Well, here we are, it's 2023, and it's still 40F at this early hour. Some light rain happening.
What a difference a week makes. All that cold for Christmas, and now 3 straight days in the 50's with a couple more on tap this week. When the inside temp hit 76° yesterday, I let the stove go out, and it's still out. :)
Happy New Year boys!
I have 42° and looks like we did not get enough rain to melt the snow.
Just making room for more.
Everything outside is floating down hill if it ain't tied. :D
34° and moisture in the air. just got home from work, and having an after work beer in the shop before it is bedtime. bon_fire smiley_beertoast
Doc, you've mentioned the after work beer a few times and of course anybody that does or did shift work gets it. But every time you mention it I think back to when my daughter was about 2 y/o and my son was just a 'concept'. I was a second shift foreman in a microwave hybrid shop, getting home at about 3am. On Fridays I would come home, wake the wife, and we would put our little girl in the car seat and drive about 2.5 hours north to a trailer we had a permanent site for in a campground. We'd usually arrive between 6 and 7:30 in the morning. The girls would go nap or have breakfast and I would sit on the deck with my beer(s) before bed while the neighbors walked past on their morning 'nature walks' I would wave and say a quiet 'good morning' as they walked past.
It took me a long time to figure out why some folks were a little rude, or at least, not very cheerful on a beautiful day. Then one day, one of the other wives quietly asked my wife about my drinking problem. :D Nobody knew what our schedule was like and once it was clear we all laughed and I would get cheerful responses to my 'good morning greetings'. Occasionally, one of the guys would joke about my 'drinking problem' and folks who weren't in on the joke would be quite perplexed why everyone was laughing, including me. :D
So here's to your 'drinking problem', may you have a good night's rest and a great 2023.
I had a "drinking problem" when I worked nights too. ;D We would go to the AMCE Club at 6:30 am. Would be quiet until about 4-5-6 of us with a "drinking problem" would show up. :D
I think a job with a night shift would do me in to. Although most days I'm in between night and day being an early riser. :D
Upper 40's here and a little remaining drizzle. Tomorrow should be beautiful with a high of 67° and little chance of rain it should be a perfect day for hiking.
We've had a few days of humidity rolling in from the Dakotas, and 19°F temps during the day, 0°F at night. When that occurs, the trees are covered in hoar frost. Christmas card pretty.
Happy New Year to all you hard drinking working Forumites, wishing you a great 2023!
Beautiful sunny morning here after a week of rain and another week starting tonight. The heavy storm left the summit in the Sierras covered with a very heavy blanket of snow. The pine trees look like folded up umbrellas from the accumulation.
Ray, I did the same thing when we were first married (so '78?). We had a local tavern 3 blocks from our 1st apartment and I was doing a test second shift for 'a few weeks' that turned into 8 months. I would arrive at the tavern just before legal closing, like the others coming from their jobs and we would order a couple drinks to line up, then at legal closing time the window lights went off, the door got locked, and the owner would begin his daily cleanup while the rest of us unwound. Sometimes I would get there just after 3am or whatever legal closing time was and he would front me a few beers but not take payment. The law said he was not allowed to "sell' alcohol after a certain time, it said nothing about giving it away. ;D The next next I would just overpay a little or leave a tip to cover the previous evening/morning. I think there were 4 or 5 of us most nights, probably not the same bunch as you had though. :D :)
I have 38° at almost 7:30pm. Suppose to get just below freezing but right back up to above freezing.
Was 32F around supper time last night and still 32F now.
Tom the KUMC hospital in KC, KS has a bar called Jimmies Jigger, just across state line road in KC,MO. It is a short walk across the street from the medical center. Jimmie was an umpire for the Royals games. He invested in the bar, and many times 200 students would go there to have a beer or two after tests. Often 10 am, after studying all night. He would come ask if we had a test, and we would tell him about it. his profile would remind you of the classic Alfred Hitchcock. He would wonder off, and then 3 waitresses with 200 + shots (not the syringe type) would show up in 5 minutes. he kept buying the next building and so on, so there was the main bar, then several other larger areas. He would carry tabs for some docs who could not pay through med school, residency and fellow ship, poss. 8 to 10 years, and then finally get paid. they made a good cup of coffee if you needed to be up early or work late.
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The world needs more people like him. Can you imagine if those walls could talk?
Thank God they cannot! :D :D :D
Still around 32F today and some light flurries floating around.
A light rain at 38°. The temp will drop to about 25 by morning. Rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow by morning.
I'll be saying, I'm not use to this cold weather. :D
Had some sun yesterday, first time in 2 weeks and temp was 35F. This morning it's 20F and snow expected later.
Cutting wood and land clearing projects are going on with 2 neighboring hobby farms. One guy clearing a tamarack patch on 1 acre and I see standing water under the machine. Will need tiling or won't produce much. It was abandoned before, hopefully he can get it into shape. The other site is on dry maple ground, 10 acres but the wood ain't all cut. Slow cutter, the wood ain't adding up too quick. ;D
28° and just enough white stuff to cover the ground. I say white stuff, snow, freezing pellets?
I say enough to cover the ground, I can still see grass and leaves on the ground.
But it's not over yet. A fine snow is still coming down. It is supposed to stop soon.
28° here too Ray! 8)
Odd mild weather continuing here, 43° for the overnight low. It's now been a full week since it hit the freezing mark here. That'll be ending tomorrow night, and it looks like over night temps in the 20's most of next week. But that's still fairly mild weather for January. Daytime highs will be in the upper 30's.
Funny, but when we had that Christmas cold snap, I thought winter was settling in for a long stay. Not yet. :)
Started snowing a bit ago, might get 2". Another nuisance storm. Snow or don't snow at all. :D
I'm all too familiar with nuisance snow storms. When I lived in OH we'd get a dusting of snow that was just enough to warrant an inch of salt on the roads which within minutes of hitting the deteriorating pavement, became a disgusting row of slush along the edge of the road. The pivotal moment when I realized I couldn't afford to live there any longer was when during a decent rain fall at 35° (headed and forecasted to 47° within 4 hours) a city truck was pouring salt out as fast as the spreader would allow. I did like it when 8" - 12" would fall and we had no need to go anywhere, it was quite attractive but that part was always short lived.
This morning we had 39° at the bus stop confirmed by the thermometer on the front porch while the weather channel was stating 45° representing a discrepancy I've not yet seen. We should see a nice dry 64° this afternoon and highs mostly in the mid-50's for the next week or so.
No internet for a few days. The rain freezes on the antenna and that is it. Keep getting this rain at around freezing and I will have to wrap a heat tape around it. :D
Had no sun since the 5th. The sun hit the antenna and melted off the ice and I had the FF again this morning.
We might have got an inch of snow. Been doing something since the morning of the 5. Be a very light mist or some snow for a few hours.
Temps are going to be on the warm side. Only one morning below freezing for a week.
Been 3 days of squalls and not an inch of snow from it. Been upper 20's at night and around 32F for a high these last few days. Sunny and mild tomorrow I think. Well 32 hasn't been too cold either. :D
Head pond is frozen solid on the main river though, but any fast water below the dam and on small creeks is ice free.
Cleared out this morning and the temp dropped to 15F.
Sunrise here, for the last few weeks has just meant that the sky gets brighter, but today, a few minutes ago, we actually saw the sun come up!
It's 22° and crisp and clear. Now THIS is good working weather. It's about dang time! What I hate about northeast winters is the dampness and overcast conditions. The snow and cold are easy as long as we get some sunshine. Even now the humidity is 90% outside and that's what gets into my old bones and won't go away.
I've been in CO when it's 15 below, but dry and sunny and It's easy to work with that, but bring the humidity from below 30% up to 80% and take that sun away and it's a whole different ball game.
High for today is looking at around 35°, so Now maybe I can get some wood split without changing soaking wet gloves every hour. :)
Making ice again here. The local 200 acre pond comes alive at night when the temps get in the teens or lower. 15 F last night.
Can hear it making all kinds of out of this world noises as the ice expands.
Bright and sunny week on tap will help make hot water again too .
Fortunately, my house is at the top of a hill so water ponding is not an issue. Last night the winds were howling from the south with sustained 40 mph gusts to 50. My neighbor's three tall redwoods acted as a windbreak to my place protecting three big oaks next to my house. The redwoods were swinging wildly around midnight and was sure one was going to snap. I've got a big tamarack at the top of my driveway (highest spot on the street) and it survived the night. No damage visible around my place but since the New Years Eve storm and storms coming through every couple days and driving around since then, there are a LOT of trees down all over the place.
Been winter UP here although a little bit on the mild side for temps. Highs have been in the 20s and lows anywhere from below zero to 20 above. Had a foot of snow over the weekend.
Well, yesterday I noticed a river otter track near the little brook I walk by. They've been around there for years. There is an old 'haul' road that goes a mile back in there toward Maine. Wildlife use it a lot. Bear and deer mostly, never seen a moose on it though. Lots of coyotes use it. Was a nice clear winter day Sunday, got to 24F by late day from a low of 15F. First clear day in weeks.
Today, coming from town, I thought I was looking at a coyote by the 4-lane. A closer look revealed it was a bobcat, looking for something to eat in the dead grass and weeds. Pretty sure it wasn't a lynx. Got lynx around here for sure. In fact I've seen more lynx than bobcats, that's the first I've seen in 45 years. And it was a dead one back then, it was trapped.
2" snow storm expected tomorrow. 30F right now. 20F this morning.
I had 6° this morning.
First time in the single numbers.
Been a warm winter here, so far,
8F here and sunny, no wind, coldest morning so far. Frost on the trees and bushes. Thaw coming, freezing rain-mix, oh joy.
rain snow winter weather later today. Trappers BSA this weekend. below freezing at night, but in the low 50s during the day.
With all this snow and now 7 days of fog we are going to have one DanG wet spring :new_year:
goose
Does your spring melt flow north into Canada? or maybe south to the Missouri river shed?
beenthere into the the Red riverup to Canada
A 3 day storm expected here starting tonight into Saturday. 12" and freezing rain mixed in is the prediction. 6F and clear skies this morning. Mars Hill is showing -4F, which is not far from here. Could be around 40F on Friday during the rain.
Maybe 3 inches, maybe an inch of snow. Then rain. Might get up to 50 in the Big City.
Big mess, rain on fresh snow and freezing. Gonna be like boilerplate
come Sunday morning. It is Friday the 13th for the superstitious types.
I was concerned about YellowHammer and pm him and he replied that he was ok.
News said 35 tornados yesterday across the south, with 7 dead so far. 160,000 without power.
Line of storms blew through here last night at midnight but no tornados that I have heard about in coastal NC.
Prayers for all out members in AL, MS, TN, and GA who were affected.
Jim Rogers
Thanks for posting that Jim.
I too was concerned for our friends in the SouthEast.
Tornados! Isn't that a Springtime thing? March through to April/May?
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Up here in the Canadian Prairie, we've had about three weeks of 20° to 5° F with humid South winds. Hoar frost on every branch and twig with sunshine makes for greeting card scenery.
I think that tornados in January are rare, but I don't know that for sure.
Jim Rogers
No internet this morning. Freezing rain again.
Yep, got 3 inches of snow, then rain, but not enough to melt it all.
I have almost 40 here now.
Had fog right up until sun down.
Only reach 32F here yesterday, 40F was predicted. We had about 6" of snow then began a rain/ice and I got the blower out for a couple hours of dry snow removal. Broke two sheer pins. ::) I keep a bunch on hand. Then began a soft rain. Later I had to shovel the mouth of the driveway here, both ends were plugged with wet bally snow when the snow plow came through and shoved a B-train load in it. I also scooped all the driveway down to gravel for a couple hours before dark. That was enough exercise for one storm, thank you very much. :D We had no wind here during the day Friday, some late Thursday night, but no more than 10 mph. The driveway is a sheet of ice, but before dark I noticed ice all over the trees. ::) No outages here this time.
I have 28° and a light snow should be over in about 2 hours.
Not supposed to get above freezing today.
10F this morning and clear, and has been dropping. Might get colder before sunrise. Dropped 6 deg since 2:00 am. Breezy out, NW.
Freezing rain warning issued for tonight into tomorrow.
Ice from last storm, more coming.
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Actually feeling like Summer here. 8)
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Road trip on Saturday to a pretty remote but "World Famous in NZ" beach. A bit off the beaten track, and the only public access for about 30 miles of coastline. Had to share it with about 4 other people :D
Looks like summer too! Maybe it is there. ;D
There is a beech here in NB on the NE shore that is nice warm water in summer, shallow and the water gets into the 70's. There is a provincial run campground near it. I was there once in the off season with family in September, not another soul around except for us. One thing I did notice though, sand fleas. :D :D
Not sure how long the power will be on, the freezing stuff is really coming down and it's only 22F at ground level. ::)
Raining, hard enough to hear through the roof. Very odd for this time of year. We are above freezing for the moment so it's not icing.
Woke up this morning to -4°F, and forecast for a sunny day.
mid 50s today
18 degrees when I woke up this morning. Said it felt like 9. Supposed to get to 40 today. For mid January I'll take it. The 15 day forecast as well.
I have 30 now.
Storm should be over by midnight.
Rain, freezing rain, sleet,snow all day today. Maybe 2 inches of sleet.
24F this morning, we never lost power and no wind. Still something coming down out there.
I have 26 and should get up into the high 30's.
This would have made a great crust for walking on if we would have had snow on the ground.
I might have 4 inches of snow on the ground.
Been some kind of a freezing fog here since noon. 30F
Like a honey glazed donut outside, shiny.
Ist step off the porch this morning
was a near disaster.
We had 2-3 " sleet then rain for hours then froze up solid overnight. Can't kick a heel into it anywhere . There will be no plowing or snowblowing that mess.
Was sunny for a change and near 40 this afternoon.
A young fella who does moose videos with his drone. He's not local, but about an hour from here to the north. A moose shedding his horns, live. Rare to see.
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More snow on the way for today, hopefully no ice in this one. ;D
Still 30F since last evening.
Nice sunny day today! Yay! The rain and snow has been crazy. The Sierras have 251% of normal snow to date. I believe it was Echo Summit (Highway 50 just west of Lake Tahoe) has just under 27 FEET of snow this year.
SwampDonkey that was a awesome video!!
cool!
That was a cool video.
Technically we have had no snow this winter. We got 2 small snows in late fall. I want some snow.
What we have today is a miserable rainy day with 39 deg and it just thundered and consequently my dogs are freaked out.
I've removed snow here or sleet almost every day for days now. She's adding up again today. We aren't getting a lot in any one storm. We only had one big storm, 12" in December. But if it snows every day or every other day with 4" that will be a lot to after awhile. :D :D Must be ocean affect off the Northumberland. :D This has been the least sunny winter I've seen, and not the mildest, but not bitter cold either. We had a much milder winter back in '80-'81.
It was 36° when I got up this morning, and it's been right there all day.
Around 8:30 or so, it started freezing rain and that stopped about noon!
Pretty much bare ground wherever snow was plowed!
Snow's sliding off the roof!
I saw 44° at the bank today.
They should call their heating company and get that fixed before it gets cold out! :D :D
So thats how Moose drop those racks. Pretty cool SD !
The boilerplate snowpack softened a little yesterday in the sun.
Good woodyard days yesterday and today bucking and splitting then a round
of snow tomorrow. Big snowstorm predicted for Monday.
Still around 30F here this morning, just finished yard cleanup, not even 2" after snowing all day. The yard has a 1/2" crust/ice on top. Still overcast and probably squalls tomorrow by the looks of it. ::)
Freezing rain/sleet and light snow.
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Listening to thunder right now. In January. Whats next? Pestilence?
The bank was down to 40 today. ;)
26F this morning, light snow on the way.
Finally some snow without the rain on the back end of it. 27*.
Could be a foot of it when its over tonight then 2 more snow events next week.
Yes all snow for a change. First one this season, that we had all snow. Maybe 5-6 inches.
We had less than 1", was over by 3:30 pm. The big one is Monday for up here. 18F here this morning, 14F in Mars Hill along the Presque Isle R (Prestile R. in Maine).
Same as Ray, 5-6 " . Just enough on top of that shiny crust to
to get out my new backcountry skis and boots and explore some new terrain.
My Medicare plan gave me back $450 last year to buy recreational items to
help keep me fit. Spent it all on those items. Sometime getting old pays.
They are saying we could get 5" of snow Tuesday night into wednesday, but the temps are gonna be kind of warm, so it will be heavy wet snow. I will lose some pine trees. Young lobl olly trees don't do well with heavy snow.
Sorry to hear about your trees.
Looks like no below zero temps coming for this month.
Only had 2 days in the single numbers and that was not by much. Might be some of them coming by the end of the month.
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heavy wet snow
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26 and absolutely beautiful out
It's like 4:30 and still the snow hasn't quit coming down. About 34 degrees F and quite a bit is melting. First snow we have had in a long time that did not get blown into the crick. Good thing for the late planted wheat, can't really tell yet how much winter kill we have had.
Well so much for 'the big one'. A snow squall and then it was over. Not clearing. 24F here. apparently it's a bigger storm to our south and east.
Snow piling up. Close to another foot when then one is over.
Glad to see it because that last 6" dry powder snowfall only made the ice layer under
it more slippery, like grease. Went down twice in the last few days.
From vertical to horizontal in all of one second. The last fall left some hip hurt .
More appreciable snow for Thursday.
About that going down, last tiny snow we had before the snow we had some freezing rain. Was at the farm and forgot about the slick for a moment and fell down on my shoulder. Then the only machine I could get started was my skidsteer, put out some bales with it and tripped climbing out of the machine and fell on my shoulder again. Yesterday was the first day I could raise my arm up all the way.
Mainly overcast here, some squalls and reached 31F this afternoon.
Still on track to receive between 4 and 9" of heavy wet snow tonight. I'll be out in the woods shaking my trees trying to get the snow off of them tomorrow.
26° some sun., Got 14" of snow last Sunday night
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Mill has not run for a time.
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I left the floor with a pile of sawdust on it for the winter.
I get the ladies in town to come get all they want for free.
From hamsters to horses, kids. :D
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Some clear R Oak hanging around.
More snow tomorrow, I think.
First starry sky I have seen for weeks (quite literally) up here. Might actually be a sunny day for a little while. 12F out there. Sure makes for a better day in the winter when it's sunny. ;D
That crash sound you heard about 90 minutes ago was a tree in my back yard falling and hitting the house. I don't think it did any damage. It was a virginia pine that was only about 7" at the base and just the top of the tree hit the house. In fact it was two trees growing in a group, so they were already leaning away from each other. They both must have fallen at the same time. The other landed on my fence, but doesn't look like it did any damage there either. We only got about 3" of snow but its hard to tell, because its so wet that most of it is in the trees.
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AW Geez Bill! Sorry to see that. I was going to make a snarky/funny comment about your remark yesterday about shaking the trees. Now I'm glad I was a little too busy at the time. I understand why you do it now. Sure hope there's no hidden damage.
When the RO came down on the garage last winter it looked like we got off OK, until I went inside and saw a small branch had punched through. Same thing Happened on my shed in the late fall with a deadfall branch, still have to fix that one.
Hope it turns out OK.
I think at the worst it bent the gutter. I can live with a bent gutter. May just have to push it back. That used to be a group of 3 trees, but several years ago we came home from a trip and the 3rd tree was laying on the garage. No damage there either. We did not plant the trees like that. Those trees were just little volunteer saplings when we built the house and we left them there. They were a pain in the neck always having to duck under low hanging limbs while cutting the grass. That won't be a problem anymore.
Minimal damage and still power I assume. So you were lucky.
We are destined for something similar up here, but they say the rain and ice will be further south. They've said that before. But Houlton, Maine said we could get it up here to. So pick which forecast you like I guess. :D Maine has usually been more accurate for us border areas. Sunny right now, but clouds moving in from the south.
With Cindy, Liam, Sean, my dad and myself we got the trees removed from the back yard. No visible damage to the gutter. My fence is a little bit messed up, but I can get that fixed pretty quickly. Liam learned to use the chainsaw for the first time. Cindy learned to use it too. She said she used one once before we were married. They both got to learn with an MS261. I learned with my dads old Skil. We recreated an old picture from when Liam was a toddler. Ironically from when a tree fell at the same spot in the yard. Power went off and on a bunch but never for more than a minute.
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Love those photos Bill!
Thanks for sending the snow up. We only got 2" today and now it is raining steady. Temp should be 40° by daybreak. 4th week of January. Sheesh!
If I were paying for winter weather I would sue for breach of contract and want my money back, plus damages. This is nonsense weather.
Snow began sometime before midnight here and a little wind with it. 13F now, suppose to hit 36F and rain according to the weather app.
Was pushing 78F here today, and of course humid. But Lil has bit the bullet and got our next door neighbour to install a mini-spilt heat pump. (he runs his own refrigeration / AC business). Daikin unit, so not cheap, but so far it's seems to work fine.
Mostly we want it for Winter heating, but it's nice to come home and turn on a cool breeze, even if it's only low / quiet mode.
Better to be comfy when that humid heat comes knocking. I use an efficient AC unit here in summer, was about $800, doesn't cost more than $40 a month electric. Only run it 12 hrs in the heat waves. The big dormer window upstairs has a vertical blind, but is like a furnace with sun on it. Those heat blocking blinds are over $3 grand, so I never went that route, $750 for a Hunter Douglas vertical was plenty enough layout. :D Wood heat here, I'd freeze with a heat pump. I've had two, so I know what that is like. A forced air stove is pushing 95F+ heat which is still close to 75F or 80F at the far end, while the heat pump might be 60F at the far end, if you're lucky. :D Government is pushing them with incentives. All depends on your circumstances in life. There's a time when one can't do all the labour involved with wood, no woodlot, no time or just lazy. In my senior years I will have electric furnace and wood backup for power outages. I already have the electric side unit on the wood furnace, but it's backup right now. It puts out more heat than a heat pump in the cold of winter. That's why they are installed along with whole home heat pumps up here. I know some folks with mini splits, they also use baseboard unless they are living in a trailer. Still cold at the far end of a 32 foot trailer. The guy up the road has one. He's got a fire on to when it's 10F or colder outside. :D Another neighbor has a furnace with her mini, the mini is mainly air conditioning. You set it up permanently and don't have to take it out of a window every fall. So you pay $5000 more to remove that step. ;D Only 2 years old. Convenience always costs more. :D The heat pumps work on their own in mild winter, not NB winter. ;)
It's 9 out here
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38F now and raining hard. They predicted about 1" rain.
Went from 15-28F yesterday and sunny for a change. Suppose to be snow squalls today and a snow storm tomorrow afternoon.
Had to get the sanding buckets out yesterday to lay some sand on the driveway around the buildings. I hate ice. ;D I go to the local government garage for it, they dump some in a spot for public access.
Well, we are in another blizzard as of 2 hrs ago. ::)
NZ has had some rough weather last couple of days. Tropical "train" dumping warm wet air from the North. We have been OK here, although SH43 going East has been closed. Auckland got it worst with some 2"+ per hour downpours and extensive flooding. Auckland is coastal and a narrow spot of the Island, so no large rivers, but smaller streams flooded enough to wash houses and cars away. The international airport was closed, with ~2000 passengers stuck inside. No planes and 2ft of water outside the terminal. So basically stuck in the airport for the night.
Other social media clips has busses getting though the flooded motorway with water coming in the doors and sloshing back and forward in the bus. At least once they got to a stop the water sloshed out the doors. :-\
Anyway they are still under a State of Emergency, although the rain has eased today, they are expecting more more next week. So far 4 deaths reported, 3 drowned and another killed when a landslide took out their house, so serious stuff. Like I said, we are OK here, but pretty rough up North.
Got to 32F yesterday afternoon and the snow ended in the middle of the afternoon.
14F this morning and overcast, snow expected this afternoon into Monday. Says 9F in Mars Hill.
high of almost 50 yesterday, 11 now and below freezing for a few days.
Our temp did drop to almost 10F, 6 hrs before that it was 24F. Started snowing here about 10:00 am this morning.
Storm was over before 9:00 pm and stars are out. Looks like a cold snap coming, colder than we had all winter into the minuses range. 11F this morning.
Think I'll let the mill take a breather today, and me for that matter. I usually feel pretty spry for my age, but when I walked out this morning and took a breath (cough,cough) I was sure I'd put 10 yrs on overnight. Toooo cold whiteflag_smiley
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Dakotas or Manitoba.
Same temps.
Same decision.
"She's a bit crisp out there."
Looks like we will all be cold.
We have been good at high noon, so far. Most times in the 20's.
North of the Island is under another "RED" rainfall warning tonight. With everything still being waterlogged from the Friday downpours it's likely to cause more carnage. They still have roads washed out / water pipes out etc from Friday. Today's news had a telecom crew using a drone to carry a drawstring over a washed out bridge. Then pull a temp fibre optic cable to replace the one that was strung on the missing bridge. Got internet and cell coverage back to that area at lease.
Again we are only on a rain "watch" for around the Mt. Because of the direction we shouldn't get a lot of rain. Auckland on the other hand had their average Jan rainfall in 60 minutes, and 8X the normal Jan rain, in a day.
Well, more light snow here started just before dark, the sun disappeared by noon yesterday. I think it only warmed about 4 degrees all day. 16F here and 11F at Mars Hill this morning. Just can't go 24 hrs without some snow. No amount most times, but still snow. It's a wonder it didn't rain to. :D :D
We've had 37" of snow this month (Caribou, Me), snow depth is 25". Probably more like 20" locally. And we have only had 5 days without a storm in Jan. Today ain't one of them. :D Lots of rain events have kept the snow depth down.
NWS just issued this warning for Texas and up into the Ohio valley.
An Extensive and Very Dangerous Ice Storm
A glancing blow of arctic air mixed with a surge in moisture is setting the stage for an extensive and very dangerous ice event. The most likely corridor of icing with a mixture of sleet will occur from west-central Texas to the Tennessee and Lower Ohio Valleys. The ice accretion from Texas into Mid South may approach a half inch or more through Wednesday and cause power outages and travel issues.
I have 20° with a high of 25 today.
Might have got 2 inches of snow last night.
10° now with a high pred. 23 today.
15 going on 23 today. They got a bunch of sleet and ice in southern Missouri yesterday and maybe more today. Looks like it is all gonna miss me near St Louis.
Bill, at first i thought you were commenting on your son. "15 going on 23!" :D He looks like a good kid.
Brief cold snap on tap. 20 below Friday night.
Will be burning hardwood for a spell ;D.
That too Doc, that too.
It was -49°F night before last.
Beautiful clear sunny skies and the shop woodstove is keeping up with our climate. I'm using the time to repair and figure out a new (to me) band sharpener.
The weather guesser is calling for a high of 19°F on Sat/Sun. Whoopee, I'll run the sawmill and loader to charge batteries and circulate a bit of fresh stabilized gas through the carburetor.
5F here on the porch thermometer, -6F in Mars Hill. Probably go colder before delight. Stars are out. Was snow squalls all day yesterday with a brisk wind making white outs on the road. 1/2" snow from the night before that I scooped off. Looks like a sunny day on tap, but the snow engine starts back up tomorrow for squalls and light snow for the next 4 days. :D
I have 2 above this morning.
Pretty close to 0F right now. ;D Says -10F in Mars Hill.
-38F in the city of Edmundston, NB this morning. ;)
Yes, that cold is heading my way.
Just not today.
I have 5 above with temps in the high 20's.
The cold is coming, but only for 2 days.
8F here this morning, clear out.
How are our friends in TX making out with all that ice storm stuff?
I heard over 400,000 without power. over 700 flights canceled for today.
Jim Rogers
Snow moving in over the hills now. Didn't take long to switch from sunny. :D
Tomorrow and the next day high around 20, then Sunday right back in the forty's. We have had no winter yet. I am starting to fear March.
12° and it will be dropping by the time I get home tonight.
16F and windy here. Not snowing, but some expected to fall from squalls. ;D
Time will tell if it gets colder than 0F the other morning, tomorrow morning. ;D
48° and raining here in South GA.
Groundhog said early spring.
We'll see.
January finally arrived. 13° outside and the wind is a-whippin'! Temp will drop through the day and should be below zero by morning.
Hopefully this will stiffen the ground up a bit. ;D
When I got up this morning (7:00) the temp here was -5°, and it's still -3°
Supposed to get a lot colder later today!
NWS has a wind-chill warning going on now!
0 tonight, that's cold for Orange county. Right now the wind is bad, so far one lumber pile cover destroyed .
Mildest winter I have ever seen in Virginia. Its been mostly 40-50's all through December-January. Its 30 degrees here now but its predicted to be in the 50's in two days. In February! Three dustings of snow, all melted by afternoon. Global warming works for me!
The weather this "winter" has been mostly above to well above freezing, except when it's below zero like today, or maybe we'll hit 5 today. But now they say 40 and rain coming next week.
Nearly worst-case from a logging perspective. Either ushy gushy and rut up your ground, or stay inside, looking out the window, shivering. Can't quite keep decent snow cover either, at least in week(s) ahead. Whatever happened to 20 degrees, frozen ground, and a decent snowpack?
Well we have your snow pack and winter up here, stormed 26 days in January. But was never colder than 10F. Been wind and light snow all day here. Went from 16F this morning to -12F right now. Have no doubt it will hit -25 or -30 by morning. That's still warmer then -38F in Edmundston the other morning. Windy out to. Lots of frost snapping going on in the walls. ;D So far a lot colder than January. ;)
Gonna be a 3 dog night.
20 below and lots of wind to boot.
I deliver parts now at a parts store.
I had 6 cases of oil to bring out to the van. I carried one at a time out to the car, they were all different sizes and kinds. So like a dummie, I went out bare handed. By the time I got the fifth one out to the van my hands were beyond cold. I then came too and thought it might just be a good idea to put on a pair of gloves.
That's how cold it was today.
Been winter UP here for sure. Never got much above zero the last few days, wind chills have been to -30° at time. Lots of light snow coming down (around 130 inches so far). Supposed to get into the 30s this week which isn't unusual either. Pretty typical winter so far.
We just hit 1 below with about a -20 wind chill. Glad the 40 mph winds finally let up. Woodstove is really cranking to keep up.
It's -9 here in southern Massachusetts at 11:30 PM and dropping like a rock. The wind is howling. We'll see what the temperature is here when the sun comes up.
-23F so far this morning with a -52F below windchill along with that 20 mph wind. Almost 80F inside. ;D A complete haze with blowing snow and maybe even frost in the air. No doubt lots of wood smoke mixed in. :D
Well, at 7:00 this morning we had -30°, haven't seen it that cold in quite a few years.
So, I had to go out and do the boiling water vaporization thing, that was cool.
-20f this morning with a -47f wind chill
I will feed the black locust to the stove again today.
Warms up tomorrow and in the 40's next week
-15 at 5:00 this morning. Wind was howling all night. I had to start up the oil furnace to help the wood stoves. It's been quite a few years since I've seen temps this cold.
20 below and yeah that wind was close to freight train
stuff at times. 2 stoves going with a reload in the night.
Wind gusted to 127mph up Mt Washington observatory.
Frostquakes "being reported and had one or two here.
Sounds like something hit the house. Hard to describe bit it'll get your attention like what the heck was that.
"The tremors are the result of "cryoseisms", according to the NWS. These are caused when sudden cracks form in frozen water or soil."
I hope all are OK and managing this event.
Any updates from our friends down south?
Here in CNY sank to -20°F last night, we should make it back to
0°F later this morning and keep climbing.
take care folks
D
This morning, our mini weather station was reading "OF" this morning. I take it the thermometer was trying to tell me "oh fudge". Looking up the the specifications in the user manual, the thermometer stops recording the temperature beyond -40. Environment Canada is warning of wind chills as low as -55 c.
One of the bands I was in, back in earlier times, we was pulling into Madison for a show and had local radio weather report come on. "Wind chill" was 90 below zero.
It was most unpleasant when I had to step outside the van on the way home to relieve my bladder.
Even I had to start the oil burner last night. Getting soft. That fuel is for sawing lumber!
It was 5 degrees below zero this morning. They say the high for tomorrow is going to be 42 degrees. Really don't like these crazy temperature swings. Its hard for the livestock to get aclamented to anything.
Almost noon here and still -12F with 23 mph wind and -42F windchill. Sunshine here in the windows eliminates the wood, it's 80F in here now, I don't want it 90F. ;D
41° + here... sorry! :)
Despite the frigid temps, my solar water heater started circulating water about 9:30
this morning. It was still -15F outside then and has been running steady since.
Temp in the collectors is 120 F right now, thats 130* warmer than the ambient outside air. The power of the sun !
Well, now it's noon here and the thermometer finally reads 0°f
Off and on, all through the night I could hear the house foundation expanding and contracting, sometimes it was quite loud!
I had -16 this morning.
Yes, woodroe I heard some noises too.
It's 0° now and the wind!!!!
QuoteOne of the bands I was in, back in earlier times, we was pulling into Madison for a show and had local radio weather report come on. "Wind chill" was 90 below zero.
By chance, Christmas weekend around '83 ??Recall -26° F and 30 mph winds. Don't know what that is on the wind chill charts but don't pay attention to that weather feature.
Government had to bring out the pay loader this afternoon to bust up that hard packed wind driven snow. Plow can't budge it. Wind driven snow in the severe cold is hard enough to walk on. Still -6F here and wind, but sunny.
We were lucky here with snow. We had a crust and then maybe a couple inches on top of that. That blew across and, on the roads, but that 2 crust did not move. Tomorrow afternoon almost 30.
we are at 58° in a T-shirt. I will enjoy it while we can.
Wind has diminished and -7F.
Quote from: thecfarm on February 04, 2023, 03:02:35 PM
We were lucky here with snow. We had a crust and then maybe a couple inches on top of that. That blew across and, on the roads, but that 2 crust did not move. Tomorrow afternoon almost 30.
Yeah that crust layer was laid bare after the wind last night, shiny again, not good.
One more night of 0* and back to working in the woodyard conditions for next week.
Looks like I am going to bed with a temp of zero. Better than last night!!!! No wind either.
That's a pretty low temp, and hope you feel better in the morning. 8)
-5F here and a light wind, can't hear it against the house, but when I opened the front door (south end of the house) it was a little whispie out there. ;D
Well, it's some different than yesterday, at 7:00 this morning we had +30°F, that's a 60° swing from yesterday.
Maybe I'll get out and move a little snow before the new snow and rain get here.
I woke up with a temp of 4° and feeling much better. ;D
High noon in the 20's and the temp will keep going up.
Yup, glad that was just a one nighter kind of thing. Overnight at 0* and
no wind seemed mild in comparison to -20* and wind blowing 50 at times.
And no frost quakes last night either.
9F here now, has gone up almost 15 degrees since this morning. Overcast skies now, suppose to see flurries. Just came in from scooping that hard packed snow from along the edges of the driveway. About a 3 hr workout on the shoulders. :D Use it to my advantage, walk on hard pack snow ramps to throw it over to side. ;D
15F and snowing now. Back to the snow grind. ;D
It got up to 44° here today, and it's slowly creeping back down!
Oh well, it is Winter.
Saw 14 turkeys cross the field today, headed to the cedar swamp.
Wow !!
I could've bagged a dozen with my truck bumper the other day, coming out of our land.
They get out of the way....sort of. Always a few that want to challenge you over who actually has the right of way.
I see them cross the road quite often on the way home. Them things are pretty smart or know, he's on his way home and he is not slowing down. They take flight every time.
On the way to work I will slow down for them. ;)
Why be in a hurry for someplace you don't want to go.
I got nothing against the bald eagle, but Ben Franklin was on to something in suggesting the wild turkey be our national bird. Tough, smart survivors, that's for sure.
A turkey sighting is not a big deal, except for the fact they are not native here. The amazing thing is how they have naturalized to this harsh climate and continue to grow in numbers. And that now we have an annual turkey hunting season. :D
Yeah those turkeys have been hanging around my cousins Christmas tree farm. That's only 1/3 of the number you can see on occasion cross the road from his farm to go to the cedar swamp. Last winter the garbage truck flushed about 38 of them in one flock that were in the field above the house, the sky was full of turkeys and they flew a good 1/2 a mile across 3 fields. I guess you had to be there, a garbage truck rolling down the road overcome by flying turkeys, too funny. :D
The other day a neighbor had a fire incident with his pellet stove. The road was stuffed with wind driven snow and so fire trucks could not come. Some firemen came on snowmobiles to see what happened. They blame a down draft on possibly blowing a spark into the pellet hopper and igniting pellets. We had terrible wind with that cold snap. Soon after that the government sent the pay loader out and plow behind. They had to remove wind driven snow 3 times that day. Just a day or two before that his barn collapsed from snow load.
His brother has a similar style barn, and he got his but into gear with help from his family to get the snow off of it. They are steel quonset hut style barns.
I have 20 now.
Looks like it will be double that before the day is done.
Guess I don't need all those layers of clothes I had on the other day.
20F here also, some snow falling to.
A little rain down here (58°) and a bit of snow up the hill.
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Sunny and breezy morning. The snow on the trees will probably be gone by the afternoon. Looks like 6-12" fell.
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Further up the hill they got a bit more. Most of the cameras are offline this morning. Snowpack is sitting at better than 200% of normal. If we have no more precip, we would be almost average for the year.
Yeah, cleared off another 2-3" here this morning. Then been squalls and a little sun now and again. Looks like a more substantial snow for Friday. The plow has never removed that 3" yet today, more ice on top of ice in the making by tramping it down.
Speaking of ice, north side roof eaves here are heavily laden not so much from heat loss
but repeated rain on snow events.
Probably 4-5" thick on the lower edges (asphalt) so with melting in the forecast got the ladder out and did some chipping on it to prevent ice dam scenarios.
I saw some melting going on today.
Not at my place.
Never thought it would happen again after Friday and Saturday. ;D
11:00pm-ish...thunder, lightning and wind driven rain. Radar looked like sleet maybe up at farm. Go there tomorrow, skid some sticks out of the plantation.
Hope it ain't too ooey gooey.
Was 24F here, but the sun was melting around exposed gravel and the porch roof where the sun hit on the steel. The sun in that big window up stairs drove the temp up there to 90F. I closed the vertical blind in the dormer window. Had two windows up all afternoon until dark, no fire at all since mid morning. Never cooled off much, but a nice breeze near the window. Amazing how windows heat this place. The afternoon sun, when it's sunny, is brutal. :D
2F here this morning and a morning fire on. Won't need another stick in until 6 pm.
I got maybe 2 inches of snow last night. 24° now.
Was just about 30 yesterday with sun until late afternoon.
22F here and just a skiff of snow over night. Brushed the flu and cleaned out the ashes this morning. Not much of anything in the flu, and that is 43 feet tall.
It was 24F yesterday and I had two north windows open upstairs all day and no fire after 9 am. Still about 80F with windows open. :)
7C right now which means close to 45F, almost warm enough to sit outside with a beer if I had one. Not much snow in the valley bottom but I can imagine what the bush roads are like. The loggers are hauling at night but that won't last much longer. Speaking of turkeys we are seeing wild ones now, apparently they are immigrating from Washington and Idaho. Ring neck pheasants have pretty much disappeared, the times are changing and not necessarily for the better. :-\
Was 38F here today after the sun came out for the afternoon. Snow tomorrow night.
We are in for a thrashing for the next several hours. :o
34° and about an inch of wet snow last night. It rained too.
High 40's today.
Wind is supposed to blow too.
24F here now, snowed all night. Suppose to warm and get freezing rain and rain later.
Spring like snow event overnight. Heavy , wet and fog at the end.
Shedding some roof ice with a couple days partly sunny near 40*.
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Still 24F and the freezing rain moved in. I did get that 4-5" of snow off before that hit.
6C right now and the weather forecast says above freezing during the day for the next two weeks. Looks like winter is pretty much over, it didn't amount to much. I'm worried about the water supply this summer if we don't get more snow, we don't need another prolonged heat wave and fire season.
26F here, the freezing rain didn't amount to much. Snow now.
This is the weirdest 'winter' I can remember in a long time and it seems to be hard on everyone. Loggers can't get in and cut during their prime season, nobody can really adjust physically, too dry some places, too much rain in others on ground that was frozen lightly a few days before, it's a mess. I am thinking about holding back some of my tax money until they get this fixed. ;D
It was only mid 30's here most of the day hitting 41 at 3pm. I was in the woods around noon cutting mushroom logs and taking some fairly nice trees with a few saw logs on them besides, also there was firewood in there. So, multi-tasking as the kids would say. :D I had on a long sleeve t-shirt, a hickory work shirt, a sweatshirt, and a light jacket over that. I also had a stretch hat as a hard hat liner. The jacket came off after the first tree and I opened up the sweatshirt soon after that. I took off the stretch hat too. Everything was soaked when I took it off. My skid steer operator, on the other hand was trying to stay warm and actually grabbed my saw to drop a tree and limb it to warm himself up. ;D In the woods you could be picking your way across an ice section then drop into a water hole 6" deep. I expect that in December, not mid-February. I really feel for all the folks with full operations and all that equipment just sitting. For tiny little me, it's just a matter of harder walking and working, for the other folks it means a whole lot worse and I think about that a lot. The next couple of days it will be up over 40 again. Guess I should grab a few more trees. The bark seems to be holding tight and that is critical for mushrooms but it just never really got cold expect for the 10 below we got last Saturday, then 40 the next day.
Geez I dunno.
Dull grey high overcast day here. An ex tropical cyclone is incoming, although it's set to mostly hit the North and East of the Island. Just some wind and a bit of rain forecast for us. The folks in the Nth / East haven't fully cleaned up from the last storm a few weeks back, and they are going to take the brunt of this one.
Another news piece came up about the procedure for closing the main Auckland airport. Normally one of the things they monitor is how much water is on the runway. Might vary from "Dry" though to 5 mm, so they can advise the pilots about takeoff and braking conditions. So the runway inspection guys go out in their car to check the runway. "Yeah, the water is 1/2 way up my boots!!!". The airport has the ocean on 3 sides, it was just the rain sitting on the runway.... They ended up closing the airport, with 6" of rain IN the domestic terminal, and the access roads underwater. Passengers couldn't fly OR drive out, and 1000+ folks were stuck there for the night.
P.S, be careful buying a used (or even new) car in Auckland at the moment. A lot of them have been swimming. :-\
Well, I was shovelling more snow yesterday, about 2" overnight. Put more sand on. ::) I think it reached 28F yesterday and the snow was melting on the porch. Still a lot on the main porch to melt, need some 40's days. Suppose to see mid 30's today, 15F at the moment.
Yesterday was just about 40°, the same as today. Looks like a warm week ahead.
26F this morning, cloudy. No snow to clear at least. :D
36F here yesterday, ice was melting on the driveway.
Looks like Saturday will be our cold day, 30°!!!!
Temps in the high 30's and some even in the high 40's all this week.
Sap will be flowing.
26F here and snowing. Rain for tomorrow. Wheee more ice. And another mess Friday. :D
Steadily raining here. ::) Going to loose most of the fros in the ground, the cattle yards will become bottomless quagmires.. This weather is a good month too soon. I guess it is moisture
and we are still short.
Yes indeed! We need the rain but I'm not very happy about it now!! It just dried out finally to start working my drive to get two truck and pups in with rock! That's definitely not going to happen!!!
Clear skies this morning and if you didn't know it you'd think the moon was sitting on the roof of the neighbor's barn. ;D Rain coming in tonight. 20F now.
It's been snowing light to moderate since I was up cutting two days ago. Plus or minus six inch accumulation. Cold front to follow so this snow should be around for a while. :laugh:
Low 40's and really nothing for sun.
We dodged the worst of the latest cyclone here, but it slammed the North and East of the Island badly. This is the 2nd one in about 2 weeks, and didn't hit Auckland quite as hard as the last one, but other areas much worse.
Towns up on the East Coast are still completely cut off, no road / phones / power. Army / Airforce / Navy are having to bring in supplies, and one of the Supermarket companies has ended up chartering a heavy lift chopper to get basic supplies / Starlink dishes and generator fuel in to their more remote stores. Gisborne city is basically without phone and internet as both the fibre feed cables have been taken out. Techs are working on it, with chopper support, and say the least damaged one is only broken in 4 places.
Here's a video from the other day... Where the chopper is "landing" is the roof of the ground floor, you can see the roof mounted Sat dish in the foreground. The Airforce has choppers in the air too, but this looks like a local with a 2 seat Robinson just getting the job done. His off-sider is helping the stranded family in one at a time.
Watch: Helicopter makes dramatic rescue in flood-stricken Hawke's Bay | Stuff.co.nz (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300808462/watch-helicopter-makes-dramatic-rescue-in-floodstricken-hawkes-bay)
Death toll is 5 so far, combination of drowning and landslides taking out houses. It's likely to rise as rescue crews reach more remote areas.
And then we had a 6.3 Quake last night as well. Fortunately deep and offshore, so felt widely but no real damage. Prime Minister was in the Nat Disaster Centre at the time, and his first words were "not reportable". His next was "What next, a swarm of Locusts!!!"
Been mostly a warm wind in the 40's, not much for rain. Now they say cold and snow for Friday, not rain. :D 38F at present.
That's messy down there on that island nation. I thank my fortunes I'm high and dry here, although we have had earthquakes, none have been devastating in recent history, mostly around 2.0. We've actually had 18 earthquakes in the last year. Most centre around Grand Lake sparsely settled and camps in the south and Jacks and the Kennedy lakes in the north (very remote area), just fishing camp areas with no permanent residents up there. The magnitude 5's we had 41 years ago where also in that remote lake area. There were stronger ones before there were instruments to measure it, it moved the house foundation 2" on the old house.
Today's Earthquakes in New Brunswick, Canada (https://earthquaketrack.com/r/new-brunswick-canada/recent)
If anything devastating happened here on a weekend, not a peep would be mentioned about it until Monday morning, just be hearing Friday's news cycle all weekend. I witnessed that during Arthur. A national news organization run by the government never said a peep until Monday morning in the next news cycle. Was no mention of where to get water if you needed it, all weekend long. Local radio just blaring out the same old music playlists. That's our emergency preparedness plan. ::) I can tell ya right now we were better in tune 50 years ago, we've gone complacent from lack of serious events. Flooding along rivers for instance is nothing new, it has been happening here every year since the place was settled with folks taking a chance on building in harms way. All anyone has to do is look around them at the land and vegetation to see the clues of flooding events. Building on old grassy sand dunes with lots of foot and ATV traffic impacting it's integrity never gets mentioned in the 'catastrophic erosion' events. ::) Probably been 30 years now since they even brought it up, now it's blamed on just the weather to push a narrative.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on February 16, 2023, 02:05:12 AMmostly around 2.0. We've actually had 18 earthquakes in the last year
In an average year NZ records about 20,000 quakes. Most are small and usually only felt locally.
