The weather 2024

SwampDonkey · May 09, 2024, 03:07:46 PM

Showers here, sun once in awhile, barely 50°F today.

SwampDonkey · May 10, 2024, 04:40:05 AM

38° F this morning and clear as a bell out there.

Some lower spots have frost this morning. It's 29° F in Presque Isle, Maine this morning.

thecfarm · May 10, 2024, 05:14:37 AM

I have 36° and fog. Can't even see the field across the road.
Looks like 60 and mostly cloudy today.

Peter Drouin · May 10, 2024, 06:11:54 AM

I have mud, again. again. again. again.

thecfarm · May 10, 2024, 06:28:39 AM

On my way to work and the sun is out bright!!!!

Old Greenhorn · May 10, 2024, 07:21:32 AM

Not gonna see any sun here today. It took all last evening for the dew point and the air temp to coincide and allow rain, which started just after midnight. We are now well over 1/2" of rain and a lot more coming through the day. Glad I got the grass cut yesterday, this rain would have forced me to get a brush hog or sickle mower to cut it.

Jim_Rogers · May 10, 2024, 09:03:29 AM

TV news said still 14,000 + without power in NC. Lot more without power in other states as well. FL had the most without.

Ljohnsaw · May 10, 2024, 09:55:01 AM

70° here this morning heading to 92°

SwampDonkey · May 10, 2024, 10:29:30 AM

Widened out the garden some to give more room to the tomatoes and peppers. Ground is a little packy this morning from the little bit of rain we got.

SwampDonkey · May 11, 2024, 05:30:07 AM

Northern lights last night here.

36°F this morning and another decent dry day to start anyway. Got to work up some garden and put the onions in.

The black flies will likely be out chewing by mid morning. Might see 60° today. Yesterday was 55°F.

Peter Drouin · May 11, 2024, 06:11:15 AM

Sun 2 days in a row. The mud is drying up.

thecfarm · May 11, 2024, 08:07:07 AM

Mostly cloudy here all day, but it will be a dry day!!!
56° for a high.
Greenhouse is getting there.

woodroe · May 11, 2024, 08:41:03 AM

Rhubarb close to ready for Jam and Pie.
Missed the light show last night, tired.

Maybe tonight.
Still burning wood with close to freezing mornings .

SwampDonkey · May 11, 2024, 02:21:34 PM

I've got one old crown of Rhubarb you could pick now. The one beside it seems to be slow this spring, usually just as big. Both had stalks the size of your wrist last spring. They were huge. Maybe no snow cover affected the other one? Usually a big drift across the garden, but recently the breeze way has closed up with birch trees. I suspect some stuff will have less fruit this year, the raspberries and grapes were heavy with fruit last year. I have enough jam for 2 more years. I eat it every day to.

SwampDonkey · May 12, 2024, 03:31:35 AM

No fire yesterday morning, but afternoon sun and open windows cooled it off a little, so made an evening smudge. I leave my bedroom window open from April onward until we get that heat and high humidity days. Late evening or a nice summer cold front and up she goes again.

Could see some rain mid week, but so far their rain forecasts have turned into dry popcorn.

Fiddle heads here are gone by now, 2 foot tall fronds now. And I never saw any last week up at a couple patches I have. Mom bought some from a neighbor, ate some, froze some, gave some away to a couple senior friends.

SwampDonkey · May 12, 2024, 06:38:53 AM

36°F and sunny.

Old Greenhorn · May 12, 2024, 06:53:57 AM

46° here and solid overcast with light rain plodding through until at least noon. Another grey day. We had sun yesterday morning up until around 2pm then it clouded over until we were socked in by 7pm. No light show here again.

thecfarm · May 12, 2024, 07:17:51 AM

I have 44° and another cloudy day. No sun today.
I have only turned the heat off, I think, once so far.

thecfarm · May 13, 2024, 05:25:02 AM

38° this morning, should get to 65 today.
There was some sun yesterday after all!!!

SwampDonkey · May 13, 2024, 03:15:42 PM

I make a smudge here every morning lately, does 24 hrs unless a cold rain in the 40's all day. Was 45° here this morning and got to 66° here this afternoon. I've got a little bit of firewood I want to burn up and then stack new wood in the basement. Not a lot of the old stuff left inside. I have 2-1/2 cords dry outside under the porch though.

The ground hasn't been muddy around here for a long time, dry and hard as summer. So not fighting mud. So far just little spirts of rain in the 1/4" range about 4 times this month. Looks like showers for next two days, but nothing to brag about.

Magicman · May 14, 2024, 07:52:16 AM

We got a bit over 4" of rain from that soaking yesterday.

SwampDonkey · May 14, 2024, 03:17:14 PM

So far today we've had just a short spurt of sprinkles around 3:00 pm. Suppose to do that for 3 days. Doesn't sound like much coming. The beech tree out back sure opened up the last 2 days. Going to be in the 70's for the next week

Magicman · May 14, 2024, 03:32:29 PM

We also got a blow Sunday night. I had about a 100 mile trip to make this morning and saw probably 25+ Oak trees down.

thecfarm · May 14, 2024, 06:26:51 PM

I think we hit 70 today. Was cloudy in the morning, but when the sun came out the temp went up.

thecfarm · May 15, 2024, 05:58:08 AM

Looks to be another 70° day, 74 today.
About 54° this morning.
The heat will be off again today.
Have not been a warm May. I only turned the heat off a few times this month.
No frost in sight in 10 days. Will have to see what the next 10 days look like.
Had supper last night and I went outside to do some work and it just started to rain.