heck out of dodge. The political scene, and extreme liberal population is the last straw for me.
I'm ready for slow, and quiet. even though I have no delusions that life itself is just as hard, and even harder in some cases. It's just the level of drama people want to deal with.
I'm "tribal", and tend to want to find my type of people. I'm more of live, and let live... I don't care to tell people what to do, and I appreciate the same in return. :icon_mrgreen:
Sounds like you're ready to move to Texas!
This more like it - 79 degrees, clear and sunny. And no mosquitos yet....
Its 86 and a good breeze here today, dry as a bone in the Mojave summer. Hard to acclimate to that so soon.
93 here today, I am so not ready for that stuff yet.
101 here now! It is way to early for this kind of heat.
We had another low 90s day yesterday. Had troubles calving a cow the day before, it was breach and upside down, had to get a vet out to get her out. But turned out OK. The calf was weak and didn't get up and suck so we have been working on it to get it going, finally had to get the cow in a head catch and teach the calf to nurse, what a pain that is. Then had another that was struggling because the mom is an old cow and has large teats and wouldn't suck on any but 1. When its hot like this it doesn't take much for the babies to get dehydrated, and it was pretty pinched up. So another cow in the head catch, all this after 3 of the neighbors cows and calves hopped the fence and got mixed with mine, and he came to sort them out so I couldn't feed until all that was done, which was almost dark by then.
Finally sometime after dark we got to come in and eat dinner wondering why we are doing this.
But today is supposed to be back in the 50s, still no rain but at least its not scorching everything, and they are hinting we may see some sprinkles next week. Never seen a winter in this region this dry and warm in my entire life.
20° with light snow this morning. Back in northwest Minnesota for a time, thought I'd snuck past the lion part of March, but not quite. Funny thing about this neck of the woods: no matter the forecast, it usually turns out a measure worse. Makes Texas mighty appealing.
I'll get back down there, just not sure quite when.
It's been beautiful here the past week. Lows in the 60s, highs in the mid 80s. Humidity comes and goes, but right now there isn't any!
Stetto, you are coming back to Texas, right? :eek5:
Quote from: jetmex on March 27, 2026, 08:29:58 AMStetto, you are coming back to Texas, right? :eek5:
Yes
1/2 inch of rain so far today, with more to come through the weekend. It's keeping the temps down a bit, only 80 right now.
We had as shot of spring, cool and was actually was damp for change, but didn't even get a full tenth of rain. They had some optimistic predictions of 1/4 to half inch or rain, but not in the cards I guess.
We got 1.2 inches last night.
Up here in glorious rural Vergas Minnesota we were forecast 5-7 inches of snow but wound up with a wet melt 2.
Then we're again forecast another 3-5 today/night and then 5-7 more on Saturday. I was sure it was supposed to be the lamb part of March, but alas!
So I'm going to hole up here for the weekend before heading back to Texas. I'll be looking for gainful employment and a meager place to call "home" (yes, I've been invited not back to the house in Pflugerville).
In the meantime I'm working on not developing a Minnesotan accent, don'chya-know :sadness:
Sorry to hear Stetto, just keep putting one foot in front of the the other brother.
Our big storm front was a bust, barely settled dust for half a day.
All the warm weather has the cows popping out calves like crazy though and aside from a rough start has went smoothly so far.
Sorry to hear that, mi amigo. I'm not that far from you, if you need anything, just call.
Raining again here today...
Sorry to hear that brother!
"They" are forecasting 12" for tonight through tomorrow. I won't bet on it.
Guys, thanks for your thoughts, I'll be ok, I'm sure. Terrin & I may well work this out, but if not I'll get it together and move on. I WILL be making a point to come to 'Umble and get back to Baird before anchoring somewhere in a rural Texas setting though. Life's just too dang short. It's great having people down there!
Buckaroo, my bad for not stopping in on my way out of the Peoples Collectivist Republic of Commierado, would have been a great time. The folks I'm hanging with right now have a shooting range in their backyard and some wonderful toys we've been pewing with, so I have had time in on some wonderful brass cased calibers!
Can't wait to get back to 80+°...
Last night up here. Spent some good time with my boy and an old friend today, temp never got to 30°. Supposed to be April, fercryinoutloud!
I hear it'll get close to 0° tonight. I hope to be in Paul's Valley Oklahoma tomorrow night. Y'all say a little prayer for me to the fair travel saints, ok?
First morning back in Texas. Cool, calm, looks to be a fine day...
Man, it is dust bowl dry here, have sand drifts in the yard when we should have had snow drifts. I am hearing the snow melt is done already, we have some water stored in reservoirs but its only 40 days worth of water to run at this point, and that's pending on Bureau of reclamation allocating it all to our water right. Down stream in NE, they are looking at less, maybe half that, and some ditch companies in CO are told no water for irrigation so the cities can have it. The plan is for farmers to plant their crop, irrigate what they can then file insurance.
If we don't get some serious rain, this summer is going to be he worst on record in the entire west US, we already are the driest ever recorded here. I was looking at pastures, and its not even started yet, hay fields are struggling but greening up. But there is a reason the sand hills east of us are just stabilized sand dunes, let's just hope its not the new normal. I am already going to be looking for hay to buy to try and get through.
It's been raining here! Inch and a half already today and still coming down. I've been waiting two weeks already to start laying pavers along the side of the house to extend the walkway that's already there, but it hasn't been dry enough to get anything done. 72 degrees and 137% humidity....
Welcome home, Stetto!
Thanks Jaime.
I'm outside of Luling now believe it or not, and most of these storms have been skirting right by us. I hear that West Texas got it good yesterday.
Bought a 20-foot RV trailer. My new digs for the foreseeable...
We're up to 2 1/2 inches of rain so far this weekend and it's still raining on and off.
Come on out to beautiful downtown Uhhmmble, Stetto. You're welcome here any time.
We have had some pretty decent weather that last 2 weeks.
I have been able to get my 5 acres at the house mowed down, along with some ( not even close to enough) of the blackberries cut back. The family farm, I was able to get about 12 acres mowed.
As luck would have it, now we have wind, rain, and snow storms for the next 5 days.
To top it off, the power company will be cutting power to out area on the 17th for 24 hours :eusa_wall:
Figures :icon_lol:
Storm got a little bigger than expected. PUD has turned the power pole replacement into 3 more 6 hours jobs...
Gotta hand it to those guys, they put in the work.
Yep, have to be grateful for linemen who go out at all hours and weather to keep us lit and warm.
Those guys get a workout here every time it rains.
We got a couple of not wet days and now it's supposed to start raining again tomorrow. Followed by a sorta dry week and then more rain next weekend. 85 here right now.
I would love to have it start drying out.
I have a little bit of home remodel that needs to get started, and finished.
We had a 'big storm' roll through, got a dusting of snow, maybe a .10" worth of damp.
I had to be in the dentist in Cheyenne and was worried the trip down as going to miserable, but it was dry going down, coming home was just wet, but barely enough to have to use the wipers at times.