And of course some of them are man-made.
GeoNet - Shaken not stirred: Foo Fighters rocked Auckland! (http://geonet-shakennotstirred.blogspot.com/2011/12/rock-n-roll.html)
So quakes aren't a new thing, we just have to watch for the plague of locusts now. :-\
That's a lot of shaking going on. :D
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN8VV8CHnrk)
We have flood warnings here.Went out to get some oil and filters to service my truck and didn't think I was going to make it home before the water got over the road.Glad I live in the head of the hollow up on a hill.People down along the creek are probably sweating bullets.In the last 20 years we have already had a 100 year flood and a 1000 year flood.
Low here tonight supposed to be 64 degrees. Needed shorts to get any work done today.
Might of got 50 at my house today.
Both banks had 54°, but that was with hot top close by.
Set a record in Portland,ME, 56°. The old one was 51 back in 1981.
45F here yesterday, got rid of some yard and road ice. 28F now and snow coming sometime today. We are under a snowfall warning, 6-10" in 12 hrs. :D
Quote from: Ianab on February 16, 2023, 02:45:15 AM
Quote from: SwampDonkey on February 16, 2023, 02:05:12 AMmostly around 2.0. We've actually had 18 earthquakes in the last year
In an average year NZ records about 20,000 quakes. Most are small and usually only felt locally.
The quakes I noted are just those in NB. They get more quakes on the west coast than here. They've had 438 in the last year in British Columbia, the largest of the year being a 5.3 on Vancouver Island. The country is so vast here, that no one really cares about monitoring a quake 500 miles away in a remote black spruce barren. :D
We're getting a little freezing rain here this morning, expecting to switch off to some snow in a couple hours.
I was on the road and only saw the lighting, but the thunder was bad!! It shook our house and the store too. Even about 15 miles away too.
Started out above freezing this morning, but it's below freezing and trying to snow. Might be all done now.
Some aerial pics of the flooding aftermath. The sawmill gives some idea. Those sticks scattered around are logs. In others check the level of silt up the roof lines of buildings.
Cyclone Gabrielle: Aerial images from Hawke's Bay show the destructive power of water | Stuff.co.nz (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300810622/cyclone-gabrielle-aerial-images-from-hawkes-bay-show-the-destructive-power-of-water)
They have got power and cell phones back to most of Napier and Gisborne cities now, A friend's Mother lives in the Gisborne area, and was only able to make contact today after they got power and cellphone coverage back on. She is OK, and folks up that way tend to look out for each other, like most of NZ really.
Death toll from the storm is now Nine, but the police have a list of about 5,000 people reported as "not contacted". Most will be OK of course, just out of contact, but it's assumed that a few more may be dead. Looking at the chaos, I'm thinking that some victims may never be found.
@Ianab (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=460), tough scenes. Beyond the direct human toll and of course, the cleanup mess, is the shocking loss of soil in these events.
On a much tinier scale, we had a cloudburst that happened just as area farmers had disced and planted their fields. Roads were closed due to drifts of topsoil. Ten inches in six hours or something like that.....of course, the summer was mostly dry!
Long term I think those areas have actually gained soil... from the hill country inland. But that's not great if your farm now has 2 foot more soil, over your pasture, crops, vineyard, orchard, house etc. There are pics of cars buried up to their windows in silt, still parked in front of the owners house.
Ironically part of the problem was due to a cyclone ~30 years ago that caused similar chaos, although to a smaller area. There was so much land slippage on the hill country sheep farms that it was decided to plant them in trees, to stabilise them, That did basically work, but now the trees are being harvested, and there is a lot of "slash", or logging waste (tops, branches and log ends etc) left on the logging sites. This isn't usually a problem, as they just rot away quickly to compost. Unless a flood gets them first. Now you have a thousand tons of random logs coming down the river, jamming at and taking out bridges, and then ending up on the local beach.
I think logging companies there will be forced to haul out their rubbish, or maybe chip it onto more harmless chunks. Opportunity to set up a wood fired power station maybe? Drop your junk wood here for no cost and avoid the fines for leaving it at the landing on a river flood plane?
That sure is one big mess down there. Will take some doing to recover. As bad as it is now, you guys will bounce back, and find some new approaches to remediate for the future.
Looks like 3-4" of new snow, not a block buster storm by any stretch. Everything was shut down though. It got colder throughout the storm, and when it does that it's never a snow piler-upper, just light stuff. Went from 26F to 16F by noon then down to 5F last night. Had some hail and even a short burst of freezing rain in the mix. There were thunder bolts reported in areas.
Ianab, the power of water.
I have 12° now but should get up to 30.
My point was that all that material did come from somewhere else....and it probably ain't there anymore.
Hoping for dry weather for the affected areas.
Cyclone observed from space.
See the eye of tropical cyclone Freddy in amazing view from space station - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVZQBeZ3ff8)
I was cutting yesterday and it was in the mid 30's with clear blue skies and no wind. Out there picking up logs this morning and the same. This time last year I couldn't do anything without ice cleats on and trying to stay upright slipping around in the snow and ice.
Somehow I can't shake this feeling I have that next year we are going to pay for all the mild temps and lack of snow we have this year.
Never know what will happen with the weather.
Last year was a warm winter, and not much snow until about mid Jan.
Today was warm, high 30's easy, but had some wind.
38F and partial sun yesterday, this morning it's 36F and a storm coming. Might be rain, but could turn to snow to. Back to winter the rest of the week and colder by Thursday. No sap around here. Not a pale, not a sap line, nothing up yet from the hobby operations. I know out in Juniper country in the large operations that there can't be much either. I've never seen sap run up here in one warm day, coming off frigid temperatures the day before. I remember the folks were at a sugar camp one time and the temp was barely 20F and 3 feet of snow on the ground and they were told the sap was running today. Yeah, on people's pancake breakfast maybe. I heard about that for years. :D No lack of snow here, I've shovelled every other day sometimes every day for 2 months. ;D The snow is up over 3 feet on the raspberry garden posts. They are 1 foot into the ground and a 6 foot post. Sure if you measure snow in an open field where it has been blown off and the sun working on it, it is less deep. Go into the woods, especially fir ground. :D Last May when it was all bare here and had been since April, there was still 2 feet of snow and 6 foot high snow banks in Deersdale, 30 miles from here. :D The river valley has a warmer climate than out in the boonie lands. The Saint John is no little creek. It has a 50 mile inland tide. The Fundy is a huge tide, the water has to go somewhere. When it is out on the Bay, no sign of water just a mud flat. Then that all comes flooding back and up the river against the fresh water. Won't catch me building a house anywhere near that animal. :D
I drove by one place and steam was coming out of the vents at the sap house. Early for us.
Then another guy was pumping sap from the tank into another tank in his truck.
But that warm spell was only for 3-5 days.
Looks like the mid 40's today and back to winter temps. Might get above freezing tomorrow.
Family came up to hunt for sheds. They don't have much snow in the city, as I call it. He was shocked when he saw how much snow I have. No sheds were found, too much snow.
He is no more than 40 minutes away.
They get much more rain than I do. Happens every year.
I was kinda perplexed reading about a fella I know at UNB who teaches, and I know has a weather station they monitor in Deersdale. He was calling this climate change and yet they have as much snow as I do in Fredericton area and probably twice as much in Deersdale at that station. Also in the summer they get more rain at that station to. Seems they cherry pick data these days, the new science. :D
February....anything I have to say about it as a month would not be fit to post and earn a timeout....Supposed to go back below zero again towards the end of the week with a foot of snow forecast for the cabin not so much here. Had two nice days over the weekend middle of the week will be hard on calves.
Given this odd stop-start winter, we're down to bare ground in a lot of areas.
So of course, here comes 12"-18".
Saw 2 more sap houses boiling.
Was high 40's again.
But that is gone for a while.
Little snow coming tomorrow than 8 inches coming Thursday.
Lots of melting around the yard here. Almost looks like spring here.
Heading for a record. Thursday is supposed to be a rain/snow mix for Sacramento. I'm a bit higher at my house (500') and will likely see some accumulation. My cabin is supposed to see another 3 to 4 feet.
wisconsitom
Looks like about 12" predicted for you yet this week. Should hide some of that bare ground for you.
Won't be a sap day here, 16F and dropping. I live beside two boil operations, I don't yet see as much as a can on a tree around here. Neighoring operations aren't much more than hobby as most of the maple forest is tiny islands among potato fields near me. :D Big snow for Thursday night, well below freezing for the next week, even down near 0F.
Daylight now, it has dropped to 8F. Had a little snow overnight. Not enough to shovel. ;D
12° with 12" of new snow overnight. Forecasters are calling for 18-25" more by Thursday. Along with that snow is north winds from Canada creating blizzard conditions.
The bull moose is hanging around on my ground. Fresh tracks and old tracks, seen a couple of his beds in one of the trails. Lots of spaced softwood to find shelter under, but not much to eat. He must be walking over to the blow down patch or willow runs for some nibbles. 30" of snow out there now. Have to duck limbs under walking trails that are above the SxS cab in the summer. Plus I had ski poles to judge depth. Hard base here, hardly sink at all with snow shoes.
14F this morning and had a little snow over night, nothing to shovel. Looks overcast out there now. No sap in them conditions. ;) Got the house a little warm, so I had the window up most of the night. :D
It was a beautiful sunny day in Winnipeg, but a cold wind from the North made the shop seem like the best option for the day.
I thought it was a little chilly when I saw the forecast of -40° for tonight. Then my daughter sent a photo of herself in Rankin Inlet, NU and told me their forecast is -65° tonight.
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OK you win, I'm warm! 😁
Great photo, snowing here as I type.
with the wind the snow here is between bare ground on drive to foot and a half in drifts.
It was 64 when I got up this morning. Stayed that way until about 1 when a thunderstorm brought some heavy rain and wind. I'd rather have the snow. Been a sad winter for snow lovers here.
Plenty of wind with this snow... it'll be hard to gauge total amount.
Quote from: tule peak timber on February 22, 2023, 07:17:24 PMGreat photo, snowing here as I type.
Is snow common or totally rare where you are? I had to look up your location just to double check . . . are you at high elevation there?
Andries that is a fantastic photo!
3F here and no snow yet, not going to snow until later. Might get 6-9" for here. Going to be cold the rest of the week. And nothing above freezing for the following week. No sap for sure. If it stays cold during this storm we won't get any 6", too dry. :D Often we will get lots of snow in the 20's and it will clear in the night and the temp will drop 20-40 degrees in clear skies and wind. Oh we had a cold storm, nope we didn't, it got cold when it cleared when you where pushing ZZZZ's in bed. Big difference. :D
Won't be no sap here either for a week.
Snow here now at 15°.
Still snowing. I suppose around a foot....hard to say with all the wind. Supposed to end by mid day.
We're supposed to be getting a big storm the today & tomorrow and for the last couple days they've been hyping up 10 - 16 inches and now it's snowing, the forecast is changed to 2-3 inches for the Bangor area.
And people wonder why I don't get too excited when we are supposed to have extreme weather. ;D
8-10" so far and supposed to snow until tomorrow morning. Calling for another 6-12" more. 13° so its dry fluffy snow.
Temp has gone up to 8F here and still nothing for snow. It's very thin clouds actually because the sun is almost burning through. In fact, bright enough that I can't look at it. Not going to get snow accum. out of that kind of clouds. :D
Quote from: K-Guy on February 23, 2023, 10:09:07 AM
We're supposed to be getting a big storm the today & tomorrow and for the last couple days they've been hyping up 10 - 16 inches and now it's snowing, the forecast is changed to 2-3 inches for the Bangor area.
And people wonder why I don't get too excited when we are supposed to have extreme weather. ;D
A good time to dream and make plans to get your new boat out when it warms up 😊
We have about 3/8 of a inch of ice on everything now. Can't even walk the dog because her feet go out from under her. It's horrible.
Today was a day of moving snow here at home, mostly with snowblower and a bit of shovelling. Tomorrow will be a day of moving snow up at the tree farm, mostly with tractor bucket.
Last I saw, nearest town around there big enough to get a report was at 13 inches. We've got ag fields on 3 sides of us there too, more or less, and get lots of drifted in as well.
Looks like one more little snowshower, then this thing is over on this side of the lake. Michigan, that is.
Still coming down steady UP here. They are saying its supposed to wind down before noon tomorrow.
Few hours ago there was about 14". Probably end up with around 30" since Monday.
And in central virginia, today it was 70 degrees and clear. 8)
Aw, stick it in your ear. :D :D :D ;D
It was in the mid 30's here all day, solid overcast and a mist hung in the air all day. My kind of miserable weather. I hate it. Dampness, at my age, cuts right through me and puts me in a foul mood. Yesterday was similar temps, but we had mostly sun, low winds, and it was drier. I spent the day in the woods sweating and working and it was just fine and pleasant. Today, I wasn't going out, just not happening. The winter humidity in the northeast is just miserable at times.
It's 8F here (the app says 5F) this morning and it began snow last night at 10:00 pm, very light storm, not even 2" so far. Just as predicted not enough water in 10F or colder air to amount to beans. ;D No wind either that they squawked about.
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That's actually flat ground there, no hump, except the obvious wood pile. If we had any snow at all it would be in on that tile. :D An hours job to scoop out 430 feet of drive way perhaps.
I have 12° and 2 more inches of snow. Only 20 for a high.
-1° here, I am being hopefully optimistic it will be the last of below zero for the season. Storm blew hard gave us a glazing of ice and swift of ice pellet fine sleet snow. Should mostly be gone this weekend as we go back up over freezing for highs.
4 degrees and still snowing. Looking like another 4-5" overnight. Its getting deep out there from the last week.. haha
Storm is over 9 inch with lots of wond some drifta are higher than road signs now 21 below :new_year:
Well for about the 10th time this season they say "winter is finally coming". Temp will drop through the day today and stay lower for several days. 3-7" predicted for Monday into Tuesday. Right now windy with flurries and about 29 ° . Might go do some major mill repairs the afternoon if I can get shelter from the wind. The flurries right now were nowhere in the forecast.but maybe an inch or two tomorrow as a practice run. Not putting the plow back on just yet. They fooled me with that twice before. ;D
Much a do about nothing for us, 2" of fluffy dry snow, blue sky moving in from the north now. Snow all cleaned up for this round. Heat on, and window up (free air exchanger). ;D Going to stay cold for the next week. Temperature still falling, 6F on the porch. :)
Rain here and heavy snow up the hill. Just happened to check the traffic cameras. It looked like I80 was closed overnight. The road was a clean blanket of snow and then 4 plow trucks came through in less than 30 seconds clearing the 2 lane section. Only a couple vans on the road (probably CalTrans).
Just checked and I80 is closed with no estimated time of reopening. By the time this is done tomorrow, the snow fall should be around 7' at my cabin.
Meanwhile here in So California
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Quote from: Walnut Beast on February 23, 2023, 01:12:59 PMA good time to dream and make plans to get your new boat out when it warms up
I see it in the yard and I start getting withdrawals. fishin-smiley
No Sierra Nevada-like snow totals to report here in Suring, WI, but we did end up with 15 inches from this last one.
We can get another couple from a clipper system tonight, but it does look like the atmosphere is getting ready to wind up and deliver another pretty good punch on Monday.
Like I always say, if you like snow, look forward to springtime!
Tom we had 9" here out of the last storm and some wear around a foot for the last week and I was thinking it would be easy collecting sap this year boy was I wrong. keep your shovel handy. this is from Price county. Randy
Yeah had my skid trails worn down to dirt. That's no longer the case. Better for skidding, worse for getting around 🌫️
We had 2 snow storms back to back. One gave us about 4 inches the other 2. One storm stopped around 10am, the next one started on the same day around 5pm.
The wind today was busy!!!!
How you all doing with the power outages in MI and other states?
Jim Rogers
-3F this morning (apps says -7F) and starry skies this morning. A little breeze in the tree tops. We had no snow overnight. Jet stream down into southern California and across the northern tier states and south of New England. Burrr !! Looks like BC is getting it's share of cold now to. ;)
I have 1° this morning.
2 inches of fresh frosting.
0F here on the porch, -4F in town and -12F in Mars Hill. Stars are out, no snow overnight. The heat pumpers up here have been cold this week. No laughing matter. But a reality check.
8 below, was suppose to be 8 above.
More storms on the horizon. That last round helped cover the ice and crust
enough to make xc skiing good again but didn't do much for foot traction in places,like slopes.
Nearly went down again.
I'm gonna sit on my rocking chair today and look out at the sunshine and cold all day in between reading a book. 80F in here. :)
I have 2 above now.
Oh yea, more snow coming.
May is coming too. ;)
20° for a high.
Well the last few days we have finally had some 'winter' and it's clear I've been spoiled. We got about an inch of some white stuff yesterday and I just putzed around. Didn't feel like hooking up the plow for that junk. Couldn't get much going in the shop either, just tired. Low teens the last 2 nights and yesterday's high didn't get to 40, last night 13 and now they say mid-40's this afternoon. The sun is in and out. SO I may grab a shovel and clear off round the doors, etc. and let the sun work on it.
Best preliminary forecast discussion I could find shows snow starting Monday late afternoon with heavy overnight and snowing through Tuesday afternoon with 5-10" coming. For some reason, I finally believe this forecast and will prep for it. Up till now I have ignored all the other ones this season except I got fooled by one and hooked up the plow. Wasted time there. SO it is 26 February and I am finally seeing a need to do my winter prep for real. Move trailers around to good parking spots and put away the rest of the outdoor stuff, etc. I don't think I've seen this in well over 15 years. Mild winters? Yeah of course, but there is always snow to deal with. This has been weird, but I got a lot more work done because of it. I just miss having frozen ground and that part sucks.
Yes an odd winter for frozen temps. Snow too.
But I remember one March, maybe 4-5 years ago? We got all of our snow in March. Every week about a foot.
Kennebec River did not even freeze over this year. Smelt sharks shacks can't be put out with no ice. :(
The Coast Guard had to come and break up the ice in years past.
Ray what is a smelt shark?
Should of been shack. ::)
Probably goggle would do it better.
A small shack, maybe 6 feet square is towed out onto the river ice, a hole about 2 feet wide and 6 feet long is cut into the ice. A bench is along one wall of the shack and it's smelting time!!! Oh yea, room for a stove too. I forgot the cost, been more than 20 years, but it's a fun night. ;) A line is strung above the hole and lines with bait is put into the holes.
Let the fun begin!!
This is what I was referring too with no smelt fishing.
no smelting (https://www.wmtw.com/article/beloved-bowdoinham-smelt-fishing-camp-will-not-open-this-winter/43031245)
Gramps used to just dip net them out of the Miramachi after the ice went out, April 1 - May 31. 60 smelt per day limit. About the same time as 'black salmon' (ie spring kelt) fishing. Those are Atlantic salmon returning to sea after a winter on the river. They loose there silver brightness in fresh water over the winter. Nobody keeps them old winter salmon anyway.
Not sure what the ice season has been like over there, usually fish on the Bay. Season here runs annually from January 1st to March 31st.
Dipping is a big deal around here too.
See the end of a pond lite up, things are happening.
Around the zero mark again (-4F on the app) on the porch. We had a squall before dark and it cleared to stars after.
No wind, but the yard trees block a lot of wind driven snow. Probably 6-7 foot drifts in the snow fence (brush pile) under the spruce and pine trees.
7 below , was suppose to be 7 above. Back to stoking the stove, sometimes two.
The storm du jour. Raining down here pretty good. Snowing up the hill - not sure why people are driving in this. Temps in the upper 20's during the day.
Just below my cabin:
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The only working camera above my cabin:
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Two or three others are just snow covered, the other five or six are "Temporarily Unavailable" for the last few months.
This storm is expected to end late today with another one coming tomorrow of equal or greater strength. Then another on the weekend and then next Monday. If it stopped snowing today for the rest of the water year, we would be above normal.
This is just west of Donner Summit. Did someone say there was a party up there? :-X
Just finished up clearing last weeks nearly 30" of snow over the weekend and now another 6-8" is falling. Its a snowmobiler and skiers heaven UP here currently.
26 inches since Friday.
10F here now, warming to the 20's and 3-4" coming later today into Wednesday. No block buster by any stretch. :D Every time we get anything from the west, by the time it moves over all that land mass the fizz goes out of it. Our big storms come in off the NE from the N. Straight where it can gather moisture.
A big raspberry to this storm! smiley_nananana
swampdonkey, sounds like the same for me.
Nasty, nasty weather today. High winds with steady heavy rain down here by Sacramento. Snow level is currently at 2,000' with good accumulations. Expecting 7' from last night through tomorrow (Wed) morning. I80 will likely remain closed until tomorrow. Yeehaw!
So John, if I am reading between the lines correctly, I guess it's fair to say you are not going up the check on your property in the next week or so? :D (sorry, could not resist.) Geez, 7' is crazy!
We just got our first real snow in probably a year on Feb 27th. I can't believe I said that. Only about 7" last night, but that's enough to need a cleanup. It's still snowing steady but not too effectively. 32° out. I spent about 3-4 hours plowing, between the two driveways, the path across the yard from house to shop (my morning commute) and around the back of the shop and woodpile. Gotta get fuel for the Mule now, we may have more coming on Friday into Saturday, about 5 or 6" more. Then I hope we are done with this nonsense.
Yeah, probably not. My last visit was November 27, 2022. I got a note from one of the neighbors asking if I wanted to chip in on a snow removal. She figures it would be about $300 to me for the 3 times plowing the main road between now and mid-March when the campground's new budget will take over. I'm kinda like, why bother? With the looks of this storm and others looming, I won't be getting into my property til July! Global Warming, HA! But, I'm glad I over designed my cabin ;)
Neighbor here had a barn and about 50 feet of his green house collapse this winter from snow load. Insurance don't cover snow load up here. So if we never had any amount of snow, then why did buildings collapse? One steel and one steel and glass, nothing to rot. ::)
Well I wanted snow and we got it. The last bunch was the wet kind so now getting from tree to tree as I'm thinning is a slog.
But skidding's nice and clean👌.
This ain't like John's biz in those Cali hills, but these mid continental systems dump a lot of snow (and rain to the south) over a huge area. Anyway, I'm done for the day and time to dry off.
It was snowing at 4:30 this morning when I got up. And it's still snowing now at 8pm. Most storms don't last this long. Suppose to get done by 1 this morning. Only got about 5-6 inches, so far. Was a fine snow. The wind came up around noon time for a while.
I went into one garage all bundled up and they looked at me kinda funny. Told them the wind is just a howling out there. They looked outside and could saw the wind too. Driving in the storm and the snow is going sideway instead of towards you, the wind is blowing. :o
19F this morning. Very fine and dry snow here, not going to be much by the look of it. Doesn't look like an inch so far. Looks like another system coming in Thursday?
I got about 2 more inches of snow last night, as was expected.
Driveway all cleared for the high 30's today.
That was a dry snow.
14° this morning.
Clearing now so nothing to it this time. Never covered the toes of my boots when I took ashes out to dump. High is expected to be about 30F here today.
If what thy say is true March will go out like a Lamb every thing is shut down :snowball:
Quote from: goose63 on March 01, 2023, 08:28:28 AM
If what thy say is true March will go out like a Lamb every thing is shut down :snowball:
I hope not for out here! Sunny, clear but cold morning. I80 plowed and open. Clear weather for the next 3 days. Technically, coming in like a lamb... Then another pair of snow-dumping storms coming through over the weekend. We've had "Miracle Marches" in the past. Enough wet to bolster our reservoirs. If we get one of those...
Today started out clear with 75% chance of less than 1" of snow. Well 5 inches is on the ground and its still coming down.
You must have the same weather man we have in the northeast.
It might of got to 40 today and sun for a while. A very nice day.
It said 40F here on the porch thermometer, but that was from sun reflecting off the siding of the porch. Our actual temperature was 30F. Felt warm in the sun while shovelling but not so hot in the shade. Made no water pools, but snow melted around exposed gravel. In the shade of the garage was no melting, so it wasn't 40F here. ;) Sun was shining here by 8:00 am and it was still snowing to our south at 10:00 am.
4-6" snow expected to start by noon. Light dry stuff.
The weather? Wet-up-to-your-knees weather.
No, we ain't flooded, just deep wet snow to tromp thru.
Nice mostly sunny day, around 32. Porch thermometer is going goofy, reading 59 on the S side of this cabin. It's warm out, but it's not that warm.
Still snowing since around 8:00 am. Looking at the snow plow just now, it's not all that deep. Suppose to snow all night. Dry snow here. Wind has been blowing it some, hard to tell how much depth. The truck hasn't got much on it. Not much on the garage roof. It ain't over until it's over. Just built the evening fire, had none since early. ;D
6:00 pm and still lots of light.
We ended up with about 9" this morning. Real close to 200" for the season now. Sunny at 26° this afternoon.
A couple inches of wet snow, then a very light rain.
Tommorow another warm day. high 30's.
Then Friday into Saturday more snow.
chevy,
I keep grumbling about our 3-5in storms over 24hrs, or the icy mess that makes us chain up to do dirt roads.
Part of me would rather have all that snow your getting, if I didn't need to worry about the ice part of things. Good luck and stay safe. We have another 6-12in storm starting late fri and ending late sat or early sun...guess I won't get any firewood done this weekend, just lots of time following the bulldog on my hood
24F here this morning. Looking out the basement door I'd say 2-3" is all there is to it. Be getting out the blower because of some drifting in places. But no wind now, or at least I don't hear it.
Looks like 30's all next week, might be a light wet snow on Monday.
Is there no end :snowball: 4to 6 inch Sun and Mon with 30 to 40 mpu winds I just got cleaning up the last mess >:(
Turned colder here and cleared, 18F now. 3" snow it looks like when I moved it this morning.
Another high 30 day.
10F here this morning. Yesterday got to 28F, melted snow where there was exposed gravel so the driveway mostly melted where I had it scraped down to gravel with the shovel. I've noticed the afternoon sun is almost hitting the north side of buildings, not quite there yet. ;D
We are getting some snow now!!
Not suppose to last at this amount an hour. They said an inch,in the morning and they was right.
I cleared off the steps for the dog at 5am. Just did it again, about 2 inches.
Don't see it too often with snow coming down like that. Snow plows have a hard time keeping up with it.
Should go back to a ½ inch an hour in a few hours.
Might get a foot.
Snowed during the night, sleeting now. Very windy! They said we would get 3-5" last night but I think 2" at most but it's hard to tell with this wind. They say 1-3" more during the day. We'll see.
Inside work today. There is wood in the barn that needs to be split. Or maybe I'll just hang around the house and annoy my wife. Anyway, later this morning I'll have a loooong coffee break by the wood stove. ;D
Wet snow and high winds again. Every time it dries out even a little the rain or wet snow comes right back. Been a long wet warm winter and I kind of think it will be a wet cool spring.
It looks like whoever said that the extremes would get more extreme was right. We've had the other extreme here than it seems most of you had and are having.
February is usually our roughest Winter month. If we had a night below freezing this Feb., I don't remember it. I know I was wearing shorts most of the last week.
Last week, our horses started turning their noses up at hay. This week, they won't touch it. All our pasture grass is warm season grass, mostly Bermuda. We normally feed hay until Easter, but the pastures are mostly green, and the horses have been only grazing for a couple of weeks. They ate 9 bales a piece this Winter, which is less than a third of what they normally eat.
Fruit trees have been in bloom for about a week, and Pine pollen has had some bad days already.
Picture was taken a few minutes ago.
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That's something.Had someone from Virginia the other day tell me they saw orchard grass near a parking lot headed out.When would you typically see the pastures greening up.
Just judging by the horses eating grass or hay, I'd guess normally around Easter. Certainly never before in Feb., or even this early in March.
We have some Kentucky Bluegrass (not Kentucky 31) in the dog yards, and I'm going to have to cut them today.
I wouldn't call -20 to +15F too hot in February. :D 3 feet of snow on the ground here. The warmest February I remember in 55 years was in 1981. The average for the month was 34F, the bristly locust is not native here but it leafed out in February. March turned colder and killed it dead. I've never seen that mild before nor since. The next mildest was 2006, we had 2" of snow and lots of ice. But in 2009 it was the coldest and snowiest on the record books with over 3' still on the ground in April. :D Another funny thing, we used to plant wheat in late April around here, haven't seen that more than once in 20 years. Our springs are now cold up here, into mid June, killing frost. Falls are warmer on the other end.
The storm you new englanders and new brunswickians are experiencing missed us. Mild calm conditions.
Our next mess arrives tomorrow night. Similar setup to last one, rain likely here in A-TOWN, but heavy snow to areas N of Green Bay, where our tree farm sits. Trudge trudge trudge...
Tom, no storm up here today in my part of NB. Not too mild at 10F either. :D Maybe storm on Monday, 30's this coming week for highs.
I don't know how much snow we had today. Must be close to a foot.
Still a snowing.
We have a westie, dog, she is having a hard time outside. She might be a foot tall.
But she is spoiled and I shoveled for her. ;D
That was a quick snowstorm with 11" in about 7 hrs.
A drop in the bucket to scenes coming out of the California mountains.
Probably 3' snow depth now.
Its been a busy week with several snow storms passing through but yesterday was
a stellar day, blue sky near 40. Skied and sat out in front of the sugar shack basking in the sun with some lunch and grog. A well deserved reprieve.
I thought it was done. But the snow is back.
woodroe, will the sap be running for ya next week?
Quote from: thecfarm on March 04, 2023, 03:55:13 PM
I thought it was done. But the snow is back.
woodroe, will the sap be running for ya next week?
Not boiling this year, still have enough syrup left over for another year.
Just do it for our own use Ray.
Dry here and barely hit 30F at this hr. Been mostly overcast but had a spot of sun now and again. Road is packed snow and ice patches, bare up the middle.
22F here, stars and moon. Will be sunny today, high 30's. :)
One week away from setting the clocks ahead an hr. 11:28 hrs daylight today. 12 hrs of daylight on the 16th here in NB.
Looks like a foot of snow we got.
Seems to be a good week ahead of us. Temps above freezing almost every day, maybe snow/rain Saturday.
Hit 38F here today, have had a cool north wind though. Driveway is bare now.
Yep, high 30's here too.
The back roads of Chesterville are bare!!! And they don't use much salt either.
Even the dirt road that I live on is bare.
I hear you on the sand/salt, I think they use spoons to put it on here. That sun has power when it hits metal or dark surfaces. ;D
Windy here all night and now some flurries. Not suppose to do much. 30F now.
Nobody wants to, or wants someone else to slide off the road and hit a tree. But coming from the land of snow, ice, and salt, in roughly equal proportions, I'd not clamor for more road salt. It helps keep the roads safe, and ruins everything else.
About 3 inches of pure slop here in A-Town, not sure how much up at the shack. Supposed to keep snowing up there, into afternoon hours.
The snow was so wet here in town, when I shovelled this morning, I'd throw a scoopful and it would splash me in the face.
Plow has gone 3 times today pushing back wind driven snow drifts. Been a wicked wind today. Stayed 30F all day, north wind.
Big blow today, Didn't play outside much.. Looks like its gonna blow all week.
Leftover snow showers kinda ramping up this evening.... I could see another quick couple inches. T'aint much but these things keep coming.....maybe another substantial one by later week.
This stuff's big wet flakes again. Won't get up north to see where that's at til Wednesday.
Forecast here is snow squalls Monday to Thursday and gray skies. 28F this morning, lighter wind.
Sunshine! High 30s, crusty snow falling off branches and wires... a nice day.
36F here now, sun in and out, windows have been open all day and it's over 80 in here. No fire since 7:00 am.
In house thermometer. Can't complain too much.
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are you uber insulated and solar?
Fiberglass pink in the walls and blown in the attic. 1" Styrofoam sheets under the siding. Solar heating is just from the thermal pane windows. Upstairs mostly off a 7 ft tall round topped dormer window, that throws some heat when the sun hits it. :D
35F here and overcast this morning. Had a snow squall in the night leaving a dusting.
The last few days after the snow it's been overcast and just hitting around 40's or a tad more. but the wind has really kept up it's job and even at 40°, with a 30 mph wind it's like mid 20's, plus the overcast condx just lets that humidity hang in the air. So doing light work outside isn't very pleasant for me. I spent the last 2.5 days working on my website and that is pretty much done now unless I find another longstanding set of missed issues like I did yesterday. The weather seems to be forecast as more of the same for the next week or so with nor real warming and not a lot of clear sun. We have camper guests coming on Tuesday so I have to get that spot cleaned up and get the plow back out to clear the RV outlet. This will also drive me to finish off splitting the wood littering that side of the driveway, so it all works out. But I would rather have a daily high of 28 with sun than have a daily high of 40 with cloudy damp weather. Spring will come, it just about always does. Right now the snow is frozen hard enough to walk on top of without punching through. This is the weather I requested 2 months ago. It was a steady 27-28° all through the night. It should be about the same for tomorrow night, then lower on Friday night and day time highs not quite breaking 40 for any time in the 7 day forecast. I hope our guests have good heat in their camper. ;D
Sparkly sunshine this morning on a couple -three inches new snow. Block heater is warming up the tractor for another day in the woods.
Reach 42F here because we had more sun in the afternoon. Still a cool NE wind out there. Not camping weather yet. :D
....and now my feet are wet. Shoulda (thought about it-decided no because the early morning snow was frozen stiff and could be walked on top of) worn the muck boots. Got above freezing in the March sun. Tomorrow's another day.
Southern can get a little heavier but up here 2-3 inches tomorrow night. I'm grateful to have decent snowpack on my trails. But again, that higher March sun will pretty easily burn it down, any week we don't get snow, now til actual spring. Considering all the winter work I got left to do, appreciate the stubborn coolish forecast up thisaway.
The snow is melting!! I can see the driveway bankens getting smaller.
Doubt much is melting in the woods yet.
Been in the 40's and yes on the wind.
But it's still melting.
32F here this morning. And yes the banks are dropping, even next to the house is melted away and about half as deep as it was 2 weeks ago. Be 4 weeks before I see the well head unless it really warms up more than normal or something. :D Between the well head and the garage is 30 feet and probably 5 feet of snow depth. ;D I had to make a snow ramp up it with the snow scoop when shovelling the driveway on the north side of it. The well head is on the west side. Probably 6 feet deep between the garage and the highway. And the ground each way slopes downward, so there is more than you think. ;D
Gray day, got up to 34 here, a little snow tonight, 3-6" they say.
Tom don't know about you but I am bummed this winter has been long enough would like to see them leave March right off the calendar. We have been waiting to tap some Maples but the snow is to deeep and its just been to cold maybe next week, Randy
We've had a two week stretch of windy, cold weather. Not fun, but then, not too much snow this winter, so far. Fingers crossed.
It's gone back up to seasonal -5°C highs, for the foreseeable.
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I'm enjoying the secondary burn on this woodstove!
@randy d (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=40730), hey bud, don't hate on me too much 🤬.... I'm needing this cold stubborn stuff, just to keep my trails snow covered, not mud holes and ruts. But yeah I feel the chill too..... especially these gray days. Wicked NE wind blowing.
32F again this morning, the sap must be flowing this week. Got to 43F yesterday afternoon. A little bit of wind still, I think it shifted to the NW. Has been a NE wind. Only a morning fire for all day and a small one at night. Windows open all day upstairs. Fire is fire, still takes wood. ;) I would think a cord and a half would do the next three months. That's all under the porch. Probably end up with 2-1/2 cords left from winter in the basement. :)
I have 25° and maybe more sun today. Still will have some clouds.
Been windy here, so slow on the sap I would think.
I did see one truck pull out of a collection place.
Looks like storm free until Tuesday.
Rather have it now than in May.
I dunno, 4-5 inches of new wet snow here in A-Town. Not sure what it did up at the shack. Radar indicated maybe a little less, but there's lots more snow already on the ground there.
2/3rds of the way thru what I wanted to get cut this winter. This kind of spring, I might make it yet.
There's cedar regen happening under the larch I'm thinning. I like that I'm skidding over deep snow, not raping those little guys.
36F here now and sunny, probably is warm as it will get. That NW is colder than a NE one. ;D
I see sap pails up since yesterday.
Those cedar will eventually be the new forest after the larch. It's doing the same up here, larch planted on cedar ground. It's also in black spruce plantation along a riparian edge, it's kinda of gravelly there to where the thickest cedar is. But one area less spruce and tons of cedar to, where it's wetter. :D
Well 32° here now and snowing like mad. We are predicted for 3-6" tonight, but I'll see what we have in the morning. I had thought this was the sawn song on a winter that only showed up at the last minute and put in a poor effort. But I was at Spikes today and he gave me a heads up on the 'Tuesday thing' which I thought was just going to be another pitiful effort. Turns out it's now a classic nor'easter they are calling for. The weather service which is typically very conservative until the last minute is calling for about a foot and it should run from the wee hours on Monday until the evening on Tuesday. Normally I would say 'whatever', but I have camper guests coming in Tuesday and this might make it tougher for them driving here. So, we shall see how this plays out. I also note that this latest storm lands within 24 hours of the anniversary of the Blizzard of '93 (which I lovingly refer to as 'the winter from hell' when I wanted to just burn the house down and move to Texas, I even sent out resumes). That blizzard came on the tail end of a winter that gave us snow every week and I had no place left to put it. The 24" blizzard pretty much broke what little will I had left. I had broken and repaired 3 snow blowers and 2 tractors al winter to the point I could no longer fix them in the cold weather because of broken frames and base castings, etc. A foot won't be anything we can't handle pretty easy, it just takes a day. But this late in the season it's just an insult. Plus all the folks we've had move in here since COVID really haven't had a decent storm yet. This might offend their sensitivities or something. ;D
24F here at this early hour, and stars and moon out. :)
I think that storm you are getting will miss us. But Tuesday will get something. 30° now.
Speaking of covid I've get it.
I had a bad coughing spell, and thought it was just my lungs acting up. Also had an upset stomach but thought just my stomach acting up.
Then the wife came down with something. She had the smarts to give herself a test. So she has it too.
I am all set now. She still has something lingering.
6-8" more expected thru weekend. Slow accumulation but long duration system, not out of here til Monday.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Sorry to hear about the 'Rona Ray. Hope you both kick it easy.
We were supposed to get 3-6 overnight, but woke up to about an inch and a half of wet heavy slop. Curious to hear what Spike got out of it, he is 20 minutes west of me but higher up and this one seemed very elevation dependent. I only plowed my blacktop to help it melt off faster and did a neighbor lady who has weekend guests from Michigan. Her driveway is steep and they were going out 'touring' this morning, so I gave her a quick hit so that little car might make it out.
Now Monday just after midnight through early Wednesday morning they are calling for something more interesting, a standard Nor'easter, right on the anniversary of the Blizzard of '93 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century#:~:text=The%201993%20Storm%20of%20the,Mexico%20on%20March%2012%2C%201993.) and I sure hope we don't even get close to a repeat of that. This could prove interesting for our guests arriving with their camper on Tuesday afternoon. I have already given them a heads up. I'll just deal with what we get and keep a parking spot plowed out for them. Likely it will be another bust but I see the NWS is calling for 10"+ and they are always conservative a few days out.
And the snow just keeps coming!
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Yesterday evening/night it was raining all the way up to the summit but turned back to snow early morning. Weather report says it's raining up there now but the live video says otherwise! Medium flake coming down fast. Another 3 to 5 feet expected.
Snow all day Thursday got that cleaned up yesterday and now 8 or so more today enough is enough
We've had 3 days of good weather. I think something Monday or Tuesday, but mixed with rain and low 30's. Sun here with windows open, had to close the curtain on the big window, was getting in the 80's up in the man cave. ;D No fires these days, just early morning and evening smudge.
Those miserable clocks jump an hour. ::)
Looks to be a sunny day today. Most days more clouds than sun.
30° now and low 40's coming.
That storm is too.
Slow steady snow. Couple inches so far. They say heavier burst this aft before moving out.
Yesterday the radio said 3-5" of snow sat-mon. Well Sunday am and there's 5" already and the radio now says 5-10" more.
Bit more winter to go UP here.
Was 26F this morning, now 36F and sunny. No fire, windows up. :)
After a February with no snow and temps in the 50's, today in the highlands of Virginia it is snowing steadily. We went from spring back to winter. Apparently today's spring forward time change doesn't apply to seasons.
We'll end up with about half-foot of wet snow. We're building an igloo for the youngins out in the yard.
Water is running down the woods road. Well that's what I call it. Just the road down to where I saw my wood up. About 100 feet behind the house.
Just about hit 50F here today, no wind makes a big difference. Lots of sun.
Dreary wet weather here.Kind of glad to see it.February was so warm allergy season came early here.I have trouble with allergies and had to start taking medication a lot earlier than usual.Rain should knock pollen down a little bit.It kind of sucks that when the weather gets nice I feel the worst.
Had no fire all night, but just built a morning smudge. It's 30F out there and stars and moon. I do see some cloud around the moon. Yesterday it was clear until clouds moved in in the morning, then cleared right back out.
Another day, another 5-6 to clear off the drive. Stacking space filling up fast.
Good thing we built that igloo-it took a lot of snow😁.
It started snowing Saturday evening and didn't stop til early Monday morning.
Still hasn't stopped snowing UP here. Another 4-5" overnight and near whiteout conditions currently.
Forecasters are talking another 12"+ storm towards the end of the week.
Brutal stuff. Even old Bernstein in ND has been riding grader for a few days, hardly time for dinner. He's now worried about wearing out chains on the M37, must be a lot harder snow than here to wear chains out. :D He lives a far distance from the county road, back out of sight and rides on top if he can get away with it. ;D
Saturday I plowed by the slab pile I measured with the yard stick 13" boy do we love March. Would like to tap some Maples but we have around 30" of snow in the woods and I just don't feel like crawling through that. Randy
Snow has dropped 16" here on the lawn in 10 days from melting. I don't know what is in store later today, but it is currently 34F out there. The melt water is mostly being sucked up by the ground. No over land flow except down pavement. :D
10 degrees here at 6:00. Cool day with some sun, high around 30.
Snowing hard right now. They are calling for 16"-22" by the time it ends tomorrow morning. The wind is blowing and the snow is wet and heavy. That is a bad combination. I got my generator ready and my gas cans filled.
Well if it hits you the way it hit us (same storm), you can save that fuel to run your lawnmower with. :D ;D
This one was a big bust (so far), which I am pleased with. 3/14 is historically a big blizzard day over the decades, so That's what was on my mind. The one in '93 took a long time to clean up and fix damage, the one in '17 took 4 or 5 days to clean up. Today's storm will take 20 minutes, if I even bother with it. ;D
-14° this morning and clear skies for the first time in 4 days. Thursday its supposed to change with rain changing to another 6-20" of snow depending on who you believe.
I've got a lawn area up here at the shack for the kids. There's a picnic table.out on that lawn .... somewhere.
Some turkeys around this afternoon for a stroll. Was 18 of them in the back yard. They then headed across a 100 acre potato field.
40F here this afternoon, a little breezy and picking up.
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We are at around 24ins of snow and still snowing lightly. It' the good stuff if you don't down to the mud it backs like ice.
Storm was supposed to start at 10am. It did, but only lasted a ½ hour. Then it came back at 4pm. A very wet snow and the wind!!! Still might stop at 3 this morning.
Might be as Old Greenhouse posted.
"Old Greenhouse"? ??? :D
I could blame it on spellcheck.................. ::)
But I think being numb is the truth. :D
Basically, 30" of snow complete with crusty layers must be removed in a wide circle around every larch I fell, to make room for the saw.
I'm beat. Must be beer thirty🍺.
Came and went fast here, not much snow. Probably scoop the edges of the driveway for wind drifts. Steps are pretty bare. ;D
30F this morning, still some light wind.
Maybe 6, but no more than 8 inches of snow.
Snow might have started later, but we still got what was predicted.
Above freezing temps at high noon.
Snow started at 4pm, but I cleared the steps off at 9 and maybe an inch was there when I got up this morning.
Oh yea the wind. Wind was blowing last night.
We have a doggie door. One gust had that door open!!!!!!!!
But that was only once.
25'' and still coming down in central Vermont.Our half mile driveway is getting narrow and the snowbanks are pretty high.
The roads were godawful yesterday, trees blown down so bad the state trucks couldn't get through to plow.
This is one of the few times when the storm was worse than the predictions. They were calling for 12"-18", we got 24". The wind was bad and many trees and power lines came down in the towns around. A lot of people without power but I was lucky and never lost it.
Hey Old "Greenhouse" :D I think all the snow you were supposed to get got added to the snow we got!
Thanks a lot!!! :D :D :D
This has been a tough winter for getting into the woods and now it just got tougher.
Just an interesting note; the towns 15and 20 miles south of us got only 2-3 inches of snow. That's how close the rain-snow line was during most of the storm.
Judging by the porch roof, we didn't do too bad. ;D
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Still lots of snow on the ground for awhile though. In other words, don't come looking to pick daffodils yet. :D
That green post is 4 feet above ground, only the top 2 feet exposed. It's 40 feet from the house. ;)
Forecast for the weekend is currently 16-26 inches of snow.
Hurray for winter.
Our snowbanks are high but this is typical for us so things get pushed far back and roads widened out.
Last few days we have had North wind, and cool temps, yesterday morning it was 19F, and now today it is up to 53 F with a 35 mph south wind. It is like war between winter and spring here now. People on the radio are talking about praying for rain, but we are ok here now, and our wheat has greened up and looking good. The wheat looked dead all winter, October planted behind soybeans.
Looks like we're stuck with rain out of the next system. 1/2"-1". Don't see that helping matters much.
You'll have to almost be in chevytahoe country to see substantial snow out of this one.
Last I saw they are saying 6-12" down south on the Mi/Wi border then quickly tapering off south of that. I keep hoping that the forecast will go down in snowfall but so far that isn't the case.
Supposed to load a semi with hay on Friday but I'm guessing the trucker will reschedule as I doubt he wants to drive, load, and strap a load of hay thru a nasty wet heavy snowstorm.
Local farmer here has been hydro axing with a Cat most of the winter. Cleaning up field edges and tree limbs growing out over the fields. I see he left the fence row along until he can see all the rocks. There's probably close to 8 feet of snow drift in it. Acts like a big snow fence. :D
28F, clearing with a NW breeze.
