I don't know if this would be a good subject matter but it would interest me in knowing what the weather is like throughout the US. Maybe how it has affected your individual projects. As for me I think we came out pretty easy on this last storm as compared to some others north and west of me. Got about 1/2 of ice on Friday night and then Saturday afternoon it started snowing and overnight I guess the total snowfall was 3-4". The boy is enjoying his duties as there is no school and the 4 wheeler/Blade is getting it's workout this morning.
As for my building project it has almost slowed to a stop. I am in the chinking stage and with the dips in temp I am afraid to try to do any. The day temps would be OK but with a drop at night I am afraid it will freeze the mortar before it has sufficent cure time.
I live and work on the San Francisco peninsula, so we don't freeze. We apparently can't drive in the rain either, but that's another story.
I've got my eye on our farm in Palermo (Near Oroville) this week. It's supposed to rain today through Thursday. We just started laying the footings for a post and beam foundation the weekend before last, and I was hoping to take advantage of the late rains and get it done before the spring.
The soil has clay so it's slippery when it's really wet. The building site has a moderate slope, but the road into that part of the property has a serious grade on it. If I'm not careful i could get my truck down there and have to wait until spring to get it out. The alternative is for my son and me to walk the 21 pier blocks we built into the site. While doable, it would kind of take the edge of the enthusiasm for the rest of the day's work, at least for a while. Maybe I can make a deal with my wife.
"Drew move rock. Dan level footing. Drew hold up tree for a minute...."
Our place is at 400' elevation, and that is no accident. After narrowing down the area, we visited the properties in the late winter, early spring. Places that had signs saying "No snow service" were out. Anything over 2,000 feet where out. Dead standing trees (meaning flooded) were out. Funny. When my wife and I walked our property with the realtor, she grabbed my arm and whispered hoarsely into my ear, "Buy. This. Place."
Sort of sounds like the same as for me. I am only 400' elevation above where I live to my cabin which is at 2,830 ft but the road for that 400 feet is a climb of about one mile on a US Forrest Service road which has "no snow removal". So once it sets in for good(ice, snow) I really can't get my equipment trailer or supplies up to it. I have a 4 wheel drive atv but it is kind of hard to carry a generator, saws, and the like on it. And it's hunting season here and when the snows come ,the hunters do also and travel the road packing down the snow til it freezes and thaws and usually turns to ice. Add a snow everyonce in a while and well you can see where I going with this. Seen your post sounds like it will be a good experience if nothing else practice for your ultimate project later.
Down here at home at 5500 foot elevation we currently have sunny skies with a temp of 44 F, 28% humidity, zero wind. Low last nigh 19, projected low tonight 24. We had a touch of snow here over the weekend but it's all gone except for a few shaded spots.
Up in the mountains at 8000 foot elevation it's currently a sunny 38 with about the same humidity, but the winds have been running 2 to 8 mph all day. Last nights low was 15. Those figures are from the remote weather station very near our property, but we're 800 feet higher, so the temps are likely a little lower up there and probably more snow.
The road in off the section of snow maintained forest road has 6 to 10 inches of snow in most places. However up near our gate it has drifted in. It's about 18 - 24 inches and not worth the effort/risk without a partner vehicle.
It's snowmobile weather up there, and I don't have one at present.
It's about 40 here. Not too bad and I rode the whizzer about 40 miles today just for the fun of it.
We got a fair amount of rain on Saturday but it wasn't cold enough to really get any snow. A few nearby spots got some, but not me.
I went back home yesterday and the west side of the mountain (Redovers part of the country) had a pretty decent ice storm still on the trees. I didn't see much snow though.
Right now - 43.5 f. 91% humidity - threatening to storm us good -- same as Drew a bit North.
I'm welding I beam earthquake moment connections on the job I'm on and welding steel deck to the roof. Thought the weather had us this morning but it eased off and I was able to get 2 moment welds done and tack welded down about 1200 sf of roof decking.
Tomorrow morning is -- see what the net shows and call a company man on site to see if I go in or not. 1 1/2 hrs one way drive for me. I'd rather drive 3 hours per day than stay in the city.
Woke up a littlle nippy this morning at 9F. Forecast for flurries but doesn't look it. Won't get much done today as the highs will not get above 30F. Parents have stayed the last week so I will take them toward their home and meet a sister halfway(2hrs). Then a X-mas dinner of my wifes employment and sons band concert afterwards. Busy day.
Mountains of North Central WA to dark still to see the thermometer but it is about 20 and we had about 4 inches of snow yesterday adn two days before that. I have been shoveling the long long driveway and it is supposed to snow all week. People ask me why I shovel the driveway when I could pay to have aplow come I say then I would have to pay to go to the gym too!!! IT's a good thing it is snowing all week too because i made/ate chocolate Bon Bons.
We have a narrow little path shoveled to the truck with about 1.5-2 ft of snow on either side. Today it is finally supposed to be one degree above freezing so we'll see if any of it melts! c*
We got about another 8 inches of snow today. I have shoveled the driveway twice and that is all I am good for. It is warming up some and it might turn to rain before I get back onthe snowboard I sure hope not. But I am worn out now from shoveling, I plan to feed the horses and make soup and toast for dinner and then I am watching tv and going to bed early. Hopefully there will be more and better snow tomorrow although todays snow is good I just didn't get on the snowboard when I should have. Somebody...not me...should clean this house too.
Quote from: Homegrown Tomatoes on December 18, 2007, 08:07:23 AM
We have a narrow little path shoveled to the truck with about 1.5-2 ft of snow on either side. Today it is finally supposed to be one degree above freezing so we'll see if any of it melts! c*
Should melt just enough to freeze to solid ice.
I don't have any snow - yet... but rain -- tons of it today.
Here's a picture from Sunday. Boy I miss those mountains. BTW that's all ice. No snow at all.
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it's been pretty cool the last couple of days, but we're headed for storms and some cold nights....all in all...it's just North Alabama in the winter. Two days hot /one day rain / three days cold / and we start all over again....
Peter you didn't stay long enough. Went out Sunday evening near Highland County and the roads were a mess. They got right on them as they do not want to hurt the tourism with the ski resort. Those drivers are a different breed. The tourist I mean.
Well I thought I would get a break the next couple of days with the weather but it doesn't look like that is going to happen. Woke up this morning and it started snowing about 0630 and so far we have 1" of new. Forcast calls for rain ???. I think freezing rain so that plan is off for now. Temp 28F. Tomarrow is another day. Hope the rain on the west coast doesn't cause too many problems. The east coast said it has been raining for the past 2-3 days there.
I am spoiled. High today should be 62 if the weather prophets are right. I spent two days up north with lows in the teens, highs around 50. I had snow on the ground where the sun couldn't get to it. As soon as I had my business concluded I shot back down to the desert. My goal is to be an AZ in-state snowbird. I will go back in the spring, about 250 miles door to door. That is far enough with today's fuel prices.
desdawg
I had a company in the area a couple years ago which utilize a helicopter to trim powerline right of ways. They were bases out of the Carolinas. They needed a place to fuel up and preform maintenance on the saw and chopper so I let them use a corner in my field. Stayed for about 2 weeks. Brought up real conversation with the neighbors as I had my own chopper. ;D. But back to my original intent. One of the pilots was from either Flagstaff or Phoenix. It was in the fall and the temps started dipping to the 20's & 30's. He told me he couldn't wait to get home that he would be sippin while sitting on his deck. Well he called me and that's exactly what he was doing as we were having our first snowfall and it was 75F there.
Hey, I never looked at it that way before. An in state snowbird!! :) I guess we are almost that too but our suburban winter weather is not as warm as yours. Home is 5500 feet. 66 miles door to door, plus 3300 feet. About 40 miles line of site.
One [cool] thing is we can see our city lights on a clear night from the FS fire lookout tower a few miles from the mountain property.
Glad you could join in Don. Well my cabin is only 1-1/2 miles from the house but right now it had just as well be 500 miles as I can't get to it. I could break out the snowshoes. Nah. Did you like the clock. Kind of depressing though.
It's snowing again today, lots of snow little snowballs instead of flakes. To much shoveling I really don't want to do that again today.
I'm at work watching the storm move through Butte County on Google weather radar. Right now it looks like the southern end might just scrape Oroville/Palermo and leave it relatively dry. I'm watching two personal weather stations in the area that indicate the wind is coming from the south. If I can avoid any serious rainfall, I can work this weekend on our place.
Come on, baby! Push! Puuush! Daddy wants to drive his truck back -up- the hill!
Who needs pro sports when you have weather?
Quote from: Redoverfarm on December 19, 2007, 11:01:38 AM
Did you like the clock. Kind of depressing though.
