To avoid threads like the weather getting too long and bogging down the server, we will start a new one. :)
Weather here on New Years day is good, bit of breeze, but warm and sunny.
Have stolen Lil's picture from today
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Oh, have we turned a new page? zzzz_smiley
And it's a mild Jan 1st, rain showers today. 32F
Have an even better year ahead. smiley_thumbsup smiley_thumbsup
happy new year and it is 21° here in Ks, and dark. :) yard braced for snow with the bucket on the trackloader and staged in case we get more than planned.
Well that shower, we had in 2021 did not turn to snow. 32°
snow in western Ks, we are to get some, 18° with a low of 4° coming, with 35 mph winds, with wind chills of - 10° to 15°. there are you happy now? :) :) :)
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43° at 6am this morning! Not supposed to drop below 40 until early Monday morning now, but rainy and wet the whole time. Yesterday was about like that but cooler, hi was 43. Solid overcast and dreary all through. I did some shop work, but mostly I read a good book.
Although it's quite warm, the rain will keep me inside until the cold returns and we get some sunshine. I sure would like to finish the orders at the mill before the other shoe drops.
Best wishes in the coming year, may you keep what you have for your health and suffer no set backs while you come out the other end in better shape than you went in. :D
Now that it's day light I can see the fog. Can't see the field up on the hill.
Not much snow to melt.
I hope things go better for all FF members in 2022.
Sunny and upper 40s through the weekend. Rain and snow retuning on Tuesday then Thursday through Saturday.
Currently working hazard tree removal on the Caldor fire footprint, near South Lake Tahoe. Operations were suspended all last week, and most of the week before Christmas due to deep snow and stormy conditions. Over 2 feet at our lowest elevations, up to 17 feet in the upper. Could take a while before resuming.
Power has been out since early Monday morning. PG&E expects to task a crew to investigate the cause of the outage by late Sunday at the earliest. Thousands of homes are still without power. In the upper elevations multiple poles and major lines are snapped with limited access for repair crews.
On the bright side, the creeks are running and the reservoirs are filling.
Best to all in the coming New Year.
+1° spitting snow. Plenty of North wind. Just about got the ground white. Think most of the snow is going south of us.
Probably good day to stay inside and do book work.
23 below what at 4 pm 13 below now Ican rember when 20 below was the high for the day
Been mostly fog with off and on rain here. Only 34F though. Suppose to get snow later.
Drive way is almost all bare to gravel. Now for a good foot of dry stuff, will make for good shoeing. :D Colder Monday, but above zero.
Cold and gray🥶.
74 and muggy here, at least the breeze is keeping it tolerable.
So far they have failed on all their snowfall predictions up here, by a long shot. :D One day it will be snow in three days, oh wait, nope now rain, ok a little snow then on the back end. It's pathetic. :D :D :D
Was wet here all day, temp went up to 36°.
Probably white in the morning.
snow, Ice, and 6°. had a fire in the wood stove in the house. I have had a few warmers in the shop this year (thermostat kept at 55° out there). Nice fire going when I went to sleep and added wood and it took off nice this afternoon. first real fire of the season.
Here a few miles north of Doc, we have 7 degrees at 8pm. Been burning the wood stove in the basement all day. Full of coals now. Started a fire in the shop furnace, was down to 36 in there, don't want it to freeze. Hope the forecast for a warm up is right, pretty tough to stand the kind of drop in temperature we had here. Hard on the cows.
We hit 82F here today, although I went for a Sunday drive with the aircon on. Mistake was I stopped to check out a waterfall out East, and it was 86 there. :D
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Sorry for the folks with ice and snow, but it is what it is. ;D
Oh, the waterfall? It's not a huge one, but it drops 74m into the bowl below, so worth the 10min walk to see it.
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86 is better than 96, if that was as hot as it got all summer up here, then I could tolerate it. Then even better if the bugs ain't here. :D
I can tell you're suffering something awful. :D :D Looks like SXS biking country to me. Some looks like golf cart ground. ;D
34F this morning and the snow is slowly creeping off the porch roof. Fog and melting snow. ;D
We have 0 here at 7 am.
-6 with a -17 wind chill to take a three mile stroll with Diesel man( that's always ready) that caries his glow ball
Yes, I saw them cold temps across the US on news.
I have 34° and no snow, yet. Maybe this afternoon. might be rain?
Strange weather here. For the last 36 hours he dew point and the air temp has been exactly the same with only a few minutes of minor variation. Never recall seeing anything like that. This means the water just hangs in the air, everything stays wet. It's been warm. Went to a party yesterday and wore a very light jacket, temp was 45.
Now we are on a downward trend since midnight and it should bottom at about 20° tomorrow around dawn. Then we MIGHT finally see the sun again (assuming it is still there). It should stay cool & clear for a couple of days and then I think it will warm again and we repeat the process.
It's below freezing now and all we had was a snow shower since daylight. No big storm. ::) I knew it wouldn't be because hardly any rain to it before hand, just mostly fog.
We've had a cold spell for a few days now. -17 F at the moment but it should start to warm up. At least we have a clear blue sky and sunny day.
Light snow had started awhile ago, doesn't look like an accumulating snow. Like @thecfarm (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=436) would say, snow all day for an inch. ;D
Dang! nothin between Texas and the north pole but a barbwire fence, and the wires down. 30.
-8° this morning to start. Good day to start a bathroom remodel... ::) Too cold to do much outside.
The snow kicked into a little heavier pace and the temp is dropping. 17F now.
Kinda wet all day up until about 2:30, than it turned to something wet. Did not even snow enough to cover the ground. The steps to the house was never white.
Kinda cool in the morning, low teens. Everyone will forget the 30° temps in the morning and be running around complaining how cold it is.
Still only a few inches of snow on the ground. At least last year it would snow and we would get a 3-4 inches. Than it would warm up and rain. This year only a few inches than rain.
Yes it does seem to snow all day and we only get an inch of snow. :) The weather has changed in the last 20 years.
But it could change back too. ;)
30° here now.
Maybe an inch of snow. Stars are out. 5F his morning and dropping, was 8F at 3:00 am. ;D
I have 12° this morning.
Well after about 48 hours or more the dew point finally dropped below the ambient temperature and the air began to dry sometime late last night. Temp is 23° here now and still falling. It will be overcast all day but looks like no precip at all. To our south NYC is gearing up for 'their first big snowstorm of the season' and are expecting 1-3" :D :D :D. But here, it will just stay in the 20's all day, tomorrow we might get the sun we were supposed to get today, but won't. New year, same weather. ;D
This is the coldest it's been this season, woke up this morning to -10°.
Thunder and lightning storms pass by us at 3am this morning with heavy rain at times.
Sun is out now. But still a little windy.
I won't talk about the temperature, so you guys won't be mad at me.
Jim Rogers in NC.
Thanks Jim. Sunny and cold here. I won't mention the temperature because it's just cold. Kinda boring, but not too bad. Maybe a little snow at midweek.
At least we have a good amount of snow on the ground up at the tree farm. Courtesy of at least one storm that dumped enough to withstand the odd warmup a few weeks back. Mostly small amounts since then, but cold enough to keep the snow. Yeah! smiley_clapping
70 something again yesterday, 60+ at 8:00 last night, right now it's 32 with a couple of inches of snow on the ground and heading for the teens. Wet, heavy, snow, watched a HUGE ball of plasma coming off the power lines a bit ago when a branch broke off and laid across them.
We're at our winter normals: sunny and cold or warmer (1F) and snow.
A "once a winter" moment happened the other day, when the snowblower sucked in an electrical cord.
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It's bound to happen, a bit like cutting into a side support roller, from what I hear from many other members, allegedly, cough cough.
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Cody (Wrangler Star) near took out his diesel tank hose with his Cat mounted snow blower a couple weeks back. I see he's doing live stream today in 2 feet of new snow with the Cat and it was still coming down. I think he likes blowing snow too much. He plows out every neighbor within 2 miles, for free. :D :D He bike skis, or is that the other way around. This should be lots of ski'n snow. I think those things are custom. I've never seen one in a bike shop for sale. Maybe I'm just not looking. :D :D
-5F this morning. Stars are out. fire_smiley
I have 4 above this morning, low 20's today.
It's warming here, -2F now. But -10F out at the river. Suppose to rain tomorrow. ::)
44° here now
WOW! Virginia I 95
We bottomed out at 10° before dawn this morning. The cloud cover finally went away last night and by 9pm we had a beautiful blanket of clear stars. Good to see that little dipper again. Hopefully it improves my mood a little although it is quite cold today with a high of around 30 expected. The ground is firming up too finally so I don't have to put my boots on the do the shop stove late in the evening. House slippers are fine.
Looks like the differences in the US and Canada are huge this winter?? In BC temperatures of -30 to -40 Celcius, in NY no snow and frost?
Over here we had the warmest new years day ever recorded... It was 13 Celcius (55F) in the day, some places even more. I'm busy in the 'new' house but it was way too warm and wet to work for this time of the year. Sweating in the end of December, quite unusual
This week temperature drops and end of the week we will have some below zero temperatures in the nights.
It's not that cold on the BC coast, but maybe in Smithers or Prince George. There's many climates out there, it's as big as one country with several mountain valleys. The prairies always get a cold blast, no mountains in the way of the Arctic winds. We've been well above the norm here, -5 the coldest, when it should be -30 in a normal winter. :P Never seen that cold since 2008 with 12' of snowfall along with it. Going to rain here at some point today, but not warm enough yet. With hard frozen ground the rain is going to turn to instance ice on the ground. ::)
Notice the date and the robin, over 3 feet of snow left. I was planting berry canes last year at that time.
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There's actually a robin spotted here still once in awhile. Saw one last week.
This morning, well rain and fog @ 36F. And not much of the rain either. ;D The snow shoeing will have to wait awhile longer. smiley_thumbsdown
-18 C or 0 F here this morning,
6° and a few inches of snow, roads snow packed. have a doc coming from Fl. to interview. had to go in at 4 am, and then again at 7 for a meeting. I hope she is not wearing high heeled dress shoes. she is from Ks so should know better but may have forgotten.
Breaking away here now and sunshine. No fire rest of the day. :)
We had sun all day!!! Don't really know how warm it got, I was working. But thinks were melting.
Maybe up to 4 inches here In A-Town-just keeps coming at times over last day or so but nothing much for all that. Will go up tomorrow expecting more up at place and likely entire session of snow moving. Nothing real heavy, but had wind too.
Our lawn is beginning to turn White.
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White Daffodils popping up everywhere. ;D
We've got white flowers on the front lawn windows too.
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The weather is the same day after day, a bit brisk.
"Partly cloudy. Clearing this evening. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 36. Wind chill minus 34 this evening and minus 46 overnight. Frostbite in minutes."
Bunch of chicken littles those forecasters, it took an hour for my cheek to freeze. Ha!
@Andres (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=4343) use guys up thar in CAN A DA please close that gate will ya 22 below with wind :new_year:
Noticed today ours are up about 3" @Magicman (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=10011)
Sorry @goose63 (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=23477) - its a bit like Texas up here, nothing but barbed wire to hold it back.
Would if I could, but nuthin' to close!
What do you think of MM and SS comparing notes on their petunias?
Think they're trying to spin our crank a bit?
Those pictures are last years crop!
Quote from: Andries on January 06, 2022, 09:43:44 PMThose pictures are last years crop!
I could have and actually thought "why am I taking another Daffodil picture" but in my defense, that picture was taken this morning at 9:45. :)
No need for a defence MM, I actually like your flowers better than my frost flowers.
Just horsing around.
We are forecast to be 25° in the morning so I suspect that we will have a frosty something. ::)
Quote from: Southside on January 06, 2022, 09:14:40 PM
Noticed today ours are up about 3" @Magicman (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=10011)
Next minute you'll have DonP saying it's freezing cold in Virginia. Never did see stuff grow @ 0F. You can't trust them southern boys at all. I think freezing cold means 50F. Gotta have perspectives. :D :D
28F this morning and snow.......but all to the south of us. ::) You didn't know there was 3 climates in NB did you? :D :D North shore, central and Moncton. Well, that's the way the CBC weather guessers put it. Used to be able to rely on Presque Isle weather out of Maine, but can't put much faith in them these days. ;D
The drive way is a like a frozen pond, cold rain on rock hard ground, instant ice. ;D
Just starting to snow here at 6:30am.
Still snowing..... maybe 2 inches. This storm will be all snow.
It started as heavy rain... then it quickly changed to heavy snow and it accumulated 4 inches in just a hour or more then it cut off to nothing.... Now it's windy and raining hard again.... Then it's suppose to freeze over later and start snowing again.
The snow arrived around 10:00 this morning and the temp dropped some to.
Right on the money!! 2 inches and all snow. I think that is the first storm that was all snow.
An inch at most here. Only snowed about 8 hrs. Out under the porch where I loaded up the wheel barrel with firewood this morning it doesn't even look like an inch. Sheltered there. But going to scoop that off and go get some sand for the ice under it. But not at this hr. Good to have chaulked boots sometimes. ;D
So far this Winter we've gotten 26½ inches of snow, but it's been snow/melt/snow/melt/snow/melt/snow, and right now we only have about 6 inches of snow on the ground.
Woke up this morning to -10°
Those minus numbers are coming my way.
12° here now. I have no idea how much snow we got this year. I don't think much more than a foot, if that. Maybe 4 inches on the ground here.
Last here it would warm up and melt. This year it does not get that warm and melt. Had more rain last year too.
Seem like the snow started to come and stay around this time last year too.
nights have been in the single digits since the snow a few days ago. it was 9° last night, now 34° will bet into the 50s today.
Here's you a weather tidbit: I got curious a few years back as the TV weather folks are always pushing their weather gizmo as so wonderfully good. I have US weather service reports on my puter and knowing the feds have gobs of our money for whatever they need I looked to compare them with the TV's Max whatever it is. The Jackson, KY weather stations gizmo was like 5 times as powerful as Maxtrack doppler gizmo at the TV station.
My other weather factoid is based on % of if it will rain, etc.. My personal theory (yes I got an A in statistics, not meteorology) is that if they say 25% that means there right either way and same for any other %.
Why do weather reports from different sources often not match up at all? ???
13 F here right now, talking rain again. Got the inch scooped off and laid some sand down on the ice. But sunny here and a balmy 86 in here, so no wood today, on solar heat again. ;D
Might get down to -20 by Tuesday, we'll see. ;D
Well we are getting ito the colder weather here too. Went down to 12 last night and should do about the same tonight. The high today hit 28 for a few minutes around noon, but cold all day, sunny though, which is good.
It doesn't look like I will be doing any milling until Thursday, just too cold. I drove down to the mill and grabbed off the lube jug and backup jug because the mix just doesn't have enough antifreeze in it to handle these temps. Both were 'slushy'. I put them in the shop to thaw them and get re-mixed with better juice before we start again. I would feel terrible if that jug froze and cracked on my watch.
On my way to the mill, I pass a waterfall just before the blacktop ends. It was running a little thick today:
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I expect it will get thicker in the next few days, but it keeps flowing. Tonight they call for low 20's in the evening (18 now) and freezing rain and sleet at dawn. SO a general miserable day again. ;D Gonna keep the stoves cranking for the next few days anyway.
I think winter is pretty much here now. ;D
Tom; you probably don't want to hear this, but . . .
The line mixer pump and hoses need a shot of the -20 rated windshield washer fluid. It bad enough if the jug cracks, but even worse if the pump and fiddley bits pop and crack too.
Yeah, I know and have been thinking about that. I may go back tomorrow with some straight stuff and a torch to warm things up and run some good juice through.
10F this morning, no stars this morning. Probably snow flurries for today, not warm enough for rain sprinkles. ;D
I have 22° now. Something is coming, but only for a few hours, wintery mix, maybe 32 today.
Well, we've GOT it. It started around 5am or so, freezing rain at 25° and slicker than deer guts on a doorknob out there. The temp climb is very slow and it is only supped to get to 32 by 2pm. This is a good day to watch a book or read a movie. I can probably find something to do in the shop, but the 50' walk out there is treacherous. I did throw some salt, but I don't like putting that on the lawn.
Swamp, looks like you and Cfarm will get off lucky on this one with a light hit. Here we have cars off the roads all over the place, through guardrails, and over banks. Some folks just gotta get out to buy the Sunday paper.
Just started here at 27°, freezing rain. Only a few hours storm. Then I am out to cut some wood.
Yep, freezing rain just began here to, but just misty stuff, SE winds. 26F and climbing.
Our 8+ inches of snow and single digits all melted in one day, yesterday, except back up in the holler and this a.m began a downpour for several hours and just above freezing. Lower areas will flood again if it keeps up. Seriously nasty weather, maybe FL will be nice in a week-if we can leave our hill?
Back to snow now. :snowball:
This morning at 7:00 we had 34° and a light breeze, it has now warmed up to 42° and a very light mist in the air and a little more breeze!
This is the type of day when it's best to just stay home and relax, things can change real fast out there!
Storm's over here, see clearing in the NW. 27F and just a skiff. Sure is a dry winter precipitation amount wise. ::) Good thing we had lots of fall rain.
Good thing that storm only lasted a few hours. :o Everything is covered with ice. Only a very thin coating. I cut 2-3 trees down as I wanted. Deer will enjoy the tops.
31° here now.
21F this morning with a brisk NW wind whipping by. Haven't even lit the stove yet. ;D
Our pastures have only warm season grasses in them, which are normally dormant this time of year. Looking out this morning, the horses have green grass to eat. We've had enough warm weather lately that the ground temp must be up. It was 63 and sunny yesterday.
Low 20's this morning but then sun is (mostly) out, so that's good. I need to get some lumber made and this is a little colder than I like to mill at, but in addition to orders pending I need some lumber for a new build I'll be working on. Tomorrow should be dang cold, so I'd like to work on that in the shop, but I gotta mill off what's on the deck first. So I am going to give it a shot and hope I don't have lube problems. I'll try to dress for it, but not too warm. The main concern is the wind, which is gusting up at 20MPH and adds a bit to the discomfort. High of 24 today and 13 tomorrow. Wednesday might get into the 30's.
Well, might as well get at it.
Looks like some cold weather is a coming. Single numbers and some will have a minus in front of the numbers. But only for about 2 days. Then in the 20's. We could have a whole week of this weather or maybe 2 weeks straight.
It's only 8° here right now BUT, tomorrow is all-day minus temps!
Surprised when I just looked out the window, light snow falling!
SE Norway: The ground is frozen rock-solid and covered with snow (ca. 14") in my yard, and it has barely been above freezing since before Christmas. Now the wind has decided to blow from the south and the L-pressure systems we import from Canada have changed track. It may hit 52F on Thursday...there's going to be water EVERYWHERE. :)
-8F here this morning when I checked at 3:00 am when putting in wood. Certainly not -20 as predicted. I haven't seen it colder than -10F now for 14 years.
I have -2. Not supposed to get into the double digits today. The wind is blowing some, so that makes it feel colder.
Tomorow should get up to 20° so this cold is not to last.
Looks like Sunday is to be in the single numbers, then singles numbers at night for a few days and high noon almost 20.
3 above here and still falling. The sun is just coming up and the sky is clear so temps should start rising but they say it won't reach 10 today. The wind is picking up which will keep wind chill temps below zero. I'm not in a hurry to go outside.
It is -4 in Loudon NH this morning. Seemed pretty cold until my son texted me from Washburn Maine with his thermometer showing -30 F. :o Seems kind of warm around here now.
Nice and fresh this morning -22C or about -8F maybe the trails will freeze now.
Overnight low was about 6° and now it is nearly 10. Calling for a high around 14 today with the winds slowly dropping down. Single digits with a 20MPH wind make it tough. But at least I fell a lot warmer than some of you guys.
I need to make lumber and with the mill down, like it or not, I am going to go give it a shot in an hour or so. AT least those heavy clouds are gone for now.
@twar (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=42477) What is the closest city to you? SE Norway is a big place. I am wondering if you are up in the mountains or down lower and what your average nighttime low temps are. I thought it was a little milder there because of the ocean currents.
@Old Greenhorn (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=42103) I am just south of Oslo. I live by the Oslofjord, only about 300 ft a.s.l., so you are correct, it's quite maritime here climate-wise. It's pretty much uphill and further inland in all directions from here, and thus colder and deeper snow. A very cold day here would be 0F +/-. More common is 25-35F here around the fjord--most days. Drive 2-3 hrs north of Oslo in the inland valleys and -20 to -30F is a nice brisk winter day.
One more thing...the days here are short this time of year, so sunny or cloudy doesn't affect the temperature much. It's all about wind direction.
Ah OK, that makes sense. I have family in Oslo and Tønsberg, as well as up near Gjøvik where it is a bit colder. When we used to compare note they always had wormer weather in winter than we had here even though they are much further north.
-6 F early this morn with a stiff breeze that'll get your attention real while quick fetching some firewood off the porch.
The local pond was moaning and groaning during the night making ice, reminisce of a bowling alley at times
when the ball strikes the pins.
After three weeks of very cold weather (it dropped to -40 most nights) we are forecast to hit 25 F today.
A good day to fire up the loader and sawmill to charge batteries and let the mice know that mufflers are not a good choice for home building. 😄
been cold, snow melted. in mid to upper 50s next 3 days.
The temp did manage to drop a little more to -10F in mid morning, then bounced back to +2F. A positive note, I never had a fire for the last 6 hrs and will be 8 hrs total before I fire up. Solar heat day. :D
Got this yesterday from my neighbor up the hill. This was the morning after the storm that dumped from about 12/27 to 12/29. The dark line at the front edge of my timber frame is the basement wall, about 10' tall on this side. My SkyTrak is that lump of snow in front of that.
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We got another 1½ inch of snow through the night!
At 7:00 this morning the temp was -14°F, it's only +2°F, today's high, right now!
7F here, not happy with it either. should have 40F tomorrow afternoon
I must have posted back in 2020, but I just checked the high in Portland ME, 63°. :o Probably I had 45 back then, but better than the -9 it is right now.
back in 2020 (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=108943.60) reply #64
Our high for today was 17° at midnight, after that it went downhill. Not really bad like some folks are getting but pretty cool air. The afternoon high was around 13. Temp has ben dropping since then. It's about 4° now. The radar is clear.
Not my favorite thing to work in at these temps, but I didn't make a penny yesterday figuring out the lube problems on the mill. Today I had to get it fixed. Working in tight places with bulky clothing is not pleasant, add water dripping up your sleeve and it is not any better. ;D I figured I would get in an hour and my right foot would start complaining. But I tried out some brand new boots today and they worked well for me. (Military mild to cold weather boots with bootie liners.) So several hours in the cold and I got it fixed and had lube blasting out where it should. Then lunch and a few hours work in the shop. I was pretty tickled to get that time in without discomfort. Tomorrow the high should hit 30 at the peak, but it will get a slow start. I HAVE to make lumber and get moving. Now that I know these boots work I am hoping I can work with the weather a little more than in the past.
I guess you could call this winter now, right?
It's -7F here, but Wicklow says -22F on the weather app. That's out along the river, 4 miles in a straight line from here. High and dry and milder on the ridge. ;D :D :D
@thecfarm (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=436) yeah, we had 43F back then here. I think it was Feb '80 we was doing remodelling of the house inside, with new windows to and it was mild. The bristly locusts in the yard leafed out. March it turned cold and killed those trees. :D We had no snow then because we burnt spruce limbs all winter from some horse logging my uncle did. He couldn't get a 'ticket' to move 4' pulp, so that was next winter's heat.
I have -5 out now, but at late afternoon low 20's!!
I wonder how them fellas up in Ontario or northern Quebec last logging in the winter. I'm at 5F and tried running the saws yesterday but my hands kept going numb and feet. It was just horrible.
I run the house at around 40% RH in the living space and in this cold their is some window condensation along the bottom of the panes. Down in the basement where it is dryer, none. But who wants a nose full of blood all winter @ 15% RH? Trade offs. :D
Early this morning it was starry skies here, then at day break it began to snow. 10F now, cold snow this time, usually in the 20's when snowing. fire_smiley
Got down to 16 below zero F the other night in Suring area, and struggled to get out of the teens. Warming up now though. No big snows, just little dinkers, but thick coat of snow on the ground. A-Town all the same, but not as cold and less snow on the ground.
Sun is shining and the skies clearing here now. Ain't that awful, one of them nuisance storms again for the 5th time. :D
We got a snowstorm rolling in for Friday, could be a lot of snow but not sure if it's going to be rain, or a mix, we always get a mess, never just rain or just snow.
4C and light rain here right now, shoveling the walk beside the house just about did me in. This is crazy, two weeks ago it was -20. My buddy the log truck driver is still working but says the bush roads are a mess, no telling when BCFS will shut them down.
I may break in the new snow shoes in a couple days, sticking to roads and the trails. Probably just the road, I know the woods trails aren't going to be all that deep and don't want to rip up the calf gut webbing.
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4C and light rain here right now, shoveling the walk beside the house just about did me in. This is crazy, two weeks ago it was -20. My buddy the log truck driver is still working but says the bush roads are a mess, no telling when BCFS will shut them down.
Beats the heat and smokey skies from this past summer :)
A bad year for fire
We are on a long weekend road trip. Weather is pleasant, which is lucky as the AC in Lil's car packed a sad as we left home. Was 20-25C for the trip across to Taupo, and forecast the same for the next couple of days. Sunday night an ex-tropical cyclone is forecast to arrive, but we should be home by then, and it should hit the other side of the Island mostly.
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This is Lake Taupo, from a lookout point above the Tokaanu Hydro Station at the South end of the lake. Taupo township is at the North end, about a 40 min drive. The lake is actually a volcanic crater, think Yellowstone scale. But it last erupted ~1800 years ago. So the volcanic forecast is also "calm",
Nice view of the country side. :)
12F this morning. Overcast, possible snow squalls.
Hey Ian, I have no idea if my air conditioner is even working. :D
We have 18° now. Won't quite make it to above freezing today.
Only 28° here this morning and a light mist in the air so yea, we're getting some ice!
Good day to stay home!
30 now the big BUT big storm on the way 6 to 10 inch of snow good thing my snow blower has a DanG good heater.
Bad thing is we have a wake to go to tomorrow dont think we will make it :(
We had a bit of a reprieve from bad cold @ 20F today, but had squalls. Going to dip down Saturday again.
Ordered up my grow tent, some more lights and 6" fan/carbon filter for veggies. It's an 8' square tent - MARS HYDRO. Garden time is a long way off up in the north. ;)
Yeah Goose, weather gets in the way sometimes of important stuff.
Yeah, same here. We ent from a deep freeze yesterday where the ice was thick and hard and everything was more difficult to do, to today where it peaked at 42 and some of the ice even thawed a bit. Yesterday I was wearing my heavy work jacket with a hooded sweatshirt underneath and today I was back to the lighter jacket and wound up removing that and working in just the sweatshirt. Until I stopped milling and had to but the jacket back on. ;D We did get some pretty snow flurries, but nothing that built up. Just hollywood snow.
Supposed to stay 'mild' (mid 30's) until tomorrow night when it should drop to 2° by dawn on Saturday. Same for Sunday, then snow on Monday and the rumor has it this may be the snow that lasts and is deeper than the annoyance stuff we've been getting. I am going to give it another shot at the mill if I can tomorrow before it gets really cold.
25° and I will enjoy it for one day. Well not really enjoy, I am working today, but will enjoy it tonight. In the single numbers, and low ones at that, tomorrow morning and all day too.
Sunday singles too but looks to be in the 20's late afternoon.
Snow continues to fall here for day 3, but not much accumulation. I scooped off 1" yesterday, and not quite there yet again. :D 23F now, expected to climb to 30. Raining south of here along the coast.
-6 this morning with a high of 5. Well at least it will be above zero!!!
-5F here and cold wind, setting moon.
At 7:00 this morning we had -14°, now it's -8°!
Colder weather and windchill warning headed this way!
Was raining at 40 over night then it dropped to 10F. door are frozen shut, everything is a mess. had 65mph wind gusts to naturally that toppled a couple trees that got lean-to heavy from freezing rain building up on them
In the mid 30's here now but we have a big winter storm coming tomorrow and Monday according to all the weather reports. I understand the local power company has already got reinforcements coming from Indiana, Ohio, and maybe Wisconsin. Our area is predicted to get between 5-12 inches of snow. We have had a couple of mild winters with barely enough snow to cover the ground but looks like we're going to get our share this winter.
Still -2F here and that wind. Lots of sun, so no fire.
Oh yea, the wind!!
I have -4 now.
I had to do a little outside work, at work. My face got cold. Rest of me was fine. Work out for about 15 minutes than inside for 15. I got it done.
High of 12° today and a low of 1°. Not bad, but it makes a man feel alive when the breeze picks up to just a couple of miles and hour. ;D Glad I had shop wok planned for today. Yesterday at the mill it was 'cool' and I vacillated between sweating with the sun heating up my back and the wind cooling my chest. I worked in a sweatshirt for a while, but as soon as I slowed down to go through shutdown and cleanup, I cooled off right quick. :D
Tonight is supposed to get colder yet, so I guess I will have to fin more shop work, of which there is no end. But I need my client here to move forward on the current project.
At any rate, I am burning a lot more wood to get through these temps, for sure. I ran the shop stove fairly full open all day and kept feeding it. Similar with the house but slightly less so. A little worried about making my wood last because I came up short this year. It is what it is.
I have missed the mid-January sub zero week which was always a tradition for years. Haven't had that in quite a while. Now I guess we get the 'near zero week' and I hope this is it. The timing is right if nothing else.
We get wat we get, can't complain, just push on. I will say I haven't seen a mosquito all day. :D
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I will say I haven't seen a mosquito all day. :D
Yeah, but you know, I used to here in a January thaw. Inside the old barn, where my old shop is, they used to thaw out and look for blood in the middle of winter. :o ;D
1 above at almost 9am. Should get up into the high teens today, snow coming than above freezing temps, maybe 40.
At 7:00 this morning we had -16°, and the sun came up nice and bright, but it's still -9° out there.
We're forecast to get "up to" a foot of snow tomorrow, but at least it'll be warmer!
-3 F here this morning, no wind, lots of sun again. Took the shovel to push out all that hard packed snow from the cold wind before this next storm comes. That hard snow, a walk behind blower just rides over the top. So hopefully something worth blowing in this next storm. :D
-4 here this morning, now in a warming trend that is supposed to pretty much continue through the day and night up to a high in the mid 30's tomorrow afternoon. Snow coming overnight with about 6-10" predicted (we shall see). It was 40 in the shop this morning but I am going to work some more out there today. Maybe I'll watch a movie this afternoon.
Roads and highways still a skating rink. moving 60kph on highways. Tree blow downs everywhere, 5F cold as heck not much activity goin on I think everyone is waiting for it to melt tomorrow when it rains and gives 50F..
Lost my favorite spruce tree(A was perfectly symmetrical and straight)...up rooted...turned out it had a little rotting going on in it anyway. The pines seem to snap off rather and uproot
Yep, spruce uproot and fir snap off. Although a fir will topple over if on top of a shallow spot of ledge. Had one 20" across do that in the back yard, wood was chalk white to. Gave to neighbour to make barn boards. 40 years old tree, wide rings.
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Yep, spruce uproot and fir snap off. Although a fir will topple over if on top of a shallow spot of ledge. Had one 20" across do that in the back yard, wood was chalk white to. Gave to neighbour to make barn boards. 40 years old tree, wide rings.
Yes I've noticed the balsam also snap off, them and pines must have some deep penetrating roots, the spruce seems more shallow but widespread?
I was surprised one time in the middle of a stand of spaced fir, not really all that tall yet, there was a 4" fir, that was about 20' tall, snapped off at 5 feet. No rot, lots of green limbs within reach. And sheltered with lot of bigger stuff near it. One never knows the power of a down draft. :D
It's 18° and I'm a heading outside for a while. ;D
We reached 18F here just before the sun went down, so something must be coming. Sky was all pink in the east, yep east.
Looking forward to putting my new to me 3pt. 60" snowblower through a real test run
with this storm. Previous 4" storm didn't really work it much. 8 -12" expected with a big blow
follow up.
From what I can tell so far, should be able to clean up in 1/2 the time it took with my other tractor
and plow which I sold. No more pushing back snowbanks after 30 yrs will be a welcome improvement.
21F here now, suppose to get warm enough for a rain/freezing rain back to snow event. :D 4-6" expected here, one forecast said 2". :D
Just got in from the woodlot. The old bull moose is still around, fresh tracks. No deer around now, all migrated out before the snow. Lots of hares and squirrels around. ;D
We got about 5½ of snow through the night!
Got that all cleaned up about 2 hours ago, now snowing again at a pretty good rate, so I'll be plowing again later on today/tonight!
It's horizontal in this one out of the NE and the worst is yet to arrive. Nasty!
Fast moving storm. 6" snow in 6 hrs with a 1/4" rain to finish it off.
Snowblower ate it up and spit it 30'. Like that.
What snow blower you get?
They all do just about the same job. :D
I have a provost on the back of the wife's 30 hp. That will eat some snow.
Only took me one year to give up the plowing. I did not like the high piles either and the planing ahead for the piles too.
That snow came down fast!! I was working and we have to keep the entrances to the store clear. Almost get done and would almost have to start over again. Rained hard too.
The roads are a mess. Hard to keep that salt on the roads with the hard rain we got. I was riding on ice with one set of wheels and that was on a state highway.
Found a slightly used Agro Trend Ray. Manual crank shute but don't have to play
with that much at all.
Don't miss that having to travel to work in winter much, you won't either when its time.
Roads did look messy from the end of my driveway ;D.
You run chains on your snowblower tractor Ray ?
No chains for me, too cheap. ;) Not really, them things cost, I am not a rich man. :( But that tractor is 4wd too. But if I needed them, I would have them. ;)
But my driveway is all downhill. Most times I just blow snow going downhill. Only a 500-foot driveway, not bad to go up empty :D and come back down. Where I need the chains is on front so it will turn.
I have no idea what that takes for "shear bolts". I have a dirt driveway and live on a dirt road. Tonight I snapped off a bolt down by the end of the driveway. Mine use to take some MM size bolt. Those got pricey quick. I measured it out and a ¼ bolt was just a hair bigger. So I ran a drill bit thought the MM hole and made both of them ¼ size. I just use a standard grade ¼ bolt now. Snaps them right clean off as easy as it did those MM bolts.
30° here now, and maybe 6 inches of snow before the hard rain came.
I ran chains on my 2wd plow tractor but they went down the road with it.
Might go this route on my newer 4x4 rig. screw in tire studs. 100 aught to do all 4 AG tires.
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Rain, we never had enough snow here to amount to much, mostly drifted some spots around the drive way edges. Still raining and 34F. But the snow was coming in sideways what there was of it, wind to. The neighbor arrived with a transport load of cattle from NS in that blizzard. ::) :o The driver made two runs to go up his inclined driveway, made it after 2 attempts. What storm? :D
Grocery stores are bare of produce, but it ain't COVID. Four major storms in the region in the last 10 days. That'll slow'er up quick. :D :D
Customers rattled by empty grocery store shelves across N.B. | CBC News (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/grocery-store-shelves-new-brunswick-1.6318346)
Surprised that a parcel got though in 3 business days from Ontario though. Guy was here this morning slip sliding on the ice. I was going to add sand after dinner, well the sand is on now. :D
I have 4 above now, looks to be a little colder in the morning. Maybe mid 20's by noon.
-2F here this morning and a little wind. fire_smiley
Well, it didn't take long to go from stars and moon to clouds and snow. :D :D Still 0F.
50 yesterday, 10 this morning. Hard on livestock.
Quote from: Nebraska on January 19, 2022, 10:17:01 AM
50 yesterday, 10 this morning. Hard on livestock.
Do you ever fix them up with a propane heater during extreme colds? :)
was 15f here last night. warming to 25 i believe
super windy here gusts up to 50 mph 6" snow overnight 19 F right now heading for -15 F tonight.
Well, I just got Michelle down to the road and away. I got plowed out and back up to the house, ran a load down to her car and came back up for her. ZZ Top was playing the "How how how" song as we loaded her on the armrest of the dozer, I spun it around and presented the sorta plowed 30% grade. "Have Mercy" left her lips, and away we went :D
We got wind and snow through the night, 26° at 7:00!
It's warmed up a little, 34° now, but that wind is still brutal!
Quote from: Don P on January 19, 2022, 10:36:37 AM. . . "Have Mercy" left her lips, and away we went :D
The suspense is killin'.
Did you make it?
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morning after 18° and 40 mph wind gusts. not much sleep but the sausage and scrambled eggs cooked on the old wood stove was a hit. Trappers Rendezvous last weekend.
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Quote from: Don P on January 19, 2022, 10:36:37 AM. . . "Have Mercy" left her lips, and away we went :D
The suspense is killin'.
Did you make it?
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Down is easy. I just got the truck up to the house, she can come home now :D.
Never got warmer than 6F all day with that light dry snow, about done. Maybe an inch. ::)
Only 15° here, I must have listened to The City temps. Them city people have no idea where Chesterville is. ;D
But we did have the snow showers.
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morning after 18° and 40 mph wind gusts. not much sleep but the sausage and scrambled eggs cooked on the old wood stove was a hit. Trappers Rendezvous last weekend.
Are you a trapper ?
no but a tradition for boy scouts, and other groups. there are some guys with skills that come and show traditional ways of doing things, like cooking, camping, and forging, and other basic primitive things from yesteryear. I have been trapping mice in the shop this year. :) we used to use lots of gas for generator, diesel for heaters, propane for cooking. I am happy and proud to show we are moving back to wood for heat and cooking. It was a challenge. some naps in the afternoon as no one slept all that well in the wind and cold. was not held last year due to covid. in years past there were as many as 8,000 participants coming from 6 states in our region.
2022_Trappers_Herald_083121__FINAL_111721.pdf (scoutingevent.com) (https://scoutingevent.com/Download/19885198/OR/2022_Trappers_Herald_083121__FINAL_111721.pdf)
We got another inch of snow starting very early this morning.
The wind blew until early afternoon creating snowdrifts, then the temp started climbing, we got up to 38° around 3:00 this afternoon.
15 below agin enough is enough :snowball:
Surprising the temp rose here and is 14F this morning. Suppose to go back down tomorrow, way down. ;D
Yes, the temp did go up, I have 17°.
Will be out cutting wood tonight.
I have 40F here suppose to drop back down to 10F though tonight
We got up to 40° yesterday afternoon, and got up this morning to +14°.
There is a windchill advisory issued already for tonight and tomorrow for -35° to -40°
They are saying we'll be getting an ice storm here, in NC, tomorrow till Saturday morning.
We'll have to wait and see if they are right.
Now, it's 55°F and cloudy.
Jim Rogers
It even snowed here again for awhile this morning......after I cleanup yesterday's snow. ::) It's 18F here now.
-13 this morning. better throw another log on the fire. ;D
-5F on the porch, but -13F out by the river according to the weather app. Sunny though. ;D
It's -24° here this morning, too cold to snow!
Rained here this morning. Temp down to 31°F and they say we're going to get an ice storm over night.
Could be freezing rain around here now.
I'm not going out today and may not go out tomorrow.
I checked my generator yesterday, and it ran even though the electric start battery was dead. I'll have to order a new one.
I watched some videos on YouTube about how to change it. I'll have to lift up the gas tank and un-do some bolts under there to get the battery pan to drop down enough to slide the battery out.
Just another project to do on my list.
Jim Rogers
been cold. 15F managed to get a lot done out in the woods though. It's amazing the up and down temps NS presents us
Only 3F here now, the hottest part of the day. Sunny. No wind. No storms for the next 4 days anyway.
80F in the grow tent, 82F on the main floor. Life is good. ;D
Cold here today, 2° for a low and 16° for the high. Tonight it's supposed to hit -5 but the high for tomorrow is pegged at nearly 20°. SO I don't know, but I may try to get to the mill and mill up the one log I have left on the deck because I really need 2x4's for current build orders. I went down today and tried to get some 1x material out of the stacks but everything is frozen hard and just getting two 1x0x12's in the truck wore me out. I also realized that although my feet were fine and my body was comfy, my legs got cold fast. I only hand on a pair of fleece lined jeans, so I gotta do better than that tomorrow. ;D I could have never stood at the console for an hour with a 10MPH breeze.
Ah, it is what it is, but I wish I wasn't burning through wood so fast. Never got the shop over 48 today, not that I was trying hard, but still. I am now running full load fires during the day, where a couple of weeks ago I was idling along through the day and loading overnight. Now it's all the time. The house stove is a similar situation. The next 6 days look like more of the same, give or take a little. Lets just say it's cold and leave it at that.
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The first 20 mins of working out in a cold day SUCK. You gotta jump out there and get moving quick! For me it's not my legs but feet. And I get icicles in my beard
Agreed. Usually it's my feet too, but since I got these boots with the booty inserts that seems to be better. The ice on my beard is an annoyance but in 2 days it can get really annoying. What I hate it the moustache icicles that reach down and freeze to the beard, it's like gradually getting your mouth wired shut.
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Gee that looks more "glaciated" than my area of canada right now :D
Well, to be fair, that was 3 or 4 years ago when I was much younger. No beard then either. That red glow on my face was not sunburn. I was not having fun that day.
But there have been times we were camping in below zero temps for a few days running and those beard icicles can get really long and really annoying. They grow all day to a full encrustation and are painful to try and remove, so you leave them alone. When you finally climb in the tent at night and get in your bag, they melt and make everything around your face wet. So you wind up coming up with ways to 'melt your face' before climbing into the sack. Something most folks never had the fun of dealing with. :) ;D
5° here now and dropping down to colder temps. I just fed the shop stove and it's 50 out there. The two 12' boards I brought in this afternoon still have ice on them and a little snow. Hoping I can work with them tomorrow. Think I'm gonna need my carhart insulated overalls if I go to the mill tomorrow. If I can get that one log milled up, I should have enough wood to keep me going for a couple of build days.
-8 here, dry starry skies, no wind, when I took out the stove ashes. Says -17F out by the river. :snowball:
Sky scene around 6:00 pm last night after the sun set earlier behind Mnt. Katahdin.
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Its 10F here this morning. I know that already because I was standing outside a house where a gentleman with covid had fallen and cut open his forehead. We limit the number of guys that go inside unless more are needed. The funny thing is that I felt colder than I did yesterday morning about the same time when it was 6F. I was standing at my command station mounted in the back of my fire department pick up truck and did not feel that cold until the fire was brought under control. I guess adrenaline makes you not notice it. I was smart enough to put on my bunker gear before I left the station. We have a warm up coming and may have had our coldest for the winter yesterday.
22 below, been quite a few years since its been that cold here, a real
3 dog night. and 2 wood stoves burning some Oak.
Still in the minus out there this morning, at -18, but does get up to above 10-14 above at high noon.
Could be in the single digits all day.
That OWB is going through some wood at night.
That truck did some groining when it started. :o
Well, it's another below zero day, at 7:00 it was -14°, and we're forecast to get snow late tonight!
As my Father use to say, gotta warm up to snow.
When it's cold, not many clouds in the sky.
I betcha them squirrels got their tails pushed upon their backs this morning!!!!
We are going to get something here, even though the guessers said no storms for several days. That's not what my eyes are seeing. Cloud bank in the south, smoke going to the ground from the NE, warming into the 20's in the next 24 hrs. All signs of snow coming soon.
Mount Katahdin this morning, you can actually see more of it than most days, extending to the north (right). Most days we only see the high point to the south (left). Snow helps reflect the light enough to see it all. It's no small mountain.
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Look like the whole NA continent is below/near freezing :)
except the bottom half of florida, the arizona valley which phoenix sits in, and coast of california.
Northern parts of florida almost freezing....miami in the 70s
My son texted me a picture of his old style mercury type thermometer this morning. He is in Washburn Maine. His was reading -38 on the outside wall of his house. :o He lives near the Aroostook River and his area always seen to drop a little lower that areas just to the south a few miles. This was the coldest temp. he has seen since he moved up there. He said his dog didn't waste much time taking care of business this morning.
SwampDonkey that is an awesome picture of Mt. Katahdin. You must live on a high area to see that. I got a glimpse of the same view back in November when I was driving south on Rt.95. You see it for a few seconds at 70mph on the highway and then all of a sudden it disappears. I have driven that route many times over the years and had never seen that view that I could remember. I think it has always been in the clouds every other time. Thanks for sharing!
A little further down the trail this morning. The sun is almost on the barn shop so time to go light the fire down there. It was 13F here this morn. It might be plowed but its all ice now. I cautioned someone in the last week or so about a broken back shed roof on a big barn. This is a little barn with a big pile of packed snow on that pitch change.
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Don, Probably nice there in summer down in those hillside crotches, but a little difficult in winter. ;D
Gere, almost on the peek of a horse back hill here, my aunts place is a little bit more on top. I can see cell tower lights to the south and north and Oakfield, Maine windmills, where as down the road a 1/2 mile there's hills blocking everyone's view. Can't see a thing until you drive up by me, then you can see 55 miles westward. ;D
Icy mess outside our home today. Not fun at all.
We're not going anywhere today.
I shoveled a bit, but it is froze solid.
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Jim Rogers
Here is something that could affect our climate for awhile in the future, the Tonga-Hunga Volcano
in the S Pacific. Supposedly the largest volcanic eruption on Earth in a century, Talk is it could
have a cooling effect from the ash.
Pretty good rundown on it in the video and some sound effects at 4 mins. in from 65 km (40mi.)
when it blew. Shock wave went around the globe 3 ? times.
Aftermath of the Biggest Eruption Ever Seen from Space - Tonga - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZVVwqZ0rs)
That big one that blew up in Indonesia 100 years ago sure did. The whole darn Island was gone. I think between Java and Sumatra. Been growing back again ever since.
Cold, small snowfalls. Good winter working conditions. Most comfortable days are highs around 10 F with sun and little wind. Any warmer and your clothes start getting wet.
Easily the best season in the northern woods is winter!
Nice pictures swampdonkey!!
And it reached 23F this afternoon, and them clouds are not right over us yet. I know it was warm walking, no wind, sunny, and heavy wool on. The wool coat was a bit too warm. Like I said before it has to be 'cold' to wear that wool coat. Low teens or colder. :D My bean boots are not really a hiking boot, but some toasty. There isn't really anything for cushion between the soles and felt lining, nor a shank. I stuck wool insoles in them, but not a boot you want to walk hard road or cement in all day. :D Great for snow shoeing and walking in snow or going to the woodshed for a wheel barrow of wood for the night. ;D I've got better hiking boots, but these are so convenient to slip on. I don't even tie the laces, I stuff them inside. ;D
Keep warm. fire_smiley
Krakatoa
This book is a good read;
Krakatoa — Simon Winchester's website (http://www.simonwinchester.com/krakatoa)
I've wondered how much clean air was contributing to the current problems, or rather, whether we could throw up a sunscreen that would allow adjustment of the thermostat.
Benn snowing all say with more to morrow and the DanG wint is blowing good thing mw snowblower has a cab with a good heaterin it :snowball:
Another cold morning at -6. Should get up into the mid 20's today.
+6F here and SW wind with clouds. Soon be snow I suspects.
Well, it's a little different this morning, it's 22° up on the hot side of zero!
We did get another inch or so of snow, and still some fines in the air!
10° this morning and don't need the minus sign!!!!
Was 2F above here, clear out, no wind. Beautiful day on the way. 8)
Radishes are an inch high this morning, sage breaking ground. Planted Friday. Nice and cozy in the grow tent from furnace heat duct and grow lights. ;D
Another cold start, this mornings temp is -20°, then a slight warmup and snow this afternoon!
Reached 10F here today. Beautiful day, but a grey haze in the sky all day.
Very little ice left now, in my yard, but some in dark places where the sun don't shine. 50°F on truck thermometer.