Getting your next dose of snow currently. 1 to 3 at home, 3 to 7 forecasted for the Missouri River breaks country on North. Too yucky to do outside projects back home so i came up here to paint for a day.
Another fine day, even had sun all day!!!
Yes, some sun here to. Some wind but diminished a lot since this morning. 38F for a high, melting snow.
Just the 4 pest (not pet) crows around and the red squirrel today eating apple rind. The crows never bother anything, not even a garbage bag. But they are a bunch of beggers, flying past the picture window when they are looking for a snack.
was warm but overcast this am about 55°. now 34° and...
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A rain/snow mix. Maybe an inch by morning, maybe nothing.
That ground is soft where there is no snow.
Which I mean where someone has cleared the snow.
There are a few backens along side of the road that is bare.
You can tell what side of the road gets sun all day.
.5" of rain followed by 14" of snow so far. Radio says 4-8" more by am. Ground was starting to thaw and saturated now its covered in snow. Clearing the driveway was a real treat....
Cussed cold wind, rain yesterday melted a lot of the snow, kinda crappy day.
We'll go log tomorrow, see how conditions changed there....lot more snow to start out with, but rained there too. Hoping all the packing I did on my trails helps. Wanna get last 50 or so thinned out for this year's project...can just get there with bro's help, before general warmup next week.
Igloo here at home roof collapsed. 🌧️
Your house roof collapsed? Neighbor had a steel barn fall in and half his greenhouse back in February. Half meaning 75 feet. All glass and steel. I never knew enough snow ever sat on it. That seemed odd. Was usually bare ever since he built it.
Was 45F here yesterday and when I walked up the road 3 miles to visit a neighbor his read 52F. No fire since early morning and none last night. Built an early one this morning.
Having some wet snow right now, 1" or so.
On the Gaspe peninsula in Quebec it was always common to make tunnels and plank on top as a roof over them to get into buildings. Then all you did was shovel the entrance.
Typical early spring. Was supposed to rain here all day yesterday and if you looked at the radar it sure did appear to do that, but it never hit the ground, not a drop of measurable rain. But it was very damp and nasty all day, even with temps breaking 50. 38 or so overnight. But it's 65 in the shop when I got up this morning. Stoked up the house fire just to take the chill off.
The whole week has been very blah weather, some snow, some rain, all overcast. Today is looking to improve and maybe some sun, mild temps. We'll see, but I am scheduled to be in the woods taking trees for mushroom logs today.
It is what it is, but spring is coming! At least, it always has before. ;D
Roof collapsed on igloo?
Foggy here now.
No new snow was added last night.
Saw 2 sugar shacks going yesterday.
Yeah, igloo roof, not house roof🤞.
Cold and dry today, maybe a few snowshowers. High temp typical of January, just 22 degrees today.
A-cutting we will go.
Up here when someone says igloo or wicki-up, it means the house. :D
Well, glad it isn't that. ;)
Another 6" of snow overnight, for a storm total just over 20". 30mph winds straight across the lake are now relocating the snow all over. Temp is 14°.
:o Yikes! I would be hunkering down in those conditions. 8C here, 47F, and sunny, the snow is pretty well gone in the valley. People are busy cleaning up the yards.
43F here this afternoon, that 1" overnight is gone and then some.
Nice January day, partly sunny, windy, high temp somewhere around 24. Trouble is, it's March. Actually, worked out good, could walk on top of snow.
Older bro helps me out and today, he did the trunk shovelling and I felled and limbed up the last 24 larch for this year's thinning. Yeah!
Go up tomorrow and twitch em out, move on to other things. Lots of snow yet, and my trails are heavily packed down-should be good to go for a few days yet. Just a little warmer coming days ahead.
28F this morning. Saw 3 bunches of turkeys around. Also a yearling moose was in an old homestead apple orchard. They eat tips of apple limbs. He was some hard to see face on, blended in with the tree bark. And he was only 100 feet from the road. Great big ears like Jeff's Shepard, Cedar. :D
Well I had thought we were gently sliding into the spring warming trend with the temps breaking 50 yesterday in some local spots and the warmer temps overnight. But last night it dropped below 25 and today the high is supposed to be 32. Guess it's gonna drag out as usual. I can't wait for the first day it's hits 70 and the ground dries out. I may have to fly to GA to see it, but if that's the case so be it. ;D
Speaking of GA, I found a whether station in Rentz that I can follow now and live vicariously in another climate for a bit until things improve here. This 'not quite winter' we are having is getting old and seems to be hanging in. Yesterday I started out with 4 layers and was down to 1-1/2 layers by 3pm. I had to put on dry shirts around dinner time because I couldn't shake the chill in my back.
Yeah, long range is colder for the week up here, no 40's. Cold NW wind today and getting cloudy.
Got an inch of snow last night. I had to shovel it off the steps. :( ;D
With temps not going above freezing today, it won't melt much.
Rest of the week will be in the 40's.
Hang on Old Greenhorn, those 50's will be back.
Seems odd with no ice in the rivers this year.
Snow has not melted back away from the trees yet.
Ground hog made his appearance on top of the glacier today. Neighbor's dog was in the back yard last night around midnight barking, probably chasing down that ground hog.
Barely 30F here today, that cold north wind.
Been ice up here in the rivers, not much left in the Presque Isle, but the Saint John hasn't moved yet. Small creeks are open. Still ice in the Aroostook River, but some stretches it has melted out. No ice jams reported.
Saint John River ice photos
Florenceville below Beechwood dam. This often stays ice free for a few miles in faster water.
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Beechwood dam
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River De Chute
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Log drivers' piers (Irving), soon after they were built in the early 60's, they announced the dam would go in. They were never used.
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Further up, the River De Chute stream runs in here. Victoria county line sign on the road.
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More turkeys where they plowed around dad's old barn. 21 of'm
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Still windy and 30F here.
Such weather .I think it's colder in March than it was in January .Evidently I stopped burning the insert too early .The propane is okay but nothing like the wood burner .It might get down to below 20 at night but come morning that wind will cut you like a knife .
I posted about no ice in river back in reply #297,page 15.
I cross the river 4-5-6 times a day now. I have seen it just about iced over a few times. But it does not last. Won't be no ice jams this year.
8° this morning so the rivers are still solid and will be for a while yet. Not much lake ice out there on the big lake so when the rivers start moving there won't be much to stop it.
18F this morning, still a little breezy, but not like yesterday. Stars are shining. Will be no melting or sap today. ;D
I have just about the same temp,16° but should get up to 40 today.
1st day of spring by calendar. 15* but nice week on tap with temps in the 40s all week.
I also noticed the lack of ice in the local river. Canada Geese heard overhead yesterday morning about daybreak. Spring is in the air.
29 here at 7:00. We can hit 40 today.
Finished cutting larch for year. Actually enough snowpack to keep logging, but I got everything I had marked for removal, so good enough til next winter-do a few more.
Looking at the long range forecast here, not a 40F in sight until Sunday. ;D
A 2 Stanfield morning here when I walked my 4 mile. Bright sun though. Talking snow showers tonight.
It has an air to spring time .The daffodils are poking up and my woods will soon be in bloom .Some of the grass is greening up .The squirrils are chasing each other around .I think they have more in mind than frolic .To that I have a half grown female cat evindently hot to trot ,about to drive me nuts .She's a little cutie ,tortise shell tabby with 4 or 5 colors but I don't want a zillon little kittens hither and yon so she's off to the vets .
Al, do you ever see turkey toms display during the ice and snow season?? I never have, but someone with photos (that look Photoshoped) claims he took recent photos. We still have 100% snow cover up here in NB, even though those photos are 100 miles south, where they still have snow to. We have not had turkeys up here for that long, but seems odd behaviour when it's still cold and snow.
Pre-season strut I suppose? Certainly not nesting on ice. :D
Been seeing toms in full strut (display) during the winter season as well as with snow. Have not made these trail cam events into video's but will given the "disbelief" as it truly does happen. Not photoshopped. Tom turkeys can display (fluff up and fan out and strut) most anytime of the year from my experience with trail cameras out year around for the last 15 years. Normal events are not saved.
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Thanks for replying and clearing things up. ;) Must be as I hinted to, pre-season strut. Turkeys are new up here, maybe since 2010, and have not witnessed it so far. There are 40 or more birds this winter in my area and can see birds several days a week without leaving the house. They sure know how to adapt. :)
On the same theme, the crows have begun nest building in the yard spruce as they do in March up here. Probably no eggs until mid - April. We have 4 here all winter at the house, most crows leave in large 'murders'.
Turkeys are new here in the last 5-7 years. Neighbor feeds them corn all winter and I often see the toms strutting around his yard on nice days no matter how much snow we have.
I've seen a Tom turkey on I-75 romancing the traffic . I don't have any on my land but about a mile and a half to the east there is a flock .This area with the amount of oak woods is perfect for them .That said they are rather odd birds .Danged things will park themselves right in a road insection and fan out for the traffic and these farmers drive like they get paid by the mile .Every so often you see a big pile of feathers .
Yep, will be watching the turkeys for some winter struts more closely. Like I said, before never seen it yet. Maybe around those feeders it's a message to others not to eat his cracked corn, or else. :D Come May and no problem seeing them do that and the gobbling. Never have them Toms strut in the yard, but off in the distance I can watch with binoculars sometimes 4 of them around a bunch of females.
Like The Cfarm said, 40F yesterday. Goes to show how forecasts are way off at times. But at 1:30 pm it was still only 28F, it wasn't until late afternoon that it jumped to 40F and by then it was overcast. :) Already 28F here, so I can see another 40F coming. ;)
I've seen turkeys near Detour, MI 13 years ago up near Jeff's camp. They were in the hay fields, lots of hay up there. Before that, my first sighting of a wild turkey was in VA around 1998. Then I saw some in southern Maine around 2011 near Bangor when you first see red oak forest, when coming from the northern end of I95 from Houlton. We have almost no red oaks here this far north, just tiny pockets, some here and there along the river but a lot in the southwest part of NB, where there are large stands. That land down there is marginal lowland and kind of wet. No potato fields down there. Clay and sandstone. Have thinned trees down there and lot of the land will grow back in hardhack and wild raisin weeds and grey birch, indicative of wet ground.
Might even hit 50 today in the big city.
I might see that on the bank clock too. Pavement and brick buildings can add a few degrees.
I doubt I will see 50 in the back woods of Chesterville.
There's Pudgy Joe on the glacier this morning. ;D
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It's 32 now at 6:40 .Looks like a warming trend which means it will rain .It's time to get out the Stihl blower with the gutter tube and blow out the eave spouts else they will run over .That's what you deal with if you live in the woods .When the monsoons come rolling in is not the time to go to the woods .
This rich organic soil in the woods might have over 8 inches of top soil .If you don't get stuck you'll make some deep ruts that will be there forever .I've stuck about everything with wheels on it includimg a skid loader .Any more I just wait for things to dry out .
4 degrees this morning. Pretty chilly for this time of year but not unheard of.
42F this afternoon and I saw sap being boiled today at the cousins'. Overcast and flurries now and again.
The had 53° when I drove by. ;D
Who did you drive by? :D
20F and an inch of snow on the ground this morning. 3 day storm headed this way, if you can believe the weather guessers. :D
Reply 459 I posted about the bank.
Should of posted the bank temperature.
As I posted pavement and brick buildings can add a few degrees.
Just pulling your chain. ;)
Yes on the asphalt and brick buildings. Especially near large centres. It creates 'warm islands'. Go 5 miles out in a wooded landscape and not so warm. ;D
The high here yesterday was 59.8 and the low was about 34. Today so far the low was 34° (7:30am) and the high is 44 (midnight). Current temp is 35 and mostly cloudy. Yesterday was full sun and some breeze, but not too much. I only noticed it when I was up on the roof and it messed with my balance. ;D
Meanwhile, in Rentz, the low today is 46 and the high is 54 right now and climbing steady.
We are supposed to have another cool wave coming through for at least a week with max highs in the 40's and 50's and the lows in the low 30's with some rain, maybe snow. This winter is dying slowly.
I'm not sure we will hit 40F today, still only 22F and almost noon.
The ice roads are still good.
They're really really safe, until a truck goes through . . . then maybe not so safe. 🥶
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Only hit 30F here yesterday with sun. That little bit of snow melted off the driveway and road except in the shadow of the garage.
26F this morning. 3 or 4 days of snow ahead. ;D
Quote from: SwampDonkey on March 23, 2023, 04:08:24 AMOnly hit 30F here yesterday with sun.
That's crazy. 30 is a fairly cold low for us during the winter. Snow that sticks is a rarity. This is spring. We hit 81 yesterday. Looks like another hot summer on the way.
Yeah, typical weather here in the north. The flurries today are suppose to change to rain showers later today. Snow now is forecast for Saturday evening into Sunday. 80's is July weather up here, aside from a freak spell in June, which will always be followed by a hard frost. :D
Wet here all day. tried to rain a few times. Most time a heavy mist.
34°
78 here today.Pollen everywhere,a lot of it sycamore.
You are killin' me! Pollen, Really? :D You had 76, there was a high of 86 in Rentz, and we are sitting here with a high of 56° for about 4 minutes and damp, rainy weather. I can't wait to hop a plane and get down to GA and listen to folks complain about how hot it is. Just 3 weeks away, but it is those transition weeks that make me feel warm and fluffy. Even though its cool (mid 30's) in the morning, when I step outside, the birds are singing the praises of spring and it does feel good, but I am ready for heating season to be DONE.
We ended up with just snow and looks like 5" maybe. Flakes like silver dollars. Another round for tomorrow night.
It got to 30F yesterday and stayed there until now. You can't put much faith in weather forecasting in the last 10 years around here. Changes every two hours it seems. :D
Pollen starts here in April: Aspen, willow, beaked hazels.
12° this am. Pollen will be a bit yet. Ha
Quote from: SwampDonkey on March 24, 2023, 02:58:42 AM
Changes every two hours it seems. :D
Sounds exactly like northern Ohio ,thank you Lake Erie .
I hear ya Chevy, but we got pollen here, it's da wife's house plants. ;D
Tomato, dill and basal plants in the grow tent. :D
Not starting tomatoes here yet. Still 7 weeks before it's somewhat safe ta put them out. :(
22* F here in SC the other night, 81* today.....it does appear to be readying for another hot summer! Oh well the firewood stacks will season faster 8)
Snowing at 30°. only an inch so far.
My driveway was just about dried out.
Yeah Chet, around the 15th of June for tomato and pepper sets in the garden. We get killing frost up until at least the 10th, but mostly I see around the 1st to the 5th of June has frost. Seen as late as the 15th though.
Was 42F here yesterday, sun in the morning then overcast after dinner. Light snow now, possible 4" they said. Windy because I hear the old wind chime in the beech tree. :D
I can remember a frost we had the first week of June, we had the greenhouse then and people came back to but more seedlings.
When we had the veggie business I would plant early. But you have to watch the news and cover things up.
The last 20 years we only had one frost in June. Might have been longer too.
People would not know what to do if we got a frost late in May and early Sept.
We got about 3 inches of wet snow.
Mid 40's for Monday. It will melt by the end of the week.
When we get those freak late May or Early June heat waves for 2 or 3 days, it will end with a killing frost. Rare not to. People will loose their plants thinking the heat is here for the summer. The worst thing is it brings on fruit blossoms too quick, especially grapes and plums. Grapes will recover, plums won't have any fruit. Apple crop will be reduced but not wiped out unless it's 25F degrees or something. I'm at the northern edge of my growing zone, and Fredericton is the southern edge. The opposite extremes of zone 4B, although they are a little bit into 5B I guess. But they don't grow much around there, compared to acreage up here. The land is too wet and usually what we call hobby plots. ;D Used to be a lot of veg and fruit stands down around there, not much now. Just green houses mostly. In recent years I got some elders, black current and an old fashion bleeding heart from Scot's. The flowers are like giant sized Dutchman's Breeches blooms that grow wild. Forget the family of plants that is.
It's 45 at noon .It's rare to have frost much past the second , third weeks of April .However if you cover them they will survive but IMO don't do as well as perhaps mid May planting .Tomato plants you can splurge and get potted "pateo " types for 3-4 bucks each or buy a dozen short ones that will overtake those in not too long and produce more over the growing season .
Where my tomatoes grow is in raised beds in the woods against a south facing brick wall which might be frost free from April until mid November .However those late tomatoes have some tough skins .
That snow is melting fast. Might all be gone today.
I can see the "grass'' on the lawn out back.
Front lawn still covered with snow, a good 6 inches.
Last spring was cold and wet until the 3rd week in June. Not going to be any spring this year by the looks out the window. Just fine by me. :D
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I started yesterday.
I'll finish digging the mill out this pm.
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Got to 42F yesterday afternoon and I removed another 5" of snow. That made 9" for the last week. That all slid pretty easy off the roofs. The weather should soon turn. Last night we never got a freeze, 34F now. We've got lots of snow, no bare ground except roads. ;D
I could have sworn I heard geese last night, I must be crazy. But they are back in southern NB already. They can go to the small rivers and the main river below the dam if they want to sit in cold water. ;D
Bank thermometer read 50° at 9:00 yesterday. It was a warm day. Snow is melting back away from the trees.
I did some geese in a snow covered field. When I came back 15 minutes later they was gone.
We've been having highs in the 80's down here. The weather man said we may have our first day in the 90's this week. At least we don't have to deal with all the snow and ice you guys have.
Lived here all my life, but this is startin to get old.
Snowing again and -3 here this morning. More snow forecast Friday and this weekend. Just heard we officially have more snow on the ground now than ever before on this date. We've had more total snow, but not this late. Supposed to get to -12 tonight, possibly break a record for this date. Also close to breaking a record for consecutive days below 40. Haven't seen 40 degrees since November 7th. If we make it to April 11th (and the long range looks like it could happen) that will be a new record. I don't think I've ever used this much diesel in a season moving snow. Wind comes from the southeast with the snow, dig out, then switches to the northwest and blows/packs it all in again, rinse/repeat. Used to love the winter. Maybe it's just the age thing 8).
Good new is I've got about 6 semi loads of logs staged in the log yard. They're all currently buried in snow, but I'm confident I'll get to see them again :D.
Forecasters are saying that we won't see any temps above freezing for March. That may beat a record that hasn't been broken since 1899.
I agree completely, boonesyard, this winter is dragging on a bit...
Same story UP here. Temps have been struggling to make the 30s and the nights have been in the low teens to single digits. Been snowing off and on all day today. No real warms ups in the forecast either.
You guys are having it rough!!! :(
We had a warm winter. Two rivers did not ever really freeze over.
Suppose to snow here every other day for the next week starting tomorrow with a low in the teens and twenties and high in the 20's and 30's. :D Mild today, 42 or so. Yesterday only got to 38F and there was snow squalls. ;D No bare ground here for a while yet. There's over 3 feet of snow on top of the drain field. The snow don't seem to drop much around the raspberries going by the fence posts. We loose 4" and gain 10" more back it seems. At least the driveway is bare and firm, except one spot that can sink about an inch. Looks like water coming out of the gravel because all snow is pushed back and the driveway is actually a few inches higher. No water running over land, going right into the ground. The place is a rock pile with 6-10" of top soil on top, so she can suck a lot of water up. Water will go where it wants to go. :D :) The land up by the woodlot is gravelly under the dirt, no where near as rocky. An old esker up through there, any quick changes in elevation is full of gravel. I'm in no real hurry, I'm pretty sure by May 1st I'll be running lines someplace. Not much will change that time frame, been that way the last 25 years. I'm not new to wading snow on the tree line some springs. Spruce ground holds snow a lot longer than maple woods. ;)
Last spring the D20 woods road out in Deersdale had snow banks 3 feet high May 10th and every frost hole you could imagine in the road. Sticks with flagging tape marking every crater. You ain't seen noth'n like it. Truck'n don't resume until the end of June out there. Roads are boulders with glacial sand filled around and with water in the sand and frost coming out, it slumps into big holes. The gravel ain't rounded or sorted river gravel, it's angular stones all over the road surface. Nice on tires. They don't bury culverts very deep, by spring time the snow plowing has a lot of them torn up. Given ya something to read and smile about. :D
Just outside of Oslo...woke to 15cm/6" of new snow this morning. "It's still only March", says the wife. :D
At least it covers the old dirty snow.
SwampDonkey "You ain't seen noth'n like it"
Wanna bet ? The description of your spring time roads made me laugh.
The mechanics around here couldn't be busier right now.
Warm spell on tap, down to a foot of snow. Bare ground and robins showing up at the woods edge. Honkers overhead too.
Broke the record low in style this morning. This was on the way to the office this am.
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These pics sum our current weather.
Tuesday out on the mail run it was Summer, but some clouds starting to gather around the Mt.
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Thursday - It's now Winter
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Dropping off courier parcels at one of the local schools, before the clouds moved in.
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Reached 52F yesterday for the first time in awhile. Going to snow today sometime. ;D
I saw that bobcat again yesterday along the 4-lane fence. He was probably 3 miles from where I seen him before, but that was 2 months ago. :)
28F now.
I have 28° and the ground is just about white.
Might get up into the mid 30's with a wind.
Well 27° for the low last night with a cooler front coming through. We didn't get the snow squall they called for. It will stay cool with slow warming over the next few days and maybe hit 60 on Saturday. Still I can't help but watch and compare the weather in Rentz where the daytime highs are up in the 70's or more and the nighttime lows are in the high 30's or low 40's. I am looking forward to getting that here.
I hooked up my water collection tank a few days ago, but am waiting to put the pump on. There's over 150 gallons in there so far. The tank won't get cold enough to freeze, but the pump might and I don't want to have to replace parts again this year. I have enough stuff to fix. ;D Just another couple of weeks.
8° this morning and haven't broke 30° in 4 or 5 days.
Best news is there 18-24" of snow predicted for Friday and Saturday.
Hurray for January.....
Some snow devils from a light squall in the air this morning.
Other than that 20s and windy.
But we've been seeing some springlike conditions, haven't had an evening
wood fire for many days maybe a week, just a quick burn mornings.
Don't send any 2' snow dumps this way please.
I won't be BBQing today.....
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Why not?... the heat will melt the snow off you little pink chair. :) nice outdoor kitchen.
Yeah, why not? I have friends here that shovel out their barbie before they clean their driveways all winter long. How long will that snow last anyway? Past lunch time? :D ;D
We had a quick 6 hr storm here, all done now. But suppose to be windy for awhile.
61 but windy enough that outside is not enjoyable today.
Should get up to the mid 40's today.
65° when I got up this morning. Should hit 82° by mid afternoon with a possibility of showers. Thankfully, there's none of that white stuff ya'll keep posting about in site around here. :)
20F this morning and expected 40's later, sunny. Thankfully none of that southern heat in sight for weeks I've been reading about. ;D
25 here overnight and the high today in the mid 40's. Warming a bit tomorrow, but with 30mph winds and rain.
It hit just over 80 in Rentz yesterday and the overnight low was 20° warmer than our daytime high. I have a feeling we won't be wearing sweatshirts and coats during the day at the project. :)
Raining. Again. :(
Snowing.... still....
I heard it's been raining a lot at my house and snowing at my cabin site. Been great weather here in Italy. Maybe I should stay another couple of months!😂
It hit 48F here this afternoon. Snow tonight, followed by rain into Sunday I guess.
48..... Holy smokes we haven't seen that since probably October.
Snow on and off all day but at 31° at least it isn't sticking to the roads. About 5" so far, supposed to cool off tonight so im sure a little more snow will accumulate.
Raining here.Wind warning for tomorrow.Calling for 60mph gusts.May as well get the chainsaw out and hook up the generator.
I have snow at just about freezing.
Yeah this week we broke 50F for the first time since early November. Been a long cool stretch. We have the Laurentians on the north shore of the St Lawrence keeping that cold air to the north. The weather map shows it's 30 degrees colder along those mountains, also northern MI, MN and N Dakota. And the jet stream is actually south of us to, right now. You have no mountains in northern MI westward. :D
Southern Saskatchewan and Alberta is 30 degrees warmer than Manitoba.
No snow here yet today, looks like rain off shore and moving in land. 32F here now.
Thankfully we didn't get anymore snow here. A little south of here got hit bad with ice first then heavy snow. Many roads are impassable and crews are struggling.
Nothing like a little April fools joke from mother nature, we've got snow this morning just an inch or so, it's 29° and pretty clear so it won't last long with the sun out.
Rain on fresh wet snow overnight and 34*. April fools !
Raining and 71°. :'(
Storms last night ,tornado warnings. Straight line winds knocked about 20 acres of green houses down next county south .There is no place on this planet you can hide .If it's not one thing it's another and mother nature will win .Always has and always will .
I have not surveyed the damage yet but imagine I might have a lot of blown limbs perhaps a top or two .The old game of pick up sticks on a larger scale .
33F and wind driven rain here now. Suppose to warm another 12 degrees in this. First rain in several weeks.
Must be windy in Detour. The cabin cam sent me a few hundred photos. I condensed them into a short time lapse of the April Fools Day snow storm.
Time-lapse 2023 April Fools Day Cabin Snow Storm - YouTube (https://youtu.be/8nA5i3BpHGE)
Gonna hafta add on to da shed for the new digger?
Snow depth doesn't look too bad up there. Great way to keep track of the cabin.
Didn't get much more snow here over night. "Down south" by Chet somebody said that got over 20 inches of snow....
Jeff, most of the time, what you get for weather, I get a few days later.
We got every bit of that, if not more. And lots of drifting which was unusual for such dense snow. Lots of county roads are still not plowed as of this evening.
Well now the Mich. U P has several giant lakes affecting the weather .We in Ohio only have one ,Erie .It's bad enough .
This last blast we got snuck in from our open western flank, :snowball: no lake effect involved.
You have that west flank too but then again a nor easter .That really screws things up .It doesn't make any diff what causes it .You can't control it you need to deal with it .FWIW worth years ago I've seen heavy snows this late in Ohio .
I've seen several inches in a storm in early May before. Last time was a couple years ago. And then 2 or 3 before that. Not uncommon at all. Seen potatoes planted beforehand. The old farmers called it spring fertilizer. ;) That was after the snow was gone in the fields and mostly gone in the woods. Older winter snow doesn't melt very fast in the 30's and 40's, needs to be 50+ for days to really melt much. Fresh snow melts out fast on previous bare ground at 40F though as long as there is sun. Fresh snow on old snow not so fast other than be packy. I'll notice that where they snow mobile to their sap cans. Road all bare by noon, snow on trail still there. ;D We are over 20" above the 30 year average now, but no records set. We had 12' of snowfall here in 2009, previous record was 1955. Last time they updated our frost hardiness map, the boundaries never shifted in this region. I've been in 4B for the last 90 years. If you read old journals from the past, you'll see mild late falls and Januarys on occasion. The notion it is some new thing is hilarious. Those old journals aren't 'official' is the notion 'they' hold. :D
Over time the weather is cyclic .I'm old enough to remember the nasty winters of the 50's and 60's .During those times we just expected them to be nasty .Plus expected the summers to be hot like over 100 every so often .No air conditioning,sit under a tree and drink lemonaide .I've since substituted barley pop .
Had a couple cool days.
Looks like a few 50° days coming.
Field that I see up on the hill is getting bare. Mine is still snow covered. But they get more wind than I do. Blows the snow off the field.
Saw some geese at Baker Farm. The field was covered with snow. Drove by 3 days later and there was some bare spots for them to feed in. But that also is a wind blown field.
34° here now.
Temperature has been dropping with the wind, went from 34F at 3:00 am down to 28F now. Looks like snow coming Wednesday and Thursday this week. No 50's in sight here, lots of 30's and low 40's for highs. I've not often found April much warmer than late March in the last 20 years. Years before that we could often have wheat planted in late April. Odd that is much rarer now. ;)
Only reached 30F this afternoon and that hard north wind howling.
18F this morning, moon and stars and no wind. That wind yesterday could blow you of the road. :D
No 50's predicted for up here until next Monday. Meanwhile snow tonight, Wednesday and Thursday with some cold rain mixed in here and there. :D
Here we go again. At least warmer.
...A STRONG STORM WILL BRING A VARIETY OF WEATHER TO WESTERN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...
A strong low pressure system will move northeast out of Colorado today and track across western Lake Superior on Wednesday as it heads north into Ontario. This system will bring a wide variety of weather to the area. The precipitation will start out as snow on Tuesday before a wintry mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain occurs Tuesday afternoon before changing to a rain, sleet and freezing rain mixture on Tuesday night and then switch over to all rain Wednesday morning. There could be up to one quarter of an inch of ice accumulations from this storm Tuesday afternoon through Tuesday night, heaviest in the Keweenaw Peninsula, north of Crystal Falls and Iron River, the Marquette and Baraga County Highlands, and near Newberry. Thunder will also be possible Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday. Not only will there be mixed precipitation, but winds could gust as high as 55 mph Tuesday through Thursday and there could be some minor lakeshore beach flooding and beach erosion along the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior shorelines.
Can barely find my corner posts this morning. :D
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Creek froze last night, and that is snow above that exposed bank.
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Woods I thinned last fall next to an Arthur blowdown. Snow is deepest half way between each tree. Still no bare ground at tree bases. ;D
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plantation on edge of trail
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Snow at base camp this morning, 10" of new snow since the last shovelling. ;D
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Won't be planting this April for sure. ;)
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Well, it jumped to 40F now. So I guess it will be rain tonight with that hard south wind behind it. So much for weather guessors. :D
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Wonder why posting pics twice?
We are forecast to hit a record breaking 90° tomorrow. Yikes !!! smiley_sweat_drop smiley_sun
Wow, swampdonkey, you got some snow!!!
I drove my tractor through the field. Maybe 4 inches of snow.
We only got a shower on the hills after all, then it cleared. Moon and stars this morning. 30F now. A mess coming Wednesday through Thursday (ice), unless it turns out to be another 'raspberry' forecast. :D
Beenthere, two different threads you mean?? Sharing some winter. :)
The sky is on fire this morning!!
What a sunrise at 30°
A short video of the sunrise and snow in the field.
sunrise (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-lL9iTmSgU0)
Maggie is our westie.
We get by today and tomorrow the temps are really going to go up.
Temps in the 60's, if they are right.
Looks like some freezing rain late afternoon and tonight.
24F here and partly sunny, freezing rain tonight as well. Headed to the woods.....
73° down here today. Projected high of 90° and rain. It's way too warm for this time of year.
71 at 9:45
82 at noon .Supposed to hit 89.To hot for me.
I'm closing the barn door so that hot stuff don't blow in. I don't want to see that ever. But I'm sure we will get a couple 90's sometime between June 21 and August 15. :-\
30F and snow streamers right now.
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A light rain now. Car a coating of ice, but the ground is still warm, so no ice on the ground.
We'll see how the morning is.
We never hit that 90° mark they predicted for today. The cloud cover kept the temps a little lower. No rain either. We hit 87° this afternoon and that was plenty warm enough for me.
High of 54 here today, felt like 38 with solid cloud cover all day, a steady breeze, and 85% humidity. I helped on a hazard tree job. We took down 4 with he bucket truck, chipped the brush, cut mushroom logs and left the big logs for pick up later. When you were working the jacket came off right away, but as soon as you stopped, it came back on.
Tomorrow we are looking for 70's, mostly overcast, and rain. Typical early spring. The stove is off in the house and I wish it was on right now to warm up my back. The shop is holding at just about 70 with the stove on idle, but at some point I have to open it up to clear the chimney junk out.
In the highlands of Virginia it hit 86 today, yesterday was 80. Great day outside.
Still 30F here. We had some snow, I don''t know if there is an inch, then ice on top. The wash room sink window on the south side of the house is a glaze of ice. There is no canopy over it. Good times. ;D
Suppose to see 50's and 60's next week, starting Monday. That'll drop some snow depth a bit. :)
Same temp as last night.31° and raining.
High 50's today.
Over 1 Million with no power in southwestern Quebec from this ice.
That's a lot of people!!!
40F here this morning, and I think that is the high for today, going to cool off the rest of the day. Wind picking up from the NW. Not hallmarks of a warming trend. :D Never got above 36F here yesterday. Looks like below freezing tomorrow all day.
Bernstein can't plant his taters this Easter. :D :D
Time for potatoes? - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFTgpVe8Ffg)
58° and raining projected high of 71°. Looks like today will be a total washout. I was able to work in the garden a little yesterday morning. Guess I'll have to find something inside to do today.
I saw what I think are the same pair of geese that come back each year.
40° here now. Looks to be the same all weekend, than the so called work week will be warm. Might get in the 60's!!! That will melt some snow.
I just spent the last two days on a job site in southern South Carolina (five miles from Savana GA) and it was 82 to 85 degrees each day.
I got sun burned as well. not fun
Jim Rogers
Snow started moving in here with a wind behind it out of the NW and 36F and dropping. Dropping to the teens tonight. :D
SD, What you could do is drive a stake in the ground in August and attach a yardstick with the 36" mark on top. Around May, you can tell when it is Spring when you can see the stick. :D
22F this morning, not going to warm much they say, maybe to 30F. Stars and moon out.
Well it looks like spring is doing that "in and out' thing. Temps were warming steady a few days ago so I shut down the house stove and was enjoying the quiet of not having all the fans running to move air. Then temps went back down and I restarted yesterday. Down in the mid 20's overnight, high today will just break 50 then back to the 20's overnight. Then we warm a little again and they are saying 80's later in the week. Just in time for me to leave town and fly south where the temps are beginning to trend down. ;D
I am leaving in a few minutes to head NW and do a consult job in Conesville where the high for today will just break 40 and that will happen after I leave for home in the late afternoon.
I note that it hit 97° in Rentz yesterday but by the time I arrive that won't be happening. :D
Life, and weather, is like a box of chocolates.
55° down here this morning high in the low 70's. Hopefully we can dry out some today. We're supposed to actually have some spring weather this this week. They say we'll be back in the 80's for next weekend.
Was out to the woodlot this morning, hard crust to walk on. On the way back about a mile a good sized tom turkey with 8 hens along the road. He had a nice long beard. ;D Still only 22F here, getting overcast. Said chance of some flurries. ;)
Old Greenhorn, we might hit 70 on one day.
That will melt some snow.
My fields are almost bare.
By the end of next week, the fields will be bare.
Looks like the work week will be warm. Temps in the 60's starting Monday.
I miss seeing the turkey hens bringing their groups of little ones out to pick seeds from the grass in front of the house. The population has really declined since I built the house. We still see the occasional turkey in the field, but not like before. I think the wild hogs and coyotes are getting most of them. Now we're starting to see black bears in the woods. They'll probably get their share too.
Lots of black bears, coyotes, moose and turkeys in these parts. ;) 25F here so far today.
Was out along the Saint John, along the river road today. Noticed they have let water out of the head pond down at Mactaquac because ice was broken up, some lodged in the shallows. The ice was 8 feet thick, some close to 10 feet. It was cold sometime. :D The Saint John is no small river.
Got to 34F here.
26F this morning, no wind, sunny.
I looked back at 2022. Mosher Pond ice out was either the 10 or the 11.
No way it will hit that date this year. The ice is still white. And it was all that cold this year to make ice. Took a while for it to freeze safely over this year.
A very nice day today. T shirt weather!! Had to move the truck and it was very warm inside the truck.
The warmest day that I had off this year.
Reached 48F yesterday by 5 pm. Never built a fire last evening as it was 80F in here from sunshine. This morning is another nice one shaping up and 10 degrees warmer predicted. Rain showers tomorrow. 32F right now.
It broke in the low to mid 50's yesterday and sunny. Not a bad day, but I still have both stoves idling through the day because at night, it still gets cold. Last night was 30° but I have a strong suspicion that may have been the last of it, warming steady this week and the weekend forecast looks great..... but I won't be here. ;D
The day I leave for the project it should break the 80's for a bit, but I'll be in Rentz before that happens and it looks like rain for Friday, so I'm coming prepared.
Seems like spring has arrived.
60s most of this week, 70s friday. Snow be gone after this week.
Big Canada Goose migration going on , saw hundreds if no a thousand in big
fields with low areas of water along the Sandy River. Taking a break
on their way north. Honk honk.
Weather man's forecast for up here is mid to upper 50's, and two cold fronts with rain, so nowhere near 70's up this way for this week. Mid week in the 40's.
Wow,heat wave ,61 at one . I might do something today .
Yeah, 53F here now and still climbing. Porch weather. ;D
78° yesterday and 79-81° here today. I need to head up the hill to see how much snow there is on my cabin property. Thinking there is probably more than 15 feet so no building until July?
59F here for the high. Snow dropped a lot. Water is soaking in the ground where it melts, no run off. No fire since before daylight, and the curtain closed in the big window and it's 85F in here. And a window open. No fire tonight. :D West wind here and RH outside is 34%.
The grackles and robins are busy today. Turkey vultures eating on a skunk that got creamed the other night.
42F here this morning, before daylight.
74 today more to my likeing .
Another 59F yesterday here. Had a shower in the evening and 40F this morning. A cold front passing through but 40's expected. Been porch weather, especially in the afternoons. But not bad with a heavy shirt in the morning with a coffee. ;D Melting out there around the clock now. ;) Be stacking firewood for next year by the end of the week. I can get at quite a bit of it now, but still some ice and snow in it. Still over 2 feet of snow on the drain field where it sits. ;D Not burning much wood now, gets too hot when the sun comes through the windows. I've got a bit over 2-1/2 cord left from 10 cords of dry stuff. Close to 10 more green in the wood pile to stack.
Seem odd to have the wind blowing and it still feels warm!!! Almost 50°.
The bank had 70°. May not be right, but sure does look good.
Maybe 65 for the backwoods of Chesterville, ME
Today will only be 60 but a couple more warm days are coming, then back to the high 50's.
Still snow in the woods. I should rake the back lawn.
I can guarantee that wind ain't warm here, hard out of the north and still 40F. Not freezing but not comfortable by any stretch. :D
At almost 4 PM it's now 78
47F here right now, that'll be about the warmest it'll get today I think.
Skipping over a whole bunch here....the weather...hmmm, let's see...had snow before Christmas and December looked like maybe a more or less normal winter might be in the offing.
January....spring-like weather, all the way through. Snow? Forget about it. Same for frozen ground.
February...lots of snow, fairly cold but no blockbuster cold snaps at all...
March...ditto. Several 15 and 20 inch snowfalls. Lots of rain too.
April...78 degrees today.
Any questions 😁?
36F here this morning, no wind, clear skies. Suppose to hit 60F. Normal weather for these parts. Nothing to brag about. ;D
Snow has dropped a lot, but fields are still 99% covered in snow up on these old potato fields. ;)
Strong skunk smell lingering in the house. :D I was wondering if he crawled in. I think he is under the front step, which is concrete and hollow behind it. ;D
smiley_smelly_skunk
The vultures and ravens were feeding on his buddy's carcass this week. :D
Next 2 days mid 70's.
Then back to April temps, in the 50-60's.
I am able to drive my tractor across the field. Still have snow at the lower end of each field, which is the tree line.
Ponds still have ice around here. But it is melting. Seeing more water each day.
Had a good wind yesterday, but ice was not thin enough to move around.
Drying out good around here.
Looks like it is snowing west of the Dakotas and into the Rockies.
Rain Monday and then temps drop into the 40's all next week here.
59° with possible rain and a high of 65° today. Great temps but a little soggy. To me, snow and cold are bad enough without skunks. I'd hate to have to put up with both. Good luck with that SD.
63F here for a high today. Dry south wind 45% RH today. Makes for dry lips for sure.
I don't mind the skunks, I can do without them leaving their perfume. :D Not smelling anything now.
Saw a couple toms with some hens down by cousin's camp, which is 3/4 of a mile down the road. They were on the pavement making a crossing. Almost a daily site seeing turkeys around for the last couple weeks. More frequent then winter now. There's close to 40 when they all get together. There is another couple flocks up the road, one with 12 another with 8 or 9.
The yard if full of grackles and European starlings this evening.
54F this morning, like a June morning up here. Window was up most of the night like summer. But I don't think it is expected to get any warmer than yesterday. We still have some snow on the land so warm air over snow cools down before it gets up here. :D :D And it's on the windy side, stars are out. ;D
Yesterday was a warm day.
Today will be the same. Mid 70's again. T shirt weather.
55° right now. We're supposed to have a beautiful day with a high of 81° and a no rain in sight! Magicman has invited us out to see his mill so were pretty excited to meet them and see my first real mill first hand. Looking forward to a great day.
Only a few pockets of snow in shady areas left. Stuff disappears fast
@70 *+.
Always an exciting time of year when you're not having to slog through snow
and things are greening up. Poplars and red maples are getting colorful.
Temperature here dropped to 45F, cold north wind. Might not even see 60F here, never know. ;D
Stacked the basement full for next year's wood. I had half in there already not burned this winter. That's 5 cord in there now. I have some wood outside for burning if needed. Can't see needing much from now on. The electric can kick on once in awhile if needed, and I've never used more than $30 worth of electric heat a month ever at this place. :) 77F in here now with sun shining in.
Abnormal warmth continues, for one more day, and yikes, I just saw a forsythia bush in full bloom here in town. That means I need to hike my posterior and the rest of me pronto...to the plantation, to spray the terminal buds and leaders on white pine and Norway spruce, to control white pine weevil. 1000's of trees, but I only do what I can reach.
That shrub's being in bloom is a phenological indicator that mama weevil is going to go up to the tips of those pine and spruce trees to lay eggs. The chem I use is bifenthrin, with spreader/sticker. Highly effective, and is probably as much a repellent as an actual insect killer.
So yeah, 100% weather-related😁.
Well, we broke 50F here.
On to white pine and weevil. Been firm believer shaded pine means low weevil damage. Once they reach pole stage around 30 feet, minimal chance of leader damage . Been the case here so far. The worst enemy has been blister rust. Shade don't protect against that, only pruning up, as the rust needs needles to infect. And the more airflow the better so any moisture is dried off quick and the environment does not remain damp. And lastly, moose, no young pine is sacred to a moose and his antlers. :D
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You can tell there is still snow in the north. But she's going. Barely see Mnt Katahdin there on the right on the horizon, a dull grey in the bright sun. :D
Yeah but planting white pine in what had been an ag field offered few opportunities for shade😉.
I've knocked the key-wrap out of em after 4 years or so of such treatment. Only tiny bits of damage might show up, on maybe two trees, and maybe not even the terminal leader, but a stout side branch up near top. Huge improvement.
Got our first real thunder storm this afternoon with pea sized hail.Around 78F.I set on the back porch and enjoyed every minute of it.
My idea for pine in a field is to establish some oak or sugar maple first at 15-20 feet spacing, then come in after in 10 years and put in the pine. I've done similar on wild ground, but the wildlife (hare, moose and bear) and rust have killed off most. :D Watch the hardwood laterals and prune them from rubbing the pine. Gotta start this stuff when your young and full of ideas and pep. ;D Yes, once the tree gets cones, bear around here will climb them for the cones and rip a top to heck, besides clawing the trunk to heck get up it. It ain't easy being pine. :D I've been involved in planting a few old fields in pine, the rust around here is bad, it will kill most of the pine. Weevils are bad enough, but they don't kill off the trees, rust does. They say rust needs an alternate host (ribies), but from what I've seen in plantation pine, I'm not sure they always do. This is ground with no ribies under the pines and hard pressed to find one in the area. It's really not a common plant here in maple woods. I usually see it in wetter softwood forest in openings. I have it in my woods, they seem to be on cedar cutovers. Find it hard to believe under full canopied plantation where wind is suppressed, that spores will do much distance, you find the disease mostly in the lower portion of the crown (infected limbs), not up high. Rainfall may be delivering spores from high up in the crown via rain droplets or something I suppose. The lower crown would take longer to dry out and be a damper environment. Who knows, life finds peculiar ways to exist and procreate. :D But is sure seems like a random event because they have no legs and they can not call the wind to deliver them in the right direction to a host then on to the tree at their convenience. A most likely event is close proximity, tree to tree. ;)
Not many deer in my area to bother much, and moose don't bother oak and sugar maple much (don't plant red maple or aspen though). :D I remember someone planted red pine in a field in an area with deer, they pulled them out, by trying to break off the new shoots to eat. :D I've seen moose do the same to spruce, moose tracks up and down the rows. They didn't cover their tracks very well. Guilty!! :D Planted yellow birch once, the moose and rabbits had them all eaten in a week. This was inter planted on wild ground, not field, and lots of other woody plants around, but they honed in on the birch. :D
Ice is out on some local ponds.
It went so fast that if you weren't watching
you would have missed it.
Loons start showing up right behind ice out, could hear one overhead at sunup .
Snow is all but gone and can walk most anywhere in the woods without stepping in it. Been in the 70s several days and again today. Summer in April.
How right you are about the ice out. I drove by Moser Pond 4 times yesterday. I watched it go out.
Kinda cool at 40°. ;D
Summer temps are gone for a while.
Most years I get a small pond down by the wood yard. No pond this year.
I guess to see snow, I'll have to drive up to Rangeley.
32F this morning. Just finished raking rocks and gathering sticks this morning. Gotta wait for snow to leave to clean the piles up and move them off. ;D Another nice day in store, but 50's weather, not summer heat. We've had a dry north wind here mostly. The ground around the lawn is moist, but not wet. Plan on digging spring parsnip in the garden in a couple days. Best time to harvest, nice and sweet. ;)
Surprised that it hit 65F today, the wind wasn't as strong and shifted to the SE. A lot of snow disappeared again. One garden is all open and the main garden will be open in a couple days, I see dirt at the corners. ;D
Well, we did go to Rangeley. Not much snow up there.
But about hang way up there, Strong, Phillips, there is some snow in that area. :o Must of been a belt of snow last winter!!! There what looked like a foot of snow in the woods. Snow bankens on each side of the road too. Then we got out of the area and there were only places that had snow and what was there did not look like much.
The lakes and ponds were still white with ice. Even Rangeley lake was white and that is a good size body of water for this area.
72° up there.
Still got a bit of snow!
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That's the top of my SkyTrak!
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You're living like a mountain man, John. Build'r rugged. :D
45F this early hour, overcast and can't see the windmill lights (Not even in Oakfield), but can see the tower lights on Mars Hill. Hmm. Stealth mode? There is possibly some fog, doesn't seem to be any around the house, although the screen is damp from something. Didn't have any rain.
You still have snow is right!!!
46° this morning.
I took a long probe around the lawn this morning, I pushed it in a good 16" around here and never hit any frozen ground. Places where snow covered it a day ago, no frost at all. Poked it in the garden beside the parsnips, nothing for ice. It's going to be a dry May unless we get rain next month.