Thanks for noting that to me. Yes, I'd seen that clock before. John posted it a while back; here (http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=3184.msg33870#msg33870)
Interesting item. Also interesting in that John Raabe's link is slightly different. No ads on his link. :-\
That statistical clock doesn't tell the whole story though. For example, while the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease are quite high, the actual cardio death rate in the USA and AU is falling. That's good news. It could even be better if more folks paid attention to their diet. We can all control that if we put iour hearts and minds into it.
In the USA death rates from cancers are falling as well, both childhood and adult cases. Overall the death rate from cancers has been falling by slightly more than 1% per year since the mid 90's. The childhood death rate decreased by over 20% in the same time period.
The per capita TB incidence rate has been falling slightly, but because of population increases in Africa and SE Asia the absolute number of cases in increasing.
We, the world, are doing better in reducing deaths from many causes. We can still do better, though. Proper sanitation and safe drinking water would eliminate most of the deaths from diarrheal diseases which occur in developing countries. This is reminiscent of what happened in England in the 1500's (I think that was it). People were dieing by the thousands from intermittent cholera epidemics. When it was finally shown that poor sanitation and drinking water practices were the cause, those deaths were virtually eliminated. It's surprising to us at times, when we are told that some people in the world don't understand the connection. Some folks don't have any choice unfortunately. They simply don't have enough safe drinking water available.
So I don't see this worldclock as a doomsday thing. It's just a way of recognizing problem areas. Aren't statistics fun... depending on how honestly they are looked at or used. There's the little picture the individual/group/government wants to present for their own purposes, and then there is the big picture where everything has to be taken into account and a different picture emerges.
More on "the weather"
There are a great many internet weather sites, but from what I can see if the location you're interested in is not near a town/city or location like a National Park/Monument, whatever, you can be left guessing a little unless you are already at the spot experiencing the weather.
I discovered an interesting site some time ago. It doesn't have any forecasting abilities, but it does offer an hour by hour history of the day's weather. In some cases the available records go back 6 years, maybe more in some. Some of these stations are located in remote areas. There is one located a few miles from our mountain property, and 800 feet lower in elevation. It offers temp, humidity, dew point, wind speeds, gusts and direction, accumulated precipitation, solar radiation, fuel temp (it's in the Nat Forest), fuel moisture and even the sites solar battery voltage. Not all sites include all these details.
They are scattered all over the country. This Page (http://www.met.utah.edu/mesowest/) is where to start. Click the state in question. That opens a window with a general map showing some of the station, not all. Detailed station maps may be selected by choosing "station locations" from the product menu at the very top.
If you select current weather summary from that list a window with summaries is presented. If you can't find a location you want at first try changing the setting selector (NWS, RAWS, etc.)
Once you figure it out you will end up with a page similar to this one (http://www.met.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base.cgi?stn=JESN5&unit=0&time=LOCAL&product=) where the past 24 hours is displayed. The frame on the left has other selcetors to play with.
I grew up in Havre, MT. That is about 30 miles south of the Canadian border. After I was discharged from the Marine Corps I moved to Colorado and stayed for 14 years. So I have paid my dues in the snow country. Can't really say I miss it. That makes being an in-state snowbird here just about perfect for me. I used to ski a lot and haven't done that in years. That I miss.
Today it is spring like weather here. We still have a lot of snow but it has been raining and melting too. It is so warm here I actually had the door open for awhile.
I see others are having snow today. No snow here, but it was quite windy last night. It was also the coldest night of the year I believe. 19 degrees F. Nowhere near the record low of -2 in 1924. Sunny, some clouds.
My mountains went down to -1.
Actually it had warmed up this past week some. Today it hit 40F. Down to mid 20's at night. Good working weather though. It had thawed enough to make it muddy. Rained in the afternoon. Yesterday morning it was sleet. We usually don't get very good forecast (If there is one). Usually get it from two opposing areas. Then when it hits the mountains it changes direction or conditions and usually the unexpected happens. The best forecast for us is to just look outside.
The forecasts for our suburban location are usually accurate enough. But up in the Jemez Mtns. they can be wildly incorrect when it comes to the precipitation amounts. Probably harder to do for mountains than high plateau desert.
Hope the forecast is wrong. They are predicting the high temps wed -sun to be 5-10F with 70-100% snow. Oh No. Sounds like Old Man Winter has just awakened.
We're out of the cold snap we had. It was a nice day for an afternoon walk.
We went for a stroll around a new development near us. We were both incredulous at the sizes of the display homes. There were 15 different layouts, mostly 2 story, mostly over 2500 sq ft (as large as 4300). Terrible terrible waste.
We are expecting snow again for the end of the week. Think I better cut more wood and get the snow plow on the Bush Hog.
It is five degrees below zero here this morning and I was freezing so I had to get up and build a fire at 4 am. Now the sun is peaking through over the mountains on he snow covered mountains it is beautiful and I think I can find time to snowboard today. I went out for awhile the other day and made it downt he entire hill without falling on my last run so I am hopeful. I don't mind falling because the snow is deep but I would have more confidence if I didn't fall.
almost record snows in wisconsin for a december this year.
out Dacha has it's own snow personality. I put in 25 loads of fill to bring it up +2ft from floodplain, so it's on a bit of a hill. The snow melts off the roof fast cause it's got heat in the building now, but no ceiling insulation! So it melts then makes giant icicles on the edge. The area by the doorway is slick as hell, a ice hill from there on down. If robbers come to my place chances are they will fall an bust their head open. Too bad that didn't happen to the assesor that came by week before last!
I should have shoveled and salted, but I can't seem to do the mundane at out new place. All I want to do is keep working on whatever is next that has to be done before I call the inspector in.
Frank, I think we're supposed to get more snow this week... I get too depressed to look at the weather anymore!
We went up on the weekend and worked in a light rain. Dan was wearing down and I was wearing cotton. We knew we needed more, but that's all we had. I'll see what Cabela's or someone has. No one fell on their prat in the mud, though.
There is a big storm predicted for the SF peninsula at the end of this week. Let it rain. I don't care. Just let it be nice for 1/12-13 so we can start on our irrigation line ditch.
Your rain will be our rain and snow, Drew. Looks like we're definitely going to get it.
Peternap I would imagine that riding the Whizzer would be a tad bit chilly today even in your neck of the woods. It is 10F with some wind. Didn't get the snow they called for last night only about 1/2". Suppose to be more today and into the night.
It was a nice morning no snow then I posted in another thread and looked up and it is snowing like crazy out there. It's a ood day for it too, all my indoor chores are caught up so I get to ride the snowboard today. I will probably have to shovel too but jsut this once I might let the kids do it. No I better not I neeed the exercise. You know once a person hits forty you jsut can't eat as much. It is to hard to take the weight off and use the calories. I love good food and that is a big problem.
It's so cold today that I'm really having to psyche myself up to even take the dogs out, let alone go warm up the truck so we can go get a few groceries... I'm almost willing to fast for the day. The heater is cranked up, but my feet are still like ice blocks... I'm thinking of tacking a quilt back up over the back door... we did that last year during the coldest days and it really seemed to help in spite of making the back hall really dark. My DDs were sent upstairs to get dressed for the weather a while ago and still haven't returned, so it'll be interesting to see what they come up with... the oldest came downstairs for help with a button a little bit ago and then went back up and so far she was wearing a tank top, a velvet mock turtleneck sweater, a longsleeve rugby shirt, knee socks with a pair of thick cotton tights OVER them... I can't imagine what else could possibly go with such a 'fashion statement', or what she's talking her little sister into putting on! At least they'll be warm!!! ;D This is why we want to move south, and soon!!!!!!! I have to give northerners who can take this weather credit-- they're a LOT tougher than me!!!!
Your DD sounds like she looks like a little Cyndi Lauper.
We're expecting rain and wind through the Bay Area until Sunday. Whatever. I won't get to build or play. If I get too bummed I'll go to the Y. I've never had blues that could survive 3000 yards in the pool.
We volunteer at a CSA farm in Pescadero (www.bluehousefarm.org). Right after Thanksgiving we helped Ned and Ryan plant onions and leeks. They're on vacation until later this month, but we drove by last weekend to see how they (the onions and leeks) were doing. We can hardly wait to get back to work!
On the upside, Joel Salatin is coming to town! W00t!
It's the coldest so far this winter here in sunny North Alabama. In the low 30's today and maybe single digits tonight.....BUT...back in the 50's by the weekend!
Quote from: glenn kangiser on January 02, 2008, 11:49:05 AM
Your DD sounds like she looks like a little Cyndi Lauper.