Its not just us here in WY, though I think we are the worst right now, snow pack in our drainage is down to under 10 percent, and the snow melt run off is already done, up north a couple drainages that straddle the borders of SD and extreme NW Nebraska are at 0%, there is no snow there. But there is drought across the entire US, from the FL / GA border region all the way up to MT / ID border region, and its supposed to get worse through summer as El Nino gets stronger. Add the fires over winter and last year with no rain to regenerate, this is going to be a very tough year for a lot of cattle producers, but also farmers as water flow is going to be nearly non existent down stream. the CO river will be so little it will practically dry by the time it get to the CA farmers, they are planning on releasing water from the flaming gorge reservoir, but nearly 1/3 of current, and it's low as well all other reservoirs are low, some depleted already and we haven't even started using it yet.
Canada is even worse off, and Brazil and Argentina are also in a severe drought.
We may see some actual food shortages even more than we have, as this hemisphere will likely not be able to feed the other half for the 1st time that I can remember. Something we truly just take for granted.
Aside from Onepoint's happy news, its been lovely here in south-central Texas. Cloudy and 70s today, maybe rain later. Right now I'm sitting outside my new hut with my Benelli waiting for a pocket gopher to show hisself just one more time about 20 yards out...yes, I'm using humane ammo, 7 & a half shot waterfowl... :icon_evil:
Beautiful Sunday for my part of Texis, 70°, partly cloudy, nice breeze. Supposed to get wet all week, I'll wish some to Wyoming...
So much for Sunday, distant happy memory.
2.5" between yesterday & this morning. Continues to p*ss and piddle today, then back into sun & 80s til Saturday/Sunday.
Raining again today. The sun was out long enough to tease me into thinking it might be a nice day, then the gray erased it all. My sidewalk project is on hold yet again. 64 degrees.
Interesting, I vaguely recall that rain thing, used to just fall from the sky right?
Supposedly we have a good chance, at least as good as we have had for a couple months next week, we get 40 something degree days with it, but I don't care if it gets wet.
Well we finally got some rain that would measure in the gauge, .4" its so dry it only made the dirt damp, but will help a bit. Probably too late to make the grass grow much, but will make it at least come out of dormancy which it had not so far, 1st time I can recall having leaves on trees before grass is green.
We still have not heard what our irrigation water situation will be, but the ditch company down stream across the border on our ditch said they will run 30 days, on .6 of their allocation and start on July 1st.
We have a little more water banked from last year than they do, but that means we won't get water until they come in the ditch, I suspect we will also be at .6 of a foot per share for allocation. Usually we don't have allocation at all, meaning we can order as much as the ditch will hold and when we do its usually an acre foot or so which is enough for me to irrigate as normnal. Unless we get some serious rain in there some where, probably looking at only 2 cuttings of hay.
I may be on the street corner with a sign, "will work for hay" :icon_neutral:
That stinks! Praying y'all get the rain you need.
I just looked at the Austin radar. South part is getting 14+ inches/hour right now! The wife is in Pflugerville on the north end and only getting 1-2. Down in Luling we have partly cloudy and 70s.
Wild little ol' state, Texas...I'd sure like to will some of that north Austin rain to you, Honcho...
Raining this morning. Depending on which alarmed weather guesser you listen to, it's either going to be a biblical deluge or it will pass us by. To add to that, the power has been blipping on and off since about 5 this morning, like it always seems to do when it rains. (Add colorful expletives here) power company.... :disgust:
Our big scale model show is tomorrow, weather supposed to be a lot better for that!
4 inches in the guage as of 7:00 this morning, 2-3 additional expected by 6 tonight. Watersports commencing.
We were supposed to get 2-2.5 inches. Got 6/10's!
Its just wild to think we have not seen 4" of rain or equivalent in 6 months total.
Bright & shiny like a billy goats hiney this morning. 50°.
That additional 2-3 inches amounted to a half inch, but it took its sweet time adding that.
We're in a sandbox down here, so that rain took no time soaking in...
If finally stopped raining! Yesterday was beautiful, clear and sunny at 72 degrees, today is looking like more of the same. The highly accurate and fully calibrated Jetmex rain gauge nailed to the back fence says 2 inches, which brings the total for last week to 7 inches. Now I gotta mow the damn grass again.
60 degrees here now.
Heh, we finally had some. About 4/10 again, isn't making much of a dent on the dry, but at this point anything helps. It also frosted which stressed everything. Cheyenne got several inches of wet snow as did northeast CO, closed roads and made a mess, its late for that even here. Got a chance of thunderstorms next couple of days, maybe we can pick some more up.
It's been Bi-Polar weather here. 80's then 30's, now 60's..
We needed the snow, its going to be a crazy fire season here. I'm thinking I will be busy, but dont know where I will end up.
Sun is finally out! After a couple of weeks of gray and rain, the sun is shining. Severe clear and 76 right now. I'll enjoy it as much as I can before the humidity comes back.
Yep, bee-yoo-tee-full day in Luling Texas!
We already know we have one for the record books. I have had years in the past I could have cut hay about now, and turned cows out on grass at tie end of April. This year I'm holding them in just let anything grow so they have something to eat.
Hay is struggling and only about a foot tall, and sparse. Grass is still just a couple inches and almost dormant despite the 90s for temps and a near half inch of rain we had.
I'm not alone. Normally this time of year the cattle auction will get 500 to 700 on sale days being a slow time of year, bred cow and cow/calf pairs will sell early in the year but by now will be slow. They had a "back to grass" special bred cow sale yesterday and had 9000 go through. That's just one sale, and they are having those every other week with feeder specials in between that are also seeing larger numbers of feeder cattle, which are year old, and weaned calves that normally end up on pastures for the summer, being sold off and shipped elsewhere. Not sure where since there is drought from ID and Utah all the way across to FL and GA. The central Rockies in CO and southern WY are in severe with some areas less than 30% snow this year, and some with none like our mountains to the west of us that any snow they did get after the 1st of the year had melted and never stayed, runoff was non existent, hopefully because they were storing any that did come.
Its bad, worse I have ever seen or been through for sure.
We had a thunderstorm build up and come through, little dampness, nothing to be excited about, though we may get some measurable stuff tonight through Monday night.
But we did get this - About 5 or 6 miles due west of us. Looks like probably a cold air funnel, but do not want regardless.
Too close!
Eric,
Looks like the weather balloons are dropping in your area between yesterday, and today..
This one came down 3 hours ago, and is in a field.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B001'39.5%22N+104%C2%B044'42.8%22W/@42.0265287,-104.746756,1798m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d42.02763!4d-104.74522?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDUxMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Those sneaky Chinese, gotta be an invasion!
Wait, Roswell was a "weather balloon" they said too. :eusa_think:
Looks like another wet dreary week here. 80 degrees and raining, supposed to be like this through next Monday.