43F, rain showers and fog. ;D
It got into the 70's yesterday but today at 8:00 it was 35 with wind .Typical Ohio .
Got to 58F here today, I think that is about it for the high. Had an afternoon peek of sun today to bump the temp a little. Suppose to rain tonight. We never had any crazy spring heat this spring so far. Nothing showing up long range, just 50's weather. Normal stuff.
Last few days were hot, not warm. High temp today...30-something.
Crazy stuff, I tells ya.
46F and light rain, but we had hard rain at times in the night. I hear the creek 1/2 mile away roaring, it sometimes runs over the road below here as there are two small creeks that cross the road from one side and become one on the other. It will wash woody debris on the road in hard rains sometimes. And one culvert is washing and has never been fixed in 2 years. Just a pylon beside as if that is a fix. ::) It's a weird situation because that culvert also brings water from a 3rd creek or seepage out of the swamp, so they run down the ditch to the lowest part of the land then cross. So ditch is also a creek (2). :D Also just before this mess, up my way a bit, we can get overland flow off the field that brings debris onto the road. No scarcity of water. :D
This was all snow last week. I'll be mowing in 2 weeks. ::)
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2 days of "rain". Just enough to keep things wet.
That grass turned green quick.
We had 56F for a high because there was some sun mixed between showers. It actually rained hard after supper for a while to. Cleared out last night, all stars here now and 36F this morning. I can hear that creek this morning with roaring water.
I put the battery into the SxS yesterday, today will be going around to my piles of tree branches and sticks to gather up. I checked the engine oil and it's like new and still full. I never had a lot of miles last year, no need of pouring out good oil. Will grease it up next month, not going off the house lot for awhile, just yard put put'n.
36° this morning. Rain is all done for now.
Sun is coming out here too.
Got some rain last night forgot to turn over the rain gauge. I usually flip it back up on tax day, put it down in October.
Rain gauge had 1/4" from last night. Gathered up the twig and limb piles and cut some off trees that interfere with mowing. Should have the wood all stacked away for next winter by the end of the week.
Won't be long before I'll be marking out thinning and swinging a clearing saw. ;D
There was almost a foot of snow 3 days ago under the birch grove, pretty much gone now. Soon be trout lilies. Already been "colts foot" in bloom here for over a week, yellow flowers that look like "devil's paint brush" flowers.
Spring has come to the cabin.
Spring comes to the U.P. Cabin. Short Time lapse. - YouTube (https://youtu.be/FTq_Od_wMuY)
These woody plants were covered in snow last week at this time.
A skunk currant on the left and red-berried elder (not edible) on the right.
The red-berried elder (Sambucus racemosa var. pubens) is showing flowers emerging on the tip shoots.
Skunk currant (Ribes glandulosum) has fine scaly bark and red bud scales and 3 vascular bundle scars where the old leaf was. Thinly U-shaped leaf scar.
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Skunk currant twig with a couple shoot buds as well.
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Ground after a week of no snow. Dries fast here once the snow goes. And we have only had 1/4" - 1/2" rain this spring
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A bit more firm in this spot, but not wet.
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There is still some wet spots because of melting snow along field edges. And there is a spring here and there in some fields that dry up later.
There is a snow bank all along my north property line.
28F this morning, stars and a cold north wind. They predict 50-55F by days end. Warms up fast this time of year with some sunshine.
Yesterday was overcast, a couple showers, cold wind and only 44F for the high.
It hit nearly 80 yesterday ,got a lot done outside .Calling for rain next few days which is good because I have to fire up my motorized small asphault roller and roll the lumps out of my yard .It's made by Case and weighes a tad over a ton if ballasted with water .
Auction find,right place right time,cheap like $200 .
Finished up stacking next winter's wood this morning. Last fall's harvest worked out to 9 cords. That gives me 11.5 cords for next winter all tucked away. ;D
45F now, so I'm sure we will be over 50F by days end. No wind, just bright sunshine.
It will be another cool night. low 30's. Next week we won't see any 60's temps.
We hit 60F late afternoon yesterday. 38F here this morning, seems overcast.
Isn't there a meteor shower later tonight in this region? Suppose to be clear here by then. Could be an interesting show.
Got to 56F today, kinda cloudy and breezy. Did some weeding in the rhubarb, which is now breaking ground, and around the fruit bushes. Usually musk, creeping charlie and dandelion to root out in the spring time. ;)
Took the buggy up above the woodlot into the northern most field looking for bear tracks, as there are usually the first bear tracks up in there. Yep, big prints to, like a work horse, sunk 2" in the soft dirt. The snow just went off there 2 or 3 days ago. :)
There's a nice reward from NASA if you can find a piece of the Meteor that came down south of you last week. Talk about finding a needle in a haystack. :D
Meteorite falls in Maine, NASA says; reward offered for large piece (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/12/meteor-fall-observed-maine-nasa-confirms/11648564002/)
I saw that reward offer too, but 1kg or more is getting big enough that $25K might be ~1/4 - 1/3 of the winning bid. If the museum wants a chunk, there are others that might too and $25K just doesn't buy what it used do.
Well never saw anything spectacular of the meteor shower this morning. Only saw one zip bye around 3:30. I do hear the spring peepers though for the first time this spring. ;D
40F this morning, cool breeze, will be in the 60's. Looks like we will have some warm sun.
Digging around the elder bushes for weeds, that soil is drying fast. It's still firm with moisture, but not wet.
Quote from: Mooseherder on April 22, 2023, 05:27:50 PM
There's a nice reward from NASA if you can find a piece of the Meteor that came down south of you last week. Talk about finding a needle in a haystack. :D
Meteorite falls in Maine, NASA says; reward offered for large piece (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/12/meteor-fall-observed-maine-nasa-confirms/11648564002/)
Yeah, two guys from Maine found one with a drone last week, they were testing it for validity. This was a different one that came down. I saw one that looked like it fell between Patten and Oakfield, after that one that got all the fan fair. It was breaking up with a tale of debris behind it. Saw one last summer over Mars Hill and looked like it fell over Listerville, NB. I thought it was a plane or one of Musk's rockets blowing up, he does that a lot it seams. :D I tell you though, those meteors will get your attention when they blow to bits above the ground.
The reward isn't from NASA, they only tracked it. The reward is from the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum in Bethel, Maine.
Buddy of mine says he'd hold out for more $$, if they were willing to pay $25,000 then it's worth a lot more than that. :D
Yeah, the 25 grand isn't in NASA's budget. :D
Bear in the corn stubble this morning. ;D Not a very good picture on digital zoom. Kinda like them blurry Sasquatch photos. :D
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We have been bringing in the suet feeders for about 2 weeks now. We are hoping the bear won't come for a feast with the suet inside the house.
I might see a bear once a year here. Did not see one last year at all.
Grandson will put bait out and they will come to that. I see them on his camera. That's the only time I really see them.
Peepers been out a couple weeks here. I can't hear them up here at the house until they get loud. Brenda heard them about 2 weeks ago.
Rain at a 40° temp.
38F here and just showers for the next 3 days. I saw trout lilies breaking ground in under the birch grove.
Old saying around here: 'For every day the frogs sing in April, they will lay still in May'. ;D
Back on the clearing saw crew next week. Will be tying ribbon for lines and boundary for a few weeks first. :)
A pair of blue birds are busy this morning.
37F this morning. Have had no rain out of supposed showers so far.
I did see a moose yesterday out in a field when I drove to the saw shop. They are starting to come out to fields now. Have seen no deer come back up on the hills so far, but should be some this week. The first tracks I always see is near the old bridge to the woodlot. Seeing deer around here is more rare than seeing turkeys or moose. Moose droppings on the woods road above the bridge. :D
Same as yesterday, rain and 40°.
Looks like a light rain in the morning and then showers. Could be a light rain all day.
Had one little shower here at daybreak, nothing much now. Lawn is hard as cement.
Since that little spring heatwave a week or two ago, nothing but cloudy, cool, and damp.
I'm not complaining. I dislike too rapid warmups in spring-lead to plant stress, insect, disease, and weed issues-and this is very good tree planting weather. I've got just 150 fill-in seedlings, not a big deal.
Just for kicks, trying 100 plugs of Meyer spruce. See what they do in this part of the world.
When I see a nursery showing a tree grows in zones 3-8, that doesn't tell me much. I want to know what specific climate the parents came from for the best outcome. If too far north the cold can get it or too far south and it might burn up. Genetics of a tree is fine tuned to it's origin climate. I see a lot of Norway spruce planted that will turn red by spring. Other provenances do fine.
....all true. Second-nature stuff to this retired horticulturist.
I'm checking my original message to see where I said this planting choice was based solely on USDA hardiness zone rating?!?🤷
Quote from: wisconsitom on April 25, 2023, 10:31:03 AM
....all true. Second-nature stuff to this retired horticulturist.
I'm checking my original message to see where I said this planting choice was based solely on USDA hardiness zone rating?!?
I was looking at the Arbor day website on the species. They list the zones. But like I said that doesn't assure me of much when buying trees. I want the zone the tree originated in. Perhaps they have regional nurseries representative of the zones?
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The deer have returned up at the woodlot, saw doe and fawn tracks and found fresh deer poo near by property line. Still snow cover back in the fir and spruce woods though. Pretty much bare ground on the old field, that is now forest. The field doesn't go very deep from the road, maybe 200 yards at the deepest. But lots of snow around beyond that.
Wet all day here. I did turn off the wipers on the truck for a few minutes today. Maybe 5 minutes each time.
A cool week, but I suppose normal.
As posted better than real warm up for a month, than a big cool down as in past years.
Yeah Ray, similar here too. Just some spritzes here and there, then short busts of sun, then overcast most of the time. Been like this for the last 5 days or so, not looking to get any better in the next 7 or more. Kind of like that october weather I hate so much, the only difference is, in the spring I know it's going to warm up.
Tomorrow is a lost day driving back and forth to LogRite to pick up my order, but at least the weather won't matter much and the traffic will suck no matter what the weather is. :D
Got a pretty hard frost here last night.Nipped my potatoes a little bit but I think they will recover.First week of May is supposed to be pretty cool also.Usually May 15 is last frost date here.
40F here this morning, haven't seen frost since a week ago when it dropped to 28F one night. Leaves are just a popping here now. I hope stuff don't flower too quick are they will get bit hard. Have not seen a bumble bee yet and no dandelions flowering yet. The real early wild flowers have been out, but the lilies, twisted stalk and trilliums have not. The narcissus are not quite out, but the flower buds are ready to open. Tough garden flower for sure. No sign of bleeding heart or peonies yet. Rhubarb is just breaking ground, maybe an inch up on the two old clumps, no sign of the younger plants. Wild red-berried elder have flowers just starting to elongate. Tough bush, no good to eat though. :-\
Farmers will be working ground here next week. We've had no rain to measure for 2 weeks. Only 1/2" this spring so far. June will likely be wet and cold. Be planting onions in a couple weeks when the ground warms up a little. Will dig the rest of the parsnip today. Been eating quite a few for over a week. Nice and sweet in spring, better than store stuff that was not cold hardened.
my buddy Dr. L who has the Inland Ocean Winery got all the early buds nipped by frost. he says later buds will come out, but it will reduce the crop to 60% of usual and stunt them a little next year. he brought me a few cases of his wine in exchange for wood (walnut slabs) used for a river desk for his grandson.
My grapes get hit most years, last year they didn't because I watered them one morning the frost hit a little and saved them. I had 34 lbs of grapes off 2 - 8 foot rows of vines. :D Birds had the remaining that I never picked. Figured close 40 lbs to eat between me and the birds. I know that is enough work for me to tend and pick. ;D
We are still hanging in the 'transition doldrums' of mostly overcast damp or rainy air and cool temps. Been that way since I got home from Rentz. Wednesday we had frost on the rooves here when I left for LogRite. Looking to be pretty much solid overcast for the next ten days with a chance of rain on up to heavy rain for the period and only one or two days where we might hit 60. Depressing weather for me. But OTOH, everything is greening up and leaves are popping, the grass is gonna need a second cutting in a few more days, although it didn't need the first one, just spring cleanup work.
I've been running smudge fire in the shop each morning to keep it dry and ran one overnight fire this week so it was over 60 in the morning. No finishing work going on right now, so that part is easy. Better days are coming, right?
60F here Thursday and looks like a little warmer today. Sunshine here today. Sharpened the mower blades this morning and mowed part of the lawn for a first run at it. :)
Calling for a foot of snow on Sunday. Hopefully this will be the last of winter and we can get onto spring.
Sunny day and 68F this afternoon. Suppose to be cooler tomorrow, rain Sunday and looks like showers possible for most of next week and it the 50's. We'll see. :)
Same here but supposed to stay warm for a while which is unusual for April. The downside is the potential for floods, local creeks are high but not yet at danger levels.
We had 2 days of sun. Was a warm day. Rain coming in on Sunday.
The bad news is one forecast is now calling for 24+ inches now thru Monday.
Well chevy, after you have been talking about what weather you get, I finally looked up to see where you live. :)
Mars Hill mountain is mostly hardwoods, red oak, maples, aspen and a big stand of red spruce on the east side. The snow is mostly gone up there. I see snow where they plow the road up there. I was up to the woodlot yesterday and the snow finally melted out of the road and his firming up. The old grown up field along the road is bare. But back beyond the field is only just starting to have bare patches now. Some spots in the trail is logger boot deep still. I wouldn't want to walk in those woods just yet unless you want a real work out. The ground is pit and mound, you might step on 4 inches of snow here, your next might be in a hole and up over the top of your boots. :D Another week at least before that is gone. The fields here are 95% bare and real dry to, except a regular wet patch you see every spring that dries by the end of May if it isn't a wet spring. Rarely wet here until about June, then it gets cold and wet sometimes as if it is April. Did I mention I hate, hand numbing, cold rain? :D I see a lot of aspen dropping flowers already, the road up at the woodlot was covered in woolly worms off the aspens.
I can still see the snow on top of Mt. Katahdin in the morning sun.
Was watching that Wrangler Star character, he's an ex fire land fighter for the USFS, and he has done control burns and such for them. He has never burned in the spring to get rid of weeds and woody shrubs before. He learned from a local farmer that is an efficient way to clean up a pasture fence. No he didn't burn down the fencing, he had a water tank and hose at hand. He just never grew up in that scenario on a farm.
I will say though, no one here burns fence lines, they often are cedar posts and burn fast like dry news paper. We had a fellow who was leasing land on us, but he had let another fellow bale straw from his choppings. The fool lit any loose choppings or busted bales on fire and left the area. It's a remote farm, no one lives within 3 miles of the place. I went up there because I knew what he was up to from an earlier visit. Some guys think they can do as they please because you let them bale straw. I put out a bunch of fire very close to my tree plantations which were full of dry grass and golden rod on wild ground. Don't be a retard like that guy and leave a fire to burn where it wants. We have law now that you will be fined for being an idiot, especially if DNR has no burn plan from you, and doubly so if you burn woods down.
Well just a miserable heavy rainy spring day with temp in the mid 40's. The rain actually woke me up this morning (well, that and the cat that decided I had slept long enough). Not really pleasant but that will change. Don't feel much like doing anything. A god day to drink I suppose, but I will defer that until this evening and go out to the shop, start a smudge fire to dry the air out and keep plugging along on 'something'. Lord knows I have enough open project to work on. It's 58 out there now so it won't take long. Looking for rai until Monday off and on, which means just solid overcast. The snow is gone from all the peaks around here now for a week or so, but the mud is in no danger of going away anytime soon. ;D
It's probably safe for me to hook up the pump on my (full) rainwater collection system now. Last year I was a bit too early and split a pipe. :D
Was looking for something to do this morning. Hopped on the mower and went over the rest of the lawn. Dry as a popcorn fart and dust flying like mid July. 2" of rain wouldn't hurt much. ;D 54F here now, be mid 60's this afternoon I suspect.
I can't walk on my lawn without knee high mud boots on, a mower wouldn't make it off the gravel. Something like 6" of rain in the last 7 days.
Radio just said 25-35 inches of snow now thru Monday. Hoping thats wrong.
Waiting for the rhubarb to get going here. I want to juice a bunch for a sort of lemon aide. Have done it before, but not with my new juicer. Needs some water, it's up but just sitting about 2" and holding. I suspect a cold spell is soon coming. April is early anyway for this area, the oaks, basswood, butternut, ash and apples here are holding back, but the maples, aspen, ironwoods and white birch are going full bore. Yellow birch not as keen yet. Purple trilliums are now out but see no flowers yet. Saw the first bumble bees today.
63F here today.
Quote from: thecfarm on April 28, 2023, 05:24:33 PM
We had 2 days of sun. Was a warm day. Rain coming in on Sunday.
Must be the same system on its way here, Sunday overnight into Monday.
Calling for a downpour and we need it as it hasn't rained except once in 3-4 weeks.
Looking forward to some rain here. Every time they make predictions of rain it falls short of any significance. It really is dry.
45F here and overcast, SE wind.
White this morning. Probably 3-4 inches. Hopefully thats all we get.
chevytaHOE5674
I live about 90 miles North West of you.
I have about the same 4 to 5 inches of sopping wet snow water accumulates in my dogs tracks ( on her morning run)
Winter just doesn't want to end
Cheers
Al
40's and 50's this week and 60's next week on the long range.
May 10th 2020. ;D
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A hard rain here.
Don't look like a good week to work outside.
Nary a drop of water here yet, but radar shows it moving in. Windy. 48F
A light rain now with A LOT of wind.
Edit, one hour later and it's raining hard.
Yeah getting dumped on .
Could be as much as 3" rain before it
finishes up around noontime.
Surprised to see ponding on low spots but
flash flood warning are up. The grass is liking it, rich green color now.
The wind !!!
The wind wasn't too bad around Fryeburg/Conway but lots of the roads are flooded and some just washed out. Can't get to my other house (3 miles away) by any of the 2-3 routes.
Amazing to see the whitewater pouring out of stonewalls along my usual road that's along a hillside.
OK, I am declaring that we are well past the "gee, we really need the rain" stage. The last day we had no measurable rain was 4/21 and since then we have accumulated over 4.64" of rain and it is still raining now with the forecast for 'Rain likely' everyday this week until Friday. SO whoever is causing this can just knock it off. :D Ponding, yeah, we got your ponding...right here. ;D
The ground is fully saturated and the signs tell me that we will be seeing signs like SB is seeing, some trees falling over from loose ground and things like that. It will be a mess down at the mill and the road into it will likely be under water. Sure, as I typing this I just am hearing a dispatch for an uprooted tree that took out some primary wires and covered a road. (Told Ya!).
I don't mind the water, we can deal with it (to a point), but the rain for days on end is depressing and 5 more days coming before we see the sun is a bit much. Back in 2005 we had a 100 year flood type rain and we had some sections of roads under 12' of water which never happened before. We were doing water rescues with boats out in the cornfields (stupid 4 wheelers) and so many roads were washed out that we had a 45 minute drive to the hospital instead of 12 minutes as normal with the ambulance. So yeah, it could be worse. ;D
We got every bit of a foot of heavy wet stuff yesterday. Lots of trees down in the area. Today ain't lookin' much better. Gotta love spring in da U.P. :D
Issued By
Marquette - MI, US, National Weather Service
Affected Area
Iron and Southern Houghton Counties
Description
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EDT /1 AM CDT/ TUESDAY...
WHAT...Heavy wet snow. Additional snow accumulations of 4 to 14 inches. The lowest snow accumulations will occur around Crystal Falls. North to northwest winds gusting as high as 40 mph.
Cold rain here.Calling for blizzard conditions and a foot of snow in the mountains of WV.
About 5 more inches of snow overnight on top of the 5" we had. Supposed to snow until Wednesday.
Had a warm week down here last week - in the 80's and low 90's - with daytime temps in the mid-50's up the hill and down towards freezing overnight up the hill. So the snow is probably only melting a little. Starting tonight, rain showers down here and snow showers up the hill with total accumulations for the week around 6". ::)
So, I'm off to Ireland for a few weeks.
Lost power here a couple hours ago. Estimate to restore it is pretty soon now. Probably a tree on the line. Windy. Never got much rain here, not even 1/4", all you'd call it was some heavy showers. Only chances of showers now and again into Friday, so we aren't going to get much here. 50F here.
I finally got to the other house. It's on a small lake. Lake is up 6". Got 5" of rain overnight in my 5 gallon bucket "measure".
Went and looked at the dam/outlet of the lake and you could see the extra 6". Cool !
WOW!!! We got some water!!!
I knew the heavy rain was in the night, but from my house all looked fine this morning. Got down to the meadow and saw the water!!!
It's over the road now, by only a few inches. Roads are closed and the streams and rivers are high and loud.
Flash flooding across the area yesterday but started receding
in the afternoon except for the larger rivers.
The new 10" culvert that Ray sold me down in the gully on my woods road was full
but left a low spot just beyond it for overflow and that worked as planned
with minor erosion.
I did see some culverts out and about yesterday that weren't handling
all the water too well.
The grass got green though.
Heavy rain warning issued for us for the next 2 days. Weather patterns have ganged up and are dragging a "river" of warm humid air down from the tropics. Of course it's cooling and hitting the mountains, and it's going to dump some serious rain on someone. Up to 15" forecast closer to the Mt, but it's going to be the duration of rain as it's not the normal front passing over in a few hours. Not really worried here, the town slopes enough to drain, but might get interesting out in the hills.
At least it's not cold, especially for this time of year.
Still snowing here, but not much new accumulation as its just above freezing at 34°.
21C and sunny here with no rain forecast, this could be a long dry summer. A retirement community on the west side of Okanagan Lake is under evacuation alert due to the risk of the creek flooding, this is early.
Overcast and dry here all day. 50F here for a high. Was one step away from crushing 4 woodcock eggs until she flew up in my face. Funny how the ribbon lines run by bird nests this time of year. Usually woodcock, grouse, duck or a robin nest. :D Have never ran into a turkey nest yet, I will some day. ;D
I had good intensions today .However when I walked outside into a wet cold 36 degrees with wind I did a u turn right back into the house .
Over on the lake shore they received nothing but a few inches of rain, 4 miles inland here we have about 12" of snow, another 6 miles inland there's between 20 and 30 inches of new snowfall.
Well our rain streak continues and we have had rain every day since 4/21 but yesterday was just .10. My son's crew came by and mowed our lawn yesterday (I would have rathered they didn't but I was sick in bed). Now we have nice even mud racks up and down the lawns.
They have reduced todays predicted rain chance quite a bit, so we will see what we get, but the ground is beyond saturated. Puddles don't go down much at all. It's overcast and daytime highs only hit the low 50's. In short: Depressing. Friday there is a chance we may see the sun and the temp might hit 60. But boy it's slow coming, for sure.
I know a lot of you guys are still trying to kick winter out and you have my sympathies. We all have our crosses to bear. Better days are coming (I'm told), but right now I have to go out and start today's morning fire in the shop where it's 54° and I might be ready to do some finishing this afternoon.
Cloudy and cool at 42F this afternoon. Dry day in the woods. Another Woodcock nest again today and a partridge nest I walked near but only saw the hen run off. A couple hares. Been a moose around but never saw it, just fresh droppings along with droppings all last winter. :D
It's dry for a change and now in the 40's .Coming down my 600 foot drive after a run to town I spied the eight fox kits with only one of two vixens baby sitting .Four were still gray and four are turning red .The kits look good and heathly so the vixens must be good hunters .Plenty of prey around here .
Funny to mention a fox and family. I went for a walk around the block, so to speak, when I had the truck in for a look over on Monday. Saw a fox sitting and watching, then it ran off as I met a bicyclist whom I told about the fox. It was in an island surrounded by highway and off ramp. Figured there is a den in the mess of weeds and brush somewhere. Continuing on down to the river bank on the walk and a ground hog reared up for a look around. Figured he would make breakfast for a family of foxes. :D
Seeing reports of 5"+ rain in the area over a 12 hr period from the latest event
few days ago. Road closed signs everywhere. I can confirm the 5" in my wide mouth mason jar to date. .
It was a deluge like we are not accustomed to but might be a sign of things to come.
Been happening in other areas of the country and across the globe so figured we might get a dose sooner or later.
Friday through Sunday is suppose to be sunny and mid to upper 60's here.
43F is rather cool with a wind behind it. ;D
Water is not going over Gordon Hill Road.
I found a turkey nest just once.
I was smoothing out an area and the hen kept pulling the broken wing trick on me. Took me a few times to find the nest.
I left that project for another day.
A light rain now.
A fox might tackle a small ground hog but a full grown whistle pig would tear them up. A big one has the teeth of a beaver takes a pretty good dog to take one down .
They eat'm here and even use there holes for dens by digging them bigger. :D A ground hog is one of the easiest rodents to take out. Not as tough as a coon or porky.
Youtube has videos of red fox taking them down.
Al, I had a small dog that would flip them over, belly up and then bite at the neck. Only took a few seconds and that wood chuck was dead.
I saw my little baby boy turn into a killer before my eyes. :o
I saw an 80 pound male boxer do battle with a big chuck .Took him 45 minutes to wear that big boy down .Granted not many of them get to twenty pounds .Fact I have a little one not much larger than a half grown kitten dining in my back yard about every day .A fox could handle it . .
That said there's plenty of prey,field mice ,squirrels etc .Plenty of red tail hawks ,an eagle now and again ,great horned owls .They must all be doing okay else there wouldn't be as many .
I have 38° this morning. Looks like we get by today and we have some sunny weather for a week!!!
At least this year it's not in the mid 70's for 3 weeks and fruit trees start to blossom and then we a killing frost that sets them back.
Or it has not happened yet.
We are now at 14 days straight with measurable rain (.45" last night). Another 45 degree overcast day on hand here, with a chance of more rain this afternoon. This is truly getting old. I had hoped to stop making daily fires by now, but I have to keep the shop air dryish.
Grey and depressing is all it is. But the grass is really green. ;D
48F here and breezy, but a light steady drizzle started by 11:00 am down country where I was at. Determined not to get cold along with wet, I headed to town and got some lime for the gardens and bushes. Came home and spread that. Found out I have enough lime left for 4 more years. :D It'll keep in plastic bags and is pelletized. Never rained a dropped all day home here but we did get a heavy shower last night.
State and town road crews been busy this week repairing road
washouts . Never seen the damage quite this bad but
we havent seen 5" rain in such a short period before this either.
Aerial views of local town and beyond, bring your boat for a drivethru at McDonalds:
https://dailybulldog.com/features/major-floods-swamp-franklin-county/
63F and sunny here. I saw someone selling fiddle heads (ostrich fern) today in town. I think they were picked along the St John, they tend to be a week later on the little creek patches. They are even later along the Tobique further up north of here. Trout lilies and trillium in bloom in the woods around here.
Sun came out today!!! Seem like it's been a week of rain and wet weather here.
A sunny week ahead!!!
Full moon and 40F and no wind. Something woke the crows up down in the woods at 4:00 am. Then they quieted down after a couple minutes. Froggies are singing at the moon. :D Going to be high 60's here. Got some manure and mulch spreading to do today. Will get another load Monday. Sure is a nice morning with a shining moon and no wind, no frost. Haven't had frost for over 2 weeks. But wait until the first week of June, most always frost then. ;D
Farmers are spreading lime this week near home here. I got mine on this week to. ;D
Quote from: SwampDonkey on May 06, 2023, 03:21:34 AMHaven't had frost for over 2 weeks. But wait until the first week of June, most always frost then.
Frost in June? Wow, we may not see one until late December or January. Pretty soggy and 67 down here right now.
June is a month of late frost, September is early frost of fall in this part of the world. You plant a tomato up here the 20th of May and I bet it will soon be black, maybe not that day, but maybe the next week. :D I'd never live anywhere else, nor do I want to travel very far afield. Never leave the continent and rarely the province. :)
A nice warm and even the sun was out all day.
I have not planted the garden yet.
years ago when I was selling vegies I would have some stuff planted.
Just have to watch the weather and use crop cover.
An old sheet will work for a few plants.
One year we had a frost the first week of June. Maybe 15 years ago?
Now I would think nothing of it planting before mid May.
But I would still watch the weather.
Swampdonkey, we use to have frost same as you, maybe 35 years ago. Very common to have a frost late May early June, then early Sept.
My father was born in 1923.
Planted after the full moon and after Memorial Day, the Old Way.
He did start to plant early in his later years, in his 60's.
He got sick and tired of people getting produce before he did.
Earlier stuff here is all under greenhouse, crops put in in May which is mainly spinach and beat greens, most always heat lights at night as plastic is a poor insulator, efficient solar radiator. One bad cold night in the low twenties with no radiated heat will kill it. Solar heat in the day. A 60F day is not very warm by itself without plastic and sun. I plant stuff in my grow tent and most will be planted outside. May 20th is fine for onions, carrots and parsnip. Mine will go in then. Like my uncle, a garden too early means poor germination resulting in misses and skips in your rows and burnt veg from most certain frost. A June garden up this way will outperform one where the plants have suffered cold and wet. Row cover will not save the more tender stuff with a 28F morning, it won't save grapes at all. But sprinkling tap water on them can if done early in the day. Strawberries do good under row cover and you get berries 2 to 3 weeks sooner. Last June was cold and wet, beans came up and then dampened off and rotted. All had to be replanted. Even cukes and squash planted in mid June last year were suffering and no bees much. Yield was down from bad weather and we had talking heads try to tell us it was one of the warmest summers in this region. The facts don't back it up. Bernstein in ND is no warmer than here and he is always planting stuff over because he planted too early. He doesn't have corn or potatoes any sooner than I do locally. Once in awhile you win out with an unusual spring, but mostly you lose to the weather. Lots of places can grow stuff sooner than here, but are south of us to and that doesn't bother me at all. :D My tomatoes and peppers set out from the grow tent will out perform any regular garden tomato locally, my plants are way bigger to begin with and in flower, sometimes fruit is already set. My squash and cukes are way bigger as I water them from the creek. First time here with cantaloupe and be interesting to see how creek water affects them. I bet they will hold there own, but better not brag yet. :D :D No gardens all in up here anywhere yet, I guarantee it. Just greenhouse stuff, again with night time radiant heat to. You get some people plant in those 2 or 3 day freakish heat waves and see their tomatoes all black next week. :D No taters in around here yet this spring but possibly this week, but probably more likely the 22nd of May this year. Ground is still cold, was only in the 40's 2 days ago.
All I know is what I did worked. No reason to push them now. Not selling.
One year a good size veggie stand was buying tomatoes from us because they did not have any. I found that out many years later when they told me. We sold a lot of tomatoes.
But I found that out with anything. If I could get the produce out there before the customers gardens was producing, I could sell more.
Seem like people never got enough of string beans and beet greens. I planted string beans every 2 weeks. Had them right up until Sept. They were short and fat, in late August, but people said they are good.
Things are much warmer here now then even 40 years ago, in the spring.
Well even the fall is warmer too.
Some years I did not even cover the plants up. Did not a frost until late Sept.
We have frost around the area here by Sept 15th, but usually later up here on the hill by maybe a week. 2 years ago never hit the garden here until mid October. I wouldn't go counting on that every year. Pretty sure 3rd week of September was frost last year. Hardiness zones are based on 30 years, and according to the boundaries in my area, they have shifted some in the last update 1981-2010, from zone 4a to 4b. But that isn't much, if it had jumped to 5a then that is a huge difference. 4b was in Fredericton, now 5B, which isn't a big Ag belt of much significance as far as crops. You drive below Woodstock here and you're in woods all the way down. Not good ground down there on the lowlands except small pieces of flood plain ground and gardens.
68F here yesterday afternoon and already 68F now and a dry north wind as well, both days. Looks like a dry week ahead to, but a 10 degree cooler start of the week though. Fine by me because walking in the woodlot this weekend, 68F felt hot. :D
Yard maples have flowers now. The white birch is sending off clouds of pollen. :D
+19C and full sun here in the Strait of Canso today, the warmest day yet this year.
It was -1C this morning, light frost on the roof.
Well somebody finally turned on the switch that says "Spring!" over the weekend. Both days were what I have been waiting for, sunny and 70's for a high. I got a little milling done and built some sawhorses with the shop door open. Sunday I was back to a t-shirt just doing mill cleanup. No fire for several days now. But I notice my finishes are taking longer to harden up. It was 70 in the shop when I went back out for another session, but the humidity was a little up. So as an experiment I started a fire in the stove with a bunch of yard waste dead/down limbs and stuff that I would never out in the woodpile anyway. AT 10pm the shop temp was at 78° and I will see in a few minutes how my last finish coats came out.
We did get .110" of rain overnight between 11pm and 1am, but woke to clear blues skies and it is already 55° outside but 90% humidity. This is truly my happy place. Carpe' Diem!
Low 50's today and north wind, became overcast by noon. Another cool one tomorrow and then warming up again, in the low 70's by Thursday. I don't think there will be frost tonight, but close to it. ;D
A cool 34°. Not really above 60 for a high today.
Looks like a nice spring here.
No temps in the high 70's for 3 weeks and then a killing frost.
Well not yet.
Was white frost here this morning and clear and 32F. Porch said 34F, but always a little warmer there than on the ground. And even snow flurries at work this afternoon out just beyond the last house. Some snow still hanging along the woods road in the firs. Looks like it will be gone in a couple days out there. The north wind is still with us here. Beginning to warm back up tomorrow and 70's for Thursday. Farmers planting grains this week. Only calling for showers Friday, so no appreciable rain here in a long time now.
Can't complain. Sun, 60's little wind to keep blackfies down.
springtime sunset in Kansas.
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power off briefly
91 here today
Last two days was barely 50F here, today we reached 60F. But it seems to clear at night and cloud back over in the mornings. I'd say it is more like partly sunny. There was no frost here on the hill at 36F this morning, but driving to work there was lots of frosty shingles.
Not seeing too many deer or moose yet, and been no more bear.
Been pretty warm here for the last 3-4 weeks. One rain event in last month, about 40mm. Last 1.5 weeks been 15-20c and sunny everyday, was 23c one day. Same for the next 2 weeks. Sunny everyday. Just a matter of time until forest fires I'd say
I saw a spotter plain all morning out over the woods where I was working. Definitely dry around farm fields here, dust just a flying. I'm still seeing water on the ground in the woods, little ephemeral pools that later dry up.
Province wide fire ban on right now in New Brunswick.
36° this morning. Was a warm day, window was down in the truck in the afternoon.
They are saying only 2 warm days coming up here, then a thunderstorm and wind Saturday to drop back to the 50'sF. :D
Winter arrived here today. Weather had been crap the previous week, but warm and wet from the North (unseasonable).
Last of the North flow dumped enough rain to wash out the State highway going North, then the weather swung to the South and it got close to snowing today. So the mail / parcels were late because of a 4 hour detour for the line haul trucks. THEN at 5 am someone rolled their log truck on the main road just Nth of us. And for double bad luck they collected an Ambulance coming the other way. Luckily no one killed, and the ambo wasn't transporting a patient. They did set up a detour, but that involved some one lane road and bridges, and once trucks had to pull over and pass on a one lane road it all turned to mud. So the detour was shut too, and you had to take the coast road, add an extra hour.
All that mess was in the middle of our mail run ::)
So although they closed the official back road detour, they didn't close the real back back roads that the locals (and local truckies) know. The ones I'm doing mail on. Got around the run with what mail and parcels I had, but I suspect next week is going to be "catch up"
73F this afternoon and I wouldn't call it a sunny day, there has been a thin vale of some sort of clouds all day. This morning the sun was blood red with that thin cloud cover. The humidity is only 30%. Bone dry.
I spreed some grass seed on some bare spots in hopes we get something tomorrow from that thunderstorm. I hope it isn't hale, the leaves on some trees are out a lot, other hardwoods are not in a rush at all. Basswood is one of the slow ones. I would have figured it would come out quick like an aspen, but nope. Even slower than maples and ironwood.
Same here too with the thin veil of clouds. Suns a weird colour all day. Didn't call for clouds on the radar but it remained all day. Must be smoke from... I don't know where
When you leave the river here and go east you can see how much slower the leaves are coming on out there. Here at the house, west of the river everything is green. Today at work the aspen are still closed up for winter. I saw a shovel full of snow here and there.
Was nice ground to work on today, all abandoned field that regenerated to fir and they had filled in with Norway spruce. It's thick in the fir, but at least it isn't full of trash on the ground, trash being blow downs and logging debris. It's a little tall, but sometimes that is a good thing, just cut the little stuff out. Often a thick fir site is old blow down with telephone poles buried in the green strips. A more recent area harvested next door is a cross pile of fir poles and cut offs all over the place. :D
54F this morning on the porch. Mr skunk was around last night and I think he was making love. I heard a scuffle and a squeal and soon the smell. :D :D
Be mowing grass soon. Temps in the 60s - 70s.
The nighttime air is noisy with Geese, Loons and Owls sounding off like a chorus. Daytime same with 8-10 tree swallows in the air.
Oven birds returned but no Thrushes yet.
Did have two frosty mornings this week and Apples are starting to blossom, fingers crossed there .
Carry on.
Been mowing grass here now 2 weeks. Hope we get some rain, I don't think I'll mow this week, will soon be turning brown.
I heard an owl last weekend up at the woodlot, woo woo'ing for a mate. :D
The cloud haze in the air is western fires from Alberta and BC, hitching a ride on the jet stream.
After today looks like 50's and 60's here for the next week.
Won't expect apple blooms here before the first week of June. Probably wild plum blossoms this week though. Red oaks and sugar maples in flower.
Trees are leafing out about 2 weeks early here. Red maple the first to sprout tiny leaves, but since it's been so warm the oak are doing it before the red maple. Even ahead of the Asian cherry tree
Right now you can see more sugar maple flowers than leaves but the leaves are out 3/4" up here on the ridge, but you can drive 20 miles from here and it's behind.
This is what is called, floating on a side hill. :D
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Water on the road instead of the ditch. ;D
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Spread $200 grass seed here and other areas last night, she's officially watered now. :D
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6/10" rain from that thunderstorm. Came in several waves. No idea if more is coming because it never cleared. More later would still be nice, the water on fields and the lawn is mostly soaked away now.
50F this morning and north wind. Got a little more rain in the night for a total of 3/4".
Tornado last evening, got neighbors hurting, one of the other veterinarians places got hit pretty hard. About 3 inches of hard rain, some hail. Hit a big feedlot scattered a bunch of cattle. Missed us by a mile and a half.
Sorry man, twisters are nasty. Hope everyone is ok, property can be fixed.
Temps hovering around 50F today, lost the sun, could be evening showers. The soaker last night put a halt to planting today. Not a gardening day either.
Finished changing the transmission oil in the SxS, greased it up as well. And that was a little extra work there because the front end has to be hoisted a few inches to get on the grease nipple, otherwise squirting grease all around and not in the joint. A little hoist rotates that joint just enough to get a good lock with the grease gun.
Take care around them nasty whirly gigs. Monday be working on a block that was salvaged from a tornado 10 years ago. Yep, we got'm here to.
Quote from: Nebraska on May 13, 2023, 07:06:59 AMTornado last evening, got neighbors hurting . . . . Missed us by a mile and a half.
Glad to hear that it missed you, but close enough, eh?
Does that put you in a position to help the folks that took the smack down?
Well, them afternoon showers are here. 48F here now. Woo weee willie it's still May and cool normal. Holding the black flies back because they were just starting to chew Friday. ;D
I just looked at the temp,38°. We are having a slow warm up to summer. Better than having it 80 for 3 weeks and then a killing frost comes in.
Was 82° last year today.
38F here to, first thing. 46F now. Had a little more rain for 3/4" total. Cold wind today and clouds, was clear early.
Was 66F here last year on this date, but day before it hit 92F.
I'd rather not see it any hotter than 78F all summer. :D
Andries, yes trying as much as i can. Worked til late morning. Looked at a neighbors horse that road the storm out in a barn stall.. His stall and the hay mow floor above, plus the tack room the farm dog was in stayed. It ripped a lean to, abd most of thre roof off. Some how the house wasn't hurt terribly. Then went to another other veterinarians place and ran chainsaw for about three hours and got down trees/limbs out of the horse pens and off of the house. Lots of cleanup to do, but mostly replaceable stuff and things damage. People and livestock came out in pretty good shape.
Honor the mom's in your lives! :)
27C here which is almost 81F, this is way above normal for mid May. Forest fires and flooding are ramping up and it is going to get worse, I haven't heard if the loggers are going back to work after breakup but I doubt it.
Looks like the wood pile will be in use the first part of the week.
Looks like low 50's on Wednesday.
Low 70's today.
64F and wind this afternoon. Overcast, some sprinkles here and there this afternoon, nothing much to it.
54F and cold afternoon showers here. Clearing tonight and frost warning for tomorrow morning. ;D
They say it always rains in Ireland. In the last two weeks, we had rain on two nights, one day of light sprinkles for a couple hours and during a 2 hour drive some downpours. The rest of the time, low to mid 60s. Not a cloud today.
48F now, looks like steady rain for a few hrs now. 8)
38° and a high of 50.
I'm still burning wood.
35F here, been using electric furnace for a month. Heat electric was only $30 for the month. That's because it doesn't need to run all day, just 5 minutes 2 or 3 times an hr. Pretty cheap heat. ;D
Middle of May and the furnace still kicks on from time to time .48 F at quarter to 7 .Global warming ???
Seeing snow flurries in the air here. :)
43F here now. Snowed all the way to the auto shop, which is an hr from here on the freeway. Snow turned to water on contact. Might be a freeze here tonight, down to 28F. Planted over 100 acres of spuds here around the house already and still going at it.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on May 17, 2023, 01:46:46 PM
43F here now. Snowed all the way to the auto shop, which is an hr from here on the freeway. Snow turned to water on contact. Might be a freeze here tonight, down to 28F. Planted over 100 acres of spuds here around the house already and still going at it.
Basically Florida here compared to NB. Haven't seen 43f in the daytime in awhile. Been 16-22c here everyday since mid March nearly
Depends on where your at in NS. It's even colder in Cape Breton than here, 39F down at Baddeck and frost advisories. It's 46F in Yarmouth as we speak, frost advisory also. Yarmouth is in the warmest growing zone of NS, zone 7. Halifax also reports 46F and frost advisory.
Another snow squall rumbling in from the west.
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I'm close to Yarmouth. It hasn't been in the 40s for awhile. Night time is different story
Blustery and cold . Apples in full bloom and expecting 28*F by morning so
not a big loss maybe 10-20%. Hummingbirds shivering a little at the feeder,
I was shivering a little working outside today too. The wind !!!!! Hi Ray. ;D
Hi back at ya.
Light in the small greenhouse to keep things alive. We hope!!!!
The temps I posted last night for parts of NS was at the time the post was made, not night time. No warmer than here according to the data. I've got relatives in NS, and they always say they have 2 wees longer leaf coverage in the fall and 2 weeks cooler in the spring because of the cold north Atlantic.
Looking at Halifax this morning it's 1C and high of 11C for the day. We will have a small warm up today in the upper teens C and tomorrow 22F, then cool back down with rain Saturday and back up in the 20'sC for a week. Yarmouth is 4C now and not going to be any warmer than here in the upper teens for next week, not as warm, and won't hit 20C, where we will be. We're going to be in the 20'sC for the next week, but not in Yarmouth or Halifax. If you have a thermometer in the sun, that's not accurate temp.
I'm just going by the data.
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CBC News - Local Weather - Woodstock, New Brunswick (https://www.cbc.ca/weather/s0000522.html)
32° here, that is close to a frost. I might make it by, being on a hill.
25* down here. But the sun is up so temp will be coming up soon.
Looking like a stellar day. Carry on.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on May 18, 2023, 03:52:05 AM
The temps I posted last night for parts of NS was at the time the post was made, not night time. No warmer than here according to the data. I've got relatives in NS, and they always say they have 2 wees longer leaf coverage in the fall and 2 weeks cooler in the spring because of the cold north Atlantic.
Looking at Halifax this morning it's 1C and high of 11C for the day. We will have a small warm up today in the upper teens C and tomorrow 22F, then cool back down with rain Saturday and back up in the 20'sC for a week. Yarmouth is 4C now and not going to be any warmer than here in the upper teens for next week, not as warm, and won't hit 20C, where we will be. We're going to be in the 20'sC for the next week, but not in Yarmouth or Halifax. If you have a thermometer in the sun, that's not accurate temp.
I'm just going by the data.
CBC News - Local Weather - Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (https://www.cbc.ca/weather/s0000649.html)
CBC News - Local Weather - Woodstock, New Brunswick (https://www.cbc.ca/weather/s0000522.html)
Was 12c here at the time of that post. That's in the 50s. My point still stands lol
Was 32F here and light frost. Out at work toward higher ground, on South Ridge, was frozen water in puddles. ;D
Suppose to be around 60F this afternoon.
We hit 60F, and it is clear and sunny, still a cool north wind. Possible frost tonight.
I don't think I had a frost at my place.
Did see some ferns that was black and some wilted bamboo while I was driving around. I saw a truck that had a lot of white on it.
One garage in town, that I deliver parts to, one car there had frost on it.
38F this morning and south wind, so we avoided frost this time. Suppose to be 70 today and for several days ahead, other than Saturday and Sunday with some rain in the 60's. Them onions will go in today. Also carrots, parsnip and beets if I feel ambitious enough. Black flies will be chewing today with warm sun. :D
Raining hard here in eastern NC this morning.
Jim Rogers
raining slow and steady for the farmers here. at least an inch.
Well, I got the garden items in I planned. Sure is a dry warm wind, strong enough to keep the black flies blowed away. Soil is drying out today for sure. Never was wet, since at least a month. :D Even managed to mow the lawn. Beautiful day. Tree planting going on next door, small farmer next door getting fields worked for planting. The big farmer around me here is done planting several hundred acres now. Not quite 70F yet, just about.
Black flies came out strong here 2 weeks ago and last couple days haven't amounted to much, has been fairly windy and dry though
Black flies have not been out strong yet, but have been around over a week. This week slowed them with frosty mornings. It's funny about mornings that drop down cold all the sudden during the growing season, up here that can signal a fast warm up that day or the next. I've seen it go from 30's to 80's same day a good many times. The previous few days might have been 60's days, then boom after the big dip in temps, it becomes hot as Hades. This goes back years, not just the last 15 years or something. Easily see it in local data. Same can happen in reverse with the right air mass and drop temps into 60's in July. This even happened during Arthur, a cold front collided and that was one cold tropical storm up here. Everyone said, how is this tropical, it's in the 60's? :D On July 5th, 2014 it was 64F and we had 4.3" rain locally. The previous 4 days was high 80's and low 90's [NOAA-Climatological Data for BRIDGEWATER, ME]. That's only a mile from here in a straight line. Last year we never stayed above the 60's until June 18th, and we only had two 90's days all spring and summer, 1 in May, 1 in August. Last June was cold and wet with poor pollination.