;D Not quite as bad as that. She came down with a dress over the whole ensemble (red and black), hot pink waffle stompers, and wanted me to put her hair in two braids, which I obligingly did. Little sister came down in a t-shirt with a long sleeve striped t-shirt over it, with the jacket part of her Korean hanbok over that, thick tights and a too-big skirt and Thomas the train shoes, and wanted her hair the same. ::) As long as other people can tell that they dress themselves, it's OK... took them so long to get their act together and get ready to go that I think my feet are semi-permanently swollen into my boots... may have to have the kids help me pry them off when we get back home.... keep putting off actually leaving the house... I know that the sunshine is deceptive because it is now only 12 degrees above 0. Sigh. Got to move soon!!!
Willet still not too bad if you are a die-hard and there is no wind. Good working as you usually don't work up a sweat.
Hope everyone's OK out on the west coast. The weather picture on the tube didn't look that good. High Winds, lots of rain, lots of snow. Best of Luck.
We have had gusts in the valley they said were up to 50-- Blowing like crazy here - supposed to calm down later - tomorrow I'll put on rain gear and go put stuff above ground back together.
NOAA can tell it
QuoteA VERY STRONG PACIFIC STORM FRONT WAS CROSSING THE REGION TODAY.
STRONG WINDS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS INTERIOR CENTRAL
CALIFORNIA...AND WILL CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN LATER TODAY.
SUSTAINED SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO
50 MPH WERE OCCURRING IN MERCED COUNTY AND THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS
AND WILL LIKELY OCCUR OVER THE REST OF THE VALLEY LATER THIS
AFTERNOON. LOCALLY HIGHER GUSTS OF UP TO 60 MPH WILL ALSO BE
POSSIBLE BELOW PASSES AND THROUGH CANYONS.
A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST
35 MPH OR GUSTS OF 45 MPH OR MORE ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG
CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE
VEHICLES. SMALL BRANCHES OR SHALLOW ROOTED TREES COULD EVEN BE
DOWNED BY WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST
FORECASTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD.
I can say that my wind generator has been puting out a pretty steady 30 amps at 26 or so volts with long periods of 60 or more amps. My ammeter stops at 60 then pegs the needle over that. That seems to be a bit higher than the rating specs on their site. Meter could be off a little.
http://www.bergey.com/Products/XL1.html
This morning it was wet snow, lots of it. Then about 2 in the afternoon it began to rain, lots of it. It is a mess but the good news is it is warm, the snow is melting, and Ihave almost all of my driveway shoveled down to dirt. Now if I can jsut get that last little section done before everything turns to rock solid ice the rest of the winter will be a lot easier. I don't think I will make it back out there again tonight though. Too tired!!!
This thing just looks plain mean and it was worse earlier.
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Lil blustery here ;)
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Tut tut, looks like rain.
Glenn that weather map looks kind of rough. How is the Ark coming along? If you are sailing east I will put the coffee pot on. 50 degrees and a little overcast here. Supposed to rain tomorrow and the next day.
Must not be our day, desdawg. Water didn't make it up to 2910 feet yet, but I think I'll send my little dove out to check anyway.
I think I'll roust her out of bed to go to the woodshed and get some wood. It's still wet and cold out there. :)
Today it is sunny and warm here the rain washed away a lot of snow but there is still a lot left and I am sure it is spring now because I heard the chipmunks out yesterday. I am sure we will still have a ot of snowstorms until April but the weather probably wont turn really really cold again. So far I have made it through the winter without having to turn on an electric heater. I am hoping to keep it like that. I have got the lowest PUD bill in over ten years for the past two months not just one!!! Usually the bill is higher for ne month than it was for two this year. Fixing the bad ground and not having as many kids living at home has really saved money.
Our weather is cold and snowy right now in Okanogan, Washington. It has put a damper on construction for a couple more months but time flys by fast when your having fun plowing snow! This is what our place looks like right now. Mark
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Nice and mid 50's today...headed to 60's for the next couple of days.
hmmm usually it is warmer in Okanogan than in Ferry county I hope that snow doesn't come up here and ruin my nice sunny day. My trees were covered in snow too but hte rain yesterday washed it all off and now they are just nice looking regular pine trees. Willy do you live on a mountain top or in the valley?
Quote from: tanya on January 05, 2008, 03:02:44 PM
hmmm usually it is warmer in Okanogan than in Ferry county I hope that snow doesn't come up here and ruin my nice sunny day. My trees were covered in snow too but hte rain yesterday washed it all off and now they are just nice looking regular pine trees. Willy do you live on a mountain top or in the valley?
I live at the 2800 ft level East of Okanogan on the Colville Reservation. The frost in the trees is gone right now due to the rain last night but now we have tons of ice to deal with. Every thing froze again over night. A new storm is coming right now and the sky is getting dark. We have had several feet of snow and I have 4 ft tall mounds below the eves now. I am starting to run out of room for pushing snow to early this winter!! Mark
Oh you are a little higher up ont he mountains than I am here. Lucky me. I see those clouds you are talking about though, I think they are stuck on those high mountains and I hope they stay there. Sorry but I am enjoying the sun and warmer temps. It will be cold and snowy again plenty soon enough for me.
Pacifica, CA: The power was out all day yesterday at home. We asked our son not to go play in the ravine behind the house. Filled him in on what "Flash flooding" meant. He was at home with no Internet. The horror!
The power came back on a little after midnight this morning. Then it went out again at around 7:00 am. Dave was all POed at PG&E for giving us power, then turning it back off. Yah. I explained to him that corrupt as the Establishment is, it still wants to make a buck and will have the power on as soon as it can. I need to raise my hippies right.
So the power comes back on, but Comcast fails. Dan piles Dave into the car and takes him to his girlfriend's house.
We lost a small tree in the back yard. I'm a little less than ambivalent about it since it was blocking the sun on one of my raised beds. "Oh darn. The tree fell. How sad."
We've lived on the other end of this Venturi tunnel for ~13 years now. We've had 80 mph winds up here but it wasn't that bad this time. Our new neighbor lost some roof shingles and a fence. He's ready to move. Rookie.
The ocean looks really crazy right now. Gray with breakers way off shore. Epic waves. No surfers. At least no more surfers. There are what appear to be big rocks that washed up in the parking lots. I'm charging my Zantrex batteries back up: One for light, one for coffee. I got a new book on irrigation to keep me entertained. Heck, I got a couple or three tons of books. I am not hurting. :)
No end of the world scenarios in the big city yet, Drew? hmm
People killing each other to get the last loaf of bread or anything? When you make your own power like we do you miss out on a lot of the interesting stuff like that. [crz]
Quote from: glenn kangiser on January 05, 2008, 05:55:51 PM
No end of the world scenarios in the big city yet, Drew? hmm
People killing each other to get the last loaf of bread or anything? When you make your own power like we do you miss out on a lot of the interesting stuff like that. [crz]
Where I live this is what is exciting during the winter watching the snow blower go by in front of your home! Mark
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I don't want that much snow, but we are supposed to have some on the way -- tonight?
Glenn better you than me. We are getting a break before your's reaches us. Predicted forecast in the Mid 40's-50 Mon, Tues & maybe Wednesday. The snow on Thursday with temps dropping back down. I guess it takes about 4 days to a week to blow across to us.
I don't think you are going to like this one.
It did give me a break to go put a piece of glass back on the green house and secure it near my inverters. A few other drainage details etc. then it hit us again.
Quote from: glenn kangiser on January 05, 2008, 10:09:00 PM
I don't think you are going to like this one.
It did give me a break to go put a piece of glass back on the green house and secure it near my inverters. A few other drainage details etc. then it hit us again.
Wow you must be in the path of the storm , I've ever heard you lement like this before.
I better call Barbara down in San Jose to check in with her.
It's just really nasty and everything is wet and pretty muddy. Nearly got my Bobcat stuck going to get a generator a guy may want to buy. We were pretty well in the worst of it --at least high on the hill.
From a news article.
"The National Weather Service recorded wind gusts up to 165 mph on mountaintops northwest of Lake Tahoe on Friday."
I had read that Tahoe report , they really got a LOT of snow as well :o That was very enjoyable trip last year .
I called my sister she wasn't home but she does have power cuz her answering machine was on.
It's a nice place to be when it's not snowing. :)
For a change, the weather's not bad here. Everything is muddy as all get out, but we're way warmer than usual. Everything is melting so fast it looks like it's raining, but it's really just all the dripping off the roof and the trees. It was around 44 or 45 today... balmy!! I even took the dog out without having to put on a coat. Water-proof boots, in retrospect, would've been a good idea, though. I think we're supposed to have three days that aren't bad (in a row, even) but it is to be cloudy/rainy.
End of the world scenarios, Glenn? You got it all wrong. It takes these clowns two days of driving and spinning out in the rain before they hang up the cell phone and drive below 65 mph.
Aw, now you got me started. ;)
A lot more people don't stop at stop signs anymore (And it all started when I turned 40!). Someone doesn't see the point of stopping all the way when they can see that no one is coming. Then they don't look as carefully since they've done it a thousand times and what's so hard about driving anyway. Then someone gets hurt and its someone else's fault.