Us too, Jaime. They put the Gonzalez/Luling area as ground zero for tonight, 4-5 inches expected. Then a day off and round two on Thursday night into Friday, followed by a wet weekend, 80s the whole way. Ill take it as long as the gale winds stay off the menu. My little 20-footer isn't tied down... :disturbed:
A lot of light and rumble all night for a measly inch of rain. We'll take it though...
Air traffic was routed south of Austin, never seen so many planes go over at one time out in the boondocks, there were dozens.
QuoteA lot of light and rumble all night for a measly inch of rain.
We got the same here, Stetto. There were a few thunderclaps that rattled the windows and you'd have thought we were in a hurricane the way the wind was blowing. About an inch in my highly calibrated wally world rain gauge. The sun came out for a bit this afternoon, they're saying more of the same tomorrow. For now...
Heavy rain today. Been raining since early this morning, about 2 inches so far on the wally world calibrated rain gauge. We need it, but I'm getting a little tired of it and the forecast is for more rain over the next four days. It's holding up a lot of stuff I need to get done on the house....like the roof.... :eusa_wall:
We have had second, (3rd?) spring the last few days, little damp, nothing to measure, but a sprinkle and cool, like low 70s, now today its near 90, supposed to be for the next few days, which seems mighty hot now, even though we had 90s in March. Finally, a month late, its starting to green up, not getting tall, but at least you can see green from a distance now.
Sunshine!! For now, anyway.... :icon_mrgreen:
We have been getting sprinkles amid some getting downpours, not sure I really want that, 2 miles west a thunderstorm rained so hard it flooded a pen full of cattle and it ran across the road off a hay field, we got .05" from it, but we did get one that gave us an actual 2/10, grateful for even that, more grateful we missed the 3/4 hail they got with it.
I have never seen what is going on around here though. field after field are not being planted, hardly any sugar beets, fields that have been corn are still bare, or have been planted in sorghum, Many hay fields are drying up instead of growing, our ditch isn't to come in for another 3 weeks, and there are field that will produce nothing until they get irrigated, this that are will produce 2/3 to half of normal. We may have a good 2nd cutting, but sometimes when dry like this its almost dormant and take a good while to start growing again.
I read reports and watched videos of it all across the western and plain states. Corn planting is being reduced, east where they don't irrigate and have planted its not growing. Wheat crop here is decimated, surveys say just over 50% in a 5 state area is at poor to very poor condition, meaning it will likely not make wheat, many are tilling it under already, some are grazing it. None of this means much, until late summer and fall for most people when then prices will spike as contracts are left unfulfilled.
No one has seen this since the dust bowl, and heck no one is alive that can appreciate that so its new for us all. I suspect we will see many more things we never have in our lives if this persists, especially if this nation wide drought doesn't break this coming winter.
The new label I've been hearing is "super" el niño, AFAIC just another "scientific" word these weather people made up to promote credibility among themselves. We're in part of a natural cycle that's popular to blame on causes other than natural forces.
That said, we in the Luling area vascilate between hot and humid and hot and dry, though every morning is consistently foggy and dew saturated. When any big storms blow through we don't get what neighbors 20 miles in any direction are getting, my theory being that we're in a low spot between the San Marcos and the Plum rivers. When 3+ inches are forecast we get an inch, more often a tenth of one.
A series of hit-and-miss downpours are forecast for the end of this week, followed by 2 months of simply hot.
Gonna be fun :disturbed:
I do try to send what precip mojo I can your way, Honcho. Hope it helps... :eusa_angel:
Been a hot humid last couple of days, and now it's thundering and lightning like crazy. No rain yet, but the weather guessers say there will be some, though no one knows how much. Big line of storms just went southwest of us, but all we got was wind and noise.
I'll send some rain mojo your way as well, Honcho...
Dang! Little to none forecast, we have 2" in the guage here...so far.
We have been getting thunderstorms, yesterday was a bust for storm chasers, there were some from OK up here predicting the apocalypse, but ended up with some clouds and wind was all for us, it all shifted north into from Lusk WY into South Dakota, and so far as I heard, nothing spectacular.
We did get a nice 1/2" the day before, while Torrington got tennis ball hail and east into NE got "land spouts" aka wussy tornadoes. Another day of it, maybe 2 and then we heat up.
More rain. About an inch in the last day or so and more on the way this afternoon and tomorrow. Then we're supposed to start drying out. It's 81 degrees and 162% humidity right now. The sun breaks through every now and then and you can see the steam rising from all the roofs nearby. Swamp living at its best!
We hit 100 yesterday, with a 25mph breeze, everything wilted, including me.
100°, sheesh!
It's that time I guess...we're getting consistent 90° here, with a 10th inch of dew every morning. This next week they're jacking it up to mid nineties, my first full summer in Tejas should be epic.
At least the cloud cover here is keeping the temps down, but the humidity is off the the charts. It stayed dry enough today to get the yard done, but it's still pretty soupy on the east end of my back yard. 87 here right now. Rain should be moving out and we'll be in the mid 90s next week.
We hit 101 for most of the afternoon yesterday, sun was intense. We get a break now, today will be low 80s, maybe mid 90s tomorrow, then 80s for a while and chance of thunderstorms.
I cut about 5 acres of hay, made 1 1/2 round bales, had to rake 3 windrows together, and still was grinding it up rolling in the baler almost as fast as I was picking it up. Not good. Some will be better, but worrisome for sure.
Hit & miss t-storms today. First hit was a very quick 9/10s inch.
When the sun shines again they claim it'll feel like 103°.
Picked up .6" yesterday evening, came with a little hail, but I'll take it. Mostly were in the seam between cells, which was a good thing, I read reports of 2 to 3" in just minutes, had flash floods crossing highways and county roads, people stranded, large hail and tornadoes. Most a little east of us, but a couple were west. I was watching radar reports of estimated rain fall rates, some of it was in the 20" per hour area. 'Tis the season I guess.
And now the new improved fire season is here. I don't know what its burning exactly, because all the grass is short and sparse that I have seen.
There is a monster fire that grew 20k acres in one night after starting in the northern pan handle of NE just on the city limits of Crawford, had multiple evacuations including a retirement home and historic Ft Robinson. Now at 32k acres, but they are making progress, with 40% containment now with air tankers running nonstop.
Yesterday I went to Cheyenne, and missed a grass fire by minutes apparently along US85, blew up to 400+ aces in a couple hours, but they managed to contain and get it burned out. This morning there is another one close, smoke is drifting in right now, but have not heard from where.
No fires here, still too wet!
Temps have been in the mid 90s all week. With the humidity, the heat indexes are ranging from 102-109. There are a gazillion Europeans here for the world cup soccer matches and they're all slowly dying of heat exhaustion. I guess no one bothered to tell them about Houston in the summer.
More rain forecast for early next week.
We are still dry, but it is some what humid at least for a bit, mid 50% compared to 30%s we have been running, but yesterday we barely hit 70, today is supposed to be mid 60s, and no rain. Weird weather this year continues.