No apples in full bloom yet, but flower buds are out. The wild plum has been in bloom 2 days now. I see no blooms this year on the currants. But I do see blossoms on my raspberries. I have early berries here, and pick them by July 10th within a couple days.
48F here, showing same in Yarmouth. Cloudy with rain coming, might not be much to it.
48° here now.
The leaves are mostly out. Getting harder to see out into the woods.
Nice soft rain now, hopefully all day and night for a good drink.
It's getting there ,a little bit later than ususal though .56 this AM .Time to get the garden plants before they're sold out .Cucumbers ,straight 8 .Tomatoes ,beef steak,big boys and early girls .When they get ripe later in the summer I can walk 20 feet outside my back door and pick a beef steak the size of a softball .Vine ripened Ohio tomatoes nothinng like them .
At one time the NW side of Ohio had thousands of acres growing produce from tomatoes to melons .That's pretty much changed because of lack of field workers .Back to soybeans and corn once again .Now a road trip over that area you'd think you were in Iowa .
Al, I can never keep those two states straight anyway.! :)
They're still at tomatoes in Ontario, Heinz (shareholder Warren Buffett) pulled out and French's moved right on in. :D The biggest growers are in California, and next is China, then Italy. I buy French's because of the big abandonment but mostly because of no fructose corn syrup.
Southern New Brunswick used to supply Heinz with a lot of stuff for soups and especially Tomatoes. You get a company with a large shareholder moving in, it's like a regime change. The ship so to speak, is steered toward their ideals. You will be cancelled just like that. But there are consequences, even if small ones. You lose customers, maybe not large numbers. :D
French's is also using Canadian mustard seed for their mustard spread. ;)
70F today and that brisk S wind. Only had showers out of this one today, and that is all dried up now. ::) Showers tonight.
I've got onion, beets, carrot and parsnip in as of yesterday afternoon. Too early for anything else. 60's Monday and back to 70's Tuesday.
Raining kinda hard now. Should not get 5 inches like what we did about 3 weeks ago. :o
Yes, been raining hard with wind here since midnight, hoping for at least 1/2", we could use 3" and not even be mucky here. Radar indicates it will be over by mid morning and clearing here. 55F here this morning. Going to be low 30'sF Monday morning, might see frost around.
Just checked the rain gauge here and it shows 1-1/4" so far. A good drink. :)
Rain has stopped and the sun is out!!!
I got the plants but the pickens were pretty thin .No beef steak,goliath instead.Found early girls and better boys .No straight eight cukes,some burpless seedless variety in place of .I grow tomatoes and cukes on trellisses on a south facing brick wall that acts like a heat sink A couple of short rows of green beans and that's it .In about a week it should be warm enough to plant .
Today is grind up the weeds and fertilze and roto till .Last summer I reset the valves on the tiller to increase the mid range torque because a front tine tiller running wide open will beat you to death and I'm not that tough any more .
Yeah, I was surprised a couple years ago that all plants were gone by now at local green houses. Before, you could get plants in the middle of June. I think a lot of new gardeners got educated about jumping on the gardening before we get into mid June as well. A couple nice weather days is not the same as risk free of late frost. :D
Until the soil temp is about 55 degrees F it's almost a waste of time to plant .Obviously the farther north it is the later that would usually happen .Then again even with a shorter growing season Alaska can grow some gigantic produce .Then the type makes a lot of difference .For example anything related to cabbage does better in a slightly colder temp but tomatoes need warm nights to really get large .
As child my dad grew those gigantic flat Dutch cabbages the size of a basketball and if I never eat saurkraut again it will be too soon .Plus upwards of 80 90 tomato plants and then I hated them .However my tastes have changed being an adult .Fed a family of seven though .6 rows ,100 feet long of green beans to an 11 year old look like 10 miles to be weeded .
Yeah, I grow about 30 tomato plants here, I make sauce and some are canned as a stewed tomato. My garden isn't big, but I get high yields most years. Probably plowed under a barrel full of tomatoes, can only use so much. :D I grow lots of varieties. I can grow big cabbage but stopped that years ago, cabbage moths. Eat cabbage here often, but no way to store it, so get one when needed at the store. Used to store it in the potato house.
Just about 70F here now and clearing.
I've got a dozen tomato plants of three varities .If it's normal year we will never be able to eat them all but I will supply the neighbors and my two kds who are in Columbus Ohio.about 90 miles south east .Same with the cukes which get fed to the ground hogs if they get over ripe .My three ladies I've shaired a house with in my lifetime gave up canning years ago .It's all just fresh stuff in season . The price of supplies plus the time involved changed that years ago .
When it comes to canning or bottling, I see cost savings here, plus I can't get what I want to begin with. Nor can I get a lot of stuff that is free of every chemical man has made to substitute the real thing for. I don't have to eat crap when I can make better. :D Onions and squash store well and we get local potatoes for next to nothing here in the potato belt. I just have a small operation so time isn't a big factor, usually a Saturday morning once in awhile all summer. Not doing much of anything on most weekends. And I like gardening. I juice berries and grapes and rhubarb. Rhubarb juice isn't much different then pink lemonaide, and full of 3 major vitamins. Magnesium, calcium and C.
Now let me tell a tale of raw rhubarb .To a little kid if eaten too much has the same effect as Swiss chard .Talk about spring tonic multiplied by three . You could take a constitutional over a screen door and never hit a wire .Added to the list of things I won't eat .
Ate a ton of it as a kid, and don't recall ever having a problem with the plumbing system handling it all. But guess doesn't work for all folks the same.
Sorry to hear your system is one that can't "stomach" the raw rhubarb.
i've got a cast iron stomach as an adult but I didn't as a 4-5 year old .
In other news I did get the raised beds roto tilled,the trellises set up and the soaker hoses laid out .The bad news is in waliking the tiller up a plank it got off center .Lost my footing and landed on my rib cage .Feels like I got kicked by a horse,a big one .I've got to remember I'm not 30 years old any more .This advancing age thing is not for sissys.
Alberta wildfires are still going, the smoke is wafting in and out here in NW Ontario.
I stopped on the four wheeler at 8:30 pm on a rocky point to see this:
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Beautiful!
The other day the smoke was pretty thick from the fires
We got 2in of much needed rain on Saturday into Sunday am.
That'll make the corn grow.
We had smoke off that fire Sunday after the rain let up and wind swung from the NW.
Clear today and calm, 60F here today. Frost warning tonight again.
Frost tonight in NB!
We've got 74° and no wind. The sun is trying to shine through the smoke haze, giving everything a 'shooters glasses yellow' tinge to the world.
The remainder of the week is hot and dry - we might be under a no burn order by the end of the month.
Swampdonkey: this guy from Winterpeg says look on the sunny side. There's no skeeters to plague you when it's that cold.
😁
There's black flies though, by about 10:00 am. :D
Will be about 70F today after a cool start. 36F here now at 3:00 am. Headed to the bush with the saw.
The last 2 weeks or more have been pretty nice here, with an oddball or two, like hitting frost at night once and some days that didn't hit 60, but in general running around mid 40's at night and mid 60's or higher during the day. We had a few rain days in there too, but not like the end of April into May with 15 days straight. The ridiculous codified burn ban ended on 5/14, just in time for all the red flag warnings to go up and it got unusually dry with daytime humidity around 30% which is pretty rare here. I have been chomping to burn down my brush pile after 3 failed attempts in the winter. The last good day I had, the burn ban was just in effect (around March 20 or so) and we have snow covered ground with no wind and clear skies, but the law said 'no', so I had to let it pass.
Yesterday we finally hit acceptable conditions: no wind at all, just some air movement, clear skies, with reasonable humidity (45%). So I hooked up my water source and let her rip. This time I got a good clean fast burn and it was mostly over in under 2 hours. I'll rake it into a smaller pile next time I'm out there, the little that is left, add a bit more yard waste and fire it off when condx get right again. Mostly I have that fire as a test plot in my swamp to get, if I can, some better trees to take hold, so over the years I have been cutting out the junk and trying to build the soil up. Hoping to bring in more fill this year of next to raise the grade and get the water back into the creek where it should be. But I digress...
Yeah the weather here is holding well and keeps me in a fairly good mood. I had been running daily fires in the shop most days, but now that my projects are no longer in the 'curing state' I can relax on that. Still, if it's and overcast snotty day, one fire made with junk from the splitter is good enough to get the temp in the 70's in 15 minutes or less and it will hang there most of the day. Mostly I do it to keep the air dryer. So far, so good.
Just about 40 here this morning, maybe 70 for a high.
There was plenty of white frost around when driving to work. Water jug spout even froze down in the woods where I was. Was no frost on the ridge at the house at all. Started seeing it a half mile away, down slope near creeks. White frost on shingled roofs. 64F here now, not at the peek of the day yet another 2 hrs to warm up some more. Breezy now, but no clouds. :)
It is 70 F here this afternoon. Looks like some water coming tomorrow sometime after noon. Cooler Thursday in the 50's off a cold front moving in. Back to 70's for the weekend. Looks like warmer nights to, in the 50's.
Getting some water this afternoon, temp is around 54F, on the cool side. Take all the water I can get. ;)
We got rain again in the night. 50°
Been a heavy rain here since 4:00 pm, I bet we get over an inch, we'll see in the morning. :)
Well, we got our inch in this one and still raining steady. Cool out at 45F.
Rain is all done here and the sun is out.
Was 40° and looks like low 60's.
Looks to be a day of 80 and the 70's are coming.
It's 45 here also at 7:43 .Forecasted a high of 61 .Then by weeks end into the 80's .My kind of weather finally .I dispise cold weather and especially with a brisk wind .
Yup same here too also. Nice working weather yesterday and then late afternoon around 4pm a line of intense rain came through with a cold front and the temp dropped 10° then continued it's decline all night, to about 40. Today mid 60's at best, tomorrow and each day after for a while it will get warmer each day.
After that cold front yesterday (I had the shop doors open at the time) the humidity went up in the shop and the temp dropped, so I threw a bucket of planer chips, some floor sweepings, and saw cut-offs in the stove as a one-shot and that warmed the shop to over 70 and was enough to keep it over 60 all night. I may do another one this morning, just to get rid of more planer chips. There is something very satisfying about getting heat out of them rather than burning them in a pit outside or using them for mulch. I had been using them for fire starters all winter and never seemed to make a dent, but now I am catching up. ;D
Was wet all day here with waves of showers or rain, 45F all day. Cold wind now. Suppose to hit low 60's tomorrow here and then 70's and 80's for the next week starting Saturday. I don't mind cool when working, but not a fan of wet and cold. But I never got to the woods until noon as I had to get the windshield replaced from rock damage last week. Good thing was no deductible.
I am still burning wood to keep the house warm at night.
Most years I turn the heat off during daylight hours, not many times this year.
36° this morning. High 60's today.
Looks like I will be turning the heat of during the day coming up. Maybe even an 80° day this weekend.
Maybe the last chance of frost until fall?
Never got above 45F here, cold drizzle on and off all day long.
Large toothed aspen, spring leaves have fine white hairs when emerging.
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Weather got a little brighter this afternoon and we did reach 55F. Not a day to go swim in the lake though. I see some wood fires going. ;D
76F and sunny yesterday. The black flies were chewing when I was doing some grape vine trimming in the evening. :D
60F this morning, suppose to hit 85F today.
I was outside yesterday, and I wondered where all the black flies are?
Probably will get that answer today!!!
I trimmed up the grapevines the other day. They needed it.
I have 56° this morning. Warmest it's been for a while in the morning.
Car temp read 84 yesterday.
Read 83F a bit ago, still not the hottest part of the day (4:00 pm). The air conditioner is in and running.
I pounded fence posts in for the gardens this morning and strung the wire. All set for the critters. I put a big old potted beefsteak (bobcat) tomato in the ground. Green tomatoes on it now, sink or swim. :D
Got two rows of beet greens up already. They are about 12 feet long.
Cleaned the flu as well, and there was the beginnings of a bird nest in there. I've removed 2 different birds species from there already, they drop down into the stove. One was a starling, they are notorious flu nesters here.
Time for afternoon nap. :D
Yesterday was a warm day,90°!!!
We went into town and the car read 93°.
Today low 70's/
Wow Ray! That's a hot one. I was a bit surprised because it hit 84 here for the high. I went and looked at the Weather station in Jay by you and sure enough it said 89.6° which is close enough. All I know it was one of those rare days where I took my shirt off while mowing and rototilling.
I never trust those truck/car thermometers, especially since this past February when I got in the truck at 15 below and the digital built-in on the truck read "40°", during the 15 minute drive it slowly dropped to about 32. On mild days, it's generally not far off, but I don't trust it.
65F here for the high. High 70's tomorrow.
86 now,it's about time bring it on .
The only reason it was warmer in town was because of the parking lot.
We went for a ride, but never looked at the temp. It was much cooler today, maybe 70.
Not even 70 tomorrow.
TV news said big forest fire in Nova Scotia. I hope all our members up there are safe.
Jim Rogers
Recent video.
Halifax wildfire: Expected wind shift could lead to "increased danger," officials say | FULL - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCdiVTOzzOg)
80F here today, not real humid yet.
Yeah, saw some video over the weekend and some people where driving the roads with flames pretty much swat'n the road.
Right now it's 81 .Although the crops,corn etc is coming up good a little rain would help things .All I need to be concerned about is couple of raised beds not 600 acres of crops .My goodness can you imagine the amount of water that would take .Over the time of growing it would suck Lake Erie down to the size of a farm pond .
Yeah for sure. :D :D I do water (creek water) the garden if we have a dry summer, so far been an inch a week the last 3 weeks.
82F here now, suppose to get to 86F by 4:00 pm. We have rain coming the end of the week and the temp is going to fall to the 50's for highs. :D
I put in 7 hrs on the saw swinging, that's good enough when it's 80F plus. The rest of the cutting on the current strip is shorter and no thicker so will cut a little faster. This morning was tall aspen, but not thick. Cut more pin cherry and maple clumps than anything. Them clumps grow like apple trees so the mill wants them mowed down if a nice popple near them, lots of them to leave. Lots of fir around to.
The Halifax area fire is over 2000 acres in size and has destroyed 150 homes and 50 other structures as of this morning. 16,000 evacuated.
617 acre fire near St Andrews, NB. Started from an ATV fire. 1 house lost but evacuees can return home now. The fire is still active and out of control but not near those homes.
92F here now. I watered what little garden I seeded in so far, carrots and beats are up and onions are green. No parsnip up yet, but I see signs.
In doing the watering I discovered a moose walked through and stepped over the ground hog fence without disturbing it. :D I think he was around the apple trees, but the limbs are up quite high on those ones. I had them at the apple trees before.
May 1st we had over 2 feet of fresh snow, today May 31st it hit a record 96° and no precip in over 2 weeks. Grass is brown and crispy, oats haven't even sprouted yet. 10 day forecast doesn't look promising. Looking like a repeat of 2021 where we barely had a hay crop and lots of cattle sold off.
I had to turn on the AC today .It got a tad too warm for Mrs. Smith ( we aren't married,she's a widow ).Set it at 76,cool enough . I like 80 plus weather but many do not .
I do not! The room temperature with the A/C on was 70F. Al would be freezing. :D
The bottom is going to fall out from under that heat by Saturday with a high of 58 or colder. Be frost Sunday morning. :D
Looks like 90 today then 85 tomorrow and that's it for about a week. The clouds move in and stay and then showers for just about a full week.
Yes, looks like a cold front tonight and rain and showers for the next week and cool. I see some low 30's for the weekend mornings.
82F now headed to 92F this afternoon. Humidity is only 43%, been a dry heat.
I've never seen it above 93F here in all the years I've been here, and I've seen a few 90's over the years. May 90's is more common the last 10 years, don't remember seeing them before July 30+ years ago. We still get a day or two in the 60's in July. My grandfather would have the heater on in the truck when we would be driving to our trout fishing spots in more remote areas. I've seen frost in the mornings and 90F by supper out in the boonies. This was 40+ years ago, July cold front. Back 2009-2012 it rained every 3 or 4 days a week all summer and fall. 2012 was so wet farmers couldn't hardly spray or hoe potatoes, fields were a greasy mess. I had a friend of mine salmon fishing on the Renous, and we stayed on an old saw mill site in a tent. It was cold in the mornings (July), we had to run the truck at 5:00 am to warm up, mighty frosty. He said how the heck did you find this place, freezing cold as night and hot enough to fry bacon in the afternoon. :D Remote New Brunswick is not all that remote, nothing like northern Ontario. You'd never be more than 30 miles to a house in any direction, small province. But there's a reason those places aren't settled , an apple tree would probably not survive or rarely bare fruit. ;D
Been a relatively warmish to hot week. No rain, quite dry considering. Starting to cool a bit tomorrow and the precip potential starts to climb from mid-day on through the weekend into next week with temps dropping. I have what might be my first 'show' on Sunday and I have been getting stuff down and staged at the shop door for loading on Saturday evening. But now they have a 60% chance of rain Saturday and 30% on Sunday. I have some things to buy to finish out the 'booth' such as a table, brochure holders, price tags, and such like that. I am wondering if I should hold off on the purchases now. If it rains, the show is a no-go. I have no plans for any other shows at this point, none of the ones that meet my needs are advertising for vendors yet and some have not re-opened since COVID.
Ayuh, hot for sure today, 90 F. Some moderate rain in the forecast will help
most everything growing. Overall cant complain.
I have a friend that runs the heater too the same way. ::) He was like that in his late 20's. I'd be driving and he would tell me to roll up that DanG window.
I stayed in Bar Harbor, on the coast, for 2 summers. Freezing cold at night and cook bacon in the afternoon is just about right.
Ayup, it was a hot one today.
Get those ace peppers in yesterday. They like the heat.
Good heavens it's suppossed to hit 91 today .This is working backwards .Hot on the eastern parts of Canada, NE parts of the USA then going south the next day,odd indeed .
Afternoon temperature here is 68F so far. Was 72F this morning at 4:00 am. A cooling off breeze out there from the NE. Going down in the low 40's tonight. Looks like some moderate to heavy rain coming later today. The sky is darkening up. Looks like 50's and 60's for the next week. And wet into Wednesday. :)
That didn't take long, the rain moved in. :)
55F now with the rain, that'll bring you to attention. :D
70 or so at dawn today, shot up to over 90 in the early afternoon and it was a bear to work in. Not fun at all. and I had to do it in spurts, then the clouds came in and allowed some easy work for a bit, then sun again and blistering. I got the truck washed and the toolbox out of the back, one of the tasks on today's list. After that the rain came in, slow at first, but the temp dropped 30° by dinner time. We got some steady downpour for a while. Good for the garden, I didn't have to water tonight. Should be cooler the next few days, better working weather..
48F now and been some heavy showers. Stuck an old tomato plant in the garden from the grow tent during the heat, it will be in cold shock this week. :D :D
I planted some tomatoes yesterday too. I bet those poor things are in shock too, :D at 45°.
Wind is just a blowing out there. probably the wind chill factor is 35°. :D
Maybe 50 today for a high.
The heat is on.
Good day to make some rhubarb juice. I went and cut 4 gallons and set them in water for later. 43F now and we had 1/4" rain over night.
Cold October rain off the Greenland glacier, 38F at the moment. splitwood_smiley fire_smiley
Glad I never jumped the gun on garden vines, beans and grow tent seedlings. :o It was like this last June to. I knew cold and wet would move in after we had some freak heat. ;) Got to start some vine seedlings in the tent today. Be 3 weeks ahead of anything out in that cold.
I have 42° how. Suppose to start to rain around 9am.
I'm not use to this cold weather. :D
Been an inch so far since Friday afternoon, been a steady rain since last evening here.
After the monsoons stopped it was nearly perfect weather to plant crops .Now we need some rain .They are baling hay now .It's changed over the years because dairy production gave way to grain crops maybe some pork .What used to be 80 acre hay fields are usually 5 and 10 acre plots .Fact around me some are only 2-3 acres .Horses I suppose .One guy uses a 720 John -Deere with a New Holland baler,music to my ears .
It's raining just about to say it's raining.
Might do this all day.
But it will soak into the ground good.
48 and just got a little shower here in NH. I may wait another 15 or 20 minutes before starting todays firewood chores. We need the rain so I'm not gonna gripe...but the wife said they were planning on doing hayledge this week. Mother Nature says, maybe not
That's what we had yesterday. I was hoping to load my truck for the show today but I didn't want to risk it in the open bed, even with a tarp to cover. At dinner I thought it might finally be safe and when I walked out the door to give it a try, it was raining again. So I got up before 5 after a poor night's sleep worrying it would all fit. By 7am I was done loading and had breakfast cooked an eaten. Barely got it all in. Glad it's only a 6 mile drive at 30mph. :D
This morning is almost all clear skies (for now), 44 for the low overnight and just 49 now, warming (they say) to about 62° today. SO I have double front jeans and a long sleeve shirt on. Hopefully that's enough. Looks like slight warming this week with no chance of 80° temps and a varying chance of rain each day. Looking to be good working weather.
Supposed to be almost 90° here again today. My morning chore is finishing a pad for the kids' swimming pool.
Looks like a washout kinda week on tap.
Showers off and on all week.
Woodstove is back on 2 days in a row.
We were ready for some rain though.
much like woodroe, our stove will be chewing through some bills, mail flyers, cardboard, and low grade wood today. Take the bite out of the air, AND clean up too ;D
in the 80s all week and no rain
Had a dry afternoon here and got to 54F, suppose to ramp up and rain by midnight.
it's getting warmer!!!
50 this morning with a high of almost 60.
Off and on rain all day with no sun.
Coincidental perhaps because it's 50 here also
Here in central Ohio the wind has been out of the east northeast for a week or more hot and now pretty cool today . We need rain bad for the crops but not looking good this week for any. Not sure what it is anymore but we need the wind to come out of the southwest before we can get out of this dry spell.
52F here for the high and another 6/10" rain today. Going to be the same story for the next few days. Were getting lots of water here, have had an inch a week, now this week is 6/10" already. Early spring was dry, but often is.
Heavy rainfall warning for parts of NS.
50° and the sun is out. :D
Better look quick, it won't last.
Another cloudy day, but it's not raining. Yet!!
Maybe tonight, showers.
Maybe 65 today.
It's cooler here this morning too, 64°. Only because we finally got some rain last evening. It's been several weeks since we had any rain here. It will be back in the mid 90's again today. It's going to be pretty humid after that rain. I'll be doing jury duty again today so hopefully I'll at least be cool and dry.
54 here in NH this am. We have gotten just over an inch of rain since Friday late afternoon. We needed the rain, and other than the first band (strong downpours) its been the soaking kind.
52F for a high here and we've had another 0.5" rain today. So we've got over an inch so far since Sunday's rain. Still raining to.
Raining here now at 50°.
Was wet at my house, but at work, 15 minutes away was dry all day, showers at my house kept things wet.
Probability of rain next few days which we need .Week end suppossed to warm a bit back into the 80's it's 55 now at nearly 9 AM .
Another 1/4" last night, just some mist showers off and on all day, so never added much since. 53F for the high. Looks like it's going to intensify tonight and rain more Friday and into Saturday. Then begin clearing on Sunday and 70's weather. Then back to rain Tuesday but 70's weather, not 50's for highs. ;D
Has been raining here for days. I saw rain, but most times it's a slow rain.
Yesterday it did rain. I had the ran the wipers steady while I was driving. But only for a little while.
On and off mist in the air overnight and this morning, keeping everything damp but not adding up to much since yesterday's report.
50F this morning.
Off and on mist is just about what we had what seems like a week.
I should be able to turn the heat off on Sunday with temps in the low 70's.
Sun did come out yesterday, but only for a few minutes each time.
Sky looks bright this morning, but not supposed to last on the brightness.
Had a strong hail and thunder storm about an hour ago. It was the most hail I've seen in a long time. We got six tenths of an inch of rain in 15 minutes. I was afraid for my garden but not much damage there.
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That is some hail!!!
Had to rain today.
Was the first day in what seems like a week I did not have to run the wipers. It started to rain about 8pm.
I did see the sun for a steady ½ hour today.
Heat is on each morning and at night.
We had a soaker in the morning, then not much the rest of the day. I think 1/10" was all. Rained more 30 miles south of here.
Looks like the rain has moved in now though and everything is socked in. Might get to put some plants out if the rain ends before noon. :D
Was raining here at 5am.
Nothing at 6:30am.
That 7 days forecast looks wet.
Sunday will be dry and sunny. Only day for both of them.
Looks like a ¼ inch a day of rain and some days a ½ inch of rain.
Sun burning through. Got the tomatoes and peppers in.
54F now, suppose to reach 64F
Yes, by Tuesday it looks wet for the rest of the next week. I never count totals until I read my rain gauge because I've seen a week of clouds before and not a drop. :D
I have 62° and I hope to get tomatoes in before dark. Might have to put a sweat shirt on to plant tomatoes. :o :D
Just enough sprinkles this morning to leave dimples in the dust. Balmy 51 degrees for the high today. In the last 2 weeks we've had 98° high temps, 49° high temps, and some nights in the 20s.
Extreme fire danger still with no meaningful rain in sight. Going to be another real lean year farming.
We did reach 67F today, the warmest it's been in over a week. We'll get 2 or 3 dry days ahead and several days rain after on tap. We've not had a huge amount of water here all week, but we have had over 2". Keeping things damp and cloudy doesn't allow much to dry. But sure beats 90's weather on the end of a saw. :)
Grass dried enough to even get it mowed. That's enough toiling for this week. ;)
The sun is out!!!! Looks to be all day too.
Things will grow now.
Maybe high 70's for the next 2 days, then back into the mid 60's.
Yesterday was a nice sunny day. A warm day.
Today some clouds but warm again. Maybe 80 today.
Then back into the mid 60's.
Well that changed quickly. Yesterday was cool in the morning (50's) but reached 83° in the afternoon. It was a 2 shirt day for me. This morning it is 65 before 8:30am and 69 out in the shop. I made a couple of one shot fires out there last week just because of cool dampness. I think I am done with that for the season now, but we'll see.
Supposed to rain today and I just saw some sprinkles on the ground. We'll see how that goes. Smells like rain and the sky is thick, but little on the radar.
We had a little drizzel yesterday expecting more the next few days .We need some rain as the crops are up .My little raised bed gardens are doing well but those are irrigated which is not a big deal but 600 acres of corn would be .
We've been in a strange weather pattern for about a week. A series of lows in So. Cal. has been causing storms to travel from northern Nevada to northern California. Big afternoon thunderstorms up in the high country. My cabin project is on the southern edge of them. Hope to head up Tuesday when the pattern is supposed to change. The town of Quincy got half dollar sized hail and a storm stalled out over them for 7 hours Saturday.
Was 55F at daybreak here and about 80F now. No wind at all, the windmills are motionless today. Been a smoky haze here since yesterday, not as bad today because it's calm out. Dry heat here, RH at 40%.
Finially some much needed rain is falling. Hopefully it's not too little to late for the crops but only time will tell.
Only complaint is it's 46° and raining, but at this point I won't complain about any precip.
Yeah, we had that cold rain and drizzle all last week. We are going to get more the rest of this week into Saturday, but 60 and 70's this time, not 40's and 50's. :D
Was 56° when I first got up. Maybe 65 for a high.
heat is on.
Some rain coming then showers for the rest of the day.
Was 62F this morning and clear, 78F now and overcast with partial sun, not humid though. Rain starting tonight.
No heat on here, windows have been open all day since 3:00 am. 75F in the house.
it's 58 right now and because of the dampness I have a small electric heater running just to take the chill off .Rain predicted off and on for about end of the week .We certainly needed it .
Checked the upstair temp gauge, 85F, AC is now on for 5 hrs. It's not humid heat, but I don't like 85F for sleeping. I go to roost early and get up early. ;D
It might hit 70 today, but not much sun.
Just hope it remembers to rain after all this ends.
High here yesterday was 78° and it got humid in the afternoon. It was pretty much overcast until later in the afternoon. I did feel a couple of sprinkles for about 30 seconds some time just afternoon, but they were gone just that fast and nothing was even showing on the radar. We did have just over 1/2" during the overnight before. Last night stayed dry, but we have rain forecast for the day with a high around 70. I know everybody keeps asking for rain, but I have a 300 gallon rainwater tank I use for the garden, washing the truck and other non-potable purposes. It is still at the overflowing stage. As soon as I get it down a little, it fills back up. The garden needed very little water the last 2 days.
Was clear this morning and clouds took over by 9:00 am. Stayed dry at the house, but rained enough 10 miles south of here at work to get wet. Suppose to get showers the rest of the week thunderstorms Friday cooling the air off more. 66F here now.
Looks to be another low 70s day here. And not much sun.
I do hope the garden will start to grow. ::) Hard with all the rain and not much sun.
Heat is on. :o
Been on for 3-4 days steady. I have seen it when I turn it on for maybe a day or night, but not steady for 3-4 days in mid June.
Had some showers at work, and less so at the house. 73F here now. Been no heat on, windows open. That may change this weekend as the temps are suppose to dip a little after Friday.
4/10" rain yesterday here at the house. A thunderstorm brought most of it last evening.
Looks like the mid 70's today!!!!
But not much sun.
Weekend looks kinda cool. Saturday looks like rain all day.
Cold SE wind and heavy rain pending, can see it on the hills moving in, 55F.
Overnight low was 75° here. It's already 85°with 81% humidity. To say it's uncomfortable outside would be an under statement. My hands were sweating so bad in garden I had a hard time holding onto the hoe. The high temp today is forecast to be 96° which just happens to be the heat index right now.
60° and a steady rain.
I guess I shouldn't have complained about the heat. About 4pm it started thundering. The rain and hale was close behind it. The temperature dropped from 97° to 72° in just a few minutes. Electricity went out about 5 minutes into the storm. My generator is old school with a manual transfer switch so we just sat in the dark and waited it out. When it slacked up I started the generator and went to check the other houses. There are limbs everywhere, but no real damage. Well, gotta go move a big gum limb out of our road now. At least it's cooler outside. 8)
Steady rain moved in recently. Took all day to get here. :D
3/4" rain over night and still doing it's thing. That's about 1-1/4" all week. But sure is a cold rain, 48F this morning. Hope the beans don't rot, they were just beginning to break ground and they do not like days of cold wet. :D
No wonder there are so many songs about rain. It must play on people's moods.
We are have been stuck in a low pressure zone for going on a
couple weeks now.
Just some of the rain songs:
31 Of The Best Songs About Rain: Raindrop Playlist (https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/songs-about-rain/)
Looks like today no rain but clouds.
Somehow the cukes came up during all the weeks of rain.
One garage I delivery parts to, have not raced for 2 weeks due to rain.
Looks like a full inch of rain in the gauge now, so that's 1-4/10". I think the rain is done for the day ,now off and on showers.
It's in the 70's and over cast .A good day to get back on my fire wooding .So far I've got about a chord chunked up and tossed a chain on a little Partner 3 cube which does very well on 12" stuff .New chain doesn't surprise me it came off .A works in progress,needs a tad more low speed because on a cold start doesn't take to speed very fast .Warmed up it's a hot rod .--I'll get it I always do --- ;D
62F here for the high today, it cleared out in the morning then clouded back in. :D
Has not rained all day!!! Only 70, no sun to speak of.
Showers all day here, not much for sun, 62F again.
well guess what. It rained today. go_away
82F here so far, but the humidity is low to ,40%.
The honeybees are in the maple tree. I need to do a video. :)
85F and sunny here today, 40% RH. Going to be another wet week coming up. Thundershowers Saturday and Sunday, clouds all next week and rain or showers. :D
Same weather today, but suppose to hit high 80's this afternoon.
Clouds are suppose to move in tonight. Turning more humid tomorrow and Sunday and still warm, but thunder showers.
Been 2 days and no rain!!!
Showers are a coming.
Got a little pitter patter of rain last night .I think it's predicted all week .Not much at a time but better than a frog drowner in how much good it does .Crops are looking fine .Wheat looks like it will come off as it always does around 4th of July .Then amber waves of grain become amber stubble fields .
Hopefully can get my vine crops in this weekend, they are already 3 weeks ahead. With wild honey bees nesting 60 yards away, I got'r made. ;D
Got some rain finally, any little bit helps.
Been a steady rain here since 9:00 pm, 64F this morning. Been watching fire flies after dark flash about the yard. Rain don't seem to bother them much. Nice vine growing weather, warm, muggy and water. ;D After going to town in the morning and getting dinner, got the seedlings all planted and had time to mow before the rain.
Reach 80F yesterday before the rains.
We had 1-1/4" rain over night, still showering out now.
81F, muggy and very bad air caused by Quebec wildfires. You can really smell the smoke. We have a NW air flow today. Suppose to clear up tonight. Stopped raining before noon with peeks of sun. Showers and rain coming back tomorrow.
Showers and rain started around 11:00 am and there's 1/4" in the gauge so far, more steady rain now for awhile. 68F today.
Saturday,the 24 was kinda dry. Sunday was dry but muggy!!!! But only about 85, was not a good breathing day. Today, Monday, did not even reach 70 and tried to rain all day. Just about enough to keep things wet.
One thing I noticed for the first time on the porch with coffee in hand, ever, MIDGES IN CLOUDS, even got in the coffee. Had to come in out of that. This damp weather is breeding weather for those burning buggers. Never had them on the porch before. They can crawl through fly screening. I'm still scratching. :D
Guess what?
It's raining. ::)
Must have a shower going on right now.
Not saying the underground weather is right, but every hour is showers and rain up until Friday. This is the hourly report. Saturday mentions cloudy. 8)
Was a shot of mist this morning then was nothing the rest of the day. 68F here now. Rained some in the night. Forecast is wet right into Sunday.
Drove over the Androscoggin River in Jay, ME this morning and it looked fine.
Drove over it this afternoon and it was brown.
This is new to me. I delivery parts and cross that river 3-4 times a day. Use to be I may even see the river for a week.
Just like when I saw ice out on Mosher Pond. Ice in the morning, half gone at afternoon and all gone when I went home.
Had another 1/4" of rain, overnight mostly. 70F
Had to stake the tomatoes when I got home, getting tall and falling over. Cukes are growing, starting to run.
Rained all week in Virginia, 6 days in a row. Clear and sunny today with a moderate amount of Canadian wildfire smoke.
Yeah, rivers running high and brown in late June is unusual.
They are saying most rain in June here in 25 years.
The forests are liking it, not sure about the field crop farmers.
Another wet day. Only had to run the wipers steady once today.
Had to take a break from cabin project today. Thunder storm with hard rain and pea sized hail came through from 1:30 til 4. Still some far off rumbling.
Smoke is bad here.Supposed to be clear weather here today but you couldn't tell it.Might be my imagination but it seems a little hard to breathe.Was in Ohio yesterday and this morning and it was even worse there.
Smoke map, shows where smoke is in middle of USA and air quality index.
https://fire.airnow.gov/
Found out that Canton Ohio had the worst air quality in the world today. I picked a bad time to go.This was according to our weather man.
Yeah it was bad here Sunday for smoke, a really strong smoke smell. The wind has been S or SE ever since with all this wet weather. It's not coming down in huge amounts for long duration, more like showers and then long dry spells between. But 1/4" or so a day adds up over a week. And it's a warm rain which the garden sure likes.
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Found out that Canton Ohio had the worst air quality in the world today. I picked a bad time to go.This was according to our weather man.
Central WI had that same number of 251 today. Was a bit hazy to say, for sure. Suggest we stay inside, but I can't help but wonder where they think the inside air is coming from? ;)
Well an AC unit won't purify it for sure but with windows closed up there will be a lot less smoke getting in. And some homes do have air purifier systems. Not so much where I live, it never was a thing. But it's probably common in cities.
Waters here have not been all that high or brown because we aren't getting heavy sustained rains. I would say the main creek here is running into the shore grass, but not filling the high water mark at all, that would mean another 2 feet of water.
A heavy rain shower at this early hour, suppose to be thunderstorms today and tomorrow, so suspect some heavy cloud bursts now and then. 63F this morning, been running around that at night all week. 1/2" rain over night, 1" so far this week.
Looks wet into next Tuesday.
Smoke still hanging around.
https://fire.airnow.gov/
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Green is good, and purple not so good.
No smoke here. Just hot and humid. 96°at 11:00am and getting hotter. The heat index is well into triple digits. Ice water and air-conditioning are life savers.
64F this morning, a break in the rain with a peek of sun today. What's surprising is that there hasn't been much for flies around the yard. No black flies, a couple mosquitoes and no deer flies. Out in the woods the mosquitoes are in clouds and the deer flies wake up around noon. :D After that one morning of midges on the porch, never seen or felt another one since.
Guess what? It's raining!!!
Another wet day.
It hasn't rained every day in June but it sure does seem like it has. UNCLE!
I can remember a wet summer once in awhile even 50 years ago. We'd be trout fishing or something and spend more time driving woods roads looking for new spots or visiting some camps because grandfather liked to talk fishing and hunting with anyone that listened. He'd have the heater on in the truck while driving of course. :D I seen one time we found a dead water, it was alive with trout. They made the water boil for an artificial fly. A big rain came over night, the next day not a trout to be found. Later discovered it was near a heron rookery to, they nested in old pines around there.
From spring to early summer we've had super dry weather with burn restrictions, and now, rain every two or three days.
It'll take a while to roll back the super dry conditions.
The burn restrictions are still on, but it feels like we're back to a "normal" summer.
Well, we had a couple inches of rain since last week and my yard is pretty soft. I am bucking and hand loading big rounds from the top and the 60' RO we pruned to a stalk the other day. My lawn is a mess. holes an ruts and the ag tread pattern from the bucket skidder. All will take the rest of the summer to fix.
I just came in to give my sweat glands some time to re-charge and catch my breath. Breathing is not easy today under heavy work. The AQI is 155 which they call 'unhealthy'. It's pretty thick right now considering how far it has traveled.. But I have to keep plugging at it to keep my mind busy and get it done eventually. It's only 77° at noon, so that's not too bad, but working in the hazy sun is still a bit warm.
Reached 80F today and was at least partly sunny. House never got that hot, but with the sticky RH I turned on the AC to bring that down.
Went to Smyrna Mills, Maine and had lobster rolls and rhubarb crumble at Brookside. ;D They do a lot of business.
We had an unseasonably cool June. Only a handful of days in the 90s. Today will hit 104° and tomorrow 108°. Only 96° for the fourth!
Smoke not as bad today so the sun made it through.Now it's going to get hot 🥵
I did not get the hard rain, but about 15 miles from me, driveways are washed out along with roads.
Some of these was major highways.
Had about 3 to 5 inches of rain in a short time. The water had no place to go.
One road may be closed for 2 weeks.
Wow that's a lot of rain quick. Never had any rain like that here, there was a quick heavy rain in the morning, but the lawn was dry enough yesterday afternoon to mow. But the ground is not like cement on the lawn now, it was in early spring in the dry time. But has never been dry for about 7 weeks. :D
Hopefully it will be dry enough to weed a bit around the garden, have to thin the parsnips to. Doesn't take very long with a hoe between plants and fingers in close. Get a lot of those dandelions germinating with all the moisture. Will make short lives out of them weeds. An old weed puller from way back on the hill. ;D
flash flood (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlyihA5-MMM)
This is what it looks like.
Only about 15 miles from me.
The same thing happened up in Andover, about an hour from me.
That caused the Androscoggin River to look brown.
One road is closed, Route 133.
There was almost a washout on Route 4. If that would have happened, that would of been bad for trucks heading North.
Traffic would have to go by my place.
Nasty business for sure. Inconvenient for a little while for some.
Storm damage in northern New Brunsick in Edmundston Thursday night to. Rail traffic is also blocked.
Rainstorm causes major damage in Edmundston | CBC News (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/rain-storm-edmondston-flooding-nb-1.6894001)
Ray, now's your chance to unload some rocks! Looks like Jay is in need of plenty of good fill
I could only hope they show up with a loader and trucks!!!! ;D
So far no rain today and the sun is out.
Yesterday was dry day too!!!!! :o
Two days in a row with no rain!!!!!
In the garden weeding.
Cut some low limbs off with the roybi battery pole saw this morning.
Cut many off that was 4 inches across.
Now to cut out the firewood out of the limbs and use the bush hog on what I don't want.
Friday and especially Saturday were pretty bad with the smoke and it began to affect me with a lot of coughing after heavy exertion. Yesterday probably didn't help that I was driving for over 3 hours around and through the mountains with both truck windows open. It was visibly worse in some areas either higher up or lower down and I could taste the smoke. visibility was severely compromised to under 5 miles. Hardly saw any direct sun. It leaves that graveled feeling in your mouth. I still have that, but the plume cleared our area around 3am this morning when the rain front came in. We are past 1/3" by now and still coming, then more in the afternoon.
So I am going to do undercover work today getting ready for my coming obligations.
The showers began this morning around 9:00 am and more coming this afternoon and carrying on into Tuesday or Wednesday. Might be 3 days break and more rain after.
Rain again!!!!!
Heading for 12 hours of rain. Surprise!!! ::)
Rain here, and midges on the porch this morning again. :-X
It's raining again. It was not when I first got up. But suppose to stop by 11 today, then clouds.
Not many flies out. ???
I have been out on my tractor as it's getting dark. Still very few. I have seen it where I head for the house because of too many flies.
No shortage of water in this area. Picked up another 1.5" since Sat. night. Got lucky and missed that last 5" torrential dowpour by a few miles as the crow flies. Keep the paddles handy.
Not much flies around the house at day time, but the woods around here is thick with mosquitoes and deer flies.
Light rain most of the morning, then had to get the rain coat off, was getting too warm.
swampdonkey, none in the woods either here.
The rain did stop in the morning. Was an odd day. I did not use the wipers after 10am. :D
80F and muggy here. The deer flies and horse flies, probably 4 species from what I can see, were swarming like hornets. :D
Afternoon thunder crackers here and spotty showers. Suppose to do that this evening to. Chance of showers about every day, mostly afternoon. Long range says wet all next week with showers. :D
Deer flies are usually bad here but they got nuked from the fire. Still some but none like last year. Very annoying pests. Horse flies are something to stop what you're doing and look out for when you see one of them, they're much bigger than the deer flies and hurt like a SOB when bit
No rain yesterday. But it tried to rain. Was a sunny day.
today should be the same, no rain and sun!!!!!
June was cool and wet.
We had 1" last night in the thunder crackers, so far 1-1/4" rain this week. The Presque Isle is brown.
I here some thunder just now. There was some sprinkles on the windshield on the way home. Probably more crackers this evening.
Them cukes are going to be like zucchini, with water and that 85-90 heat this week. Monday was 78F here, been climbing every day. Beans have doubled in 3 days. Been 64-68F every morning now for about a week.
I'm seeing field potatoes in blossom now.
Humid and hot today. Vegetation needed the sun though, aspen and red maples sprouting up all over and the pines(fire scorched)candles are opening up into needles
Left my large water jug on my trail where I'm spacing trees. Mr black bear got the munchies last night and tried to eat the water jug. :D :D
I found an old den already and my partner found a more recent one on his strip. There be bears. ;D
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You are lucky that is all the bear left behind. 8)
It hit 90 today .Little green tomatoes are on the vines the cukes are sprouting blossums .Farm crops look real good .It's about the time to take off the wheat .
Another day with no rain. That is 48 hours with no rain!!!!!
Even had sun most of the day!!!!
Was a warm day. Almost 90.
Just hope it remembers to rain a month from now.
86F right now, suppose to top 90F in a couple hrs.
Cukes have blossoms that will likely be opened up tomorrow, the good fruit bearing ones with the ovary on it that looks like a cuke, not the falsies.
The cantaloupes vines are really looking good also with all the water and heat. Wouldn't be surprised to see blossoms on them next week.
Suppose to get rain or showers Friday evening and for the next several days beyond that. Looks like mid to upper 70's all next week and wet.
I'll see if I can prune up the tomatoes this weekend.
Sounds like your garden is doing great.
Mine is way behind yours.
We had rain almost every day in June and kinda on the cool side to.
Then I planted to garden just as the rain came in and stayed. The garden is perking up now with warm temps and no rain.
Tomatoes was a little yellow for a while. Too much rain!!!
One year I was just getting cukes when everyone else's had gone by. ;D
Looks like another warm day at almost 90 and maybe a thunder storm.
Been 3 dry days. :o
Yeah, last year the cold and wet put everything behind and pollination was poor on the vines. Didn't get my usual wheel barrel full of waste cucumbers. I had lots for my needs, but not the yield, but lots for dill pickle and relishes we like. And I only got 6 or 8 medium sized squash, where I usually get 8-10 lbers to fill a wheel barrel. I held off a week longer here planting beans and my cukes, squash and cantaloupe got a big jump in the grow tent. They love water, and heat for sure. The garden here is still damp from the rain the other night. But the gardens here hold water longer than potato fields, I've got a lot more organic in my soil.
Going to get thunder cracker showers tonight. Wet for the next week, but cooling a bit Monday, staying hot all weekend.
Looks like rain beginning here in a couple hrs according to radar.
The cukes have flowered like I suspected they would. Be picking by the 24th. :) We had another 1/4" rain last night, still some showers about. 72F here this morning, going to be mid 80's F today.
Another dry day yesterday!!!!
Only 80 today, no almost 90's.
Our weather has been all over the map. 3rd week of June was the best hay making weather I've had in years (90 degrees, windy, sunny, and crazy low RH), to bad with our lack of early rains there is very little crop to make. The oats, peas, and wheat I planted in May sprouted and grew about 6" then curled up and turned brown.
Now it's been raining just enough to wet the dust and ruin hay making, but not hardly enough to amount to much. Along with the scattered drops, it's been overcast, smokey, and cool. Today for instance is 59 degrees for a high with 100% cloud cover, two nights ago it was 43 degrees. The 10 day forecast shows low 70s for temps.
O well let's hope 2024 is a better crop year. Haha
Kinda like June was for us. A light rain all day, seems more then 25 days. Just about enough to keep things wet.
But then we would have A LOT of rain for a couple hours. Like 5 inches all at one time.