Jim Rogers
It's snowing persistently now, has been for an hour or two and the radar shows it ending soon, so I hope we don't wind up with more than an inch or two. Still enough that I have to clear it off from the ice underneath, so that's annoying. Even quick light passes over everything will take close to an hour.
It might hit 32 tomorrow with sun, but I doubt that will take care of it at all. Nice fluffy cold stuff on top of hard frozen old stuff is slicker than spit.
Oh well, it's winter and at least I don't have to mow the lawn.
Light snow and 10F this morning. :snowball:
Same as swampdonkey here.
Well, an inch or two last night and a balmy 25° here this morning with no wind. Supposed to hit 33° today, so that will be nice. But I expect overcast all day.
Well, got this round cleaned up this afternoon, about 2" of fluff. 18F for a high, snow stopped and now clear as a bell. Orange ball of fire just setting on the horizon. Ready for the next round. Turn off the lights and close the barn door. ;D
Maybe 2 inches of snow, no rain after it this time.
Well we had sun and about 26°. We have not had sun and warm temps for a while.
That cold weather is coming back. But not to stay.
We got another 6 inches out of this one, it started about 8:00 last night and stopped about 10:30 this morning.
Got it all cleaned up about 2:00 this afternoon.
I had one interruption, a Lab follow-up call from the VA, about 45 minutes.
I plow mine, open the end of the driveway for neighbor lady across the road, plow out the milkhouse yard for my Amish neighbors, then clean out the ends of their 2 driveways and access to their mailboxes!
I can't say I don't like plowing snow! :snowball:
The next prediction for the weekend is 12" of snow. We'll see. ;D Divide 12 by 2, subtract 2. Let's see who is more accurate. Hmmm 12/2 - 2 = 4, but 12/3 = 4 to. Wha? (https://forestryforum.com/board/Smileys/default/headscratch.gif) 1 2 buckle my shoe, 3 4 made a score. Meteorology..... oh wait, that's numerology.
Have fun in the snow. :D
5 degrees and beautiful
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8° and a high of 14-16.
Tomorrow is the big cool down, but will warm up through out the day.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on January 26, 2022, 02:52:30 AM
The next prediction for the weekend is 12" of snow. We'll see. ;D Divide 12 by 2, subtract 2. Let's see who is more accurate. Hmmm 12/2 - 2 = 4, but 12/3 = 4 to. Wha? (https://forestryforum.com/board/Smileys/default/headscratch.gif) 1 2 buckle my shoe, 3 4 made a score. Meteorology..... oh wait, that's numerology.
Have fun in the snow. :D
The way I learned it was: 30 days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest eat peanut butter, except Gandma; She rides a bicycle.
Maybe that's not it either.
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Anyway, we have mostly gotten into something typical for January, lows in the single digits and highs in the low 20's. Works fairly well for me because I can get the shop up in the low 50's with just the woodstove and that is a fine working temp (not so great for finishing work though). I don't see us breaking the freezing mark anytime in the near future and I think I am burning more wood than last year. Yesterday was the warmest day in the last 7 and hit hit 35° for a few minutes with a low of 22.
SD we have no predictions here yet for snowfall that will start on Friday other than it 'might snow'. But the formation of this one looks like it might glance by us and clobber y'all. So far anyway. If we get a decent dump that might kill my early mushroom log harvest. I don't have a snow machine.
Yesterday we got just under 2" and I felt compelled to plow it, lest it freeze up. Plowing went quick but still nearly an hour and we got a little sun to melt the stuff on hard surfaces. We get what we get. :D
We have -18° here this morning, supposed to warm up a little through the day!
Dropped to 5F here at noon and wind. I see Willie, a neighbor, started the fire in the stove. Musta been cold with that heat pump. :D :D I know he got wood this summer. Last winter was cold. :D
Seen old moose tracks since before last storm. I seen a spot he bedded down where I cut firewood last fall. Old coyote tracks to, one around the lean to as well. Only 3" snow here on top of crust, might be 16" in all. Nice enough to cover the dips in the ground when shoeing.
Crows and coyotes been eating on that old dead cow in the field.
5F here.... All good :)
-10F this morning, nice and crisp. Warm in here. Coffee by the pot. ;D
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-23F . That red oak i had stashed away is working good with
temps like this.
Living close to a 200 acre block of ice 2' thick probably contributes
to the low temps.
Every odd time I forget the coffee and it ends up being REALLY strong lol
I have a similar percolator pot but mines not from the 70s(basspro) :)
Sometimes (strong coffee) happens when I'm in the basement tending fire and loading the wheel barrel with wood outside. I refuse anything brewed in plastic crap devices. ;D
-28F out by the river. ;)
-15, good morning to stay home. Not a work day, so don't have to listen to the truck growl when I start it.
-4 here this morning. Nice and warm in the house. I think I'll stay inside for a while and drive my wife crazy. When she starts to find chores for me to do it'll be time to go out to the barn. ;)
Below zero again this morning, we have -16° to start the day out with!
Stayed in the 20's last night, so that was nice! We've been watching a storm the weather guessers have been screaming about all week. Supposed to begin this evening and run through tomorrow. as of now, the storm has yet to even form up so it' been tough for them to predict, but apparently not tough for them to hype. ;D
It's looking like we here might get just a glancing blow with a couple of inches out of it and it will hug the coast, clobber CT and eastern MA, then on up. Not sure if it will roll out to sea or hit NB/NS.
I sure hope we don't get much because I am planning to harvest logs next week when it warms a little. Getting a foot of snow won't stop me, but it sure might take some of the fun out of it and add to the work. I am trying to avoid going in with anything heavy and just use the toolcat to get the logs out to the landing. We only have a 10" snowpack in there right now, so it should be easy.
For the guys NE of me, you might want to check your gear today. They are calling for heavy wind during this thing and wind chills will remain well below zero for the duration.
Gonna get close to 30 today with much lower winds. Yesterday it was in the mid 20's but the wind was persistent and wind chills near zero, or under. It was not pleasant.
Was 12F this morning and light snow falling now.
No worries Old Greenhorn, dead calm here. But, it will be spring time next week a few days. :D
Yeah that system hits us tomorrow. Looks to be mi of snow and rain with heavy wind
The winds are picking up and it's nearly a blizzard. 4 inches or so down so far. didnt expect it to start this soon and heavy, ran out in my PJs to plug the block heater in lol
Snow yesterday was nothing more than a couple squalls. Never did anything overnight and star where out when I emptied stove ashes this morning. A little wind starting here, nothing great, 0F this morning. Waiting for the 'blizzard' of 2022. ;D :D
17 here right now, wind blowing and snowing, but not heavy snow yet. They say 8-12" today with strong winds.
Down in SE Mass where my daughter lives they say 16-22".
If we get a foot of snow here it's going to end my activities in the woods for a while but I should still be able to cut firewood along the edges of some fields.
Well, we have nothing like you eastern guys here. It is supposed to be mid 40's today so I was shocked to see that it is 9 right now. I guess I will wait til a little warming happens before I do some milling. I'm not trying to start the tractor at 9. We have a rain, ice, snow storm coming this week. I'm hoping for more snow than anything else.
It's about 12° here now, light snow overnight expected to continue until past noon, but very little on the ground, between 1/2 and 1". But the wind is holding at 10-15 with gusts to 25 so the wind chill is well below zero.
My weekender neighbor across the road just texted my son and asked if he could come and 'dig them out'? :D :D :D
Yes, 3/4" of snow is now 'digging them out'. He has a 4wd jeep by the way. My son is trying to figure out how to respond without sounding sarcastic. ;D
Started the day with -14° at 7:00, still -6 out there.
Sunny and partially overcast.
Quote from: Old Greenhorn on January 29, 2022, 08:51:56 AM
My son is trying to figure out how to respond without sounding sarcastic. ;D
If the Jeep don't work, the snow scoop will. ;D
got about 6-8 inches so far and drifts a footish, getting heavier
I hope we can survive the blizzard of 2022 here in NC:
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I'm not sure if we will or not.
Jim Rogers
I can tell you are snow storm rookies(or dont get much ever :))
put yer wiper blades in the air!!!
Hang in there Jim, better days are coming! :D Or you can just remember a couple of winters back when this was more of an issue for you. Eastern MA is getting a good clobbering today.
Winter 2015, had 4-5 major storms in the span of a week. the snow was 5 foot deep and drifts covering whole sides of houses. my road took a week to get plowed. when you finally shovelled out, you couldnt see anything, you were just walking around in snow tunnels the piles were so high. the whole province was shut down the whole week, kids had 1.5 weeks off school
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Quote from: Old Greenhorn on January 29, 2022, 08:51:56 AM
My son is trying to figure out how to respond without sounding sarcastic. ;D
If the Jeep don't work, the snow scoop will. ;D
Actually I feel a little sorry for the guy. 15 years younger than me and he doesn't know how to operate a snow shovel. The only snow shovel he had for 3 years was one of my old ones I left there because he wouldn't buy one. My son shovels and plows for him and takes care of his hot tub and whatever else comes up. He finally bought a better snow shovel and left it there. He is pretty lazy, but also complains about the cost of these services, as well as the timeliness in which they are delivered. The Amazon generation.
I told my son, since he did ask for it, to give him the full boat, plow and shovel and charge accordingly, since he did ask for it. Also, break this habit of 'on demand plowing' lest he thinks that is how things work. Twice now he has called for plowing at his convenience, on his schedule and thinks it should 'just happen'.
It makes me sad how some folks think.
Where is this "better shovel" that can be bought? I thought quality in snow shovels went way with the do-do birds, all they sell is plastic crap that doesnt last now.
Quote from: HemlockKing on January 29, 2022, 10:08:41 AM
Where is this "better shovel" that can be bought? I thought quality in snow shovels went way with the do-do birds, all they sell is plastic crap that doesnt last now.
Condition. The one I had left spent 5 years as my roof shovel and the front edge was heavily worn and rounded. It was shot. So my son, who buys a half dozen new shovels every fall from an industrial supplier, left one of his there, hoping they might at least clean off the doorway area. (HA!)
We bought this house in '81 and somewhere thereafter I found a steel snow pusher/scraper type shovel in somebody's garbage. It's big, heavy, and gets under packed down stuff, and is still in use today, all I ever use if not in blower conditions.
Nothing but northwesterly flow this winter, no Colorado hookers, which are the types of storm systems that would typically produce heavier snows around here. Weird winter.
I use a Garant snow scoop. You can't buy a steel scoop in these parts. But I have found those Garant last 15 years, and not much money. I think you can get steel ones in MI. But I found with those years ago they don't slide good with the galv surface. I have to scoop out about 250 yards here. I only do that for 1-2" storms, then it's the old snow blower. Probably the best blower made by MTD, with Craftsman sticker on it. And easy to get parts for it, mostly I buy sheer pins. I've got spare shoes and blade, but never changed them. Been close to 10 years now. I keep it from freezing. Used to be in the old garage, not heated, and took out the drive belt, she was frozen. I keep it warm and dry now, runs like brand new. If that fails, there's always the Kubota blower and plow I have shares in. Comes in handy in those wet snows that freeze up. :D
I thought it was a little cool just a bit ago, 76F here, and threw in a spruce round into the stove. It ain't cool now. Big mistake. :D
Barely above 0F here still, snow starting now.
Big Red mostly has a rust coating. Corners are usually bent up, the head comes off the handle sometimes.
It's just a snow shovel, but it's the only kind I can get the job done with.
Acting like a full blown Noreaster here is central Maine.
Blizzard like for sure, white and windy. It will be Monday
afternoon before i start digging out. No need to go anywhere.
If you want to stop by bring your snowshoes.
I just got my road plowed, there's a fine window to do it, right before it turns to rain, if you let it rain on the snow then refreeze yer done/ will be much harder :)
Old Greenhorn, have him charge a premium for "on demand".
In my little world, I use to mow lawns, well do anything for a dollar, I had one customer that wanted the wheel tracks to come out perfect on her lawn. I always did a good neat job, but she wanted it "perfect" I told her that would cost more and she agreed. Just about every time, I would get done, she would come out and tip her head sideways, and say, Nice and straight.
Which it was, that's what she paid for.
Might be 10° and a light sideways snow, at this time. Even got out of work at noon time!!
Snowing hard here now with a strong wind. There might be 6" but I can't tell. With the wind the ground is all drifts and bare spots. The temp is falling fast..down to 8 now. I was splitting wood in the barn this morning but this afternoon I'm staying in the house.
Can barely see the neighbour across the road, let the 'winter winds blow'.
Mickey Newbury ~ Winter Winds Blow~ - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJS2DPdeZ7M)
The greatest song writer ever, according to John Prine. :) He has had over 1,500 versions of his songs recorded across many genres of music.
I looked at the radar and it looks like you folks are getting clobbered Swamp! we only caught the side of this one with 1-1-1/2" tops. Hardly worth plowing, but I did anyway. It's a balmy 19° on the thermometer, but with the wind it strikes me as a LOT colder, not pleasant at all.
I have 3 similar scoops like yours out in the shed and thought about using that instead of plowing, but I can sit when I am plowing. If this winter stays cold like this I might have to put the driver's door back on the Mule and use the heat.
Tomorrow is supposed to be a little less unpleasant and Monday I plan on being in the woods and cutting trees. Lets see how long I last. ;D
Thecfarm, your comment reminds me of an old down east story; Seems their was the rich widow who had a camp in the north country and she came up for the season and hired a staff every year. So this old fella hired on as her buggy driver for the season and the first morning he picked her up he greeted her and said "Good morning Ma'am, it's a fine day isn't it?" She gruffly replied "Driver, I hired you to drive, NOT to talk." "Yes Ma'am" he said and never opened his trap again. The whole summer went by and at the end of the season he presented her with his bill detailing every trip and any other requests he had fulfilled for her. She read every line carefully and nodded her head, then asked "What is this last item on the list, I don't understand it, it just says 'Sass"?" He replied "Well Ma'am, that is for Sass, I don't often take, but when I do, I charge for it."
Old Greenhorn, You got the idea.
Still snowing. Can hear the wind in the fireplace. Could see the maple tree 500 feet down by the road all afternoon. Around 4 could see the trees across the field, another 500 feet. Not that bad, yet, not over yet.
Sounds like the wind have slowed down, I did not say stop, it's still a blowing, but no wheres near as bad.
But that snow sure did start to add up when it got dark. Hard to tell, maybe 8 inches and it's still snowing. Probably the biggest storm we had in 2 years. Yes, I said 2 years. Last winter was an easy winter on snow fall amount at one time.
Looking at radar, it looks like we are dead centre of a snow bomb right now with dark bands of heavy snow. ;D There's wind, but it's nowhere near 'hurricane'. :D Still looks nasty out there, with the drifting going on, the 3 foot plowed piles look almost level with the driveway. :D 12F I think when I looked. ;D The window screens have a bunch of snow in them. :D
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The snow has passed by now, still the winds though, not hard wind, but wind.
1 above this morning. Snow stopped by 9 last night. Sun is out and looks nice now, might get up to 20 this afternoon. It is hard to tell how much snow we got because of the drifting, maybe 8". The kid who plows my driveway came at 9 last night, did a good job. Now I have to do some clean up around the barn doors and the house walkway. Lucky for me the wind left most of the walkway clear. :laugh:
Down to -25° this morning, bright and sunny though and partially light gray/blue sky!
Forecast high for the day 16° around 3:00 PM.
It's an inside day today!
5* all day yesterday, same this morning.
12 hrs of snow and wind yesterday dropped about 8" here,
twice that amount along the coast.
Talk of another one already .
Chuck wins the coldest award at -25*.
It's 10° and the tractor is plugged in to clear the driveway. Shoveled a path for the dog and that's all I have done this morning.
That wind sure did blow, sunny and just a slight breeze.
woodroe is only a little ways from me, so I suppose 8 inches it is.
Well, got that mess cleaned up. 6" as far as I can tell. Blew a lot. Getting colder here.
SD I am shocked, shocked I say, that you didn't get clobbered by this one! I watched the radar all afternoon and evening yesterday and it looked like there was a huge blob that stalled right over your place with a bullseye in the center on your barn. :D
The coast of MA did get hammered with up to 30" and the folks on eastern Long Island ain't none to happy neither. ;D
We got less than 2" of annoyance junk, but the winds stood at around 20 all day so it remained unpleasant all day and night. Even now with 20° and a 10 mph wind it is not 'nice'. They missed the low predicted for overnight and it only went down to 7°, but my shop stove was burned out when I checked it and the shop was just 38. Fixing that now. Was cold down here in the den this morning too at 68, but that got fixed right quick and it's 74 now. The den is where the stove is and is also the heatsink for the house. I need to keep it high in order to get that heat flowing out to the rest of the house.
They say 40's around mid-week, maybe that will give us a reset. Rain supposed to come around weds/thurs timeframe. Lets see if that happens. More ice in the woods, oh boy. ;D
Yeah, Nick said 12" down his way, 50 miles from here. The bomb on radar this morning moved out fast, never stalled. Suppose to get rain here to by Wednesday.
@woodroe (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=12647), how's that snow blower treating you? Like it better?
I spent about 1½ hours on mine. I clean out down where I cut wood to. It all takes time.
Driveway does not take long, but up by the house is what takes the time.
Really like the 3pt hitch snowblower Ray, takes about 1/2 the time as the tractor plow.
Added a couple mirrors to the tractor so I don't have to crank my neck backwards and getting
use to using them. So far so good. Best part is I only have to move the snow once ,
no more pushing it back like I did for 30 years.
Yep, a snow blower is the best. A blade is great for cleaning the road to gravel better, or widening the path. Got both here, I hate to have a skim of snow left to pack down to ice. So a blade or snow scoop does that part. I mostly snow scoop it around the house and garage, hate a sloppy job. Fussy. ;D
woodroe, glad you like it.
-7 this morning but should get up into the mid 20's today.
-8 * sheesh.
Getting dug out today, no wind.
Got the sled out yesterday so
had some nice trails to ski on, priorities. Was beautiful in the woods.
Next storm looming, could be another blizzard.
Let it snow, gotta pay for the equipment.
+5F here this morning, full sun, no wind. :)
Starting the day with 10°, up on the hot side of zero!
Supposed to get up into the 20's this afternoon!
Who knows what it's gonna do, but they are saying we will get ice or sleet tomorrow night and then 8 to 12" of snow wednesday and thursday. I work until Wednesday morning, so I"m hoping nothing gets too bad before I leave to go home. I live 35 miles from the FD, so that makes for a long drive in snow and ice. I feel bad for the guys coming in that morning, but I'm glad to be going home before it really gets bad. We shall see. I imagine numerous members here will be in the path of this storm.
Take care on your drive back home in that mess.
I have -10 this morning.
Should be 35° warmer by this afternoon.
Did the same thing yesterday, cold in the morning, much warmer in the afternoon.
It's 40 deg right now. Supposed to get to 58 deg with rain before the temp goes back down. Then 1 or 2 inches of ice and sleet before it switches to all snow tomorrow when we we will get up to 10".
Gee Bill, I see all the warnings posted in your area, but I don't see a dang thing on the radar...yet. Hope you guys get through it easily. I know what it's like here when the snow and ice comes in. Might as well keep a bunk at the firehouse. Everybody turns stupid and forgets how to drive.
Pretty day here yesterday with clear skies and a crisp 5° start. Very ice day in the woods, even if it was a bit slick. Looks to be the same today but a bit warmer. Gonna hit 30° they say, but I should be headed out by that time. I run out of steam after about 5 hours trudging around.
This storm we got coming Thursday might turn ugly, but right now they are saying rain, then over to snow and ice and sleet. That might shut me out of the woods for a while.
Ah well, it's February now, and we get what we get. At least January is behind us and spring is a little closer. :)
It was 0F this morning, now around 15F. Yesterday it got to 20F. Full sunshine here. Looks mild Wednesday and rain Thursday, in the 30's. Be nice an icy on that rock hard ground. :D
Started the day with 0° at 7:00, warmed up to 40° about 1:00 and it's still 35°.
NICE
temp has dropped 5°. sleet sounds like tiny hail. here we go. warm up again by the WE.
We did reach 24F today. Warm coming tomorrow. I'm going shoeing tomorrow to break in my woods trails.
Same temp as Ray this morning , -10*. Guess my theory about
living next to 200 acres of 2' thick ice making it colder was just a theory.
25 deg warmer tonight , like.
Today was sweet , hung out at the sugar shack basking in the sun contemplating
whether to boil sap this spring.
If there is a light wind(coming from ice to your place) I bet 200 acres of ice would make it cooler, if wind is too heavy probably wouldn't matter much though because wouldn't have much time to chill over the ice as it travels...
It's been cold here, 10f, crusty 6 inches of snow everywhere, horrific :)
Rain and 45f tomorrow
I have a heat wave of 22°!!!!
It has been a long time since we have seen the sun and above freezing temps. Yes, it's been above freezing many times, but it's always cloudy.
But today might do it, high 30's partly cloudy.
19° and heavy snow. peaceful but for the backup alarms on the snowplow equipment in the distance.
The people clearing our roads of snow. 8)
Clearing the Mountain Pass - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELCP__1IjHk)
Starting out today with 34° and overcast.
This evening/tonight we're supposed to start getting up to a foot of snow through tomorrow night!
The Groundhog saw his shadow and that means 6 more weeks of Winter
Well, the drive home was not bad at all. It appeared to be sleeting pretty bad, so I put chains on my truck. As I went south toward home, conditions improved greatly so I stopped and took off my chains. I stopped at walmart to get a few things and aside from bread, everything was plentiful. We are just having some light freezing rain right now. They still say that heavy snow is coming tonight, but I'm beginning to believe their forecast for my area is a bust.
got about 4 inches of snow, drifting a bit. got the drive cleared. now having some Chinese
tea in my forestry forum mug.
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We have about an inch of sleet at my house. 50 miles north has 8" of snow.
fine snow now, but it is cold enough, the drive is still slick. with the black pavement, it melts when the sun hits it. no sun today.
Still sunny and 72 degrees here in beautiful NW Arkansas! 8)
Whoops, maybe that was the weather inside my shop. ;D
I took the box blade and forks off the tractor and put the scraper blade and bucket on. It better snow. They are still saying we will get 8-10" of snow tonight and tomorrow. 23 deg F right now.
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36F here now and a brisk southwest wind. Been cloudy all day except a little peek of sun in the western horizon. :)
I got early spring mud in February. 40 degrees in Virginia today and the snow is melting. And while you folks are gonna get snow, I get a day and a half of rain, melting the snow faster. Yep sometimes I would like to go straight from winter to summer.
Cold, dry, and boring. We're where all the cold air is funneling down to where all ya'all's stormy weather is.
A warm day today, even the back roads are black again, they was on the icer side. :o
Something a coming, looks like it will start off as rain. :(
Haven't posted the weather UP here in quite some time. Its been cold, not above freezing in 40ish days now, and many of those days well below average on temp (quite a few -25° nights and -5° high temp days). Snow has been steady pretty much everyday. 3 weeks back we got 30 some inches over 4 days, and early last week 26" in 3 days. We are over 150 inches for the season so far.
Ground hog didn't see his shadow today. Another month and a half of winter. In Michigan if he sees his shadow it's six weeks of winter. If he doesn't it is a month and a half. Maybe more for Chet.
The temps got all the way up to 50° today and melted the ice off of a lot of roads.
The temp now is 36°, and the weather reports say it's raining, but I can't see any rain but I can feel it on my arm when I reach out the door!
Not what I would really call rain, really fine mist, supposed to turn to snow for the next day and a half.
36F this morning and we have that same mist as Chuck. 'Supposedly', this turns to a foot of snow at the end. :D :D
40 here this morning with light rain. Alot of melting yesterday and last night. The rain they say will get heavier as the day goes on and up to 2" of rain tonight. That should melt most of the snow. Then tomorrow rain, sleet and snow turning cold again with 1-3" of snow before it all ends.
Been interesting weather this winter.
The mist we had last night turned to snow and we had about 2 inches of snow this morning and it's very light snow falling now.
This evening we're under a winterstorm warning and expected to get a foot of snow between tonight and tomorrow night!
These snowstorms are nothing like they were when I was growing up, back then it was nothing to wake up to 3 feet of snow that fell after we went to bed!
Going to the lumber yard for Doug fir beams with my son. The forecasters predicted -55 F. but it only dropped to -45 F.
Oh well, guess I'll wear mitts instead of gloves today.
15 deg this morning with moderate snow coming down. Looks like we got about 5 inches overnight and supposed to snow into the early afternoon, so I would guess we will get another 3" or so. I'll wait to push it off the driveway til this afternoon.
Quote from: firefighter ontheside on February 03, 2022, 09:03:03 AM
15 deg this morning with moderate snow coming down. Looks like we got about 5 inches overnight and supposed to snow into the early afternoon, so I would guess we will get another 3" or so. I'll wait to push it off the driveway til this afternoon.
Well, at least you didn't rig up the tractor for nothing. :D
We go rain overnight, and I lost track of what else is coming. Overslept this morning after a poor night's sleep. I gotta get on the stick, regardless of rain or not. Seems to be coming in small light waves so far, then freezing rain after midnight, then sleet, and finally snow tomorrow afternoon.
Yep, I got some snow to push. Your weather sounds like an exact repeat of how it went down here. Amazing how the storm can go from MO to NY and still behave the same.
It's gonna be here soon too, in the form of mostly rain
Can you guys tell I'm excited about the snow? I measured about 6" in my driveway.
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I've got some melting going on here!! But no sun. Low 40's!!! Just as swampdonkey said, a foot is coming. Suppose to rain first. Been a mist all day.
Quote from: firefighter ontheside on February 03, 2022, 11:53:09 AM
Can you guys tell I'm excited about the snow? I measured about 6" in my driveway.
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Is that a norway spruce in the yard there?
39F and showers once in awhile. ;D
30F degrees and snowing. ;D
Quote from: HemlockKing on February 03, 2022, 12:38:11 PM
Quote from: firefighter ontheside on February 03, 2022, 11:53:09 AM
Can you guys tell I'm excited about the snow? I measured about 6" in my driveway.
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Is that a norway spruce in the yard there?
Yeah. I had a blue spruce there that died, so I planted the Norway when it was about 6' tall. Now it must be about 20'.
Lots here have blue spruce as ornamental trees in their yard, I like them, the norway spruces look great though. like the droopy branches
NWS says 12-16" snow by tomorrow night.
Modified my snowblower chute in hopes of
cutting down on some of the blow back. No cab , i ain't rich like Ray.
Cut out a couple pieces of heavy rubber mat and
hung them from the chute's deflector with a couple self tapping screws.
Now if I don't slide off the driveway and get stuck, need some tire studs next, it
never ends.
I'm beginning to think tractors are as bad as boats and airplanes , all money pits.
Well the temp climbed up in the mid 30's yesterday and was about 38 when I was driving home over the mountain last night. Started rain sometime in the night and I overslept today. It was a light drizzly rain and I got my trailer back home before that road turned to mush, then went and cut some more logs, but quit around noon when the rain became steady, I became soaked, and the order became filled. :D
More rain tonight, then early tomorrow they are calling for freezing rain, then sleet, then change over to snow in the afternoon, but it's not looking like a lot of snow here. I guess you guys up north are just lucky. ;D Saturday and Sunday it is supposed to drop back to normal, in the mid 20's so I should get some more cutting done, then Monday and through the week we have above freezing temps during the day. Good for the Sugar crowd, not so hot for the woods crowd. :D
Bill I am glad you are enjoying your snow. That photo of your house should wind up on the wall somewhere. Very nice.
woodroe, who's this rich Ray guy. ???
I have an open tractor. No cab for me.
The stepson is the guy with all the money. He just bought a Kubota with a cab. Seem like $5000!!! :o :o :o just for the cab, well heater and air too.
I have the truck pointed downhill, ready to go. I have to work tomorrow. I have not had to clear the driveway and go to work for a long time. Looks like that winning streak is gone.
I do good most times with the snow blowing on me. But this last storm was not so good.
Going up and down the driveway, does not matter which side I blow snow, but down where I have my wood does. I had to blow into the wind. I did that last, good thing too.
Raining at 36°.
Snow in the face is never fun. I go out with the rain gear on most times. Better than no hood at all. Forget glasses, I'd need wipers on them. ;D Only used the blower twice this year. Well the ice was still wet when the snow started so that will stick on and not be slick. That is the hope. :D
Nice to have dry warm tractor cabs in winter. Must be nice. ;D
Quote from: thecfarm on February 03, 2022, 05:14:43 PM
woodroe, who's this rich Ray guy. ???
I have an open tractor. No cab for me.
Ahaha. Knew that would get you riled up.
You probably got the hydraulic chute turner on
that top of the line Provonost snowblower though.
Mine has the manual chute but don't need to turn it much.
woodroe you must think I have money, no hyd chute for me, but that would be nice. I don't turn mine much either. But it if was hyd, I would be turning it more. ;)
I always wanted blue spruce because I like CO so much, but I can't get them to live for long. I've planted a dozen and they have all died. I had one that seemed like it was gonna do well, but then I think a drought and high temps summer killed it. So now this norway seems to be thriving and I too like the way they limbs are starting to sag more as it gets bigger.
Thanks @Old Greenhorn (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=42103) I do like how my house looks in the snow. The last bits of snow just quit falling here about 20 minutes ago. I guess we ended up with about 8", but its so hard to tell because it was blowing around so much. I will go out in the morning to clear mine and my parents driveways.
Quote from: thecfarm on February 03, 2022, 06:11:53 PM
woodroe you must think I have money, no hyd chute for me, but that would be nice. I don't turn mine much either. But it if was hyd, I would be turning it more. ;)
Agree on the would be turning it more, depending on which
way the wind is blowing at the time. You don't have chains right ?
I'm finding my front end a little light for traction with 540 lb snowblower on the back.
Could be just the ice coating I suppose.
No chains. :(
I need them more on front, to steer. I have a downhill driveway, I blow snow most times down hill. Yes, light on the front too. The wife's tractor does not have a loader. Not about to spend $3-4000 when I have one on my tractor.
Well it rained pretty hard here all night and at some point switched to freezing rain. Fire and PD radios are staying quite busy with tree and wires call and accidents since 4am. Power here went out at 5:55am so I am an stuck with the phone and a marginal connection. Not even sure this will go through. Let's see how long this lasts. Gotta be rough on the line crews. Temp has been just below 32 since 9pm yesterday.
It is what it is.
Changed over to snow about 8 last night, still a snowing. Maybe 6 inches.
10F and 5" of snow so far, not much wind. No school.
We've got 10° here this morning and it looks like quite a bit of snow to plow, still coming down very light!
I haven't been out yet, so I'm not sure how much snow!
EDIT: After plowing this morning, I figure there was another 6 inches of snow out there!
Rain off and on, comes down hard when it does. high winds, nearly 50F. 100km north its 28F.....ocean temp regulation!
Picked up 11 inches of decent snow so far, not wet or sleet.
That should be enough for awhile. Dig out tomorrow if it ain't blowing.
Had a Raven under the bird feeder this morn, pickins must be slim out there.
Throw another log or two on the fire.
I cleaned up about 10 inches of a very heavy granular snow this morning and now we have another 5 inches of fluff with another couple inches of lake snow coming tonight. Everything is so pretty looking right now with it stuck to all the trees. Tomorrow should be a nice day for final cleanup. No school today so the town didn't plow the roads very good. I made a big plastic shield for the rops on my tractor so the mist from my PTO blower doesn't hit me.
We got clobbered with a minimum 1/4"" of ice on everything, by around 10am I could hear a branch or a top break off every 20-30 seconds all around me and often overhead. I wore my skull bucket all day. Thousands of trees down here about a. Some roads still closed for clearing work. 13 hours no power....so far. I guess we must be the lucky ones to be in the sweet spot. It will take weeks to clean this up. Silver lining is the big red oak that uprooted itself right onto my garage will provide a bunch of mushroom logs for the order I got yesterday. So I won't have to drive much to get them on the pile. :D
I really don't know, 12 inches sounds good.
It didn't snow heavily yesterday, but it snowed all day and probably still snowing now. Still pitch black, but I see lights over in Maine at that spud farm lit up like Yankee Stadium. :D
Cold, 5° and very calm this morning, not even a breeze!
@Old Greenhorn (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=42103) I thought about the mushroom log that had fallen on your garage, but I didn't want to say anything at the time.
0 deg. here this morning. The little dog wouldn't go out and the big one didn't stay out for long.
13F here now, wind, sun and snow squalls every news cycle. :D We did have 12" snow this time. ;D I blew that out and then shovelled down to the gravel near the buildings. Life is tough sometimes. :D
I got the snow plowed in our driveways this morning. We just came home from shoveling sidewalks, steps and the wheelchair ramp at the wife's office. It didn't take too long with the four of us working. It looks like the guy who plows the parking lot behind us must have shoveled her sidewalk and porch at the back of the building. That was a nice surprise.
Figure pictures say more.
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Nasty stuff Jim. I figure we are due for one, it's February and we always seem to get at least one bad one.
Those pics remind me of the "Ice Storm of '98", except then there was a lot more ice!
The ice in the pics is enough to destroy trees!
We've been under a rain warning for the last 36 hours. Not enough to panic about, just stay out of the rivers and be careful on the roads stuff. Basically a "stalled" frontal system, with warm tropical air meeting cooler air from the South. Result is just lots of rain.
Had ~170 mm here in town, which isn't anything unusual. Higher up on the Mt about 400 mm, but again not exceptional.
Previous days the system had been stalled over the West Coast if the South Island, and one of the higher level rain gauges measured 1,170 mm over 3 days. That's 46" in US measurements. That did cause a bit of flooding and washed out some roads downstream, but even then nothing exceptional.
Wowsers! That's moist, Ianab.
Quote from: jimbarry on February 05, 2022, 04:25:31 PM
Figure pictures say more.
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That second pic reminds me of how a car window broke. Not good.
Well, still no power here going on 36 hours. They posted an expected restoration by 8 pm tonight but I am dubious. Just too much widespread damage and everything is iced up solid. Less tops coming down today but there still some coming. Gonna start losing stuff in the fridge soon. Cooked a steak and taters on the shop stove for dinner and that was superb. Made the shop smell nice too.
I managed to get the tree weight off our garage roof but it was a nasty tricky fight. Ice everywhere and all frozen in solid. Got the weight off but there is still so much debris of the roof I can't tell if there is damage. Gonna have to wait until it thaws t do any more. It's just too risky. Can't keep my feet and it's all overhead. Can't pull the branches out because they are frozen to the ground.
Headed for zero tonight. Oh boy. >:(
Hope you've got the jugs full. Be careful with the downed stuff, your not 30. ;) Stuff the wood box. Ice on everything is nasty.
Tom: try to shift your thinking. The first priority is to keep yourself and loved ones safe and healthy. The trees, the power, the work schedules, all that, are not as important as making it to the next day in one functioning piece. Everyone around you is facing the same crap show, the priorities have shifted.
We went through a lot back in The Ice Storm.
I was very lucky here. Not much tree damage on my land. But saw some land looked like a bomb went off about 60 feet high. :o :( All the tree tops was broke off.
We all had no power for 8 days.
I had -10 when I got up this morning, Clear and cold. High teens by high noon.
-5F this morning, now +5F and full sun, no wind.
Yo-yoing in the great valley of Virginia. Snow and Ice and 20 degrees gave way to two days of 50 degrees and rain. Now its back to 25 degrees. At least all the snow and ice has melted.
-16* this morning. Hopefully that will be the end of that frigid stuff till next winter.
Got all dug out before the wind blew yesterday and blow it did.
The snowscape looks like ocean waves frozen in time in places.
Ice rescue training was on the schedule for this morning. We try to get out once a year to practice when conditions are good. Really thick ice is not realistic for training. People fall thru thin ice. The white looking shelf was probably 6" thick, but the dark ice was only about 1 1/2". That made for good training.
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3C and sunny this afternoon, the snow is melting fast. Weather guru says we can expect this for the next couple of weeks, at this rate we will be doing yard cleanup by the end of the month. Our weather has been so unpredictable, I really hope we don't get another fire season like last year.
Quote from: Andries on February 05, 2022, 09:45:28 PM
Tom: try to shift your thinking. The first priority is to keep yourself and loved ones safe and healthy. The trees, the power, the work schedules, all that, are not as important as making it to the next day in one functioning piece. Everyone around you is facing the same crap show, the priorities have shifted.
Not to worry man, it will all get done when it gets done. Priorities changed today, we are over this crap. Still no power. 2 degrees last night. We picked up a generator today, long story on that for my thread later. We are having dinner out at a local watering hole rather than drive to town. So w folks getting power back slowly but this was a hammering bad storm with lots of equipment destroyed. More when we have power back, but for now we are fine and will survive. Our situation is much better then what I hear from the whiny city weekend folks. You would think the world was ending.
My neighbor was trying to tell me how tough it was living with JUST a generator and no internet. He never asked how we were or invited us over. Then at 6am on Saturday his generator quit and he wasted no time asking me to help fix it. (No saving it, big puddle of oil underneath.)
Tomorrow is another day.
16F and we had a little skiff of snow overnight. ;D
Not sure what the low was last night, all the local weather stations are still off line. Probably around 15° and it is 20 here now. SO not bad, and warming. Supposed to break the freezing mark today and we need some melting to get this ice to drop off. Some is evaporating directly, but not much, at least not enough. Power did come on last night sometime around 7pm or so. We (I) have a lot of cleanup to do. First to put away all the stuff I pulled out to 'make do' with lacking power, and second to clean up the storm damage. Likely this last part will take weeks between other stuff. It was just good to wake up today to a fully warm house and coffee already made.
I'll have the ugly details up of the other thread in a while. Still waking up.
Single digit temps and alot of snow. 20" since yesterday am and still coming down. Be nice if it would quit snowing for a day or two so I could get out of the plow truck once in a while.
We've got another 7-10" expected tonight. It's almost 30F this afternoon I believe.
30F and light snow at the moment. I can smell the pulp mill, 60 miles away. ;D
I have about 3 inches of snow and rain.
Be a great day to make a snowman.
30°
The snow here is sticking to anything it hits, it's just about 32F now.Must be close to 3" here, I took ashes out awhile ago and there was 2" then.
Rained just about all day, but not warm enough to melt the snow.
Might even see the sun tomorrow and above freezing temps!!! Have not seen that for a long time.
Yes, been above freezing many times, but cloudy or been dark.
We seem to stalled in this weird weather pattern, with a slow stream of air from the tropics. It dumps rain when it meets the cold air from the South, but today that's happening over the South Island.
Right now it's "tropical". It was 22C at 8am this morning, with ~90% humidity. Overcast, but with occasional drops of rain because the clouds simply can't hold the moisture, even with the air temp up to 28 in the afternoon.
Outlook is for heavy rain Friday to Sunday, from this ongoing air stream, then a tropical depression (not quite cyclone) following behind. The past weekend saw areas around the coast (other side of the Mt from me) get about 16" of rain, which is about a normal summers total rainfall for them. Washed out some bridges etc. We got "rain" but only about 8". Looks like we are in for a repeat.
But summer temps, and high rainfall is unusual, like being in the tropics without leaving home.
Sorry to hear that Ian.
Reminder of what we will have to tolerate in 6 months.. ::)
Been snowing 3 days, since Monday night and still at it. 28F
28°
What was all soft last night is all hard this morning.
High 30's today.
34 and little breezy. good day to burn brush. start the fire on the side of the wind, you dont need to do no pushing brush into the center of the fire the wind will push the fire to the rest of the brush :)
A crisp and clear 18° this morning. Blue skies and hopefully it will get near 40 today and clear the rest of the ice off the trees. I'd estimate about 30% is still up there, a lot came down yesterday and it looks like broken glass everywhere.
Hoping I can get some work accomplished today.
14" of heavy snow, not sop'n wet, but heavy. 30F, suppose to get above freezing. Hope so, there is a big curled mass of snow overhanging the porch eve I'd like to see come down. ;D
A taste of spring today. Bright sun, snow melting off roofs, puddles etc.
Looking forward to more spring like weather , but winter ain't over yet.
Some of the bigger snowfalls here are in Feb-March-early April.
Still 34, no wind now. Burning all day, out with a headlamp now
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Possible snow storm Sunday night ??? More on this later
Finally!!!!!!
A day above freezing and sunny!!!!!!
It's about time.
Looks like a few more are coming too.
Nearly 50 degrees in Virginia today. Walked around in just a winter shirt(plus pants and shoes wise guys!).
It reached 50° here today, nice and sunny bright!
The weather people are going crazy. It hasn't rained since 12/30/21. We've had a high parked over us only shifting east and west to cause big wind events. And for the past week and going forward, temps have been low to mid 70s. Gonna break some records tomorrow.
It got to 32F, and we had no sun. It had started to clear after the storm, but then quickly socked back in. Wasn't any water running or puddles around here, except off the icicles. ;D The snow is still over hanging the porch, it did the same on the garage roof. I think it is 24F now, suppose to snow and get rain mixed in later. Not suppose to get much. Suppose to be warm here Friday and Saturday, 38-45F.
I have 22° this morning, but should hit 40. But will be cloudy today. But it's nice to see daylight until almost 5:15 now.
Wow, it's 40° here this morning!
We are forecast to get rain off & on through the day!
With the warm weather we had yesterday, I think we have a foot of snow on the ground.
But that can change quick, to more and less!!!
33F here now and some fog on the hills, looks like it could rain, a blue haze.
Saw 9 turkeys this morning in the popple trees roosting, just up the road about a mile from the house. ;D
Got to 30° yesterday with more snow (about 8") today it was in the upper 20s and by tomorrow supposed to drop into the single digits. Another foot of snow is predicted tonight. We will be knocking on 200" for the season real quick if we aren't there already.
32F this morning, so it was above freezing all night. I saw the moon shining in my eyes around 2:30 am. ;D This mild spell should settle the snow a bit. I had to climb snow to clean the air exchanger intake, it was waste high and I was still not on the ground. Brother came and snow blowed a path and it was 40" deep. The last storm the plow had to make two runs and wing it all back. I did not like shovelling the entrances two more times, besides what was shoved there the day before. ;D
I have 28°, yesterday no sun but high 30's.
This morning it's 34°, expecting to get to around 40° mid afternoon!
Just saw 34 turkeys about a mile up the road where those ones were roosting yesterday. They were marching across the road some distance ahead of me. The garbage truck came along and off they went into the air. Quite the sight. I got a chuckle out of it anyway. Turkey farm, free range style. ;D :D
First skunk of the year emerged for a snack. ;D
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Them things are kinda like black flies, get few warm days and they come out. ;D
Stayed above freezing here all night, I have 38° and heading for the high 40's with a little sun mixed in.
:D :D
36F here, had some rain showers in the night. Suppose to be mid 40's sometime today before the big freeze up. ;D I put sand on ice yesterday and it ate most of that up, down to gravel. ;D
I hate seeing a skunk around here.
A 2-strand electric fence has kept them out of the crawl space under part of my house for the last 4 years!
It's pretty hot, it's listed as adequate for 2 miles of wire, and this one only powers 80 feet! ;D
Skunks are active around here most of the year, digging and eating grubs in the lawn. And stealing the odd egg from the neighbor's chickens. :D
55F clear skies and a breeze today. Feels like one of those warm days you get in mid march that indicates spring is near.
Yes there was a breeze today, but at almost 50° the breeze felt warm!!!
What a beautiful day it was. I spent every bit outdoors. was just cool enough to work outside in a tshirt(but a little chilly if you weren't moving). The breeze kept me from sweating much and the sun felt good. Birds were chirping, couldn't of asked for a better winter day
After this warm spell all the roofs have shed their snow.
Sand on ice works good to melt the ice in the driveway.
4° for the high today, with the north wind howling it felt like -22°. -8° currently with a mostly clear sky so she's probably going to keep dropping. We haven't seen above freezing temps since before Christmas, and not looking like we will see them according to the 10 day forecast.
I saw 42 below F this morning and looks like it will get near there tonight to. Gotta love northern MN
Remnants of cyclone Dovi have just passed over, nothing serious here, just some wind and rain. But some trees down, power cuts, slips over roads and some minor flooding around the Island. Started out 22C this morning, then as the wind changed it's dropped to 12C over the day. I know that's not "cold", but it's still middle of Summer. Be a first dusting of snow falling on the Mt about now, but it will probably melt next week.
Sunny and 75 here. Really need some rain and snow.
Got to 44F I think yesterday, was not much sun, only peeked through now and again. The snow did not all melt off the main porch, but most of it did. It was a like a shower off there all day. Interesting when scooping out the snow that fell off and melt water raining down. ::)
My cousin's boy got married yesterday :) COVID got in the way of that for 2 years. smiley_thumbsdown His bride works just as hard on the tree farm as any good man. I'm happy for them both.
This is their Facebook page, they sell some produce and meat during the warm season.
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We received a dose of blowing snow through the day yesterday, ending up with 2 inches!
This morning started out at 4°, not expected to get very high today.
4F here this morning also, and that dropped 8 degrees since 4:00 am. Went for a walk in full wool gear. ;D No turkeys this morning, just snow buntings. :)
I guess the thaw is done. All the water re-froze overnight and it's in the low 20's now. Not supposed to reach 30 today and cold for the next few days until Wednesday. Looks like another rainout for Thursday. Feels like March, but I know we still have time to set up for a blizzard before winter is over. It's happened before.
We got about an inch of new snow overnight and it is tapering out with big Hollywood flakes coming down now. Just an annoyance snow hiding the ice underneath it.
Quote from: Old Greenhorn on February 13, 2022, 08:24:26 AM
I guess the thaw is done. All the water re-froze overnight and it's in the low 20's now. Not supposed to reach 30 today and cold for the next few days until Wednesday. Looks like another rainout for Thursday. Feels like March, but I know we still have time to set up for a blizzard before winter is over. It's happened before.
I have 18° now, but you have and will have the same thing I have and will have. smiley_dizzy
-20° this morning. No thaw in sight.
It's never moved above 4F yet today, cold wind.
Just about 20°, no sun all day and I did not need the head lamp at 5:45PM!!!
Reached 12F yesterday afternoon, we had sun all afternoon. This morning it is -2F, no wind.
Back to winter!!
6°
Well yeah, it's still winter. 11° here this morning. More concerning is that our temps and conditions have varied so much from what SD us getting the last couple of days. MUCH colder by him and this is unusual for such a big split. I wonder is this is foretelling a pattern shift?
Calling for 50°+ here Thursday. Weird.
Kind of a gray day and 4° here, but the sun is trying to burn through!
We are going to get 50F degree temps Thursday and with some rain Friday. Our cold blasts here come across from James Bay and across the St Lawrence. 2F right now. I'm looking across the way toward Masardis, Maine and it is snowing in the hills. Bone dry here, yesterday they hauled potatoes in the morning by here and the dust flew for 300 yards. They had put down a heavy helping of sand, just before the mild spell. Probably more sand than the first half of winter and more than we'll see for the rest. :D
Sanding on Saturday took care of most of the ice where I have to walk and the rest will be gone by Friday in the warm spring weather. ;D
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Spent the morning yesterday setting up 143' of fence with my fishing buddy sweating in the 76° record hot day. Funny how a 100° day in August can feel chilly after a week of 110! The high moved on last night and we are back to winter. Only supposed to get to 68° today. ::) Normal is low to mid-50s with low 30's overnight.
4° and should see 20 today.
39° and we will see 68° today. cold on Thursday with snow before our campout this weekend.
Im just pithed off....last 2 days have been near 10F...super chilly this morning. 3 days ago it was just under 60F and sunny I had a tshirt on outside. The constant flip flop of temperatures always leaves you not well adjusted or ready for the cold
9° headed for 28° and clear.
We haven't seen anything close to 60, highest was just over 40 a couple of days ago, but I think that was enough to mess with me, the high humidity seems to have triggered my ear problems and my left ear has been plugged solid and giving me all kinds of misery and lost sleep/pain for 2 days now.