They had to close a pass in NW WY because it snowed so much, but they have had winter all along over on that side of the state, the eastern slope seems to have skipped it, along with spring as far as wet goes.
Rained for about fifteen minutes early this morning. Then the sun came out and turned this place into a sauna. Around 2 this afternoon, it rained again and now it's sunny again. 90 degrees and really soggy outside.
We got an inch overnight, 3-5 forecast. Supposed to get more today/tomorrow, we'll see...
It's raining like the proverbial cow pissing on the flat rock here right now. Started early this morning and is coming in waves. 79 degrees and really wet! :eek5:
Did I say rain? The Wally World Calibrated Rain Guage overflowed at 5 1/2 inches yesterday afternoon, and now we're under a flood warning until Thursday and a tropical storm warning until tomorrow. Come on down and grab some of this while you can, Honcho!
The Swamp needed it, esè. :icon_mrgreen:
My hosts postponed their trip to Port Aransas till Monday because of all this tropical stuff.
The mosquito element has finally shown up: One whole bug. I'm sure they'll multiply, but Ah ain't skeert... :eek5:
Heh, if I could figure a way, I would!
I have yet to mow anything aside from a couple edges around buildings and where stuff sat and protected it. I may have to in a week or so.
The upside is hardly any flies or mosquitoes.
We are having to deal with the New World Screwworm. There is already a confirmed case in Tom Green county, which is only 2-3 counties away from us.
QuoteThe Swamp needed it, esè.
Yes we did. I think Corpus Christi was a few weeks away from water rationing before all this started. We ain't in a drought no more!
Another half inch last night, but it's starting to ease off. If the sun comes out it's going to get really toasty...
Quote from: wtxsflyr on June 17, 2026, 07:33:25 AMWe are having to deal with the New World Screwworm. There is already a confirmed case in Tom Green county, which is only 2-3 counties away from us.
Ugh, hopefully they will ignore you. Of course this is all Trumps fault, he stopped the science to detect them, which is why they were detected in Mexico 1st and not stopped by an imaginary line on a map. :eusa_doh:
Heat warning today. They're claiming upwards of a 120° heat index. It's 75° out here now, already feels like I walked into a sauna.
Should be fun. Thank God for swimming pools.
We are actually cooling down a bit, mid 80s for a while again, chance of thunderstorms starting Saturday.
Hay is running about 20- 25% of normal so far.
I saw a map that showed what it would take for rain to end the drought in 30 days, we are in the 14" area, which is what we get all year normally.
Happy Father's Day to all of you!
More rain last night and today. The Wally World Calibrated Rain Gauge now reads a total of 8 inches (maybe a little more because it overflowed once) over the last six days. There's still standing water in the low part of the backyard that will probably be there for another six days unless the sun comes out and burns it all off. The weeds are loving all of this!
We had 3/10" and some quarter size hail, but not much, and I was happy to get just that!
I finally mowed the road edge and barrow pit, which is the only thing tall enough to mow yet.
These hot,muggy texas days are well worth getting through to enjoy these phenomenal Texas evenings!
And the PuddinFace came to visit!
This is such a weird year for weather, fog and light drizzle for a while yesterday morning, not enough to make it any thing but feel damp, by late after noon it burned off enough for the thunderstorms kicked off, looks like south of us a few miles got whacked again.
Some of these storms rolling through have been monsters, baseball hail in Scottsbluff day before yesterday along with some 70 mph straight line winds
Hot. 96 degrees and enough humidity to put the heat index to around 105. The backyard finally dried out.
But you're right, Stetto. The evenings have been pretty nice once the sun gets behind the trees. Makes me wish I had a porch to sit on.
Yesterday day we were in the apopcoplype, apocolips danger zone for weather, rarely will we be in the yellow much less orange shaded areas of risk, but we were yesterday, all day they warned about supercells forming, grapefruit size hail, tornadoes, flash flooding in flood prone areas etc., we got a sprinkle from a couple passing storms and some wind. Not that I'm complaining, it just felt wrong yesterday, lot of damp energy in the air which tends not to work out well. Animals and people were being idiots all day.
Today. not forecasted at all, its raining, a slow set in rain, they are saying (for what that's worth) supposed to continue until afternoon, with a high of 66 and rain totals near an inch. Yesterday the forecast said near 80 and more severe storm chance. I'll take the latter though, an inch of rain right now may not save us all, will certainly stretch pasture and ease the feed crunch.
Turned out they were right, more or less, we got 6/10 by 1 PM when it quit, but had a pretty big area of thunderstorms build up and rain just before dark and picked up another 3/10 or a little more, close enough to an inch for me, and no hail. Going to make a big difference on grass at least, and weeds of course. Kind of sucks for all the guys who had hay down, and the places that flooded and hail that smashed windows and and roofs the other day, but right here is a godsend.
quick update from the great wet north.... I know it is boiling hot everywhere, but here since the end of May, it has been wet, wet, wet! Never seen so much rain...even had a flood in the basement!
Hey Nony good to see you.
Glad someone is getting rain, though everything in moderation eh? I thought I saw a big area in west Canada is in drought as well, but must be more north. We are going to be near or over triple digits this week through next weekend, except for one day midweek we get to practice dodging hail and tornadoes apparently.
Pretty warm & hummid here, the coastal grass on the property ain't even slowing down tho. The boss is spraying weeds on the fence line this morning, we'll be stretching barbwire in a few days. Should be great fun...
Haven't seen 100° yet this summer, but it's coming.
Nony! Good to see you back! Could ya do some gate maintenance while the weather is nice? :disturbed:
Hot here, mid to upper 90s with the heat indexes over a hundred. It's been trying to thunderstorm the last few days, but all we get is dark clouds, thunder and lightning and then nothing happens.
Had a thunderstorm roll through and dump about .7 in 20 minutes, it was running down the driveway like a river, but I imagine the fields and pastures it never ran much at all, and no pelleted form with it either which is rare this time of year. Another day of severe chance, and a pleasant 86 then back in the oven. They are already talking monsoon pattern, but we'll see.
We are in EL Nino, which means for our region we break either way being on the line between being abnormally warm and dry and abnormally wet, normal simply doesn't exist for us I guess other than this is the normal of flip a coin forecasts. They are saying that we won't get as many tornadoes with this weather pattern, which I'm sure the people who have had several already this year are comforted by.
QuoteThey are saying that we won't get as many tornadoes with this weather pattern
They're saying that about hurricanes here. Supposedly we're not expecting any at all, which hasn't happened in quite a while. Stay tuned...
Still hot here. The thunderstorms will build up late afternoon, then fall apart after a spectacular light show and a lot of noise. No rain, though.
Still hot here too. Unfortunately we're just on the outside edge of the usual dissipation boundary. We see them coming, but that's about all.
Expecting a change up this weekend, as per them what guess professionally...
It finally rained. Got about an inch early this afternoon. It cooled off a little, only 89 now.