Been hard to make hay here in June. Grew like a jungle but no drying days. I see some of the first baled up this week, we had 3 dry days. :D
My brother just came today and bush hogged 6 foot tall heavy stuff and was still wet, but I'm not making hay, just knocking it down. It was funny I mowed soon after and saw one of them kangaroo rats hopping through it. The ground is full of mice of every creed. I've hogged it before myself and watched the mice scatter everywhere. :D
Barn cats and foxes find lots to eat. ;D
I did the same thing new years day about 25 years ago .About 1" of snow on the ground and did the mice scatter .The next week I think I had every red tail hawk plus cats from miles around chasing mice . The foxes got a piece of that action too .BTW they didn't get them all .
Yesterday it rained just about enough to run the wipers. Maybe once every few minutes.
If I would of been home, I would have kept on working in the so-called rain.
We had a line of thunderstorms blow through here last evening. Including a tornado warning.
No damage to my yard. But the boomers were pretty load, at times. And a short period of heavy rain. The sun was out before sunset, they moved through so fast.
Jim Rogers
Some sprinkles starting here now suppose to be showers tonight and tomorrow, possible thunder cracker tonight. 78F here now.
Yesterday was not a good day to work outside. Rained just enough to keep things wet.
Then just about the time I got home it was a steady rain. I think it rained all night.
Only thunder showers for the week, even some sun!! And temps in the 80's.
Nothing much here at home but the ADKS and VT hit hard, bridges out major flooding some places, a dam in Long Lake NY breached Montpelier VT flooded.
Was hoping to get to my ADK camp tomorrow but not sure now.
My son is attempting the trip today so will know more by this afternoon.
68F here today, 8/10" rain so far since early this morning, more falling. Next 2 days in the 80's. More rain Friday and Saturday. :)
68F and wet is better than 90F and sweat soaked when swinging a clearing saw. :D :D
Another ~1/2" rain last night and heavy fog this morning. 1-1/4" rain so far this week. Clear and 80F right now. Calling for severe thunderstorms later.
Raspberries are ready, picked a quart.
30c here and with the sun it's a scorcher. Rap up the outdoor work by 2 o'clock today
Yeah, hit 86F here and now a big dark cloud is bringing rain and a thunder clapper.
Today, so far, has been dry!!! I did hit some rain on the road.
80F today. We just got a small shower off that big cloud, we were just on the edge of the rain so it never lasted. It split north and south of us. Garden is lots moist anyway. Was heavy fog this morning again until 10 am. Suppose to be a chance for some showers tonight and all weekend. Could be some heavy rain Monday.
Some 2" cukes now, if I had a bunch of 4 inchers I'd make dill pickles. ;D
Another dry day!!!
Dry day here too. High of 66 degrees and 99% cloud cover all day. Dew never dried off the grass...
Yesterday was 82F by afternoon. Had a late day thunder cracker pass, no rain off it.
See stars this morning was also seeing lightning flashes in the distance. Showers all weekend and some thunder crackers. Radar shows a big wide band of showers moving in by 9:00 am. 67F this morning.
Hot today - 106°. Forecast for tomorrow is 110° smiley_sweat_drop smiley_sweat_drop But, it's a dry heat! :D
Yesterday was another dry day!!! It tried to have a shower around 8am, but did not even get the ground wet.
I can work around a shower, most times only last 15 minutes, a ½ hour. But the light rain all day is hard to work in.
Showers off and on all day.
More like a mist out now, but flood warnings in effect for the afternoon.
65F here this morning.
I did get some outdoor work done. And I do mean some. Started to rain here about 8am and rained all day. Sometimes steady and sometimes only a mist.
62 today and some showers. Between the Canadian smoke, unseasonably cool temps, and the random showers hay making is nearly impossible.
Made it to 108° today breaking the 2005 record by one degree. Maybe down to 107° tomorrow.
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We keep an eye, but not much changes with just a little cloud.
Well, sounds like we are getting a good drink here to start the week off right. :D You know, the potato field next door was looking like dry dirt for a couple days and one garden here was drier than the other on top, less sheltered. Can't have that. ;D
Picked 5 quarts of raspberries yesterday morning. Picked 10 since the 12th. I wouldn't doubt there was 30 more quarts to get ripe. Good thing all the berry crops don't all come on at once. There's millions of elders to pick this year, I have to cut the umbels off and sit and pluck the ripe ones off. Tedious, but done in comfort of my chair under the white oak. :D
Speaking of the white oak. This year I see lammas growth on the top with all this moisture. Lammas growth, also called Lammas leaves, Lammas flush, second shoots, or summer shoots, is a season of renewed growth in some trees in temperate regions put on in July and August. August 1st is lammas day, which is a Christian wheat harvest festival in some countries.
Doc,
That is one scary looking photo!
We had 2 Tornado warnings for my part of NH yesterday. Not something we see a lot. Never got too bad at home, but the day was on and off showers/rain. We got over 1.25in when I last checked at 6pm last night. I was able to get about 1/2 a cord of firewood done without getting soaked from rain. I was soaked from the humidity, guess it got me one way or the other!
Another bad wash out in South Paris, Norway, ME. :(
More roads are closed.
Maybe 86° today, kinda humid, but it is that time of year.
46 degrees last night and a high of 59 today with clouds and drizzle on/off all day. Turned the furnace on to warm the house up and dry it out some.
46° :o :o :o
Kinda cool up there.
I've seen the two extremes when salmon fishing on the Renous in July. 30F and frost on the grass in the morning and by late afternoon be 90F. :D
Friend of mine who went along salmon fishing asked, 'How'd you find this place'? I said, with grandfather, we've fished here for years. No flies at night in the freezing cold. :D
Smoke from the fires and 85F here. Making jam and pickles was nicer than fighting heat and smoke at work. ;D
This has been a cool summer for us in the PNW. We're normally over 100F in May but it took the 1st week of July to start seeing that. We've had a couple days there, then it drops to the 90's (low 90's) and usually pops back up which is what we normally see in June-August.
It's been cooler here actually going on two decades but you wouldn't know it from the hype.
Radar shows evening showers moving in tonight.
Rain's falling like a waterfalls this morning. smiley_guitarist
No showers here last night.
But one guy from the store went to a garage a few miles away and it had rained.
The River is still high.
We got some pretty good gully washers coming through late afternoon into the evening here is whitingham VT yesterday. But I can't find the data. My sense is that it was between 1 and 2". Today is looking to be a beaut with a high near 80 and bright sunshine.
Smoke seems a lot better too. Was terrible bad yesterday and breathing under heavy work was a tad rough.
We've had about 9/10" rain so far this week. Was dry all through daylight hours. Dry Thursday and sunny. Rain Friday night into Saturday.
80F today.
Another day with no rain!!!
Things are really growing!!!! Lots of rain and now lots of sun.
Day 8 or 9 now in a row that the temp hasn't gotten above 70° for a high. More gray skies and scattered rain showers.
Tornado damage in NC but not anywhere near me. Many miles away.
Didn't even show up on radar.
But we did have a loud bunch of thunder storms last night.
No damage in my yard that I have noticed, yet.
Jim Rogers
78F day here, not as humid either. Very nice day.
Have picked 34 quarts of raspberries so far. Will likely pick 40 and then some. Have done a bunch of jam, and eating a bunch raw besides a cobbler now and again. My small chest freezer will be full this year. I make a lot of juice, the real stuff. :)
54 degrees and drizzle/fog. Furnace is on.
You must of had the same weather as me swampdonkey. Was a nice warm day. Good breathing weather!!!
Been getting thunderstorms here every day for at least a week or two.When it's not raining it's so humid it's hard to do much.Some days the smoke is pretty bad also.One good thing is the garden is doing good.Gully washers have been doing a number on my driveway.
I am at 60° this morning. Should get to the mid 70's today. Still no rain!!!
Well we have been in southern VT this week help helping family and I do love the summer weather here. Been coming since I was a boy for various things and excuses. Only 1,800' in altitude, but usually clear and crisp. My cousin's here complain of the heat while I am thinking it's a nice cool good working day. ;D Pleasant this week with a band of light rain passing through about 40 minutes ago. The forecast was for a rainout day today, now updated to occasional rain, but I am not seeing much on the radar once this pattern goes by. It's about 60° here this AM but very damp and the mosquitoes are quite friendly with no wind present.
Time to get packed and hit the road so these folks can get started on the busy day they have ahead. Our work is done here. ;D
thunder and lightening with dogs in the room last night. a fair bit of rain.
That same front got down here this morning. Thunder, lightening, high wind, and torrential rain for a while. The only time my hummers quit feeding is when the raindrops got to be bigger than them. :o
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Such a brave and courage's bird. They fly thousands of miles just to eat at my feeder....special recipe. :D As soon as the rain let up they were back at the feeder. All 6 holes had a bird with a waiting list behind. ;D
we will add celebrity bird Chef to your long list of talents..
Up here on our feeder, only one at a time will feed. They will fight one another off. :D
The last 2 days have been a mice summer days. good breathing and not to warm.
We had a shower in the night. First time I had rain here for 4 days!!!!!
Showers here, we've had 1" rain this week. Looks like high 70's today.
40 quarts of raspberries have been picked. Will be making another batch of jam, 5 pints.
They had berry day at the market yesterday, a pair of young teenage boys won the pie contest. That'll up the old ladies game next year :D. Michelle left here at 5am loaded with many gallons of different berry sorbets. There have been 3 ice cream freezers going it seems like non stop here for the past few weeks. The high winds hit us friday morn about 2am, I had to close the house up, she left for market about 5. Me and the dog were chillin on the back porch about 6 when we heard the big beech fall across the drive... glad she left when she did! Oh, it was a punky hearted old beech but the mast crop with the wind is what took it, it was loaded as full as I've ever seen one. I bet the deer were all over the brush last nite. Nice breeze cooler yesterday, we probably didn't break 80, very pleasant break.
Since the mention of humming birds I need to brew up another batch of sugar water .
That shower came at the right time, it's supper time!!!
Lasted about 15 minutes, seems to be passing by now.
Man, I thought things might be drying up and the ground might be firming. I thought in another day or two I could bring down a machine and do the cleaning up I need to do picking up the junk from around the splitter and getting it dumped and spread in the swamp then covering it with drainage stone, and getting the holes filled in the yard from taking down the big Oak, but we got a 1 hour dump tonight that was a fluke and gave us about .70" of wet. Now it's all soggy again. I may never get caught up at this rate. Chores are building as I wait for dry ground and it's killing me. The place is a mess.
Somebody, I think, got some rain, not too far from me.
I heard the thunder for about a half hour before we got the shower. But it was only a light rain. I headed for the house when the rain started, but we never got the hard rain.
63 this morn 8), long sleeves, but its warming up fast. Mucca is off for the unkindest cut, hopefully it'll check some of that wanderlust.
Been 85F and dry for the last couple days, but could see thunder showers tonight, getting dark clouds moving in. In fact I do see a shower to the south of us right now.
Missed the rain here, but there must have been some heavy stuff down at work because my walking trail is full of water in the low spots. :)
Heat warnings for the next 4 days.Heat index over 100.Hope my AC holds up!
In Chetwynd BC it's cold and raining (which great). My son has had to use heat this summer which is a 1st in a long time. The cold is coming early this year.
Another dry day. Maybe the rain for a week is behind us. Just glad that was not snow. :o :o :o
Maybe in the low 90's on Friday.
This has been another not hot summer. Seem like last year was like that.
Flys are out. Well the mosquitos are. I have not seen many this year, until last night. I am out first thing in the morning and well after dark. Last night they made up for the time they missed!!!
I have had enough of this rain. The grass grows like mad, but the yard is so wet ya can't mow it. Standing water everywhere and the skeeters would drive man or beast mad. This last week the little black flies are hatching out by the millions daily. I thought late July was always our dry season, guess it's still changing.
It was only 85 today but working in that heat, especially in the direct sun, was a life suck. I ain't as young as I used to be.
We wallowed around and got another load of rocks this morning, they are heading over to rip rap a creek bank. We got that done by 10, getting warm and sticky but not bad. I needed to get some corn, the county fair is coming up and I'm going to set up there. So I headed down to the NC piedmont. The foot of the mountains was 10 or 11 degrees warmer than up top. It wasn't too bad with the windows open on back roads so I shunpiked there and back home, I was after all hauling a load of white corn. I also wanted to see if a building salvage yard was still in business, I hadn't been by there in a long time, so I swung by there, they were still there, and then turned up by the river and wandered back north by sighting this landmark. Kind of hard to get too lost around Pilot Mt., I left Mayberry at 93 degrees and climbed through Skull Camp, Low Gap. Snowbird corner and when I topped out at the parkway it was 81 degrees. But I was driving into black clouds. I got home about 5 minutes ahead of a heavy rain that'll put any rock gathering fun on hold for a few days. I think I'll offer to dogsit and encourage DB to hop on the Harley and take a couple of days in the high country on the parkway.
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Mosquitoes mostly in the mornings and on cloudy days here. The deer flies and horse flies have pretty much died off the last 3 or 4 days. Haven't seen much for black flies since June. No water here this week so far. Looking at the radar, the rain right now is all across northern Maine and NB, but not down here in central NB. 85F yesterday, around the same for today. She's going to cool off this weekend, might not hit 70F on Saturday. ;D No 80's all next week. September is here. :D
what is shunpiked
Back in the day a man would build a road , charge a toll and enforce it with a pike pole across the road. You paid the toll and he'd turn the pike. Being a cheap traveller there was oftentimes a path through the woods around the pike, the observant, and cheap, traveller could shun the pike. One more :), Not saying he couldn't be driving you right into a pothole. You know, a hole where a potter dug good clay out for... pots. The good clay will show up in road cuts and disturbances.
High 80's for today.
The hum of honey bee activity in the old maple. ;D
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Last two days have been terribly warm and humid, to the point of cattle dying... Not good.
3/10" rain last night and temps have dropped to 60F here at 10:00 am. End of the hot weather, for the next week anyway.
I've got a wheel barrel of cucumbers, made 5 pints of dill pickles this morning. Besides a whack of raspberry juice. 8)
Heat advisory here today.Storm came through yesterday and knocked out power.Thousands out all over the area.May get more storms today.Heading out to get more gas for welder.Electricity is going to be pretty expensive for awhile.
Very bearable summer here in the hills at my elevation, 1523'.
In the 90s in Syracuse and surrounding area high 80s here in afternoons.
Plenty of rain, no tornadoes close by, corn growing like mad lawn needs mowing about every 5 days, cool enough to do firewood in the mornings til noon.
A bit humid tho.
I dont envy you folks in the unbearably hot and dry parts of the good ol USA
The email I just got said 52,000 are out Bill, restoration today here and tomorrow there, we got 3 drops and never lost power but I was looking at angry clouds. They did say pending whatever happens this afternoon. I've gotta figure out how to hotwire a dehydrator this afternoon, peppers are in.
Used to be this time of July was hot and dry. Now it's so wet I can't get nothing done and my tomato plants are drowning. Got a gulley washer mid-afternoon Thursday that took out power for a large grid block for 4 hours. Finally got bored and went to a local watering hole for a beer and company. The Whimpey owner closed down. Didn't want to open up the coolers ad let his beer get warm. :D Geez, I bet he turned away 16 local working guys. Sounds like a party to me. :)Opportunity missed is never regained. His loss.
This afternoon we got another quick washout. Heat warnings and flood watches. Local Fire Departments rescued 19 tourists who were swimming and playing in a creek and got caught in a flash flood and stranded on the high rocks. Happens every year, but this time nobody was hurt or died, which is rare. Swiftwater, high angle, low angle, and dive team recue units were all tied up for a while for 4 different methods of extraction. Good times. ;D They never seem to learn.
72F, 40 % RH, partly sunny and a light breeze. My kinda weather. :)
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Heat index hit 122 degrees on a location about 12 miles west and a little south of us. Yesterday. Really bad 3 days for cattle on feed. Today is bearable..
A light rain started around 5pm and suppose to last until 11pm.
Sun should be out in the morning. We are heading for a cool down.
Quote from: thecfarm on July 29, 2023, 07:00:23 PMWe are heading for a cool down.
Send me some of that!
Places would like the rain too.
I have been seeing those high temps down your way!!!
Ray got me excited and I checked. From tomorrow on we have mid to high 70's forecast and not much chance of rain! 8) Looks like a good working week for a change. One day might hit 80 but at least I can stop taking the mid-afternoon showers to get my body temp down. That was getting old. (Well, the showers were fine, but quitting work mid-day wasn't getting much done.) Bonus, I will be able to sleep at night. After todays rain it has cooled off here a LOT (65 now) and I am looking forward to a good night's sleep and a 'normal' work day tomorrow. (Whatever that is.)
Sun is out!!!
yes, a cool week ahead. Not even the mid 70's the first part of the week.
60F and sunny at 10:00 am.
84° now, and to 99° today. predicted 102° the next 3 days.
Got power back around midnight.Burnt about 25 gallons of gas keeping house cool and refrigerator running.Not as hot today and supposed to be fairly nice all week (mid 80's).I'll take it!Changed oil in welder and filled up with gas.Welder gets a lot more use generating power than it does welding.Trees growing around power lines gets worse every year.Don't know how power company will ever keep up.
We had one heck of a storm hit the camper last night. 70mph winds apparently. I've never felt the camper blow around like that. Was also worried the big tree we are next to would come down. Lots of trees down in the campground. Luckily a friend from home messaged us after we went to bed and said a storm was coming. We got up and put the awning in and picked stuff up. Looks like anyone whose awning was out it got destroyed. Time to pack up and go home.
81F and rising to about 94F today so a normal summer day 😀 been cool thus year.
Up in Chetwynd I actually had to put the heat on a couple times and it rarely got much above 65F!
Had a few showers around this afternoon, only got hit by one in the woods.
Only 63F here now and overcast.
50° this morning!!!
Had 3-4 showers yesterday.
Sun all day today.
68F here now, had a shower at work this afternoon, but was otherwise sunny all morning. No rain at the house. Had 54F this morning, but suppose to dip in the 40's tomorrow morning and warm up to 75F in the afternoon.
Current temp here is 35F. Had some light snow flurries earlier in the evening, but I see it's moonlight out there now, so not sure if we will see any more. Supposed to be clear and cold tomorrow, Hopefully it warms up a bit before I start the mail run. ;)
I have 48° this morning.
I think our winter is starting too. :D
It will warm back up again.
3 inches of rain so far this morning. Enormous blessing, a little late for the corn but extremely good for the soybeans...
50F this morning and 70F right now. Another nice working day. A sunny start with afternoon puffy clouds here and there. Windows have been wide open this week and no AC. Been beautiful moon lit night that last 2 days.
60's and 70's forecast into next Friday, no big warm up here.
103° now
We only got up to about 83 today. I'm happy that the heat has shifted west, but now we are going to get rain. More than we need. They are predicting as much as 10" of rain here in the STL area tonight. That will cause lots of flash flooding. I'm happy to not be working tonight, but may still get involved. My FEMA team is rostering for possible deployment to STL to assist with flash flooding. If I don't get rostered for that, I may be called in to help at my district.
50° this morning, high 70's later.
72F here this afternoon with a breeze. Rain coming tonight.
Not hardly a fly in the woods now, which is nice. :)
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the full moon and clouds to bring brief showers just before 7 this am.
The wind has been busy all day.
I saw a rainbow the other day. First one this year.
Need the sun to make them things. ;)
Most years we see a lot of them.
We see both ends quite often.
According to the climate gurus July was the hottest on record for New Brunswick. They can only state that by averaging the daily highs and lows as their own data shows 1939 with higher highs and lows were a degree or so cooler. We are talking a fraction, as a result from numbers games, of a degree here. ::) Hard to believe when we hardly saw the sun until August came. We had 0 90's days in July. 20.5 C = 69F, the average high with their numbers this year. Splitting hairs and declaring crisis. You can take any year you want and find readings from cherry picked locations to fit your story. With computers and the data it is easy to pick 'the best fit' locations to compare across the decades.
Doc some of your yard trees look like they are thinning out on top. Hopefully you get some rain relief. Up here it was wet enough to trigger lammas growth on many trees.
getting some rain now. those are mostly elm in a grove and often have some sticks up in the canopy. I will order more rain and see what happens. :)
Been heavy rain here for last 2 hrs, 1/2" so far today. 59F here at 12:00 pm.
Got the beans picked for dilly bean pickles tomorrow, before the rain. Got some fresh local corn. Had to go to 3 stores to find peaches and pineapple, 2 stores had junk pineapple that belong on the compost pile. ::)
It has hardly stopped raining here in the last several days. It has stormed loudly the last 3 nights. Raining really hard right now. As dry as it was a month ago, now I'm tired of the rain.
3/4" of rain now and the rain had slowed for awhile, now I see it's re-energizing for some more. This makes 1" for the week so far. So it looked dry in the potato hills in the field, but the garden was never dry under the leaves. My garden has more organic so it holds the moisture.
1-1/4" rain so far, light rain all night but started raining harder again since daylight. 60F
1-1/2" rain now. ;) Coming down in buckets.
Partially sunny and 70F this afternoon. :) I hear a thunder rumbler moving in.
Looks like heavy rain next Tues-Wednesday.
1-3/4" for a total of 2" of rain this past week. Doesn't look like any dry spell for this week either. :D
Been preserving like crazy here, stuff growing like gang busters. Started picking and freezing blackberries now for jam. Next month is black elders, I've got millions of those. Then grapes, I bet 50 lbs when ripe this year. Sure love that steamer juicer from Finland (Lee Valley), pure stuff, no pulp. Had a tall glass of rhubarb with a shot of fizz soda in it just now. I think I'll expand the patch next spring. ;D Keeping an eye on them cantaloupes, my oh my. ;)
Was a nice weekend here. High 70's, sunny, and no showers!!!
Very nice weekend indeed with bearable temps and no rain since Friday. Last night we got 3/4" overnight and today the forecast is for cooler temps, high of 73, 100% humidity all day, 85% overcast all day, as well as a 30-60% chance of precip, increasing this evening when we may get some more wet. I see spotty cells floating across on the radar all day, so just a wet damp dank day. I should have got that lawn mowed yesterday.
Tomorrow is supposed to be about the same, then clearing on Wednesday.
Rain hard all weekend here, now next two days will be rain. After we had that spell of sun, heavy rain moved back in Saturday evening. :D
72F here this afternoon. Sunny this morning and 62F at 5:30 am, the clouds moved in by noon. Heavy rain warning for tomorrow night, 2" predicted. :D
My work trail across a little bog was full of water this morning.
Rained here too! 2 days in a row which is NOT nor.al for August. Been a coll summer and loving it! 8)
Quote from: SwampDonkey on August 07, 2023, 01:54:59 PM
Rain hard all weekend here, now next two days will be rain. After we had that spell of sun, heavy rain moved back in Saturday evening. :D
72F here this afternoon. Sunny this morning and 62F at 5:30 am, the clouds moved in by noon. Heavy rain warning for tomorrow night, 2" predicted. :D
My work trail across a little bog was full of water this morning.
Got the rain warning here too
Yeah, my wife is out there (Oregon) now and complaining of the cool temps and rain, well not really complaining, but commenting in a pejorative manner. ;D I am just tired of the rain here when it should be dry and I could get some stuff done in the swamp, looks like I lost this whole year on those issues and have to wait another year.
I love that it's cooler and raining though I worry it could me a lot of snow rhis year too....hmmmm
Wrangler Star has been doing cold dips in a glacier fed creek this summer. The other day he stayed too long, and by the looks of him after, he had some hypothermia. Had a wool blanket wrapped around him and could barely think straight and cold. He warned not to do that for 30 minutes. These people with half cocked notions about good health and what someone else may do to them usually don't live long because they do more harm to themselves than good. There's lots of examples to pick from. :D
Rained hard in the night a couple times and it's raining hard now. Suppose to rain all day.
Can't let them mud puddles dry up. :(
Been a wet, so-called summer here.
Yep, rain all day here predicted and some heavy rain to at times.
A line of storms blew through NC late last night/yesterday. As of this morning news some 94,000 without power.
No damage to my yard that I have seen yet.
I watched a video on it when it went through Maryland. Knocked down 30 power poles with live lines landing on many cars on the highway, trapping some 30 people and 14 kids for two hours till the power could be turned off and they could exit their cars/vehicles. Crazy stuff.
Jim Rogers
Yep, that line of thunderstorms passed over my place in VA. Pretty good lightning and thunder. It doesn't appear to have given me any more downed trees. I'm still working on the ones from last year. :-\
Thought I could get back to the woods this morning to thin, but not in heavy rain and wind. The gauge this morning says 1-1/4", so we've had mostly light and moderate rain, with spurts of heavy stuff. It's dark as a cave out there at this hour. :D
Yep, rained all day.
Water was over the road on the Ridge Road again. Only by a few inches.
The river is high and brown, It's been high all so called summer.
Nice working day in the woods, got up to 75F this afternoon. Started cloudy and the sun was out by mid morning.
The Presque Isle R. has been up into the grass all summer here, but not high. High would be 2 more feet.
Heavy rain forecast for Friday. ::)
Well it took all summer, but it arrived today.
It was 60° at 6am, 2 hours later it was almost 80!!! First time that has happed this so called summer.
Had a hard shower for about ½ hour. Rain was sideway for a few minutes. then the wind changed directions and the wind came the other wey.
Had a few 64-68F mornings and 85F afternoons in July, none yet in August up here. Never got above 75F so far this August, but has been 60-64 most mornings here. Tuesday and Wednesday it was 60F straight through during the rain.
I'm seeing thunder snappers in the distance, but too far off to hear it. Radar indicates heavy rain within an hour. 62F here.
4:30am and it's 78° down here in the Southwest Ms. country side. The humidity is so high you could cut it with a knife. The low was supposed to be in the lower 80's in the nearest big city, Baton Rouge, La., which is where we get our weather forecasts. Yesterday my thermometer topped out at 103° in the shade. We're looking at more of the same today. We've had no more than a sprinkle or two of rain in the last few weeks. The grass is so dry it's beginning to die. There may be a slight break next week, They say we may have highs in the upper 90's due to some cloud cover and a 40 - 50% chance of rain. The sad thing is, as hot and dry as it is here this year there are other places getting it worse.
I can't wait to see some of those 60° mornings again.
Without a daily dosage of rain, the wife's hanging baskets are looking good now.
And the sun helps too. ;)
But the lawn is doing great this year. Has to be mowed every 4 days. :( Even over the septic tank!!!
Most years it's brown, by now, and only needs to be mowed in places.
3/4" rain so far in 3 hrs, she's socked in for the day and not a light rain.
We are now at 1-1/4" rain. It's like a water falls out there. ;D
1-1/2" rain and the sun is coming out now. Said showers the rest of the day. Suppose to be partial sunshine and 72F tomorrow for the bean hole dinner. Then wet the next 3 days after that. :D
Well, we've got 2" now and another thunder cracker moving in to add some more. :D Sunshine in between down pours. It's only 67F here.
Mid to high 80s here most every day and have had plenty of rain all summer.Hard to keep up with the grass and weeds.Gets a little harder every year and I'm to stubborn to let any property grow back up when I worked so hard when I was younger clearing it off. I guess eventually I'll have to but not this year.
Well, 2-1/4" inches yesterday which adds up to 3-1/2" for the week here. ;D 56F this morning, NW breeze, expecting a high of 72F for the day. Good bean hole weather. ;)
Another day of hard rain, I do mean hard. ::) Almost half an inch now in less than an hour. Sheesh!!
Hmm ! I wonder if rice will grow that far north ???
Sure will. The lake near here has rice in the shallows, Zizania aquatica, Indian wild rice. But it won't grow up on this ridge, if so, lookout Ohio for some water. :D
Stopped raining before noon, but a heavy fog all day. A bit cool, only 66F here. I did pick a quart of blackberries. ;D
Had some heavy rain last evening and WW2 bombers going on, total rain was 1-1/4" yesterday. So, 4-3/4" rain in a week. Heavy fog continues today and showers. I think all of Prince Rupert's rain came east. :D Annual rainfall averages 46" or so in this area, but we had at least a third of that in 2-1/2 months. September is usually dry, we'll see. ;D
For me, sawmilling is a cool weather sport. The local middle GA tv station is advertising temp of 97 and heat index of 115, 60% humidity. You guys who work in this weather, Please be careful.
I'll take the AC in out of the window this weekend, no 80's this week or next. Had no 80's in August. When it isn't raining, the windows have been up. ;D
The creek is about a foot from flooding over the grassy islands, and it is swift.
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I'll take the AC in out of the window this weekend, no 80's this week or next. Had no 80's in August. When it isn't raining, the windows have been up. ;D
The creek is about a foot from flooding over the grassy islands, and it is swift.
It's been a mild summer for sure so far only a couple days hit 30c. Il take it. Lots of heavy rainstorms and intense thunder storms. Last summer I recall that was like this was 2008, had some crazy intense thunder and rain storms that summer
It's only 82 today and 78 for the high tomorrow. I know its only a little break, but its a sign of things to come. I can't wait for cool weather. I'm sitting out on my deck for the first time in months. It felt like a good day to do a little maint on the lawnmower, since my son is gonna use it to cut my parents grass the rest of the year. They live about 200 yards away, so he can just drive it over there. I had bought an air filter for the mill and it was wrong. Well, it fit the mower! Dont call the safety police on me.
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32C at 1:45 which is about 95F, plenty warm enough for me but will get worse later. The forecast is for 40, over 100F, later in the week! YIKES!
Best I can recall, we haven't had any 95° days all summer, and we usually have a few bouts of it. Mostly hit mid 80's for high and that was hot enough to slow work down. But I have hardly seen the need for shorts much and never sandals all summer, which is unusual. It has been a LOT wetter than normal and I am still waiting for mud season to end.
It was pretty hot 10 days ago for a few days, but I have had little trouble working around it. I keep thinking we are going to pay for it somehow. Farmers Almanac, I hear, is saying we have a rough winter coming in the east this year. I'd better get back on that firewood and put up a little extra. ;D
It never fails,water the garden then it rains .Sure enough it did ,all day drizzle .The cat went out ,meowed got back in then did it again a half dozen times .Typical female ,can't make up it's mind .
Quote from: Al_Smith on August 14, 2023, 06:00:50 PMwater the garden then it rains
Hmm, I tried that and it didn't work here. I ran the soaker hose for 3 days last week. Still no rain. Our best chance this week is tomorrow at 20%. Hopefully next week will bring some relief. The good news is that we're supposed to get a couple days relief from the humidity. They say the temperature won't cool down any, I hope they're wrong about that.
It's 64 at 11:30 AM and still drizzle .It seems to almost be a pattern being the week of the local county fair .So you might see the belly buttons come out or people in rain parkas stuck in the mud .Years ago I must have pulled a hundred of them out with my 1946 John-Deere model A .I made them hook the chains to whatever they wanted pulled out .If it was those flimsy bumpers that might have been the only thing to get unstuck .Joking aside I told them what to hook to ,some really had no idea .
Quote from: SwampDonkey on August 14, 2023, 03:07:48 AM
Had some heavy rain last evening and WW2 bombers going on, total rain was 1-1/4" yesterday. So, 4-3/4" rain in a week. Heavy fog continues today and showers. I think all of Prince Rupert's rain came east. :D Annual rainfall averages 46" or so in this area, but we had at least a third of that in 2-1/2 months. September is usually dry, we'll see. ;D
Same here, I was looking at a "live" lighting map (2 second delay) kind of interesting. It shows the lighting then a expanding circle of the sound. It was showing a patch of lighting here, another heading to St. John and another in your neighbourhood.
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An inch of rain fell sometime in the night. Windows where open and never heard a sound, even the covered side entry porch was dry. Musta came straight down, no wind. Stars were out at 3:00 am.
Another rainfall warning. You ready hilltop? Shows thunder too lol
We have been getting the showers. Just not the 4 inch ones in an hour. :o :(
Have not seen 80 out my way for a few days.
We've had more rain that not and the ground is staying saturated. I've been keeping my eye on Booneville this week and it abut the same up there. We got only .06" in 24 hours and they got 1.5". Tomorrow should be mostly clear here and there, but tomorrow night the rain is supposed to come down and looks like Friday may be a rainout. So we are trying to get up there before dark tomorrow and get the truck and trailer set. They tell us the ground 'may be a little soft' where we park. SO we loaded 13 2x8' matts in the truck tonight so we can ramp it in and not tear things up. If we get in before the heavy rain hits, we should be OK, I think. ;D Hoping it clears up Saturday and Sunday at least.
It will be what it will be, and we will deal with it.
Yeah, heavy rain on schedule here to on Friday into Saturday. Too much rain is a tomato splitter. :D I've got tons of green ones, I pick a fat beefsteak now again, enough to not ever need to buy any. Been freezing any extras for sauce later, mostly the cherry ones. There are some nice looking plum kind hanging like Christmas ornaments. We've had about 6" rain here in a week. Temps dropping to the 60's most of next week.
We had a beautiful day down here today. 68° just before daybreak with a nice breeze blowing most of the day. The humidity was low and we topped out at 98° for the afternoon. It was a nice break from the triple digit days we've been getting. Working outside was pretty sweet. One more day of great weather then we go back in the oven again. Possibility of rain next week.
Just about an all day rain. ::)
Been a cool week. High 70's. need the sun to warm things up. Maybe Sunday. ;D
Rain came late yesterday afternoon. There was a fog that would come and go all day before it rained. But I see stars out this morning, but it's not clear, has thin clouds in the sky. Can't read the rain gauge yet. ;D
I see some orange in some maples already. A couple trees around all turned like early October. I hope the snow don't move in until November so the wood can get cut and hauled for next spring's stacking. :D
Looks like upper 60's and maybe near 72F a couple days at the first of the week. Looks like a dry week coming. Long range prediction is dry next month and 60'sF weather. No hot September this year, sometimes it can be hot into September 15th.
Well I thought it was a good night to mow the lawn. It's 70's. I have nothing to tell me the humidity, but it must be high. I came in very hot and wet with sweat.
I mowed for about 20 minutes.
Yes, humidity has been in the 70%'s here. We had 1/2" rain Friday night and probably as much last night, so we had our 2" for the week. Going to be a cold front and more coming tonight until tomorrow morning. :D After that, dry weather. With this cold, my left ear is plugged with sinus and ain't cleared up the phlegm yet. These colds usually linger 2 weeks with me. Glad I don't get them often. :-\ I'll just tie some half heddles for my rug project (loom), I've got to tie hundreds, so I'll be occupied. ;)
This maple is a long ways off, it's turning red-orange already. Several around here are turning now. Camera digital zoom so not that crisp of a photo.
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The edge of the meadow is changing. Which is normal. Seems to always be very bright colors on those wet holes.
80 today and sun all day!!!!!!
We had around 73F here Sunday and mostly sun. Was nice on the porch. We had 2-1/4" rain last week. I see the tomatoes are starting to turn red a bit more frequently. The roma and big beefs are light orange. Seems terrible humid here, but probably a bit of a fever to from this cold. Gotta see about clearing up my ear with this sinus infection. Joy.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on August 20, 2023, 04:37:35 AMhumidity has been in the 70%'s here.
That would be a dry day here, luckily it is usually a bit cooler here in the summer. 85% here the last few days 100% over night.
68% here now with some sun. Only 67F right now, not going to get more than 3 or 4 degrees warmer. Going to be cool the rest of the summer here. Haven't needed AC for 3 weeks. Put it away for the winter. When we get some NW air flow the humidity drops to the teens here. I think September started early. ;D
Feels like 124° here. 8) I don't know how high the humidity is... I asked my sawmill bikini team if they wanted to come out and help saw but they declined......
At those temperatures you may have to change your location in you profile.
Upper 60's today for the high today, clear and sunny. Frost advisory for tomorrow morning.
Honestly the girls in the office had heat index 110/111 on a different weather app. I think there was some local effects that played into the 124 heat index, 3 center pivots and a large cattle feedlot with cattle sprinklers going full blast within a mile of the weather station had to make for some spectacular humidity. I know where this weather station sits and it's probably the closest to our place as the crow flies. 3 more days of this.
QuoteHonestly the girls in the office had heat index 110/111
Can just wait for Doc Henderson to respond to this opening line... :D :D :D ;D
102 with a 116 heat index. What's hard is keeping the sweat out of your eyes working. Sweat rag that's completely soaked tucked in and dew rag on. Bring on the work. No candy boy here.
66F with humidity of 47% here at this hour. Sunny and breezy from the NW.
Have to replace a small part on a window. Today with a photo and size and description, that I emailed off, the part was sent in the mail by noon, no charge. Windows are made here in the province. :)
Quote from: Walnut Beast on August 22, 2023, 03:47:41 PMWhat's hard is keeping the sweat out of your eyes working.
I was pouring cement in my basement area. Looking down, I couldn't see well. Had to take my glasses off and pour all the sweat out. So, I just left them off for the remainder of the work.
It crossed my mind, but I really never know when I am thought to cross the line. :) :) :). At work I always say, "you should hear the things I don't say"!
I might see 40's.
Quote from: beenthere on August 22, 2023, 12:08:25 PM
QuoteHonestly the girls in the office had heat index 110/111
Can just wait for Doc Henderson to respond to this opening line... :D :D :D ;D
Actually I was waiting for that shoe to drop also. I tried to come up with the words but nothing came out in a fully acceptable manner so I figured Doc would come up with something I couldn't.
SOO disappointed. That was a good straight line.
that video must have been the unedited version. this one is more PG
The Heat | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O3iRdiplB0)
Well here we are on Aug 24 and still no ripe tomatoes. :o ???
People are asking me, and I tell them mine are just as green as yours.
No sun, too much rain, and really no warm temps that lasted.
I had 48° yesterday, today about 50.
This is our 3rd day with no rain!!!!
But looks like rain all day tomorrow.
River is still high.
We have a small greenhouse and most years we grow cherry tomatoes in there in a 5 gallon bucket.
Does require time to water. So we thought we would not do any in the greenhouse this year. ::) Of all years not to that that. Oh well. there is always next year.
Even the peppers are not doing great. Those I grow in a small wind tunnel with black plastic on the ground. I should be picking them by the 5-gallon bucket now and about 2 weeks ago. They are small in size too.
50F here and sunny today.
Had lots of peppers here, big ones 0.5 to 0.7 lbs. As big as any in the store. Nice thick walls on the bells to. Jalapeno plants remained small and never grew much, but the jalapenos on them were just a big as you could get. A lot the ends where sticking in the mud. I do know them things need some heat for the plants to get to size. The carmen slenders were plenty, they are thin walled sweet peppers. Tomatoes are slow to ripen, but we've had lots of cherry ones and I've eaten probably 8 big beafers. I only eat one a week in sandwiches. Got 6 more ripe ones in the window sill. Have just started getting the plum types to ripen. Hard to believe a big mature tomato can sit on the vine for weeks and not ripen. Did this year. :D Have not had AC on in a month and in 2 weeks the highs drop another 10 degrees. ;D
Rain at 56°. Suppose to all day.
Just a light rain. No 4 inches in one hour.
Expecting showers here for two days, but not a lot of water. 60F here at the porch.
1/2" rain here. 70F now on the porch. Yesterday was only 58F here during the rain.
If you were closer Ray, no flat surface is safe right now. If it isn't maters its peppers. There are usually a few bragging rights emails back and forth when someone picks the first one. "Would you be needing a fresh tomato?"
Whoop timer just went off.
So I was watching a utube on mouse deterrents and one is pepper flakes. It's hot, the dehydrator is on a folding table on the back porch. a cycle just finished, full of peppers. They cannot get into the dehydrator but the fan is blowing the aroma all around. Judging from the "signs", I don't believe it'll deter our meeses.
It was warm enough me and the pup did some treetop cleanup and then ducked in about noon and hid out in front of the fan... uhh i mean we were working in the shop. Doing a little cleanup, I wonder if they even make these air conditioners any more. They also worked to get a young lads attention and "the look" which meant quit fidgeting or there will be consequences later.
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A little before dusk a storm blew up and ahead of it we dropped to 72 in minutes, a welcome breath of cool air!
:D The old timers, especially the smokers, around here didn't want no fan or AC on them, no how. They'd tell you, 'I didn't ask for that blowing on me, turn it off please.' Sometimes not as friendly a phrase. :D :D My grandfather was cold if it was 75 degrees out, heater on when driving in the truck in July. ;D
When I was a kid in school, I always wished for that extra 2 weeks of heat at the tail end of summer. Not these days, I like it cool. Many years it was cool weather in later August and first part of September. Going to be cool this late summer as in those years past.
Never ever used an AC around here, just the last 5 years, mainly because big windows in the new house can really heat a place up. I only have one that the sun hits in the summer, the rest only get hit by the sun in winter. Great in winter, don't need a fire burning all day. :D Only used AC in July up here this summer. It's put away for next year now. I love winter, best time of the year. Plus get to play with fire. ;D
We had a good day yesterday. Only had a short shower that lasted 10 minutes.
I was hauling a load of rocks down into the woods road. By the time I came back to the house it was over. The canopy of trees kept me kinda out of the rain.
Maybe low 70's today.
HEY! AIN'T IT STILL AUGUST?
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I had about 10° warmer a few days ago.
Been a cool wet so called summer here.
54F earlier this morning and overcast. Was clear in the night. Won't hit 70F here today.
I couldn't walk by the garden without picking a bell pepper. ;D
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Got to 72F once the sun came out this afternoon.
Heavy thunderstorms rolling through eastern NC right now.
One boomer shook the house.
Jim Rogers
50F and clear here this morning.
Stayed pretty nice yesterday and we didn't get the evening rain they predicted, but it was humid and easy to work up a sweat doing labor. Around 5:30am we got hammered with heavy rain (3"/hr rate) lightening, and wind. We got 1.5" in about a half hour, power blipped out, etc. All over by 8:30am. Should be clearing through the day but everything is soaked and we have standing water in the yard again. :( I sure hope it dries out soon.
68F here with off/on rain today. They mentioned heavy rain, but I haven't seen it, yet.
Frost again this morning, had heavy frost Saturday AM as well. Daytime highs have been in the 50s and 60s. Guessers say 80 by the weekend.
We had frost warnings 2 weeks ago, but none here. It was more likely in northern NB around Edmundston or Campbelton.
Only 1/10" rain here, no heavy rain around here. Was dry under the squash and rhubarb leaves.
Fall was here for one day. Bright sun all day and just about 70 all. But tomorrow and next week summer is back, 80's and mid 80's.
We had a nice day here as well.Felt like fall but according to the weather man we may have more 90 degree days in September than we have had all summer. :'(
We had 68F here and a light breeze, no big wind they predicted. Looks like we are touching 80F from Monday to Thursday next week and drops off from then on. This coming week will be warmer than all of August, but this time of year it will take all day to get that hot, barely 70F by noon. :D
45 this morning, but mid 70's are coming.
That super moon was good to see.
Got down to 49° here this morning. I think it's getting time to do my thorough cleaning on the shop chimney. >:(
Raining off and on up here at the cabin project. Guess it's mother nature telling me to go home since I've hit a road block on each project in the last two days. Time to regroup!
Happy Birthday John!
I have 52 this morning and just about the same high temp as yesterday.
Was almost 80 yesterday.
My father and me was cutting wood here in 93-96. One of them years the month of Sept was hot. Seem like the low 80's every day. I can still hear my father say, It can't last, it can't last. It sure did last just about the whole month.
We hit a low of 51 overnight and predicted to get a high of 78 today nothing but clear skies for several days now. Great working weather for sure. We are going to have a campfire tonight and invite any neighbors that are around to come over. First one all year.
Yesterday we had 68F here for the high. It was nice out to pick the elders and sit at my chair under the oak to separate the berries. This morning it is 50F early and now about 58F on the porch. Calling for 76F as the high.
Last year in Sacramento, September 1st was a record 110°. This year was 70°. Averaged out is the average temp of 90° expected. Gonna creep back up to the low 90s when this low slides away taking the showers with it.
Well, we had a very nice morning (first cooler one in a long time!) But when I looked at our weather station I thought I must need more coffee quick! The temperature was 67* and humidity 77%. Was sure I had it reversed but no the darned thing was right. Oh well, still got to 85* later in the day :D
86 today .Next 3-4 days in the 90's which won't bother me a bit . I think that stint in Key West plus the Caribean thined my blood for ever when I was one of Uncle Sams misfit raiders of the seven seas under water .
Been some nice weather here.
Sunny and no rain. A little on the warm side, but it's dry!!!!
Looks like summer is here in Sept. ???
76F on Sunday. 83F here today, was heavy fog last two days. 3 more summer days, then wet the end of the week and cooling off to 60's next week.
Another B-day crept up on you Ray. smiley_wavy
Mother nature is crazy UP here. In the last 10 days we set 2 record lows at 32.5° and 33°, and today it's a record high at 104°, yesterday it was 96°.
104° is nearly unheard of UP here, let alone in September.
SwampDonkey, thanks you!!
It was 80 here at 6:30 tonight.
Unheard of here to be 100 anything to do with temperature. Never seen it get hotter than 93F all my life and usually just 2 or 3 days a whole summer. We only had two days in the 90's here, which is on par. We've had ample water, which is not unusual. We had 2 or 3 dry summers, but people seem to forget within the last 15 years, from 2009-2012 we had as much or more. I remember farmers in 2012 complaining about not being able to tend crops because the fields were slop. Never heard that this year. :D It was challenging to cut hay though. This is a bumper year of straw, there's hundreds of acres of it around me. Not as many potatoes planted.
Unheard of to hit 100° here also. Radio said 3 other times in the last 130 years, and we could get it again today for the 2nd day in a row.
Thursday our high temp is forecast in the mid 40s.....
It was 75 here at midnight, unusual for this late in the season. This has been a VERY wet and memorable summer I hope we don't repeat. Gonna be another warm one today and I really don't feel like heading to the mill, but there is a small order.
I have a large show on Saturday and they are calling for rain all day, I hope they change their mind.
84F here, not a cloud in the sky. Wasn't as foggy, but all the trees and bushes were still dripping with dew this morning. Got hot quicker today to.
I had 90 here, maybe even 92!!!!
Then in 2 weeks we will get a frost. :o
I kinda doubt it on the frost, but never know. Seem like the last 3 years it's Oct before we get a frost.
Another 80° night at 6:30
7:00pm and it's currently 91°. Line of nasty storms coming this way. Calling for 1.5" of rain, wind, hail, etc then temps dropping into the 50s and 60s. Don't want the severe storms but I can't wait for the cooler weather.