The streets are a mess right now. It's no Katrina, but it's not a sunny day in late May. Trees are down and pieces of people's houses are still flying through the air. Power lines are drooping across the street (Dan called one in today. She was driving but I saw it first.). PG&E guys are all over the street working hard to get the power back on line here so they can get on to the next neighborhood. Some folks are just not getting it.
The place in Palermo is off grid and will stay that way. My generator is up there, but I have my batteries with me in Pacifica. When I ran out the time I expect to be in this house and the cost/benefit of a solar array, I determined the best plan was to put it in our small-house-to-be in Palermo. The batteries worked fine. I didn't miss TV 'cause I don't watch it. When was the last time my TV answered my questions on splicing rim joists or installing pressure tanks? ;D
We have a TV but never watch it --- maybe when I'm on the road is about it. Even then I find a motel with dsl or do some WAR driving to find some access.
Batteries in the city? Better keep them out of sight so they don't end up powering hydraulics. [crz]
I can't even listen to the radio for very long-- as soon as I feel the stupid starting to attach itself to me I have to turn it off. I can't believe the US is so full of airheads -- the government project to dumb down America is a smashing success.
We get the media we deserve, Glenn. It wouldn't work if we didn't pay for it.
Oh, this must be Seasonal Affective Disorder we hear about when it rains for too long.
Naw.
All of us could take a lesson from the weather.
It pays no attention to Criticism.
Sorry about all the winter storms out there. Here it's going to 73 today...some rain and maybe storms tomorrow. Winter tornados maybe.... Everything has it's price.
Seems that you sit and wait long enough, they eventually pass.
It's clear out today and not to cold for January usually a clear night in January will bring below zero temps here so I am even more hopeful for an early spring. It looks like the sun is going to shine today but it is hard to tell until the sun comes up. Sometimes things start to warm up and then we get fog.
Interesting -- the sun has been up for an hour or better here. I forget that you don't get the winter sun we do- then we don't get the summer sun hours you do.
Wonder if this will work?
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Looks like it did.
Probably changes during the day but note CA getting the sun before WA in the morning.
Yes, we get the sun a bit later than folks in CA but I also have to wait for it to clear a mountain ridge before it actually hits my livingroom windows. And if the sun isn't hitting the windows it isn't up or out. See I was a bear in my past life.
That explains it. :)
We are on a ridge so get first and last sun in this area.
Quote from: tanya on January 06, 2008, 11:18:30 AM
It's clear out today and not to cold for January usually a clear night in January will bring below zero temps here so I am even more hopeful for an early spring. It looks like the sun is going to shine today but it is hard to tell until the sun comes up. Sometimes things start to warm up and then we get fog.
16 degs here but the sun is coming out. We had a little fog but it is burning off. I am hopeful for a early spring but not sure it is coming this year? Mark
The west coast weather has arrived in RR, New Mexico. Raining right now. 51 degrees. Winds 12 to 20 from SSW, 29.77 inches.
Light rain mixed with light snow this AM.
Sunny and headed to low 70's today.
53 degrees, partly cloudy, decreasing PG&E guys.
Getting ready for more rain come tomorrow, but the radar doesn't see it yet.
Part sunny - 43 high w/ 100% rain tomorrow - when I am supposed to go to work.
Local radar may not but the satellite view on NOAA shows the big one.
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It's snowing here and the weather advisory says it will snow though tomorrow. Car has a dead battery too so I am working on that, plus I have to do all my own chores today the kids have all gone back to their own lives. But it isn't to bad I have the battery charging, brought firewood in and fed the horses already now I jsut have to take more water out for the horses and hook up the battery and that will be all for today. No way am I shoveling today I am still really sore from shoveling three days ago plus I am really tired we had my daughter and her husband here for dinner last night and I stayed up to late and ate to much too.
Quote from: tanya on January 07, 2008, 03:01:29 PM
It's snowing here and the weather advisory says it will snow though tomorrow. Car has a dead battery too so I am working on that, plus I have to do all my own chores today the kids have all gone back to their own lives. But it isn't to bad I have the battery charging, brought firewood in and fed the horses already now I jsut have to take more water out for the horses and hook up the battery and that will be all for today. No way am I shoveling today I am still really sore from shoveling three days ago plus I am really tired we had my daughter and her husband here for dinner last night and I stayed up to late and ate to much too.
We got 4 inches of snow today and it was blowing out. According to our forcast should get between 9-20 inches of snow over the next 3-4 days. Glad I have a tractor to plow with but the walkways need done with a shovel! I am tired of the snow but to early in the season to get depressed about it yet. Give me a couple more months of snow and I will probley hate it! Mark
I picked up a load of stainless steel stands to weld from my job 80 miles away and brought them home to weld. Easier to do here when storming than there when storming -- rain tomorrow? Shows 100% ...Looks like a couple more good ones headed in our way -- don't look as bad as the last one yet.
Looks like the rain is going to stay in the sky for a while. I won't get a truck down the hill to the work site, but Dan and I are going to start trenching for our irrigation line. That's another good thing about our place. If it's too wet to drive on, it's a good time to dig. The clay bakes as hard as a coffee cup in the summer.
Funny. I work in an office and sometimes mention my building and growing plans. "That's a lot of work," most say. Well, yeah! What would I do all day if it wasn't?
Today was a little snow a little rain a little mist and some sun too. I took the long 100 mile trip to the big town over the pass and the roads were pretty sloppy but I got a lot of groceries, some garden supplies and a grow light so I can start my tomatoes and peppers so I am happy but soooo tired. I can't wait for spring now.
Quote from: Drew on January 09, 2008, 04:42:01 PM
Looks like the rain is going to stay in the sky for a while. I won't get a truck down the hill to the work site, but Dan and I are going to start trenching for our irrigation line. That's another good thing about our place. If it's too wet to drive on, it's a good time to dig. The clay bakes as hard as a coffee cup in the summer.
Funny. I work in an office and sometimes mention my building and growing plans. "That's a lot of work," most say. Well, yeah! What would I do all day if it wasn't?
When DH and I first got married and bought our old house 20 miles away from town, all the other Korean students thought we were nuts. They just couldn't understand why we'd grow our own food when it was easier to just go to the grocery store and buy what we needed. They couldn't fathom us doing the work ourselves to fix up that old place, either. They just didn't even begin to get it until the Korean engineering student group came to our house for a cookout, and they ate juicy tomatoes and lettuce that had just been picked sometime after the grilling started. We had apple pie from our apple tree for dessert and they were in awe. Their kids all had a ball watching the chickens and messing around in the garden, as well as running around and around the house, because most of them lived in tiny student apartments and had no yards to play in. THEN they sort of got it (not completely, of course, but at least the way we lived started to make a little sense to them.) My MIL still doesn't get it. One time I decided to bake homemade bread for them in Korea. (DH's idea because when we first got married he was amazed that you could bake breads and cakes at home; he had no idea it was so easy before that.) Anyway, MIL became irritated and impatient with the whole kneading/rising process and kept saying, "If you wanted bread that badly, there's a bakery right down the street. Why don't you just go buy bread???" She didn't get that I was making it for them to try because my husband wanted me to. My FIL was a bit smarter about it... he lounged in front of the TV while I worked and commented on how good it smelled baking, and while MIL had gone to bed early before the bread was done, he waited to sample some. And some more, and a little more, until the entire loaf was gone (it was a big fabulous braided loaf of challah). He turned to my husband and said, "Now I see why you let her go to the trouble... I'd never eat bakery bread again either." To DH's knowledge, that was the first time their oven had ever been used to cook in; up to that point, his parents had no idea you even COULD cook in an oven. They used it to store their pots and pans! Anyway, all that is beside the point, Drew. I think God created work for us to do to be enjoyable, but somehow through the ages we've developed the idea that it should be avoided... we lost the joy in hard work and a job well done. Those of us who do enjoy it are a mystery to the ones who just don't get it. Some of the best times that we have as a family are working together.... building the chicken house, working in the garden, preserving the harvest, working on the house, etc. Other folks don't get that until they've tried it and succeeded in doing something they didn't think they could do.
Oh, yes, this thread is about the weather! The earlier part of the week was wonderfully warm and tornadic, which I thoroughly enjoyed as it felt much more homey to me. Then, yesterday the sky cleared up and we actually saw the sun, though the temperature was only about 40 (still warm for WI this time of year, and nice because of the sunshine.) This morning is looking cloudy and like it could rain... there is supposed to be some rain turning to snow this PM. Sigh. Back to Wisconsin winter.
"Rain, rain, go away. Go and bother San Jose."
It's Thursday, so I don't care if it rains a little. I just want to work under a dry sky on Saturday. I'd do Sunday too, but I lead our 4H web design project that day. Poor kids. It's supposed to be sunny and 54 degrees. Maybe Dave and I can get a bike ride in!