And the power went out again. Seems like every time it rains, it goes dark. It used to be a bit of a joke, but it seems to be happening more frequently and no one seems to know why, least of all the damn power company.
Yeah what is it with this surface of the sun stuff. I think my butt melted to the four wheeler seat yesterday. We ended up getting a full inch of rain the other day, made big difference in hay and hopefully pasture. but its drying up fast now with a hot wind yesterday in through the night.
CO has been getting brownouts so I hear from my cousin, I bet that green energy switch is really paying off now. :hrm:
QuoteI bet that green energy switch is really paying off now.
Green energy around here is power lines wrapped in vines and tree branches sagging to the ground! :eek5:
Thundering outside now, maybe it will rain? We were in west Houston (Katy) yesterday for a friend's birthday and the rain was coming down sideways. Not a drop here in beautiful downtown Uhhmmble...
Currently 83 degrees.
Kind of a sloppy mess here the last few days, though there's a scant half inch in the guage so far. West of us are getting actual rain, virtually feet of it...but mid 70s in July is certainly welcome! Temps are due to ramp back up by Friday, same ol' for the duration. The PuddinFace has friends down from Minnesota this week, they're spending the week in Port Aransas. Hope they can stay dry and enjoy the beach.
More rain, total of about 3 1/2 inches over the last two days. It did drop the temps for a bit though, the high yesterday was 79. Going to start getting hot again as the week progresses.
Forecast of 100° plus for the next 3 days.
...Stand by...
QuoteForecast of 100° plus for the next 3 days
Same here. The heat is keeping that gulf tropical storm away from us.
It's 9:30pm and just dropped below 90 degrees....
Well, the a/c is struggling but operational. When temps were in the mid 90s outside it maintained an indoor high temp of 72° with 35% humidity. The indoor humidity is still 35%, but with 102° outside at present peak temp (5 o'clock), my roof unit appears to be holding @ 79°.
Note that im getting this performance on the low setting. Im sure it would do better cranked up, but the current setting gives me a nighttime temp from 66-68°, though the humidity climbs quite a bit. I'll take it.
Some fat broad named Bertha is due to visit the coast this weekend, but they don't hold any hope for relief. Maybe in Jaime's neighborhood, not here...
102 here today, still 90 outside now.
Bertha went to Alabama and Louisiana, but we're expected to get some rain and wind from it.
And why is it the first thing that popped into my head when that storm was named was a song lyric from way back that went, "Her name was Bertha. Bertha Butt. One a da Butt sisters..." :disturbed:
Well we don't get no theyacanes, at least we are allowed to identify that way.
Its been hot, until we hit a roller coaster, not a lot of rain, but a couple showers, last weekend it absolutely baked, 104, 15 to 20 winds, everything was shriveling. I'm going to look like one of those apple head dolls soon. But Tuesday barely made 90, yesterday it was 94 and humid, today mid 80s possible chance of rain, then triples for the weekend with predicted 107 for Sunday, triples for 4 days or so then drops back to high 9os for the foreseeable next week.
No one can get stuff to grow, if it gets wet its does OK, but everyone is struggling to get it wet, the guys with sprinklers are having evaporation issues and cant get it soaked enough, the flood irrigators like me are having trouble getting it to flow out its so dry. And the ditch is going out mid August. Cattle price is going for even new higher records, but so is hay costs, and most people are having to buy this year or sell cattle, a neighbor is going to hang it up they told us, when the calves are ready to go, the cows are going with them. A lot of people planted sorghum instead of corn, but with it stressed in weather like this, it picks up nitrogen and becomes toxic, especially in fields that have been fertilized with nitrogen like corn fields, everyone is going to have to test for it or lose those gold plated cows.
What the heck Texas, I don't remember ordering your weather, It was like Florida hot and muggy yesterday, where it rained it rained a lot for here, like an inch, or 2 in some places north of us, we got absolutely nothing. where it didn't the moisture in the air with 90% humidity hung around and clung to the smoke granted to us by Canada, so it was very hazy. I had to go into town yesterday about 8 AM, it was about 75 or 80, but ran into a cloud parked on the ground, you could see it ahead looked just like a cloud that you drove into, for a few miles it was foggy, for a stretch of about a mile visibly was about 50 yards. It was surreal. Then the heat came, bounced up to 100 in the afternoon, fortunately the humidity dropped down to 35% which while sticky for us is manageable. Today is supposed to 105, tomorrow 107 hundred something on Monday by which point I will be either a dried husk or welded to the air conditioner.
The thing I hate with this weather is everything burns you. I broke a sickle section yesterday afternoon, the tools were almost too hot to touch despite plastic handles just sitting there for 5 minutes. I made the mistake of grabbing a metal bar that was baking in open sun for hours and decided right then to drag an umbrella out and cover the thing and wait a bit to work on it. On the way to town, (because you know I break the only "special" blade section that I don't have on hand) I had to keep alternating hands on the wheel because it never cooled down until almost there despite the AC blasting for 20 minutes. My delicate nature just doesn't handle these temp swings like it used to.
Dang, welcome to Texas, I guess.
Our heat is pretty consistent these days, only a couple over 100°. The humidity comes and it goes, mostly comes, but building this fence isn't a lot of work yet. We're still putting in railroad tie H-braces, but my "boss" has mesothelioma and has to take frequent breaks. I don't mind those breaks at all, I tell ya! A good portion of them involve a cold can of beer in front of an industrial fan.
He broke the drag link on his Kubota the other day, the weld seems to be holding, but the auger's on borrowed time till that part is replaced...
QuoteWhat the heck Texas, I don't remember ordering your weather
Well, Honcho, I think that part of Wyoming used to be part of the Texas Republic, so maybe it's payback for taking it away from us! :disturbed:
Bertha was pretty much a non event here. We got about a 1/4 inch of drizzle and a some wind, but that was about it. More 100 degree days in store next week. 95 here right now.
When I was a flying mechanic way back when, I did outdoor gigs at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and a bunch of DC-3 engine changes on the ramp in Tucson, Arizona. Highest temp I remember was 120 in Tucson. At White Sands, we all were issued a bucket filled with water to carry tools in. If you left a wrench lying on a wing for a minute or three, you wouldn't be able to pick it up.
This is the weirdest weather this year, I hope it doesn't carry into fall and winter. Now we are getting monsoon season, not drought breaking, but have been getting afternoon showers once in a while, missing most of them, but keeping humidity up, 82% as I look now at 5:30 am, creating the problems with haying. We caught one yesterday afternoon about 5, looked like a small cell, about 2 maybe 3 miles wide is all, rained for about 5 or 10 minutes and dropped about 3/10 in that time, which was surprising.
Nothing that unusual about that, but the temps are still up in the mid to high 90s when normally the temps drop to 80s when the moisture flows up from the SW, and looks like we are heading for another 105 day flanked by too damn hot on either side this weekend.