Tomorrow 40, Thursday over 50. I have 2 clients coming today so it's time to suck it up and get ready.
Probably need a bunch of earwax removed
0F here this morning, probably won't get more than 12F, hasn't for the last 3 days. Sunny, no wind.
Time for Olympic hockey, Canada vs China in a couple minutes.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on February 15, 2022, 07:52:00 AM
0F here this morning, probably won't get more than 12F, hasn't for the last 3 days. Sunny, no wind.
Time for Olympic hockey, Canada vs China in a couple minutes.
Good Luck. Wish I could watch that game here, we have figure skating. >:(
Tired streaming CBC, but not allowed here. I lost track of the eliminations. QWho is making the medal rounds in the mens group? I have been able to keep up with the women, and that Gold Medal game may keep me out of bed that night. It's gonna be a good one. Both teams paying well.
Here's the men's standings
Standings | 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games - Men's Hockey (https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/team-canada/men/olympics/2022/stats/team-standings)
women's
Standings | 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games (Women?s Hockey) (https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/team-canada/women/olympics/2022/stats/team-standings)
6:2 Canada
NOOOOOO!
Well congratulations to our Northern brethren.
(Hey, how come we got no Canadian flag in all those emoticons?)
Canadian Women's team is on top currently, US men are on top right now.
Women's gold between Canada and USA is Wednesday night 11:00 pm eastern. Thursday 12:00 am Atlantic.
Way up to 26° here this morning, supposed to get up to 40° this afternoon!
I had 6 this morning, should get above freezing today. Tomorrow looks good for temps.
Was 2F early and now 12F. Overcast. Suppose to be in the 20's by afternoon. Big thaw next two days.
41 degrees and raining. Not a good day for downhill skiing which I did yesterday with good conditions.
Today hit 26°, the warmest day we have had since the middle of December. Tomorrow back to the single digits.
We didn't have a January thaw and from the look of things we won't have a February thaw either.
60° T shirt weather today. sat up the mess hall tent for the scout camp "Alaska" this weekend. low temps with rain then ice, then snow tomorrow. 1 to 3 or 6 to 12 inches depending on who you listen to. 50s on Friday, so more mud conditions than snow. prob. this is Ks so you never really know.
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38F this morning and a south wind. Melting. ;D
I have 42!!!
Winter is not over. Just so everyone knows. ;D
Woke up to 44° this morning and light drizzle, rain forecasted for this afternoon, and a winter storm warning posted starting at 7:00 tonight and running for 24 hours!
3:2 Canada Women get the gold
Yeah, yeah, I know. Those Canadian women definitely had their "A" game rolling. I will say that game was anything BUT boring. All those women can really play. I really enjoy watching good players do their work, win or lose. I stayed up for the whole thing in spite of being miserable sick. (Still wish we had a Canadian flag emoticon ;D_)
Warmed all through the night here, 43 now and still climbing. Low 50's today? I have a ton of work to do with this weather being good, but I feel so poorly, I just can't and it's killing me. I should feel better when the cold weather returns in 36 hours or so. >:(
Quote from: thecfarm on February 17, 2022, 08:22:51 AM
I have 42!!!
Winter is not over. Just so everyone knows. ;D
Probably not but liking the not having to stoke the woodstove for a spell.
Had 8 below yesterday morn.
I have 50° now.
I am going out to cut some wood up for the cold weather that is coming.
Well, never got more than 38F so far, rain arrived before noon. But we are in for a blizzard tomorrow once this cools off. I will be hugging the pillows tomorrow morning. :D
High of 8 degrees so far today and snow. Crazy reading about all you northern guys getting warm ups and rain and we have barely broke into the 20s since back in December.
Hard to believe for sure. But you haven't much for hills to block the arctic blast. It's even mild in southern Alberta. Radar shows rain south of you a far ways, but tracking along Lakes Erie and Ontario and the St Lawrence. North of that is mix and then snow as you climb. I'm further north here than the tip of MI mainland, probably about Thunder Bay latitude. But the Atlantic here changes our weather with wind whipping off of it. Been raining hard along the Fundy today I think. Been just showers here. 42F now.
If we get a few more days like this the black flies will be out. :D
There is some melting going on there!!!
I have a small pond where I saw the wood up, and a steady stream of water feeding it.
Yes the snow melted some, but no flood here, just a puddle in front of the garage entry door. Nothing else. Never melted all the ice that was left in the lower loop of the driveway. Still a little porch snow left, maybe 2 wheel barrel loads. ;D
Living in Ontonagon Mi must build character. The old saying goes : hardship builds character.
Tough stuff at times with the big lake to your northwest.
Not to rub it in but @55 above 0 today me and the missus strapped on our skis wearing only long sleeve shirts and pants of course and tooled around the front 10 acres for awhile. Snow was soft for a change.
We had drizzling rain off and on most of the day, most of the snow is gone and the ditches are full.
Tonight, we start with a winter storm warning through until 7:00 tomorrow night!
Have to be a little crazy to live here. I don't mind the 20 feet of snowfall but I could do without the prolonged sub-zero temps.
Kids have been asking to go sledding but by the time a guy plows snow at 3 farms and feeds cattle everyday the last thing he wants to do is sit in the snow at -5° and go sledding. We've bit the bullet and gone a few short times, but a nice 30° day and we could spend half the day outside having fun.
Here it is at 8:30 at night and it's 48°. :o Not going to last. It's only a little past mid Feb. Still have a long ways to go for May.
had a little wind with the rain and snow last night
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got it back up and added the stakes all around the bottom. wind lifted it up. the gateway we laid over until be are there
Wow! We had the wind and cold but you got all the snow
Just got home. Truck said -15f. This is really getting old.
36F here this morning and I could here the rain on steel since 10:00 pm last night. I looked at the woodpile and I could see wood. ;D But there is 3'+ of snow between the house and the barn. But not deep around the barn doors at all, I could see grass around the door. But snow is up as high as the top edge of the windows on the slope side. Without the natural snow fence I'd have a 12' drift of snow there between house and barn. Wind will blow into those spruce trees from nowhere it seems. I could be 1/4 mile up the road and not a whisper of wind. But on top of Mars Hill the windmills are turning. Wind is weird and mysterious. Snow will lay in the shadow of those spruce until May 20th. I know a farmer who will scoop snow with the tractor and put at the entrance of his seed potato barns from April until almost June, planting time. Free coolant. ;D A little further out from this guy, in Juniper, they get twice as much snow as I do. I have waded 3 feet of snow along the tree line when flagging and measuring thinning ground at the end of May. Many roads still plugged with 2 feet of snow.
PS, weather app says it is snowing and 32F here. That's how reliable that is. :D :D
I have 50° and wind. By high noon should be below freezing.
we've had odd weather in NH lately too. Mon was a dusting and a flury. Had to treat roads
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Yesterday it hit 60! I'll try and get a pick of whats left for snow. We aren't treating roads today, maybe adding crushed gravel to treat mud spots!
Quote from: chevytaHOE5674 on February 17, 2022, 07:29:48 PM
Have to be a little crazy to live here. I don't mind the 20 feet of snowfall but I could do without the prolonged sub-zero temps.
I've always been impressed at how adaptable humans can be to their harsh environments.
I recall some weeks of steady extreme cold for here back in the early 90s.
-20 to -30 F every night , some towns to the north lost municipal water supplies from frozen pipes
5-6' feet down.
But my 1st hand experiences in really harsh winter conditions was working for one of the big ski mountains
here and being the one who did some chairlift check rides first thing in the morning. If it was 10 below and the wind and snow was blowing 40-50 mph at the top had to ask myself what am I doing here.
Rain and 50 ,watching snow turn to vapor this morning, sublimation, kinda cool .
When I went to bed last night, we still had 40° and drizzling rain, sometime later switched to freezing rain, then early this morning switched to snow and 15°.
This winter storm warning is to lift around 7:00 tonight.
Right now we have about 3 inches of new snow!
Temperature dropped into the freezing digits and we have ice starting to build up on trees. Rain/freezing on contact. ::)
Finished plowing a couple hours ago, seems we got right at 7 inches of snow!
We still have 16° out there.
There was a lot of water in the bottom of the snow I plowed!
high of 60 yesterday, 54 when I got up this am, 37 around 1pm. Windy too. We made lots.of mud on our dirt roads
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Been snowing since noon, mostly light stuff, but heavy at times. I don't think there is an inch of snow yet. At one time the sun was almost out, then went away. :D
Them warm temps and the rain really took the snow away. Just making room for more!!
4 degrees with 50+ mph winds with snow either falling or being blown around. Blizzard warning issued. 4 foot tall drift across the driveway appeared in about an hours time. County has pulled the plows off the roads until the winds die down and visibility is better.
Wow, chevy, what a mess. :o
I have 4°.
18F this morning. The sky was clear and full of stars and moon all night, now the clouds are moving in to feed a small disturbance of snow later. ;D
We have 22° light snow and a good stiff wind going on now, supposed to lift around noon!
Don't know what the wind speed is, but that chill factor is brutal!
Temp dropped slowly all through the day yesterday after a 15°drop between 5 and 6am. Ground was froze up solid by dark. I should have waited one more day before bringing Mule in the yard to winch logs yesterday. Now I have frozen tire wallows across the lawn to repair. >:(
Low last night was 16 and up to 24° now, with a high of about 32 today. Clouds came in and covered up the sun about 1/2 hour ago and out snow should stat here within the hour, looks like a moderate line of snow showers, not much expected. Same line Chuck got a few hours ago and Swamp will get next. Cold for a couple of days, then warming again. Hoping it just moderates without the extremes. I need frozen ground for a couple more weeks as many others do, but we seldom get what we want, right? :D
Light dry snow and wind started here this afternoon. Not an accumulating snow.
We had a severe line of squall go through around 3 pm that had us in whiteout conditions for 1/2 hour. Heaviest snow I have seen all season and we got about an inch out of it. Had me on edge because my wife was up in the hills west of here helping somebody move and she does NOT drive in the snow. There were accidents all over. I texted her to sit tight for an hour, but in the hills, the cell service just ain't. I was really worried because she gets nervous and that makes it worse then the actual road conditions. She finally got home and I was so stressed that I needed a nap. :D
Dropping to 12° tonight, back into heating season.
Wife and I were at a restaurant when that squall line came thru here last night. Pretty funny, everyone's cell phone weather alarms went off in the place.
Snowed and blowed like a banshee for maybe an hour and a half. Maybe two inches, hard to tell.
The wind blew hard all day today, lots of snow in the air!
It seemed like whenever the snow would stop falling, the wind would whip up a ground blizzard.
Around the yard and driveway I don't see much accumulation, just a drift here and there.
I figure it'll take me about 1/4 of the normal time to plow out here at the house tomorrow morning!
Gold goes to Finland 2:1 over ROC Nice to see some new blood get the gold. ;D
Silver goes to ROC
Bronze goes to Slovakia 4:0 over Sweden
10F here this morning, clear, wind.
It's -2° here this morning and dead quiet out there this morning.
I've got a few drifts to clean up, but that's going to wait until it warms up a little!
Temperature dropped since daylight, down to 5 now. Cold wind. Cleaned half an inch off and put down new sand afterword on the ice rink of a yard. :D
Hot weather here today 27°. Supposed to start dropping now and Monday/ Tuesday a storm rolls thru potentially dropping 15" of snow..... hurray for winter
I had 8° this morning, clouds all day and 24 now.
Snow coming Tuesday, not a big one, then followed up with rain on Wednesday for some more slop mess and ice. :D
42F down in the swamp today. Wowsers. Tearing down old deck back there. Coveralls and t-shirt.
Snow or rain or sleet tomorrow night/Tues. Steady cold for a while after that.
Wouldn't mind if winter stuck around for a while. Making burn pile from deck debris and will burn yet this inter if I can.
25F this morning and going above freezing apparently.
Been meaning to do this for a while now SD. You are 500 miles NNE of me and your temp and mine are identical this morning within 0.3 degrees. It's often within 1 or 2 but geez it's amazing how close your weather is to ours except when a system gets between us.
We have the same forecast today also for today.
Just weird.
High 40's and the sun is out!!!! No wind either.
Wow, it got up into the 40°'s here today
Reached 36F here and no sun, a little breeze off the icebergs. A lot of ice melted in the driveway, not all bare yet. But is bare where I need it to be. ;D
Close to a foot now and still snowing with a strong wind and more on the way glade my snow blower has a goor heater in it :snowball:
50 and sun. Pulled a couple chairs out of the basement
and sat on the deck for a spell. Hard to describe it, the warmth and all.
Well, I hadn't planned on much work today but I did have some logs to move before the ground thawed. I was still wearing my 'sick old man' pants and feeling poorly. They are heavy fleece lined jeans I only wear about once a year in extreme cold, or when I am sick and can't stay warm. Got a call on a tree job I couldn't let go, but those pants got changed out when I dropped off the first load of logs. It hit 56° here today! Started out sliding on ice and ended up slogging through mud. We got that tree pulled out just before the tracked skid steer started going a bit too deep.
Weird day, nice sun, little wind, my impacted ear throbbing through the whole thing.
Supposed to be warm again tomorrow, but not as much then heavy rain in the second half. big mud for sure. Guess those logs will have to wait for a re-freeze. Can't get 'em out now. ;D :D
got up to 70° today, and now down to 52 with real feel of 42, wind change out of the north. cold here till Friday.
15F here this morning, it hasn't snowed yet.
This is what Diesel thinks of it 12 outside and a 22 mph wind
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we are at 6° with wind that goes through both natural and manufactured fiber. I am making the same face, but I do not look (quite) as cute. shaved my beard yesterday. after the last winter campout, and for our 24th wedding anniversary. not sure why now. could have waited a few more days. :snowball:
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Your going to feel the cold with the beard shaved but I'm sure your wife will be happy
I dunno Doc, I think you grow a pretty fine beard, not scraggly like mine. You and the Misses are the only ones who have to deal with it though. Whatever makes you happy. :)
this is why we feel our GS are smart.
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up to 8° here with -13° wind chill today. fire in the woodstove.
@Walnut Beast (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=49695) @Jeff (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=1) what is Sawyer up to?
6° currently 30-50mph wind gusts, blizzard conditions. Visibility ranges from 6 inches to 6 feet depending on the wind. Hard to know how much snow has actually fallen but greater than 12" less than 20", but its supposed to keep coming down until morning so we may surpass that 20" mark by then. Not pleasant outside thats for sure.
Freezing rain and sleet here last night and all day today. All schools and many businesses are closed including the Caberfae Ski Area. Vehicle travel is very limited.
I was exactly 100 years ago today; Cadillac had a devastating and damaging ice storm as the weather history repeats itself.
Same storm happened here too Ron. Articles from 1922 describe as much as 4 inches of ice on trees and everything else.
Somewhere off to the NW, there must've been enormous snowfall. Probably far northern WI, upper Michigan, and NE Minnesota.
Same mess as Ron got, freezing rain and sleet, now rain and 40F and a little wind. Going to rain today to.
Oh yea, freezing rain started at just about 5pm, by the time I got out of work at 6 the truck was covered with a layer of ice. Pulled into the bank parking lot, slowly, ayup all ice.
Main road was fine, they had put down some salt, that 2 miles of back road was all ice, I was only doing 10-15mph. I stepped on the brake and the ABS was just a thumping!!!!!
For once glad I live on a dirt road. With it being warm, the dirt road was rough. It the road would have been tar, probably no way to make it up the hill without pulling over into the side of the road to get onto the dirt.
I have 34° now and looking at high 50's today.
The snow storm has come to an end some roads are still closed over a foot of snow in my yard.
When the sun comes time to get the snowblower going but 17 below wind chill 35 below :snowball:
Warm yesterday in the 40's Rain from 11am on through the night, temp warmed to the high 50's through the night with a wind at 10-15. Those 2 things combined to remove much of the remaining snow and ice, but we still have a few piles. Sure glad I moved those logs yesterday, no way to do that today. ;D
Light drizzle and overcast called for through midday, then sun, I hope, to dry this out before we get back below freezing tonight for the next several days.
Patterns are changing. ;D
54° here now.
Warm, in the 40's yesterday and through the night, still 40° and the wind picked up, snow's going away!
It's above 40F now, and no rain, just warm breeze. The roads and driveway are 100% 1/2" thick ice.
Officially ended up with 21.9" of snowfall. Things have slowed to a crawl UP here while we all dig out.
Here's a drift under the eve of my pole barn. There is 14' of clearance under there as a reference.
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Same system down here in Green Bay land ended up mostly sleet. Heard one muffled clap of thunder. Mostly big nothing here, guestimate 3 inches new snow up at farm.
Yep, that's some nasty snow I haven't seen for awhile, when you had to plank up a path and walk under to get into and out of the house. :D
The warmth has pretty much rotted the ice out in the yard and off roads. Peeks of sun and 46F now. :) The snow has dropped 2 feet since 2 weeks ago. Bare circles around the yard trees that are away from the plowing indicate less than a foot. But snow is a little deeper away from tree crowns, places 18" and not in a drift. Around the house is drainage stone, so the water off the snow just disappears and probably a foot clearance from the concrete.
Hit 60 here and lots of sun.
Dropped off to 40 in a couple hrs after lunch and windy to boot. Heading down to 10 overnight.
With the snow about gone not looking good for sugarin this year.
Need the snowmobile to gather sap and unless we get a couple feet of snow
in the near future it ain't happening. Got plenty maple syrup left over from last year
so all is good either way.
I hope there's nothing important under that roof, like a sawmill.
It was 64 yesterday morning and we were planing some slabs in shirt sleeves. It got cold and windy in the evening. Now its 20 deg and sleeting hard. Could end up with several inches of sleet. That's still better than freezing rain. I'll take this.
It was 60F south of us in Fredericton, a record for this day.
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Here's a drift under the eve of my pole barn. There is 14' of clearance under there as a reference.
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😳 Wow! Just what you wanted to spend your time doing. Stay warm
Quote from: firefighter ontheside on February 23, 2022, 05:12:02 PM
I hope there's nothing important under that roof, like a sawmill.
It was 64 yesterday morning and we were planing some slabs in shirt sleeves. It got cold and windy in the evening. Now its 20 deg and sleeting hard. Could end up with several inches of sleet. That's still better than freezing rain. I'll take this.
Bill, I looked at the radar around you and it looks like snow, but I guess sleet shows up the same. As you said, no freezing rain, we had that, it's beat. >:(
Stayed in the 50's through the night and hit 66° just past noon! 8) Then the party was over and it began to drop steady and it's 37 now and still dropping through the evening. No precip here until Bill is done playing with it and send it our way for tomorrow night. They are calling for around 9" overnight Thursday. Take the plow off.....put the plow on....take the plow off...put the plow on, etc, etc. ;D
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Here's a drift under the eve of my pole barn. There is 14' of clearance under there as a reference.
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On the bright side....At least that isn't sawdust. ;D
A blizzard was coming in fast, but there was going to be enough time to get a few slabs, right?
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Uncovered the pile of ash and sliced off a few chunks. Yeah, snows coming on fast now.
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The curve in the road didn't get marked before the ground froze, but I'm pretty sure I remember . . .
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Nope, I didn't remember quite THAT tight a curve. Yep, time for the cell and get out that tow strap.
Yesterday morning it was 8 when I got up, with a high of about 22, and then this morning it was 2 when I rose, have to feed an orphan calf, then got up to 22 today. We had just a dusting of snow, missed any rain. Tomarrow the forecast is for -1, then get up to 20. We have had 3 slight snows this winter, no rain. Last rain we got was in October. Things are dry here in N central Kansas.
46F Yesterday, 10F this morning. The wind knocked out power for an hour last night. I was surprised it was restored so fast, but just 2 hrs before it flickered, so maybe someone was already on it. Might have been a tree on the line. Winter in NB. 8)
Life's a struggle, in Canada, eh. :D
Just 6°, calm and partly cloudy sky!
Quote from: Chuck White on February 24, 2022, 07:29:07 AM
Just 6°, calm and partly cloudy sky!
The calm before the......
Hang on, It's coming....
Actually Chuck I'm not sure how much of this one you may get. FFOTS got it yesterday and we are supposed to get it tonight. It is what it are. ;D We will send it up your way and over to SD when we are done with it.
24° here now and pretty calm. Good day to straighten up before another blanket get laid down.
Lost the internet for a while.
A much better ride home tonight.
yes was 60° here yesterday!! Even had the sun out. Then the wind came up and the temp dropped a few hours later. And I mean wind. First off just some gusts and then a steady wind.
I had 14° this morning.
Snow storm coming in tomorrow.
By 7:00 am the temp dropped to 6F, now back up to 10F. 2" of snow coming tomorrow afternoon.
Crust is not solid enough to hold, but I walked over a mile on old shoe trails. Anywhere with weeds and shrubs under the snow, you go clean in to your belt line. :D Only seeing rabbit and coyote tracks. One mouse scurried out of the lean too. ;D Saw an eagle 2 days ago. I suspect he was around that old dead cow up the road by the neighbor.
Swampdonkey must have some snow!!
The field on the hill is just about bare. That fields gets the sun all day, mine does not. My field still covered with snow, but only a few inches.
Yes a lot more snow in the shelter of the woods. Not as much in the old road with open sky. ;D
I don't think I have much snow in the woods. I say I don't think. I drove the tractor out through one area, that was woods and if I was cutting trees, I would not have to shovel around many that I saw. Tractor had no trouble driving through a few inches of snow. I have not been out in the woods after our 60° day yesterday. I got home after dark and that wind was blowing. Just hanging out on here for a while. Getting caught up, with no internet when I got home last night.
That little bit of snow may only be an inch now.
The woods around home here will lose snow 4-6 weeks before it's gone east of here in Juniper and Napadogan. And Napadogan is further south than me. If there is more softwood, holds the snow longer. Up the road in a little maple grove that my cousin taps, not even a foot in there. My ground has a lot of softwood.
In the middle of the UP our snowfall stands at 170 inches, 30 inches above normal!!!
We definitely get our share, but quite often when a storm is coming cross-country it will shift (South) and hit the Watertown/Syracuse area or go the other way (North) and follow State Rt 11 and the St Lawrence River.
We are located almost deadcenter in St Lawrence County!
We had 185" in 2008, 163" by now in 2018, and we have half that now, 84". We had a lot of 1 to 3" storms. The next one is insignificant to. We get winters with tons of snow, and then even winters with hardly any. In 2006, I could drive anywhere on roads that don't get plowed. 1981 we had no snow, I burned spruce limbs all winter where my uncle cut wood.
Zero this morning.
10° and it just started to snow.
It's just 15° here this morning and about 1½ inches of snow fell through the night, and it's still coming at a pretty good clip!
Our total snowfall is 72 inches for the season, we are slated to receive a foot or so out of the current storm!
Well the snow came in late last night and it was snowing right smart at daybreak, but just now it's tapered off. I heard some sleet in there also, but not sure how much yet. Looks like we only have 5" or so. I think it will end within another hour or two. Definitely some strong energy in this one, but fairly fast moving for it's size. Definitely gotta plow this one.
22° now and it might break freezing around 3pm. Solid overcast, not mush wind.
Not even a snow flake so far, but that could change by afternoon. It's 5F now, so unless it warmed up 15 degrees or more, there will be much a do about nothing. ;D
That being said, my reprint, copy or whatever form it is, of Edwin (Tappan) Adney's "Klondike Stampeders', will be in my hands today. Written in 1900 after the infamous Klondike Gold Rush. A first person account. A period in history from which the upper end of Royalton was named by two Stampeders in the family. There are Skedaddlers in Knowlesville, well we have Stampeders in Royalton. And the author of such goings on laid to rest 30 miles from here. :)
https://tappanadney.com
His model birch bark canoes he learned about making in Woodstock, N.B. with a native canoe maker, Peter Jo, are on display at The Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, Virginia.
His wife Minnie was probably the first woman to run for Canadian Parliament, 3 times over. The first time was when it was still illegal for women to do so. ;D
We got 6" last night of fluff on this bare ice. Every step is an adventure out there. I shoveled the driveway and feel lucky I've got two intact ankles.
Well SD, I am hoping your delivery person makes it through in time. I am watching the radar and there is a circle forming around your area of no pecip, but it IS coming, none the less.
I just came in from feeding the shop stove and cleaning off the wifes car (I have no idea why I did that). It is flippin' miserable out there. Steady heavy sleet now. I ain't doin' nothin' until this stops. Should be done in another hour or two. This is going to be heavy moving stuff. I tried pulling the tarp off to fetch in shop wood, but nope. This all has to be plowed out. UGH.
I've had to sand more than once this winter, and even sanded a neighbor's yard a week ago. He's disabled by a stroke, he is mobile, but he can't have a driver's license. Just one of them good deeds. The other day a neighour was having trouble with his truck, turns out it required some gas. Willie dropped in with some replacement gas yesterday. ;)
I even been using rock salt on the driveway this year, Ice ice and more ice. But not this storm. I don't think it got above 15° all day and an all day snow storm too. But maybe 6 inches, I doubt anymore than that. Light snow!!! Seem like this we get rain than snow.
We ended up with 8 inches of fluffy snow out of this storm!
0F this morning again, clear skies. Just 1/2" of snow or less here.
I have -10. That OWB is still chewing through the wood at that temp.
Mid 20's today for a high.
8° this morning, still dropping a bit. Not quite sunrise yet, almost. We got about 5" of snow yesterday with a mess of heavy sleet on top. Heavy to plow for sure, but enough that I had to do it. Today's high is to just hit 30° and it looks like the trend for a few days, mid 30's daytime and 20's or below at night. Skies appear to be clear now
SD I checked the radar up your way a couple of times yesterday and it looked like you were in a dry pocket surrounded by snow. You must lead a charmed life. ;D I hope your book arrived on schedule.
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I'll take that as a 'yes'. :D ;D Enjoy.
Fresh dry snow on ice = recipe for disaster. Went from vertical to horizontal in 1 second.
Dusted myself off and nothing broken, bruised maybe.
Had to snow blow the drive ( 6" ) in the dark last night in prep for a delivery today.
Found out I need to add some rear flood lights pretty quick. That headlamp mounted on the
roll bar didn't cut it. 1st time out in the dark with it.
Milled in short pants and sleeves Thursday and Friday. Back in heavy duty shirt and overalls today.
Mid 30s for a high the next few days
SO, just curious, are you enjoying the book? :D :D :D ???
Love a real life adventure. ;D
If you aren't enjoying the book, it may not be too late to send it back.
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She's a hard trail for sure.;D
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She's a hard trail for sure.;D
Yeah, I am picking up that vibe too. :D :D :D :D ;D
You should consider moving those posts to their own thread about that story.
Jim Rogers
@woodroe (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=12647), I use a head lamp, but on my head. I kinda put it off to one side. Come on into the store and I will sell you the same one. :D I think 1000 lumens. Plenty of light.
I did the driveway one morning, in the dark, I had to go to work. I think we had about 8-10 inches. This was after the warm up and rain. There was no edge to go by, I did not want to drive off the driveway and get stuck.
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@woodroe (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=12647), I use a head lamp, but on my head. I kinda put it off to one side.
Geez hadn't thought of that yet Ray. If I have to blow snow in the dark again
I'll try that off to one side idea. Might need some newer batteries too.
I realize that most of the country is having cool weather now. Yesterday, at about 4 pm it was 91°F. Today, I took a picture of a couple of live oak trees growing next to each other. One was full of new leaves and the other was preparing to drop. I know we are nearly a month away on the calendar from spring, but spring has sprung. I have a dozen or so volunteer slash pine that I would like to transplant with my grandson, but I think it may be too late.
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And when I used batteries I went with the rechargeable ones.
This one has only one rechargeable battery in it. The other one I have takes 3 AA batteries.
I haul out a lot of wood after dark in the fall. Gets dark at 5PM than.
We had a cooling trend this last week. Low on Wednesday was 26°, Thursday 28° with highs in the low 60's, but heading back to 40's overnight with highs in the low 70's. Last two weeks we were in the mid-70's which has the plant thinking it is spring. I noticed today that my blueberry bushes are either in bloom or have set fruit already. Might get two crops this year?
Reached 28F today and some snow squalls off and on.
It was 26° and snowing pretty good when I got up this morning, so nothing to do except wait it out!
About 2:30 the snow quit just like someone threw a switch!
Went out and got all the plowing done before supper!
We ended up with another 8 inches of light snow!
We had a snow squall around 6:30pm. More than an inch of snow from that.
Went to bed while the temp was 20°, got up this morning and the temp was -4°.
So far this Winter season we've gotten 88 inches of snow!
About 1/2" here from squalls, and wind, still wind. Scooped that off. 4F this morning and never budged yet. A 2 Stanfield morning.
Scarf around the neck too!!!
Boy that wind is bad.
At work I said to just about every customer. Tomorrow is March!! March just sounds warmer. ;D They all agreed.
The morning is looking cold.
5F here, no wind at least, so far. ;D
-5 here. Maybe almost 30 today.
It's March 1!!!!!! ;D
The wind, the wind, the wind!!!
24° but they said feels like 8°.
After putting 2 wipers on the van, I think they are right.
Lots of sun.
Was 15F this morning, sun and snow squalls. Hasn't budged much since.
On yea, just to keep up on this, got about 2 inches the other night of snow and 2 inches last night.
No way I am blowing snow in this wind. We can get in and out just fine.
Got all mild here, highs in the thirties n such. A little cooler today, then big warmup with rain and possible t-storms Saturday.
I wouldn't call it a snowy winter up at the farm, but there has been a continuous 18" to 24" or so snow cover since well before Christmas. Much deeper in drift areas
Here in A-Town, a real nothing winter for snow. My land is just 58 miles due north of here, but might as well be in another country.
Tuesday morning I moved 2" of snow. The squalls here have not been significant and melts on the gravel, even though well below freezing. The sun has power.
Been getting some snow here!
Yesterday I plowed 2 inches of snow, then covered the same area again today and moved another 8 inches!
Blew about 6" of snow off the drive this AM before the wind kicked up, 2 different storms total.
Falling temps to below 0 tonight. March in like a Lion.
Hung out at the sugar shack with the woodstove going watching the wind blowing snow around.
Retirement life ain't all that bad, not much pressure , do as you please.
On my 4 mile walk this morning I saw a couple cardinals along the road in the maples. See them once or twice a year in these parts.
Last night around 7:00 pm, the moon setting behind the sun. You can just make out the shape of the moon and the obvious sliver the day after the new moon. ;D
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-1 this morning. It's March. ;D
Sunny and -4F this morning, no wind. No heat wave either. :D :D
-14° here this morning, and no new snow!
Forecast to get up around 20° this afternoon!
I have -3 with a hope of above freezing today.
12F above here, must be a heat wave. ;D Clear blue sky to.
Saw a 2 day old moose bed yesterday, but no fresh tracks. But that old bull is hanging around. Gotta take a shoe up today to, to check around.
Yesterday was -12°, Today its 32° and raining. Ice is building up quickly, forecasters are calling for ¼ to ½ an inch of ice before changing back to snow. Its miserable outside.
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12F above here, must be a heat wave. ;D Clear blue sky to.
Saw a 2 day old moose bed yesterday, but no fresh tracks. But that old bull is hanging around. Gotta take a shoe up today to, to check around.
You see that story about the cow moose attacking sled dogs and musher . Had to put the Moose down after
repeatedly attacking .
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Maybe the moose had brain worm. I have been around a lot of moose, and never had an aggressive one. I think in parts of northern Ontario, where they may be more isolated from humans, that they probably behave more aggressive than here when encountered. I don't trust them for sure, but never been threatened yet.
Not unusual for cow moose to take offense to much of anything that may threaten them or their young. The dogs that are like wolves or coyotes, the humans and the sled. Invade their territory, better watch out.
Never saw anything fresh today, but the moose has been hanging around on the south end of the lot where there is more cedar. Some of his track holes are waste deep in snow. He beds under large firs where there is less snow next to the tree trunk. Chews willow, mountain maples and dogwoods and green fir limbs. Not much red maple in reach, except for suckers.
That Moose had an axe to grind for sure, hate for coyotes probably but
with a brain the size of a softball hard to know whats going on in that big head.
Had quite a few come through the yard over the years, never had an aggressive one yet.
Dog sent one running more than once
Come spring, any day now, they will be stripping bark off red maples as the sap runs.
Sweet tasty bark.
Going boom boom boom tonight. At least an inch and a half of rain so far, falling on frozen ground. There's a large pond out in the street in front of our house. Streets be a-flooding here in A-Town tonight
Reached 36F here yesterday afternoon with sun. Was out sitting a spell under the shelter of the porch, but can't see more than a 7-1/2 cord wood pile. :D But man, were the planes from the east coming in off the Atlantic. At first there was 5 all at once, then the next time I looked up I saw 15 chem trails. They fleeing Europe? ??? Or making up for 2 years of lock downs?
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we were near 80 two days ago making firewood in t-shirts. it will get down to 18 tonight. had a wild/grass fire yesterday. lost homes, cars and pets but no humans that I heard of. the wind was 35 mph and it makes it hard to contain. prairie grass is often 3 feet tall.
32° here and looks to almost 50 today.
The next ten days show above freezing temps almost every day, freezing back up at night. That should get the sap flowing!!
A drizzle going on right now, had just about snow to cover the ground.
48°, rain & wind here this morning!
The rain has begun, it is just 33F here now. Suppose to rain all night.
The temperature hit 60° here today, but very windy, and the sap didn't run very well!
66.9° for a high today! 8) I was tempted to find my speedo and sit in a lawn chair in the middle of the mud in the yard to soak it all up. But I didn't. Warmer outside than in the shop for a while, but not now. ;D Go down 3" and the ground is still frozen, so everything melting is not soaking in, making puddles everywhere.
We are in a warming trend for a few days. Should I take the plow off and call it a winter? Not quite yet. We will see how long this runs. For now it looks better. Tomorrow is a rain out as far as I can see. I can live with this, whatever it is.
I bet sugaring will get better soon, but it might be a short season.
OK, two things anyone over 55 needs to stay away from.
speedos and ladders.
OK, back to the weather. ;D
I was outside, just came in 40. Will have to wait for the high 40's until about 8-9 pm.
It was 34 when we left the house, sun came out and it jumped 5°.
Been an off winter.
I don't think I had a foot of snow in the field for more than 2 weeks.
Never moved above 33F, and it was not raining here for awhile so I went and cleaned off the snow that came before so it doesn't freeze up. Maybe it will just be a mist and no rain, fine by me. ;D
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home!
Well, not much for rain in the night, but it is 40F. ;D
I have 40° also with a good wind blowing.
Lost power for about an hour this morning.
I started to get the generator out, have to go to work, and came in the house and the lights came on. :)
60° at midnight last night! Then it dropped to 40 and is holding there. The wind is starting to pick up a bit. Expecting high winds this afternoon and lots of rain. Things are changing up.
Well, the temperature dropped to freezing and it's snowing again. ;D
Warmer is good and rain on tap.
Snowpack will be taking a hit and should see some runoff
with a 1/2 to 3/4" rain.
Couple inches of snow. Going to cool down. Winter is not done.
Well the snow ended awhile ago, no accum. Saying rain now, going to be mild all week in the 30's, no big heat wave like you guys and your 60's. I think your thermometers are broke, out in the bright sun too long. :D :D
Raining buckets here in Eastern TN - guess it's better than snow.
Only problem being it keeps people from coming in to donate blood which makes for a slow, boring day.
... until I pop in here :laugh:
Well, the snow is coming down again. Apparently 2" tonight, and now forecast to be down to about 10F on Tuesday for a low. Not spring on the glacier yet. They can't barely predict 2 days, let alone a week. ;D
Well, an inch of crust and ice this morning on the driveway and sand has been laid down. ;D Was 28F awhile ago and falling with a north wind. Doesn't look to me to be going down to 10F, could be wrong. ;)
The road is an icy mess, like plowed ground. I doubt any plow will clean that off. :D
Suppose to rain Saturday, we'll see.
Well, snow and wind again. :D 30F now.
Wind started blowing hard around midnight, house was creaking at times from strong gusts, still howling.
!30 mph on top of Mt Washington overnight. Good day to be on the inside.
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The wind, the wind, the wind. Did I say wind!!!!!
Not a great day to be outside either.
Ground was soft, but the wind was hard.
15F this morning, sunny. Now 24F, probably be low 30's this afternoon? Road here has never been sanded, like a bottle in places.
Chilly here and just barely raining...
Snoop Dogg recommends carrying an umbrella
Fo' Drizzle ;)
24F first thing this morning and full sun, now 46F and still sunny. Get them taps in. ;D
There, the driveway is free of ice!! Got a downhill driveway, 500 feet long.
Will be bare driveway here by Saturday, big rain coming. But ice is gone here up around the house for a few feet where it counts most. Most ice on the the driveway now is pretty rotten.
28F this morning. Probably another mild one, rain later in the day/evening I think.
In the low 40's yesterday, a nice day.
Driveway is getting a little soft on top. I get my normal 2 inches of mud, then it will thaw out more and the water has a place to go, and the mud will be gone. Seem like about 2 weeks.
22° here now.
The rain for me is coming tomorrow morning at this time. Then maybe snow.
45*+ and sunny two days in a row. Kinda nice not having
to get all bundled up to go outside.
Sap must be running good. Passing on sugarin this year but
hope others have a great season although late start for many in these parts.
46F and partly sunny this afternoon, enough to be bright on the eyes. :D
Rainfall warning here.
36F and some wind this morning. I'm not seeing that rain yet. ;D
A light drizzle here at 34°.
A beautiful 4 degrees here
65F yesterday blue skies, a chamber of commerce day. Woke up to 1" of white stuff and its still coming down. Hurry Spring!
The rain mist has started...........
Raining here at first light but then around 8am the temp dropped to 32° changed to snow. It's a steady fine snow coming down and accumulating (slowly) on pretty much everything. We'll have to see how this plays out but they say maybe 12" for us. I don't need this.
T-shirt weather yesterday when I got out of work at 5:30pm...
Few inches of snow this morning.
Clocks go ahead an hour tomorrow. I guess I'll be extra grumpy without the proper beauty rest. 🙃
Yep, yesterday I was outside all day in a T-shirt and enjoying spring. And now its snowing and near freezing. Its one of those where the roads are clear and everything else covered. Snow in Virginia in March is a fairly rare thing. There is usually one last winter hurrah in February and then it rains instead.
Temp has been a steady 36F and harder rain, not torrent though. Suppose to cool off tonight and some snow at the tail end, down in the 20's. I don't expect much for snow.
She's cooled down some, the snow has arrived. :snowball:
Snow it is!! That changed over quick!!!
Covered the parking lot at work quick too. Maybe a couple inches of slop. So far.
Did I say slop??
What snow we got, we got quick. Good thing it let up or we would of had 6 inches.
Well still could, it's still a snowing.
65 yesterday 6" of snow today
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15F, 4" of new snow and high winds to move it around good. Not going out to clean up until that wind slows down. ;D
We've been under a Winter Storm Warning for the weekend, we received teens & 20°s temps and 4 inches of storm! :snowball:
2 inches of new stuff early this morning. Must've come down in an hour. Then warm and mostly sunny, high around 41.
Can get 2 to 5 again tomorrow. Near 60 by Wed!
Lanes are getting ushy gushy.
14F this morning, moon shining, no wind. Be cleaning up that 4" from Saturday, this morning. ;D
I'm in the singles numbers here with 8°. suppose to get into the low 40's today.
That wind was strong yesterday.
I did not work outside yesterday.
Started in the low 20's this morning but headed for mid 50's? Looks like we may be at the end, but just to be sure, I am leaving the plow on the Mule until I am certain. ;D If I take that plow off, it could be the kiss of death.
Gonna head out and cut a bit today before the ground gets too soft, although that ship may have sailed already. All I can do is try.
It was 2C at 2am, definitely spring here. The snow is pretty well gone in the valley bottom. We may get another spring squall but it will be gone by noon, the mountain passes will be iffy for a while yet.
32F here and melting off the roof and the driveway where there is exposed gravel. ;D
It's not bright and sunny, since daylight, clouds moved in.
Snow won't be done here at least to the end of April. I've seen 16" come the last week of April before, hold up start of work for a week. More than once. ;D
30F this morning. Around 4:00 am the coyotes were in the back yard yip'n. What you'd call "a wolf at the door". :D
Never seen any northern lights, was overcast all night. They were suppose to be in the sky last night apparently.
Well it reached 36F and the sun came out this afternoon. There's windows up. ;D
Well, we are officially in mud season. The temp topped out at just over 61 today, but when the clouds rolled over we were back in sweatshirts with a 10mph breeze. SO jacket on, jacket off, repeat every 25 minutes. :D
There are 5 ponds (that I counted) on the property we are working on and we are downhill from a couple of them. The mud would swallow your boots. But I ain't complaining! :D I got my logs out, we got all the brush burned before the ban goes into effect at midnight (not quite sure if the fire will be out by then ;D), and there isn't much left to do but pull out firewood loads. Skidded out the last hitch before noon. 8)
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The daytime highs should be going up a little each day this week. No, I hate the mud, but I am tried of cold feet all day long. Time to switch over to the sawmill.
I won't see those temps until May here. :D
A long way to the mud. :D
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Ground dried up fast here when the snow is gone. Can drive across the lawn a couple days after the snow goes. ;)
SD what are the crosses behind the tree on the right.
That's where the Amazon drivers are buried. At least that's what we do with them here, but we don't put up crosses. Nice touch SD.
Something to do with raspberries?
I betcha it has something to do with growing and eating. ;)
Was 2 great days in a row. Mid 40's and some sun.
Looks like some snow tonight, but more great days ahead.
Doc, that's the family plot. :D No, no.........ummm. Those are stakes and cross arms, with baler twine strung across to support the raspberry canes from falling between the rows. Some people tie up their canes to the stake. Too much work. ;D This is an old fashioned method around here that I've always seen done, until you come across someone not from these parts who does it different. ;)
The wind whips by those raspberry rows with the crosses, so the snow doesn't get real deep. But the snow has been up to the bottom of them this winter, last month. We had a couple warm spells that dropped the snow a lot. But nothing as warm, nor the duration of, for 2 weeks.
24F this morning. I think I put too much wood in. ;D
Amen!
swampdonkey, not much bare ground I see. My fields are bare in places. The field that I have a view on has been bare for a while.
Well it was until last night, an inch of snow came last night. But temps in the high 40's today and that snow will be gone.
That sap should be just about a steady steam coming out of the trees. :D :D
Last night we were in Plant City setting up for a livestock show that we are hosting next week when a nasty squall line came through. I don't think it is possible to rain harder. It is our dry season but we can get some well needed rains. Anyway, while we were listening to the rain pound the roof of the 100'x 350' barn we were in one of the fellows helping noticed a funnel cloud off to the southwest. Then, another appeared right beside the first one. We began to get a little concerned as they often move northeast. After a few minutes, they sucked back up into the clouds.
As a side note and to cap of the evening, an F-550 which was hauling a 30' GN trailer that delivered the livestock pens got hung up leaving the barn. There was a tractor with forks available but the operator did not follow our suggestion of lifting and pushing from the trailer ramps and opted to try to get the forks under the dovetail of the trailer. His way worked but also busted a 1.5" water line that we'll have to fix tonight when we head back out there. I got home a little before 11 p.m. and ate supper. The alarm still went off at 5:15 and Customsawyer and Nomad were already logged on to the FF (like usual).
The extended forecast has our highs next week in the mid to high 80's. A little warmer than I'd hoped for the hog/cattle show.
I enjoyed reading about the Plant City adventures Caveman.
80 degrees, wow!
Here's a few photos from the other end of reality. We've had more snow than usual this year.
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Good gosh, nearing 50 on the porch thermometer. Looks like a few inches of new snow since I was up here last. Plenty still on ground, but you have to just about get exactly this far north, this very township, to see that.
41F here this afternoon, and that's on a cloudy day. Sap's running, water is flowing. ;D
Says 60 now, lawdy miss Claudy.
Day's tasks are done, beer's flowing...
smiley_beertoast
wait, wait, wait for it.......... it's 48F here now and sunny.
I'mmmm meltinggggggg smiley_sweat_drop smiley_sun
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62° here and quite pleasant. Looking around for a lawn chair. Barely even needed a jacket this morning. I hope we are 'done'.
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Good gosh, nearing 50 on the porch thermometer. Looks like a few inches of new snow since I was up here last. Plenty still on ground, but you have to just about get exactly this far north, this very township, to see that.
No picture, didn't happen.. 8)
Wow, 7:00 pm and still as sunny at 4:00 o'clock. Sun won't be on the horizon for another hour. 8) Sun goes down behind the back yard trees now at 280 degrees instead of 220 degrees. ;D
We had a great afternoon. Morning cloudy and those clouds was dark. Maybe mid 40's.
36F this morning, no wind, cloudy. Melting. ;D
I see my first ground hog walking across the glacier this morning. :D
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Yesterday we reached 50F, only because of late afternoon sun. But that snow sure did drop. I'm starting to see dirt in the plowed fields, there is a layer of blue ice at ground level though. ;D
38F this morning and thick fog. Suppose to be warmer than yesterday to.
Temps got up into the 60°s yesterday, and forecast to a HI of 53° today!
I saw 60 in the Big City, but doubt it got that warm at my house. Not enough hot top to put off the heat around here.
But today. I might see it. It's a coming.
I don't doubt it if it reaches above here 50F today with that sun, once the fog burns off.
I saw the first grackle bird today, so there will probably be a flock land in the yard maple sometime today I suspect.
Warm yesterday with a drizzle/mist/rain all day. 40° this morning but headed to nearly 70 today, if you, or I, can believe that. The ground still seems to be frozen a ways down and water is not fully soaking in yet. Better days are coming. I am headed to the mill to get back in the groove. :)
Gray and cooler with light snow. Can hang around to the tune of one to four inches they say. Will be slushy.
Suppose to get a mix Sat-Sun here Tom, so might be off your storm. :D
More n likely💨! Thing seems to be powering up more than had been thought for our area earlier in the week. But can't get much accumulation this time of year. Too warm, sun angle too high.
Good day for checking in with dad, well that's most days, and for making supply runs. Sloppy doppy.
32F this morning, suppose to be a mix of rain and snow for 2 days. Nothing yet. ;D
Still up there today, 46° at 7:00 this morning!
It hit 71° yesterday! 8) I just loved working at the mill in that. No frozen feet, no frozen logs, sunshine on my back!
50° when I got up this morning and had some heavy rain during the night, but the pattern changed and the rainout we were supposed to get has been changed to a 'chance' of rain through the day with more rain tonight. So the day would be salvageable, but I already planned a shop day and really need to get that work done, so I am sticking with the plan. High for today is only in the mid 50's but it should be easy to keep the shop warm enough for paint.
You guys are in the warm belt. :D I think it only hit 46F here yesterday because it turned cloudy after the fog burned off. Going to be cool here for a few days yet. Long range doesn't show much more then 30's and low 40's. ;D
Pizzly shizzle all day and night, weather not fit for man nor beast as they say....40 degrees with that and a nice stiff NE wind makes for far more miserable day than say, 10 degrees, sunny and no wind.
It can hit 50 tomorrow but next week looks damp and cool. Spring can be balky in these parts.
Snow in the air now. ;D
Mid 50's here today and light rain supposed to be coming through. Snow up the hill, accumulation of 2" to 6". Next week supposed to be record-breaking heat down here of mid 80's.
Rain here now. That brought the brook up fast.
Not much snow to melt. :(
38° here now.
High 50's tomorrow.
The snow was melting so fast the other day when it hit 60, I had to trench around my metal-clad building to keep it running away from. A stream of water flowing on a gravel pad.
Well, 33F and ice on everything. Joy! :snowball:
I had 30 when I first got up. Was foggy and still is foggy here. Fog, I suppose kept the ice away.