I was walking in the City (That's SF to us geocentric types) on 12/31. I was thinking that maybe I should take my next contract up here. All the young dudes were wearing North Face jackets. Mine was from Cabela's.
So far, still no more rain... the sun is really trying to make a showing... peeking through the clouds every now and then because I can see shadows outside right now, but couldn't a minute ago.
Rain and temp @ 36F. Glad I jumped on the cabin early and got in about 3 hours before it started running the facia board on the porch framing. Prediction is 80% today and 100% tomarrow with freezing rain and snow. :(. Was sort of hoping it would hold off for a couple more days to get my metal on the roof. Well maybe next week I will grab a couple good days.
sounds like weather in Illinois, Mississippi, Alabama looks pretty rough? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22591808/
Dreary, dreary, dreary. That's all there is to it. A little over freezing. Cloudy. Snowed really heavy last night but it was above freezing so it is gone off the roads and sidewalks, and there's still a light dusting on the yard. I hate winter here.
Well it rained early and stopped at 1000. So back I went to the Mt to finish what I didn't get done yesterday. Temp's were 40-45F, windy but the rain held off. If it will just stay away for another day. I keep saying that " All I need is one more good day". That will run out soon I'm sure.
Pretty nice today for this time of year... partly sunny and about 40 degrees. Kids got to play outside for a change.
Well I got me another good day. Temp was in early 50's and sunny. Just what I needed to get the metal roof put on my cabin. That was a great relief that I wouldn't get it done before bad weather. No I can concentrate on getting the windows and door put in. If it rains I can live with that as long as the road doesn't get bad. The forecast is rain, freezing rain and snow for the next three days. Just have to wait and see. Alot depends on the southern weather front and how far it tracks off the coast.
Mid 50s today --a week of sun coming with mid 50s to 61 on Tues. Lows 31 to 38.
It was sunny to hazy -occl low cloud (some call it fog) today. I went prospecting a bit --found a little gold -- about a 1/8 inch skinny nugget and a few pieces. Still a little work to do this weekend for Monday delivery but have to prospect in the nice weather. :)
In a T-shirt choppin wood yesterday, Nor'eastah tonight.
It's been relatively warm, albeit gloomy here. However, this morning was decidedly colder. DH went for an on-site interview, and now it is snowing like crazy, so I hope he is careful driving back tonight!
It looks like it wants to be nice all week (Mid-50s and clear). Perfect trench digging weather!
Just started to snow here, not sticking, but it getting dark and cold so I suspect it will stick soon.
We had some sun and wind today. Now it is snowing again. I have lots of snow like the pics mark posted. It looks like I will be shoveling again tomorrow. I am not shoveling the stuff falling off hte roof either it is ice about half way up and that will be a job for my son. I don't mind the shoveling but I am not aout to go out and break ice all day long.
-9 this AM. 0 Degrees now. Cold for 2 days. Tomorrow it is supposed to warm up.
Forecast 19 F low overnight, 46 F high. Mostly sunny. 36 F right now. 38% humidity. 30.39"
Typical high desert NM weather for this time of year.
Currently it is 20F with snow showers. Approximately 1" accum overnight. Forecast is 1-4" today with temps dropping by this evening to 10-15F. Last year my construction stopped on the 19th of January. Looks like this may be a repeat. I hope not. :( . Before the roads get to bad I am going to venture into town and try to get this excuse for head hair cut back a little. Also going to drop off a neighbor's generator that died (this fall)to a local lawn mower shop to go over and hopefully get it running again. No hurry because the neighbor pull stakes(December 1st) at his summer home and will not need it till spring. He is off grid and doesn't stay there in the winter because of the weather(road is 6 miles off the main with no snow removal). c*
Today it was pretty chilly out but the sun was shining and that is nice. It is clear out and the weather report calls for 9 degrees so I am putting in lots of wood.
Overcast, cool, but dry. Come on, baby! Just stay dry for the work at the farm and you can rain like Noah's busy season all week!
Wind, blowing snow most of the day. Accum thusfar is 2" with 1-4" pred the rest of the evening. Temp had a high of 22F. Managed to get a 6' utility door installed. Wasn't bad as I had the generator inside the basement which heated it up nicely until it came time to install the door.
I was down in the valley until a couple hours ago - yesterday was nice, sunny - 50's maybe low 60's... :)
Today it was socked in fog all day - foggy all the way up to the road that takes us to our place in Mariposa :P
As I was driving up our private drive onto the ridge of the mountain, I looked out at the horizon, sun had just gone down but enough light & color to view the sea of clouds covering the valley - looked like a huge ocean - I was very glad I wasn't in that anymore!
Wow! Tonight the weather guys say it could dip as low as 10 degrees F! [shocked]
That would be a record low for the day. And a high of 31 tomorrow. 29 F right now, 13%, 29.99"
No precip tho', just cold
We're having our FIRST snow of the year!!!! ;D
The media heads are already talking about shutting down the roads and the need to buy milk and bread.....It's 40 deg.,nothing is sticking.....and ...it's not going to get any colder, BUT....folks here can't live in this winter mess!
More wrecks than you can shake a stick at ..... They say SNOW here and people ram their cars together for some reason.
It is very pretty and will all be gone in a couple of hours.
This morning when I got up it was 5 below zero!!! IT warmed up pretty nice withthe sun out and now the storm clouds are coming in so I think it will stay relatively warm but I am supposed to go to pick up a friend about three hours away tomorrow over snowy mountain passes and I am not really feeling up to it so I think I might jsut leave her there for another day or two. I think I have the flu or strep throat again. I sure am not up to driving/traveling feeling like this, especially in a big storm.
IT'S HERE. Started snowing about 0630 and has been steady ever since with about 1" plus since then. Pred are 4-8" before it is all said and done. Nice thing about snow is the temps are usually not that low when it snows. Kids are home from school today because of the incoming weather forecast and snow. So I guess I will put on my black and white stripped shirt, grab the whistle and clean out the penalty box. ;D
"How the weather". See for yourself. This has only been going on for a couple of hours now. Seems like about 1" an hour. Can't keep the boy inside as he want's to plow the driveway. Will wait until it is about over or the total accumulation gets more than the 4 wheeler will handle. Of course I could do it with the tractor but that would take all the fun out of it for him.
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The truck was clean before this hit. Well not clean. It hasn't been that all summer but it didn't have any snow on it. The pictures don't do it justice. I mean the snow and how much is coming down now. A look at the front of the house towards the road (500 ft) and the main road is just barely visible.
So far, it is above freezing this morning. Yesterday was pretty nice. We're supposed to get some bad weather before the weekend, though, and I'm really dreading Saturday's high only being in the single digits. Our house is hard to keep warm in 20-degree weather, let alone single digits. It means not opening the blinds/curtains on the entire north wall all day to try to keep it warmer, and that also means feeling like you're in a box. Most of our windows face north because it is the best view from our house, regardless of how stupid it was to build a house with a lot of north-facing windows in Wisconsin. Well, while it is above freezing, it isn't warm enough that the dog's water has completely thawed out (he stayed out last night as it didn't get very cold... he is happier that way) so I'd best get out there with the teakettle to thaw it out.
I was going to show you folks that it does indeed snow here in GA., but I slept in and it was about melted when I ventured outside. It's probably just enough colder over at Christina's place that the snow stayed on the ground.
I saw the snow on TV John
Overnight it dropped to 9 F here at the house and -9 F in the mountains. Brrr.
Sunny though, 622 watts/m2 here at home and 596 in the mtns, measured between noon and 1 PM
Well it never did snow again but it is only 8 degrees out now so I am putting off the chores untilthe sun comes out which wont be very long now. I am feeling much better i keep forgeting the hay gives me hay fever even in the winter!!! So even though I am not totally over it I am not going to get anyone else sick or get even sicker on the road. I am looking forward tot he trip but I don't like leaving the house for very long in this cold weather so I hope the car doesn't break down. And where the ice is too think (about 8 inches) on the roof the ceiling is leaking so I have to get that ice off of there ASAP I am lucky the leak is right over the kitchen sink though.
Well I think the major portion of this front is passing as we ended up with about 6" in 6 hours. Yeah he has already mounted the 4 wheeler and my driveway is getting cleaned even as we speak. Give a kid a motor and a steering wheel and you will see them no more. ;)
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Me and my son took off toward the cabin. He on the 4 wheeler and me on the tractor. It took 2 hours for a round trip of plowing the road. From the house it is only 2 miles (1-1/2 of plowing) Maybe it will get a little warmer the next couple of day.Not!. In fact it is suppose to drop to around zero on Sat & Sun. At least they will not be able to track down the snow as bad and I might be able to get there next week. Last year I had to stop work on 1/19 it looks like it is about the same this year. Maybe with this little effort I can get another week or two in.