My favorite forecast so far this year - there was supposed to be a cold front this past weekend, one which the weather guessers said would bring some rain and make it "less hot." They were partially right. It went from 99 to 97, but the humidity went up, and it didn't rain, so "less hot" didn't really matter.
99 right now.
This morning I wore a coat because it was actually in the high 40s when I went out to change the water. Its almost noon and still only 69 here. Dry calm and smoky, going to enjoy it, after 107 last Sunday, and supposed to be well over 100 again this coming weekend.
Thundering and lightning-ing right now, but no rain. Still hot, though. 97 degrees...
Its not going to get as hot as they said it was earlier this week, just 101 vs 107 or so, and then cool back down for a couple days next week. Its 99 right now. feels muggy but reads only 22% and more smoke rolling in again. It was down right wet this morning though, 80% until about 10ish. Must have some moisture coming up from the SW.
My weather mirrors Jaime's, without the thunder :sadness:
"We" passed the one year mark as Texans on August 1st. I remember it well, 217% humidity @ 100 degrees while offloading the truck, followed by a 15 minute downpour while at the liquor store looking for relief from unloading the truck. What a welcome! :disturbed:
Quote"We" passed the one year mark as Texans on August 1st.
Well happy anniversary, mi amigo! Just think, in another year, you'll be saying "y'all" all the time, drinking Shiner Bock like it was water and wearing them funny pointy toed boots! And it will still be 217% humidity and 100 degrees....at Christmas! :disturbed:
Where is everyone?
Hot and more hot. No hundreds this week, but a fair share of 98 and 99 degree days. It rained for about three minutes a few days ago, and that's been about it.
98 degrees now.
We are sheltering in place. Have had 100 plus for 12 or 13 days, and just saw on the news where we are forecast for at least another week above 100. No rain for over a month, none expected for a while.
Slogging through the summer here. Its been hot until yesterday, had near 100 or better for 7 days straight until yesterday with a high of about 78 and some rain showers, picked up a couple tenths over night but came with thunder and the power went out a couple times, which woke me up since we are running fans at night.
My irrigation is off since yesterday morning. I ran out of water for the 1st time we have been here, about 32 years I think. Never have been able to use all my water share until this year. We have had years where the ditch was shut down because of the tunnel collapse or one year they were working on a dam and could not store enough, but I always had water right to use if they could get it to me. They even had shut me out a couple days earlier than they said I had due to bad math I guess, but the ditch is getting shut down the 15th anyway, so I would have had only 4 or 5 days of water anyway. A lot of the poorer fields and pasture didn't ever get wet, but I did hit the main fields pretty well and it shows now. Not enough to make up for 1st cutting loss, but maybe won't have to buy multiple semi loads of hay. And I guess I should be thankful, a ditch company across the border that serves north of the river they got 2 weeks of water is all since they opted to use their reserve water last year, some areas had none at all.
Now we all get to start worrying about next year because reservoirs nearly empty if not dry altogether, and I am hearing talk they are going to divert part of our allocation down stream next season to keep cities going.
Just to give an idea how bad it is, Pathfinder reservoir in central WY is where we store and get our shares of water right from, its max capacity is 1,200,000 acre feet of water, normally is between 1,000,000 spring and 7-600,000 acre feet in fall after draw down, and I saw its has less than 200000' left and they have to keep releasing all winter for the North Platte river flow.
Visually, the lake is in a canyon basin, steep walls in some places, with total depth to original river bed about 200' deep, they use elevation for water level measurement, full is 5,850 ft, current Level 5,786.1 ft and when they consider it dead and shut off all but river minimal output is 5746 ft. Between that which runs off east into the Missouri river, and Flaming Gorge reservoir which is the upper feed for the Colorado river, which they drained 30% off to lake Powell already, if we don't get a real winter, next year is going to make this one look like a picnic. If we face the same conditions we have now next year, we will see things none of us alive have been around to see since the dust bowl, like entire little towns abandoned because they dried up and Vegas going dark.
Fun times.
I bounce between worrying about that, and a Blizzard of 49 situation as nature tries a rebalance.
We finally got a real rain, its been messing around with a couple tenths here and there, but last night I was woke by thunder, big crack right over the house that shook it. this morning there was 1.2" in the gauge, doesn't look like it came with hail or wind, so things are looking up, makes that early cut of water less stingy.
Saw on the news last night that we have had 29 days over 100! 16 in a row so far this month with another 10-12 predicted!
100 degrees here, too. We're bouncing back and forth between 99 and 100 for the next week, but at least the humidity is down a little.
We have finally broke the heat dome here, still warm, but low 90s not triples, and with the rain its greening up a little. I even have to mow and chop some weeds, which has been rare this summer.
Cloudy this morning, but still hot. They tease us with rain chances, but the heat boils everything away before it gets here. 103 yesterday. The forecast is for more of the same into the middle of next week.
Yep, hotternell here too. On the bright side, :eusa_doh: we are getting two degrees below forecast highs every day.
Yeah we are back to uncomfortable again, 95 instead of 105, but its 90 by 9 am and stays hot until well after dark and has been humid for us, 80% in the morning still 40 and 50s until late afternoon. We have been missing most of the storms lately, which is good, because they have been giving golf ball size hail where they show up.
Solid overcast this morning. The weather guessers are saying rain, but it sure doesn't look like it. Not as hot, 89 right now, but the humidity is off the charts. Just finished seven days in a row at 100 or more, only supposed to get to 98 today!
Actual thunderstorm tonight. Maybe .001" of rain, but the lightning was hitting all around us. First sprinkle in 45 days.
I'd like to feel blessed, but the moisture didn't add up :sadness:
Same here brother, rained just enough to be able to smell it.
We actually got some rain last night, about half an inch according to my Wally World Calibrated Rain Measuring Device. The sun has come out and is now boiling the hell out of us, and it's supposed to rain again later today. Maybe...
Wow! Second verse, same as the first: lots of lightning, little rain.
I guess we were on the edge of a bigger event. Luling had a suspected tornado last night. Good day to be a bridesmaid, yeh?
Another half inch of rain late yesterday afternoon. Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening and then it dumped on us for about 15 minutes. My tree is quite happy right now. Once again, the sun is out and the boiling has begun for the day. Only 77 degrees right now with 227% humidity....
We have been dodging thunderstorms, it may sprinkle just a bit so far, nothing measurable, but I have hay down is the reason for that. But mornings are starting to hint a little fallish, despite the temps being warm, just a feel in the air.
Fog this morning. THICK fog. My walk this morning felt right out of a Stephen King story.
...or The Exorcist... :disturbed: :eek5:
Jaime, did you schedule tropical rain for tomorrow?
Your timing needs work... :disgust:
Well, if you don't like the weather around here, just wait a minute...
Tropical storm Edouard (who names these things?) supposed to get us a little later today. 30-40mph winds and 3-6 inches of rain expected. All the local schools closed for the day, so the storm probably won't hit us now and the kids will have to make it up later.