Still snow on the edges of the woods and out in the woods.
I still have some snow in the fields. But that might be gone today. With the rain we had and the high 50's today.
The rain took the ice away by the garage. The garage keeps that area in the shade and that takes time to melt. That section of the driveway will dry out quick. The 2 weeks of mud is behind me now.
Skies are breaking away here, high near 40F expected. Be enough to take the ice off.
Mud season just getting going here. 50 today, but possible snow by Wed. I hate how ground gets when it refreezes a little after thawing weather... Makes the greasiness even worse.
The rain and fog moved back in. :D
34F and some flurries in the air today. No heat wave. :D
What the wind did not dry out today, it blew it away. ;D
That wind was hard. But helps out on the drying. After the rain, it was good timing.
I am out of the mud on the driveway.
It's 75F in La Crosse, WI right now, and 35F with rain where my place is in NE WI.
A nice day here in A-Town, must've been near 50.
We had 34° this morning and it's 44° now.
Definitely not good for syrup producers!
81° here today, was only supposed to get to 74°. Tomorrow through Thursday was predicted to be 85-ish. We'll see where it goes from there! But, I still have 4' of snow on the ground in front of my cabin build (partly shady still).
25F this morning and breezy again. We've had snow squalls for 3 days now. ;D
WOW. tornadoes in Texas. be safe out there.
I have 30 with a high of 36 today.
Still have a little wind that will help dry the ground out.
Cool and damp, heavy rain moves in later today/tonight.
Won't get above freezing today, suppose to tomorrow. Cold north wind out there just a whip'iner. But Thursday and Friday are snow days. ;D
Tee shirt weather here in Eastern Tennessee. Gorgeous but windy. I'd rather be out flying a kite with the kids than working. It's their week off of school 😊
March winds bring April flowers right ? Guess we are right on track.
Pair of Bluebirds here checking out boxes for a few days now.
That is a cold north wind though two days running.
Some melting in gravel where the sun was hitting, but not in the shadows, solid as cement. The cold wind continues.
NB Premier is dropping property tax 15% this spring, budget release. That's why tax notice is a month late. :)
Still just pizzling, feels like maybe 40, strong E wind.
22° this morning. That little wind I posted about came back and turned into a lot of wind. 2 days of hard wind.
Yep, hard wind. 28F this morning, so not far to go to thaw today. But I tell ya that thermometer never got to more than 26F yesterday. Sunny today for a change. ;D Might see 6" snow Friday.
36° now, had a mix of light rain and snow yesterday. just enough to make you not want to work outside, and maybe walk a little faster between the house and shop. :snowball:
That's about what we had Mon. and Tues, @doc henderson (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=41041). Then rain overnight, amounting to somewhere around 1.75".
Not sure up at the farm but radar showed snow at times, then periods of rain over last 3 days. I can't get up there for a few days and just as well-too mooshy.
Been able to walk on crust, last 2 days. But.....not under spruce canopy, just on roads and trail and under popple and hardwoods. Once you are under spruce canopy you go down to your hips to the bottom. :D
30F this morning and some yipping coyotes not far from the yard out in the field. Neighbor's dogs are a bit excited.
Storm pending. :snowball:
Gray, dreary, maybe 40 later on. No warm stuff in sight. Spring is over, back to winter!
I have 34° with rain?
I can hear it hit the ground. Ground is a little white in places.
Heh, some of our rain around here does that too-turns white😄.
Nothing yet up this way. I'm sure it will hit eventually. :D
That little bit of white is gone. A light rain all day.
30F and it just started raining, so that means instant ice on the surfaces. Never did anything all night. Hopefully it climbs 4 or 5 degrees soon. It's not been any warm March up this way, had 3 days near 50F, and that was the end of that 'foolishness'. :D
Been cloudy, but a few flurries and mist, and the ground is soft. It was firming up 3 or 4 days ago in the yard, but the weather keeps bringing wet snow, it melts, then rain and makes ooze out of gravel. :D About 40F here now. No sun at all for days. I see a little sap boil going on across the road today. Been seeing a couple robins, but they stayed all winter.
Can scarcely rise to freezing today and tomorrow. Wicked wind too. I miss winter-we had some nicer weather until spring arrived🙃.
I did see some geese today, or more accurately I heard them from my open window. Tried to spot them but couldn't. ;D
Had some warm days a week ago. Back to winter now though. High of 18° today down to around zero the next 3 nights. Snow the last few days, yaking about possibly a 12-20" storm mid week. O joy.
Says it all for today..
Rainy Day People - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phcDgM2Mazk)
And now we are back to snow. ;D
Rain snow, snow rain, rain, snow snow, rain, snow. :D
Back to snow squalls.
white across the landscape.
D
Rained hard in the night the other day.
Where I saw my wood up, was very soft the other day. A foot of rotting sawdust does not help much either. That is much better now. I might be able to drive through it now.
Took a walk out in the woods, a lot of bare ground, a lot of places with snow a foot deep.
High 40's today.
Woke up this morning to about 2 inches of new snow and still falling, never stopped throughout the day and now we have 5-6 inches of snow and still falling.
I figure we'll have over a foot of snow by morning if it keeps falling at this rate!
Sunshine today, strangest thing..but cold and windy.
I miss the warmth of winter.
Turned into waves of showers the rest of the day and got to 40F.
Now we are back to snow for awhile and 30F. :D
Well, it stopped snowing around midnight, total snowfall measured at 6 inches.
This morning we have 12°F and projected to stay below freezing for a few days!
Cold, wind and snow flurries on tap today.
Last week was a reprieve from winter, got a couple cord worth
of trees on the ground . Dead Fir, Spruce and some live Pine culls.
Bucked up another couple cords of piled bolts from last year.
Let the firewood fun begin.
Well the temps steadily dropped through the weekend. This morning it was 18° and I had re-started the woodstove yesterday for that comfort heat. Yesterday it also snowed off and on in spurts, everything from fine snow with sleet to big flakes coming down like mad, but nothing accumulated. Just cold. We also had steady 20MPH winds last night with some stronger gusting for several hours. I am getting concerned that I pulled the plug on winter too soon when I started collecting the rain runoff into my tank. Now it's already full and I am concerned about freezing damage. I am ready for the 'Out like a lamb" part of this month and I hope it comes soon.
Suppose to hit the teens here tomorrow then in the 30's the rest of the week.
Still light snow here, no accumulation, just something that melts in an afternoon of sun.
The high here today only reached 20°, and forecast colder for tomorrow!
We're in the "cold" here too.
Did not get above freezing today. Maybe mid 20's. Might get to 30 tomorrow than something better for temps.
18F this morning and wind, a no sap day. Be cool in a tent on the prairie this morning, Captain. fire_smiley
I have 18° here too.
Temp is actually dropping and the air is full of snow squalls. 16F now, wind.
High temp 25, wind speed 25.
Lets just call it 10 deg w/wind chill factored in.
Good day to to be on the inside looking out IMO.
Doncha just hate spring❄️
AKA mud season. ;D I'll be back to pile cutting
firewood tomorrow, 40 * and less wind.
Ray make the wind stop blowing !
It actually cleared after taking all day to do it, wind still clipping by. Reached 30F on the porch, but I think it's more like 25F in actual terms. Warmer tomorrow, but no heat wave, 30's I think.
woodroe, 10°, close enough!!!
That wind makes it feel 10°!!!
The wind, the wind, the wind.
As I have told the customers, rather have it now, than in May.
Nowhere near 40F here. It's noon and only 24F and wind, was 20F at day break. :D
All I saw this morning in the woods was hip deep snow and 4 rabbits, which are still solid white. :D
Skies went boom boom last night. Rain poured down. Now a cloudy mild damp day.
More boom boom tonight they say
Got sleet then ice then rain up at the farm. Not sure about the boom boom part.
Hip deep snow!! I can't find much more than a foot deep and that is in the woods. Lots and lots of bare ground. Could almost walk on bare ground as long as you are not in a hurry. Kinda like some brooks, very crooked walking.
We just got home, it's in the 40's here, warm, and sun.
Could be 6 new inches of snow up at farm by tomorrow.
36F here for a high, took all day to get to it, so not much melting of snow. Yeah, the spruce is a lot more shaded than maple and popple and we have been fed as much snow on top as wood ever melt now for a solid week. Walking down between spruce and fir thinning is like trying to walk across roof peeks and jump from one roof to the next, peek to peek when crossing rows. Try that. Only smooth places to walk is wide trails and the old road. Today the woods crust was a lot stronger in the spruce since we had about 15 snow/rain/freeze up cycles since last time. First day of full sun here in days. :D
What's it been since the last photo, almost 4 weeks? Look much different?? Nope!! :D :D
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Last spring I spread seed on the lawn March 17th I believe. :D
I'm with Ray , most all of the ground here is free of snow except some shaded areas. Course we are only a dozen miles apart at most by road.
Must be 2 dozen Robins combing the field for food this afternoon.
And got another cord of firewood bucked up w/full sun and lighter breeze.
Snow's all gone here pretty much, but it never broke above 25° yesterday and windy, so it felt pretty cold. We got these fingers of lake effect strafing us and at one point it snowed like crazy and the ground was all white, but then it just evaporated. Today it warmed a bit but never hit 40 and was cloudy and nasty all day. I am thinking I dodged a bullet because I started up my rain collection tank last week and this week it froze up solid and I couldn't open the vale to drain it. I had the tank topped right off. All I could do was was the inevitable unfold as the tank bulged as it froze and pushed out the containment cage. Today I could find no damage and was able to open the valve, but I didn't drain it because warmer weather is slated for the next few days and I am starting to feel lucky again. Fortunately I did not hook up the pump and that hardware to get damaged. I think I'll hold off just a bit more on that. ;D (I said I was feeling lucky, not feeling stupid.)
32F this morning, more mix coming, maybe rain tomorrow. :snowball:
Yesterday afternoon the driveway went from wet to dry and firm, no run off, just drained into the gravel and out below. I can see that was short lived. :D
Rain changed to snow early morn and continues. Couple inches of smush. The ground and rooftops are white again.
I don't know, maybe 40 for a high today.
Oops....Green Bay weather guy says high of 36. 31 right now.
Had a snow squall earlier, spit'n rain now on the window. Maybe it'll stay above 32F a few days. :D
Just picked some yellow string beans for dinner. 8)
At least no snow this morning.
Yesterday the ground was just about white. Even had some snow on the roads in places.
I have 39° and a hope of almost 50 today.
40F here, was raining hard earlier, just fog now.
The good news is the temp is trending upward and it's 46° here now. The bad news is that we got 1.5" of rain since yesterday afternoon and everything is a sloppy mess.
The good news is my fully topped off frozen solid water tank thawed out yesterday and it appears there is no damage to the tank or valve. The bad news is that I am off early to deliver and setup these mushroom inoculation systems I built through the winter. It's an outdoor job in the woods and could be really sloppy. Bringing my mud boots. We only have about an hour to get it done. The client has a meeting at 10AM.
Still glad I left the corporate world to work outside in the fresh (if not wet and sloppy) air. :D
Hit 50F for awhile before the gloomies moved back in. ;D Sure dropped some snow. Showers. Snow tomorrow, 1" predicted. ;)
28F, windy and some fresh snow. ;D Suppose to be in the 40's and partial sunshine this afternoon. Saw a flock of turkeys from the window this morning. Yesterday was some sap boiling going on. Reached 50F then cooled off and rained.
Pallbearer at my aunt's funeral later today.
Was 30F at daybreak and only 33F now. I think it will take all day if it reaches 40F. Sunny here though. Talking snow for tomorrow. I guess there was a bunch of snow in Cape Breton, sounds like more today on the coast. I saw the sap wagon go out to the sugar bush this morning. Lawn here is 95% still white. ;D
I made my first trip out to the mill for the year. The difference between last year and this year was striking. With an early spring and low snow I was able to drive all the way to the property last year. Here are two pictures taken exactly one year apart at the same location:
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I was picking where I left off in fall of '20 installing a culvert here.
...and this year, I took a snowmobile the last couple miles to the property. Several feet of packed snow remain across the landscape after a winter with no significant thaws.
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Last summer I built up the fill over the culvert to open the road. It is evident this fill froze sooner than the surrounding lowland and stayed frozen resulting in a much taller mound of snow over the pipe.
Another look at the difference between last year's "open" spring and this years slow thaw. At my mill on March 31 last year most of the snow was gone despite an overnight dusting.
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This year, another look at the log deck on April 1. The snow off the roof is on the logs but even on the level you can see the depth compared to last year. Lots of melting yet to happen.
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Same here, colder spring. Last year I broadcast grass seed March 17th. This year all hard crust and snow on most of it. So far, no worries of floods. I don't even see the ice breaking up yet in the small river below home. The geese have been back 2 weeks, they must be ice skating. :D
36F and sunny here, but snowing in parts of NS, has for 3 days I think.
Continued wet and dreary here in Green Bay land. Either raining, snowing, or both, more days than not.
Ice on Mosher pond is looking black.
We had really no ice to jam the rivers this year.
26° this morning and heading for the mid 50's.
30F here this morning and sunny, no wind. Low 40's predicted. It reached 43F yesterday afternoon, but cold NW wind all day.
Frosty start @23*. Windy again yesterday.
Saw about 500 Canada Geese in the local river valley fields
a few days back.
Lots of open water in Belgrade Lakes area and ice going out fast.
Starting to look and feel like spring.
@woodroe (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=12647), customer from the far end of Phillips came into the store, they still have a foot of snow up there.
We have not been driving around as much as we use too with the price of gas at $4.19, so have not been up there lately.
30F this morning again and sunny, no wind, yet. ;D The sun is going to take the snow here, every time it storms it snows. :D
Got over 200 acres of maps from the boss yesterday, soon be tramping blocks.
Inch or so of rain overnight, depending where you measure. Got up to 40 yesterday, could hit 50 today with leftover rain showers. Snow showers and cooler tomorrow and can't warm up until next week.
Slow cool springs like this has been so far can be frustrating-ground doesn't dry out or warm up, can't get going on any dirt work etc. But better than too-fast warmup. Springtime is busy enough without everything trying to happen at once.
Been building my new workbench up at farm, stuff like that. Way too wet for field work.
Yep, and cleaning up the last of the old firewood in the house so I can stack next year's. And doing maintenance stuff like reinforcing a firewood rack before filling it up and removing an old chimney from the barn and covering the hole. Spring and summer is nothing but unpaid work in the 'free' time. :D
Should of left the snowblower on 4 to 8 inch on the way >:(
Yep took the snowplow off the truck the other day to do a brake and new tire job. Was hoping I could keep it off until next fall..... but it's going back on this afternoon.
52F here today. Seen robins pull several earthworms. No frost. The water is soaking direct in the ground, no running water in the yard from the snow melt. You can hear it gurgle as it soaks in from snow melt. There is sufficient slope on the lawn if it wanted to run, but it's dropping right through the dirt. Lawn is soft, but not muck. Still lots of snow on 60% of the lawn, but going fast. First week that it has melted much, but way more at 52F than at 36F. :D :D In the woods, it hasn't dropped any where you walk 20 feet in off a road. You'll go in to your hips under the spruce. Today it should drop some, you need 50F + to melt much snow in shade. Goes 3 x as fast under maple trees.
Road side willow trees are starting to bloom.
Shaping up to be the same as yesterday. The weather woman said it was going down to -17 C (2F). She goofed there, read the wrong script I think. 30F here again.
Quote from: thecfarm on April 06, 2022, 05:53:45 AM
@woodroe (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=12647), customer from the far end of Phillips came into the store, they still have a foot of snow up there.
We have not been driving around as much as we use too with the price of gas at $4.19, so have not been up there lately.
No snow left here , chainsaw's been running a lot. Had two out one day early on, got one pinched.
Anyone managing a woodlot really does need two saws. ;D
A few Tree Swallows showed up yesterday and hear a Phoebe today. Let it be spring !
Rain event on tap tonight / tomorrow ...
Reinforced one of the wood racks this morning, but in the process had to go get more 4" spikes. One 2x4 spruce on the corner is hard as nails, had to pre-drill holes to pound in the spikes. :o Stacked some of the older wood until I ran into ice. Mummified wood. ;D
The fewer of them phoebes the better, nothing like hand rails with phoebe poo on them. :D
Pudgy Joe in the brush pile. ;D
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Gray, cool, bits of rain or snow leftovers
We can potentially see bits of sunshine over the weekend before another week of rain sets up. That rain next week might have lightning with it, so at least a little warmth coming along for the ride. We can use a little warmer.
Suppose to get a little snow and then turn to showers or rain over next two days. 52F here today.
All I see is a Garden Eater. ;D
I did see one belly up in the road the other day.
Have not seen one here, yet. Note the yet word. They are here and out.
Was kinda cool here. Then a little bit of rain came and added some moisture to the air and now it feels cold at 42°.
Raining here at 38°.
We had just over 4" of rain through this storm. My front lawn looks like a rice paddy. Got pretty rough late last night with thunder and sheets of rain. Flooding all over and even though it is done raining, the creeks have not yet crested, but those folks downstream will get a mess around mid-morning. My little drainage creek is well over the banks since around 6pm last evening..
I had a new client come pick up Mushroom logs in the middle of it last evening and we got soaked pretty good.
This morning the radar pattern is clear, the sky is breaking up, the temp is in the mid 40's and the wind is around 19 mph. We need a breeze to help all this stuff evaporate, because I don't think much more can settle into the ground at this point. Flooded basements all over the place and some fire departments are running ragged. I just heard of a bridge closure due to flooding, not sure which town. Back to mud, no woods work today, that's for sure.
Showers here, but we had a trace of snow in the night, which is gone now. 38F and cold wind.
Rain yesterday morning and early afternoon.
Mosher Pond had a layer of fog on it at almost 7pm.
Still some fog out there at 32°.
32F here as we had some frost on the grass. Yep, lawn is turning green. We did get some steady rain for a while yesterday from noon until 6:00 pm. I see fresh snow on the hills in Mesardis, Maine this morning. Cloudy here, but clearing in the west. Was stars and moon earlier here. Moon was way up in the NW shining in the bedroom window on the north side of the house. I thought I was seeing the yard light through the east window, but was solid wall. :D
Yesterday was 62F and sunny. This morning 40F and fine mist rain happening. I could sure hear the brooks 3/4 mile away roaring with water yesterday. :)
And the warmer weather has brought the flowers out on some aspens. And colt's foot has been in flower here since Thursday, up by the spring.
Yes, on the aspen. I have some at the lower end of the field.
The maples are almost red.
32° early this morning and the sun is out.
Been on and off rain all day, in the 30's now.
50F today, the snow is in retreat. ;D
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This afternoon was the first time I seen the water running in the back yard, there is a huge snow field on the north side of the lot and she's in melt down. :D
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Even saw some robins taking a bath in it. :D
Ice out at Mosher Pond, could have been yesterday.
A nice warm day today.
Massive 3-day snowstorm in southern Manitoba right now. 12-20" in parts and in others 32" expected. :o :o
Manitoba storm could be 'worst blizzard in decades,' Environment Canada says | CBC News (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/snow-storm-blizzard-manitoba-environment-canada-1.6415526)
Goose, are you getting any of that down your way? Hope you put that plow on. I hope Bernstein delayed his April garden this year. ;)
Yikes!!!
Betcha there is someone saying, I knew I shouldn't have taken off the plow/snowblower. :( :o
Just never know.
At least it won't last long.
The worst week of this winter gave us 24" in 2 storms, I thought that was bad enough. :D
40F and sunny.
Just before dark last night we had two claps of lightning on the mountain as a cold front came in. Suppose to reach 50F today.
I had 30 when I first got up. Suppose to be able to double that this afternoon.
Had some rain yesterday morning, then sun in the afternoon.
Yesterday it was 91 and now it's 37. Getting sick and tired of the winds of 20,30,40 , 50 mph and gusts higher about everyday. Now moving back to cooler weather
I took the brick flu out of the barn this morning, well still 10 feet to bust up below the roof. Patched her up and threw on some steel I keep handy from old buildings I've robbed it from over the years. Never know when you need a sheet of steel. ;D I'll bust up the rest another day.
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45F here at the moment, that's why I wanted to tackle this, before it got above 50 degrees in blistering sun. ;D
91 the other day and it's a beautiful 27 with nasty winds with 💨 of 50 mph + today again
Just the opposite yesterday. Dry in the morning rain late afternoon rain.
Raining out now, rained off and on.
Finished up with removing the rest of the flu this morning, overcast here and forecast says a chance of rain every day until Monday. Tomorrow will change the oil in the SxS and maybe haul off the rest of the bricks from the flu. Been stack'n a little wood lately to, just waiting to get the rest of the wood burnt in the basement before I load it up again. Probably a week more of wood to burn in there. :snowball:
Cold and snow on and off the last few days. Probably had 5-7" the last 3 days. More on the way straight thru early next week. Winter isn't over yet.
Wow! I guess I shouldn't be crying about the weather here
Rain and 40F, expected high of 60 later. Those old lakes sure give you a good pounding up there Chevy. North of you in Thunder Bay looks like a couple small snow storms passing through, teens and low 30's. Looks like around 50F here for the next week.
I've never closed the bedroom window here for a week, not much wind lately. And I open up others when the sun is out bright. Rocker is out on the porch now for summer. ;D
Watched a small flock of turkeys saunter around in the fields yesterday, their slow easy movement together remind me of some of the muppets in 'Dark Crystal'. I don't know why. :D
Start tromping bushes with the GPS Monday for thinning layout.
The temps have been warming with the occasional lower dips some nights. Spring moisture is coming in every other day or so. Hanging around the 60 or better during the day, but we struck 80 yesterday and it was hot. We didn't get the forecast rain yesterday afternoon even though it showed clearly on the radar going overhead. It just never made it to the ground but we did have some strong winds and very dark skies. Nasty.
Today the high is to be low 60's again with sun and a little wind. The ground seems to be firming up. :)
Snow and cold. Temp is 18° but with the 50mph wind gusts the wind chill is well below zero. Feels like February out there.
Got the oil changed on the SxS, but can't gather them bricks until the rain stops and it dries up. Just as well, need a rest before Monday's kick-off to thinning season. ;D
Not sure where to measure but I'd guess 4-6" of snowfall but there's drifts taller than my pickup. Wind is still howling at up to 50mph. Visibility goes from 5 feet to 1/2 mile depending on the moment.
Rain ended at noon yesterday, sun came out and 55F, ground was firm enough to gather them bricks. Stacked some more wood this morning. ;D 45F here today and cool NW wind, getting windier this afternoon it seems.
Took a ride up the the woodlot on the SxS and there still 3-8" snow in places on the woods road in the shade. 10-12" snow in under the spruce, but where I thinned it is almost bare. The moose was around that thinned area probably a few hours earlier, a few moose marbles. ;D
As far as the weather goes, all I'm gonna say is it hasn't been very nice 😄.
Quote from: chevytaHOE5674 on April 16, 2022, 10:58:28 AM
Not sure where to measure but I'd guess 4-6" of snowfall but there's drifts taller than my pickup. Wind is still howling at up to 50mph. Visibility goes from 5 feet to 1/2 mile depending on the moment.
You win . Worst weather for sure !
Just rain here, never complain about rain , better than drought.
2-4" more snow today. Hurray for spring.
Same springtime down here in Green Bay land. Ground is white again. I guess a bunch of wind is coming.
Imagine that!!😏
Friday was nice, on and off with just a long sleeve shirt. Saturday rainy and much cooler, I moved some logs up. Sunday I blew off and it wasn't pleasant at all, spritzing snow off and on during the weekend, temps at night near 30°. I restarted the woodstove in the house, but the shop stove is still waiting for parts, which finally arrived a few minutes ago.
Now they've posted a winter storm warning for tonight. Barge will get it and we will dance on the edge of the snow. I am NOT going to hook up the plow for this junk! (well, probably not.)
Its hard to get motivated in the cool mornings when we just went through that warm teaser for a few days.
Ah, spring.
Yeah Tom I like your choice of words. A "warm teaser" in the spring makes me think of one of the high school cheerleaders, but that's a different story . . .
Up here on thee Prairie, we were mostly melted down to the grass, and then a Colorado low dumped about a foot of snow on us. We're melting out from that, but the weather guessers say that there's another one or two more of those "Colorado Lows" coming through to give us more teasing.
I'll have to go to Colorado someday I'll figure out what those people are up to, and why they hate us so much.
55F here yesterday afternoon in the woods, was windy until about supper hr.
I musta disturbed a family of bears when marking strips out for thinning. There were some downed hemlock and birch around, so may have been a den. For 3 hrs in the afternoon there was a bear cub down in the thickets blat'n like a baby. :D I musta scared off the mother, too windy to hear much, all I heard was one thump on the ground, so maybe that were her high tailing it. You never think much of it, because grouse are around drumming and always a dumb moose stomp'n around. :D I did see one grouse and flushed 4 or 5 woodcocks.
Expecting a mix of snow/rain, then all rain by afternoon. I'm sticking to the stove today. That is just too cold to work in, and can't see much with compass and GPS all wet and steamed up. No thanks! :D :D
Rain and wind. I do see something white in places looking out the window. Nothing white that covers the ground. yet!!!!
We got a blanket of white overnight but nothing worth worrying about, just wet and annoying. The low was 32 and it's slowly rising now with a misty rain. Hoping for a high of just 45 today. I got the shop stove back together yesterday and ran a fire for a while to warm it up. I might work out there today, but I am sure not going to the mill, too wet and cold and windy.
Heavy wind and light snow out of the east right now. Not sticking around on the ground. 37F now, so ground isn't froze.
Staying cool and dreary-can hit low 40s for high. This is the day between rain and/or snow events so...go up and putter in the little shop I'm setting up there. Ground too soft for any field work involving the tractor.
Got small logs that can be moved, a few young red pines to dig and move, area for new gravel pad to excavate, but all would just make a mess now.
Switched over to just rain now.
Woke up this morning to heavy snow falling and about 2 inches on the ground and still coming down.
Now we have 6 inches of snow on the ground (wet & heavy) and now the flakes are much smaller, and supposed to end around 6:00 PM.
Temperature is running at 36°, so not uncomfortable!
Isn't it grand?
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In 2 months. :D :D
Typical for the Moose Hill Road to have snow on it, when no snow anywhere else.
I saw sun, wind, rain and snow. Luckily I finished my block before it got real nasty. :D 40F for a high. ;D
It's been nice and sunny, even reaches 50 in the full sun, but that wind feels like 30. Not been warm porch weather. Drying up the mud on the fields and roads though. Freeze drying, the natural way. :D
swampdonkey weather the same here. That wind just hates to stop.
I did get some raking done, wife's flower garden, well, one of them, first thing in the morning. By 10 the wind was stronger than I am.
I've been working and playing outside now for a bit over six decades. I think it's getting windier.
I bet there has been more wind here than calm since I've been on the planet. Windmill farm 3 miles from here. :D Miserable this time of year, but some nice in summer. ;D
Yeah same here. Summers are nice, winter beats spring by a long shot for folks like me, and of course everyone's favorite season is fall🙃
I'm about sick of the cold, no sun, Trees are not budding like they should for this time of the year. ::)
2-4" of snow forecast the next 2 days. Its been raining or snowing pretty much daily UP here. Coldest wettest spring i can remember in a long time. The mud is deep and never ending. Cows and calves are struggling a bit with the weather.
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I've been working and playing outside now for a bit over six decades. I think it's getting windier.
This phrase has become common around here in recent years.
"The wind sure blows a lot around here lately"
I've cleaned up more blow downs in the last 5 years than the previous 25.
I just wish it would blow that whacko bluebird we got away.
About 3" of snow and still coming down. Could see 2-3" more before it tapers off..
Meanwhile we have been having 80 degrees in Virginia in April two weeks after a one day snow/sleet storm. I can't ever remember that occurring in my lifetime.
With this basically cool spring, bud swell, flowering, is all a bit behind. But with a couple days over the weekend near 70 degrees, local forsythia bushes suddenly popped into full bloom. That's the sign it's time to spray for white pine tip weevil💪.
Wednesday looks calm and dry-will do then. Can be a long day; what started out easy, on small trees, is now much more work on stuff that's all up overhead.
None to hot here, 54 today, showers in the afternoon. Rain and showers for next 3 days and even some snow mixed in one day. Saw 3 moose today and one dead calf moose on a harvest trail where I was walking. I find one about every year dead.
Ended up with about 5" of snow and a stiff north wind from Canada. Weather looks to be improving after tomorrow but still none to warm with 40s and maybe 50 in the forecast. Temps have been running 20+ degrees below average here recently.
Rain, I could hear the frogs earlier before the rain picked up. Can't hear them with rain on a steel roof. :D
Could be some white tonight and tomorrow falling. :snowball: Rained all day, probably 0.5" so far in the gauge.
Sittin in the shack, mending my weary bones via barley pop. Just sprayed 2000 white pine and spruce for tip weevil. 50-ish day after all
Dry until later tomorrow I guess. Looking at highs in the 50s for a while. I'll take that👍.
Spray this early? Bugs are still froze up here for another 2 weeks. ;D
Snow white has arrived. :D
Rain, wind repeat. Was warmer a month ago. ;D
I have not turned off the heat but only a few times this year.
Maybe some 60 weather by next week.
People coming in buying wood pellets steady. And complaining steady. ::) I guess they think first of April and mid April should be 70's day and night. :D
Yeah, we run into this weather whenever we try to start thinning too early. Weather we wouldn't work in in November. Wind and snow coming horizontal. :D
At the rate we're going it'll be July before we hear da Spring Peepers U.P. here :snowball:
Peepers are peeping in Oconto County.
@SwampDonkey (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=1009), yes, white pine weevil adult female goes up to treetop to lay eggs when forsythia shrub blooms-phenological indicator.
This ain't corn and soybeans!
We don't have that shrub here. I was always told, warmth of the sun on the terminal leader was the trigger. Plus they only go up so high, real tall trees less likely to attack their top. ;D Hasn't been warm enough for a bumble bee yet, and they are about the toughest bug around here. ;)
My friend is an entomologist, but I haven't heard tell of him since he moved from NB 4 years ago. So can't ask questions. :D
Forsythia is a non-native landscape shrub, planted for it's bright yellow blooms which appear before the foliage. The entire rest of the year ...meh, just kinda there...no real distinguishing features worth writing home about. Seems like they'd be in NB...common in planted landscapes around homes, dentist's offices,😁, etc.
Forsythia bloom is a great indicator for this insect's emergence, in that nearly all white pine's range overlaps the areas of N. America where the shrub might get used. I've got a few known ones here in town I keep my eye on in April.
Good old lilac around these parts. About the earliest flowering shrub here are the hazels and the elders. Too early yet, couple weeks at least.
Come to think of it mother had a Forsythia down south of here in Grafton. But that wouldn't be out any sooner than hazel or red elder flowers as they bloom before the snow is all gone. Red elder flowers before leaves, and black elder flowers in mid summer.
What works nice for me is that I live 60 miles south of tree farm. That 60 miles seems to often make a difference in weather factors, and gives me a little cushion to get the job done ahead of the bug.
I'm going to do just a few of the straggler spruce next year, then call it good. Trees are growing beyond sprayable height plus as height is gained, as has been mentioned, mother weevil starts to lose interest. But not all trees grow at same rate, so some can still be protected next springtime.
As our stuff has grown, this task has become perhaps my toughest day of the entire year. Will be good when it fades away👏
You guys talking about buds and such and it was 14° this am and in the shade and shadows the ground stayed froze all day... ha
Oh yea, the red maple buds are dropping on the ground and making the ground red. Better than white!!
But saying that, white it was about an hour from me, the plow trucks was out!!
It has been on the cool side here. I am burning more wood now, than I was 2 weeks ago.
It can still get down in the teens at night. Yesterday late afternoon dernedest cold breeze set up out of the NE-miserable out in the open.
Not a lot of budding going on... I did notice the hybrid larch are starting to green out. They and all larch got some kind of extra antifreeze, they just use more of the season.
It hasn't dropped below 30F here in quite a while, but that's all it takes to freeze ground. ;D Still storming here, snows a little, rains a little, I have not seen the windmill lights since Tuesday. We haven't much snow accumulation but everything including the spruce trees are covered. ;D We do have red maples, aspens and willow in flower, but not full blooms like thecfarm does. :)
The other day at Nashwaak Lake there was still 18" of snow in the spruce. Still 4 foot deep snow plow banks. That's a road to test the worthiness of your heavy full sized pickup trucks on for a summer. How come they never road test on those kinds of logging roads? Just them smooth groomed ones with no rocks embedded in the road bed. No such things as rock screeners being used. And log trucks have to haul on them. Hope you've got top of the line springs and shock absorbers. ;D :D
Lovely Lovely Lovely!
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Not suppose to clear until Sunday afternoon. :D
Sunny and green here. But the wind is still blowing.
Looks like a lot of folks are having a delayed spring this year. It's similar here, but the white stuff stopped last week. It's been a fairly relentless north wind for about a week now which is making even a pleasant day with a high of 50 seem nasty. Yesterday it blew at nearly 30 for most of the day. This morning it has calmed but forecast to resume this afternoon. Today's high won't hit 60.
But I do see the warming trend finally starting to settle in and we may get back to 70 by the middle of next week (with rain of course).
We get what we get.
Odd day yesterday. It wasn't real windy.
50ish today, rain and thunder tomorrow.
Although it is white on everything here, there isn't much to it. A couple hours of sunshine and it would be gone.
We've only had about an inch all week of actual water, according to the rain gauge. But that wind blowing stuff horizontal made it a lot worst. :D
Another 34° morning.
Wood pellets are still selling.
Looks some high 50's are coming, maybe some 60's but only low 40's at night for another week.
Wood pellets selling for another week.
Neighbor kid and I just planted 50 fir trees and some ditch-dug cedar. Now the rain poureth down.
Perfect!
Mud season gone, Black fly season here. Seen a couple ticks too.
But sunny and warmer at least if you can deal with the WIND.
I had ticks here about a month ago. :o
I had a couple so far. Grandson is a tick magnet. :( Every time he comes here, he will found 4-5 on him.
I am in the same woods but most times I don't get any on me.
Everyone was there but Trump 😂. TRUMP RALLY for Herbster Reschedule for Sunday! 12 miles away at I 80 speedway due to weather! Friday storms and 80 mph winds. Winds for the last month have been insane constant 20,30,40,50 and 60+ mph winds are getting real old
Yeah, same here, wind 6 out of 7 days. :D
Ticks? Too cold here for any bugs. Probably no black flies here for 3 weeks. Gotta to have leaves at least as big as cat's ears on the trees first. ;D
Ticks don't find me very appealing. But my buddy the surveyor has been pulling them off everyday since March. My grandsons attract them too and they have had a few in recent weeks.
The mayfly's had a hatch here last week on a warm day, but the windy days following kept them away. Then Friday when the wind calmed a bit they were back enough to be a bother in the late afternoon. We hit 69 here yesterday, so getting better. Nicer day today, then rain again tomorrow and Tuesday.
34F this morning, has not even reached 50F here since a week ago. And mostly 30's and 40's all month. Not insect weather, lots of cold wind to.
Hoo boy, I wonder how much rain fell in the Suring, WI area yesterday. She came down hard, and was pushed by a furious wind. One of my shed windows was leaking.
Takes a lot to puddle up in that sandy, gravelly ground, but puddle up it did.
Leftover showers this aft, lots of 50s for highs far as the eye can see, maybe 60 late week.
My sister sent me this YouTube link from yesterday: Andover Tornado (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxdFh8nYMgM)
@doc henderson (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=41041) , is Andover anywhere near you?
yes just on the other side of Wichita. about an hour. Our KASAR team was deployed. a few injuries, plenty of warning, no deaths. I was available, but not needed. just another day in paradise! :)
Yikes. I will stay in Virginia between mountain ranges that keep stuff like that from happening and that are covered in trees, trees, trees.
I am about an hour north of Doc, and it is so dry here the wheat is dying. Turning brown in strips. How dry is it around Hutch Doc? Have yet to turn my cows out, but the bales are running low. Hauled the neighbors cattle to pasture yesterday and today, hope we don't have to catch them and bring them home. There is rain forecast for the next few days, maybe things will turn around.
I was out tonight and something was chewing on me all ready. Must be warming up!!!
Forgot to mention the peepers. They was out for more than a week now.
Another windy day.
Despite how cool it's been here as well, I have seen a few dragonflies
I was just examining a pt. and she had on a sweater. it felt damp and so I asked her and yes, she said it is raining! 8)
30° will smarten them biting critters up!!!
But there will be more coming. Oh well, birds have to eat something.
First day of turkey season here.
Hit 70* here yesterday. Working on the wood pile some took the t shirt
off and got a burn in no time. Thats some tender white skin coming out of
7 months under cover. :D
Black flies are just bumping so far, not biting yet. Won't be long though.
Sunny today and no wind, we hit 65F. I could feel the heat with the cruiser vest on. :D
Frogs singing out in the out back and here under the hill in the swamp. Saw hazel and red elder starting to flower, pollen in the air when walking through the hazel bushes. :D
This 'heat' and sun is going to dry stuff up fast.
Trout lilies came up today behind the house, no blossoms yet. But the colts foot has been up for a month, in flower. They grow in wet or even old gravel banks around here.
I saw butterflies out in the woods today. Black with yellow perimeter on wings. And there was blow flies on that dead moose, I had to run a strip line by it. Lovely stuff. ::)
No black flies or mosquitoes yet.
She finally hit 70F here on the porch. Too warm too quick, can't have none of that. :D
Whacktastic weather. Been 80 degrees in Central Virginia for about a week now, except for when the rain passed through.
"Whacktastic Weather" love it, fits for here too.
Two years of drought, little to no rain/snow. Farmers are now paying huge bucks for crop insurance.
Then the winter of 21-22, which looked and felt like a never ending scene from the Siege on Stalingrad.
Follow that with record snowfalls melting out under record setting Spring rains.
Our "One in a Century" floods are happening every twenty five years.
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Ok, bitchy rant over. We're having a beautiful day today, and It's forecast to stay this way for the rest of the week. 😁
70* again today once the sun came out. Yup, too warm too quick.
Blackflies came out too .I've swallowed two so far, quickly remembering
to keep my mouth closed when they are swarming. Its just a little annoying
when one gets stuck in your throat. ;)
Ain't been this warm for 3weeks!!!!
Quote from: woodroe on May 03, 2022, 06:38:47 PM
........ Its just a little annoying
when one gets stuck in your throat. ;)
I imagine it's less enjoyable for the fly.
High of 39° today and a cold wind off the lake. Had 4 days all year above 50 and no 60s. That could change by the end of the week.
Things are looking brighter here, the snow is mostly gone, and lakes are showing signs of loosing ice. 8)
Snows mostly gone here as well. Heading up to the Keweenaw to get one last snowmobile ride in tomorrow. Still a good bit of deep snow up that way.
42° and rain is coming. Not supposed to even be 50° today.
I think we are slowly easing into a mild spring warmup. Mid 40's at night and kissing up near 60 during the day. Spotty rain today, clear tomorrow, I hope. The south wind yesterday was at my back at the sawmill and blew the dust away from me for a change. The buds are popping, the peepers are peeping, and some small insects are emerging.
Life progresses.
42° here and rain.
46F here today and light rain since 10:00 am. It was probably 44F before daylight. Suppose to be sunny the rest of the week, but none of that 70's heat, 50's mainly.
91° here today and supposed to drop to the low 70's by Sunday/Monday. And there is a chance of snow up on my cabin project property ::)
Nice day, near 60. Suddenly, stretch of good weather coming up. Work work work!!!
We have had about an inch of rain today and right now is 51 degrees. Need a week of slow rain to catch up.
Looks like 60's for today after the day of rain we had.
I saw some 80-weather coming a week from now. :o
Can't complain, 65, sunny , light breeze. Nice to be able to get some outside work done without having to get all bundled up. Broke out some shorts couple days ago.
Asparagus poking through !
55F here and a cool wind. Hands were a little cold in the morning tying ribbons on wet spruce limbs. ;D
Not going to see no 80's up here for awhile, said maybe 65F on Sunday. ;)
So much for our cool wet northern climate here in SE Norway...driest March in ages, followed by the driest April in ages, with no rain yet in May and none in the forecast. Temps are in the mid 60's, the leaves are coming out and the cherry trees are blooming...about a week/10 days ahead of normal. Hydroelectric power is a sure thing in Norway..."because there is always plenty of rain/snow". ::) (In northern Norway, however, they are still shovelling snow.)
Just about 32° and looks like 60 by high noon.
30F and white frost here, maybe 50F for a high. Going to be even colder tonight. Been seeing water chilled every morning in the outback. There are trout lilies in bloom here.
Only got to 46F, cold wind to.
32° this morning.
Looks like high 60's before the day is done.
60's here this afternoon and the bugs are awakened. ;D
Heat got up to 95 today along with about 15 mph wind. Wound up with 2" of rain last week. Grass is starting to grow, wheat is heading out, most is about 8" tall before heading. Probably need a flex head to cut wheat. Think the rain was too late for brome grass, but native grass will be coming along. The ticks are out here.
Wind's been blowing for the past two years or so but today it outdid itself. Steady 35 out of the SE with gusts to 50. Maybe 60 I don't know I was busy. Warm too, maybe 70. Mega farmers are in their glory, creating dust storms.
Ca-razy I tells ya.
It can boom tonight they say. More likely to west.
And boom it did last night. Quite a bit actually, though I think that batch mostly slid just south of my tree land, where I've been moving trees and a shower would have been welcome.
I think that more widespread thing may happen this afternoon. Dew point has shot up to 68 and rising. I still had longjohns on a few days ago...
RH has been around 20% here, not even a hint of a cloud now for few days. Dry.
Reached 75F this afternoon. Nice when it isn't a humid heat. :)
Farmers are definitely kicking up the dust. :D
Entire area now in tornado watch.
The rock maple is in bloom in the yard. The trees are still a ways away from having full leaves, they are just breaking bud really. But this heat is speeding things up. I imagine it will be cold next week and rain. :D
Two years ago today it was 28F and over 2" of new snow.
I have 32° and looks like the mid 70's are on their way. Looks like some low 80's, if it gets that high, for the next 3 days. That will get them blacks flies alive.
Then back to May weather.
38° and if you like it warm, it will be. 80° temps are not normal in May.
Things are swinging here too. low 70's yesterday with the sun burning my neck as I milled. Today it was 62° by 7:30 shooting for high 70's today. Radar is clear for a few days yet. Time to play "catch up". The wind seems to be dying a bit as the days go by too.
Had very spotty showers (no thunder :() Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Highs in the upper 60's, low 70's. Was 75° yesterday and supposed to be 92° Saturday - Monday.
Hot. 85 at noon.
Set a record the news said for high temps, 85°.
We will return to May weather on Tuesday.
82F and dry as a covered bridge. :D
I mowed the lawn, first mowing of summer. ;D
Severe storms in central Oconto Cty. i.e. right over my postage stamp. TV guys say flooding downpours, maybe some hail, lots of lightning.... I'm on my back deck looking north, here in A-Town, at the tops of those thunderheads, 60 miles away.
Warm dry evening here, though humid.
Getting a little concerned, what I'm going to see when I go up tmrw. Reports of over five inches of rain, washed out roads, including State HWY 32....if that's true that's crazy. All appears centered exactly over our area.
Plan was to take up a nice old Simplicity 7116 we're refurbishing. Something tells me I may encounter other issues more pressing than the grass.
60F this morning, not much of a breeze, going to be another dry day. No humidity here at all. Forecast says chance of spotty showers Saturday, so pretty much no rain. The creek is down to summer levels.
You got me beat by 10°, only 50 here. Kinda odd for May.
Heading for 85 today. :o
Our road is closed, flooded out. The road behind us is likewise flooded out and unpassable. One of north-south legs is closed for sure, haven't been able yet to determine if traffic is able to use HWY 32.
Remains to be seen if our location can be reached. Heavy storms can fire up again later today.
Ground truth is coming in suggesting a general half-foot of rain in the area.
Haven't left home yet-waiting for co-pilot son to get going. Knowing the lay of the land, creek crossing to west will be impassable, may be able to reach property from east.
Hope I still have a culvert!
Last night we had a big storm tornado to the south of us high winds to the north of me some places in S.D. had 100+ stright line winds Lgot lucky 2 small trees down but lots of rain
Well, just put in the AC this morning. smiley_sweat_drop smiley_sun
Quote from: goose63 on May 13, 2022, 10:11:06 AMLast night we had a big storm tornado to the south of us high winds to the north of me some places in S.D. had 100+ stright line winds . . . but lots of rain
We're getting the Northern end of that system. I'm out in NW Ontario with truck and trailer, hauling crushed rock to repair washed out roads. @goose63 (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=23477) The weather guessers are saying for us to expect "flooding rains". Are you hearing the same thing?
Lots of trucks of breaker running these roads today. Had a few waits as crews fixed washouts, but here on my postage stamp we're ok. Hate to be one of these super gungho farmers around here though;. All that nice seed and fertilizer they've been racing to get in is down in the creek now, along with half their topsoil.
I can't imagine any of these swamps drying out any time soon....if at all this summer. Full to the brim and then some.
Again, sure glad I'm into forests and trees, not corn and butterfat😏. All my land is still where it's supposed to be.
Yes some of the smaller rivers were over the banks yesterday now its all sun shine and that DanG wind
92F here this afternoon, but a dry heat, low humidity.
I have 60° this morning.
Warm for May at this time.
66F here this morning, I see dark clouds moving down from the north. The heat wave will be ending soon. ;D
Two days in a row hitting 90*here.
Asparagus and Rhubarb seemed to like it. Me not so much.
A cool day and no sun all day. A light rain all day. I worked outside in it. And I hate getting wet from rain. I almost gave up once, it started to rain harder, than it stopped. Did not amount to nothing. Except for the fire danger. I was digging a trench and the water never went into the ground. No idea the high temp, 61° now.
54°and overcast until noon. Then it will warm up into the mid 70's.
Heats on.
6/10" rain here last evening and into the night, overnight and morning was more of a mist. Suppose to be showers most every day this week except maybe Wednesday. It rained hard here before dark because water came down through the woods and over the road deposited some pretty big chunks of wood on the road. 1/2 mile down the road.
we got some pretty good T-storms come through yesterday afternoon. Got some real gulley washers today. Came down at a rate of 1.5"/hr at one point. SO far we have just 3/4" for the day, but it came down in some heavy doses. I just heard the warning beacon go off for another one. I have gone from buttoned up tight to having doors and winders opened for fresh sweet air more times than I can count today. Even go trapped out in the shop for a while it was raining so hard. ;D
Tis the season!
well happy birthday Tom. you know we have lost Ks natives to rainstorms. the most famous lived in the west part of the state. Made of sugar and all. :) :) :)
44° this morning. Not even 70 today.
Heats on.
Last night I got home at 5pm and walked around and planned out what I was going to do after supper. Nice warm weather and the flies was trying to suck the blood out of me as fast as I could make it.
Had supper, watched the local news and went outside at 6:30. I did not look at the temp, but it had dropped. :o I went back to the house and put on a sweatshirt.
Staying in the 50s here today, with light rain. We can warm up tmrw ahead of a stronger thunderstorm system.
35° and will just about make it to 60 today.
The weekend will be in the high 80's, maybe even hit 90.
Then back to May.
I think Winter is just arriving here today.
Yesterday the Mt had zero snow, right now it's just starting to snow down at the ski lodge, and that will drop overnight. Been some thunderstorms, small tornadoes as cold fronts have been passing through. Can't see the Mt of course, but the web cam is looking cold. ;)
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Sea swells are supposed to be hitting 18-20 ft around the coast, looking at Back Beach in New Plymouth, that looks accurate. The big rock in the middle is over 500ft tall for scale.