It is cold, though not as cold as i expected today. Mid-20s so far, and it started out windy and sunny, but it has settled down a bit and gotten cloudier... started snowing a few minutes ago... really fine and heavy snow.
It's warm and dry enough to work (Mid 50s). Now let's see if anyone will come with me.
If not I'll go buy some pipe and make irrigation risers.
We got up to 59 degrees - beautiful out today - I worked in the garden for about an hour, then set out in my lawn chair on the deck & read for awhile - even took a nap for a few minutes :)
I was working on the Arsenal bridge at Rock Island,IL today. Goes over the Mississippi. And it it was colder than a well digger's...........ax handle! [shocked] The wind chill was headed down to -5 at quitting time, and expected to go down to -20 tonight.
This morning it is 6F. Not as cold as predicted but it still has a nip in the air. The major percipitation flew off the coast just south of us. Hear that Raleigh/Durham had 3". Tonight is suppose to get down to 0 deg. Have to throw another log on the fire.
-7 this morning. Sunny, but really cold!
It's partially cloudy out here by the coast. The clouds might not make it past noon. I'm sitting in my home office with the door to the deck open so Henry-the-boxer-mix can go in and out. The high today is supposed to be 51 but I think it's high 50s right now.
Stayed really cold all day with more of a wind than yesterday. Tomorrow is the warmest day on the forecast, 20degrees above 0. :( I hope we get another mid-winter warm-up soon!!!
We have a week of snow coming except Wednesday which is rain.
Got down to -1F overnight. Not suppose to get higher than 20F this week with chance of snow off and on.
It was -15 here this morning and I think the high got up around 12. It is already 0 degrees outside and it is only 5:30 this weather is supposed to last three days and I will be soooo glad when it is over. The good news is that the nice sunny windows on the south side of the house let in enough free heat today to get the house up to 82 that was a nice time to lay in the sun and take my nap so I can stay up stoking the fire again tonight. brrrrr
We had a bit of sleet today currently 37 out.
I brought up a load of dry Live Oak fro a dead tree by our spring -- 4WD with the Bush Hog. Boy, is that nice burning wood. Holds a great fire and nice hard coals. Keeps us around 72 to 75 in the underground headquarters with a moderate to small fire.
Partly cloudy( partly is quickly disappearing). Temp 6F earlier. Up to 13 now. Suppose to get something falling afterbit (freezing rain or snow). Highs predicted are 36F. Don't think it will make it there though. I am hoping as I could get some things done on the cabin today.
Looks like it will be rain through the rest of the week. It can even rain this weekend. I give it my permission. We're not working but instead doing a bunch of 4H stuff. Dan and I are also going to go see Joel Salatin speak on Saturday! Yep, I'm the quintessential Fan Boy.
We had some snow flakes earlier today but it's 41 now - keeps saying it's going to snow but so far nothing that you would notice. Still could snow or just rain for the rest of the week as Drew said. I have to work so it won't matter - only thing I don't like is fog & so far this year I haven't had to drive in much. The worst was the other day driving from the valley to the mountains - it didn't clear up until I hit the road before our private road.... :(
There's nights I'm driving home from work where I literally can barely see one line ahead of me - this is 22 miles out into the country - all the side roads & idiots that don't bother to stop - it feels like you're driving blind. I guess I've had one or 2 nights this year like that but not every night like it is some years. :P I have to open my window to listen & go about 25 mph - that's probably too fast but takes me an hour to get home & after working from 1130 am & getting off at midnite or later, I'm tired!
Really cold today. Went by the cabin and the floor was covered with a thin layer of ice with melted water on top of that. Tried sweeping out the water but it refroze as soon as I moved it. Got some of it out though. It's still really slick. High today was about 30. Didn't get any work done. :(
Wow. We're supposed to get 5" of rain on Friday or so.
I'm sure glad I got a new roof two winters ago.
We're looking at rain/snow for the next several days - at least until Monday - I go to the valley Friday for work so will just be in rain... I like the snow when I'm up here - don't have to worry about going anyplace really & it's nice & toasty warm in the cabin! :) The snow looks really pretty & usually doesn't stay very long...
Cold. Snowing. But it sounds like my neighbor is out there cleaning my drive again. He got a new snowblower for Christmas and is really getting his ya-ya's by doing all the driveways he can find! Works for me. :)
-13F tonight. I think I'll start work late tomorrow and let it warm to 0F. :(
About 6 inches of snow currently with more through tonight. Currently 32.5 out. I'm a 'mericun - I don't do Celsius. :)
Currently 10 F I'm cold. BURRRRRRR!
No snow today, sunny out and 4 degs last night 6 degs right now. Nippy out but no wind to deal with which is nice. Mark
Here's our weather report for the day thus far: DD ran downstairs before me this morning and pulled up the blind to see the thermometer outside and she yelled, "Hey Mom! Guess what? It's almost all the way up to zero right now!!!" Brrrr. And we're out of coffee. See, we need to live in a warmer climate so I can give up my coffee addiction... it is all about a warm cup to keep your hands from freezing.
Quote from: glenn kangiser on January 24, 2008, 09:39:51 AM
About 6 inches of snow currently with more through tonight. Currently 32.5 out. I'm a 'mericun - I don't do Celsius. :)
SNOW?? I thought you lived in Sunny California? You know that place they are allways wearing tiny bathing suits at the beach. Mark
We are near Yosemite at 3000 feet so we get a couple a year.
Yup -- you got the place right, Mark. That's what we do here. Would you like me to post a pix of me in my Speedo swim trunks? hmm rofl
Please NO Glenn I haven't had my supper yet ;D
Quote from: glenn kangiser on January 24, 2008, 12:12:32 PM
We are near Yosemite at 3000 feet so we get a couple a year.
Yup -- you got the place right, Mark. That's what we do here. Would you like me to post a pix of me in my Speedo swim trunks? hmm rofl
How about just one of Newport Beach that will do. I haven't been there in 24 years it might have changed a little? Mark
Temp hasn't risen above 23F. Windy with flurries. It's amazing what effect the wind has. I have been working outside in the same temps without wind lately. If you keep moving you are OK. Today I almost froze with the wind. Quit earlier than normal when I couldn't feel my finger or was it my toes. Maybe my brain also.
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this is what we woke up to this morning - snowing like crazy again!
I took my picture earlier but was very careful how I composed it as I was afraid Sassy would give me a bad time about showing junk in the yard. Little did I know that the snow would cover it. d* That's what she told me. [noidea'
What was I thinking? hmm
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Anyway -- she wanted to compare mine to hers --- and a couple more. :)
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The garage
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View of the surface from the underground complex east window
I still had my slippers on c* and I wanted to see if there was a lot of difference in his camera compared to mine - his is a better one although he paid less for it through a deal on the internet - he breaks too many cameras so he has to get good deals on them d*
BTW, its still snowing...
Nice scenery and great views. I am glad someone else is getting dumped on besides me. That's better than you in a Bathing suit glenn. I can eat now
Quote from: Willy on January 24, 2008, 02:13:14 PM
Quote from: glenn kangiser on January 24, 2008, 12:12:32 PM
We are near Yosemite at 3000 feet so we get a couple a year.
Yup -- you got the place right, Mark. That's what we do here. Would you like me to post a pix of me in my Speedo swim trunks? hmm rofl
How about just one of Newport Beach that will do. I haven't been there in 24 years it might have changed a little? Mark
I was there about 12 or so years ago -- sons girlfriends place. Yes -- good scenery.
Sorry John -- I was just kidding. Terrible word picture, eh? You used the V word, John but I see I did too. Yes -- we are on the ridge and can see for probably a hundred miles or more on a clear day. Close up is the valley below about a mile to 3 miles as the crow flies - 3 to 7 or so by road. Looking that direction is our other house, about 75 road miles. We could probably see it if it was possible. Toward the WNW is our longest view --to the mountain range just this side of the bay area. The mountains this side of San Jose and South Bay.
Still dam cold here, but slowly melting, as this picture shows. This is the backside of my chicken palace. Way underbuilt too! I had not planned on such a snow load.
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Cool -- plastic snow.
About -8F (I don't do C either) and dropping. Could hit -15F tonight! Just got off the phone with my wife. She's in Cancun.......... ??? Business trip.....yeah,right.
Quote from: MaineRhino on January 24, 2008, 07:29:33 PM
Still dam cold here, but slowly melting, as this picture shows. This is the backside of my chicken palace. Way underbuilt too! I had not planned on such a snow load.
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We just make smowmen here in Minnesota. No fancy schmantzy snow sculptures for us. :o
Nice snow pics all.
Cool how the snow curls and folds like that.
[cool]
It is 0-F this morning. Got about 1-2" accum overnight but it blew around so bad it's hard to see where it went.