At least it's a little cooler. Only supposed to get to 89 today.
Just been hot and dry here in KC metro. 95-100. Weather guys keep saying we are in for the longest heat wave of the summer yet.
I'm just glad it's not snowing yet. Can you imagine how much we would sweat shoveling snow?
Hey Frazz, good to see you.
Its been sort of humid, sorta hot here, late summer monsoon weather that in normal years would have us a little soggy and cussing trying to bale hay. We have a lot of clouds, may get a sprinkle or if caught under a shower get something measurable, which we haven't so far. Still cussing trying to bale hay as its not drying well, but at least isn't laying there turning black.
Well, no storm. Just enough rain to move the dust around on the cars. 87 degrees, 187% humidity. There's no toilet paper or bottled water left at the stores. Another day in the swamp.... :disturbed:
A welcome cloudy, gloomy morning. We may actually only see 95° today, with occasional drizzle.
More lightning, more thunder, lotsa clouds, no rain. 93 degrees, 139% humidity.
We had cloud build up and move over and gave us 9/10's of an inch of rain yesterday afternoon. Not nearly what we need but was so welcomed. And our streak of 100 degree plus days has came to an end today! Set a new record of 33 days in a row!
Ugh, we are not that hot, but have been pretty warm, mid 90s for a few days, some clouds in the afternoon that makes humidity come up, but we supposedly have a pretty good shot of thunderstorms Sunday into Monday, at6 this point I hope it bounces us got hay to cut so any rain is not as appreciated right now.
But I see a lot more days in the long range forecasts that are in the high 80s now than we did most of the summer, the latest one had a day of 70s for a high next Sunday, which will change by the time it comes, but still a 1st predicted 70s for a good while. We have been trending to be hotter than predicted all year, with the exception of a few days we were lower and wetter than they said we would be. Moisture has been hit or miss, mostly miss.
RAIN! Precious bountif--uh, okay...
...nevermind... :sadness:
We got rained on for thirty minutes at a high school football game 6 miles from the house, but no rain at the house. Seems like it has rained everywhere in Houston but here. At least the cloud cover is keeping the temps down, 83 right now.
Rain this evening for us. 3+ inches over 6 hours. I didn't go outside for an accurate look but the flashlight was good enough to see we are over 3 a bit. And mercifully 75 degrees for a change.
Had an unusual near perfect day weather wise yesterday, 80, partly cloudy and just a slight breeze. But this morning what the heck, its ffff...44 out right now. We are definitely sliding into fall, even though we have some 90s coming still, I'm seeing a lot of 80s and even a couple low 70s for highs. After all the heat this summer its a shock to the system.
We finally got some rain today, about half an inch. Not as much as we need, but better than nothing. It did cool things off a bit, though...
We are totally opposite from yesterday, 5am and its 63, with a 13mph breeze and 25% humidity. Supposed to hit 93 today, tomorrow its supposed to be 76 for a high, just 2% chance or rain though>
I think the weather guessers are just messing with us now.
Back to hot. 95 with 111% humidity right now. It rained all around us yesterday, but not here. I have it on good authority that summer will end just after Christmas...
Either something is about to happen or fall is finally getting here. Solid overcast all day, just now touching 90. No rain, but the humidity is in triple digits as usual.
Looks like it might be a good weekend for the warbird fly-in at Bomber Field this weekend. Grandson and I are going on Saturday...rumor has it Stetto might make it, too! :icon_mrgreen:
We are definitely not in summer anymore, still been warm some days, not close to triples anymore but hot afternoons. Plus it takes longer to get there and last shorter and just feels different. It has been averaging much cooler, now has been some monsoon moisture come up, we have not got any on us so far, but where its been hitting has had some heavy rains.
I have 2 hay fields left to cut and then that's done for the year, cows come home Sunday, calves go on Tuesday, going to be busy the next few days.
Quote from: jetmex on September 17, 2026, 04:07:59 PMLooks like it might be a good weekend for the warbird fly-in at Bomber Field this weekend. Grandson and I are going on Saturday...rumor has it Stetto might make it, too! :icon_mrgreen:
I must be acclimating. I'm still sweating on my morning walks, but not near as much as when I started them in Caldwell County last April. The mornings aren't any cooler or dryer, so it must be me... :eusa_clap:
Bomber Field has been one of very few items I've had on what I'd call a bucket list (ever since I first heard of it some 30 years ago), so I'm actually looking forward to something for the first time in a long while.
O, what to wear?!? :disturbed:
So we have turned the corner, of course it is officially fall now that the equinox is passed. Temps have really moderated, as in a couple mornings have been uncomfortably cool, but we have been getting showers every day, or nearly for several in a row, not a lot, some are just sprinkles, but a 10th to 1/4" from a couple, just enough to make haying difficult. :eusa_wall:
Got through probably one of the most stressful days or couple days of the year, shipped calves to town yesterday, took most of the day to catch, sort and finally haul them, but was trying to keep it low stress for a change and not push much, easier on them and my blood pressure. I must be getting old because my patience is limited when it comes to that normally and the language gets colorful, but it was uneventful. And it helps when they cooperate.
I sold the steers claves private treaty, the heifers went to auction today so now we bite nails to see what they bring. Years like this its the entire paycheck, hoping we get a premium to offset the 8 grand in hay I had to buy so far.
Fall? Nope, not yet. 100 degrees here at the casa yesterday, no rain forecast for the next week or so.
It was surprisingly pleasant outside this morning, though. Nony must have left the gate open because there was a cool breeze from the north that lasted until the sun cleared the trees. Going to be another hot one today.
Fall maybe? It was actually cool this morning and it's been in the low 90s instead of the high 90s in the afternoons. Still humid, though.
The weather extremists on tv and various and sundry social media sites have been prophetizing a precipitation Armageddon for at least a week, ginning up equal measures of over-the-top eye rolling and bugeyed panic frenzy in the San Antonio/Austin Texas corridor.
I'm personally betting on an inch of rain with local instances of 2 or 3. These buffoons are virtually competing for Best Actor in a Disaster Film award. So far the mooke on Fox 7 mornings in Austin is clearly the one to beat. Up.
...Tomorrow will tell...
1st of Oct, we have been cool and humid, but dry as far as rain goes for the most part. Now I see its supposed to warm up a little and dry out more, while down south in eastern CO and central NE is getting pretty wet.
Cut the last of 3rd cutting yesterday, just can't catch a break this year, bugs got into it and ate a lot of the leaves off, I let it go long to grow, apparently for the frickin bugs to enjoy. :eusa_wall:
Then last Sunday did something even dumber than normal, was supposed to go to Cheyenne and have cake and ice cream for Vickis birthday with Kayla and her boyfriend, I stepped out and was walking to the truck 1st thing in the morning and my leg wasn't latched, came off midstride and I fell hard, landed on the stump. Whole new experience of ow. laid around whining for the rest of the day, swelled up and bruised, and was on crutches until yesterday when finally could hobble around a little. I had been doing well as far as that goes lately, guess I needed a wake up call.