91 was the high today and it's 78 at 8:30pm. Funny, hot as it is the ground is still wet and it occurred to me today that mud season has lasted from late February until,..... well we still don't know when it will dry up. Yeah, yards aren't too bad, but I sure can't drive a machine into any area I would normally be able to fly over at this time of year with any load. It's maddening, I have things that need to get done and now I have to wait another whole year to try and do them.
Not a lot of fun even working in the shop today where it should have been cool. I worked up a sweat doing hardly anything.
Wow, 91 at 7pm in MI!!!!
82F here this afternoon. Not a breath of air. Humidity is only 55%. It was 64F here at 5:00 am.
90 here now, 80% humidity and barely a breath of air moving. It's oppressive. Keeping the doors closed in the shop to keep it a bit cooler, but it's 80 out there and very sticky working.
I just took a break and came in and had a big bowl of rainbow sherbet. That seems to help and anyway, I am waiting for glue to dry. ;D
I thought you had to watch glue dry. How do you know when it is done? :o :)
I suppose you may be right, I should go check it. But it is 0.9 degrees cooler in the house than the shop. ;D
I'm not use to this hot weather. ;D
78° at 7:30 pm.
Another hot day.
I don't think it hit 90, but saw a steady 88.
99 in the lowlands around Charlottesville, 90 west of the Blue Ridge even at 7pm.
It was still 80° at 7pm last night and at 6am this morning it was 70° which is pretty warm considering the weather trends this summer. I had to dig out a fan to use by my desk yesterday while I printed and folded brochures for Saturday's show. Saturday looks like we will have enough rain to make the show a near waste, but I am holding out hope.
Canadian fire smoke has been pretty intense here the last couple days, our temps did moderate with it though.
Can track the smoke with this smoke map.
Maps: Tracking Air Quality and Smoke From Canada and U.S. Wildfires - The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/smoke-maps-canada-fires.html)
100 degrees a few days ago to 48° and rain/drizzle. I'll work out in this weather anytime.
We had some of the forest fire smoke yesterday. Today it is 82F. We had fog until noon. I'm on the boundary of a heat warning. Never thought 82F would warrant a warning, maybe for some. Definitely warmer than I like. But this will blow over in another day. I am only working about 6 hrs on the saw in it. First week of September can be pretty warm some years, no guarantee it will be every year.
Another 90° day.
Well the heat wave and muggies have passed as they always do. ;D 70F here, the air is clear as a cold winter day. ;)
Was another 80° day here.
Looks like tomorrow September temps are back.
I might of hit 70 today. No sun all day. Tried to rain all day. I worked out in the "rain". Did not even get wet.
Barely 65F here Sunday, rained all afternoon, still raining.
Still got this sinus infection, but not a plugged ear. But it sure throws the balance off and add to that the fatigue. Looks like Oldgreenhorn was right, it's a lingering mess. I tried some Clariton, no effect. :D You either got this 3 or 4 weeks or you got it 2 or 3 months from what I gather off the med sites.
Since it's going to rain all day, it's bed time. ;D
Rained hard here since before daylight, I see an inch in the gauge.
Was another "wet" day. Normal for this summer. :(
Did not rain, I bet, even enough to measure. Another maybe 70 day.
Been about 65F the last two days. No rain during working, but it was starting to on the way home.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on September 12, 2023, 03:50:14 PM
Been about 65F the last two days. No rain during working, but it was starting to on the way home.
Lee is looking to hit Maine New Brunswick border currently, the winds will be 120km where I'm at at this current projection
Got to 68F today and a light rain most of the day, stopped now. But radar indicating more rain tonight. Looks like dry for Thursday and Friday here and Lee hits on the weekend. Heavy rain expected to pass through but not heavy wind.
Another "wet" day. ::) It was just about 70.
Sky has been dark for hours.
Pouring here in the morning yesterday, got .5" for the day, rainy off and on with some sun around 3pm, than a quick, short downpour around 5pm. Temps are dropping, Last week it was in the 70's through the night. This morning it was 51° and just now starting to rise. I don't think it will hit 70 today, but the forecast is dry until Monday.
68F this afternoon, and sun came out. Rained in the night, was ended before daylight. Suppose to be dry tomorrow to.
Oh, and we had 1-1/2" rain here yesterday and last night.
Was suppose to rain heavy all day but it was just overcast and rained went in around 2 pm maybe for 30 mins. Now keeping a eye on hurricane lee suppose to hit Yarmouth the eye, 60km from myself
47F here this morning and clear, another nice day before Lee. Going to town today for stuff and an extra jug of gas for the generator. Looks like the rain off Lee is going to be cold up here, 50'sF rain. Looks like clearing off Sunday afternoon and low 70'sF. So looks like a 24 hr rain, not starting until about Saturday noon here. Looks like it will impact a radius of 185 miles from the eye. Thankfully not one of them NW high winds coming in with it like with Arthur. And Arthur was predicted to not even get this far north, so be prepared also for anything other than we're being told. :D
I have 50°.
I walked into the bathroom this morning and thought, It's cold in here. I'll close the window. The window was closed!!!
I turned the heat on.
Not many times I had the heat on this month. Sometimes need a little heat just in the morning.
I've not had heat since June. Stays pretty much in the 70's in here, and a windows open. Open up more windows during the day to exchange the air ;D, if not raining. ::)
I did see a neighbor burning wood 2 weeks ago, before the heat wave. Small house to. But it's down in a valley along a creek, which is likely damp cool in mornings. Hardly see the sun, even worst in winter. I'm on a high ridge, which is just the opposite for sun and warm. :)
SD
You are tough, but doesn't your mother get chilled and want some heat?
She's fine, never hear her complain about being cold. I did notice the neighbor had a fire this morning when we went to town. Windows open here and it's 73F in here and 58F out doors. I'm in a t-shirt.
Winds are picking up a little now, it's starting. Hope you're all set HillTop as I know you're down on the Yarmouth area the eye of the storm is going right over Yarmouth area
As set as it gets, put somethings away and tie straps on others here and at my parents house, went to the camp yesterday evening to do the same.
Heading to Liverpool soon for a few hours should be back before its too bad.
9:05 PM and I hope you made it back by now it's starting to rain pretty good and winds have picked up!
51° for the low this morning and only 68° for the high. We did get 25 mph winds today which is not normal for us, but I assume that the edge of the hurricane winds. Bright blue sky all day. It never really got 'hot' in the shop with just making that 68° before it started cooling off. 58 outside now and 58 in the house. Calling for just a couple degrees warmer tomorrow. I may dig out a sweatshirt given my thinned blood from the warmer temps and also my impeded circulation as an old fart. :D
Still , it's great working weather and the sun got my attic 'kiln' up to 90 today. So all is good, bring me more. ;D
Do up your seatbelts all you Maritimers - wishing all of youse the best and that you can dodge that monster storm called Lee - from a Flatlander WAY out West.
Got back at 11:30, roads were pretty good a bit of rain but not much, wipers on low or pulse. The wind is picking up 21 to 36 mph now but you can still wear a hat.
The interesting thing we saw was a moose on the shore 15 or 20 min before Liverpool. For those that don't know the endangered Nova Scotia main land moose is a fairly rare is sighting. It is the first one I have seen although I have seen tracks and droppings before but only way back in the middle of nowhere.
That's amazing! Must have been near port joli/ port mouton. There was the noise in tantallon last year I think outside a elementary school as well.
Since my last update the winds have picked up significantly and it's raining steady now
My wife managed to get a cell phone picture.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18975/Resized_20230915_183154001.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1694837189)
Nice bull. The hunt will be on here in a couple weeks.
Not seeing much of any storm here yet, a small breeze now, no rain so far. It will get here eventually I'm sure. ;)
55F here this morning, and not going to change much. Going to have NW winds off of Lee. So, it's going to be one cold tropical storm.
It's wet out. Just about enough rain to keep things wet. Just another typical "summer" day here in Maine.
Except for the wind. Just had a gust that was kinda on the strong side.
So far a couple passing showers. Enough to discourage lawn mowing. Never got time yesterday in the middle of canning ketchup and doing the weekly run to town a day early to prep for the storm. I don't think we are to get much before noon. I looked at the radar and light rain was passing east and west of us and we are in a dry spot in between. :D
The eye of that storm is exactly due east of us right now and it seems to be moving pretty dang slow. We had higher winds than normal yesterday some over 20MPH, but today is nearly calm. Yesterday was full sunshine but cool, as noted before. Today the overnight low was 59° and it's 61 right now with solid overcast.
The clouds are supposed to diminish through the day down to around 40% by sunset, and the high for today is supposed to be 71.
You folks in the path would do well to hunker down. These slow moving storms can bring a lot of pain with continued rain for long periods. I hope to hear you are all in good shape when you come out the other side. This thing has some serious winds closer into the working part of the storm.
The wind has picked up a bit since last night gust up to 40mph now, suppose to increase to 50 to 60 for a while this afternoon then start slacking off a bit later this evening.
Fair amount of trees down in my area especially because the fire killed off lots of spruce and burnt shallow roots up. Unfortunately one of my pin oaks I just planted after the fire might not make it the bamboo support snapped now it's horizontal in the wind 🤷♂️ . About 90-100 wind gusts here with heavy rain.
At the moment here the sun is peeking through, the wind is nothing much yet but is picking up some, less then 20 mph from the north.
Light rain is closing in more now, the wind hasn't changed much other then working over to the NE corner. 59F now.
The wet did not last long. I think all dry by 9 in the morning. All dry here now.
Wind is blowing. Not real hard.
Other than a little wind, it's been about the same rain as all summer. Only been 1/2" so far in the gauge.
My news down here in NC says 98,000 in Maine out of power.
How you guys doing up there?
Jim Rogers
Never lost power here, the outage map shows a few outages around me but it looks worse around were WhitePineJunky is and along that coast going north. The outage map says around 122,000 customers affected.
Wind still blowing but 75% of those who lost power have it back on.
Supposedly 500 line crews working the storm. Lights blinked here a few times in
central maine area but never lost power. Hardly any rain from it here but some
downeast coastal areas picking up 5"+ so far.
Lots of Apples on the ground all of a sudden. Picked up 20 lbs. from 4 trees
just from today's wind. Close to a 1/2 bushel.
Central Maine Power, CMP, only has a little over 39,000.
CMP outage list (https://www.cmpco.com/outages/reportorviewoutage/viewoutagelist)
But there are other power companies in Maine.
As posted, not much of a storm in central Maine. We was lucky.
I am in Franklin County, but Kennebec and Androsscoggin are just minutes from me.
Power flickered once here, but never lost it. I think the rain diminished to light sprinkles by midnight. Still a breeze out there, will help dry stuff off. ;D Too dark to check the rain gauge yet, but probably no more than an inch. Should see blue sky here by mid morning. Radar shows the light rain will end before daylight.
Rain gauge is showing 1-1/4" of rain. Not as much rain as we had Wednesday night, 1-1/2". But, 3-3/4" rain all week, got the other inch Monday. NB Power says 12,148 outages in New Brunswick. All west and south of here. Looks to be in tact all across the north.
Sunny day here now, suppose to hit the 70's.
Some damage but expected with lots of trees and burnt roots, I got my trails and roads cleared up in 3 hours then cleaned up some trees on the main road. Power is gone until 11 pm possibly until tomorrow night am hearing now
Calm after the storm. We was lucky. But I am inland too. Sun all day, temps in the low 70's.
We've had wind here in NZ too. Missed most of it where we are, but some airports closed, rough flights where they could actually fly, and some vehicles blown off the road.
One weather station over on the East Coast was recording 190kph (~120 mph) wind, gusting to 246k (152mph). :o
No particular storm associated with it, just straight line winds from a low pressure system down South getting funnelled though the Mts and ranges. Still a strong wind watch for the Sth Island for a the next couple of days, but not expected to be as bad.
Glad everyone (in both hemispheres) seems to have gotten through these latest weather events with minor inconveniences pretty much. Nice sunny day yesterday, good for the attic kiln, which peaked at over 90° while ambient only hit 72°. Clouds rolled in in late afternoon and that cooled off to the 70's in the evening. The rain came in late evening and tinkled down all night and is still coming. We are at close to 3/4" since it started and not expecting it to stop until dark. SO pretty much a damp, cool, fall day here.
The old joke,
Guess what?
It's raining. ::)
Been raining hard here for awhile, a little breezy to. 54F on the porch.
1-3/4" rain so far.
The rain slowed for awhile until about noon, but has since ramped up and now we are at 2" and it's raining a good clip. ::)
Yesterday was an odd day for temps.
It would be 72° then it would drop down to 65°. Did that many times throughout the day.
Was a wet day, for the most of it. Just enough to keep things wet.
Again.
Maybe 3 days of sun!!!!!
Yesterday was low of 51 and high of 68° mostly sun all day with winds through the afternoon 15-20MPH. The attic/kiln hit 94° :).
Today we have a low of 47 so far and looking for more sunshine, less wind, and a slightly higher temp.
66F here today for a high, some light wind.
73 for the high here, almost all sun all day, winds hit about 12mph, but the attic kiln hit 101.5 8)
Same old reply here. The river is brown again and high. The leaves from the trees are in the river.
We had a hard rain the other night.
The hornets are still active, I struck 2 nests yesterday when bush whack'n. Both in firs and about 6 feet high. I'm beside a field, so that is a nest prone area. :D One nest stung me the other did not. Two stung me near an eye, but I wear screened glasses, so like in the eye brow and below the eye. Swelled some, but subsided by the end of the work day. ;D
What kind of hornets do you have up your way? We have the whitefaces here and boy do they hurt!
I carry a little can of meat tenderizer in my kit and when stung, I wet the area and sprinkle that one. The faster you catch it, the better it works. Pain will be gone in less than a minute and swelling is minimal. Just make sure it has MSG in it.
46° here this morning, same forecast as yesterday.
I believe they were white faced. The yellow jackets I find on the ground in rotten wood. None of them bother me that bad. Don't sting that bad either, just the initial poke. Followed by some cuss'n. I'm not the girly squeal type. :D
62F here today, sun peeking through clouds in the morning then mostly cleared out.
My kicksled arrived today. Some minor assembly, she's ready to slide. ;D Even came with plastic runner shoes to slide easier over any sanded road. The sanding up here is mighty scant. :D
That's how you torment kids here, give them a sled for Christmas then they have to wait a month for enough snow to use it....... and some years we just don't get enough.
Sunny and 18°c here...almost perfect.
Quote from: Hilltop366 on September 21, 2023, 04:00:30 PM
That's how you torment kids here, give them a sled for Christmas then they have to wait a month for enough snow to use it....... and some years we just don't get enough.
Sunny and 18°c here...almost perfect.
Do that but a gt snow racer instead every kid always wanted one of those
Had an inch seventy yesterday rain we really needed. Supposed to be more this weekend.
High of 69 and a low of 47° yesterday with afternoon winds up to 15 MPH. The attic/kiln hit 103° :).
Today looking at just over 70 but then a cooling trend. I have a big show tomorrow and the forecast has been all over the map but does agree on 60-90% cloud cover and a high of about 57°. The rain prediction is what's jumping around as they try to figure out what this "thing" coming up the coast is going to do. According to the forecast, at best my stuff is gonna get wet on the drive home, which means I have to unload as soon as I get home and spend Sunday doing damage control. At worst, we will loose half of the day (which is only 6 hours at best) when it starts raining. Yeah I have a canopy, but that won't cover everything and I still have to get the stuff home in an open truck with stuff on the ladder rack.
Ah well, 'ya pays yer money, ya takes yer chances.' ;D
67F today and clear. No hornets. :D
Looks dry for the next week for us. A little cloudy Saturday, but that system isn't coming this far with rain.
It might of hit 70 today. But the sun was out all day!!!!! Nice and bright!!!!!!
Tropical storm passing by us now.
Lots of wind, and occasional heavy rain. But mostly light rain.
Jim Rogers
It's heading directly at us, should hit sometime over night.
Still raining here. Rained all night with lots of wind.
Can't see any tree damage in my yard as yet.
Never lost power.
Suppose to rain most of the day.
Jim Rogers
56F here at noon. Partly sunny.
Rained pretty hard off and on overnight.
Getting gusty.
A few local reports of power outages.
44F this morning, fog moving in. No wind at all. Makes for a pour draft in a stove. ;D
Cloudy and wet, 52° outside, Northeast wind. Fire going in the stove.
70F for the high today. Sunny to. Could be in the 30's tomorrow morning.
I'm not saying the report is right, but no rain, showers for a week!!!!!
I have not seen that all summer.
Still hard to dry out this time of year. Don't get the warm days and daylight is really short now.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on September 24, 2023, 04:04:12 PM
70F for the high today. Sunny to.
SwampDonkey, I find it very irritating when people far to the north of me have a warm sunny day when I am suffering with a cold, rainy, windy day with a high of 56° and a fire in the stove to keep the house comfortable. >:( :( :D
YEAH! What Cutterboy said! Now knock it off. :D :D :D :D ;D
Low here is 54 so far, but still dropping solid overcast rainclouds, the wind predicted at 8MPH or so is actually identifying as 20MPH. Overnight sprinkles manifested as a steady rain, sometimes heavy enough to wake me up, and about an inch of accumulation as opposed to the '.13" ' predicted. So another busted forecast. I should have never hung those moving blankets on the line yesterday afternoon. But they were pretty soaked and I figured 'how much wetter can they get?' Well now I know. ;D :D I hope the line can hold the weight.
Only 60F here after all, overcast all afternoon. Starling nest in the flu, I inspected it earlier for nest. Missed it somehow. Draws better now, a wad of newsprint vapourized in 20 seconds. ;D
Frost warning for the morning.
It's been a typical September except it's been dry .The maples are turning the soy beans and some of the corn has came off .I've got more than enough wood cut and stacked and will tarp it down in the next week or two .I do need to run the brush down the flue but that doesn't take long .I'm pretty much done except when the leaves fall measured in tonnage .The Toro zero turn with mulching blades pretty much takes care of that .Over the fall I need to make the rounds about 4 times .
good compost! smells good too. At a fall camporee I sat and talked with and drank coffee with Roy Wilson. He was a veteran, and never dominated a conversation. It was in a forested area, and all the leaves were on the ground about 8 inches deep. it smelled great to just walk through. Roy had made cowboy coffee with just water and grounds. A group came through and we alluded to that the great smelling leaves made great coffee. so, several of the younger scouts started sweeping bushels of leaves into a backpack, that for sure their mom would unload, and they would try to convince her that it made great cowboy coffee. back when a little teasing was considered part of the fun. I am sure Roy is gone. He was part of the honor guard at my dad's funeral. he looked like Norman Rockwell. very thin.
found this. memories.
Obituary | Roy C. Wilson | Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home (chaputbuoy.com) (https://www.chaputbuoy.com/obituary/2178973)
Love the smell of maple and birch leaves in the fall. Leaves have turned a lot this last week. Some trees none at all, red maple leaves are falling already, soon the ash will. The sugar maple hangs on longer even when turned.
Great story Doc. :)
Dry week here, sunny and 60-75 F, warmest Wednesday on. Looks like a dry weekend to. We've got lots of water, we had 6" a week ago, but we never suffered for water all summer. If it was dry all fall, wouldn't hurt me none. :D
Still no rain here!!!!
I heard on the news we had not had dry weather like this since mid May!!!!
42° this morning.
Sure does cool off quick around 3:30 now.
We had 72F here, not a breath of wind.
Yesterday the sun finally broke through for a lovely day, The high was only 68° and the winds peaked at 15MPH in mid afternoon hours. I am noting that the sun doesn't hit the ground now until 9am or later and is going down noticeably earlier. I have been starting junk fires in the shop stove most days and getting rid of heavy bark and splitter chips. Monday and Tuesday I kept it going thorough the day. Yesterday I did a decent fire in the morning then forgot about it and let it burn itself out, the shop was fine for the day and I was too busy to worry about the stove. The attic kiln did hit 94° yesterday and the humidity dropped into the high 30's. Right now it is only 44 up there, but I expect it to hit 94 again today.
Light rain and heavy cloud cover on deck for tomorrow and I expect the 'kiln' will be offline again.
Was 72F here again, full sun.
Are those fires in Canada ever going to go out? ???
One day I thought it was my OWB making smoke.
Would of been a sunny day here, I think. But the smoke!!!
I think most are in such remote areas of central Canada that they are just going to burn until it snows. :D I imagine most of those woods were bug killed because they are too far away to be managed for timber. No rail or road near a lot of it. Hard to believe they have been that dry. My uncle worked in northern Quebec and he said it rained all the time. And they lived in canvas walled tents.
Hard to understand that there is that much land too burn.
44° this morning.
Wild fires as a rule are naturally occurring and man kind in most cases has nothing to do with it .California for one is always on fire .Parts of Europe and the Hawaian Islands are rare but they can happen .No matter trying to lay blame on somebody has nothing to do with it,you cannot control the weather .
One thing about it though .Following a wild fire if the ground is left on it's own eventually after a matter of time it will renew itself .Around this area it might take a hundred years but a wild fire is very very rare .If conditions are just right a wheat field hit by a lightning flash will catch fire.In turn light up a woods and burn clear through only burning the underbrush and never get the trees plus get another field on the other side .
The last wild fire in my vicinity was over 100 years ago. Some huge aspen grew back on it that grew almost 4 feet in diameter. Across the road from my lot was clear cut in recent years, most of the bigger aspen got to about 8" and then started to die off. It's a mess of criss crossed dead aspen falling down. Ash and maple will be left to grow. The odd white birch, but often it will die to if the surrounding trees die, so can't count on them for much. Sun scald on the birch.
Looks like dry all next week.
Another foggy morning.
But 50° this morning, instead of 40. Still dry out there!!!
Looks like we have a week of dry weather!!!
I smelled smoke yesterday when I went into the grocery store.
I think the potatoes are all dug here on my road this week. We gleamed enough free spuds for most of the winter. They sure covered some ground, probably 250 acres. Still nice weather ahead. Shows 46F here this morning, but a frost advisory around.
Hopefully the fog won't be bad, leaf site seeing day. :)
Was wondering why we were having a couple hazy hazy days and then got
a whiff of smoke in the air.
That map shows fires that aren't even still burning. Most of the smoke we are getting is off James Bay fires, moving in from the NW. Looks like it will be bad tomorrow.
I like this map better for smoke. Shows where the predicted plumes are headed based on winds aloft and other conditions.
https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/ (https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/)
Yes, I use that to. More accurate as to active fires.
Yeah that smoke map is better.
Took down the one I posted. New to smoke maps.
Cleared out here now.
For the first half of the summer I kept that map open in a window and checked it every morning to see if I should change my plans for the day. Some days was really bad here, but not as bad for as long as some other areas. I found it pretty accurate.
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Well they really blew the forecast again yesterday and although we only had a couple of tenths of an inch of rain, it stretched out and dripped and drizzled all day into the evening. My wife had a rough time at the big 2 day craft show she is doing. She didn't finish setting up and getting her stuff all out until 4pm, between the rain, tent leaks, and many customers she was hopping and did pretty good considering the weather. High was only about 60° yesterday.
Today we have some clouds, but much better, highs supposed to hit 70°, so she is hoping she can dry out all her merch. I feel bad for her, quilted items soak up a lot of water, even right out of the air. All her table covering were soaked and we ran them through the dryer last night.
I am hoping the attic hits a good temp today and for a few days. I think I am headed out to mark Mushroom log trees, I have a couple of orders to cut in the next couple of weeks. Not a t-shirt day quite yet, but it might be in a few hours.
Predicting 70's most of the week (maybe 80 on Tuesday!) then rain coming in for Friday and Saturday. Guess I will just skip that show next Saturday and save the hassle. ;D
We had them "rainy" days here too. Rain just about enough to keep things wet.
Then we had 3-4 inches an hour a couple times too. :o
We are in a dry spell now!!! Might last 2 weeks!!!
Looks like next weekend showers.
45F this morning, starry skies.
Still a few taters to harvest around Mars Hill and Presque Isle. Good week ahead should get most of them I think. Was hazy yesterday, so was kinda dull colors. But the best part of the drive is around the base of Mars Hill mountain anyway. ;D
Mother nature is off her meds. We hit 94° here today which blew our old record high temp out of the water by 15°. 94° is wayyy to hot for October.
94F is a bit toasty for sure, I don't even heat the house that hot. :D
74F here yesterday.
55F on the porch this morning, looks like another 74F in store.
Looks like rain this weekend with a cold front moving in, and only 50's for the highs next week. ;D
We are supposed to hit 80 today. :o
I betcha we won't see temps like this until next June.
But it's dry until Saturday!!!
Was on the warm side, but a nice breeze yesterday. A little cooler for today, maybe 70F. Nice in the woods right now. But most of the tops of the birches are bare right now on that ridge I'm on. The yellow birch are holding on longer than the white birches though. It's weird because the leaves are just going brown, not much yellow. It certainly is not a drought, but it has been almost 2 weeks with no rain. But it's coming for the weekend. ;) 56F on the porch this morning. Cloudy, might be possible for an early morning shower.
An easy 80 it was!! A nice warm sunny day and still dry.
I can see the riverbanks!!!
Should be another 80° day.
Low in the mid 50's yesterday and a high of 82°. Little wind. Kind of hot milling with the sun on my neck. The attic kiln hit 104° :). Warm until Friday, then rain coming in Saturday. My wife has a show (indoor booth) and I nearly asked for an outdoor booth for that show, glad I passed. 100% chance of rain. Getting cooler next week.
Another day of setting records at 86 degrees yesterday. Cooler today and by the weekend highs only in the 40s.
Had a quick rain this morning, at 1/10", then ended by 8:00 am. A little foggy on the mountain then got drier, but never saw the sun until I got home from work. 72F here on the porch, and sunny. A different world out on the mountain. ;D Pants was all dried off at the end of the day.
Old Greenhorn, we're getting that rain the same day too.
Another 80° day!!! I saw 84 in the car. But that was in town.
Where I live 80-82.
Dry too!!!!!
57F on the porch this morning, looks like another 74F day here forecast.
Heatwave is over. ;D
Back to 70° weather. Which is warm for us. Could be in the 30's each morning now.
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Was a mysty rain this morning then heavy fog. Cleared around 1:00 and got to 72F. Weatherman never mentioned any rain last two mornings. Yesterday it was on the radar, but this morning is was not much heavier than the fog so wasn't on radar. Pants was dry by the end of the day again.
On the way home, about 200 yards from where I was parked I came upon a big bull moose. Had to blow the horn to get him to move. All those guys tramping the road last week never got him. :D :D
Was a foggy day up until about noon. Then the sun tried to come out and the temp went up to 70.
drizzle this am, chance of frost tonight with low predicted 33°
Fog up on the mountain this morning, but nowhere else. It was high elevation fog. Mother was not far in another direction with friends looking at leaves, said it was sunny. The sun never showed much where I was and mainly in the afternoon. 67F now.
Monday it was 94°, here it is Friday and it's currently 43° and it "feels like" 35°. Could be some snow tonight.
Yikes!!! fire_smiley yikes_smiley
Rain today.
Just rained hard. Came off the roof almost steady. Then it stopped for a ½ hour and a slow rain is going on now.
No rain here yet, the sun is about half out. Suppose to rain in the night here. Suppose to be a quick storm and not lingering.
Had some snow last night, didn't stick to the ground here... but inland a few miles they had slippery roads.
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Grabbed some chestnuts and other tree seeds before storm blows them away later today. Hilltop may recognize this place ...
Hi of 65 and a low of 51 yesterday. The temp dropped from 65 to 54 in 30 minutes between 1 and 1:30 pm yesterday went the front came through. The weather service got one right and it rained pretty much all day with 1.5" total. I worked in the shop so I started a fire to dry things out but with barely a whisper of wind that smoke really hung around. The attic/kiln only hit 57° so I think that is done until the spring.
Rain is gone today and should be mostly sunny, but temps won't reach 60°. Should be nice for our drive to VT but I expect a typical cool October day with some breeze for our visit at the flea market on the way to see family. Expecting highs in the 50's and lows in the upper 30's over in VT for most of the week. Probably leaf changing time which is late this year. There is a spine of mountains between Bennington and Wilmington and the weather is always different at the top and different on the other side so we will see what we get today. Totally different micro-climate up at the top and it wouldn't surprise me to see a few flakes up there. It is what it is.
I think we just started heating season in the shop. >:(
1" rain here over night and a little this morning. Wind is diminishing. 61F here now.
Tom what color is your roof? The rain yesterday would have kept the roof cool. does you temp/humidistat record high and low for the day. check to see if on a cool but sunny day, what is the temp differential. 20° difference will get drying done. as you already know. :) @GeneWengert-WoodDoc (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=20498)
57F today for the high, had a couple showers pass through around noon. More sun now than there was all day. Was foggy this morning on the mountain.
Found some old moose bones in the woods, had antlers still but animals have been nauing at them.
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Grabbed some chestnuts and other tree seeds before storm blows them away later today. Hilltop may recognize this place ...
Mountain cemetery on Parade street would be my guess.
38° for a high today. "Feels like" temp of 28° and a steady drizzle/rain all day.
Frost in the yard, fire in the oven, snow in the mountains. Fall has arrived in Norway.
I have 40 again this morning. Just 60's now for a high temp.
Been clear here for 2 days. No smoke!!!
44F this morning with fog. Got to 57F again today. No showers today.
See the grackles gathering to fly south. They seem to gather in the hardwoods this time of year.
There was the song of another bird I don't recall. Must be a migrant whatever it is. It was a nice sounding little bird. This time of year most birds are pretty quiet, wouldn't know there was a bird in the woods. If you sit on an old hardwood stump, you'll soon notice a bird once in awhile. I did here blue jays and robins. I've not heard a squirrel, but I'm not on softwood ground. Fir seed is all dispersed by now as the cone disintegrates.
A little smudge this morning to take out the dampness. I still keep my bedroom window up all day and all night.
Up the hill today and tomorrow. Misting/spitting rain from about noon till I called it quits at 5. Been raining on quick waves since then and supposed to continue over night. Loud on the trailer! Pretty chilly, probably 45 or 50 but not gonna venture out to check the thermometer.
45F and rain. We had 2" rain Friday and in the night combined. An inch Monday. Still getting lots of water. :D
Cleaned up the garden and put away the fencing Saturday. Tilled the main garden and pulled any weeds and vegs off the small garden plots. There was half a buggy load of old cucumbers I removed. I'll tackle the raspberry canes this week sometime. I have a new tool for that, no bending on knee. ;D
Been great weather here, DRY!!!! 8)
Yes, a few small showers and I mean small and short.
And no smoke either, clear.
Normal fall temps.
1st light frost here this morning.
Leaf peeping season was short and not spectacular.
It was looking good till tropical storm Philippe rolled through a
few days before peak foliage..
Been cool and rainy up here. Hard to believe 2 weeks ago we set record high temps. Since then it has been in the 30s and 40s for high temps with rain/drizzle/sleet/snow on and off for 10 days now.
Pretty much have everything stored away for winter now. Projects now are just day projects so that things get stored away at night in case snow arrives. But hoping heavy snow holds off until November or December so the cattle can keep eating the grass instead of having to feed them expensive hay.
"Rained" just enough to keep things wet all day.
Did see the sun twice, but you had to be outside looking for it.
Had showers off and on all day, but nothing much to it. 44F this morning and still overcast. This time of year you rarely see a sunny day.
An inch of rain here over the last weekend, but went up to the cabin and the neighbor said we had 6 inches, so the food plots I had planted in August that struggled to grow now one is under water. ::) Maybe I should try rice.....
Got the berry canes all cut this morning, what a pile of canes. I was able to load it all on the buggy to get to the refuge pile. She was stacked high.
:D
Went to the woodlot and brushed the trails some for wood cut'n. Didn't take a lot of effort, not much there, mostly some herbaceous stuff, and a handful of stump suckers. Walked about a km of trail snip'n away.
Suppose to rain Wednesday, looks like good going Thursday for some firewood cut'n possibly.
Been overcast today, but no rain so far. No wind either.
Got one of them Worx battery pruning saws, will take 20V to 80V batteries on their power share platform. The batteries work in all their tools. Have 2 - 20V battery packs. Was pruning up some lilac and tree branches in the yard. Glad Jeff gave me the idea. ;D
More rain and wind for the weekend. Could be snow showers in the higher elevations and up north in the county on the backside of it.
I think it's going to be sunny today and dry for the next 3 days. Rainy weekend. 38F this morning I believe.
50F and overcast this morning, a SW breeze. Might see showers, but low probability.
Another Saturday of rain. Suppose to last to Sunday too.
Still no frost here.
Has not even been close to a frost.
I usually get by the first frost, if it's not a heavy one. I am on a hill and the frost stays below me. But the second ones gets me.
Been no frost here either, coldest it ever was was 38F. 60F today, showers today and rain tomorrow, clearing Monday and dry most of the week. Still digging taters up here. No hard frost and thaw means the dirt road won't turn slimy.
Did not have a steady rain yesterday.
But this morning has been a steady rain.
Rain ended here at day break and 50F. Rained hard all night. At about 1 am someone was out spinning and tearing around for an hour on the dirt cross road, in heavy rain. I heard clangity clang when it was over and they drove down the road. ::)
It would be ridiculous to say we've had 14 rain free days in 6 months wouldn't it? :(
I don't think we've had that and I'm being serious. It rains even when rain isn't in the forecast. Tell Jesse to turn the Harp off please.
Been in the 80s to low 90s for the last week or so. Today, scattered showers and 70 for the predicted high.
I think 14 days is a little high. :D :( :(
Yeah, only had one dry stretch for months, that was first week of October when it was 70-75 all week. :D It's surprising though, no lakes in the fields here. Back in the 70's it was wet a few years to, and we had lakes in the fields for winter skating. ;) I've never seen that ever since. The climate bunch said it was the hottest in this region on record. Yet I never had the A/C on but 3 or 4 weeks in July. None in June, August or September. ::)
I don't watch the weather people but rely on weather apps. and radar. If they're saying it's a warm year then it's to fit a prepared narrative.
38F and stars this morning, but likely will drop some more by day break. Might be our first frost on the ridge.
I don't watch weather folks either, but they tell a long yarn in their news pages. I watch 0 TV here. I get a 2 min blurp off the radio, they just give forecasts. But AP news on their two minutes of radio time will find any story to link crisis weather patterns they can dig up. :D
AP are in some hot water over ethics in their reporting and deleting stuff from their reporting without explanation.
Probably some frost around. Says 34F on the porch, but that is usually 2 or 3 degrees warmer than the ground. Starry skies, no wind.
Hard frost here , sparkly out there. 28*F
Potential for snow by the 1st Nov.
29F and heavy frost this morning. The wood stove isn't in service because we are under construction. My heat source is a mini split that worked great until now. Hope to get service today.
Low of 38 this morning, shop dropped to 56. I get the feeling cold weather is coming but they are calling for 75° on Thursday. say_what
Going to drop into the 20's here next week! That will be our coldest Halloween in 21 years if it does!
Quite the freeze we had. Not the freeze and not frost word.
I had ice in the buckets this morning!!! Was not just a skim either.
That was the first frost for me. But that is a very late frost too.
Now it's suppose to warm up to almost 70's.
River is high from the rain we had this weekend. I can't see the shore of the river. The falls I was kinda able to see, can't now.
40's here this morning. Yesterday frost never froze mud puddles over, but there was some ice starting to form. Hands was a little cold on the saw to until I got a little steam built up. :D . Suppose to see mid 60's Fri-Sat and rain. Yippee :D Drops to 40's Sunday for the high. Mid 40 highs all next week. Lows in 20's. Looks like the road is going to get greasy next week. Long range indicates wet snow every day for the last week of November. First 3 weeks dry.
Trivia: White River Ontario, one of the coldest settlements in Canada, has a record of -72F (23 January 1935) . It's an old rail road hub. Near the northern shore of Lake Superior, but not on the water front. Birth place of Winnie-the-poo, the real bear.
65 today and 2 days of 70's. Kinda warm for this time of year. But it won't and can't last.
At least it will be dry for a few days!!!!
Was a high of 52F yesterday, a couple insignificant showers rolled through. Was very dark skies like it could down pour any moment. Suppose to be a dry day today. Warmer now than yesterday already, 56F with clouds. Only suppose to touch on 60F today.
Confused weather here, 1C and snowing down South. 20C and a tropical ex-cyclone incoming up North. Nothing extreme forecast for us, But main highway in the Sth Island closed because of the wind. We probably dip from a nice 18C to maybe 4C tomorrow.
I have 55°!!!! this morning.
Maybe 70 today and the next 2 days too. Then temps will return to November temps, below freezing at night.
Yesterday was the first chain control day on I80 over Donner Pass. One big rig jackknifed. I had rain, hail and snow at the cabin. Traffic camera show a little snow left up at 7,000' but that will melt today.
I see snow mixed with rain next Monday and Wednesday for us, in the 30's for highs.
We did hit 60F today. Been no sun.
Had to get a new clutch drum for the chainsaw this morning, the wheel separated from the drive. Never seen that before on any saw I've had. It actually has a copper color at the break, makes me think Chinese fake. But's it's an original Husqvarna part.
I had 68 one time. Stopped to drop of car parts and it dropped to 66.
Not much sun. Almost looked like it could rain anytime.
High temp of 71° here today.
Tree work is over, cleaning up the tools for the deep winter months.
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Climbing poplar at Lac du Bonnet, MB.
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Ropes to be retired or washed, saws to be winterized - tlc time.
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This white stuff will be building up until April - I'll wait until the ground is frozen solid before milling this bur oak.
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AndriesLooks like aspen that you are climbing. Not to be confused with Yellow Poplar often referred to as poplar. In Wi and Mn, would refer to it as popple. Just sayin, not arguing the point. ;)
Up north here we call aspen, popple or poplar. Since the genus is populous, and just logical. Either name is in all the pulp mill specs. We call tulip tree, tulip tree, no popple or poplar involved. See no logic in calling tulip tree, poplar. Not arguing, just telling it like it is. ;D
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High temp of 71° here today.
How are the black flies your way they are still horrible here, and yes it was warm yesterday was working out in the sun had to take a few breaks that sun was hot
I haven't seen a black fly here since June. Mosquitoes was bad all summer on a piece of land I thinned near a couple bogs. When I went to the hardwood ridge, no more mosquitoes. Some kind of fly out yesterday in my woods, but not the biting kind. It was only 60F but muggy.
Rain here today, 55F now.
We generally don't get black flies here at the house so no issue here.
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Up north here we call aspen, popple or poplar. Since the genus is populous, and just logical. Either name is in all the pulp mill specs. We call tulip tree, tulip tree, no popple or poplar involved. See no logic in calling tulip tree, poplar. Not arguing, just telling it like it is. ;D
True that SD
Being that the FF readers are world-wide and not just "up north", helps to try to smooth out the wrinkles that come from local jargon, where possible. Some may wonder what the species is that was being climbed and topped. Very trusting to hang out in the top of an aspen like that. But looked like it worked okay.
Gentlemen, thanks for the comments and interest.
BT: local common names and an international membership produce some funny confusion from time to time. Smoothing out the wrinkles is a noble objective, but until all of us pledge to use genus and species naming, it just is what it is.
SD: Canadian names for poplar and aspen is a game of snakes and ladders. My wife's grandfather (Ontario) and my FIL (western Manitoba) got into a huge argument on this, and it turned out that they were both 'wrong' according to a local forester. They both labelled him a mis-fit and happily got back to their argument.
ME: just another day of tree work, the leaves were down, and tree ID wasn't top of mind. Beating the coming storm was. Which was what I meant to contribute to - the weather topic. Apologies for the photo eye-candy 'thread derailment'.
BTW: We got another 4 or 5" of snow last night.
(and that is my best attempt to re-focus the thread, faint hope, I know, I know . . . )
Been cutting a few aspen lately for firewood. About every top portion has a dead or dying section on them. Look perfect on some looking up at them. Start bucking on the ground and find a dead section, and still alive above quite often. Cut the dead rotten off and let roll, and continue to buck the top out. A few dead stubs around, none dangerous, no more than 10 feet left standing. Across the road is a criss- cross of dying aspen on the neighbor. Only thing doing fine is ash, maple and birch, but they are not very thick among the dead aspen. I leave a few aspen, especially if I find a large tooth, they aren't dying so much and twice the diameter.
Driving around I had 72°, sun came out some too!!!!
62F here today, overcast with occasional showers. When we went to town there was some sun out mid morning, but none at home. It was spitting rain the last 5 miles until we was home. :D
First accumulating snow UP here today. Everything outside including the road is snow covered. Another 2 miles inland and there 4-5" of snow on peoples vehicles. Winter is right around the corner.
Will be seeing wet snow a few days next week and much colder, 20's and 30's maybe some mid 40's for highs. No accumulation of snow, but probably hang in the spruce and fir bows to make it wet when the sun hits it. :D
November is always a cold, damp, nasty month. ;D
68F here now and dark skies. Probably second frost tomorrow morning.
We had our 1st and 2nd frost back in August. No idea how many we have had now but it's quite a few.
Snow is still on the ground and it keeps coming down. Supposed to keep snowing until Wednesday when it's supposed to hit 40° and maybe be sunny.
Kinda odd here. The oak leaves are falling off the trees and it's 75°. :o
Won't last long.
I am surprised the temp came up this morning.
I thought when I saw the 7 day forecast it would get up to mid 70's. but I thought maybe just for a few hours.
Sunny and -2C yet still no frost but we know it's coming. As much as I hate dealing with it we need a snow pack this winter or we will be in serious trouble in the spring, we didn't have a lot of rain this year.
I have been seeing where some members have not got rain this summer and it seemed to rain here almost every day.
If we get 3-4 feet of snow I wonder where the runoff in the spring will go? :o
We've gotten a decent amount of moisture this fall. We got lucky and all the snow that came across the Dakotas missed us. It hit NW Minnesota and quit right before it got to my area. The temp dropped off though, and things froze pretty hard last night.
We went on vacation out in Wyoming. The state had an abnormally large (but very welcome) amount of rain this summer. I have never seen as much grass out there as this trip, and especially in the fall! The grass was 3' tall in the Bighorns!
They said California had almost record snow and rain the past year. All the reservoirs got filled at 125%. ;D
We've had close to 60" since Jan 1st. A normal year is 40" for this region. Still 2 months to go.
Well, yesterday's low (52) is going to be today's high, and that was at midnight. It hit 77° yesterday and I believe that is the last we will see of that until April of '24. We are on a steady temp decline into the 30's for a couple of days with rain today and tomorrow and this time it really looks like rain. As Barge noted elsewhere, they are saying we might get a couple inche4s of snow around Thursday or so. Guess it's time to start thinking about winterizing stuff. I've pretty much run out of junk wood to burn up in the shop.
I've got white ground this morning an inch or so. Just not ready for that yet...
35F this morning. We had a little wind all night so it kept from freezing.
Forecast says 2-3" of heavy snow tomorrow and 30-33F, not much movement in temps tomorrow. :D Sunny, Tuesday to Friday though.
3-5" of white stuff predicted the next few days. Old man winter is here.
I left Charlotte, NC on Saturday--sunshine and 86°F.
This morning in SE Norway--light snow and 30°F.
Sounds like our weather, the snow is due in about an hr according to radar. But 30F this morning.
I have just rain here now. Something coming the end of next week.
Bumped the forecast to 6-8" of snow now. I was prepared for winter but was hoping it would hold off a tad bit longee.
Well..........Merry Christmas :snowball:
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1st taste of winter here with a round of sleet passing through this morning.
Damp and chilly morning in the low 30sF but the wood stove takes the bite out of it.
25F here! Sheesh...we're heading for a record cold Halloween I think..but then it is supposed to warm back up to normal temps with overnight lows in the 30's and 40's
28 degrees at 7:47 EST .No frost because I'm in the woods .However it will get the leaves which will come down measured in tonnage .Even with a zero turn I don't like mowing grass and mowing leaves is worse but it's a better option than a rake .
30F here now, sunny to, and a wind. Not going to warm much. Suppose to drop into the teens tonight it says. Sure did get cold all the sudden. :D
Our snow was actually dry and light, the wind blowing it off the trees. It came down as small flakes, not wet fat ones. Never covered the drive way, but 2" on the grass.
Looks like a few snow days next week coming.
About 7" of snow on the ground here. A few miles inland there's over 12" on the ground. Was 16 degrees this morning.
A couple more buggy loads will make 2 cords of firewood hauled in. I've got at least 2 -1/2 more cords bucked, split and ready to haul, but will continue sawing and splitting some up this week and hopefully the next. All next winter's wood.
Road is slimy today, but will get slimier and eventually stiff. :D
Farmer has 150 acres of corn to cut up the road from my woodlot. There's lots of corn around not even touched yet, and some beans.
Good heavens it's snowing and I turned on the furnace .Kind of early for that .
Is that lake-effect snow Chevy?
We have that over here, it makes for nuisance snow every so often. When the big lakes North of us freeze up, it stops.
Another frost we had. Rained yesterday, the cars were kinda froze up.
No frost here yet, but getting closer. Calling for a low in the mid 20's Thursday morning. Time for me to start winterizing outdoor stuff and take the water pump in before then. Everyday I am running more wood in the shop stove and tonight I may even bank it for the night for the first time to keep my finishes curing and hopefully hard by morning. Could be another snotty rainy day tomorrow.
This has been lake effect snow I think. Very spotty this time of year. Get a lake effect band that sits over you and a few inches of snow can fall in no time while 2 miles away its sunny.
No corn or beans farmed around here thankfully. Our falls are too wet and our soils won't hold up the harvest equipment. Hay and small grains are all that's grown and are out of the field in September.
Yup, I hear you on that 'ribbon of snow' deal.
The weather guessers might predict clear and cold, but if the wind comes in over the lakes, it'll create it's own system to make'em look like amateurs, yet again.
Lake Superior doesn't freeze over though - so you can get lake-effect snow all winter, right? I'm not a big fan of that high humidity with the sub-zero temps. 🥶
Lake Superior occasionally freezes over, when it does the lake effect shuts off.
But typically we get lake effect snow all winter long.
I don't know how you guys that live downwind of the great lakes do it. I was at an LODD funeral in February a few years back and we stood at attention for the better part of an hour as the procession went by, over 200 vehicles and pieces of apparatus. We were 200' downwind of Lake Ontario with a steady 25 MPH wind and 10° temps (it was warm that day). I don't ever remember being that cold. I didn't warm up on the 2 mile jog back to my truck and it wasn't until we were past the 2 hour point in our 5 hour drive home that I could feel my toes. Of course the dress uniform with the double knit pants didn't help much, even with the thermal underwear.