It's warming up! Only -14F now.
We have about 4" left and melting. Currently 43.8 with 100% rain today - 70% tonight.
Ha! Great picture MaineRhino! I wondered where they got the inspiration for that fancy Christmas candy! :D
Rain * 10^3 here today. It trapped my dad at our house for the weekend. I won't make him trench today.
Quote from: fishing_guy on January 24, 2008, 08:38:32 PM
Quote from: MaineRhino on January 24, 2008, 07:29:33 PM
Still dam cold here, but slowly melting, as this picture shows. This is the backside of my chicken palace. Way underbuilt too! I had not planned on such a snow load.
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We just make smowmen here in Minnesota. No fancy schmantzy snow sculptures for us. :o
Nice snow pics all.
That curl of snow looks just like a Christmas ribbon candy.
Funny, I missed Drew's post and didn't read it until after I'd posted mine... guess great minds think alike. Guess what? They're predicting that we'll be above freezing on Sunday. Do you think if I leave the dog outside the crazy lady will call the cops on me again? Especially since it is supposed to rain and he may be too dense to go in his house and out of the rain?
Maybe you should call the cops & tell them she is stalking & harassing you guys! And won't leave the poor dog alone & he's getting a complex c*
I drove down to the valley - 63 degrees, wind blowing like crazy but felt wonderful! Kinda balmy like :) Now, if the valley could stay nice like that, it wouldn't be so bad to live in, although we don't have the nice mountains to look at... usually the air is to smoggy or foggy to be able to see them :(
Heat Wave Today, hit +36F. However, I'm getting concerned about the ice in the river (I live on a medium sized piece of the drink). Shouldn't bother me a whole lot, but the folks upstream could get hit with a nasty ice jam. Causes flooding. :(.........Just saw a weather clip from CA........you getting wet Glenn? ???
I went prospecting -- nearly got stuck in 4WD in the Cherokee-- changed my mind and headed up the hill when this one hit. It's really whippen.
Quote from: glenn kangiser on January 27, 2008, 08:42:09 PM
-- nearly got stuck in 4WD in the Cherokee--
That's why I seldom engage the lockers unless I have. Another good reason to own a winch, and a buch of chain, straps, etc.
I own a winch -- It's not on the Cherokee though. d*
Also -- I would likely have to bury an anchor in that place. Still would be better than nothing -- and it's not like I dont like to dig. [frus]
The one I have is a 12000 lb'er Maybe I need to get a more compact one.
Where I went - the mine - was all down hill until the bottom where my trommel pix are. There it is grass over red clay and really slick.
That 12K must weigh in a tad heavy too.
Costco, Sam's Club and others have 8,000 pounders, made in China for just under $400. I believe even Warn has their name on one.
Here's a great helper... It works too. A friend I wheel with owns one and used it in UT once a number of years ago, on his Cherokee, when he was off by himself.
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You could probably make one. There are several different size models from ATV up to a 14,000 pounder.
Click for PullPal (http://www.premierpowerwelder.com/pullpal.html)
If you can dig a hole, burying the spare tire works too.
That looks like a good idea. Yeah - the 12000 lb winch is heavy - can't find the manf. online but find references to them -- probably closed down. Desert Dynamics, Hesperia, CA. I used to truck past there. Bought it then.
Today was absolutely gorgeous... sun even showed up and stayed around all day. Really pretty sunset. Kids played outside all afternoon. It was around 35 degrees and there wasn't any wind to speak of. Really nice. Wish winter here had more days like this... wouldn't mind living here so much if it did.
Crazy lady didn't even come by to stalk our dog today, or at least we didn't see her or hear about it. Tomorrow is supposed to be above freezing too, so I'm going to let him stay out all day tomorrow, too, while he has a chance. Saw some nut on the next block over come out on his back porch in his boxers and flip-flops to smoke a cigarrette... it was warm but not THAT warm... and besides, there are some guys who really should just keep their shirts on, no matter the weather. Not all the snow melted, but hopefully most of it will tomorrow and the next day because after that it is supposed to be cold again.
It rained plenty this weekend out here on the coast. Dan and I drove up to Point Reyes Station to see the Joel Salatin lecture and got stuck on highway 1 while Cal Trans cleared it. We were late, but only for the local food tasting. Joel assured us that we hadn't missed his talk, shook my hand and signed our books.
I remember when my heroes were musicians. :D
After the talk we bought some eggs at the butcher shop. $7 per dozen. It seems bit upside down when we pay gold rush prices for low tech eggs, but that's just the kind of trouble we're in now. Then again, maybe a good egg is actually worth 58 cents. Other farmers I know say it costs $6/doz. to turn a small profit with a CSA (i.e., no store front) model.
On Sunday I was in the barn at the Pacifica 4H club farm talking to six families on a pastured laying hen project I'll be leading. I brought some of my $7 eggs. The mantra was Sustainability, Responsibility, and Capitalism. They can't wait to get started!
I have a line on some Santeria rescue chickens for our flock. Birds escaping religious persecution (sort of). I love it!
We also started remodeling a long-suffering bathroom. This is good rainy weather work.
More rain all week. It might taper off enough for us to trench this coming weekend!
Snow again right now. 2+ inches. Barometer is rising - maybe it'll quit.
A good day to work. Started out @ 16F but by afternoon it raised to 43F. Sunny. Then the mud started to surface. Well at least it is not snow. Forecast 80% rain tomarrow.
43 F today here in sunny Minnesota. :D -10F forecast for tomorrow night :(
I'm ready for spring!
Got the snow plow on the Bush Hog just in time for the snow to all be melted, but I'm ready for the next one and it is great for cleaning the ditches so the water doesn't get under the road and break the pavement.
Looking for snow tomorrow night and Wednesday with lows to 23.
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Snowed here today. The kiddos enjoyed the day off off from school.
Zero here this morning I shoveled snow day before yesterday but the big storm that hit about a hundred miles away missed us!!! It is so cold here though I am very ready for some warmer temps.
It has been so cold here that the pipes to my my washer are frozen and so far I have not been able to thaw them out. I did manage to do the laundry though I jsut filled up buckets to fillthe washer up once it was full enough the washer turned on and washed the clothes and the drain is working fine then it stopped again and waited for me to add enough rinse water to run and then it rinsed the clothes too!!! This saved me the trip to the laundry mat. I htought I should post my strategy in case anybody else has a frozen washer and doesn't want to go to the laundry mat. You might want to make usre the drain is still open though before filling the washer.
Mid 40s here today... feels great but looks gloomy. It's supposed to get cold again by tomorrow. Darn it. I think the high tomorrow is 23. Girls got all excited this morning when they got up and looked out because all the snow was gone. Every time we have a thaw in the winter, they get excited and think spring is here.
We have a snow day. A bit of a storm blew thru overnight and left the roads covered with a little icy snow, and the the schools all closed up shop for the day. I know if this was back home it would just be a blip. But here in the desert we have few snow plows or road sanders. ???
It's amazing. The field across the road has gone from solid white yesterday to muddy brown, and now it looks like it is covered with a bright green mist. Amazing how quickly it greens up here when there are a few days of nice weather. Of course our yard is still a brown mess because we never got all the leaves cleaned up in the fall... it's covered in soggy rotting leaves. Maybe the kids and I need to go rake it today. :) It'd be nice to get out some.
Morning started out warm and sunny in the mid 50's. Now it's down in the 30's cloudy and a north wind is howling. Decided to call it a day early and came home for lunch.
It hit 108 today. I broke my shovel trying to dig a post hole in the china plate I call my field. I hate sunscreen but I hate cancer even more.
Oh wait. That's my post for July.
It's 49 degrees today and more rain on the way. I probably won't get to go to the farm and work this weekend because of a new storm. I think it's a conspiracy by the USDA in an attempt to destroy the local food agenda.
Freezing rain early in the AM. Kid had a 2 hour delay in school. I delayed as well until it warmed up enough to make the ice melt some. Didn't pay too much attention to the temps although one time I looked it was 43F. The started to rain for about 1/2 hour. Got 10 windows installed though. Worked til dark. I hate picking up tools with a flashlight.
It was around 46F at noon. 3F and dropping now. Gusts to 40MPH. And dropping to -8F overnight. Brrrrr.
Quote from: Drew on January 29, 2008, 01:06:20 PM
It hit 108 today. I broke my shovel trying to dig a post hole in the china plate I call my field. I hate sunscreen but I hate cancer even more.
Oh wait. That's my post for July.
It's 49 degrees today and more rain on the way. I probably won't get to go to the farm and work this weekend because of a new storm. I think it's a conspiracy by the USDA in an attempt to destroy the local food agenda.
Reminds me of old -- what was it -- Windows 95 problems -- crosslinked Data -- why don't we have that one anymore?