Hope you're doing better today. Please stay off of it until you can get around ok.
Day-amn, Honcho! That makes my neuropathy feel like a skinned knee compared. Heal well brother!
Apparently the world doesn't stop for my ouches, which is total BS IMO, but I digress. Still hobbling around, but heck, I'm not doing doing Olympic gymnastics, not counting the falling ungracefully on ice or trying to avoid the angry cow or 2. I had to go and meet a trucker and unload a semi of hay today.
A little sore now but its getting better slowly, I'm thinking a proper application of tequila would probably do it, but the rest of my body is raising a red flag at that.
As my daughter likes to tell me, "but did you die?" to which I always say "Yes!...but I got better."
Helps to be well founded in classical training, classical Monte Python that is. :disturbed:
Quote"but did you die?" to which I always say "Yes!...but I got better."
Just as long as the guy with the cart doesn't show up at your door! :disturbed:
The damn weather guessers were right this time. We've gotten an inch of rain so far today here at the house according to the Highly Calibrated Wally World Rain Gauge. Sun is out now, creating sauna-like conditions, but they say more rain is on the way. We'll see...
Still waiting on the 37th raindrop to land here, though the radar shows me getting pummeled.
Anyone can draw a storm cartoon on a map...
Much cooler and a lot of drizzle today. Nice enough to get out in the garage and get some work done on the GP Phantom I'm trying to restore.
We have a shot of summer again, 90s for the last couple days and today, supposed to drop back a little to a comfy 75 to 80 something, but then a shock to the system with a string of low 60s in the forecast. But then it will be the middle of Oct by then, have to quit expecting Texas weather in WY despite it being closer to the former all year.
65° right now @ 5:30am.
I'm thinking of wearing a shirt this morning for my 5 mile walk... :disturbed: First time since mid April
42 here this morning at 5:30, I thought maybe we saw our last 90 for the year yesterday, but apparently Friday and Sat are going to give us a last hurrah. Monday they are calling for 52 for a high, and the following Friday I am seeing 30s for lows, :eek5: I have to clean all the crap I have thrown on top of the wood stove off over the summer, because its going to be used.
Beautiful morning today, 71 and severe clear. That hurricane Iasaaiaiahaiahh is going to pass well east of us, far enough that we won't even get any rain. Still getting hot in the afternoons, but the humidity is dropping a bit. It'll be nice to be able to sit outside in the evenings again.
This morning, the water from the cold water faucet was actually.......cold!! First time since last March. 62 degrees....
What the heck, woke up this morning, and its so foggy can't see the road in front of the house. Didn't rain, not even as humid as a couple mornings but for some reason we have a cloud parked on us.
Another day of summer. 97 today with the heat index above 100. The weather guessers say there's a real cold front coming later in the week. We'll see....
They are talking freeze here tomorrow night, one guess is 25 the other is 27, they keep pushing it out, but it's going to happen soon.
It was cool enough to fire up the wood stove for the 1st time last night. Only 50 for a high today supposedly, though we are at 46 now and no where near daylight. Once this front goes away its supposed to warm up and be pleasant for several days.
Holy cow some sort of wet stuff is coming from the sky, its dark out but I suspect its not a prank by neighbors.
Fall fell. 72 degrees right now, supposed to be in the low 50s tonight. Maybe rain????
2 3/10's inches of rain yesterday! Woke up this morning to 53 degrees!❤️❤️. Man does it feel good!
We've got that 53 degree stuff here today. 90's just a couple days ago and we got 1.2 inches. Well, it is October ya know. And friggin leaf season is descending upon us.
Heh, well we don't need to worry so much about leaves falling all at once, they have been sparse and falling for most of late summer. We lost several trees because of the drought that were old and fragile as it was.
Got down to 28 night before last, but actually was warmer than they predicted.
good to see you Frazz
50 degrees this morning with a 15-20 mph wind right outta Nony's back yard. Went from shorts to parka weather overnight!
43° here on the riverside. It only got to 59 in the trailer, I can live with it. Supposed to be as low as it gets this week, sure makes the coffee good!
Some beautiful weather this last week. Mid 80 days, mid 50 nights. I was born to whine about the conditions, but I got nuthin here lately. Started watching Deadliest Catch just to relive my winters in Minnesnowtakstan. :disturbed:
I can't complain either. Lows in the upper 50s, highs in the mid 80s, severe clear, life is good! Leaves haven't even started falling off the trees yet.
Same, near perfect day a couple days ago, about 80, light breeze. Finally got the cows out on hay fields so I don't have to feed for a while. Was out plinking prairie dogs which have resurged around here.
Yesterday was cool, wind out of the north, high just over 50, felt cooler than what it said and looked like since it was bright and sunny, today is calmer but cloudy, tomorrow is a taste of what's coming with highs in the mid 40s and drizzle. But then 60s again after. Considering its late October not complaining at all, all the trees have a lot of the leaves yet and colors are pretty right now.
And then just to show I can't have nice things, we had some white stuff yesterday morning, we didn't get much, enough to make the grass white, but east of us about 25 miles had a couple inches and slick roads by 10 AM yesterday.
Well well, it's 61, not a breath of wind, overcast. Beautiful weather for shredding, blowing and raking leaves about 2 1/2 hours this morning :eusa_doh:
Now what to do this afternoon. FO or take a nap?
QuoteNow what to do this afternoon. FO or take a nap?
Both are good options. FO sounds easier, though.... :icon_mrgreen:
Cloudy with drizzle today, 72 degrees right now. They say back to sunshine tomorrow.
A little rain yesterday?
Yep, a bit over two & a quarter inches. Fog this morning. It looks like Jaime and West Texas might have got a dose too. Rain good.
We got almost an inch. We had 2 3/4 inches about 10 days ago. We are wet, need a good hard rain now to get some runoff to fill the creeks and stock tanks!
Another beautiful day in the neighborhood. 84 degrees, severe clear. Low last night was 68 and it was pretty foggy this morning. We were in Galveston over the weekend and it rained pretty hard there, but we didn't get any of that 'ere in Uhhmmble.
We had a break from some nice weather to some cloudy drizzly stuff, nothing to make us wet, just damp. Of course it comes right when we scheduled a mobile vet to come bangs vaccinate our heifers and have a dog neutered. But its nothing to stop any of it.
All these storms they say are coming through and give us some wet are looking a lot like last year more talk than moisture which is disheartening.
We got about half an inch of rain yesterday afternoon. That turned into a beauty of a day today, 77 and severe clear. The humidity has finally dropped a bit, and I got (hopefully) the last yard mow of the year in today. As long as Nony keeps that gate closed, life will be good!
We had a 1/2" of rain the night I posted the other day about getting no rain.(https://www.fubarhill.com/emoticons/shrug.gif)
I have heard the guessers saying to look for a polar vortex, but the 10 day shows nothing but mid 60 nice days.