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More showers and boom-booms. Pretty moist, from about here north. Can't believe how stubborn dryness is in S. WI of late.
County road crews were scooping topsoil out of farm field ditches up by tree farm area, where 6 to 9 inches of rain in about 6 hrs. one day last week caused massive erosion. What a mess. I'd say the farmers in that area, which can be quite hilly, don't hardly bother to do even old-school conservation practices like contour plowing-just go straight up and down those hills....
It was raining when we turned S for home...
Was 58F Wednesday, 64F yesterday, slows the flies some. But yeah, they say there is some heat coming this weekend, I think 70's up here. Was expecting some rain last night, but not a drop, moon was out this morning.
Dark morning, leftover rain showers. Mild but temps drop in afternoon. Very soggy.
We had rain this morning and a little sun this afternoon. we planed
some 1x8s this AM and sawed 3 logs this afternoon then went and cut 4 more logs for tomorrow got to keep busy. Randy
Jeff, Gaylord any where near you?
Windy this morning and a fine fog like mist happening. 50F, expected to reach 70F. I think the sun will need to be out to do that. Not looking like any sun for 2 days.
Looks like 50-60's all next week, fine by me.
Supposed to creep up to over 90 today. Figures, I am cutting mushroom logs today. ;D I'll probably quit by mid-day and move onto something else. We had a tiny bit of rain overnight and it's quite damp right now and overcast. Tomorrow more heat, then cooling Monday a bit and rain for the second half of the week. AT least that constant wind is dying down. I have been burning junk wood in the pit to get rid of it.
Well no 70's here today, too windy and dull, 63F for a high. No flies. Sharpened some fence posts and planted the elders that I started in the grow tent.
44 degrees for a high today with a beautiful north wind. Nice winter jacket kind of day.
Mostly drying out for next few days, maybe just a sprinkle somewhere around. Highs near 60👍....
Maybe another batch of significant rain by mid next week.
Heavy rain has helped settle 22 tons of stone I leveled out for new building pad in last few days . Actually, will be putting another similar quantity of 3/4 clear stone on top of that. Got til August to get it right. Stuff like this, it's better if it can sit for a while, albeit I compact as best I can with equip. I've got.
Well, it looks like I am the odd man out here today. It hit 90° or better and not a cloud to dampen the sun down a bit. Of course I had to cut an order of mushroom logs. Man, by noon I was soaked through and I swear even my knees were sweating.
Tomorrow we are looking at pretty much the same then dropping a bit on Monday.
58° for the high today, and breezy enough I opted to not burn some stuff in a barrel. I was able to compact some cans to make room for more before the trip to sell/recycle.
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Libby did not drive but took a nap after the process.
Do not worry Tom and Bill, the liquid on the ground is mostly water that got into the containers I throw them in outside. smiley_beertoast
Was cool here until about 3pm, then the temp went up. Looks like a warm Sunday. Just had a thunder storm come through.
We had a small thunderstorm roll through about dark and laid down a little rain, have not checked the gauge yet. 58F on the porch this morning and a mugginess.
It was 77° at 10:30 last night and 67 when I got up at 6 today. The Weather service has dropped the forecast high for today down to the high 80's. I have a trailer to load and tarp for delivery in the morning. We have rain coming in late afternoon/evening today, so I guess I will do that sooner than planned and get it covered up.
Man that heat sucked the life out of me yesterday, I hope to avoid that today. ;D
A step backwards here right now, it's currently snowing. :-\ Should change over to showers, hopefully. :D
I have 86° with a breeze.
Made it all the way to 56 today. Didn't see any of Chet's snow, but the sky looked like it could have snow in it.
Just had a hail storm for about 5 minutes. Hail about the size of nickels.
77° yesterday at 6am, today it was 52° at 6am. We just missed that wall line of t-storms last evening because it split just before it got to us, but the temp dropped 15° in about a half hour and didn't recover.
There is no rain in the forecast for today but I see a big blob headed our way from southwest of here. Easier working today, that's for sure and I am off to get on it right now. :D
Only 66° at 1:30pm today and the air is pretty dry too. Perfect work day. I just got back from making 2 deliveries 20 miles to the west and they got clobbered with a gulley washer from that rain that never made it to us last evening. The hills and valleys around here create their own weather systems and micro climates.
We never seen no heat like you guys got. I think it's October already. Only 58F here today and north wind a howling. :D They been 10 degrees too high in their predictions for days on end. They better hire a new weatherman. This ain't Boston. :D These the same guys giving us bogus numbers about how many record hot days we got? I know the Environment Canada bunch are way out of touch, my numbers for last year are colder then theirs. Then nut cases on social media news sights think an imaginary line between two countries makes data from a station 25 miles away invalid. It's a heck of a lot closer than Fredericton, Moncton or Halifax. :D
This video shows how the winter thaw and a record amount of Spring rain created a tough farming year.
https://youtu.be/FfKm7bs_Fnk (https://youtu.be/FfKm7bs_Fnk)
I'll be busy with road repair in NW Ontario for a while yet.
Parts of Australia has been raining for months. A fellow I watch on Youtube has raised bed gardens, if the veg where in the ground it would all be dead from water log.
Said might see frost tonight. Like I told ya's I don't plant much until June.
Quote from: Andries on May 23, 2022, 04:23:29 PMThis video shows how the winter thaw and a record amount of Spring rain created a tough farming year.
Wow, amazing footage. I just can't imagine so much water. Where does that drain into? Great Lakes?
John, all of the Canadian prairies and the two Dakotas drain north into Hudson's Bay or the Arctic Ocean. It looks like a lot of water, and stretches out to the horizon, but it's only about a foot deep.
Come and see what 5 minutes of hail looks like.
May 22, 2022 #Maine #hail #storm #Chesterville wow still pouring hard - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzUO9gTRCY8&list=UUObv5IxwNdWXib5VULMJjQg&index=2)
On the other end of Chesterville about 10 minutes from me, they did not get any hail. In another direction it lasted for 15 minutes.
We had hail about as big as nickels.
Maggie is our dog.
Frost warnings/advisories around here last couple nights. Not out of the ordinary....we can still see frost on June 1. Most items other than tender greenhouse grown take it.
Last year we had a hard freeze event in late May. Up in my rows, smaller Norway spruce were hit hard. Never seen anything like it...except maybe the worst bud worm you've ever seen. But in most cases, the terminal buds were ok, and I think the trees will come thru.
Hope we don't see that this year. Other than a couple hot days, cool and moist has been the rule. Another rainmaker on the horizon.
46° this morning. Looks to be mid 60's for a high.
Heat is on.
65° this morning heading to 101° this afternoon. Heading up the hill to work on my tractor were it's only supposed to get to 85° or so.
Was 40F here this morning, but I saw frost on roofs out where I'm working. Only got to 60F here, all day getting there to.
We had hail last May, beat all the blossoms off the plums. Might get some plums this year. If it isn't hail it's frost. :D
Some of you fella's look at a Google Earth of Manitoba, it's hard not to step in water during the best of times. ;) Zoom in, the place is full of water. Two lakes there in the south about the size of L. Erie and L. Ontario. Plus a million others. :D
High of 57 or so, steady rain by noon. We can get one half to one inch or so out of this one.
Warm front will come thru overnight, and temps will rise in the darkness.
Hit 70F today, but all day getting there. Suppose be 60's tomorrow, some showers coming tomorrow night into Friday.
A buck ten worth of rain so far today, still some around here at 10pm. High was 59...just now, as warm front is going thru. Could hit 60 before midnite. Warmer tomorrow, a few wrap-around showers/t-storms can still happen.
Looks like a 2/3 good holiday weekend here in the Northeast. Rain on Sat, but Sun and Mon looking nice. I know............too early and things can, and often do change. But in my business Memorial week is a rough one. All kinds of anxiety with the customers, and it sometimes seems as if everyone who plans a family/friends cookout has a broken lawn mower. :)
Looks like one day of low 80's.
I will turn the heat off.
50F here this morning and rain. Said 70F for the high, but I bet 60F is the real high. Always 10 degrees off. They also said just showers, it's rained non stop all night and this morning. I'm darn sure it isn't 10 degrees warmer in Houlton, Maine. :D
It dumped all night and we've been toning every 5-10 minutes since about 4:30, lots of rotation going on overhead, I haven't heard of anything touching the ground hope it stays that way. It's headed off east and north. Off to pump out our work :-\.
Cool, damp and gloomy this morning, but expected to start clearing off, and high can reach close to 70 today.
Glad we are getting water here, most crucial for new cane shoots and fruit. Better then cement hard and dry of 3 weeks ago. Still on the cool side, 54F.
I've seen some bad washes in fields from last week's rain. No washes by home, but some near town.
Still gray and quite a NE wind. Hard to believe it's going to be a nice day.
Also hard to believe we'll be nearing 90 in just a few days.
They aren't saying tornado yet but 45 buildings were damaged in Christiansburg, NE of here this morning, VA Tech area, several down to the foundation, 2 minor injuries luckily. My sister down in NC sent a pic of a large red oak on their roof. She was on the computer, heard something, looked out to see the ground heaving at its base and dove out of the room. Pieces of ceiling were on the computer and in her chair, close call!
We pumped about 1000 gallons out of the basement subgrade at work. It hasn't climbed over the slab happily. I don't have a permanent float switched sump pump in there yet so we've been plugging in and pumping when we get there.
Been raining steady since Thursday evening here. Last I checked around 6:00 pm there was 1" in the gauge. For something predicted to be 'possible' showers, I'd say it was one long during shower. That kind of forecast is like possible snow in winter. Gave up on accuracy of amounts, easier to live up to expectation. :D
It's now 1-3/4" of rain over 2 days. Won't be surprised to see 2" total by morning.
There was a short reprieve this morning that allowed me to get the fencing up around the carrots and the parsnips. And later I saw Pudgy Joe on the run past the garden to his hole in the dogwood bushes by the ditch. Gotta be on the ball around here. :D
German extreme weather doco. Ahr valley disaster and other events.
5 minutes in there is a
4 minute section on the forest, now trying to divert storm water back into the forest and have retention areas, than have the water flood the surrounding villages. 2021 - the soil still dry after the drought/ high temperatures the previous summer, making rainfall infiltration less.
Floods, drought and the consequences of extreme weather | DW Documentary - YouTube (https://youtu.be/mvf_OyjLURM?t=297)
1-8/10" rain total and 50F on the porch this morning. Pink sky with wisps of clouds, so still unsettled.
We got 1/2" of rain yesterday in two gulley washers and sprinkles in between. Try as I might I could not get the burn pile to take off to a point it would overcome the rain and moisture. I did hack up more of the downed stuff from the ices storm into draggable pieces and added a bunch to the pile. I'll get it one more shot today with some boy scout juice and if it doesn't take off I will let it dry out for a few days. I am getting a little weary of slogging around the 4" of mud and water in the swamp, but that does a good job of containing fire spread.
The forecast for today is for a postcard day. Blue skies with a high of 75° and low wind. We have a 'thing' to go to in the mid-afternoon.
70F and overcast today. Going to get some rain tonight and then clear tomorrow.
Saw a young bull moose near where I'm working.
Hot, high eighties anyway. Can cook tmrw too but then front comes thru with t-storms.
The big jumbo mosquitoes are numerous up at tree farm. Few to none down here in A-Town.
In the high 80's for a few days, now back to mid 60's.
Saw a tornado today, it was on the ground when I spotted ahead roughly 3 miles ahead and a little north. My wife tried to get a picture but it was blurry and not worth posting. Wasn't on the ground long. I maybe saw it for 30-45 seconds. We were in the truck heading home. Got lucky and stayed ahead of the really bad stuff. I haven't heard of any damage yet.
Just got a couple of unexpected sprinkles on Sunday but I really could not get that fire to re-start very well. Too much wet stuff, but I did cut some more and am making progress.
Yesterday I did get the fire going good and made more headway and think I am about 3/4 through what I need to get done. But it got pretty hot and I ran out of sweat in time to grab a shower and head to a friends for a last minute bar-be-que. High was 83° and dang hot in the sun.
Today it's headed to the mid 90's so I may forgo the swamp burning and work in the shop to finish up that potting bench for the wife. Blue skies and nothing as of yet, on the radar.
60F here today, took all day to get there. Could be frost tonight in places, dropping to the 30's F. See why I don't put plants in the garden until mid June? ;D
Never seen hotter than 73F here, and that was Monday. The hottest day in 2 weeks. ;)
Yesterday was hot, but we avoided 90. Today front is sweeping thru but few rain showers, mostly a wind shift.
Sun is out at 44°.
Heat is on. High 60's today.
Nothing but moderate conditions in the forecast...highs near 60, sun and clouds.
We'll take it!
60F here for a high and sunny. There was frost out where I'm working, not at the house. Frost warning tonight to.
65F today, sunny. Been frost free here at the house, been lucky. ;)
Another 65F day on the way and looks like a wet weekend. I might get some seed into the garden this afternoon. ;)
53F this morning and we had 1-1/2" of rain last night in a lightning storm.
Enjoying a nice run of perfect days here. Low to mid 50's at night; high 70's to 80 during the day. Ideal.
Been fashionable around here for people to complain that we don't get a spring anymore and go right from winter to summer. I've never agreed with that sentiment. But just like in the fall, this real nice in between weather where it's not too cold and not too hot just doesn't last as long. Gotta enjoy it while it's here. :)
Bob, some folks would complain if you hung them with a new rope. I got no complaints as long as it's not freezing rain. ;D :)
A perfect day yesterday! Almost all blue skies with just an occasional cloud and temps in the upper 70's with low wind speed. Today looks to be the same but the humidity will be unusually low, 25-30% thru the morning then rising to only about 50% in the afternoon. As a result, the Haines index will hit 6 later this morning for the first time this spring that I have seen. It should be back down around 3 by 3pm.
I think I will do another round of firewood this morning.
Cool and cloudy day, 58F here.
.86 of rain overnight/this morning. 61 degrees here at 3:40pm.
Looking at moderate temps and a few minor rain chances in days ahead. No big heat.
We have another near perfect day ready for today, mid 70's again with low humidity for half the day, then the humidity will climb to 90% by evening and we will have some rain overnight. Tired as I am, I have to keep moving on firewood.
Sunny and 75F today, rain tomorrow.
Been a cool week. Rained hard this morning!! Sun came out in the afternoon.
Heat is on.
Quote from: Don P on May 27, 2022, 06:27:23 PM
They aren't saying tornado yet but 45 buildings were damaged in Christiansburg, NE of here this morning, VA Tech area, several down to the foundation, 2 minor injuries luckily. My sister down in NC sent a pic of a large red oak on their roof. She was on the computer, heard something, looked out to see the ground heaving at its base and dove out of the room. Pieces of ceiling were on the computer and in her chair, close call!
We pumped about 1000 gallons out of the basement subgrade at work. It hasn't climbed over the slab happily. I don't have a permanent float switched sump pump in there yet so we've been plugging in and pumping when we get there.
They did decide it was an EF2 nearby. My sister sent a copy of the bill for tree removal. It was a 5 tree tangle which probably helped keep the damage to the house down but made for tough work. 6 holes in the roof but no major damage. They had to piece and carry out most of it $10,700 :o
We got some roof metal on this afternoon, summer's here. I'm about a half gallon of tea in and the headache is almost gone. Quick acclimation :D
Summer roofing is not on my favorites list. I was up on the roof for 20 minutes yesterday morning and that was quite enough, thank very much. :D
Another nice day yesterday but I managed to squeeze out a bunch of sweat bucking firewood. The rain started at about 3am this morning and we already have and inch. Hopefully that clears off by mid-day. At least my rain tank is full. :)
.62 of rain yesterday. Nice day today, around 73 or so.
Had a small handful of warm 70 degree days. The rest have been unseasonably cool and dry. Today it is 44 degrees and the first light rain we have had in over 2 weeks.
We've had half an inch of rain this week, spread over 3 days. It was clear this morning and first 70's day in awhile. Now it is partially sunny. Looks like rain Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday.
Been too cold for cukes and squash to germinate, been a week. Need some 70's heat, no not 90's. ;D Planted some cuke sets this morning. Beans and beats are up after a week. Dill seed never germinated in 2 weeks yet, planted some started in the grow tent, so there will be that much. ;D
The garden soil is firm this morning, lots of water.
Light rain and around 60.
Warm, dry and breezy yesterday. Gnats we're at 80 percent, deer flies were at 50 percent, and mosquitoes came in at a low 10 percent during daylight, in that breezy condition.
Hot. supposed to hit 107° in Dodge City. yes, there really is a city in Ks by that name, and Abilene home of a former president.
One Hundred and Six. In the shade. M.I.S.E.R.A.B.L.E.
Bit miserable here too, but for the opposite reason :D
Day 6 of Westerly wind and cold fronts coming in off the sea. Random thunderstorms, hail and a few small twisters near the coast. No damage or power cuts here so far, but it would be nice to have more than 5 mins of sunshine before it starts to rain / hail again. ::) It's not unusual weather for us, just 6 days in a row... :(
South Island is getting hit harder with several roads closed due to snow and ice. Good for the skiers, once they get the roads clear at least. Reports said they had 4 ft of snow at Mt Cook village, and 3 ft on the Milford Sound road, so they are effectively cut off for now.
Consider yourself lucky on the hail! The other day they had 5" hail. Yes 5" hail! 45 miles from me. Lucky we only got marble size
We have a possible heat index of 102 to 105° F here today and tomorrow.
Jim Rogers
Not here...yet. ;D Yesterday we only hit 70° for a high, but I was pouring off flop sweat while running the splitter. The humidity was SO high even though overcast. Mid 80's today and I have to harvest some mushroom logs. We'll see just how long I last. I may break it into two days.
70-somthing today, with a warm front nosing in, setting off potentially strong t-storms. Then gets hot for a couple days with high humidity and the opportunity for more storms.
Spring might be over!
60F here and we had 9/10" rain in an hr. I was out in it tromping and swinging a clearing saw. :D The main creek is full of mud and high water. More showers tonight and tomorrow for good measure. Suppose to hit mid to high 70's Wednesday and Thursday, we'll see. ;D
Its been a pretty sweet spring here overall. Been busy getting outside stuff done before the heat sets in.
Comfortable temps except a few days and frequent enough rain so
everything is lush and the wild strawberries in the field are plentiful and decent size to boot.
The highbush blueberries are heavy with berries this year too.
Haven't lit a fire in the woodstove for close to 4 weeks now and the window AC is still in the closet for now.
Had some boom-booms here this afternoon. Probably around an inch of rain.
It will be a steamy day tomorrow.
Yes, everything is very lush this spring, lots of water. I found a wild strawberry last fall in October on a turn out along the road, big as your thumb. That was way out in the out back, unsettled land. The lawn here is white with wild strawberry blossoms. They like to set runners out onto the garden mulch. :D
97 and humid here today. Supposed to be over100 the next couple of days.
More hail about 15 minutes from me. Seem to be a season for the hail.
101 here and it's still climbing. Going to break the record for this early getting this hot 🥵
Another day in the 50s. Over 2" of much needed rain today. Tomorrow 90s then back to 60s after that. Hopefully this rain and warmth will get things growing. Green up and growing are behind this year for sure.
Hazy overcast, or fog burning off now at mid morning. Gonna get hot and very high dewpoint....in the 70s.
Cooler up at shack. Only low 80s for a high there. 60 miles south, we can hit 90 today.
Green out was late here too, but appears to be fully completed now.
64F here. Last evening it rained another 9/10 before dark in less than an hr. Big thunder down pour. Makes 1-8/10" rain yesterday. Rain showers today, rained all morning in the woods, but dry at the house. Now raining at home. We get two dry days coming then more rain Friday. Best spring for water I've seen in years. ;D
Long range shows rain and cool most of next week, 50's and 60's. Love it. You keep that heat down where it belongs. :D
I stole this from Facebook, but its fitting for today in MO.
"Its hotter than a brand new chainsaw in a pawn shop"
100 deg right now. A few days ago we were talking about how cool this year has been.
Another 1/4" this afternoon to add. :D
Heat and dew point as high as this kid can remember, with high likelihood of severe weather in the hours ahead.
Blazing sunshine at the moment....and that's not a good thing.
Dry and low humidity today, was only 65F at noon, I think 78F this afternoon was the high. Suppose to get windy tomorrow and rain by afternoon or evening. Thunderstorms coming.
Woods are on the wet side. The road into where I cut today was like driving on axial grease this morning, a slip sliding away. ;D
Sure enough, large line of storms, numerous tornadoes in area.
We're ok here in A-Town, some tornadic stuff was west of us but slipped to our north-just barely. Now I have to wonder how the tree farm property is doing. Another tornado was apparently just south of there, or.... won't know until I get there to see the latest. Hope everything is still standing. I'm just going by watching the radar earlier.
Wild weather all over the region, I guess tomorrow we get wind.
Is it cooling off a lot for you guys in the upper mid west after the storm front went through? Forecast for the weekend says we could see temps in the 40's Sat night here in the Northeast. Has dipped into the 50's most every night with highs in the upper 70's to 80 in the daytime. I'm lovin' this. About the nicest June I can remember.
Well yesterday was in the 80's and I just gave up on the wet t-shirt and left it off while I was splitting, too much sweat and I came up short of finishing. Rain started here about 3 hours ago and we have .40" so far. Hopefully that will stop in another hour or two. That predicted dip into the 40's that Spike talked about will be short and I don't see any really big highs in the next few days. It has been pretty good on the whole. I get less done in the heat, but I keep plugging.
I see that the @aigheadish (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=53516) clan, vacationing in Niagara Falls right now, is going to get some rain on their parade in a few hours, but like most June storms, it should pass in an hour or two, then we might get the same system this evening. I got no complaints.
"Cool down" to low 80s....less humid for a couple days.
Sheesh, next week looks like a repeat, real hot stuff can come right back.
Lots of rain, but sure is easy to hit 90 this early season. I can't survey northern property until tomorrow at soonest.
Dry, sunny and windy, was 70F at noon. Clouding up. Suppose to be wet for the next 3 days, colder Sunday - 50's for the high. ;D Looks wet all next week. :D
Cloudy here at 72°. Only in the low 70's today.
It's been hot wherever we've gone. First night in Detroit was nice but it got hot the day we went to the Ford museum (my boy lost his wallet there, we called 2 days later and it was found, woohoo!), then hot pulling into Niagara Falls area. Hot today, did get a nice little storm on the drive back and now it's hot again. Mid NY tomorrow (Piesco lake?) called for 80, then Mt. Washington area calling for mid 40s when we arrive Saturday! Woo. Chilly!
Mt Washington.
I did that a couple years ago.
Very interesting, trees look normal, then it's like a line is drawn and things change at each line.
I really liked it.
Cool and constant wet is not good for string beans. Dampen off/rot.
Going to be wet and cool for the next week. Surprising that after two days of sun the ground is dry enough to hoe potatoes. Had over 2" rain so far this week. Rain began last evening again and going to stay that way for days ahead.
Looks like a cool weekend.
Not even in the 60's.
Cool and wet, into next week. 2-6/10" rain this week so far. The springs that usually dry at the surface by now, still under water.
Quote from: thecfarm on June 18, 2022, 06:11:05 AM
Looks like a cool weekend.
Not even in the 60's.
Perfect for some of us still working up firewood.
Not even supposed to reach 50 on Father's Day
@woodroe (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=12647) , that's exactly what I did today. 5-6 hours doing wood and I am a wee bit on the sore side. :) But it was ideal weather for working ouside. Mid 50's all day and kind of windy so ZERO bugs. Supposed to hit the 40's tonight here, so some of you folks in Maine might see 30's? Gonna be interesting to see what low temps everybody posts in the morning.
Yeah I got another truckload of firewood in the shed today. That finishes up
that project for this year. Nice day for it like you said windy, cool and no bugs.
Could be some snow in the higher elevations here overnight.
Quote from: aigheadish on June 16, 2022, 06:06:47 PMthen Mt. Washington area calling for mid 40s when we arrive Saturday! Woo. Chilly!
Did you make it to the top? Saw snow on top of The MT on the news.
October weather, 45F and cold rain. Leaves will be turning soon. :D
I have 50, and the heat is on!!!
Sparked up a fire here too Ray. 64 on the inside, tad cool for old bones.
We have 50 here also, yesterday was overcast and very windy all day. I didn't have any heavy sweating work I could do, so I did other stuff. Not a pleasant day at all. This morning we have a little sun this AM, but we had that yesterday before it went away.
I just checked the current conditions on Mt. Washington where @Aigheadish and family will be running up the cog railway today. At the peak there are 55MPH winds, the temp is 26° and the Windchill is 5°. There was just over an inch of snow in the last 24hours. Visibility is under 1/16th of a mile and the humidity is 100%. They are expecting wind gusts in the 84MPH range today. But don't worry, summer is coming! ;D :D
There is a live webcam on the observation deck on Mt. Washington I just checked out. it does not appear to be very pleasant weather up there. Check it out: https://www.mountwashington.org/weathercams/deckcam.aspx (https://www.mountwashington.org/weathercams/deckcam.aspx)
49° for the low here. Sun is moving it up a couple degrees, but still breezy out. Not thinking this is going to be a T-shirt day. :)
Hahaha! Well, I'd heard it was the windiest place on earth and known for crazy changing weather! Hopefully The Cog keeps running so we can go freak out about how miserable it is! 70 bucks a ticket to walk around in the clouds while freezing to death sounds like a fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
Jeepers that is steep! 70 bucks? I checked the conditions at 1pm and the temp was 27° and the winds gad calmed to a 40MPH average. Visibility on the webcam looked like much less than 100'.
Meanwhile here at the house it is 65° and our winds have also calmed to about 15MPH. ;D At least I could take the sweatshirt off.
Never budged off 45F here all day and still raining. fire_smiley Will definitely be in with the other cold wet Junes in the past. ;D
Started to rain here around 10 this morning. Well I guess you can call it rain, barely dripping off the eves of the house.
We made it back. Up top it was cold! I'll go into some more detail on the RV trippin thread.
Cold down in the valley too!!!
Never even got to 50° here.
I have 46 now and looks like 70 around 3-4 today.
Was 43F at 3:00 am and rain and still showers here and 50F now. Suppose to clear tonight, dry Tuesday and Wednesday and back to rain Thursday. ;D Finished my strip quite early this morning and the block is done. Was around one ha (2-1/2 acres) left from last week on my strip. Love'n this kind of ground, fast cut'n. ;D
Different world here. Hot and too sunny.
Perfect day here today. Low 70's and full sunshine. I should be working my butt off but I am being lazy. It's just too nice.
55F for a high, some sunny breaks now. Could be frost in places up north of here.
I'm afraid the only frost here is if I leave the freezer open too long.
Up at shack, plan is to not try and conquer the world....we put new wood on a picnic table recently, bolts were too long, so cut them off and ground the ends, did a little final sanding, then took lunch. It's 90-something now.
Actually dozed off for a while in the shack here and now you know what... it's too hot to paint. Pretty much call er a day I guess.
Slightly disappointed I didn't paint the thing but hey, I'm retired...not a big deal.
Crazy weather here. 2 nights ago we had 39° and frost warnings. Today the temp hit 103° and even at 9.20pm its 97°. Its been nearly 20 years since we have seen triple digit temps and never in June in my lifetime. Wednesdays high is forecast at 66°...
50° this morning, won't even reach 75 today. Sun is out!!
49° on the first day of Summer. From here on out.........."the days are getting shorter" :laugh:
Was 45F this morning at 3:00 am on the porch. Some places was in the 30's they said around Houlton, Maine. It got to 70F by 4:00 pm, just barely. ;D
I know that heat hit in Manitoba and down into the Dakota's south of there. Bernstein said it was over 100 yesterday near Fargo. I don't think I've ever seen it get hotter than 95F here ever, that would be more than plenty hot enough. :D
Winter can't come soon enough. Best time of the year. :D
I wanted to like your post Spike60 but I like the long days too much and don't want to see them get shorter so soon.
That's a "tongue in cheek" joke for the folks that hate winter. I do like the daylight, and I'm loving this weather we are having right now here in the NE. 50's overnight and 70's in the day is sweet. The serious heat that will eventually get here is what I can't stand. Doesn't need to get any warmer than 80° in my book, but when it gets into the 90's, I hate it.
The high yesterday was 72° for just a brief while and overcast all day. The rain held off until late afternoon for the most part and got a little heavier in the evening. We got less than 1/4" for the day.
Today looks like the same pattern but just a few degrees cooler. As long as it's not freezing rain, I got no complaints. :) ;D
Yeah, when we left Dayton the next few days were heat index'd in the 105s, I'm fine without that. Here in the Catskills has been lovely, temperature wise, though a bit cloudy. I can't complain about that on the first days of summer.
Gorgeous weather today at 60° N in southeast Norway.
Sunny and we might hit 80°F, and the days are loong too.
sunrise: 03:56
sunset: 22:43
(and never quite dark between 22:43 and 3:56 either)
70F yesterday for a high and not quite there yet today. Windy.
We hit 78F yesterday afternoon, had a morning shower. 61F here this morning, heading for the 80's. Garden weather. A/C is on because it is 80F and a sticky 60%RH upstairs already. ;D
Got them tomatoes to go in this morning. :)
We got some warm days coming.
Customers have been coming into the store and asking me how my garden is doing? I say, same as yours, been too cold for things to grow.
The garden will take off now.
One year we got our cukes in late. Most people were just about done with their cukes from the garden, we were just getting them.
Just got the window AC unit in and running , later than usual but its been really
comfortable up till now.
And with the price of electricity currently at 25 cents
per KWH the cooler temps have been welcome.
It's 80F right now, I expect 85F for the high though. 72F in the house. ;D
Piddly rain showers-we need a decent rain with all the heat and of course, wind.
So much rain earlier, I knew we'd be baked and dry in no time. Low spots are still full of water, but anywhere else, it's gotten too dry.
It's Tornado season! In June 2014 there were twin tornados 🌪 ripping through and around Pilger Nebraska. Actually simultaneously within a twenty mile range there were four tornados going at the same time
https://youtu.be/V9d7DDQawVE (https://youtu.be/V9d7DDQawVE)
Luckily for us they are a rare event up here. I've seen them take out patches of maple forest. Luckily not much for building damage, except one trailer home, completely gone, the folks survived it. I drove by there after and all I seen was insulation in the bushes. The interesting thing was is crossed two major heavy power lines without incident. One other took a corner off a house, no casualties.
Been around 70F here the last 2 days. Had an afternoon shower yesterday. :)
Only in the low 70's today. The last two days was warm, in the high 80's
53° again here this morning. Should be about the same tonight. Has to be one of the nicest Junes I can remember. (unless you like 'em HOT) 50's at night and 70's in the day is ideal for me. Overnight temps have only been above 60 four times this year vs 15 times last year. Same story for the daytime highs. Above 80° just 3 times this year; 14 times last year. I'm lovin' this. :)
72F here right now. Suppose to get some rain tonight from a cold front. :)
95 here, hot south wind. Corn is beginning to suffer badly and will be in trouble soon. Even the really good bottom ground it's looking stressed.
I would trade you some heat Spike....
I am going to break my of my cardinal rules for the first time ever and speak for another man. Spike says "no thank you" :D
Even though it was a lovely day here, I still sweated my butt off wearing chainsaw pants through most of it. Gone get a lot hotter in the coming days.
Sorry Nebraska, as Tom said, not a trade I'd be inclined to make. I have experienced that plains heat though. Been to the Exmark factory in Beatrice a few times. One September trip really fooled all of us dealers from the Northeast. It had been insane and constant hot weather for a while here. Expected it to continue out there. But a front had gone through and soon as we got off the plane it was downright chilly. NOBODY brought anything warmer than a t-shirt/golf shirt. One of the guys from Rochester found a Good Will store in Lincoln where we were staying. So, 6-7 of us ran down there to buy some warm clothes. Still got the nice sweater I picked up there. :)
Looking like upper 80's tomorrow for July 1st, but then back to 50/70 mix for most of next week. Hit 82° for a high yesterday. Back down to 56° right now.
75F here today, was a great day in the woods. :)
Had 1-1/2" rain last night and this morning, more coming Friday. Been in the 70's for highs.
Hopefully will get some dry weather to refinish the deck. Gotta get the old off and sand. Takes 2 days to cure this BM deck stain. ;)
Have a good one.
As of last nite we got blasted with a torrential rain & winds. It reminded me of a monsoon rain.
We suspect our many hours of garden work are wasted and afraid to see what's left.
There's no way our sweet corn can be standing. I suspect my woods is full of downed trees? Last couple of years we have experienced what were 100 year or nearly 100 year record rainfalls so many mature, heavy trees on thin soils have toppled in this area. Electric was off several hours for entire area and trees down on highways blocking main roads. Mother nature is angry?
Been on the cool side for July. Yesterday was a great outside working day.
We are in VT until Sunday prepping for a family reunion on Saturday. I concur with Ray, great working weather. Cooler than at home and lower humidity. We are at a slightly higher elevation than home, around 1200' on a hilltop so there is a good steady 2-4 mph breeze which helps while weekwhacking around a 6 acre plot.
65F here at noon, expect another few degrees warmer by 4:00 pm. Clouding up for tomorrow's rain though. ;)
No bugs this morning, not one mosquito or deer fly. :)
Heavy thunderstorms here in NC right now.
Jim Rogers
Light rain and 65° this morning, but supposed to clear up this afternoon leading in to a sunny and 70's weekend on tap. Should get everything list done. :)
It's dry in central Maine. 1.41" of rain in the last 30 days with most of that occurring 2 weeks or more ago.
The weather and temps have been so good this spring and summer here that
I've managed to work up 14 cords firewood, being retired helps with that of course.
Got 9 cord under roof and 5 under tin.
Should be enough for 3 years at least. Feeling blessed by the weather, unusual I know.
We need rain, not even a shower that amounted to anything.
But has been some great temps, not too hot and not humid.
Wife is mowing the field and the dust is all around her.
I heard a news report from Maine the other day that said it was bone dry down there. Hard to believe with all the rain we get here every week next door.
1-3/4" here last week. More coming Tuesday and Wednesday. Sure was a beautiful weekend. Cool, dry and 70's by late afternoon. Only been 60-65F at noon hr here. It was quite cool yesterday morning in the woods, never saw a bug until mid morning. Hauled in that cord of wood, plus 3 buggy loads extra yesterday. Got 10 cord for this winter. If I run out, I'm hitting the electric button. But I doubt it will be a 12 month winter. Although, some wild flowers are out a month early here. Fireweed is an August flower, been blooming since the end of June. ::)
Been about a month since I mowed my lawn due to the lack of rain. The cooler than normal temps are helping to at least keep it somewhat green. Also making good progress on the firewood in this weather. Normally wouldn't even be doing firewood in mid July, but I'm actually enjoying it. :)
Swampdonkey,put your passport in your pocket and drive down and see me, I show how dry I am. :)
Heria is kinda healing, still now walking around any long distance.
Does seem strange that you are getting showers there and none for me. But we are more than 5 hours away too. I think we are?
I think the weather patterns of the last 5 years are small in scope, compared to a few years ago where they were massive with wide coverage. We had that real dry summer 2 years ago and some places here in NB said they were too wet. What? ;D
I've noticed a lot of rain from New England heads up toward Quebec and funnels out the St Lawrence and down across northern Maine and NW New Brunswick. It's like some kind of invisible trough blocks it from floating straight NE. You better pull it's plug. :D
Meanwhile rain for today, tonight and Thursday here. Hard to get that deck prepped and re-stained. ::) Garden is loving it though. 'Maters and peppers setting fruit like gangbusters. ;)
Well I've got 5 loads of screened gravel to spread in the meantime. Hauled in yesterday afternoon. CDN$160/load. The driver had a 15 min. turn around time. ;D
We hit 80F yesterday, a rare event this summer. :)
Our local quarry is 2+ miles from my house. The cost for crushed limestone has doubled in recent years. My private roads steep enough that I use a small local trucker who brings me ~ 5 tons paid for from my own quarry acct and I pay him a cash haul bill which used to be $30 before diesel went crazy.
I keep a stockpile for own tractor bucket work of DGA, dense grade aggregate as that's the only rock that holds on steep grades. Last loads I bought were around $8 or so USD per ton.
The thunderstorm we had a week ago probably cost me around $200 or more of rock washed over the hillside into never/never land. I also lost more yet of the EWP trees that I'd planted in 1996 which tipped over with a wet saucer shaped disc of dirt. That roads blocked by trees now so I don't know the full extent. I have one woods road that climbs the end of a ridge which I rock and it's even steeper than our main road, so hard to tame and keep up.
yesterday late afternoon we got yet another rainstorm that dumped water in huge loads. Our maters will suffer if these rains don't stop and blight kicks in.
On the evening TV news I see peoples yard trees, mostly diseased ones with a branch fallen and it sort of ticks me off as they have no idea what these recent rainy years have done to forest nearby to these few city trees that had issues to begin with.
The huge White Oak that blocked my main road last week, had a 12" diameter vertical piece that was blown off the tree and had zero previous damage or rot, etc.. Takes some serious wind force to make that happen! The storm came over our ridge from the west and blasted everything below there on into the nearby town which had blocked roads from a few trees. My guess is 60 mph wind or more? My woods roads are full of small branches lying all over.
Yeah the weather can be nasty when it wants to be.
I got the gravel spread yesterday and packed it a little this morning with the tractor lawnmower. ;D It was an all day job, because I'm a perfectionist. :D The tractor bucket does a good job of smoothing out gravel once spread. :) I dug the topsoil out of one spot to get more gravel deeper, it gets soft in the spring there. Not now I bet. ;D
Years and years ago, we had our own gravel on the upper farm. Dad mined it out and recovered it with top soil. There is another gravel mound up there before you get to where the old pit was. Anyone could skim off the topsoil and have themselves some easy gravel. :)
Here was part of the gravel job yesterday. Hard to tell but that yard up top is crowned so water sheds to the sides. At the bottom of the image I dug out a truck load of topsoil and filled with gravel. Gets snotty there in spring.
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For $30 a load, you'd be waiting a mighty long time for your load of gravel up here. Probably wouldn't get it hauled for less than $100. $30 is probably 40 years ago in these parts in the land of glacial fluvial gravel. :D
My turn to talk of the rain!!!
We had a small shower this morning, around 5. Not much at all. In fact, I was weeding out one of the wife's herb beds and it was bone dry.
Had another shower around 3pm that solved the dryness problem. It rained hard for a while, then a rain for about an hour. Still a longs way to go, but that will help out the lawns a little, not much.
I brought down a bucket of water, just before the big rain!!!
I filled up the bucket on the tractor loader and brought it down and dumped it on the 2 herb beds. She has 2 beds about 100 feet from the garden. Most times I carry water to it, but not in any condition to do that now. But I can drive the tractor some. ;)
We had a heavy rain here last night, can't see the gauge yet. Stars and moon are out now. ;D
3/4" rain last night. Sunny day.
No appreciable rain here in several weeks although we did pick up a 1/4" yesterday
in scattered T storms . 53* this morning, good sleeping temps with windows open.
Warm days, cool nights on tap.
We had a blizzard here yesterday.
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It was a short event, and very enjoyable
My wife and I travelled East to our camp near Kenora. Life is good when the scenery is like this, on the TransCanada highway near Hadashville MB.
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I have not seen a rainbow all summer. :(
Gotta rain to see 'em.
We've had two years of drought, this year the law of averages is catching up to us.
Too much water, flooding, washed out roads everywhere.
When it rains it pours. 🙃
Quote from: SwampDonkey on July 13, 2022, 10:45:52 AM
Here was part of the gravel job yesterday. Hard to tell but that yard up top is crowned so water sheds to the sides. At the bottom of the image I dug out a truck load of topsoil and filled with gravel. Gets snotty there in spring.
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For $30 a load, you'd be waiting a mighty long time for your load of gravel up here. Probably wouldn't get it hauled for less than $100. $30 is probably 40 years ago in these parts in the land of glacial fluvial gravel. :D
Note that I said that was a small 5 ton truck load. A tandem load here which ranges from 10 tons upward is much higher. Being 2 miles from the quarry is a large factor for me as well.
Ah, yes. Had to be smaller loads. ;)
Been watering the garden. I have 3 soaker hoses hooked up and one overhead.
The bees are working the catnip blossoms and the Japanese beetles are coming to the grape leaves. I am spraying the leaves with Captain Jacks to slow them critters down.
Been using the tractor bucket to water the herbs raised beds. Those things really dry out.
I have a wheelbarrow sitting outside the kitchen window to mix some mortar for a bottom rock step below a new PT wood step I built two months back. In past 3 days it now has around 6" of water in it. Water is running though our garden.
8/10" rain here so far since last night. Still coming down steady. More Thursday.
More rain!!! This was a rain too.
Started out at 2 pm nice and slow. Did that for hours. I did wake up around midnight to a hard rain. No idea how long the rain lasted.
Some streets was flooded in this one in Moncton.
Still raining here, sometimes harder for short times, but mostly a soft rain now. Suppose to be showery the rest of the day. Heavy rain took a limb down on one of the old apple trees by the garden, heavy with apples this year. Had to stake some peppers, getting heavy with fruit.
We picked up 1.10" of rain in the latest storm, much needed , was starting to get crispy.
We will take what we can get this time of year. Looking forward to the next batch.
1-1/2" of rain overall. 80F today.
only a high of 99° today. over 100° the next 4 days.
It's been hot and dry. I hate the heat. The dry doesn't bother me at all. What I like about this time of year(hot and dry) is that I can smell the pine in the air from all of the hot needles underfoot. It reminds me of being out on wildfires and canoeing in Canada.
85F here today, thunder crackers moving in tonight.
There was a hail warning issued awhile ago on the radio for northern Maine, it was tracking toward the NE.
My thermometer says 104, but that's probably in the sun. I bet its all the way down to 100 in the shade. Like Doc, 100's the next several days here.
The fellow on the radio (Houlton, Maine) often jet sets around the US, and this week he is in Dallas working the station, said it was 117F today. :o
The thermometer says 84 but you go out into the sun and its another 10 easy from it beating down on you. Add in the Virginia Humidity and you are totally drenched in sweat inside of 20 minutes. I cut down one tree and came back inside.
I think the humidity was at least 60% here, the cloths were definitely soaked. I keep a satchel of cloths in the truck, to change into for the ride home. 8 1/2 - 9 hrs is enough for one day. :)
Been kinda warm here lately.
Having a light "rain" now. We can use it.
Not even supposed to hit 85° for the rest of the week.
Was 78F here today and muggy. Suppose to get a big cold front and change the air and dump some water tonight. Nothing here yet. Could use a little drink. ;D Suppose to be 75-85F the next 3 days.
I hear thunder in the distance, so here is comes. ;)
Gt to about 78 here yesterday, late afternoon. Put a second coat of stain on the deck, nice drying weather.
I don't know if you all saw the news about the weather in St Louis, but some areas got 12" of rain in a few hours. It caused monumental flooding in areas that have never flooded or at least not to this extent. Yesterday morning we got dispatched with one of our boats to assist a city about 20 minutes away with flash flooding and people trapped in their homes. It wasn't raining at the firehouse at all. Of course it started raining on the way there and we arrived to find at least a dozen houses flooded on 2 streets. We immediately launched our little inflatable boat and began rescuing folks. In one of the pics you'll see me drinking coffee in a white shirt. As a battalion chief, that's my job. Just kidding. I didn't get out in the boat to help. Its my job to direct. After we rescued about a dozen people and their dogs we got sent to rescue a man who had driven his car into the water. He was just sitting in the car with water up to his neck. His GPS told him to go there. Then we got sent another 30 minutes to another town with bad flooding. Our little boat alone rescued about 75 people out of a flooded apartment complex. The guys ended up walking in to help about 25 more people get out after the water had receded to where we couldn't use boats any more. I was supposed to get off work at 0700 and ended up working until 1500. My guys and all of the rescuers from many agencies did a fantastic job. Sadly one person ended up dying in their car in the city of St Louis.
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Glad you were able to help 💪
Unsung heroes!
Well done FFOTS !!
I've been seeing the heat and rain on the news. :o
Good job!!!
Strong work Bill. That is challenging stuff. What kind of training do they put you through for that in your part of the country? Hazards and challenges very with terrain. Up this way we do Swiftwater Rescue training and when I got my operations certification it was an intense few days on fast water in real conditions. When water goes high here it can be moving at well over 8 knots. Sometimes we get the simple 'run a small boat in and pick up' rescues, but they are rare. We've pulled folks out of homes that were slowly inching downstream and it's all ropework. Our creeks run fast and hard too and we have done too many recoveries underwater in the creeks. It's very dangerous work and we have nearly lost divers a time or two.
Good on y'all for making a better day for those folks. I will never understand the folks who think it's OK to drive into deep moving water or those who refuse to evacuate after being told several times what is about to happen.
Wow, flooding isn't fun. :-\ 12" in a short time is a bunch of water. :o But, glad for folks who can help with the consequences. smiley_thumbsup
I won't comment on our preparedness up here, other than to say, if it happens on a weekend you're on your own and there won't be any local radio broadcast for help or information either.
Thanks guys. As it turns out, it happened again today to a lesser degree. I got off work this morning and am happily vacationing in my camper, but they had flash flooding again in some of the same areas.
Tom, most of my fire department has swift water rescue tech and many have FEMA boat operator. Sounds about the same as here. I have both, but don't get to be in the water much anymore.
Had 6/10" rain here over night and the power went out. There was some wind with it. Overgrown lines are easy bad weather take downs.
68F here at noon, NW breeze, no flies, big puffy clouds with sun in and out and a passing shower once in awhile. :)
32C (89.6F) and it is only noon. The temps are not as bad as last year but the forests are burning in areas they can't reach by road or fixed wing bomber.
swampdonkey, same here. No flies, which is odd for my place.
But we are still dry!!!!!!!!!!
Hope all our members in KY have made it through the rains and floods. Hope most of todays rain stays north of you.
Be happy to have some of that rain head over this way. Got a "light shower" last night. Read a whopping .02 in the rain gage this morning. Other than hitting a patch of crab grass before it goes to seed, it's now been 6 weeks since I've mowed my lawn. Granted I have a lousy lawn, (embarassing for a guy who owns the local saw/mower shop), but this is one of the longest stretches I've ever gone without mowing. Bet we'll be getting a lot of snow this winter. LOL
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Hope all our members in KY have made it through the rains and floods. Hope most of todays rain stays north of you.
We got the exact same rains as the flooded areas that begin to occur as close as the next county south of us, Wolfe Co, KY. The difference here for my county is terrain not intensity of rainfall, as ours was the same rain. many in my county live on high places, ridges with few streams to flood along highways here. The issues were extremely high rainfalls with extremely short timespans among steep terrain where creeks and the Kentucky River systems couldn't handle it all. Only a handful of recorded rain events have been close to what's occurring.
We've been lucky here as the small county seat hasn't flooded. It did flood a year ago and about 3 dozen homes were badly damaged, yet the feds didn't declare an eligible disaster based on the low numbers of people involved. It cost my county badly just because of the feds rules for helping. The tornado we had in 2012 affected way fewer people but FEMA was all over that one-go figure huh?
Those who watch the TV news of these E KY floods may not realize the areas of concern have extremely low population densities, thus the numbers of dead are very high indeed but spread over a relatively vast area. Even helicopters were very restricted in where they could land in the narrow creek valleys of the coalfields counties where flooding continues with todays rains. We crossed the KY river at Boonesboro, KY yesterday and it was barely within it's banks but that spots flooded before at the Fort B. State Park next to the bridge there. I suspect it will flood as the waters head north toward Frankfort, KY and the Ohio river.
I hear it on my metal roof loud and clear yet again as I type this.
My garden okra plants look like they're on steroids! They are now over my head and have leaves like a jungle plant, yet due to the rains these past weeks there's very little pollination and barely a handful picked from an entire row! Beans are the same things-climbing all over but beans flowers don't get pollinated as normal.