It's beautiful country and weather for two and a half seasons, but late fall and through the winter is a test of human endurance. I mean geez, moving snow is almost a full time job.
Was up building an early fire since the electric wants to come on. So I checked temps and it's 27F here now, but it's 4 hrs to daylight. Can't stand hearing electric furnace when I have 11 cords of firewood stacked beside it. :D :D I'm an early riser anyway, I'm up any time after 3:00 am. As to the use of the furnace already, that's normal up here. Having warm temps for half of October isn't. I've seen 6" to 12" on the ground in October a good many years.
Woke up to five inches of heavy wet snow. Came a little early this year. :snowball:
We got our first dusting from a lake band and another one is just up the road heading this way in the second picture. Love watching the bands move.
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Well, we finally broke the cherry and had a hard frost early this morning hitting about 27°. I just drained the water tank yesterday, but did not remove the pump, so will pull that and check for damage this afternoon. The shop got to mid 50's this morning because I only threw some pine in last night. I have it warming now, but it's only up to 62 so far and I need to lay down some poly this morning. I also have to head to the mill to get an order done. For some reason, I can't find ANY of my winter hats. I have 4 or so stashed in various bags and places and I recall coming across them a month or two back and finding it strange that all of them wound up in the sam3e place. Now I can't find any, and it's driving me nuts. Wasted an hour yesterday in the search, plus some more time as other thoughts popped in my head. This is stupid. High for today is supposed to be 47° with clear blue skies. I'm fine with that, but sure wish I had the right hat on my head. >:(
My car tires aren't use to the weather change.
I was driving from NC to MA and in VA my car tire light came on when the temperature was 52°.
I had to stop and add air to my right rear tire, according to my car's computer.
So, I got off the highway and found a gas station.
They were closed as it was 5:30am.
I drove around the place twice until I found their air pump behind the parked soda delivery truck.
I asked him to move, and he did.
The machine only took quarters. Guess what, it needed five. How many did I have?
Any guesses? Yup 4. So, I asked the driver if I could buy 4 quarters from him.
He didn't have any.
I asked him what time did the store open.
He said 6am.
It was 5:53am then.
So, I waited for them to turn the lights on and then I went in and got $2 worth, just in case.
Got my tire filled up. Got some gas and back on the road.
Jim Rogers
Was 25F here this morning. The dirt road by the woodlot was stiff including the water puddles when I arrived on the buggy. :D It was a nice morning in the bush with lots of sun.
Bears are around, seen tracks beside the woodpile yesterday morning. ;)
Jim
How low was the tire pressure when the light came on and you needed to add air?
I've got one of them tire pressure sensors on the truck. It's not reliable. Tires can be full pressure and still come on. Going over some rough road it will come on. Drive a few miles it goes off again.
The air pumps out here have coin slots but they are required by law to provide free air to customers. They have a button behind the counter that activates the machine like you dropped some money in it.
A lot of people don't realize that!
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Jim
How low was the tire pressure when the light came on and you needed to add air?
I guess around 21 lbs. I didn't check it with the computer. And it was dark at the pump, and I couldn't read the gauge on the pump very well as my flashlight wasn't the best.
The tech today, said that the computer may light up as it is supposed to if under pressure and over pressure.
Jim Rogers
We get a summer to winter temperature range of 80 degrees - adjusting pressure for the season is to be expected.
Too high in the Spring, too low in the Fall.
The sensors on my truck are good and have saved me from some"did something dumb today" moments.
The sidewalls look okay when the snow is six inches deep, because you can't see'em!
I, at the very least, visually inspect my tires before striking out into the bush, and once in awhile put on the gauge. 9/10 is faulty sensor. In the last 10 years, been a nail causing a very slow leek every time a tire was down on pressure. The last time was just the hole from a nail, and for some reason, hard to find. The hole would barely leak because it would be 2 or 3 weeks or more leaking, figured it might be how well the tire made a seal with the rim and finally got the tire checked out. Nail!! again. But it was a hard bugger to find, just the hole.
28F this morning, suppose to be sunny. Snow tonight and then rain all day tomorrow. :D Weather was great this past week though. I think after this little spell tomorrow the rest of the week is going to be good to.
Hauling firewood this morning into the house before the storm. Ground should be froze solid anyway.
Weekend was good here too!! No rain!!!! Must have been in the low 50's. Some sun we had.
Frost this morning.
Had a dusting of snow early then it switched to rain and wind. Currently 35F, suppose to climb to 48F.
48F, wind, rain, no sign of that early snow dusting now.
Came up the hill to mill some 2x8s. It snowed a trace last night so the was a little crunchy stuff on the ground but it must have rained a lot before it turned to snow. My wheelbarrow was half full of water with some ice on top.
Then about 2pm a 10 minute graupel shower laid down a quarter inch.
Ho, Ho, Ho!
We got snow!
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Time to fix up the sleds.
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34F here this morning and a little breeze to dry off that rain from the trees. A much better day to cut some firewood. ;D
Clear, cold morning. Phone said 29°, feels like 19°. So I look outside. Dead calm. Start eating breakfast and sounds like a train coming by. Now it's windy! Really windy!
34 this morning here too, but sunny and the high should hit 45 today.
Andries, has your ground frozen yet? I hate those early season snows because plowing on wet soft ground just makes a huge mess that hangs around until you can fix it in April. If you don't plow it, it can freeze up in coming days and again hang around to cause problems. Lose or lose, your choice. >:(
John we had dead calm yesterday morning, mid-morning I was out in the shop and it sounded like the top of my woodpile fell over. I looked out the door and it was just the wind that kicked up like yours. Mini-freight train for a little while.
Been a flurry in the air this morning, but going to clear out and be in the 20's tonight.
79F was the high here today and the smoke is bad.Not from Canada this time but from eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia.Either people setting fires or burning coal seams are catching the woods on fire.
A cold wind today. And I do mean cold.
Should have about an inch of snow in the morning.
No white here. Starry skies and 26F. Beautiful firewood cut'n day in store. :)
Other than possible afternoon flurry today, no sign of snow in the forecast for the next week.
No white stuff here. Maybe later.
I had a wild ride yesterday at the end of my 2000-mile trip from NC to CO.
After leaving Denver at 37°F heading west on Route 70 it started snowing, as I climbed the mountains.
I got a little nervous when I saw the snowplows heading east and I was heading west.
Traffic was lite and I was traveling very slowly on slushy roads. But I made it.
I'm lucky that I didn't get a ticket for not having the proper equipment in a passenger car for "pass travel rule during snowstorms"...
It's supposed to warm up the rest of the weekend here so travel east should not be a problem, late Sunday afternoon.
Jim Rogers
Been there, done that Jim! Back a few decades ago I used to fly out a few weekends a year and stay at my Brother's place in the west of Denver suburbs. I would go trout fishing up in Idaho Springs while he was at work. I vividly recall coming back one afternoon in July over the pass wearing just wet wading sneakers and cut-off shorts and getting caught in a white-out on top of the pass. I was driving 10MPH and had the drivers door open so I could track the dotted white line on the road. I finally found a tractor trailer pulled off and I got behind him and parked on the shoulder. Visibility was barely 20'. We stood on the shoulder chatting for 15 minutes, then it cleared. 15 minutes later it was melted and gone and the sun was blazing again.
I have also been over that road on the way to Breckenridge in winter just after they had a major clearing operation with graders and those 3 screw snow blowers and big loaders. That weather is not something you take a chance with. My brother commuted over and around those passes for 30 years teaching all over the state and often his workweek would be cut short due to pass closures and he would have to take the long way around to get home, adding a day to his travel time, or more.
Serious stuff that.
Here, it might hit 50° at the heat of the day today. ;D
30° here all day and just like a summer day here, wet!!! Snowed, rained all day. Ground is white in places.
28° all day here with 3" of snow.
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We had a light coating of snow last evening and 29F this morning. It was never warmer than 32F yesterday. Was great for firewood cut'n. Suppose to be low 40's today. A trip to town this morning and back to firewood cut'n after dinner. A couple days cut'n left, then I have 2-1/2 cord to haul in to add to the pile. Be 8 cords to stack next spring.
Crazy weather yesterday. Snow squalls in the morning now and again, a couple sprinkles early afternoon, by late afternoon was mostly clear, by dark clouds rolled in again. At 10:00 am the top of the mountain was covered in powder snow, by noon it was gone off the trees. A snow squall rolling by currently. No accumulation to amount to beans, be gone as soon as it warms a couple degrees. 33F right now.
Got the rest of the wood cut, have to split it up and haul home. Probably split it this afternoon and haul Monday-Tuesday. Will have a closer idea of cordage once hauled in, and more accurately when stacked in April. Any who, be done and ready to stack next April.
27F and clear this morning.
Mid 20's here in the morning and then low 40's.
27F here, clouds, won't reach 40F. Yesterday it never reached 30F here. Dirt road is hard as cement.
Same as Ray's weather here yesterday, 22-43° so on the cooler side. Today the low is 32 so far and mid 40's now. But the wind picked up over night and is still somewhat breezy which cools the shop off faster, meaning more wood. I did hold it at 62 through the night with a mix of junk and decent wood. Only just 64 out there now. Cloud cover is coming in, so I don't expect a great day, but no rain so that's good.
We are definitely into fall. I tried to look up when I started the house stove last year, but can't find it anywhere here on the FF. The year before it was the 19th and I am trying to hold out for that again, next couple of days show a slight warming trend.
28° and getting us ready for a 50° day. Lots of sun they said too!!!!
A dusting of snow over night, starry skies now, 32F. A little sun will take the snow. Suppose to hit 50 Friday and rain coming Saturday. Good morning to look for new deer tracks, maybe bear to. :)
30F this morning, headed to 50F for a high.
Yesterday it hit a record 71° at 5.30pm, by 9pm it was 36° and snowing. With that sudden temp swing came 50+mph winds, power outages, and a brief torrential downpour. Mother nature can't seem to make up her mind.
Gorgeous day here yesterday, non-typical, but typical after cold damp overcast days. It hit 61° for a high, no wind, bright sun. I was at the mill early and prepared for another damp cool day with 4 layers. Wound up working in a t-shirt by the end of the session and that was pretty well soaked through.
So far pretty nice this morning, but rain coming tonight. Very very damp out right now. I put finishes on a bunch of stuff in the shop yesterday afternoon and it is still not cured up even though I held the temp between 71 and 63 right through the night. Weird.
Looks colder here next week, highs only in mid 30's. The sun is no more for today and wind is picking up out of the SW
50F and raining this morning. First significant rain in a month.
The 150 acres of corn just north of my woodlot was cut this week.
44° and rain here now.
Might stop this morning and then a little sunny.
Yesterday was a more clouds then sun, but a warm day.
It's raining. I can't recall the last time it rained.
Around 20F this morning and starry skies again. It seems to cloud over by noon every day and have been squalls the last 2 days in the afternoon. We have no snow to measure, just a coating that sticks to the grass and melts off gravel. Never got above 30F yesterday.
Squall over the Masardis hills in Maine yesterday. Still some sun on this side of the line.
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It was 20° when I first got up. Now at 6am it's 18. First temp in the teens for this year.
Got some snow then rain coming tomorrow.
First time for measurable snow this year too.
Well, guess I made the right call starting the house stove Sunday evening. Temp never got over 33 here today and it started snowing around 3pm. Everything is white now, but I am sure it will be gone tomorrow afternoon. Temp is right at 32. Was supposed to be rain and lots of it through the evening at least. Weather service is still saying it's rain. :D If this turns into something plowable, I will be behind the eight ball on this one.
Rain all day here today.We needed it.
27F and some snow this morning. Suppose to warm and switch to rain by noon.
Looking like a white Thanksgiving here.
4" so far and snowflakes are as big as golf balls.
The ground froze up with a couple nights in the teens so
don't see it melting unless it turns to rain.
Might be time to mount the 3pt. snowblower.
It might be transitioning to rain here now. The snow is thinning out.
All rain here, started at 11am.
Don't really know how much snow,3 inches? Been raining since noon. Temps in the car went from 32-34 all day. I did see 36 for a few miles.
4" of snow here, now rain on top. 33F maybe.
Could drop to single digits on Saturday morning.
42° here now. The snow did melt where the sun could really shine on it. The house shades the lawn in front. Still white there. Not much time today before it starts to cool off.
I shoved the wet snow off this morning with the scoop and by the time I had most off there was probably 2" left in most places. I didn't want it to become ice because it's going to get cold and freeze up.
Temperature has been dropping steady since this morning. 30F then, now 23F. Started out clear, then squalls, now all out snow, 1-2" possible. :D splitwood_smiley fire_smiley
18F now, snow didn't last long. Just a skiff. But the sand truck came up here twice today.
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18F now, snow didn't last long. Just a skiff. But the sand truck came up here twice today.
Suppose to be cold tomorrow. Had a couple stagnant black flies couple days ago. Hopefully they are finally dead it's been a long bug season.
Started out to be a nice day, sunny, cool, no wind. I did some little shop work this morning as the stove was coming up, then charged the splitter and got it started and split up some junky wood. After lunch I bucked some more and split some more. Then it got cloudy and the wind picked up. Even though it was cool I was warmed just enough by the work to be very comfortable until the temp dropped and the wind started to kick and bite a bit. Sawdust swirled in the air and it began to get unpleasant. I thunk to myself "It almost feels like snow is coming." Sure enough as I was positioning the trailer to unload, the flurries started and it got a bit more unpleasant. Clouds were full coverage and I called it a day at 4:30. Cooler tomorrow than today but hoping for less wind at least. I still have a bit more to split and buck.
25° now, 4 to 8 inches of snow predicted for tomorrow with a high of 28° but up to 36° and sunny on Sunday.
10F outside now, stars and moon are out. fire_smiley
17F here this morning, clear and a big bright moon.
18° here and 10 inches of snow. will hit 36° and sunny here today.
Suppose to hit the upper 30's today and rain tomorrow and around 40F
A little above 40 here now. But that won't last long, it's 1:30 now.
The sun is out.
20 something degrees. Haven't seen above 30 in 5 or 6 days now. Snow has started, calling for up to 15 inches by tomorrow. I'm hoping they are wrong so I don't have to scramble to get cattle hauled home to start feeding hay.
35F this morning. Rain starting in a couple hours.
40° and rain. Sun supposed to be out by 9 this morning.
16° now but will be sunny this week and hit 47° on later today
Well, yesterday we got that rain that is hitting SwampDonkey Land right now. It started around dusk and just got heavier as the evening went on. All told, about an inch of rain which seems to have thawed out the crunchy ground a bit. Not a nice day at all for outside work and the wind had a damp bite to it. It was cold Saturday overnight and 52° in the shop yesterday morning. Last night it held in the high 30's and the shop is 60 this morning, outside is just 40 and today is supposed the be the warmest day of the next few at about 45° with some sun peaking out. So I might finish my splitting work.
It's definitely a shoulder season right now.
42F here now and wind driven rain, rained hard at times, off and on. Not really taking the snow much, will still be white when it's over I suspect. ;)
Clearing now, temps dropping. But not going down too far tonight, just the 20's. Will build a fire after dark. ;)
Sun came out at 9. Then the dark clouds rolled in, and the wind came up. Kinda on the cold side.
-2° wind chill right now, also rainin' and blowin' dat white stuff :snowball:
-12° C this morning. "Warmest" day of the week will be tomorrow--high -3° C...more trips to the woodpile.
30F right now, stars and a big bright moon. :)
Nice day to walk up to the woodlot, which is about 3 miles one way.
18F at dawk,afternoon now 28 .
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It was another one of those weird weather days here. As soon as the sun was up it was all overcast and a stray flurry in the air all day. Then peeks of sun in the afternoon. Never got above 32F here. Suppose to drop into the teens tonight.
It was the same here, from snow, to rain, to sun, to snow, back to rain etc lol
High today here was 31F and windy.Didn't spend much time outside today and thankful I didn't have to.
Wind kept things kinda cold.
that moon looked good tonight. Bright!!
Quote from: thecfarm on November 28, 2023, 09:15:14 PM
Wind kept things kinda cold.
that moon looked good tonight. Bright!!
Just got back from a walk without any headlamp!
I had mentioned about walking up to the woodlot yesterday. There is still an inch of snow in the woods on the ground. From tracks, I found out that there is a sow bear with two cubs and at least one other bear with bigger feet roaming all over the place, from the road out front to back over the other 70 acres. There was corn up above there this year I had already mentioned and it was cut a couple weeks back. But those bears are sure liking to roam all around up there until it's den time. I suspect they are going back and forth from their dens. They have no den on my ground that I have ever seen. My woods is pretty clear underneath, no undergrowth at all, so you can see 200 yards. I also saw 3 sets of deer tracks, they were old because we just had rain. One a good sized one, which is likely that big doe, couldn't make it out enough to consider it a buck track. I saw that big doe alone this fall, and 2 small deer together another time. And of course a couple yotes around, actually there are five because they traveled one night on the road after the first skiff of snow we had. A couple hares leaving tracks. The coons, they like to get into my lean to and wood shed up there and leave their calling card. Dirtiest wild critters on the planet. ::)
20 here this morning,30 for a high.
Looks like 20F here as well, and partial sun for the day. Says a high of 25F but temps falling off into the teens this afternoon.
Yesterday the high 37° and today calling for 36. Overnight low was 24. Yesterday the wind styed around 15MPH with gusts higher and it was mostly overcast and cold. Not a great day to be digging ditches. My buddy Bill stopped in on his way home last night around 8pm and complained about freezing all day long. He is putting in 'the septic field from hell" right now having to use an off road tracked dump truck to haul in over 100 loads of various fill types where they can get access to this thing. Right up a steep grade and over a stump field coming in from the back side of the property. At least the heaters work when they are in the machine, but one of the two in the dump truck did quit on them. The wind up there is a lot worse than here, said it feels like February.
I'm just hoping for belter sun today. ;D
Well, our "Indian Summer" has departed! Lows in the 20's overnight now for a few days but 50+ and sunny during the day. Rain finally coming Friday through Monday and is much needed. Too late for the deer food plots however, but it hasn't really prevented the harvesting of 3 from our place so far, just having to get back in the woods a bit further.
16F this morning and overcast, slight breeze.
Light fine snow in the air.
It's above 40,light drizzle of rain .Stove is low fire with the blower off .
Light snow in the valley this morning, first of the season. The skiers and snowboarders will be happy but I'm not!
40F today and cloudy. Snow in the air for next 3 days, don't think there will be much depth to it.
Bears are still tramping around on the woodlot. Dung full of corn, was fresh pile on the road. :D
Today was a 50° day. Had sun in the morning, clouds in the afternoon and rain at night.
Mild, sunny and breezy today. Around 10c today and 6c now. Light rain tomorrow. It's muddy
Rained over night here so far, but only 34F. Suppose to go to snow, but not much depth to it.
Rained in the night, fog and I do mean fog. Road is only 500 feet away and I could not see it when I first got up. 38° now.
Judging by the wet side walks it must have drizzled last night ,slept right through it .46 this morning .
Started snowing at 2pm here. Suppose to snow all night. Looks like this will stay.
Snow is coming later tonight. Says 4-8", so one never knows until it's over. :D
Snow has let up a lot. Almost seems like we got an inch the first hour. I was working outside that first hour.
We'll get snow tonight,
We deal with it.
Started as rain now it's snow, probably back to rain.
Clear, single digits (°F) this morning here by the Oslo Fjord, -25° F in the interior of the country...a good fire in the stove.
Not doing a whole lot here yet. Unless it changes, I won't need much for a shovel, possibly a corn broom for the steps. ;D 26F this morning.
Plenty here, Heavy wet stuff. Could be a foot when its all over.
Power flipping off and on. Will make a good base for winter rec activities.
Get the sleds out, and skis.
Already had the kick sled out, but there wasn't an inch of snow. Be better sled'n in a while after we get a couple " .
Well last few nights have only been in the mid to high 30's and daytime in the low to mid 40's. We had a light steady rain here all day yesterday leaving just 1" of water. Been easy to keep the shop above 60 all night, and hard to keep the den below 75°.
Today they say mostly overcast, but I am not seeing that. mostly blue skies right now headed for 45 or so. I should get more outside stuff done today.
As far as sledding goes, it's very poor right now. ;D :D
We still have snow along the road where I made a big pile last week. Otherwise, mud! What the heck is a kick sled?
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Cool, so cross country skies with a walker for old people on top? :snowball: ::) :o :o :o 8) :D
You steer by twisting the handle bar. You sit on the seat for your cup of tea. Or free slide from the seat on the slopes if your adventurous. ;D I'm just going along the road shoulders here when there is sufficient snow. ;) Some folks hook up sled dogs to them.
Let me know your size and I'll order you one. They're very Norwegian! ;D
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Got mine out of Quebec, it's made in Finland
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Sun's trying to burn through here, sun dogs.
SD,
I just ordered one. Hopefully it will get here before spring!
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Cool, so cross country skies with a walker for old people on top? :snowball: ::) :o :o :o 8) :D
Now that was funny ! :D But pretty neat rig, never seen one before.
We just got a dog that likes to work/pull so maybe I need one.
Looks like rain and mid 40's the end of the week, Sat-Mon. So that'll take most of the 1 or 2" we got. :D
I think I got about 6-8 inches of wet snow.
Looks like this is really the first snow that will stay until next April, May.
3" and melting.
Barely 2" here, I know my sled tracks are still visible since yesterday morning at 8:00 am. Mild and rain for the weekend so that will be gone, at least off the gravel. I will still push the scoop around this morning so I don't get a sheet of ice after the thaw. ;D
20F this morning.
A solid foot of snow all said and done. Couple more inches overnight.
Some big Pine Tree limbs overhanging the
drive broke off and another bunch still could so hesitant
to get on my open top tractor to snowblow the drive.
Dropping into single digits nights this week.
The fun has begun.
Well, the cloud cover moved back in and now snow squalls the rest of the day.
12F this morning, added some more wood to the stove. ;D
Winter cold is here my friends. Been colder this fall than last year, never got real wintery cold until February last year when all the snow started piling up. The warmest day this Nov is 20 degrees colder than in 2022, and the coldest day is 2 degrees colder. Going to need the heavy wool coat for walking today. ;)
I have 10 degrees here. Should get up to 28 today.
Some places are 2F near here, but the porch here says 10F now. Probably a lot colder up the road by grammy Adair Brook. I suspect they are near a creek or a river at that station that is cold. The high here is expected to be about 20F. Was only 20F yesterday, 2 degrees colder in the afternoon actually.
3.5 *F here in the Sandy River Valley.
Cold start inside too , 56*. Time to break into the hardwood stash.
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It's been mid 20's night time to high 30's day light .So it's cotton wood day to ash at night in the stove .Not a big deal because mother nature gets me up at around 3:30-4 AM .Take care of business and load the insert up again . Two birds with one stone so to speak .It hasn't got cold enough yet to break out the oak and shagbark .
Was a cold day here, coldest so far.
Took really all day to get up to 20 then only saw 25 for an hour. It's handy driving around in a car delivering parts to garages. I can keep track of the weather all day. ;)
Saw someone "ice" fishing on Norcross pond Monday. They were only 20 feet from shore. They would have gone out more, but they ran out of ice!!! ::) :o :o
Yes, it was clear for once yesterday, all day, since 3 weeks or more. :D Never got above 20F.
This morning is not as cold, 16F right now. Looks overcast out, no stars shining.
I have 6 °, with a high of 25 today.
Yesterday took a while to warm up. Kinda like a January day. Lots of sun but no warmth from the sun.
The pond would be frozen solid before I will go on it! :o Other than a light dusting of snow winter hasn't shown up here yet which suits me just fine although some of the ski hills are open.
Been 18F and flurries here most of the day. Not enough to accumulate anything. You sure can't ski doo up this way yet, would wear out a bed and skis.
Checked ice thickness on my favorite ice fishin' lake last thursday. 5" of clear blue ice anywhere on da lake I checked. 8)
Definitely making ice here had 2 below early this morning.
The local 200 acre pond is now iced over completely .
Got the 89 440 Arctic Cat fired up and making some nice x -c
ski trails in a foot of snow on the property. Built a tow behind drag that
smooths and leaves a corduroy trail behind.
Suppose to get a mess of rain Sun. night so we've been out enjoying
some early winter activities while the gettin is good.
A nice groom on that real cold snow you got would make nice hard pack for a kick sled to. ;D Not quite enough snow here for a good slide, the road shoulders have some bare spots and some gravel grit. They sanded here again today and we have hardly anything for snow. Wait, when we get 20", the road will be 2" thick ice and hard pack snow and table spoon full of gravel. :D
14F, stars, moon, no wind. Usually clouds over by daylight. Should be the other way around if you're on solar and wind. That's been the trend all fall. :D :D But I like cloud cover if I'm on the end of a clearing saw because sun is so low in October-February that it's in your face all day. Hard to see through any eye protection with the glare on the screens. :D
Was 6° when I first got up. It's 8° now.
Should get up to 30 today.
Saw 3 below this morning. Been poking the wood
to the stove. That dry red oak works good on cold nights.
Lots of snow still clinging to tree branches from the last dump.
Could be a problem if it doesn't drop before the rain event Sunday/Monday.
Was sunny here all day yesterday for a change, I think 22F was the high. I put wood in around 7:00 am, aspen and fir and large chunk of striped maple (striped maple is as heavy as red maple) and never added another stick until 6:30 pm. The sun kept it 80+ F all day. Put wood in this morning at 3:00 am and a deep pile of coals still in the stove. So that took off like a rocket when I gave it some extra air from opening the ash pan door. ;D
I was doing some wood work and was trying to attach the project to my loom. I had to close the drapes on the big window, hot, plus that ball of fire in my eyes, couldn't see noth'n. It was close to 90F around that dormer window. Lawdy! :D
I keep a humidifier going here around 30% RH. Without it would be about 10%. Even that cold air outside is dry when the sun shines, and definitely dry heat off the sun/windows.
16F here on the ridge, but it's 6F at the weather station. You can feel a big difference if it's down near 0F, your nose burns a little and your whiskers frost up. And I have not seen it that cold yet at the house.
woodroe you are in a cold area.
But saying that I bet down by the bog at my house it was 0° and that is about a ½ mile from me.
I have 24 here now.
Yeah we been making some ice with temps this cold .Only down to 10* last night. Ice fishermen and gals are out in full force today on Crowell Pond. Cars lined up on both sides of road. 20-30 people probably.
Its been a winter wonderland of a week here with all that snow clinging to everything and blue skies to boot. The trees did shed some of the snow where the sun shines but there is plenty caked on still.
Hate to see this nice snow get rained on but looks like we are going to get a good dose of it. Noreaster but a wet one with some strong winds 40-50mph.
Heavy fog and 38F here now, suppose to climb into the mid 40's and heavy rain this afternoon and tonight. Heavy rainfall warning for the area.
21° here, but still. made it to the shop in jeans and T-shirt. got a fire going. therm. set at 60° with floor heat.
swampdonkey, except for the temp I have 32, we are the same.
There is some rain coming. :o
Been foggy all day.
I have a 500 foot driveway and can just about see the road.
Not as foggy around the house now. The rain has begun, not real heavy yet, and not too steady. But I see some heavy stuff coming across Maine so it will be here pretty quick. 42F now.
It's been 10c / 50f all day here mix of fog cloud and some sun, nice enough to go for a motorcycle ride on the trails. Looks like heavy rain may miss us just chance of showers, rain tomorrow afternoon and lots of wind.
The rain is here. Maybe get up to 40. We might get a couple inches of rain. We only have about 4 inches of snow. Had fog all day before the rain. That made the snow soft, then this hard rain too.
Still raining a good clip here, and still 43F. We never had big wind here except a light breeze yesterday morning. Nothing more than 10 mph, no tree bender. Maybe that will hit as it clears out. I don't doubt we get the 2" here as well. Not that we need it, eh? :D
It was so wet here this year that green algae grew on shaded parts of the vinyl siding, down low on the buildings. North side mainly but and east side if shaded by a tree.
A white Christmas appears to be a certainty here now. It's going to be a bit milder towards the end of the week, but not warm enough to melt all the white stuff that has fallen the last couple of days.
Still raining here. It's 38°. Rain until 10 this morning. From what I can see from the front door light, there is still snow on the ground.
38F here now to, only snow I have in the yard is where I scooped it up, grass is all bare otherwise. Still raining a good pace, suppose to rain into the afternoon here. A flurry on the back end. Suppose to have around 3" of rain when it ends. I took my gauge in a few weeks ago, so can't measure it.
Back to grey and green trees but the ground is stiil
mostly white.
I'll take the all plastered white over this any day.
A sunny week on tap starting tomorrow so thats a plus.
I might of got 2 inches of rain.
Kinda hard to tell, nothing in Chesterville, just towns about 10-15 minutes from me had about 2 inches.
But my fields are still white.
Kinda odd on the ponds.
I live between 2 ponds. Mosher has no ice, but Norcross still has ice on it. Nothing that I hope nobody will go out on!!!!
Water is high!!! Kinda of a broken record. Been that way all summer.
Rained a good clip here all day yesterday until dark. I thought I would see a little skiff of white this morning, but none. A brisk breeze out there though. Was 30F on the porch awhile ago. Will likely be in the 20's by daylight.
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We are down to a few inches of crusty snow aftet a day of rain. Some pics of before the rain. Was Beautiful if you like snow. And our new pooch who needed. To be rehomed found on craigslist.
A little breezy yesterday morning that pushed a few snow flurries over this way, then the wind diminished and was nice and sunny. It wasn't all that cold but the wind had some bite.
27F here this morning. Colder tomorrow morning but a warmer weekend, no snow mentioned.
8 degrees in central UP! One of these days it will have to warm down before it warms UP!!!
I have about 18° here now. Looks like full sun today!!!!! But not supposed to get above freezing.
Saw something falling out of the sky. I saw it quick but saw some blue and red in it. Never seen anything like that before.
15F here this morning and sunny. Suppose to hit 40F tomorrow. ....50's and rain Monday-Tuesday, showers into Thursday.
Been a recent meteor shower in the last week, so could be something off that. :)
I've never seen the colors I saw this morning.
Mosher Pond is up to the road.
My meadow, which is a runoff from Mosher is flooded. I tried to mow it this year, but I could see standing water in the grass. This is flooding land, so not a great place to break through the grass roots.
Suppose to get 2 inches of rain on Monday. :(
The colors off a meteor depend on composition and heat it gives off, from my understanding.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on December 15, 2023, 02:10:29 AM
The colors off a meteor depend on composition and heat it gives off, from my understanding.
It could also have been space junk reentering the atmosphere and burning up. So some random mix of stuff being ionised as different parts brunt away.
27F here and south wind, on our way to the 40's for a high.
I still put more faith in a meteor, since we had an event this week.
But, yes, to the space junk. That's what I believe I saw here one morning over the mountain this summer. It blew up and looked like a sparkler with bits going everywhere in the sky and burnt out before hitting the ground. Blue, red, orange, white bits. I thought a plane blew up, no mention in the news of plane or debris. But not everyone is up at 4:00 am (3:00 am EST). :D
Superman wears blue and red !
;D
Almost 50° today.
36F at this early hour. We are in another heavy rain and wind warning Sunday night into Tuesday. Won't affect me too much here except maybe power, I'm on a ridge here so flooding is nil to none. Although, last week I think the neighbor's basement was like a creek. It flowed through, then out to his driveway and across the main road. That all iced up the next day. A big mess for him and the road.
36° here and might see 40. Some sun today too.
Cooled off here into the upper twenties, sunny, breezy from the north. Won't get back above 30F all day.
Supposed to be heavy rain here tomorrow all day and into Monday.
We'll see if they are right or not.
Jim Rogers
32F here this morning and a little breeze. Like being on the beach. :D
Looks like another 2-3 inches of rain is coming. :(
Wet and windy overnight with more to come. Basement sump
pump kicked in. Fired up the genny yesterday to make sure its ready to go.
Took quite a few pulls before it fired. 10 hp Tecumseh ;D
The rain is here!!!
Started last night and was not raining a few minutes ago.
Then I heard the rain and that reminded me to post on here.
It's 50°!!!!
Dark out and have not gone to work, so have no idea about flooding. Must be over the road. Again!!!!!!
Looks like rain until 6 tonight.
But at least this won't be a flash freeze like in the past. Tomorow should be in the mid 30's. But freezing for Wed.
48F right now and warming fast, as it was 42F 4 hrs ago. Off and on showers so far. Going to be in the 50's before long. Some wind, but not more than 10 mph right now.
50 ° here, I'm glad my mill has a roof over it. It will be nice to saw at 50° today.
Pretty wild here today. Wind and rain. Strong blasts of wind against the house at 3:30 this morning. Woke me up. 56° here now.
I guess I'll be working in the barn today splitting and stacking firewood.
We had some heavy rain and even some thunderstorms here yesterday. The said it would carry on into today, but it has all moved north, sun is out.
Jim Rogers
So far we've had over 3.5" of rain since yesterday mid-day. It was raining so hard at 5am it woke me up. The front lawn looks ready to plant rice and I am hearing lots of road closures locally due to flooding plus the usual flooded basement calls and auto accidents over guard rails and into creeks, etc.. It should be clearing early afternoon.
Temp is around 57° now and might go higher. Tomorrow dropping into the 30's during the day and 20's overnight for the next several days. Hope the water soaks down before it freezes. ;D
Widespread power outages including us from high winds. Was standing out on the porch and a lot of snapping and crashing going on in the woods. Saw a couple 50 ' tall trees snap off 1/2 way up. Gonna be some horror stories when its over.
Pretty much a widespread disaster zone out there. Standing water and flooding everywhere . I tried to take a walk in the woods when the wind calmed down some but didn't get far with blowdowns across the trails everywhere i looked. What a mess.ugh.
Oh my the hawk was at the door. Not so cold,28 but with 20 mile per hour wind felt like 20 below .Now it's mostly oak instead of cottonwood .The bone dry cottonwood puts out the heat just takes a lot of it .
A breezy 20* with clear skies.
Power is back on after being out 2 1/2 days.
Most of the roads have been patched up but
many only one lane with tree cleanup needed.
Lots of blowdowns laying on power lines still.
The road to town was 5 ' underwater tues. morning and
all roads to town from all directions were closed from flooding.
Got about a dozen 1' dia. fir and spruce blowdowns in my woods
so more firewood to work up. Big mess is putting it lightly.
Ray will chime in when he gets his power back.
6-8" rain in about 24 hrs.
We lost power for 22 hrs here. And internet was just restored a couple minutes ago in my area. Still lots of outages around.
I had one big 30" spruce come down, no rot, she tore up the roots. That hit a 16" diameter fir and pushed it over into a 10" birch. So I cut that mess up, used all the fir and birch and some pieces of spruce for firewood, a pickup load. There's still a huge but log there I never cut off the stump. Got to be 20" on the small end, probably at about 16 feet. I tossed what spruce I had had enough of bucking to the brush pile. About like trying to split elm. :D Tossed all the limbs, many 12 feet long onto the heap for a snow fence. It was over in the neighboring field, so had to get it cleaned up one way or another. First thing was the sprocket went in the saw, so got that fixed. Then went to sawing up that fir and of course hit a rock, so had to sharpen it up to cut anything. ::)
Windy all day today as well, but settling down. Going to go down near 10F tonight, but Christmas is going to be about 40F, go figure.
Merry Christmas. :new_year:
This is the pond down the road from us tues morning day after the big blow and rain. Never seen it even close to this high in 30+ years living here. A foot deep is common in the spring but this is probably 5' deep.
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good thing the power came back when it did cause the genny started acting up. Would run for a 1/2 hr and quit like it had run out of gas but the tank was full. Hmmm.
Check your oil in the gen. Mine had a stuck valve when I went to start it. When I got'r freed by clicking the starter, the oil flooded with gas without me knowing at the moment. She'd go for 30 seconds and shut down and the blue smoke came out the exhaust. Looked at the oil and seen the gas had flooded into it. Drained the oil pan and put in new oil and worked fine ever since. I think old gas stuck the valve. And I only use high grade, no ethanol.
Sure is a mess and looks like the neighbor is floating.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on December 22, 2023, 07:59:51 AM
Check your oil in the gen.
Thats probably it. oil was at the btm of the hash marks. Guess I ran it
more than expected. I did check it in the dark one night :D
edit: And thanks for the tip. must be what that wire running to the btm of the crankcase is for.
Wonder how the genny over at cfarm is holding up ?
More storm carnage. Was cutting open some trails today from blowdowns and spotted this bizarre tree . It broke off from about 50' up and planted itself top first.
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I was only without power for a day and a half. Lucky!!!
But the internet was out for a while. Just got it back tonight.We use a small guy internet, he does not even advertise, but if there is no power where the tower is, then we have no internet. Unlimited, $38 a month and we can steam movies. Best service we have found, so far.
Woodroe knows where Cape Cord Hill is and maybe Moose Hill? Thats where the towers are.
Looks like woodroe had said it all.
I delivery parts and drive the back roads. Some looked like nothing happened and some looked like, what happened. :( :o :o
I cross the bridge over the river. Not much of a falls there Tuesday and Wednesday. Much better today!!!
My road was flooded over by maybe 4 inches at the most.
I had to drive under a down tree that was being held up the wires!!!!
Still many without power only 10 minutes from me. :( Takes time.
We got a good 2 inches of rain, if not more. Have to remember we just got 2 inches last week!!!
Not much washed out around here. Just the rivers and streams over flowing.
Rangely had some washouts.
Hard to get around at times. Have to drive around water and down trees.
The wind and rain was awful. I stopped at a traffic light and could see the water blowing across the road!!! Never seen that before.
Last year we had a bad wind storm around Christmas too. Was without power then too.
I have not been out in the woods at my place. I leave for work when it is dark and get home when it is dark. I know of one white pine that broke off by the house. Seem like that caused most of the problems that I saw, white pines.
My grandson lives in Hallowell. Works in Augusta about 15 minutes away. Took him an hour to get home Monday.
Grandaughter husband spent 2½ hours trying to get gas!!!
woodroe, I know where that house is. Crowell pond,Farmington Falls road.
That same area was mess last year when we got all that rain. Or was in this early this year?
Looks like to be above freezing each day for the next ten days. But below at night. No singles numbers for me yet.
Glad you came through the other side. :) She was nasty business. Wind was driving the rain real hard against the south picture window. Mother thought it was going to come into the living room. The worry wort. :D When it decides to rain around here, it can rain. :D If it floods the ridge here, better watch out in Mississippi. ;)
I am going up to the woods this morning for a looksie. The boss was up yesterday and he said his woods had a lot of fir down. The Mactaquac park along the Saint John River, near Fredericton, had 1500 trees down and $500,000 in damages they estimate. They've got 20 men on their payroll cleaning up those trees.
We usually do make it through a bad storm. ;D And that was a bad one!!!
I have 15° this morning.
15F here also. But going to be much warmer the next 5 days. :)
You would be correct on that flooded pond location Ray.
Must have been some kind of crazy trying to deliver parts
around here tuesday . Did you have a chainsaw handy ? ;D
I kinda liked have a pointed fir treeline here but there aren't
many left anymore. Seems they and the spruce are most susceptible
to strong winds which we've seen plenty of in the last 5-10 years.
Got out to the back of the lot yesterday and have another dozen blowdowns in that area. So all tolled about 2 dozen live blowdowns and another dozen dead ones are down. It will take many hrs. opening up my roads and trails.
Should have bought a mill when i was younger.
Could be cutting a good mess of dimensional lumber right now but a couple more cords or more of firewood it is.
Four softwoods taken out here on the woodlot. Two were rotten, two were sound. Two each of fir and spruce. Was surprised one spruce blew over across the trail. Not more than 30 feet tall, sound, but roots couldn't hold her. Not even wet ground. A big 20" fir broke off 6 feet up, not even rot there. Big top, like a big sail. Both near the road, so firewood next spring. The spruce is only 5" and I'll get a rail out of the top end for trails or fence. ;D
Found several beat down bear paths out there, beat down hard to. Found a den one must be going to use because the path around that is sure recent and beat down firm. :D Heard something tromp off near another of their paths, probably bear. Lots of bear poo all over and in the road. Seen 5 snow shoe hares, easy to see, all white against a brown background. No snow here. That cold sure made some thick ice. On frozen runs I'd say at least 6" thick, and that with only 3 cold days in the teens at night. You can certainly walk on it and not break through. Beaver pond ice is real thin though, would never walk on that.
I see Jeff has the forum back on top. :)
It's been a mild couple of days here in the 40's, not much sun, but no wind either. I think the rest of the week is off and on showers and flurries, so wet and cloudy. ::)
Been a few cool mornings, but seem to be past for now. This morning was 35° and it's above 40 now.
I have only had time to drive down my woods road, but saw some tree down.
I bet I have a lot of trees down.
Was foggy right up until about 3 today. Then the sun came out.
40° here, the sun came out 1.30- 2
34 now with rain coming. Stoping around 5 AM.
AND MUD<<MUD<<<MUD. ::)
We're just getting through 3 straight days of rain. The dusting of snow we had is long gone, along with any frost that was in the ground. We've had a brown Christmas or two that I can remember in northern MN, but the ground was always frozen like concrete. Loggers are shut down. The ice is about to go off the lakes. I think the animals are even getting confused. It is a weird weather pattern!
While we are experiencing mid-40's up here, I just read southwest Wyoming had lows of -27° F up in the mountains. Just weird.
I need to post about the bare ground here too.
I've seen "green" Christmas here before, but never this green. There is no snow to be found!!! None!!! Yes, you can find ice, but no snow at all. In the past there maybe patches of snow, but not like this year.
Had to let the fire go out here.Been warm the last two days.
A light rain at 34°.
At least it's a light rain and not a heavy rain that we get 2-3-4 inches of rain in 24 hours.
Suppose to stop this morning and then start back up in the afternoon.
No rain here, yet. But suppose to get some and freezing rain, and some light snow in the mix. All the nasties. :D
34F here this morning. Was hoping to go get that big fir off the road at the woodlot but road is greasy slime right now. If I knew about it before Christmas when it was cold and frozen I would'f cut it up then. ::)
Rain coming, That's OK, I'm under a roof, got to make a bunch of 6x8s today. 14' and 10'
Raining here today in eastern NC. Supposed to stop around 2pm or so. Maybe more tomorrow.
Then clear for a while.
Happy New Year.
Jim Rogers
Finally seeing my first snow flakes of the season today. It started raining last night. Switched to some wet flakes now, but its 35 and not really supposed to get any colder. They say tonight we might get a little accumulation on grass. I'll believe when I see it.
More rain. Heavy rain, light rain, but always rain. No end in sight yet. Mills need logs, loggers need a paycheck, but not much any one can do till it gets cold. Last year it really never did freeze down at all.
Looks like a change in the forecast here. Going to be warmer and more sun. The storm has been pushed out to Friday-Saturday. And doesn't look all that serious yet. 36F here today and hasn't budged much since morning. 40's tomorrow,
Still 36F this morning, have a morning smudge, but that will be it for the day until I start one after dark. Too hot otherwise. That's been the trend for the last week here. ;D
Just about the same temp here. More light rain coming in. It's wet outside now.
The same for tomorrow, but maybe an inch of snow.
Like Pea soup 3 days running with fog. No sun expected in these
parts till Sunday. Unseasonably warm .
Freezing rain warning here for tonight. Got generator gas. ;D
Looks like light rain and showers all night.
Rain kinda starting to stick like freezing rain now. ::)
10:30 pm here.
Current temp is 20C, it's raining and humidity is 99%.
It's almost like being in the tropics.
More winter weather in SE Norway now than in the last 5 years combined. We have a foot of snow, with a foot more on the way on Sunday (I live in the lowlands. There's more snow futher up.) Teens and 20s all during Christmas, but by the end of the coming week, it may well be below zero here by the fjord and -40 inland--and I'm talking °F.
Cleared me a path to the woodpile...
Been storming here all day. Mostly rain, and sometimes snow. Hovering around 34F here.
NWS ;D
Local prediction was 1/2" snow by days end.
We are at 4" and counting.
Gonna be a white new year afterall.
Snowed all night here and still snowing, but very light, maybe an inch so far. Hovering around 31F. Going to drop into the teens by Monday.
Cold rain here.No snow yet.
I got about 3 inches of snow.
The ground is white!!!! ;D
Most of it came in the night. Kinda snowed all day. Stayed just about above freezing all day.
33° here at 9pm.
I think pretty much the same as you Ray, I'm not even sure if 3" fell. It's still unsettled and at times yesterday I could see sun through thin clouds. I could see sky in the NW last night around 4:30, but it has never cleared. 30F here now. Before the storm came, for 2 days, it was sunny north of the mountain here and it was like one big cloud over us and no sun.
We had no sun at all yesterday. Low hanging clouds all day.
Went down to the step son's not much more than a ½ hour away and not much snow.
No cold temps in the next week coming. Can happen anytime now. It is January now.
Sun is shining bright for now.
Still light snow this morning, hasn't cleared out. I scooped out the 2" we had here.
Looks like cold beginning Monday and colder by Friday, teens and twenties for highs.
Took down the Christmas tree and wreath to the burn pile and seen grouse tracks under the spruce trees below the garden, where the old orchard used to be. So they are around and out of sight. Lots of yellow birch down there I planted and likely catkins to eat. I know the big old wild one has a lot on it, growing next to the field. They love those. Funny how those things will migrate from big woods into these one acre or two patches that used to be orchards. Curiosity gets the better of them. ;D
We all heard a big bang around here Christmas. Here's why.
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Bridgewater is only about a mile from here in a straight line. The things people do for sport. I thought there was a big crack down on such explosives in the US after a few bombings. But you can't believe the news BS. ;D
Cold I might by the single numbers. ;D
I don't want to be like the weather reporters. It's going to be cold and they talk about 20°.
But I knew what you meant.
Just like when they talk about how bad the roads are on an over pass and the free way is bare. :D and down to 45 MPH.
Our tree is still up. 7 year old Granddaughter from Mexico will be up on Tuesday to see the tree and the house lite up. I have not seen her in person for 4 years. But facetime at least twice a week. Wife goes down once a year to see her.
Definitely not -20 or -30 weather showing up. But a morning of 8 or 10F is kinda cool if you're in a walled tent for the night. :D The average Jan temp used to hover around 0F, it hasn't for a few years now. We have actually gained one rank (zone) in frost hardiness for this area.