Be careful and diligent about them floods. I'm sure you've seen a few over the years. Up this way, only the main river is a problem in the spring time from ice jams. The other creeks near here never really freeze up solid and I've never seen them flood a house. And I'm way up on a ridge here, so if I get flooded, half of New Brunswick would be submerged. :D :D
About the beans, the string beans I grow here don't need pollinators. I grew some in the grow tent last winter and had a few meals from them. Cukes sure do though and tomatoes. Cukes are a lot fussier because there is a short window before the female bloom withers and dies if not pollinated.
85F today. Some rain for tomorrow night.
Bill, thanks for all you do, and I am sorry they would not let you drive the boat. I am sure they have their reasons! ;) :) :D
Beans do self-pollinate and also can cross pollinate, some more than others, which matters only if you save seeds which is common with beans.
I'm real sure rains everyday for weeks on end may alter pollination.
The Kansas (locally the Indian name of Kaw River) River flood of 1951 was the worst I've experienced. Back then it was a wild river. It took mostly the entire city called "North Topeka" and all of that side of the city and much of east Topeka too. One of our nations worst ever. I was a kid and along for the ride. We had moved out of north Topeka only a few weeks before that flood, me in the first grade.
As to MO First Responders, there are many in KY now. Fire Depts and cadaver dog teams in the news in flooded areas.
Yeah, doesn't help pollination if rain washes the pollen away. :-\
Was running strip lines and the canopy is closed tight, almost dark in under it. Heard some buzzing that didn't sound like deer flies. Never saw any nest, can see all around because no shrubs. Well, I got a buzz on the nose. Out loud I said, 'where did you guys come from? :D :D Musta been in the ground, nothing aerial, except buzz. :D Never swelled none, sting was gone pretty quick.
Yesterday was the first day I did not have to water something. We had a shower. Only hard for about 15 minutes, but total "rain" was about an hour.
As I say, I water something every night.
We have herbs that are in raised beds and a garden and flower beds and other things that need water.
Suppose to be a little above 90 tomorrow.
Yeaterday was a bear cat 105 heat index ac ran steady all afternoon >:(
Today is a joy 75 for the high
77F today I think and humidity is lower, but suppose to heat back up to around 85F tomorrow afternoon. Some showers coming Thursday night and Friday morning.
Been running AC here because up stairs gets hot with that big dormer window when it's 75F or more outside. 75F would be fine if there was a breeze in the window, otherwise AC goes on. ;D We've been lucky this summer no steady 90-95F every day. Then they'll probably say it was the hottest on record. Not my records and that bunch don't like you to call them out. I'll call them out any chance I get. Their big response last time is that I used records from Maine, which is closer than any city in NB to me where the records are. Saying those records don't apply to the Maritimes. :D They have this notion that an invisible wall separates the weather. As bugs bunny would say, 'what a maroon'. :D What they meant to say is they didn't get to doctor the numbers. :D
This was the weather this morning. :-\
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Was clear and sunny when we woke up, but by 8:30 dropping Taylor at school, the fog had appeared. I did a quick calc on wood EMC in these conditions (35F and 99% humidity) and it told me 27% :D
It's warmed up a bit since and the humidity has dropped down to ~80%
Don't know if it hit 90 in Chesterville. We headed North or something like that, ;D at around 10am.
We did see 89° for a few minutes about 2 hours away. ;)
Lots of thunder going on now.
We missed any of the thunder clappers here last night but we had some heavy showers. I have not checked the gauge yet. ;D It's 70F this morning on the porch, before sunrise. ;)
We did get some rain last night.
It's been so hot and dry one of the Kudzu vines on the fence behind the office was wilting and trying to die.... ::)
Only hit 75F here today. It looked like it could rain there for a while, but I think it may have passed on by this time.
I hope to get some rain out of these in a few minutes. We need it.
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Well, it did rain for a short time. A tenth of an inch is all.
We had 1/10th in the night. Next chance here in Sunday.
Woke up early (5:30) this morning to get a jump on stuff to do on the cabin build. I hear a plink-plink-plink on the camper trailer roof. A little drizzle. Eat a quick breakfast while a passing shower works itself out. The rain made the beams slippery which was good as I had to drag (by winches) a 32' 8x15 across the loft beams on my build. Worked great and only had to take a couple breaks during brief downpours. Then it turned into a steady rain so I decided after an hour or so to pack it in. Of course, then it stops but still headed home for the weekend.
Moderate drought conditions through most of this area.
Worse in coastal areas.
Some browning where i last mowed three weeks ago.
Hit or miss T storms aren't adding up to much but better than nothing.
Doing the rain dance 8)
I watered the garden this morning with 100 gallons. My main garden is only 25 x 25 feet. Then three 4 x 8 framed beds.
Keep away from walmart parking lots. Van temp said 95°. Out on the road it was reading 90°.
Reached 85F yesterday here and suppose to hit 90F today. August is dryer than July so far, which is a typical August.
72° here now.
That's the high for tomorrow!!
Suppose to hit 90 again.
Overnight temp only hit 74°, so the house didn't cool down as much as the last few nights where the temp had dropped into the high 60's. Have had 4 straight days of 90 or more. Still striking out on the predicted late afternoon thunderstorms, despite what the forecast, or even the radar shows. Any storms in the general area are small/local. Might hear some thunder off in the distance, but that's it. Maybe today. :)
Yep, it was 70F here at 6:00 am. The AC is on. Got the beans picked just as soon as I could see. Wow, we've lost an hr of daylight in the mornings here already. Heading into the deep freeze. Fire for morning smudge in the furnace by 5 more weeks I suspect. ;D
Just came in from watering and doing some tractor work.
86° all ready.
Yes, 84F here and wind off a blast furnace. :D
72F in the house. :)
Well she hit 90F here at 5:00 pm. Hottest day of the summer. Big black clouds are starting to roll in for some thunder clappers. ;D
Well, didn't take long for the rain to move in. :D
I was outside watering the piece that I dug up by the garden. I could hear the thunder, but I kept on a watering. It went around me. :( As it did last week too.
Put the hose in the rhubarb and let it run for a while. It looked like it needed some.
91° yesterday and no rain. 5 consecutive days in the 90's. Don't remember that ever happening before. Might get another one today.
Month and a half and we could be lighting the woodstoves. LOL
70° now. Looks like a cooler week ahead.
Spike I know you haven't had any rain for a while now, but Saturday afternoon we got about 1/2 hour of gulley washer rain. Not as much at Bill's two miles away, and nothing by you. It was very local. Yesterday was 'uncomfortable'...again. I was covered in sweat and sawdust wearing as little clothes as is legal.
More of the same today?
Quote from: Old Greenhorn on August 08, 2022, 07:21:23 AM
Spike I know you haven't had any rain for a while now, but Saturday afternoon we got about 1/2 hour of gulley washer rain. Not as much at Bill's two miles away, and nothing by you. It was very local. Yesterday was 'uncomfortable'...again. I was covered in sweat and sawdust wearing as little clothes as is legal.
More of the same today?
Yup, looks like we're going for 6 in a row. Forecast is for 92°. Already well into the 80's. Looking like it may break tomorrow and those hide and seek thunderstorms should be more widespread.
It was 60F this morning at 5:00 am and it's still 60F at 3:00 pm. ;D Was just showers since last night, but rain now and until tomorrow morning. We've had 1/4" from showers so far. Suppose to be quite a soaker coming tonight.
55F this morning and there has been a steady rain all night, sometimes harder than steady. Suppose to last into noon then showers. Not going to warm up much they said. North wind and cold front. :D You guys not getting any of this cold and rain? ???
Neither one yet, but the front is supposed to arrive sometime later today. 75° here this morning. Hit 95° yesterday and was still 90° at 6:00 in the evening. Other than whatever rain we get with today's thunderstorms, there's nothing in the forecast for the rest of the week. Gonna need more than that. Looking forward to some cooler weather though. :)
I had a small shower around 4:30 last night and I do mean small. But looked like it rained in the night?
62° here now, with a high of 75.
We had 1-1/4" last night and that other 1/4" from night before.
You have been getting more showers than I have here.
The news had a drought map on it. I was a different color than you were. Well did not show Canada, but you are close enough to Maine. ;D
The rain must be going up around and dropping down. :D Probably the other NE states next to you and Aroostook Co. are getting the rain. At the moment I can see a wall of rain along route 1 and nothing between me and it. :D I've seen this happen many times even when it snows.
Pretty bizarre stuff, high of 95F Sunday and high of 63 Monday.
We did pick up a 1/4" rain though, just enough to wet the whistle.
The cool air is a welcome change though.
Just showers here during the day, might have another 1/10". 62F here for the high.
Hit 90° again yesterday to make it 7 days in a row. Don't recall that ever happening before. Should be over now; looking like low 80's the rest of the week. Got 1/4" of rain yesterday afternoon. One of the farmer's almanacs came out and they are predicting quite the cold and snowy winter for the northeast. Bring it on!
I had 59° when I got up this morning. Looks to be the same temp for the rest of the week, mid 70's for a high.
Summer over??
Was 58F on the porch at 5:00 am and 70F at 5:00 pm, overcast day to.
No sign of any of that hot stuff in the long range for up this way. :)
I had put this in the sky scenes, but it's basically today's weather. One of those awesome Winter days, starts with a frost, but warms up to more sensible 13C by the afternoon.
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The trees in the foreground are a 50 acre block of native forest that our old neighbour is maintaining. Most of the province looked like that 200 years ago. His family had moved in there around 1900 and he's still farming there. The trees with no leaves are mostly hybrid poplars, planted to stabilise some slopes etc.
Haven't posted much recently. Weather has been on the cool side with highs in the 60s and low 70s. Had many nights in the 40s recently and one morning at 38°. Two mornings ago the central UP had its first frost of the season.
Been raining just enough to keep us out of drought territory but still be on the dry side. Rains have also been making it a real struggle to get hay put up.
Chevy I'm just a bit south of ya, and drought is not a problem here. Usually Aug. has da lawns dryin' up, but not this year. Locally we have had over 3 1/2 inches in just the last couple weeks.
I would say we had a 2 week dry spell, but this past week we have had 1-1/2" and showers this morning. Suppose to rain for 2 days mid week coming. The garden soil has been dark and damp most of the summer. Only watered one day. Suppose to get to 70F today, but around 80F for Monday and Tuesday. August is typically dryer here. It's been pretty balanced for moisture so far. I've said it in the past, we're not usually hurting for water. We had those 3 dry summers, and hot, that ended 2 years ago. The small river below us is not down to bare rock and gravel bars this year. Water has been up into the weeds. You never hear these alarmists complain about all the wet falls through the 70's when you had to hook tractors onto potato trucks and skidders on the harvestor tractor. As time passes they think some of us forget what we had to deal with. Plus Suzuki had us headed into an ice age. :D :D Since climate is average weather, takes more than a decade of data. Plant hardiness zones use 30 years up here. For NB, I've not seen any boundary changes in the last 2 maps. I'm still 4b.
52° here this morning, and I'm lovin' this. But we really need some rain. Seeing some spots dry for the first time ever. Bears are everywhere as they have come down from the higher elevations looking for water.
As far as the lawns go, you can hear what's left of mine as you walk on it. It's like a straw matt. :(
Our rain has been all over the place. It will rain/drizzle/fog every other day for a week to keep a guy from making dry hay but hardly enough to wet the dust when the sun does come out. Then a week ago we had a forecast for .5" and we got 3.5" of rain in about 2 hours, then two nights ago there was a 20% chance of .07" and we ended up with .5" in 15 minutes time. So we've had 4" of rain in the last week, but with it all falling fast doesn't really soak in. No fear of an actual drought but we could use some nice long soaking rains instead of downpours.
We have been in rain since about 3, again. Unseasonably cool since Friday, 50's in the morning hasn't broken 80 in several days, not bad!
We are socked in but tonight is Saturn's "full moon" You should be able to see the rings with strong binoculars. The next time everything swings back around will be about next September.
FWIW, our local weather is at a tad over 300% of average rainfall for this summer-so far. ::) Coming again ~ noonish today. My cabin project logs have slugs and snails crawling on them. :D
Rain!!!
A very nice rain too. Slow!!!! Just what we need.
Been doing this for almost 4 hours. Hope it goes through the night. Nice and slow.
Rain began here at about 2:00. Rainfall warning in SW NB.
Could not hear the rain.
Can now.
1-1/4" rain here last night. Showers for next 2 days and warm up on the weekend (80's).
Rain can stop anytime soon, we've had enough.
No bad flooding here, but other places around the province and country have been hit, Flooding , washouts and landslips etc. Here in town it's only about 6" over the last 3 days, so not torrential, just continuous. Causing havoc on the Main Rd as potholes are forming faster than they can be patched, and wrecking lots of tyres. Ground is just so waterlogged the road surface is practically floating and breaks up. >:(
Rain gauge up on the slopes of the Mt, about 10 miles away recorded 610mm (~24") in 24 hours yesterday, 12" the day before, and probably another 12 today.
Got a brief shower today if you could call it that. Stood out in the parking lot talking to a customer when it started and we just stayed there enjoying it. Rain gauge showed .02 inches when I got home. Fire department hasn't gotten calls to pump out any cellars so far as I know. :)
Was showers all day here and 65F. It has not been a great vine year, and pollinators are scarce. By this time in a normal year I'd have a wheel barrel of surplus cucumbers on the ground.
This was the waste last September. I haven't got that many cukes right now on the vines and it's late. Been getting enough for small batches of dill pickles and fresh table fair. The squash is at least 2 weeks behind. The beans were a month late, cold wet June.
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Reached 70F here, been one shower roll through after another. Was in the garden cleaning up some weeds and it's damp in deep, I never hit dry dirt. Showered while I was there. :D
Got some aggressive yellow jackets out in the crotch of the old maple by the road. I was 20 feet away and they was doing the buzz bye. :D Been bad this year around the house, darn things.
Rained here most of the day. Heavy at times as they say.
Jim Rogers
Things will take off and grow now with the rain.
We were about 2 hours east of here the day after the rain. No idea what happened here. But we kept hitting drizzle off and on all day.
Was really odd. Road would be all dry and we would hit the drizzle for 4-5 miles, then it would stop, road is dry for 4-5 miles, then drizzle for 4-5 miles. repeat for about 100 miles. I think we only hit rain once all day.
2 inch of rain we do need the rain but DanG We have the Trashing Bee this weekend :(
Going to be clear and in the 80's today and tomorrow. AC will be back on. Had to turn it on early this morning actually, almost 70F and muggy already.
Yes, the heat is back. Got to 89° yesterday; same on tap for today. Still no rain here, but showers forecast for mon and tue. POP is 80%-70%, so maybe we'll actually get something.
Talked to a couple other dealers in the area and shop work has dried up, (get it?), as there is very little mowing happening here in the Hudson Valley. Question I have for some of you guys where the rain has returned is, what's the recovery time for stuff that's this dry and brown? Can't imagine that a couple days of rain and everything greens up right away.
Too early to tell Spike.
We did get 2" over a couple days from the last round of
slow and steady rain but it does appear somewhat greener where
it was brown. This stuff all came in from the east off the ocean.
90F today and humid. More tomorrow.
Lawn has been good and growing well here all summer, but I still only mow once every 2 weeks. By the second week I have a cover of yellow paint brush in old parts of the lawn.
The last few days have been in the mid 80's. Cool at night.
I'm sure like many areas, this has been a hot summer. I haven't milled any hardwoods all summer until today. I milled quite a bit of ERC to sell this summer though. Finally it has cooled down a bit and today was a high of 82. I milled a bunch of walnut to dry. It's nice out on the deck as I sit here and type.
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78F here today, partly sunny. Rain starting tonight sometime, they said mainly showers. Going to do that into Friday.
We had rain in the night!!!!
My weather station indicates the Aug total of .27 " of rain so far as of today the 24th. That is DRY. I don't uncover the rain gauge until early May because it doesn't have a heater like some do. But still, the total since then is only 9.4. Drove about 60+ miles yesterday running errands and did not see anyone mowing. Landscapers I saw out had zero mowers on their trailers. They were filled with lot's of other stuff in order to get some non-mowing work done.
One enterprising LS who is a friend and lives about a half mile from me is selling freaking water. Not for the lawns, but for shrubs/flowers/gardens. He's got a 25 GPM well at his house, so that's probably a decent comfort zone. Two 300 gallon tanks on the truck and off they go. Really need to ask him how he's billing these folks; he's pretty creative. :)
EDIT: What the heck is this idiot talking about? Never did this before but I have 2 threads open and this post was supposed to be on "the weather 2022" on the general board. Chet, please feel free to move it over there if you can. Hope you guys enjoy this, cause I can't stop laughing myself. :D :D :D
How's dat Spike60, better ;D
Thanks Chet! Cool that you left the last bit up with the lines drawn through it so the guys over here can get a kick out of it too. :)
Da devil made me do it. :D
75F here today, and it was 65F this morning at 5:00 am. Musta been a change in the air mass. It was sunny today, but had showered last night. Suppose to be thunderstorms and showers tomorrow.
We have no chance of flooding, but we have gotten over 22 inches of rain so far in August (2.6" in the past 24 hrs.) with no letup forecast for the next week. :o
I have a road sawing trip (236 miles) scheduled to begin Sept 5th, so I am hoping for the best.
I believe we have had 3.5" so far this month. August is always a dryer month up here. Still another week left in the month. Labor Day isn't until the 5th, so that means school starts on the 6th. Some states have already opened school, which seems early. Used to start two weeks earlier here, because we had a 2 week potato pickers' break. But that ended 15 years ago. That was only in the potato belt. Harvestor machines now don't have a crew onboard, only at the storage shed. And no one hand picks in the field any more.
A nice steady soaker started here around noon, could see 1-1/2" out of it.
Tomatoes are ripening, had a beefsteak on a hamburger and new green salsa. :)
6/10" so far.
59F for the high. ;D
Expecting heavy rain tonight.
The acorns are dropping, red oak, that's all I have here.
Looks like mid 80's tomorrow and maybe 90 the next day. Then a cool down.
Shag bark hickory huts just started to fall.
Was none on the ground yesterday. Got hit on the arm with one. :oThem things are bigger than a quarter. I went down in the woods for about ½ hour and when I came out there was 2 more nuts in the wood's road.
Got to them before the squirrels got them.
Yep, noticed the red oak dropping nuts here. The squirrel found the white pine cones a week ago and cut them off. Just today after work I noticed a soccer ball sized hornet nest near that red oak, but in an ironwood tree. 6 feet off the ground. Bad year of hornets in the yard here. That nest was not there 2 weeks ago when I mowed are it would have swat me in the face with live hornets. :D Where I sit under the white oak, and not that far away from them hornets, I could hear hornets buzz and never paid no attention until today I saw it when I went after my chair. :D
Was 80F here, might reach 90F tomorrow then drop back to 70's the rest of the work week.
Winter can't come fast enough. Cure for heat and hornets. ;D
Them 30° nights will calm them hornets down.
Speaking of that. ::)
Should be in the I did something dumb thread.
I went into the woods on the tractor, tractor had nothing to do with what happened. I stopped at a place I lost a chain last year. I started to kick at the ground to see if I could hit the chain. Oh yea, I hit something, just not what I wanted, A ground nest!!! Those things were still giving me attention 100 feet away!!!! 3-4 got me right in my back where a person can't reach. I was up last night at the bedroom door jam 4-5 times in the night. Things have calmed down now. I had 3-4 other places too that they got me.
Can't blame them any. If someone was wrecking my home, I would me mad too.
And I knocked my glasses off my head too. How I found them is beyond me. Lucky!!!!
Sure glad I don't have a bee story to contribute. Hope you're on the mend there. :)
Hit 91° here again today. That's 9 times it has hit the 90 mark this month, which is not the norm here. 85-89 another 7 times, and likely again tomorrow. That'll be 18 days of 85+ temps. This summer has hit the 90° mark twice what a normal summer would be. Still 82° here at 8:00 in the evening.
Hit 88F here today. Of course all my clothes were soaked through as if it rained all day. But that is all over with as it is going to be back into the 70's for the next week. Cold front and thunder clappers tonight/tomorrow. :)
FINALLY got some rain here men. It was an absolute tease all day long in the store to the point that it's worth sharing a little of it. We were watching the whole mess on the radar and left the screen on the showroom computer. ALL of the weather was moving southwest to northeast just to our west. Some mixed clouds, little wind, and some occasional thunder in the distance. But it wouldn't hit us. This went on ALL afternoon. Seriously, I'm talking from about 1:00 til we closed at 5:00. Customers were coming from those areas and saying stuff like, "It was raining so hard I had to slow down so I could see." "How come it's dry here?" Seemed funny at first, but by 5:00 I was using lauguage that would be somewhat unwelcome here, but I was a little riled up to say the least.
Well, sometime before 6:00 it finally opened up here at home. Got about 1.5" so far and still coming down pretty steady. Temp also hit 91° again today, so that's 10 times this month, which is unheard of.
Rain just in time also. Some forest fires not that far away. Close enough that you could smell it.
I had 91 too. But that was in a parking lot. On the road was 88. Dark at 8pm and 72°.
I am watering the garden.
A big high pressure ridge is settling in. I'm up the hill so no too bad here (90°) but 100° down in Sacramento increasing each day until a predicted high of 111° on Saturday. I think next Monday or Tuesday it is supposed to drop below 100°. :-\ I don't know if I want to go home this weekend!
Yikes on those 100 temps.
I have no idea when it started to rain here, Alarm went off at 5 and I thought I heard rain and opened the window and that confirmed it. Shut the alarm off and went back to sleep.
The joys of being on vacation.
Still a light drizzle.
Started showering here around 11:00 am, then more steady at 3:30 pm. We have 1/2" so far, still raining here. 66F when I got up and still that now. ;D
Never had any lightning yet.
Only used the water wagon one day this year. Going to take the tank and pump off this weekend. Been lucky this year, been getting lots of water for the garden.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on August 31, 2022, 03:20:51 PM
Started showering here around 11:00 am, then more steady at 3:30 pm. We have 1/2" so far, still raining here. 66F when I got up and still that now. ;D
Never had any lightning yet.
Only used the water wagon one day this year. Going to take the tank and pump off this weekend. Been lucky this year, been getting lots of water for the garden.
Send some of that rain this way if there's any left. It was 21ºC when I got up this morning, went to 27 (felt like 34) and now its 21 again (feels like 27). You can smell the rain is coming. Pretty dry in our neck of the woods.
68F for the high today. I think it is suppose to dip into the 40's tonight. Fall is here. fire_smiley
58 this morning, 78 for the high. Is 40's typical up there in early Sept, or is that a bit early for you?
48F here at this early hour. Starry skies and a little NW breeze, probably no fog with that breeze out. It's not out of the ordinary to be in the 40's in the am. Usually you'll get a little dip, then a bounce back in a day or two. Then by mid September it will dip into the 30's and 40's in the mornings with the occasional morning in the 50's. It would be rare to get that awful daytime heat after Sept 15th. Still lots of days in the 70's for highs. Could even get 4 or 5 days of 70's in October. Pulled the garden last year in mid October, never had a frost kill, peppers were still green and lush. By the 15th of Sept you'll need a morning smudge most years. ;D
I have 50° this morning.
I even dipped down to 49° this morning. Typically don't see 40's until the second half of the month. But Sept is a bit of a transition month in the sense that there's quite a lot of change from the beginning to the end. And after all of those 90 degree days we just went through, I'm ready for some transtion. :)
Never hit 70F here except in the shelter of the porch with the sun reflecting off the wall in late afternoon when it was 74F. But probably only 68F actual by looking at the weather app. That north wind is nippy. ;D
Started the OWB tonight. I can start to get wood again. Had it off since June. Never been off more than a week since I bought it back in 2007.
Had 2 fires in the old cook stove in the morning.
No fire here yet, but I can smell smoke. The neighbor's parents have been living in the camp by the main house while the new house goes up about 4 miles away. Probably the old fella had a little smudge last night. In the 70's in the house here, I'd be a fried peanut with a wood fire on this early in the season. Too much solar heat still. :D
46°and heading for the mid 70's.
50F this morning and looks like clouds have rolled in just before delight. Was all stars 3 hrs ago. Says upper 70's for the high.
Well....it's raining. Was 55F this morning, probably a 60's day and no warmer tomorrow they said. ;D
Well, never rained much. Just a shower. But it is 60F and I now see a peek of sunshine. ;D
Was 48F this morning early and I think it got to 65F. Turned overcast, but not rain. Apparently the rain is to the south.
108° right now with a couple more hours to still go up. Forecast was for 114° and the same tomorrow. Not working on anything outside :-\ 95 this coming weekend will feel like fall! :D We've had 42 days this summer of 100 or higher, tying the record set in 1988, IIRC. I think we will be breaking it this week by a coupe/few more.
I might venture up to work on my cabin Wednesday through the weekend since it's 10-15° cooler up there. I just didn't want to be working in 100° up there today and tomorrow.
John, I would seriously struggle in heat like that!
Finally got a day of soft to moderate steady rain down here. First non-thunderstorm rain in a LONG tme. Started sometime last night, little over an inch at the time of this post.
Spike is only about 10-15 miles (probably less) SW of me, we have had about 1.6" of rain since it stated yesterday, a steady soaking rain. Good stuff. But ow I gotta mow again. >:(
John, if I had that kind of heat, the only thing I would be doing is sitting around in my skivvies and drinking beer. There is nothing you can do in that weather. Nothing.
It hit an official of 113° in downtown Sacramento today but at the airport it hit 117°! Tomorrow the same forecast. Won't drop below 110° until Saturday :-\ On the plus side, temperatures are predicted to be below normal (low 90's) next week.
Left Rarotonga @26C yesterday, overnight there was 20+
Woke up this morning to 4C and some random snow flurries.
It's just the change that's a shock to the system ::)
About 2.5" so far for this storm and supposed to go all day. First real rainy day in a while, so the store should be quite busy with the pro guys. Tree folks have been full speed ahead all summer. Lawn guys haven't been putting all that much time on mowers, so maybe not as much there. I'll bet there isn't a landscaper within 50 miles with a clean air filter. lol
Tom; I'll be running the blower well before the mower. Some of the maples went into shut down mode and dropped their leaves. No color; just "brown and down". My lawn is toast. Curious to see how long and to what extent it recovers. I could see some spot mowing in a couple weeks, but as for mowing the whole thing, I have no idea. Kind of in uncharted waters cause I've never see it this bad.
Was 55F this morning early. We had a small shower sometime in the night. Cleared out at daybreak and the high was 70F here today. Suppose to increase a little on the temp every day the rest of the week and mainly dry. But a slight chance of a shower off a week front Thursday.
swampdonkey, I was kinda up your way, I think that is Mars Hill and the windmills that I could see at Smyrna.
We got rain here when I was up there nice and dry. That's a good 4 hour ride by Route 2. Could jump on the highway and do it in 3. But no fun, nothing to see. We go for the ride too.
So the record hottest day ever is 114° set in 1988. Records back to 1877. It officially hit 116° and then the CAISO issued a Stage 3 alert - rolling blackouts pending due to insufficient power reserves. At least the temps are dropping now and, so far, no blackouts.
Thunder storms up in the Sierras. South Lake Tahoe was at 70° at 5 pm and then dropped to 59° about 45 minutes later. Wish the storms were just another 60 mile further north and then I could get back to work!
Two day storm gave us 4.25" of much needed rain. Still a 50% chance of showers today and tonight. 61° this morning.
Quote from: thecfarm on September 06, 2022, 07:23:26 PM
swampdonkey, I was kinda up your way, I think that is Mars Hill and the windmills that I could see at Smyrna.
@thecfarm (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=436) You probably saw the windmills in Oakfield on the ridge. You go south under the 95 overpass to go to Oakfield. You can drive around there and come out by the Amish store, turn right and go to Brookside Restaurant by the 95. If you turn left you head to Smyrna and see the buffalo on the way. ;)
55F this morning and 80F this afternoon on the porch. ;D
On yea, we saw the buffalo.
We drove by there quite often, 3-4 times a day. Only twice they were out by the road.
60F this morning. It's going to be in the 80's for the next 3 days. Nice moonlight this morning, can see anything that moves. :D
Chucked out some veggie scraps in the brush pile and noticed this weed with scarlet red leaves. I've seen it around before and never bothered with it. Leaves are 3/4" long and 3/8" at the widest. Not serrated. I think it grows tall like a goldenrod and multi-branched. It's not an aster. Sure is striking, and it's not even flowers.
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[update] Did some looking and I believe it to be common St. Johnswort Hypericum perforatum. Has a yellow flower. Contains potent anti-retrovirals: hypericin and pseudohypericin that have been studied in medicine.
Weather finally broke here with the hurricane coming up from Mexico. First night it dropped below ~85 in about 5 days (72 this morning). And, first morning with no smoke since the Mosquito fire started on 9/6/22. For 3 or so days we had an AQI in the 200-300 range (bad) in the mornings and then semi-clear in the afternoon.
This morning an AQI of just 14 8). But that smoke has to go somewhere. So up at my cabin site (been home over a week now due to heat), the AQI is 500, so no working up in that, either. :-\ Supposed to be in the 70's next week up there - hopefully that will help them get a handle on the fire soon.
Last 2 days have been in the high 70's.
We had 88F here yesterday. The farmer was cutting the wheat field here around the house lot.
Was warm at 9:30 last night. I had the window open when I took a shower. That don't happen too often on Sept 10!!!
Looks like the low 80's today.
Back to Sept temps on Tuesday.
saw a concert at the Kansas State Fair last night, drizzle and 65°. we wore jackets. the band went to Walmart prior to show to buy jeans and warmer clothes.
I have 90F here.
Inch of rain so far since last evening. Lightning around to. Wind is suppose to pick up, from a cold front. Good day to stay in doors.
1-1/2" rain so far for a storm that was suppose to be just showers. ;D
Well looks like a little break in the rain, but 1-3/4" so far. Going to be fall weather for the rest of the week, low 60'sF.
Well, we had more rain and she rounded up the rain gauge to 2". Sun shining now as if it never did a thing all day, and 70F to boot. :D
swampdonkey, I might have got them showers too. You have been getting them, but none for me.
A cool morning and a cool day ahead, not even 65° today.
I thought we were done with hot days, but its supposed to be 95 one day next week.
57F here now and windy. I know when I was cutting brush I wanted to not take much break.....to keep warm. Well, it wouldn't have been so bad if my fall shirt wasn't sweat soaked. But not as bad as it was the other day in 80F heat. :D
Houlton, Maine forecast is upper 30's by Friday morning and 30+ mph winds. fire_smiley
It got to to 44° last night. Looks like the season is beginning to change. Yesterday was a really nice work day and I was down to a t-shirt as soon as I started moving around at the mill, not so much sitting in the machine. The sun felt good and maybe just a tad warm.
I am not ready for the fall yet, just got too far behind this summer. Lots of firewood left to do and I need to get some lumber put up for myself. I guess the weather is a pretty good motivator. It's hard to ignore all the 'doom and gloom' folks predicting an Artic cold winter or heavy deep snows. They are just a distraction. We get what we get and we deal with it when it arrives. It will get cold, we will get snow. Beyond that we just have to wait and see.
Was 40F this morning and now 57F, still a north wind. Sunny. ;D
It was a sweatshirt night.
Low 60's here now and heading down, I think the forecast low is in the low is in the low 50's tonight, but whatever. It's that vacillating time of year, and I like this weather. Not too hot, not too cold, and pretty easy to figure out what to wear. There's no bad weather, just poor clothes. This time of year is really easy (unless you leave your jacket or sweatshirt hanging on a tree and don't miss it until sundown, I did that today).
42F and still a breeze, I think that saved some places from frost.
The A/C will be pulled from the window this morning. ;)
The electric furnace has been on a time or two, only needs to run 5 minutes it seems.
I have 42°.
92°
Confirmed European honey bees in the maple. Got to 67F today I think. Mowed the lawn this afternoon for the last time before winter.
I mowed the lawn today for the first time since Fathers Day due to that drought. :)
Here in southern WI, our lawns have to be mowed at least once a week, and even a bit more. A week has just been too long a wait time.
Steady and timely rains all summer have been the culprit. Normally get a summer spell that the lawn turns some brown, but not this year.. yet.
I could have easily mowed weekly here all summer, but I mow every other week after June. I shut it down here mid September regardless. Some mow up here into October, not I. ;) In mid May to the end of June you could easily mow every 3 days up here to keep up. My mowing is more....rrr rustic. Not like those old farts that mow one angle, then remow again 45 degrees to it. You can tell who is out there making work out of boredom. When I lived in Grafton the old fella across the street mowed every day because the wife wanted him out of the house. She figured he needed something to do. Her words. They were in their 90's. :D
Hold on there a minute. LOL My Dad is 93 and enjoys mowing the lawn. Likes to alternate the pattern, but does that the following week. Doesn't double cut it, and won't mow unless it actually needs to be cut. I think he went 8-9 weeks himself without mowing this past summer. My lawn went longer because it's really just a pathetic excuse for a lawn.
62° here this morning at 5:00. Looks like we will be flirting with the 30's by next weekend.
Most of the brown has greened up again after 3" rain last month.
Temp dipped below 40 Fri night.
Getting back into good working outside temps
and the AC got put away.
Have not had frost yet, but suppose to be colder than it's been tomorrow morning, low 30's. We'll see. ;) Built a little smudge this morning, burnt 6 hrs before there wasn't enough heat to trip the fan limit. Was 40F and rain this morning, clear and sunny now, 65F.
99° here now. real feel is 97°...somehow.
Been a while since I posted. Its been fairly cool and wet, highs in the 50s and 60s lows in the 30s and 40s with timely rains. Feels like fall outside for sure.
Lawn needs mowing at least twice a week and even then it often requires traveling at a snails pace to get it cut. Let it go longer and its over the front tires of the riding mower and it doesn't like that.
A cutoff low (not in the Jet Stream) is set up off the coast. It is spinning cool weather down from Alaska. It was supposed to start raining a little later this evening but started around 4pm. Over a week ago, it was 116° in downtown Sacramento. Might have hit 80° today.
I went up to work on my cabin on Friday as the smoke was less from the Mosquito fire. Cool and breezy all weekend. About 3 am this morning there was a series of quick downpours until 4am and then a steady hard rain until 6 am. It cleared up until 3 pm when clouds started to gather. I left at 4 when the rain started again.
Was 42F this morning, so no frost anywhere around here or out on the ridge where I am cutting, been sunny all day, but going to be wet for 3 or 4 days ahead with showers. And 50's for a high on Friday. ;D Last year we had 70's weather right now. So it goes in the north. ;)
Rain.
We had rain through the night. Was all done when I got up at 5 am. No idea when it stopped.
Then the rain came back about 2pm today. Still raining.
My Father always said, yep, Farmington Fair week, it's raining.
Just a very light rain now at 50°.
Same here, cold rain all day long. 1/2" so far.
We picked up another 2" rain since Monday.
Our Perennial stream is running again so the water table must be
getting recharged . Blue sky drying out day today.
Was foggy here until 1:00 pm and the system is suppose to re-energize into more rain tonight and tomorrow. We had 6/10" total in this one. 58F for the high.
103 yesterday and 100 the day before. All time records broke for this time of year
We are getting some water now.
Been raining all day.
59F and rain here. 3/4" so far and still coming steady.
70 degrees here in northern Spain. (First time posting on this thread). Sunny, absolutely beautiful
Raining this morning in the last couple weeks we had gotten more rain than we did from June til that point . Pitty it didn't come soon enough to help our crops and pastures. It's helping now grow grass. Fits though just read more of Danny's thread.....
Hurricane Fiona is heading for northeast Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI and Newfoundland.
Land fall tomorrow morning somewhere around the north eastern mainland or Cape Breton.
I'm at the southwest end so it is forecasting 50 to 70 km wind here but the other end of Nova Scotia and PEI is going to get double that and of corse a lot of rain too.
Raining steadily for the first time in months. Projected to rain for next week and a half
We are seeing unseasonably warm weather which is supposed to stay until the end of the month. No frost or morning fog which is unusual this late in the year, apparently the apples are not doing well and some forage corn still hasn't been harvested. At least the fires have died down.
We had another 1/2" rain in the night. Tonight and tomorrow we are suppose to feel the wind off hurricane Fiona headed to Newfoundland.
Coldest night we had for a while is coming.
More of them too.
I had 44° this morning.
50 degrees in the morning. Sprinkled. Now a bit of sun, 62 degrees.
Sending good thoughts to our friends in Atlantic Canada
By all reporting there has been quite a bit of damage from storm Fiona.
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Not much damage here in the southwest of NS end but some places in the northeast got hammered, at one point the power company was reporting 80% of customers were out of power looks like around 50% now.
Most of PEI lost power and is still showing over 95% out.
Port aux Basque in Newfoundland got the storm at the same time as high tide which caused houses and sheds to be washed into the ocean.
On the brighter side it is sunny and giving a high of a pleasant 18°c for today. I will take a ride to the camp to see if there was any damage or trees in the road.
Started to rain here at 8pm.
Suppose to rain until early morning.
We are getting some water now.
52° now.
Was a beautiful Saturday afternoon, probably got to 65F when the sun came out. Sunday was also. We took the buggy and gleamed some taters from the fresh harvested field near by. Then mother went on Sunday and got 2 more pails up in another field near here, that will fill up our long ice chest and do us for several months. Nice russets. We had some baked on Sunday, they were some good to. Good flavor with some butter on it. Got to be the soil. ;) Sure beats the tasteless store stuff. I wasn't even impressed by the farm market potatoes. I'm no snob, but I know what is good and what ain't. :D :D
Raining hard here today. Looks like a wet fall ahead. But we had nearly 4 inches of rain in 10 days and that soil wasn't even sticky. Ground dries fast here after rain with all the gravel and rock in it. :D
Picked and froze 34 lbs of Concord grapes for later juice and jelly making. That was 4 - 4 gallon pales with the stems still on. Off two 8 foot long rows. I sure don't need any more grape vines. That's plenty enough work. ;)
Quote from: SwampDonkey on September 26, 2022, 02:45:36 AMWe took the buggy and gleamed some taters from the fresh harvested field near by
Is that picking up what the machine missed?
65ish here today. Cloudy, but no rain. I guess that 10 day was, as usual, false.
Quote from: Hilltop366 on September 26, 2022, 08:16:19 AM
Is that picking up what the machine missed?
Yes. Found some nice sized ones to. But I picked anything 4" or longer. Doesn't take long to find many weeks worth of eat'n. ;D
Frost hit south of here yesterday morning, but it was 38F here no frost on the ground or windshield. Garden is still green. Got to 68F yesterday afternoon.
75° now this am.
48° for the low last night and pretty like that for the past few days. We are getting whipped by a tiny tail of Ian as it sweeps past at a good clip, just some sprinkles and now the sky is getting brighter. already 55°.
I think they messed up today's forecast because it is supposed to be 85% overcast all day with a high of 55, which we are already at. If the sun pops out, and it looks like it just might, we will get a lot warmer.
As a weather related aside. I have had a digital indoor/outdoor thermometer with an RF remote sensor for a number of years that my Dad used to have. I depend on that thing for a rough idea of conditions, especially in the winter. It's not an expensive one. This summer it pretty much quit working on the outdoor side and the usual stuff did not fix it. So I had this stupid Amazon gift card to burn up and I took a chance on a new bigger one with a color display as well as bought a couple of X-cut chains.
Well the new one works GREAT! So good that I can even put the remote out in my shop and keep an eye on that temp. That got me thinking. The new unit will work with 3 selectable remotes (one at a time, just hit the button to select). SO I tried to find another remote to add, but it turns out only Amazon has them and I hate amazon.
I took another look at the old unit I have and found that apparently all the new batteries I out in were not so 'new'. >:( SO with fresh batteries it works again. So I will use that one for indoor/outdoor as before, and the new one will be indoor/shop temps. This will save me some steps checking on the shop temps and I am a happy camper. :D :)
Batteries have been real poor the last 2 years. Batteries never used with expiration 3 or 4 years into the future are dead junk, not cheap ones. I put brand new D cells into a flashlight I had for years. Dim and fades to nothing. Pure junk. ::) Don't waste money buying a bunch ahead, they expire long before they say they do.
On a more positive note: I got to walking in the old blow down area of Arthur on the woodlot, the popple blow downs are all about eaten up by the earth and critters. :D Also I found 6 butternut trees where I had buried nuts in the dirt in that area, probably 2 years before Arthur. They are now over 6 feet tall and full sun. :)
you can put a sensor in a kiln, solar or otherwise, in the future
QuoteBatteries have been real poor the last 2 years.
Not sure which batteries are the problem here, but I have good luck with the Energizer lithium AA that I use for my trail cameras. They last well, and they also store well. IMO
Energizer Lithium and Max and even Duracell. Not expired according to dates. I put 2 batteries in my clock, never used, and claimed to be good for a few years yet. Clock chime went funny in a week with each of them, takes one C cell. I bought another package with later expiry, the 3rd battery and still going since summer. Usually get 3 years, we'll see. The flashlight used the Energizer Max. The furnace thermostat I use the Lithium (2), new batteries that supposedly expire in 25 years. The originals went 3 years, chucked the brand new ones out of the package as it was apparent there was no display. I've chucked 3 packages in the trash in the last 2 weeks. Even 2 lithium that wouldn't power the TV remote, new remote batteries last years normally. It's not hard to see from my perspective that they are not dependable.
I dunno, but bad batteries seem to be the cause. Probably an old package that finally made it to the front of the rack in the store. I guess "New to me" doesn't mean the same thing with batteries. ;D :D
I suppose I could Doc. I have that sensor at the far end of the shop from the house and upstairs. I can happily tell you it is 68.7 at my desk, 62.1 outside, and 60.8 in the shop. I just can't bring myself to give any of my own money to Amazon and wasn't really happy about that gift card. But I figured if I didn't use it, they would just get the money, so I took some merch to make it more even. ;D I continue to look for another sensor source.
Bad shelf life to, 2031 is a ways off. :D
I had the opportunity to take a drive up the Mt. Washington auto road yesterday with my misses and her college room mate and husband visiting from Atlanta GA. I was designated driver. The auto road is pretty winding, narrow, and steep so it appears I was the only one brave enough for the task. It is about an 8 mile drive from the bottom to the top. You climb to just over 6,000'. This is the highest point in the NH. I have made this trip 4-5 times in my lifetime with various vehicles. I have never been up there on a clear day as I think they only average10-15 days a year that are completely clear. Well today it was perfectly clear, almost t-shirt weather, and zero wind. There were even a few black flies out up there. Park Ranger said that there was a 130 mile view in all directions. We had taken lots of winter coats, hats, and mittens expecting the usual 20 degree temp. difference between the bottom and top . We got to leave all that stuff in the car. The foliage was just starting to change in the area making some beautiful scenery everywhere. We spent a couple of hours up there enjoying God's Creation. It was getting a little crowded up there by the time we headed down. The word was out that possibly the best weather day of the year was happening. The Cog Railway that services the west side of the mountain was hauling carload after carload of tourists up to the top from that side. Probably 500 people up there when we headed down.
What a great weather day. Couldn't ask for better. I will probably never see a day like that again in my lifetime. 8)
we did the cog to pikes peak but it was 14K + and I was a little uneasy breathing walking around.
yes batteries in the drawer with 3 years of expiration printed on them often start to corrode new in the pack.
@Old Greenhorn (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=42103) was that rectal, oral or under the arm? I would just stay in the house when you are taking your temprature. :D :D :D
I've only been up Mt Washington once. But will do it again!! We went about 3-4 years ago. What was fascinating was the trees!!
In just a few minutes you leave normal trees behind. Or what trees I am use to seeing.
The weather around here has been great. Kinda cool first thing in the morning and at night.
got the yard mowed and some old logs bucked and split for firewood. already dry enough, now small enough and some time to dry the outer some more for the wood stove.
Quote from: doc henderson on October 01, 2022, 08:22:24 PM
@Old Greenhorn (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=42103) was that rectal, oral or under the arm? I would just stay in the house when you are taking your temprature. :D :D :D
Doc, it seems like everything is either PO or PR with you. I ascertain these readings PAR, that is, Ambient Remote samplings of the air temp in these environments. ;D
Interesting, the night before while on that video shoot, I was pretty DanG cold standing in that parking lot waiting for the "Places" call for hours. It was about 48° and I just wasn't ready for it, nor warned to dress for it. Last night the temp held at 60° and only started to drop at 3am down to 52 by 5am. Right now it is 69.6 at my desk, 54.3 outside, and 60.4 in the shop, all obtained PAR. ;D
"ambient remote samplings"...?.... sounds rectal! :) you need to get warmed up! 8)
Haven't posted in a while. Been seasonable UP here. Had 4 or 5 pretty good frosts in a row last week. Had a few days of 40° on and off rain followed by a couple 60° sunny days. Typical fall up and down flip flopping weather.
Wake-up everyday and decide if its an outdoor project day or a inside shop kind of day.
First frost at the house this morning, 32F so not a hard freeze. We'll see if it actually killed peppers and tomatoes once everything 'thaws'. ;D
A little color among the ever greens. Some maples are actually dropping leaves. Balm of gileads are nearly bare.
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Unseasonably warm and supposed to stay that way through the week, the weather guru says 25C or 77F this afternoon. :o We have yet to see morning fog or frost in the valley bottom. The lawn actually has dandelions going to seed! I need to drive with the window open or a/c on in the afternoon.
This is a cooler fall than last year this time for us. Snow may come early, or it could also be in the 70's 2 weeks from now, seen that before to. :D :D
Back 21 years ago I was in Virginia with friends for a week in October. Was 70's weather every day. Came back to Bangor, Maine by plane. By the time I got back to the farm we were in blizzard white out. :D :D Six years later we had one of the coldest, deepest snows on record starting Oct 10th. We had 2 days in January that got down to -50F. Lots of 30 belows. We are due for another one. ;D
Well, your post just sent me down a rabbit hole SD. I went and found last years thread and searched through a couple months of posts around this time. Your weather closely parallels ours, except for this year. The jet stream has kept the wet stuff north of us since mid-July, so all those rain days you and Cfarm got were getting hammered with were pretty much dry here. Still I note it stayed warmer longer last year and I didn't worry about starting up the shop stove until around 10/19 or so. If I were working out there now, I would be doing morning fires. Our annual VT trip is next weekend and I didn't realize that until I saw mention of it in last year's thread. We have to call my cousin's tonight and set it up. ;D
Based on last years comments, I think we are 3 weeks or more ahead on the cooler weather. We get what we get. No bad weather, just bad clothes.
I laughed at my neiighbor who called to chat today and said he was wacthing the still today. He complained it was nasty and cold (57°). I mentioned the 'bad clothes' quote and he said "Gee I never thought about that, you're right!" There's your sign. He is headed back to the city this evening. :D
Well, I got a frost here. Don't know what day. I had already picked the squash and pumpkins. I went to the garden today and the squash and pumpkin vines was black. But on the other end of the garden the few tomatoes plants I have left did not get hit by frost.
I am on a hill, so most times we miss the first frost. Not this time. Then some years we miss the first frost, and it will warm up for 2-3 weeks before the next one.
This morning we see our second frost of the season, at 6:30 AM we had 28° on both, the front porch and the back porch, East & West!
46° for the low this morning and solid overcast. Not a real pleasant day. It's up to 47 outside now, 57 in the shop, and 67 in the house. All good.
We had a frost.
It got everything in the garden.
I could have skied down the field this morning it was so white. :D
Windshield got it too.
Yes the garden has had three frosts now so that's the end of that. I still had a barrel of green tomatoes, if only the summer was 2 months longer. :D I find the tomatoes are not as tasty after the first part of September and the skins go funny. Can't be blight as the leaves are still healthy, but it may be triggered by the cooler days or something.
Yesterday the alders and raspberry canes were white in frost out by the creek that follows the road to the ridge where I have been working. Monday seemed to be the coldest. Suppose to be 70F Thursday. :D
It's supposed to be Spring here. Been a pretty mild Winter, the local ski field never got to open this year.
But this morning we woke up to this.
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It was actually real snow. not the sleet / hail we often get. Didn't last long once the sun came out. But Spring snow down this low is practically unheard of. Our neighbours aren't locals, and I don't think they had ever seen snow falling, so they were pretty excited :D
I bet those ferns didn't like it. :D
Quote from: SwampDonkey on October 06, 2022, 04:24:13 AM
I bet those ferns didn't like it. :D
They have weathered worse, although the expected frost tonight might hit some of the new fronds. The big Mamaku tree fern in the middle is probably above the worst of the frost. It's been there 20+ years now, and survived much colder. The kids trampoline is pushed in there to act as frost shelter for the lemon tree.
In the wild here we have wood fern that survives extreme cold with snow cover. It will be green under the snow. Most ferns up here die from frost before winter comes.
Monday was a cool fall day here. I wore a sweatshirt and 3 season jacket at the mill all day and was comfy, but not over heated. Temps have been dropping in the low 40's at night and Tuesday/Wednesday were cooler with rain both days. I burned a smudge fire in the shop as I worked burning off cuts and odd chunks from the splitter. We got 1.75" of rain in the two days. This morning the sun came out. I still have on the sweatshirt and jacket, but the forecast says I should be down to a t-shirt by 2pm with temps in the mid 70's. We'll see.
Saturday we head to VT for a few days. Always fun to see the differences in the weather. We go same weekend every year to visit family. SOme years we just miss snow, some years I wish I had brought shorts, some years it's nasty rainy. The foliage changes range the same way. They are 'usually' about 2-3 weeks ahead of us but every year is different. I hope the trees haven't hit the 'pretty mode' yet because that brings up a LOT of leaf peepers from CT and MA, and NY. In a few more weeks, we will have them all around here, driving erratically and stopping without warning for photos. ;D Skiers and hunters drive right through often too fast, to get where they are going. Leaf peepers just drive around without a care and mostly at erratic speeds.
AHH! Fall in the Catskills. (Get off my lawn!)
70's for today here as well, but the weekend is getting cold 50-55F both days and windy. ;D
Quote from: Old Greenhorn on October 06, 2022, 10:07:13 AM
........ I still have on the sweatshirt and jacket, but the forecast says I should be down to a t-shirt by 2pm with temps in the mid 70's. We'll see.
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Well, I blew that one! :D
I was down to a t-shirt before 11am and the back of my neck was dang hot from the sun. I think I may have burned it up a bit more. Mostly it was overwarm because there was no breeze and he sun was beating on me bad enough that I couldn't read the screen on the mill. ;D
Yup
spring fall in the Catskills.
Wow!! You must be working really hard.
I ALWAYS work hard. :D ;D Work hard, play hard, right? Actually these days it's more like "work hard, play easy". I enjoy it better that way. That 40' rock wall on the left side of our mill is both a blessing and a curse. Most days it keeps the wind off me and way overhead, like today, which makes it pleasant at the mill deck. But some days it funnels the wind right into my face and I should have a full face mask respirator on for the sawdust and diesel exhaust. ;D Safety glasses will have to do. None the less, it was a very pretty day. I came home and was doing paperwork and re-figuring cut lists, and I went out to the shop to fetch in a few brews and realized it was a gorgeous evening, just a little cool at 63.
No fire in the shop today, I wasn't working there, but right now it's 63.1 outside, 63.6 in the shop, and 69.8 in the house. Works for me all around.
I spent about 5 hours in the van. 75°
Yeah, I had a truck like that once. Hopefully you figure out what's wrong with it and get it fixed. :D
Pretty sure it was 75F here yesterday, it showed 80F on the porch thermometer. ;D
Going to be in shock for the weekend, in the 50's F for high. :D
Had the window fan on all day to upstairs. ;D
The Asian lady beetles and flies sure want in bad. Thanks to some brain fart someone had to import the beetles. Probably got some award for it, I know what award I would dominate them for. ;) We have warblers and pheobes that catch flies off the house siding. The side effect of that is the handrails on the front porch and the steps is covered in poo. Watch where your hand lands. Bugs and bird poo, lovely time of year. Like I always say, winter can't come soon enough. The sure cure. :D :D
Had the first dusting of snow this morning on surfaces like the picnic table. Didnt last long but it won't be long til it sticks around.
Let me rephrase that: winter can't come fast enough after I have next winter's wood cut and hauled in. :D :D :D
Winter can hold off until mid December or later. The later the deep snow holds off the longer I can continue to graze cattle and not have to feed them. I make money when the cows harvest the feed themselves, I spend money when I have to feed hay.
A couple years ago when it was bone dry here, the neighbor's cows were out eating everyone else's feed because they were starving. They were even on my drain field eating grass. That works to. :D The field he had them in was bare to mud and he was pulling old corn stalks from his garden and loading the wagon up for them to feed from. He wants to be a dairy farmer he said, he hasn't the land to barely feed 20 cows let alone a dairy. He took a stint last winter to NS to work on one, to see how it works. Meanwhile everyone else is buying up the land all around his place.
Someone doing that to their cows probably needs to not have cows anymore.
Well, I'm sure he's got lots to learn. ;D
It was another beauuuutiful day at the mill today! Down to a t-shirt by 10am and sweating most of the session. I think it hit 70 or so at some point and the skies were blue... until around 2pm, then some clouds rolled in and it was solid overcast but still nice. I quit there around 2:30 and had to run to the store for milk. On the way back I slowed down to take this:
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This reservoir is 20 miles long and was pretty flat today. That's the Burroughs range of the Catskills in the background.
Tomorrow we head over to VT for a few days visit with cousins as we do every year on this weekend. I think their foliage is far from peak yet, and this is good, keep the leaf peepers to a minimum, but I bet their town is still packed with tourists. I do suffer the crowds to go to their flea market, it's a good one and I usually get a few fun things. Farm goods, knick-knacks, do dads, junk antiques, handmade stuff, all makes for a nice time as long as it's not raining.
Just a little past 7:30 tonight and I just came in from hauling a bucket full of rocks and one of wood.
This is the coldest it's been for a while, 42°. I mean it felt like it was cold.
Starting to sound like the weather man. Going to be cold tonight at 42°. ???
Felt like I needed my lined parts on. First time for that. Guess I need to work harder.
32F here this morning, suppose to see showers sometime. Then dry next 3 days, warming up to 60's on Wednesday. Nice weather for brawny weight plaid shirts. ;D
33° and frost on the roof of the house and shop. 1st of the year.
We had our first real frost last night. We are up on a hill which tends to keep us frost free a little later than areas just a half mile down the road. Leaves must be approaching peak judging from the view out our picture window this morning.
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and a couple from outside looking north past my BIL's farm. Off in the distance is the new hay barn that is under construction that I helped with by sawing the roof framing lumber for back in June.
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The last is a tree in our neighbors yard that is always brilliant red for a week each year indicating foliage peak around here.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/47292/IMG_2439.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1665316989) This is one of the many times of the year that makes me feel very blessed to live up here on this hill. A little more of a challenge to feel the blessing in January and February when the wind is blowing 50mph. But a blessing just the same. ;)
We had a light fog this morning, the first of the season which is unusually late. We have yet to see frost in the valley. Supposed to hit 20C, 68F, this afternoon. Indian summer is very nice but we know what is coming.
1:00 pm here now and only 46F on the porch and SW wind, which is not a warm wind either. A little fire in the furnace feels nice on a cool grey day. Nice and roasty at 80F inside. ;)
Enjoy your turkey or chicken fellow Canadians. ;D
we were 46° at 6 am, now 63°. will be 70 to 80 for a high all week.
Quote from: Gere Flewelling on October 09, 2022, 08:12:12 AM
We had our first real frost last night. We are up on a hill which tends to keep us frost free a little later than areas just a half mile down the road. Leaves must be approaching peak judging from the view out our picture window this morning.
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and a couple from outside looking north past my BIL's farm. Off in the distance is the new hay barn that is under construction that I helped with by sawing the roof framing lumber for back in June.
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The last is a tree in our neighbors yard that is always brilliant red for a week each year indicating foliage peak around here.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/47292/IMG_2439.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1665316989) This is one of the many times of the year that makes me feel very blessed to live up here on this hill. A little more of a challenge to feel the blessing in January and February when the wind is blowing 50mph. But a blessing just the same. ;)
Beautiful! It absolutely does make you feel blessed and thankful when you look around at the natural beauty 🙏
Waiting for first light to tackle next year's wood. Frosty 31F this morning. Will have to put some layers on for the buggy ride to the woods. :D
Another perfect work day. 39 last night and it worked up to 68 by 4pm. Started in a sweatshirt and jacket and was quickly down to rolled up shirtsleeves. But I didn't have much gas in my tank today and switched to shop work earlier than normal. Didn't sleep well last night, dang dreams.
Gotta hit it hard tomorrow because Thursday looks like a rainout and I have a delivery due Saturday that I can't miss.
Been in the 50's and sunny here and no wind, today and the rest of the week in the 60's are predicted. Been great weather for making firewood. ;D
Thank the Lord! A good rain after months dry!
Hard rain and winds at 60°.
That will pluck those pretty leaves off the trees.
Had a shower before daylight here, never moved the rain gauge. They are harvesting spuds today. We do have a small wind and the leaves are mobile. :D
Ground is white currently and more is still falling. Roads are slush covered. Winter is here it seems.
Red flag warnings and fire weather watches for NW Ohio along with many other states. Temps in low 60's with strong winds and very low humidity. Fall harvest in full swing. Hopefully the combines have been dusted out thoroughly and the bearings are greased and in good condition. It's no fun fighting standing corn field fires let alone in these conditions.
Brent.
Just listening to the radio in the shop and they are talking about anywhere from 4-12" of snow over the weekend. Guess I better transition to snow removal before I even pack away the harvest and fencing tools.
Missed the local news due to work, but the National Weather said 3.5 inches of rain today.
We got about 1.75" out of that system, but it was sloppy working at the mill this morning. Noen the less a very beautiful day.
Funny how a 47° morning a few weeks ago felt dang cold, and now it feels like another pretty day starting. :D
Could get up to 2" here, but I have not heard it rain hard, so will have to look at the gauge at day break. ;D
The dust was flying 2 days ago. Suppose to get a bunch of rain the middle of next week.
Looks like 1/2" here, but it's now raining harder than it did all night. So one never knows until it's done and over with. ;D
We picked up 3" from this storm out of the south. Lots of wind, power outages,
trees , limbs and pretty leaves down.
National Weather Service
...Significant Winter Storm Brings Heavy Wet Snow to Upper Michigan late Sunday into early Tuesday...
A low pressure develops over Lake Huron Sunday night and stays nearly stationary through Tuesday morning. Strong northerly winds behind the cold front bring colder temperatures that changes precipitation to accumulating wet snow across higher elevations of west-central Upper Michigan Sunday night. Locally heavy snow continues across higher elevations of Baraga and Marquette Counties on Monday before shifting into the eastern U.P. by Tuesday morning.
Snowfall amounts of 4 to 8 inches are expected across higher elevations of west-central Upper Michigan. Locally higher amounts exceeding 12 inches are possible across the Michigamme Highlands of eastern Baraga and western Marquette Counties. Heavy wet snow combined with frequent northerly gusts up to 40 mph may lead to power outages and tree damage. Sloppy accumulations up to 4 inches at lower elevations combined with more lingering fall foliage could lead to sporadic power outages and tree damage.
No talk of snow here, but never know more than 3 days out anyway. I've seen long range forecasts for temp go from 60's to actually 20's before. :D
Yep Chet, its looking to be ugly for a few days UP here. Put that heavy wet snow on top of the 2" of rain we have got over the last few days and its going to be nasty outside.
The meadow is flooded now. I wonder why? ;)
Well as usual they changed our forecast. Now they're calling for winds in excess of 45 MPH and a foot and a half of dat white stuff in some areas.
So much for my plans of Walleye fishing. :(
We had 3/4" rain out of that storm. Then the clouds were still moving northward, and this is no clearing out and definitely not a cold front. Don't they know them clouds have to retreat SE to clear and be colder? :D 54F over night. Thick fog here this morning.
Fog cleared by 10:00 am and is 65F and sunny, no wind. Looking a lot more bare on the trees. Cleaned up the gardens and took the fencing all down, then tilled the main garden. Probably ground a barrel full of tomatoes into the soil. Mulch. ;D
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A rain out day today with some light wind, 50F this morning.
18° here this morning... I'm not ready for it.
41° this morning here according to the front porch thermometer, I'm not ready for that cold either. The weather channel indicated a couple degrees colder but sometimes they've been a little less than accurate. Overnight we have a frost warning, I'd much rather wake up to warm weather headed to 80° so I could jump in the pool and swim a few laps but that will have to wait until next year.
first fire.
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little griffin is happy. a bit of ERC scrap to burn the dust off.
Doc, I like your stove top steamer pot. Does steam come out of the chimney when it starts to boil? Where did you find that?
yes. we do not put potpourri in it but some of the Cinnamin oil ect. to make the house smell nice. use ro water so it does not build up sediment. prob. plow and hearth or LL bean. some over priced, but tug at your heart, kinda store. lol.
Another wet day at almost 60°. Showers off and on all day. They said we might get peaks of the sun. Yep, they were right. About 5 times for about 5 minutes each time.
One of these days we will get a rain at 40°.
And than one of these days we will get a rain storm at 25°. ;)
Snow tapered off this am with 27° and 45mph north winds. We only got about 4" of snow here but had to run the kids to the Dr in the "big city" of Ironwood and there was about 15" of snow over that way.
No snow in sight here yet. Hopefully another month on that. Today's low was 37 and the high was 55. I installed a new woodstove in the shop today and just had it test burning and burning off the paint, which still lingers in my nose. They are calling for a low tonight of 32°, that magic milestone, so I threw a couple more chunks in that stove to see how it holds temp overnight with the new controls it has. Right now, my shop is the same temp as the house and 25° warmer than outside. Just trying to learn this stove to see how it behaves, it's gonna take a while because it's been 10 years since I've had a thermostatic damper.
The humidity outside is 75% and the shop is 56% and that matters to me. Sometimes I just burn to dry the shop out, even in the nicer weather. Colder weather is coming. I need to get on the firewood.
Ya Chevy I see we even made da national news tonight. Cold and snow is good; beats da heck out of giant wildfires, hurricanes, floods, tidal waves, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, and crowds of people. :D
60F here over night and breezy, only a few showers. Not much water to it. Suppose to clear this afternoon and be nice the rest of the week. ;D No talk of snow here any time soon, but things can change mighty quick in the north. ;) Be knocking down some trees after the breeze ends. Never know, might get in the afternoon cut'n some firewood.
32° here this morning, and for the first time this season. Seems to be a good frost out there from what I can tell from the porch lights.
Spoke too soon, it's been raining harder for the last hour then it did the previous 24 hrs. :D
1-3/4" rain total, clearing and wind now.
Looks like the almost 60° mornings are gone for a while.
40F and no wind, stars out, looks like a firewood cut'n day. ;D
Got my first electric bill of the heating season, $20 less than last month. But have let the electric element of the furnace kick in a few times. With mild temps and bright sun, it gets too hot for fires in here. :D
Yesterday the humidity was 75% in the house, windows open, south wind. This morning the air is back down to 50%. Big air mass change. :) I found it odd that it cleared yesterday with a SW wind, usually takes a NW wind to clear sky around here, like 99% of the time.
Been great weather for making firewood, going to haul some in today. 38F on the porch this morning, stars are out. Everything is pretty much bare like winter now. No talk of any snow yet. :)
Reached 70F here today. A little rain or showers coming tomorrow. Wouldn't know it rained 1-1/2" a week ago. Dust flying on the dirt roads. Ground is staying firm. Cousin was cutting grain the last 2 days.
Warm up your way I see.
Starting to smell like fall here.
Strange weather here this week. It's been rainy drizzly since Monday morning and we had an inch. Today we are at about .4" so far but the temp rose overnight and is now 58°. I started a one shot fire in the shop just to dry it a bit. It's still 62° out there. ;D
Calling for drizzly all day here. Really blah weather but at least it's not freezing. We will be pre-fabbing woodshed sections in the shop today rather than build them on site in the rain.
Yes, mostly heavy fog here, had a few showers since yesterday afternoon. Is 54F this morning. Rain coming tomorrow. Then nice the rest of the week. :)
Been wet here the last 3-4 days. But in the 60's. Yesterday it just about dried off.
60° here now first thing in the morning!!! And raining.
I will be getting up to about 30° in the morning.
Have not seen that for a while.
A bit of a wind today but otherwise not bad. Buddy says he is putting on three sets of chains, tandems plus the steers, in and out of the log landing. There is a foot of snow. Ugh!!
We've had some mild nights here around 55-60F for 3 mornings in a row. Had 1-1/2" rain Tuesday-Wednesday. In the 30's this morning. Sunny.
It's been mild since the middle of last week, and yeah, some of those nights it stayed up in the 50's through the night. We didn't get as much rain as SD but close. Monday and Tuesday were rain days, Weds was a misty day with some breaks in the afternoon, very foggy the first 3 days, or probably the clouds dropped to the ground.
37° this morning so we are getting back to normal. Leaves have been falling like snow this week. High for today should only hit mid 50's. Cooler for a day or two, then a slight warming through next week is what they are guessing.
had a nice rain yesterday and last night. got grass planted just in time. I helped my friend who is a prof. yard guy so had good equipment.
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It's been fairly mild but very dry the several weeks here in Mo but we're finally getting some rain. Earlier in the week we got several inches overnight but didn't have much flooding problems as the ground soaked it right up.
Right now it's calm in the mid 50's F with a light drizzle.
Roads have dried out here, 3 days after 1-1/2" rain. Still staying firm except some parts of my road that doesn't drain. Public dirt road I use to get to woodlot. The road that crosses from it to the next highway is dirt, dry and dusty. Goes over a ridge. Was 42F this morning, 60F this afternoon.
Saw 4 moose yesterday, 2 each in 2 different fields on my way to the woodlot.
Well we had some rain early in the week, but it is very slow to drain off. Been down in the low 30's overnight and am doing one shot burns to just keep the shop warm and dry.
The last few days have been the nicest days I can remember in a long time, just absolutely PERFECT! Bright blue skies, minimal wind, highs just near 60, and cool at night. I just can't stop working until I am shot.
I didn't see any moose today, but I saw something nearly as rare. DID YOU KNOW I have woodcock on my little piece of earth? Of course not, I didn't either! Saw my first one out in the swamp in nearly 40 years here. Nearly stepped on the little bugger before he busted. He flew just like a grouse and lit 20' away, then took off again when I moved. Would have been and easy shot if that was the goal. I thought it was a grouse, but when he landed I got a better look and he didn't fit the profile (am I allowed to say that?) as well as a woodcock. Anyway, it was pretty cool to have upland birds in the yard. Tells me that the cleaning up I am doing is drawing some attention. I also noticed a lot of birds flitting through the brush pile, but that is slated to be burned off, if I can ever get the dang thing to take off before the birds settle in. I need some diesel. ;D
I've not seen any woodcock at the woodlot, just some grouse every other day or two. One thought he would walk across one of my corduroy areas I was adding some more rails to extend. He musta spent the night up in a spruce. The robins seem to be attracted to them corduroy crossings lately. Maybe they find bugs in the mud. Hey, maybe that could be a title to a poem or song, 'bugs in the mud'. ;D :D :D
I keep jugs of old burnt motor oil, to recycle brush piles quicker into the carbon cycle and reuse spent oil. ;D
60° at 5pm. :o
58° here. Weird, ain't it? I remember colder nights in July. :D We are back in a warm trend. I made small smudge fires in the shop today just to dry things out, rainy drizzly day here. Right now 58 outside, 69 in the house, and 70 in the shop. ;D I can live with this for a while longer given the oil prices for the coming winter. It's November. I should go back to last years threads and see when I first fired up the house stove.
It was supposed to start raining in the afternoon turning to snow up at my cabin build with accumulation up to 6". Well, I needed to pull up some temporary floor to winterize. A little spitting drizzle before noon and at 1 pm, it was snowing HARD. Left at 4 when I finished my work and there was 5" on the ground!
Yeah we had 60F yesterday here, and it's 46F this morning, stars, and a little NW wind. They said it was going to be cooler, I'm not seeing it. :D
It was 55° this morning very odd for this time of year.
Got to 52F today, so not as warm as the last few days, and still a little NW breeze. Still not cold and was no frost. Well, might be cool sitting around, but not when cutting wood. :D
Another warm sunny day!!!
We woke up to our first snow, already above freezing so it was a wet sloppy mess. It seems a lot of truckers didn't chain up, the mountain highways were an absolute gong show.
Yeah, it sure was Ray! It's supposed to be a tad warmer tomorrow. It was cool in the shop this morning (57) so I started just a smudge fire then forgot about it as I wound up opening the garage door and planed a handful of boards. I did a lot of odds and ends mostly outside. I had a recurring urge to open a folding chair in front of the shop and grab a beer and wave at neighbors as they drove by coming home from work. ;D
These are the days (pre-retirement) I would sit in my office and wish to be outside doing 'something'. Now I have that, and I appreciate it no end.
Guess I got carried away on the shop stove. Right now it's 60 outside, 69 in the house and 72 in the shop. ;D I am not complaining.
Sawguy, sorry. Our turn is coming and we have a strange quirk of weather here right now. I am sure in just 10 days or so we will be back on a similar page as you are now. In the meantime, I am going to enjoy this.
Was 68F here yesterday afternoon, was 46F in the morning. Same this morning. Sunny day coming.
truck doors required a little tug, due to ice this am.
Heat is off, looks like we are heading for the 70's. :o
70F today and very sunny. :) I can't ever recall November being in the 70's. Last year this time we were in the 40's.
Musk is still in flower by the well head. :)
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82 here and very windy.I don't care much for it.Ready for cold weather.
We break some high temps records. 75° in Portland. :o
Was a nice day.
Caribou hit 73°, record was 67° in 1982.
Bangor got up to 73° today, beating 71° back in 1938.
We hit 73F here at 5:00 pm, but I attribute that to sun warming up the porch, reflective heat off the siding, even though it is an open porch. The sun can't directly hit the thermometer. I believe a true reading has to be taken from a shaded and vented wooden box. ;D
Hauled 3 loads of firewood in, got 2 more to gather before the rain this afternoon.
65° here at 5am. Hard to believe. The high yesterday was 73. Looks like we should be a little less than that today, but who knows. We should be getting light rain but I don't see much on the radar. Weird weather.
70F here at noon as we type. ;D Calling for showers tonight and into Monday morning. A stiff SW wind here.
I've got 8 cords of firewood in, that'll do for this fall. If I need a load or two more it won't take long to cut it up this spring. :)
SwampDonkey, seen any pussy willows up your way?
I saw some about ½ hour towards warmer cities and then some about ½ hour towards colder towns.
I saw the first ones when I went to see the FIL. He lives on a loop so 20 MPH is good.
Than the ones the other direction, we found and they was out too.
Did about 150 miles today and saw more people out today than any day in the summer!!!
A windy but 70° day.
Haven't seen any yet because it's never been cold enough for any time to break dormancy. Usually when we see them is after a cold stretch, haven't had any. :D
The white lilac bushes, black currents and Norway maples are still green in the yard. Although the maples have gotten a lot more yellow in the last week. The raspberry leaves have not even dropped in the garden yet.
A wind driven rain just began here. Raining hard.
Then why am I seeing them?
Last "cold" we had was 2-3 weeks ago?
Got a video of the buds.
Yeah, I'm not sure how long cold stratification is for aspen and willow, it doesn't take long though. I've seen in the past that we could even have a dusting of snow for 2 or 3 days on the ground then Indian summer happens and they come out. Haven't had either up this way. I work around aspen all day and up by Grammy Adair brook are willow groves. No sign of flowers on them and they are the first bushes I watch in the spring time. We've never yet had a hard freeze to make crust on the soil. Only one morning it chilled water in puddles. Bedroom window has been up all fall. On sunny days I've had the fan on in the window many times.
55F and raining this morning.
58° at 6am!!!!!
We had our first serious snowfall, 4" when I got up and was still coming down. :'( It seems to have quit for the moment but with the temperature around freezing the roads are a mess, plows and tow trucks will be going flat out. People are on fb wanting to know who to call for snow removal, their lack of planning doesn't constitute an emergency. ::)
Got to 65F, but falling this afternoon. Suppose to be 40's for a stretch, maybe 55F Thursday. Rain for Nov 11, Remembrance Day holiday. I haven't seen too many warm sunny Remembrance Days.
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Yep. When I walked up by the brook yesterday, I looked for flowers breaking but none to be found. Some willows still have leaves to.
36F this morning, stars and eclipsed moon. ;D
40° this morning. The Nov week of T-shirt weather is over. Temps were a couple degrees either side of 70 the past week. Only had 1 fire in the wood stove during that time.
Low here last night was 38, so we are about back to what is normal for this time of year I guess. Checking back to last year looks like the cold began in earnest around 11/14.
It's 41 outside now, 68 in the house and 58 in the shop. I'll be out there sanding this morning and it has been over a week since I had a smudge fire, so I'll probably do one just to dry things out this morning. Skies are bright blue and there is nothing on the radar for hundreds of miles.
Raining like crazy here and a bit of snow predicted (36-48") up the hill. Coming down pretty good right now:
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News flash!!!! There is a wave coming across the country today and it's not the color of water
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Just barely hit 40F here today. Dang cold wind out of the NW if I may say so. Actually a wind warning. I just started a little smudge here. My hands was cold washing the mud off the SxS just a bit ago. fire_smiley I see a tropical storm advisory out now to for Friday-Saturday. Yikes!! Houlton, Maine says 65F for Friday and rain.
Doc, me too.
That wind was busy all day!!!!
overcast and looked like it could snow any minute all day. windy, but 66° now. was never cold enough to snow, but looked like it.
Ice in the bucket this morning at 25°.
I'm not use to this cold weather. :D
Yeah, the cold is here. At this spot, the high was 41° with a low of 26° this morning.
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This is about 5 miles south of my cabin. Five miles north of my cabin, the high was 26° with a low of 11° :o
Upstate SC only saw 63° today with winds averaging around 12mph, little too much for burning limbs unfortunately. Tomorrow we'll see rain starting sometime in the afternoon with more wind and what's looking like a bunch more rain on Friday. I hope the wind & rain don't topple any trees.
John, I thought California was always sunny and warm like the travel commercials say?! You mean it isn't so?
Now I don't know what to believe!
The high here barely tweaked 50 today and it was around 30 last night. Guess that CA weather is a lot tougher than whet we get here in the northeast.
Actually I dread when you post your road cam photos each fall, because I know in just 3-6 weeks, we will see the same here. I'm glad you got buttoned up in time.
Yesterday was 28F and chilled water on the beaver pond. Got to 40F.
38F here and rain/showers this morning. Forecast has changed to sun for tomorrow and 70F.
Might be first dusting of snow middle of next week.
Aug/Sept. in S. Norway and N. Europe
Do not water your lawn. Do not wash your car. Do not shower too long. We don't have the water. In the country with lots of rain and snow, it's extremely dry. And in a country with almost only hydropower, dry=expense electricity. In the rest of N. Europe, the wind is not blowing and the gas is not flowing, again, =expensive electricity. "We'll have to start burning coal again", except there is so little water in the Rhein river, that the coal barges can't run. "When it gets cold", we'll either freeze, go bankrupt or both.
Fast-forward to Oct./Nov.
It has rained so much recently that the reservoirs are full. Electricity costs now about what it usually does. Oslo's drinking water reservoir is also full, so the city is releasing all the water it can. N. Europe has bought and hoarded gas as fast as it could; soon there is no place to store any more. And it's mild, no, it's warm! Oslo may hit mid 60's F on Saturday--in mid-November! Lot of people wondering when they are going to start burning all the wood they bought in September.
I'm reminded of an old Supertramp album, "Crisis? What crisis"?
That storm in FL pushed some warm and humid weather up this way. Went to bed at about 60° and it's 64 now. :o
Been a warm week. Well one morning was 25°.
50F and rain here.
18° here. Had to get the camper winterized but leaving on a trip on the 15th.
Went to bed last night and it was about 32 deg. There was no mention of snow on the news last night. I got up at about 6:30 this morning to go to the bathroom. As I walked past the kitchen window I had to do a doubletake. Did I see what I thought I saw? Yep, about 2" of snow. The other side of the county got up to 6".
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1" of rain so far and 55F.
very pretty Bill.
44F here now with a NW wind, cooling off. 1-3/4" rain so far today. Been heavy rain since mid morning.
About 6" of rain in the last 6 days now its below freezing and the ground is white with 2-4" of snow. Calling for 6-8" more by tomorrow. Doesn't look like any thawing in the 10 day forecast. Looks like winter may be here for real this time.
Looks like rain into tomorrow afternoon, then mix with snow Monday and snow on Thursday. Our first snow last fall was Nov 15th. The fields are floating in water now.
I have 58° at 5:45pm. :o
Than return to Nov.
39° here this eve. fire in the house and shop woodstoves.
30F and the snow is here, blizzard I should say. :D :D
No snow, but 16 burrrrrry degrees this morning.
Low of 33 here last night, so not bad. The shop was 60 when I woke up at 6am. Dropped to 58 before I got out there to re-kindle, up to 60 now. Yesterday I had it up to high 60's while it was 40 outside with strong winds. A nasty snotty day yesterday all day, shop work. More today and maybe I will head to the mill for a bit if the sun comes out or the winds shut off.
SD, looks like you squall ended. How much did you get?
Now they are saying we could get an inch of snow tonight into the morning. Should make my drive to work interesting tomorrow.
We had 1/2" rain yesterday evening before the change to snow. We had about 4" snow, I think 2" has melted and the gravel driveway is almost bare. Snow plow went this morning and all school was cancelled. Purolator parcel was delivered at 10:00 am though. It has stopped, but the hills are squally. More white stuff Wednesday-Thursday. 33F Now. Not as cold as out in ND by Bernstein, he's had temps in the teens, ice, snow. I think that also hit Manitoba.
The wind is keeping it cold out there.
Still ice in the buckets!!!
Something white coming Wed.
Cold and snow until May. About 8" on the ground and 14° this am.
Saturday, on my way from Kansas City to a friend's house in KY, I stopped at a McDonalds to use the restroom.
The car next to me was this one:
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I was in IL.
And I hope that's all the snow I see this year.
Jim Rogers
PS. I showed that picture to my wife and she said that they can keep it.
I don't mind the snow and cold because I don't work in it. I have, and at times it's miserable for sure. I also don't have to travel in snow storms. :)
I'm not what you might call a snow fan either! My favorite snow is the stuff on postcards, my wife feels a bit different as she's spent the majority of her life in OH, winters and all. She's about to change her tune if we replace her not that old and under 96K miles car due to rust. A $20K used car two years ago is a $30K used car today!
Ok I had to read that twice, at first I thought for sure you were going to replace her and keep the rusty car. :D
No snow or any in the forecast for the next week down here in the south (of Nova Scotia).
Snow keeps the population down. ;D
I like the land I have. I hope that I can die here too.
Still mild at N60° in Norway...not even frost.
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snow flurries with some ground accumulation and wet roads, presumed pre-treated.
35 deg and raining here in E KY.
The rule of thumb here for schools: If there's ONE! snowflake spotted in the county you must close schools and save the kids. :D- meanwhile the parents go to work and so on like most anywhere. In my last school job county, the director of transportation would go to one specific, curvy & steep, mtn road that was used as the deciding factor for school closures for bus travel safety.
I will say that some people I worked with here (Vo-tech that was state operated & never closed for snow- our school secretaries & clerks) who were "fraidy cats" for snow driving, would use up their job annual leave for a snow day reason. I never had that job "luxury" nor that mentality either.
We live in a 4WD place and matters not to me if it snows or not as I'm not in control of the weather yet ;).
OK, NOW I am finally ready to recognize it is November! Overnight the temp bottomed at 24° and it is 29 as I write this. There is a hard frost on the grass and rooves. Glad I drained my rain water system yesterday, but I should have finished it up and pulled the pump. Hopefully no damage and I will pull that today. It's very hard to adjust from it being 70° a few days ago to be 24 this morning. I am not that quick to change. I already got adjusted to cool weather a month ago and now have to do it again.
They have a winter storm advisory up for tonight into tomorrow mid-morning. 1-3" expected here with higher amounts as the elevation goes up, so Spike may get 5" but they also say there is supposed to be some freezing rain and sleet in there with the temps just in the low 30's. Some of our worst ice storms have been around this time of year and I am still cleaning up from the last one.
I looked at the system on the radar and it runs from the U.P. all the way down to FL so I don't think we will escape it. So I will think today about hitching up the plow because if I do that, it may scare any real snow away. ;D
I wonder how Bill (FFOTS) made out getting to work today? Swamp, looks like you may have more coming.
Yes, 25F this morning with sunshine, but snow for the next 2 days. ;D
Looks like the high will be below freezing for the next week, I even see single digits for morning temps. fire_smiley
we are fine with snow. lived in Albany and 18 inches overnight was off the roads at 8 am. KS does ok with snow removal and most of us are fine with 8 inches. it usually melts for the most part in a few days, or is gradually removed. used to use sand, and now the liquid salt solution. ice is the real killer. black ice that you do not even realize you are on, keeps us humble. most of the week long power outages are from ice and not snow.
Yes, I hate ice. And as you say, the ice will bring the power down. :D
Must be a snow storm coming. I put the snow blower on the tractor. I've done it after a snow storm. ;D
The only thing I am good at, is putting the cement blocks in the back of my truck. It's a 2 wheel drive truck.
One year I did not put the blower on until January. Did not have the snow, so why waste time putting it on. :D
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This snow is here to stay, more will get layered on until April. The blade lube has got the blues.
As a good friend used to say: we've been glaciated!
Looks like I got a little more snow up the hill while I was in SoCal over the weekend. Maybe another foot. Got a great picture from the traffic cams a few minutes ago at sunset.
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Tom, the temp was 33 and 34 deg driving to work this morning. We got some snow and it was snowing on the way to work but at those temps roads were just wet. I got to work early.
33 and a half here now and snowing steady, but the ground is not frozen even though it was in the 20's last night. We have about and inch. I had heard that there was some warmth coming along with the snow front. Oh well, it's that time of year, right?
Snow hasn't hit yet today, but it must be on it's way up from the SW because I can't see windmill lights in Oakfield, Maine now. Probably be here at sunrise for sure. Ever since the last storm it has never been above freezing here. 25F this morning, again. Warm and dry in here with a popple fire I just lit. ;D
Be patient SD, it will get to you shortly :D. We got about 2" last night, then about 3/8" of rain in the wee hours to knock that down a bit. White this morning, but no issues, just a sloppy mess. 36° here now, supposed to hit maybe 40 today. Just a grey November day.
Oh, it's here. Right on schedule. ;D Going to be more than 2", we have a blizzard warning. And going colder after it is over with. 20F tomorrow morning and 8F by Friday morning. I'll send some right on down past. ;)
Not sure i believe the weather guessers but the NWS says a 97% chance of 12-24" of snow tonight thru Friday am. I guess time will tell...
That'll certainly bring some winter. We call that a snow bomb. :D
Got to 28F yesterday and stayed there. Just flurries for today. Haven't gauged the depth yet, it came as real fine snow so I don't think it can be more than 2-3". South of here it rained. And at times there was some ice pellets here, the familiar tic..tic..tic on the windows.
Yikes.
Watched the news. There is some snow coming in around MI and NY. 3-4 feet in some places. Not good!!!!!
19F this morning, we had snow showers all afternoon yesterday. Doesn't look like big storms coming here just those 2" type nuisance storms 2 or 3 days in the long range. I think temp is going to drop low Sat morning and a little warm up in a couple days, but nothing like early in the month. ;D
I'll have to venture out to the cousin's tree farm and get a tree soon. ;)
Official word is 22" of snow in the last 24 hours, storm total so far around 28 inches and still coming down. More on the way today and tomorrow before it calms down going into next week.
Well, went and got the tree and put it up and lights to. I put it up on the porch, not inside the house. ;)
Wow, that's one snow bomb, been in the news here. Hitting parts of NY to I think. Get the ski-doo out. ;D
My youngest brother lives just outside Buffalo NY. He's had 18" since yesterday. I've got a friend that lives in Watertown NY and he says 20" since yesterday with 2-3 additional feet expected through Sunday night.
19F this morning again, moon and stars, no wind. Ground is certainly stiffening up, has never gotten above freezing since the first snow.
77" of snow in 24 hrs just east of Lake Ontario, new state record. The old one was 50".
I'm 54 degrees and BBQing in the pit ;D
77 inches of snow west of us with 6 more coming tonight. New record. Orchard Park is a state of emergency with the national guard on the way. Thruway has been closed for trucks since yesterday. Lake Erie always pounds that area until it freezes over in January. We should get 6 inches off lake Ontario tomorrow. Been 20 degrees below normal the last week. I need some of that global warming.
Tule, any pics of the food or the pit?
77 inches!!!!!! :o :o
25F and snow. :snowball:
Low last night was 25 and at 7:30ish it hit 27 and the snow started as a small squall passed over. Looks like we will get those through the day, come and go. Windy too, which is the part I hate. Would like to get some outside work done, but that wind is a real bummer and they are calling for gusting over 30mph today. Just a 5 mph breeze is no fun either.
Poor wood in the shop stove last night left the shop at 52 this morning. Just poked it up, let's see how the recovery goes with the new stove.
Glad I am not in the western part of the state. I have been through similar while doing business travel and it gets ugly.
It has petered out to snow flurries here, as expected.
We had 3 show showers today. I was out cutting wood in all of them.
Looks like we are heading for the teens tonight and not above freezing tomorrow. First time this year for all that.
The ground here is white with snow with a storm we got 4-5 days ago. We went to the city about an hour from here and the ground is bare.
15F this morning with a strong wind. I think it may be squally, hard to tell in the blackness. ;) Wind funnels up the snow by the garage door like a ghost and turns the motion light on at night. Old man winter prowling around. ;D
Wind dropped, sky cleared, and temp dropped to 10F by daylight.
Expecting rain here this afternoon. Right now it is 23F and cloudy, so a bit of warm air has to move in first. ;D I think the north end of NB is expecting a mess of snow and ice.
42° and rain starting to fall. Sat looks to be the day to have ambition this weekend as today and Sunday both show high % of rain. Need to work off some calories. :)
Just barely beginning here. Not my favorite weather and not a great hunting day either. Rain is just beginning to dot the ground here too. looks to get heavy later. I have work I gotta get done, so some shop work for a bit and then down to the mill to get that thing fixed and running again. At least it's under cover but doing detailed work in damp snotty weather is no fun. If I can get it buttoned up today, maybe I can get some production out tomorrow. More important is I can get my smiley face back on, these alignment and broken blade issues really have me pithed off.
Started with freezing rain, sand truck just went bye. Suppose to be in the 40's for 3 days. Rain Sunday.
33° and a nice sunrise to the start of a hopefully productive day. Not opening the store this morning; treating ourselves to the full holiday weekend. A decision that was solidified when we saw that it was to be the only decent day to do our own stuff. :)
Forecast is 100% rain tomorrow, so today's list is an ambitious one.
Low of 71, high in the mid 80's. No rain.
Quote from: Spike60 on November 26, 2022, 07:04:34 AM
33° and a nice sunrise to the start of a hopefully productive day. Not opening the store this morning; treating ourselves to the full holiday weekend. A decision that was solidified when we saw that it was to be the only decent day to do our own stuff. :)
Forecast is 100% rain tomorrow, so today's list is an ambitious one.
Well Bob, if you need a break, come on by the mill. I should be down there trying to get it tuned back up from late morning until at least mid-afternoon. We already have blue skies so that is an improvement over yesterday where it drizzled off and on at the mill all afternoon but there was no rain just a 1/2 mile away. Lucky I guess. They say we might hit 50 today. 8)
40F here and the snow slid off the main porch. 8)
Single digits a few days ago to 54° and sunny today. Back below freezing to more normal temps starting tmrw.
Tonight after the sun set behind the Masardis hills.
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Started out with a strong wind at about 34° this morning.
Wind stopped around noon and the temp went up to 42. Lots and lots of sun all day.
35° this AM and no rain yet. Forecast is 100%, but it looks like a late morning arrival.
Hit 55° yesterday. Got most of my list done. Thought about driving over Tom, but one of my neighbors came walking through the woods and we BS'ed for a good while and that was my break. :)
That is one beautiful sunset SD!
48F today, the rain hasn't arrived yet, suppose to be tonight. Cooling off to about 10F tomorrow night and rain again Wednesday-Thursday in the 40's.
High 40's today. Then the rain came at 5pm.
Rain is done and 38°.
Looks like another mild day in the mid 40's but the wind is whipping up around 25mph. We had one last bip of rain at 6am, now clear skies. I do love waking up in the morning and seeing the shop temp is 62°. That's huge, but I know it won't last. The low last night was only 42 and when it's more like 15 I will need a hotter fire, more wood, jus to stay in the mid 50's. Wood is something I am a bit short on this year.
WOuld be a great day to head right to the mill, but we have the monthly chiro tune-up today, so I loose half the day at least and I have epoxy to get poured.
Still, pretty good weather after all the rain we got yesterday.
Started out feeling warm with a hard wind.
Then around noon it felt much cooler, with a hard wind.
Notice the cooler word and not cold.
Seemed very strange to have the wind blow this hard and still not feel cold.
We had showers all day yesterday and stayed around 34F and just before dark a snow squall and cooled down to 24F over night, not as cold as the guessers said.
27° here this AM. And speaking of wind, forecast is for some nasty 40mph wind gusts tomorrow and tomorrow night. (along with some rain)
Falls into the "better toss a saw in the truck" category with so much of the dead ash still waiting to fall. In fact, had to clear a small 5" tree across the road Sat morning. Never mess with anything big, (or involving wires), but around here it's not uncommon to have to cut your way through a small mess.
Only bottomed out here at 29 overnight, but won't break 40 today. You got my attention about Wednesday so I looked. Seems like we also have another inch of rain coming with it, but the late afternoon temp should break 50. Mixed blessing. Hopefully no lasting damage, I have to travel a bit on Thursday.
I pretty much always have a saw, gas, and oil in the truck box, and yeah, might need it wednesday. I've got a couple of high hangers up in the canopy I have not ben able to pull down. Hopefully they will come down with no damage. That south wind they are calling for may not help. We get what we get. Yesterday wasn't bad though.
Rain this morning, now it's all white coming down. 3" so far, calling for possibly 10" more. Ahead of schedule for snowfall thats for sure.
61° right now and headed to a low of 51° tonight with a good chance of rain through tomorrow morning. Should see 65° tomorrow afternoon, starting to get a little chilly for me.
12F this morning, expecting rain later today. That will be a mess on frigid surfaces, like roads. ::)
Looks like rain on the weekend to.
Low was 29 last night, warming today up to near 50 with a lot of rain. Radar show the rain about 45 minutes away now. It's already 35 out. It's 57 in the shop before I restoke the fire, it will warm up quick. Time to get to work.
Was able to log yesterday and I stayed at it till dark because here we are with rain again today and lots of it. Always hard this time of year. To early to freeze and to cool to dry up much. And every day the mail lady brings another pile of bills while the skidders stay parked. Dang it all.
50° yesterday. dropped to 31° by 5 pm, 18° this am.
I hope everyone in MS and Arkansas is ok today after all the tornados that passed through there yesterday.
Jim Rogers
Almost 50° with a hard rain and hard wind to match. below freezing in the morning!!!!!
8-12" of snow but the 30-50mph wind gusts have relocated it all. Visibility has been near zero most of the afternoon, oddly enough zero is also the windchill factor as well.
Lost power for an hour.
Could have been out all night.
But the night is not over yet!!
The wind, the wind, the wind.
So, about that wind. Didn't seem too bad at the store all day. But going home over the reservoir it was ripping. When I was in the middle of the dividing weir, it smacked the Jeep pretty good. Rain was blowing perfectly horizontal across the windshield. :)
Did run into a downed tree on the way home; small ash again. Two other guys were just finishing clearing the road. Barely got out of the Jeep and that was it. These ash trees are kind iof "self limbing". They hit the road and they pretty much explode.
40F high winds and heavy rain. The rain is horizontal and coming into the porch through the screens and all the way to the house wall. Usually rain does not do that unless it's high wind and horizontal rain. I looked out there with the light on and everything is watered down good. :D Took the rain gauge in 3 weeks ago, but it's got to be a 2"er for sure.
33F now, no wind, stars are out.
I have 32° and no wind.
Power stayed on, somehow.
Finally getting some real rain down here. Supposed to get 1-3" through Monday morning. Blizzard up the hill - coming down hard and VERY windy. The weather guessers are saying from 2 to 5 feet of accumulation at my cabin project through Monday. I-80 is currently open in both directions. The speed the vehicle are going it doesn't look like there are chain controls!
Got up this morning in the dark and the ground was white. That wasn't in the forecast. Headed for VT as the dawn was breaking and the temp dropped a little as we got north then headed east into VT and when we started to climb over the hill the snow was coming down steady, but I didn't see any trcuks in the 'chaining up area' so I figured we were good. ;D Halfway up, I did see a state plow coming down and that puckered me up. Lots of dry blowing snow on the road. AT the top of the pass (both passes we crossed actually) it was 27° and the wind was a whippin' for all get out.
It snowed at the cemetery during the funeral and the wind only gave up for about 2 minutes, otherwise about 30 mph the whole time. Same deal coming home. I never really felt warm today except in the truck. I should have brought a winter coat like the sensible folks.
The weather here at home was clear, cold and windy. Gusts up around 30 here too. Time to go look and see what is coming for tomorrow.
It was 22F this morning and sunny. So went for a walk in the woodlot and saw a friendly moose trot off down a trail. Hard to see a moose, their frame is narrower than a cow for sure. You often just see legs because of light colored fur down there, the rest of the body is dark fur and blends in with the fir trees. Dee fur in dee fir! ;D
Rain started at 9 this morning. Rained all day. 50° :o :o
Rained sideways for 12 hours here and the neighbor's hired hand was cutting firewood in it too, and another neighbor came over to get firewood and loaded in the sideways rain. Not just thrown on, but stacked tight on the pick up. I don't ever need firewood that bad. :D
We had that sideway rain too. :o And the wind. Well, that's why the side way rain.
Only last power for one hour!! Power went out and I knew that was it for the night. An hour later it came back on. :o
I have 30° now after a nice warm day yesterday.
The brook is high and the field that I haul the wood across is wet. Which is normal for the amount of rain we have been getting.
It will stiffen up here soon. ;D
The brook is high.
It's 34F the last I checked, but was also falling so might be 32F now. Suppose to be mild all next week 30's and 40's. Rain Tuesday-Wednesday with 40's next 4 days.
Rained pretty good here yesterday too, but not like it sounds you fellas had. A little windy at times too with 30MPH gusts, but most of the wind came after the rain stopped in the evening. I worked in the shop all day and only went out to help a neighbor lady who lost power. Everybody else had a blip, but her place popped the pole breaker out at the road. I checked everything else and relayed the info to the power co. but it still took them 4 hours to show up and just reset the breaker. I should get a hot stick. ;D
The days have been cooler 30-40, and most nights dipping in the 20's.
So far my new shop stove is a winner. When I get up in the morning, the temp is between 57 and 62 out there. One day it was 52 but that was operator error setting up the overnight burn. ;DThis morning it's 32° outside and 59.2 in the shop. Now I am just waiting to see what happens when we hit the cold weather. It used to take an hour to get the building to move up the first couple of degrees in the morning, but with this stove I can do that in 15 minutes and have it up to or over 70 before noon if I'm not careful. That is, so far. Colder weather will tell the tale.
Supposed to hit a high of 38 today with increasing clouds, but we will see.
Yesterday was fairly nice but cool all day and overcast. Another shop day just because I was rolling along and have lots to do. Low of 26 and an high of just 40.
Today looking at clearer skies except for the second half of the day, high should hit just a tad over 40. Low was 21 last night. Shop stove still hanging in well, the wood supply, not so much.
Time to get back at it.
3:00 pm yesterday it showed 42F on the porch. Suppose to get rain today and tomorrow and mid 40's. It's 34F this morning.
50° today. :o
And rain on the way.
One of these days it will be snow.
It touched 50 here today, but I didn't realize it or feel it. It rained steady, sometimes hard all day. Nasty at any temp really. Tonight, and this is weird, the temp will stay flat at between 46 and 49 until the morning when it will climb to 52 or so for the day high. More rain right through until tomorrow afternoon.
I have the shop stove on low idle and it is 64° out there now, so I'm happy.
We got over 1.5" of rain yesterday and it rained through the night and we have .4" today so far with a little break in the action at the moment. Temp stayed over 50 all night and is 52 now. Shop temp is 65° before I go out and tend the stove. :)
At dusk we will begin a very slow tapered roll off in temp down to somewhere in the 30's by Thursday evening, then normal with highs in the high 30's and lows in the high 20's.
Another shop day, but warmer.
Was dry here Tuesday, rain began this morning before daylight and rained hard at times because the gravel is super saturated in the driveway. No rain gauge up now to know how much. The neighbor's trucker and loader man were loading treelength aspen today in the rain. Next door in the other direction they have been moving taters for the last 3 days working until 8:00 pm, long days. Lots of produce and forest products been going down the road this fall to market. Gotta have Christmas money. ;)
A light rain all day and 46°.
44° at just about 9:30pm.
Had a thunder shower about an hour ago.
Not too common in Dec.
Bizarre. It hit 56 here today and I let the house stove die out and cleaned it out tonight. But the wife complained it was getting 'chilly' so I fired it back up after dinner, but not too much. In the shop I burned sawdust for a good part of the day to get rid of it. High maintenance, but I wanted to empty that dust collector bag. Dust doesn't burn easy like planer chips, but I got rid of a bunch. Shop temps held in the high 60's all day without much help.
Tomorrow only mid 40's :D, then it starts cooling again. The December roller coaster.
We had -34 C last night. This morning we had a brisk breeze with it. Feels like -50. Forcast is -8 tomorrows high.
I was gonna say you are a better man than me, but I don't know you that well. ;D I will say without a doubt, that you are a tougher man than me. :D
We've got the same temps here, RJ. Don't forget to plug in your vehicle.
46F this morning and still raining, but not as hard as it did for most of the night. It will probably taper off by daylight. I noticed the small creek coming down off the hills between farm fields had breached it's banks and I'm not surprised if it jumped the main road in the night with that rain. I know the ditch was full and a few inches from the pavement. I bet the road is covered in woody debris this morning.
I have 44° this morning.
I have determined trying to run the sawmill in freezing rain really isn't worth it, even if you had the afternoon off. Just in case anyone wondered. ::)
22F this morning and a stiff NW wind coming off the glaciers. ;D
Andries i believe you have had worse weather then we have so far this fall.
Real easy to see the snow shoe hares in the woods now after all the monsoon rains took the little bit of snow off we had. Snow white hares and brown background. ;D
Enjoy what you've got going, eventually It all averages out rj
14F this morning, breezy, stars are out. ;D
I have 18° and will not get above freezing today.
That will tighten up that wet hole I am cutting in.
Currently a light rain here (in the valley) with howling winds. Supposed to get 1 to 1.5" today. Heavy snow coming down up the hill at the cabin project. Expecting up to 5 feet by tomorrow morning. We'll see if the weather guesser get it right this time.
Do people live year round at cabin level? I would think it would be a tough existence.
Take a look at this:
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See the arrow for Blue Canyon? I'm just below the back side of the top of that steep peak just to the right. I don't plan on year-rounding it up there! I like to look at and play in the snow but don't really want to live it! There are a lot of year-rounders as far up as Kingvale. Then it's mostly ski cabins above that. They are cabins that are A-frame with A-frame covered walkways that become tunnels in the winter. My property is at 5,674, IIRC, 200' higher than I80, but at the base of a very steep ridge. I think that causes a very cold micro climate from the rising air. I get extra snow - more like being at 6,000 foot elevation.
I know Wrangler Star has been blowing snow in Oregon for the last 3 days with 1-2+ feet each day. :D He's near Fuji Mountain.
It's still light out here so you can take a look at the cameras up in the Sierras at the storm blowing through right now:
CalTrans Traffic Cameras (https://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/iframemap.htm)
The camera at Emigrant Gap (Whitmore Grade) is one I post stills of over the winter and is ~6 miles from my exit (Yuba Gap). Cisco Grove has been broken for quite some time which is unfortunate as it has very similar weather to my property. Soda Springs is used by the News stations during their evening broadcasts.
10F this morning and clear, that'll stick your hairs to your chest. :D
I have 12°.
At least the wind is not blowing. ;D
Well winter, I think is finally here. I say that not because of the calendar but because of the weather trend in the past week. Highs are hitting just low 30's and the lows are in the 20's or lower. Everything will continue to drop more, of course, but this puts us into the situation where the wood stoves have to perform properly. So far today a low of 27 and a high of 30.
I woke to a very thin coat of white on the ground and they are calling for 3-7" ending tomorrow morning around dawn. Maybe I'll put the plow on and do a little more pre-snow cleanup because I really haven't done any yet. ;D
The big winner for me is the new shop stove. THIS time, I made a good choice. With temps below freezing all the time now I can see how it really works against the cold challenge and it is doing quite well. Last night I filled the stove around 9:30 and it was nearly out, the shop temp was about 56°. Within an hour it came up to 59.5 and stayed there for another 2 hours before I went to bed. This morning at 7:30 it was 54.9 and at 8:30 it is 54.6, so now dropping slowly. Watching all this from the comfort of my desk takes a lot of guesswork out and I can tweak it better as I learn the stove. I can get that back up to 65° in about 25-45 minutes for the finishing work I will be doing today. So that, for me, is as good as it gets. (The previous stove would take a couple of hours to bring that temp back up, so I had to build that into my work plan. Also the temp drop over night would be a good deal more. Last year, given the same temps, it would have been around 50 in the morning.)
Anyway, the snow is coming in bands, so I have time to decide the 'level of response' I will use. The weekenders up here are already panicking and will head out of town earlier than normal, or plan to stay and 'work from home' tomorrow. :D All my associates will have the first round of stories about emergency calls for plowing or tow outs in the coming days. Always a source of bemusement to me, and them. :) For the locals, it's just another inconvenience and more work. Hopefully, it's a big nothing.
Not sure if this system will make it to Cfarm and SD, but it's moving in that general direction and I think they deserve to share in the joy. ;D
As my wife said when I was getting my first cup of coffee "Look, It's snowing. Isn't it @#$%^ pretty!" :D
That storm suppose to hit the lower tip of Maine, down by NH. But we will see.
The joy will be here sometime.
I always enjoy looking at the highs and lows. Back in '66 it was 60°.
I80 closed at Applegate to the Nevada state line. No estimated time to reopen - whiteout conditions currently. Check out the Caltrans link above for video.
a light rain here but really just huge drops few and far between.
Well got got about 4-5 inches but a lot of it melted before it could accumulate. Mid afternoon was when it started to really collect, but it snowed all day. Somebody plowed the house driveway for me :) and I'm not sure if I will plow out the shop. Gonna stay cold for a few days, no melting expected. It's 27° now with a predicted high of around 32 or so today.
I have a lot to do this week and not much time to mess with snow.
Our first snow this morning
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Frost crystals in the air, it must be cold or something. Was 8 this morning. I think this is what is going to take place for 2 days. Kinda of a flurry/frost in the air thing. ;D
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Ice in the river and the small ponds are froze over.
Never got over 30° here today and it was supposed to be clear skies, but around noon it was solid overcast and started snowing again. But just for a while. Not a lot of fun for me at the mill today. Supposed to be a little warmer tomorrow, high of 35°, but I'll believe it when I see it. Also supposed to be clear.
Ponds have skim ice that hangs until a warm day, then thins out. A little early for icing in here, but there are enough frozen puddles to break you neck on. Mud is half frozen and not a lot of fun to work with.
warmer and light rain and drizzle off and on. still 51°
Warmed into the 20's and stayed steady all night. Was 9F yesterday morning and still only 14F by noon. But the afternoon sun kicked in. Suppose to be milder here for a couple days. Might be a mix tomorrow. ::)
36 with a little bit of rain now. Supposed to be low 50s with a little more rain later. I put a large walnut log on the mill yesterday, so today's project is to make that log into random width 6/4 boards and maybe a mantel in the middle somewhere. The mill is under roof.
16° this morning at daybreak and clear skies, no wind. I really don't want to mill this morning, but at least the mud will be firmer, I hope.
Enjoy that walnut Bill!
Its gonna be a mess started to snow last night and still snowing lasting into Thurseday 12 to 18 inch 30 mph wind >:( :snowball: :snowball:
Good thing my tractor has a cab and heater
Haven't had any snow here and none predicted.Just gloomy sky and rain.Sun came out today for awhile,first time in a week.Short days are the hardest for me to take.
A little snow overnight, some wind and 28F. Suppose to rise into the 30's.
Much rain, the weather gal says 5"-6". :o
We lost power about 4am so the genny is running. ;D
That's a lot of rain in a hurry. Last time we had rain come that fast every basement was a swimming pool, even a ridge top one. :D But those were old farm houses, not modern basement with good drainage types. We've probably had 12" rain this fall, dry basement.
We just regained power and the tornado threat seems to have passed us but the rain will remain throughout the day as these two weather fronts pass us. The temp will start dropping mid afternoon from the 60's to 40° tonight.
I had planned to go to the camp to burn off some brush piles from the fall. The Trans-Canada Hwy is closed down east of Kenora and the west highway was just reopened due to jackknifed semi trucks. Rain and snow alternating and lasting all day will probably keep things kind of messy for a few days. It's not too cold but that just makes the mess worse.
Been light rain showers this afternoon and upper 30's, wind has settled down some. Neighbor is cutting wood, seems to like cutting wood in nasty weather. :D
The weather system has now passed us leaving 9" of rainfall in some locations. :o
I had trouble tipping my garbage can over to dump the collected water.
Heavy rain here on the NC coast today.
Jim Rogers
Near 40F here now, partly sunny.
It's still snowing in southern Manitoba.
Me: "it's sure coming down."
Father-in-law: "yep, it would look funny if it was going up!" 😖
17 inch and still in a blizzzzard warning :snowball:
Quote from: Andries on December 15, 2022, 12:02:52 PMFather-in-law: "yep, it would look funny if it was going up!" 😖
Not uncommon to see it going by.
Quote from: goose63 on December 15, 2022, 04:02:16 PM17 inch and still in a blizzzzard warning
Got your tractor with snowblower plugged in Goose?
Weather guessers are saying we'll have snowfall until Tuesday next week. ❄️❄️❄️
@Andries (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=9307) it is p;uged in and the tank is full of #1 fuel :snowball: :snowball: :new_year:
Neighbor: Starting to snow.😩
Me: Hope it keeps up.😊
Neighbor: Are you crazy?😡
Me: Then it won't come down!!😏
We're around 14" for the last couple of days. The temperature is really mild, right around freezing, so the snow is wet and HEAVY! I plow with my skid steer and I think you'd really have to beat on a pickup plow if you waited and tried to do it all at once.
30F here, no snow, had a passing snow squall yesterday. Suppose to get hit with snow Saturday afternoon into Sunday.
Weird storm this time. They were saying 'up to 12' but there was a whole bunch of scientific mumbo jumbo in there that meant it could be mostly rain, or half and half, or mostly snow. Well it commenced to snowing steady last evening and built up fairly fast, but the air temp stayed between 31.7 and 34.7 all night, turned to all rain at some point and we have a sloppy mess at day break with a lot of water under the snow. Looks like about 2" of snow but you can see the water under it. I am going to have to plow it because you know what will happen when the temp drops again. ;D I hope the ground is still frozen or I will have a bunch of mud to deal with and fix it the spring...again.
I just plowed 3 inches of standing slushies from my driveway. A mixture of snow, rain, and sleet the last 24 hours.
Getting the same down this way. All 3 at once. Temp has been a steady 34° for the last 8 hours.
Looking at the weather app I can expect the same mixed mess here to I think. I hate wet snow like the rest of ya. I'd rather have dry snow all week long over having 2 days of wet stuff. :D
The centre of Canada is totally used to dry snow, and we've come to expect it.
But this stuff from an 'enhanced' Colorado low is a pain. It's heavy, sticky and is forecast to continue to Sunday. It's not much in depth, but it alternates from rain to sleet, then snow.
Cement from the sky - great!
For the non-glaciated folks, one inch of rain equals ten inches of dry fluffy powder. ❄️ ❄️
We are up to 27 inch and still snowing
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Some of the drifts were so hard I had to brake them up with the bucketfirst :o :snowball: :new_year:
Old Bernstein will be on the grader tomorrow Goose. He's already been out on the back rural roads 2 days ago plowing with the grader. It was wet stuff he said, didn't even know where the road was most of the time. Go by feel, tree lines and corn stubble. :D
Mama Nature is making layer cakes (rain, snow, sleet, repeat) up here too goose, however we're getting a lot less than you. 7"?
Don't feel like you're the only one playing in our "winter wonderland"ok?
:christmas:
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Swampdonkey, does Old Bernstein look like this when he's at work?
Well it was windy last night but calm and sunny today -13C same for tomorrow.
Got 4 timbers to cut into 8x8, they are just over that, this is for my 2nd bent for the timberframed firewood processing shed.
Not in a grader and not when wet. :D
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33F this morning and still dry here, a light wind.
33 here too. We got 2" of rain yesterday along with the snow and slop. Finally stopped late in the evening and just one burst at about 2am, but the temp stayed just over freezing. Today is supposed to be just over the freezing mark all day and clear. I hope this water soaks in. Right now I don't dare shovel a path the the shop across my lawn because it will be quite the mess and last until May.
Early winter does come with it's trials. ;D
A kinda of a wet snow. And it's still coming. Water is not on the bottom of it.
Looks like snow until 4 today.
have about 10 inches. Got a path for the dog. ;D
Goose I think you guys out in ND took the brunt of this one😬
Been snowing on the Masardis hills in eastern Maine, I can see from home here. We haven't had a snow flake. It often will snow up along there all day and we never get none here.
Can see the Maine snow line. Them white fields are Maine. Brown and dry here. :D
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We got dumped on with heavy snow over the last 24hrs. Measured a foot and a 1/2 out in the open. There is 2' in places. Had to fire up the portable generator a couple times till the power came back on this afternoon. Another one in the works for next weekend.
Let the fun begin.
barbender we did and now its 12 below :snowball:
Near as I can tell only around 2" so far, still snowing though. :)
Bernstein plowing another 12" for ya Goose. ;D
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There are times when I miss living in northern New York in the winter. Then I sober up and am glad I moved to North Carolina in 1999!🤣 Seriously though, it's supposed to get cold (for us) this week. Possibly low teens by Christmas day. Chance of snow on Thursday night into Friday. Right now it's 31° and sunny.
Then there's me, I've never wanted to move south. :D
Minus 1 up here at the cabin, my sons wanted to come up and go hunting.
I hate these cold fronts. Only gonna be 65 today in central Florida. Warming up to 72 tomorrow.....
Well Troy that's chilly for where you are, all right.
But think of the big bucks you're saving by not having the air-conditioner running. 😉
Andries, I can only imagine how people deal with the cold weather. I've always lived in warmer climates and when I see the pictures you guys post it is mind boggling to me. Only been in snow a dozen times or so, never did learn to like it. Stay warm and safe, keep the pictures coming!
Day 3 and still snowing, but not a heavy 'build up the inches' snow. Maybe 6" so far. Definitely no foot of snow in front of the door here. I think it is wet on the bottom to. Been 30-32 F for 3 days. It melts on the porch floor. On the main porch the snow creeps in this mild weather and rolls like a jelly roll as it over hangs. Don't be under it when it lets go. :D
21° and clear this morning. We don't usually get this cold until mid January.
Just finished plowing, looks more like 10" of snow, still some light stuff falling.
35° here.
The 21° in NC that Patrick is reporting reminds me of talking to a guy when I was in Florida 8 years ago. The guy says "where you from" I replied "Nova Scotia" he says "sound cold!" so I asked him where he was from and he says "North Carolina" to which I replied "NORTH Carolina now that sound cold!".
Is that New Brunswick, Canada or New Brunswick, Hoth? Looks bleak and very, very cold. Toward the end of the first video, I thought I saw a one armed wampa in the woods off to the right.
That's out in Walcott, North Dakota which is SW of Fargo I believe. He lives off hwy 18 near the Sheyenne River. I know where his place is on Google Earth. Basically a straight shoot west of Walcott. There's a public hiking trail right up along his gardens.
Weather man says we're getting more from the back door in this storm. She ain't done yet. It's 30F here. I hear them say record cold in the NE on the US radio. Where is this record cold? Sure ain't -30F we had 40 years ago. :D
Light snow on the ground here.Supposed to get blue cold on Friday.
-20C here at the moment, truck won't start ::) It is supposed to be around freezing for Christmas day.
Day 4 of snow, but it is very light the last 2 days and not much accumulation. 31F this morning. A little breezier today, move it around some and knock snow off trees maybe. ;D
Day before Christmas around '73 (close enough) we had 2 feet of snow and the wind came up and the temp dropped to -35F. You could walk Christmas day on hard wind driven snow drifts without dropping through. Until I see that here in December, there ain't no 'news worthy' record breakers. :D
Going to be mild here for a few more days, rain Friday into Saturday morning.
Still no sign of this 'record setting cold in the NE' they harp on. ::)
Supposed to maybe get between 1 and 6 inches of snow thursday. That's about as good of a forecast as they can make. Then it will get down to -6. Will be cold for Christmas and should have some snow on the ground for a white Christmas.
It was 43° earlier today and we had freezing rain falling that then switched to light (normal) drizzle barely wetting the pavement. I had a firewood rack I accidentally turned over and needed to set up in a more stable manner, well, that didn't happen and now the wood is all wet too. At least it's only for my backyard fire pit and I'm not depending on it for heat. I've started trading some for eggs as some folks we know sell the extras from their chickens. Won't be long before I have to give them a whole face cord just for a dozen.
Single digit temps currently and snow. Forecast is for blizzard conditions thru Sunday. Winds 50-60mph, highs around zero and 30-50 inches of snowfall is expected. Going to be an ugly week UP here.
Unusual forecast for for Thu-Fri. From 1-2 inches rain in the 50's to single digits in the overnight. Don't see that swing in temp without plenty of wind, so it will be entertaining to say the least. They are bringing out a seldom used term "flash freeze", and just walking around on Christmas eve could be an adventure. Still have 5" of frozen snow on the ground from last week's snow/rain mix, so drainage/run off will cause plenty of icy spots on the roads.
Family might have to wait a day for my Cajun Shrimp Etouffee. :)
Yeah Bob, this one doesn't look like much fun. After you mentioned it yesterday I came home and looked into it more. It's very confusing and not too comforting. I just hope the power stays on.
The timing is fairly good because by the time it's a problem, you will be retired and not have to worry about it as much. 8) 8)
One of the things I enjoy is when we get that heavy weather I don't have to get up extra early just to make it into work on time anymore. Now I just wait until it done and take care of my own issues.
Best of luck with the big changes!
First major winter weather of the year and it's landing squarely on my shift at work. Tomorrow may be a long day and coming home Friday morning may be fun. I was going to take my flatbed to work so I can take an old freezer in to give to a scrapper/coworker. Well, that's not going to happen. I will be taking my nice, comfortable, warm, 4wd truck to work.
-25C (-13F for youse guys) this morning which for us is DanG cold. Not even going to try starting the truck. Weatherman is predicting around freezing for Christmas day and mild next week. I really don't like winter.
Been hovering around 30F here day and night the last few days, not much for sun.
28 now for the high. - 1 for a high tomorrow. the snow/sleet is filament like.
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Wow, that's some funky sleet you got there Doc. Must've blown in from the left coast or CO where they smoke that funny stuff. :D
Man Spike called it on this thing coming in, whatever it is. My phone has been blowing up all afternoon with warnings and bulletins covering the next 3 days. Looks like the whole bloody country is getting clobbered all at the same time. All four corners and in between them. Happy solstice.
It could be an interesting few days, looks like. It looks to be messing up a lot of holiday plans too. Glad we don't have any.
You're right about the warnings Tom. Looks like they're dragging out everything but a heat advisory. :) The flood watch will be worse in areas with ramaining snow from that last storm, which was pretty dependant on elevation. I can walk on that 5" I still have without breaking through. Higher up from me is over a foot. The sub zero wind chills for tomorrow night could be accompanied by some likely power failures around town as well. When you're driving around, all ya gotta do is look up, and it's, "That tree's leaning, that other one doesn't look to good." We live in a forest. :)
As far as the store/retirement goes, we've traditionally closed for the Holiday week beginning with the 24th till after New Year anyway. In the early years we be a couple of "Do-Bees", (remember Romper Room lol), and open up for a weather emergency such as this. But then we realized that it wasn't a crime to put families ahead of customers for one week out of the year. :)
19F this morning, dropped 5 degrees from earlier. Cloudy. Still calling for rain Friday night.
I think our weather guessers have us around the same forecast as Spike60 and Old Greenhorn. I'm on the Highway Crew and we have a lot of dirt roads in my town, and most have frost in them. When the rain comes, they will glaze over and we'll have to sand and stone them. Then there is the pavement, it should have enough temp to not freeze at first....but, we'll need to get a sand salt treatment on it asap when the rain ends Fri. Then hit the stupid dirt roads AGAIN. Add to that being 1 guy, and 1 big truck down, and short a 1ton, oh yeah the boss is out after hip surgery, so now I'm in charge. The stress meter is pegged, and we're still a day away!
I think I'm gonna switch careers. Is Weatherman School next to Clown College? Either one seems like a better plan
Feels like -42 with 28mph wind that is nasty
Well, it was likely a mistake, but I turned on the weather channel this morning to get an overall picture of the continental systems in play. They don't cover much about Canada which would be helpful. Boy they are working this thing up! I shouldn't be surprised, that's what they do. ;D
But yeah, there is some severe weather condx out there with deep cold. What they are calling for here still has me confused with all the changes but the first should start as rain, which is odd because we have barely gotten above 32 for the last 6 or more days and the ground is frozen on top. As Bob said, that slop from last week is frozen hard. But they say rain and it should freeze on contact, then very high winds later in the days. So I am picturing another ice storm setup and massive power outages. They also have a flood watch and a wind advisory working for us. Temps will warm through the day and overnight, then head down hill and get real chilly for about a week.
One thing is for sure, Bob picked the right day to retire. :D 8) 8)
Weather is very nasty. I feel bad for the livestock.
Heavy rain at the coast of NC right now. And my wife is on her weekly run to the store for groceries. Today is senior discount day. Hopefully we won't have to go out again until next week. They are predicting 27 degrees for a low around here overnight. That is cold for NC.
Jim Rogers
The old crows enjoying the day and ::) looking for their handouts. ;D
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The blue jay and another crow are watching a squirrel with his peanuts. The crow will pursue it hopping limb to limb behind the squirrel. That little red squirrel just legs'r for deer life. :D
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I leave a handful of peanuts out by the woodpile every day, I think the blue jay gets them all some days. ;D
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pics out the window on our way to movie Puss in Boots. low last pm was -1, but at 10 am this was on down to -9. a bit of wind. plan to try tossing the boiling water in the air. will prob. get myself all wet and then it will freeze.
I tried it once, Doc. I got me and my watching children with hot water when it didn't flash. My wife was quite unimpressed🤦♂️🤦♂️😂
well it is already up to -2 so I should hurry! :snowball:
-5° this morning with 6" of new snow, around 12" in last 2 days. Supposed to really ramp up this afternoon thru Sunday with anywhere between 35 and 50 inches of snow predicted depending on who you believe. Winds are supposed to gust as high at 65mph so that will just be lovely.
It was odd yesterday, when we had a high of about -5° but with cloud cover. Usually when we get these bitter cold spells, the sky is crystal clear. Our typical pattern is warm up, 20° to 30° highs, get snow and then an artic blast. So usually I am out plowing snow in my open cab skid steer in -10° weather🥶
I felt bad the guy across the road from my lakeshore rental place was snowblowing on his open tractor with 30mph winds coming straight from Canada. He had more snow on him and the tractor than was on the ground to begin with. So I cranked the heat and radio in the skid steer and took my jacket off and went to work. Haha
Love it!
You sympathetic soul, did you quote the "I feel your pain" line as you went by? 😂😂🥶😁😁
Wrangler Star runs a live stream most any storm out his way in Oregon. He plows a lot of neighbors for free in his tracked cat with high flow blower. He's not that experienced in such machines and some days it shows. Good for a laugh sometimes. This winter he had to relearn what he forgot last winter on how to run the blower. :D :D
Me, I'm just a poor man with a walk behind. :D :D Well, I do have dibs on a Kabota and blower, but unless it is wet heavy froze stuff, I prefer the exercise. I even snow scoop the driveway sometimes if a small storm. It's no small driveway, goes 3 directions. :D ;)
Between the 2 farms i plow nearly 1 mile of driveway, and about 2 acres worth of barnyard, truck turnarounds, hay stacks, etc. Then AirBnB house is two driveways and hill.
Walk behind snow blower or scoop would be impossible. Expecially when it often shows steady for a week UP here.
Donk, quit viewing Wranglerstar's videos. It only encourages him😂
Snow turning to rain turning to ice for Christmas eve.
No worries, old man's old Kubota is chained all around with a scoop and spread sander from "barbender" country.
Works slicker'n a trout.
Winch for just in case.
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Just started snowing here in Leyden Ma. don't know how long it'll last before the rain.
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Between the 2 farms i plow nearly 1 mile of driveway, and about 2 acres worth of barnyard, truck turnarounds, hay stacks, etc. Then AirBnB house is two driveways and hill.
Walk behind snow blower or scoop would be impossible. Expecially when it often shows steady for a week UP here.
I wouldn't wish a walk behind on a man with all that going on. Trust me on that. :D :D That day will come when the scale of operations will shrink a bit, I'm sure. But the snow will be relentless, big operation or small. :D ;)
And no I don't use snow scoop in 12" of snow. :D I said small accum stuff. We get a lot of 2-4" nuisance storms I call them. ;) I don't want you to think I have a town house with a 50 foot drive way. :D I'm out in the boonies in the middle of a potato field. Three yards in front of buildings to clean. ;D The one good thing is all the roofs shed snow off to the sides and not over and down in front of a door.
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Donk, quit viewing Wranglerstar's videos. It only encourages him
He gets no encouragement from me other than I'll give the man credit now and again for getting something right, by leaving a comment. A man needs a kind word now and again. ;D
Is it a case of a blind mouse stumbling across a piece of cheese every now and again?😂
43F right now.Supposed to be around 3F all day tomorrow with high winds.Probably lose power,our power line right of ways are a mess.Coyotes must be sensing something.Went out on the back porch and have never heard so many howling.
For now the scale of operations is continually growing. Trying to buy the farm across the road currently. Have 2 young boys that if they have interest in the cattle business will have a pretty good start at it someday. If not ill keep going until I croak. Haha
Did not have internet for a while.
woodroe posted about it. Worse snow to blow I have seen since living here for 20 years. I have about 3-4 inches of kinda packed down snow in the driveway. But the 50° temp and about 2-3 inches of rain will make that disappear in the driveway. Then a flash freeze.
Wife just read me a quote....."to all you whiners out there asking for a white Christmas, Jack Frost just said....Hold my beer..."
Scott B.
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Is it a case of a blind mouse stumbling across a piece of cheese every now and again?
I shoulda pointed out the way his new shop was oriented and the slopes overhang the doors, that that should be avoided from the get go in the design. He's out in the middle of a darn field, swing the darn thing around and put the doors under the /\. Mind boggling to me, and even worst that the builder didn't nudge him that way. He's in deep snow country. :D What did Plato say? smiley_headscratch "By the omission of wisdom, the guardians shall accept blindly whatever they are told and will be wholly molded by tales." :D
Convoys of electric line trucks moving through town yesterday.
Last weekends storm was just a warm up for things to come.
Heavy rain and wind on tap for today.
Gonna be a mess with a hard freeze when its over..
Generator is gassed up and topping off 6 gal. water jugs now.
Yes on gas. I am not going to be standing in line Christmas day at Cumberland Farms to get gas.
That is the only place open in town on that day.
We have had a weird week. Some relatively boring tropical air over the country. But it's brewed up lots of random thunderstorms and squalls. One parked itself a few miles South of us and deluged a small area for most of the day. Not sure if they have the roads open yet...
So not cold, just warm, wet and unpredictable. ::)
Forecast for Christmas is looking OK, maybe 22 C, but generally fine.
40° out now and the 2" of snow is mostly gone. But it's raining the dickins out it washed all the snow of the car so we're ok for a 10 o-clock app.
Just starting here. I went out on the end of our point with a handheld anemometer. Lowest I saw was 24.0 mph and highest gust 34.9, but looks like it's just starting to build.
It's very unusual to see waves this far apart rolling into the cove.
Temperature 42 but dropping fast.
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Rain has started here, with a gusty SE wind.
2F here with-25 wind chill .Now I have to deal with this tree across my driveway.Not looking forward to it.Coat of ice everywhere.
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About 12:30 PM the weather changed from what seemed like a Spring day to snowing sideways.
I watched the thermometer actually dropping, and in 4 minutes the temperature dropped from 45° to 34°, then settled in at 33°.
The Sherriff put out driving restrictions, no unnecessary driving through Sunday.
Many here don't have power, just lucky we do!
It's a cold mess everywhere! It's warmer at 0 now but 28 mph and above winds are brutal. Talked to a guy that got done with a land auction in Indiana and he just got to Colorado and he said it was a horror story. Ground and air to get back. Said he was lucky relatives in Chicago got him. No rentals
I have 50°. Raining hard and same with the wind.
Flash freeze tonight.
minus 5 here. Thats cold for us even in late Dec.
I got home at 1pm. Just went out,4pm to check the mail again. Should be here before noon. I am shocked by the amount of snow that has melted in 3 hours. 50° and water-soaked snow and a hard wind makes a difference. Driveway is down to dirt again.
That snow we had was one I have never seen here for 20 years. left about 4 inches of packed down snow in the driveway. Heading to the stepson tomorrow. I betcha hardly any snow there, about ½ hour from me.
Rain isn't that heavy yet here, more wind than anything. 36F right now and climbing. Have had power flicker a couple times.
High winds all day. Dropped from 45 deg to 8 degrees in a couple hours. Below zero wind chills. Power has been out since 10:30 this morning with no restore time given. Great to have a woodstove and just dragged out the generator for lights. Hope everyone else in this storm path is doing fine.
46° and power came on at 5:30pm. Lucky!!! Wind is still heavy out there.
It's cold as heck here, 20° out now and is supposed to be 9° by sometime early tomorrow morning, fortunately we'll have no precipitation but this is the coldest it's been yet this year. I'm already over it and ready to see the trees leaf out and flower bloom.
Yeah, weird day. Hit almost 50 this morning and very slowly dropped during the day, but in the last 2 hours it is picking up speed. 10 minutes ago I hollered upstairs to the wife to let het know it was down to 20. I just sat down again and it's 17. Headed for low single digits by sunrise. We had 2.5 Inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Interesting trip to check on the mill today. I shot some video. Maybe later.
0 degrees 30-40mph sustained winds gusts into the 50mph range. Probably 12" of snow so far which is now being relocated into 12 foot tall drifts. Another 18-24" of snow is predicted along with strong winds thru tomorrow night.
Not fit for man nor beast outside.
Mid 40s this morning and 6 F now, luckily the wind dried the driveway and most of the roads before the "flash freeze" hit, that's what the local weather people were calling it.
We've been in the single digits all day with high winds. Kind of surprised I could make it tolerable enough to piddle in the shop this afternoon. Spent the morning checking houses, shutting down one and lighting a fire for folks coming up in another. Better go throw a last log on and see what it is now.
Big log, its 4 below
I just read they were having gusts to 74 mph up in the Grand Marais, MN harbor. That is about 5 different kinds of nasty!
2 degrees F here now and our power went off at 5:30 AM, luckily Mr Kohler our standby genny started right up and has now been purring for 3 hrs. Our cable TV went out at 7:30 but I guess we can survive without TV for awhile.
I didn't look at the thermometer this morning. It is certainly below zero and I don't really want to know how far below. The livestock seem okay and all the trucks started and one tractor so that's good. But the water in the barn froze so I have to sort that out.
I believe the worst to be over here. Its supposed to get up to 11 degrees later today and pretty much stay there over night. That's a heck of a lot better than zero.
I'm driving out to my landing later and get the skidder going about knock some frozen mud and snow into my skid trails for monday.
We had 56mph wind gust and 56°f yesterday, lost power around 8pm for a couple of hours.
It has cooled down to 31°f still blowing up to 36mph.
21° F in coastal NC this morning. still a little windy but not as bad as yesterday. Suppose to go up to 32 later today. Sunny for sure.
Jim Rogers
Jim I thought you moved south to get away from the cold, looks like you brought it with you. :)
Barbender, Grand Marais is one of my favorite places in the world, but as you say, that would be nasty. We were in Grand Marais 5 years ago to ski at Lutsen. When we arrived it was a nice 20 deg day. We had a day to mess around and walk on some trails and explore a little bit. It began to snow and snowed the rest of the day and night. Then came the cold and it was a nasty week to ski, but we did it. The last day we skiied the high was -7. We were staying at a lodge called Thomsonite Beach right on the lake. Walking down by the lake with the cold wind, the ice down there was amazing as waves would crash on the shore and spray water that would instantly freeze.
Low here was 3° overnight and it's worked it's way up to a balmy 8 now. It was a little nippy when I just filled the firewood cart for the day. I might have to change out the jacket for a coat. ;D
My daughter and SIL who are spending their first winter as new home owners, lost power at 7pm last night. They live up in Spike's area, wonder how he is making out? No word on when a crew can get there yet. They had just put two tray of Christmas lasagna in the oven when the lights went out. So they brought them over here for baking this morning.
Was 42 in the shop this morning. Something tells me this won't be a good finishing day. >:( It's up to 50 already and climbing. I just stoked the stove 30 minutes ago. No more puddles outside, just mini ice rinks. Expected high for today is around 12°. A little early for this but not unusual. Better than a Christmas blizzard, that was a rough year.
I'll bet Jim has very short moments when he questions his weather choice, but I'll also bet they are VERY short when he recalls one or two years up north. At least he has no problem dealing with a little cold snap. I recall a business trip to Charlotte back in the 80's in January and it was 20° there (we had 8 below when we left home) with bright sunshine. We were wearing open sport coats and enjoying the sun. Local folks were wearing every stitch of clothing they owned and were huddled up trying to stay warm and stamping their feet. They looked at us like we were crazy, and we looked at them the same way. :D Everything is relative.
We got some strange looks when swimming in the pool at Disney one January morning, people walking by going to breakfast with winter coats and hats, the frost was a bit cool on the feet but the pool was heated.
Oddly enough it was often warmer in Nova Scotia that week than it was in Orlando.
We have been in the midst of this storm for 36 hrs now. Started with freezing rain all Thursday night, winds started up early yesterday morning and the snow has been going sideways ever since, probably 12" of snow and drifts 6', with another dollop of lake effects starting now. The dog wouldn't even go this morning,
Not fit for man nor beast!!
Stay safe everyone in the north!
There made it through that storm!!
It's 15° but the driveway is bare. The ground is just about bare in the woods in places. Field is all white.
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Jim I thought you moved south to get away from the cold, looks like you brought it with you. :)
This weekend for sure
Jim Rogers
-6C here this morning, almost feels like spring after the last few days. It is supposed to snow, I can handle that but not the cold.
Not meaning to gloat but the wind has dropped to manageable and it was 7 degrees to the good side on the grocery store sign before noon. That's a big improvement.
Up to 11F here.Still have a little wind.Got tree out of my driveway yesterday.Chainsaw didn't want to run and tractor wouldn't :embarassed:
Temp is 15°F. The airport is reporting sustained 40mph winds and a peak gust of 62mph. Took me all morning and early afternoon to check and feed cattle. There's drifts 10-12 feet tall and growing quickly that I had to dig thru to get to the cows and hay. Many roads are impassable and drifted shut. The county has all it can do to try to keep up with the main roads. Took me 45 minutes to drive the 9 miles to where the cattle are currently and at times I was just praying I was even on the road.
As for snowfall totals I have no idea as its been a steady whiteout for the last 36 hours but its so windy its impossible to measure. By this time tomorrow its supposed to calm down.
This Bomb Cyclone is absolutely amazing, crazy and devastating of of everywhere it's affecting!
You know I was thinking it was dang cold today, but then I remembered some days like this:
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After that thought, today didn't seem so cold. :D :)
I have 15° now.
FFOTS, yes Grand Marais and the whole North Shore is beautiful. And a guy can deal with the cold temps when you finally wrap your head around the fact that it is what you have to work with. Unless of course you are right down on the shore of Lake Superior when it is pounding 15' waves on the rocks at -10°😬 That reminds me of an uninhabitable planet!
Merry Christmas Folks!
7° here this morning. High yesterday never made it past 9, so I've been in the single digit mode for 30+ hours and counting. (Plus, the constant wind chill.) Supposed to be sunny and lower 20's today, but still breezy. Not exactly coffee on the deck weather, but an improvement. :)
It's a balmy 10° here in sunny North Carolina. Spent all day yesterday working on the well at my stepdaughter's place. Got the pipes thawed and back in order. I'll never understand why people think those stupid plastic rocks will keep things from freezing. I wrapped all the pipes and the pressure tank with insulation and put a heat lamp from my chicken coop in there. Hopefully no more problems.
10° in NC?? Not good.
I have 11° now. Suppose to get up to the low 20's.
Yeah, I find it ironic that it's warmer at my brother's place in Buffalo than it is here!
16° here now, the wind is a little less than yesterday, but there's more snow in the air today.
7 deg here on a fine Christmas morning. I think its supposed to reach mid 20s today. Then to mess with your sinsuses, they are saying it will be in the 50s later this week with possible thunderstorms.
I am supposed to get in the high 40's at the end of the week too.
Most times I get the same weather as MI, but 2-3 days later.
13 here now. Back to the 50s next weekend. West and east of us are a giant mess with over 3 ft of lake effect.
11° with a -21° wind chill. Snow has tapered off some. Visibility is a bit better today.
The next few days will consist of digging out fences, gates, feed lots, garages, driveways, hay stacks, etc. All but 1 animal is accounted for, so hopefully my counting was just inaccurate.
Here's one of the medium size drifts from today. The skid steer is 7' tall.
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Chevy, that just sucks!
82 degrees, sunny and breezy. Babysitting the dogs on this fine Christmas day. Cheers
Chevy: you got the heat on and you're inside an enclosed cab? But dealing with seven foot drifts? I'm hearing theme music from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" !
Tule Peak: I'm chill'axin' with one pooch and a woodstove set to thermonuclear
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Have a wonderful Christmas Day!
Stay warm. We had snow on the ground 2 days ago and I'm in shorts today. Crazy weather, Merry Christmas !
Comfy!
Well, it looks like the worse of the storm is finished in this area, not much happening out there.
The work will begin in the morning, I will be clearing the Amish neighbors milkhouse driveway so the truck can get in there tomorrow, then I have mine and four other neighbors driveways to clean out.
The little John Deere will get a good workout for sure, there are some 4-foot drifts out there.
Nice to wake up to a much warmer 18° today, but the temp is doing the 'dawn dip' before it begins the daily climb, today it might hit 25°. But we have clear skies which is always good for my mental health. :) :)
Yesterday morning the shop was as cold as it has been this season at 41. It just got too cold overnight and I set the damper up a little higher which burned out the wood faster. I had hoped to get a little sanding done in the morning and maybe a quick epoxy pour, but just could not really get the temp up into a good working range. I never got mush more than 55 out of it all day, which is fine. The kids all came over in the afternoon and that was the main event for the day.
This morning it had only dropped to 44° in the shop, but the fire burned flat out, so I cleared the ashes as long as it was nearly done and restarted. In 20 minutes it is already gaining and up 2°. Since I will be out there and keep on it today, I'm sure I can get it in the working range in short order. Warming the walls, floor, and fixtures out there will take all day. But the sunshine should help a bit. It's that wind which is really hurting me. It's calming down, but 10-15mph is enough to cool that building fairly quick. Sanding I can do in the cold, but epoxy and finishes, even waxing, does not do well when it's below 62. 68 is better.
Tomorrow it might hit 30, and the next next go above freezing. By Friday we are hoping for the 40's, so I may get back to the mill and try to knock out that last remaining order.
Everybody have a great day where ever you are and what ever you are dealing with. :)
Bright sunny and cold on tap. Burning some hardwood for a change. The wood stove
has been on a softwood diet up till a couple days ago.
On the snowmobile with chainsaw this afternoon. Getting brave enough to see what the woodlot trails look like after 2 storms back to back. 2" rain from the last storm but still a foot of snow out there.
I just got internet back on here this morning. We only lost power 14 hrs Friday night and was restored Saturday at noon. We had nothing but rain in that big storm up here, everything was laid bare in the drive way and roads. Still 3" of old snow in the fields. It's been squally weather ever since, and never got below 15F, that was Christmas morning. Yesterday morning was 18F, this morning is 20F. Suppose to be 30's tomorrow and more rain coming this weekend in the 40's again. Never yet seen any bitter cold of years past, not even close. 15F is a lot warmer than -35 below. ;D
Heard about lots of water line damage down in the Gulf states. Well the way the news tells it anyway. Is it wide spread or just a handful of people with bad luck down there? You know how the news plays stuff up sometimes. ;)
Popple, fir and spruce, once in awhile a stick of maple or ash. I burn whatever my hand lands on here. I got windows open right now. :D
Official word is just over 40" of snow over the 4 day blizzard. Our season total snowfall is just shy of 100" which we should surpass in the next day or so.
Riding the wind.
https://youtu.be/Es8RPW0e-FQ (https://youtu.be/Es8RPW0e-FQ)
Well from 82 to 50 today with large angry icy clouds building in. We need the moisture !
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Quote from: chevytaHOE5674 on December 27, 2022, 10:55:58 AM
Official word is just over 40" of snow over the 4 day blizzard. Our season total snowfall is just shy of 100" which we should surpass in the next day or so.
Now thats what I would call tough sledding right there !
I have not really had a chance to get out in the woods. But I can see a lot of bare ground from my house in the woods.
Suppose to have some high 40's coming!!!
I can hear it now; we'll pay for this warm weather.
Well it should not be this warm. But maybe this is our January thaw we use to get years ago?
It seems in the last few years our winter cold and snow gets pushed off a few more weeks and we now get cold springs. I'm surprised how cold it is in the US in places it's rarely that cold and how those big snow storms we usually inherit from MI and NY fizzle to nothing by the time it reaches NB. Seems the warmer ones from the south are beating them back. The last storm had a huge system come up and push off that arctic storm to our west. It snows here almost every day but it's just squalls that look like blizzards for 15 minutes and then the sun shines now and again and back to another one after a spell. Not all that pleasant, as far as blue skies go. Nature likes to give us a little bit of both. :D Kinda like a spinning wheel covered in mud, the further away you are the less chance to be hit, but once in awhile a little bit of slick hits ya. :D
I'l agree with you SwampDonkey i'm on the east coast here in Richibucto and did not push any snow yet,(we did get a few storm but i let it melt out) the heat of the water between here and PEI keep the temperature warmer than inland, the maritime provinces seems to get it pretty easy compared to the rest of Canada and big parts of the US.
Looks like almost a week of temps in the 40's. :o One day even 50.
Stay tune, winter will be back. ;)
24F here this morning but the big warm up and rain starts soon. But it's never yet been brutal cold around here. :D
Had 1" snow yesterday, snowed all day. Hard enough that you could not see hills around. Nothing last night.
Yup, snowing again. ;D
Dawn this morning:
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Not sure what to make of that. Supposed to be warmer today with cloud cover dropping. 31° right now.
Was 50 yesterday. Supposed to make 60 today with some rain tonight.
Swamp
Go to Environment Canada web site click on the Jet Steam
You can readily see its driving cold air to Texas and warm air to you guys
Cheers
Al
Quote from: OntarioAl on December 29, 2022, 08:39:55 AM
Swamp
Go to Environment Canada web site click on the Jet Steam
You can readily see its driving cold air to Texas and warm air to you guys
Cheers
Al
Yep! :D :D They said they wanted to cool off last July. Delayed response from up north, as they are more laid back than the average Texan. :D :D
Light rain down in the valley here (Sacramento) with light snow falling up on the passes (7,000') and a wintery mix (snow/rain) at my cabin site. Will go through Sunday morning. Clear for New Year's but storms on track for all next week.
32F and fog rolling over the land. Getting ready to rain I guess. ;D
Still dark here at 5:30am. Won't know about fog until I leave for work at 6:30 with the headlights on.
Judging by farm yard lights here, surrounded by fog. ;D Daylight is 45 minutes away.
Not many moose on my land. Now go up Gordon hill about a mile and there are a few up there.
Last one I saw was on the Rocky Highway across my bog. I was on the tractor bringing another load of rocks for another coating and saw it. If I would not have looked when I did, I would have not seen it.
Lots of deer when I feed them. Well at one time.
During hunting season might be as many, just don't see them.
46° and clear at 7 AM today!
Fog here too, kinda looked more like smoke than fog.
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I had 2" inches to scoop out of the yard earlier from 5 days of light snow and it started to sprinkle some then stopped soon after, so it's coming. Snow is packy for snow balls. ;D
40F this morning. Had some rain in the night, but no gully washer. No wind.
We reached 56° for a hi yesterday, lot of snow went down the drain.
Woke up this morning to 36°
The good thing about those 2 to 3 foot waves rolling in our cove (pictures in this thread on the 23rd) was that it completely scoured the bottom of the swimming area, down to bare sand.
It washed up a couple of tons of debris. I moved that with the tractor, and we have a beach now.
After this, I went back down there with the lawnmower and blew all the small stuff up the hill, so it's almost bare sand now but I forgot to take another picture.
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50 degrees and raining steady. The grounds so wet I cant even get into the wood yard let alone log. Going to be a long week pacing around waiting for the weather to get "normal" for this time of year.
Highs in the upper 50s this weekend and then thunderstorms and an inch of rain coming Monday. It feels like winter is already over and it just started.
I have 42° and the ground feels soft to walk on.
Doesn't look like much cool down until about next Thursday.
0 here, 32F, and almost feels like spring. It is supposed to stay like this for at least two weeks but I expect we will get nailed in February.
Closing out the year. Was raining up there yesterday but now this will be the last of the traffic coming down from Tahoe. I80 is closed both direction over the summit due to white out conditions. The radar show orange and red rain showers covering a large area that turns to snow at this elevation. What you don't see in this picture is the wind that is wiping the tress around.
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Supposed to be clear tomorrow then a series of colder storms blowing through Monday-Saturday. More snow and less flooding down in the valley.
I have 40° and a light rain.
Good bye 2022
Closed out the year at 27° here in northern MN.
And that's a wrap for 2022. Feel free to post your weather updates in the new thread. :)
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=121055.0