Now you are beginning to understand, Drew -- Sometimes it's just great to know isn't it. :)
According to French and Raven there are 5 kinds of power: Reward, coercive, legitimate, referent, and expert. Each has the potential for corruption but, in my opinion, none has so much in practice as legitimate power.
Well, this week our rain needs are definitely being met.
Windows 95. That was the last Microsoft Beta I ever participated in. That is unless you count their current product releases that phone home every time they crash.
Man, I think I need some ice cream or something.
I did the Win95 Beta and MSN Beta and Norton Utilities all at the same time - about the time for the Win95 release -- came within minutes of passing the MCSE? test but decided I could never wear a suit.
Snowed another inch or so last night - other had left and was replaced. 36.1 out. A little sun.
You have the corruption right. It starts in the small towns and is perfected by the time they reach big office. Don't get me wrong though -- they do just fine in the small towns. Our story - http://www.lycaeum.org/books/books/last_circle/1.htm
QuoteMan, I think I need some ice cream or something.
What flavor?
Yesterday was balmy and all the snow had melted. It made it up to 52 degrees and was dreary and rainy. Around suppertime, I was cooking dinner when all the sudden a pain shot up my right arm...sure signal of weather coming in. Within minutes the wind was screaming around the house and the temperature had dropped to 19 degrees and was continuing to plummet. The wind just howled all night long, like the freight trains that come by every fifteen minutes, only louder and constant. Couldn't sleep worth a darn with that racket and aching all over from the cold front. I looked out around 10 PM, and it was a swirling wall of whiteness, and I was sure we'd wake up with snow to the windows this morning, but it must have blown all the way to Canada... there's only an inch or two on the ground. But boy, is it cold! It hasn't even gotten up to 10 degrees this morning.
we had snow again last night... was 35 degrees earlier this am - now 43 - clouds & sun - the sky gets blue & then you see all the chemtrail grids all over the sky & in the next few minutes it's all clouded up again >:(
That's an intense story, Glenn. One of the joys of rural living and over the counter cold medicine.
The sun is actually staying out for a while here. Go figure.
Sometimes when I'm in Home Depot and in a bad mood I turn to Dan and say, "Wow. How much meth do we have to cook to afford one of those?"
Yeah, I'm funny like poison oak sometimes. d*
It's an interesting real life wild west story. Did you get all the way through it?
We live above and within sight of the airport. We know a guy who took photos of the planes loading and hauling the cargo out. Government from local clear to the Whitehouse was in on it. Others have confirmed different parts of the story.
That story has never been solved. Part of the Iran Contra thing and went all the way to Washington DC. Investigative reporter who wrote it had to go into hiding and change her name.
Sheriffs still cooking Meth? -- I don't think so..the Indians were pretty ticked about being slave labor for that, but I heard they were still having bonuses up to a few years ago and the Son-in-law of Paige just retired as head Sheriff. Seemed nice enough in public. I've heard otherwise but you never know and don't dare ask. I heard that they shred and bury the dope now so they don't make toxic smoke. X marks the spot?
The one who wanted to straighten out the department was found at the bottom of the lake 10 years later. Lots of others retired right after he hit the bottom of the lake.
Son of Paige retired last year.
Are we straight? Who knows? Sheriff dept animal control lady was jailed for selling meth from the Sheriff animal control truck last year. Was she with us or with them. I won't ask. :)
Wind is blowing a little -- free electricity. I cleaned the snow off of the solar panels today - picked up from 24 watts on one half of the panels to 224 watts immediately. I need to build racks for them.
Currently 36.1 out and weather is looking better for a day or so. Was cold but decent today.
Join law enforcement Drew and the cooking, harvesting and packaging will already be done for you.
Poison Oak is one of my favorite plants. Looks nice all summer and keeps the riff-raff away. [crz]
Quote from: glenn kangiser on January 30, 2008, 11:24:42 PM
... I need to build racks for them.
HMMM. I think I've heard that refrain before... ???
;D ;D rofl rofl rofl
Ooops. Better mind my p's and q's.... I've got some of the same around here someplace.... :-[
Yup -- still not done -- I'm doing a test to see if I can survive without doing it. [crz]
A test. That's good!
"Yes, Mr. Inspector, sir, I was testing my rack before I bothered your office with my unworthy little permit application. Could I interest you in some crystal meth? Oh, you brought your own. May I have my dog back now, please?"
I keep checking the NOAA weather report for Palermo and it's still at 50% chance of rain for Saturday and something else for Sunday. If I go up I'd be by myself since this is the 4H Sees Candy Sales weekend. Dan's covering it (Thank you, thank you, Dan!). I could get a poncho and trench for two days by myself, or even one. The soil is good and loose and it makes for a great meditation (We all call it something different, but it comes to the same thing.). Its either that or I stay home and work on the bathroom with Dan - Except she's at 4H. Hmm.
Rain suit, shovel, my farm, iPod, Mozart, Vivaldi, and Porcupine Tree. I think I can make that work.
If you are dry in your rain suit you could shovel all day and not realize you were doing it, Drew, aside from wondering where the blisters came from at night. Kind of like shoveling gold bearing soil into the trommel. 8 hours went by before I figured out what was going on. All of the sudden I felt tired.
I'm sure I won't bother the inspector with a request to check my rack. He's much too busy for that.
Currently 38.1 and overcast. It's getting hot out. Chance of Rain through Sunday except Friday and Sunday nights - then some sun. It's been a long wet one.
Cold wet and heavy snow. Perfect cabin building weather.
I predict it will not snow again this year. I just went to the valley and bought snow tires for the back of my truck - four of them.
You guys can all thank me later. [crz]
Temp at about freezing . Freezing rain hanging on everything. Another day of referee as the kids are out of school.
almost up t freezing. Had a lot of snow overnight and it keeps snowing off and on again. Hope that the roads are clear because I have a doc's appointment this afternoon and it is a 45 minute drive in good weather. Got to get the doc to give me all my records so I can transfer to OK. My grandma called me yesterday morning bellyaching about the snow they were getting back home, and I had to remind her that she is lucky; at least there it will melt off soon!
Rain...all night and most of the day. About 40F.
We've been having rain also - 39 degrees - yesterday was actually pretty nice - was in the valley part of the day - in the 50's & was partially sunny - went to visit my dad, who isn't doing real well but much better than the docs expected, has esophageal cancer :( - also visited my granddaughters... :)
It's nice now. Low 50s and partially cloudy. It will rain over the weekend, then get nice again in time to go to work. :P
4to 6" of snow last night -- fairly warm so it probably won't stay long but pretty wet snow. I got to plow a bunch with the Bush Hog - a mile and our renters driveway.
Currently 37.8 and getting warmer?
Cloudy, 49 F, 35%
60% chance of precip.
solar's barely puking along
It was snowing again - stopped now - 37 degrees
47F, overcast. Feels and looks like rain. Continued trend until Wed then colder.
snowing again - Sunny California!
It has not stop snowing up here in our Cascade Mountain Range, closing the I 90.
Quote from: glenn kangiser on January 31, 2008, 10:29:41 PM
I predict it will not snow again this year. I just went to the valley and bought snow tires for the back of my truck - four of them.
You guys can all thank me later. [crz]
:-X heh
Take note of that -- seldom happens. [crz]
Rain all weekend, but it looks okay for the work week. Gee, thanks. I put my bike rack back on my truck so I'll get a ride in on my way home this week.
This morning it is 4 below again and I know it has to get warmer soon. I am using electric heat now so I sure hope so. At least the sun comes out and warms things up nicely during the day. Yesterday it got up to 82 in the living/garden room with NO heat on in the house but as soon as that sun goes down it is freezing again. I am so ready for spring/warm weather but at least those big storms are missing us here in the northern part of my county. We have had very little snow lately but it is supposed to snow tonight. The crazy thing is that the surrounding counties are all disaster areas due to the heavy snows.
We have sunshine - yeah! The ground is covered with 2-4 inches of snow, frozen & crumbly... Glenn has been outside since 0430 building stuff for prospecting...
The weather is promising. 53 degrees and sunny. The bike rack is back on the truck and I have blocked Wednesdays after work until the end of October for a ride. Optimism is the catalyst of my success.
Raining and melting here. We had knee-deep snow last night (not sure when it fell? Sometime after dark I guess) and now it is all thawing and dripping and relatively warm... around 35-40 degrees.
70's and sunshine here today. :D
65 and rain today...70's and tornados tomorrow.....
Still freezing cold here and more snow on the way. Brrrr I think I will plan to spend next winter in the tropics. My feet are still frozen even withthe heater directly onthem. Definately not human habitat.
Sunny and brisk at 54 degrees. I checked out my bike last night and it's all set to go tomorrow after work!
Pouring rain and thunder today. >:(
Bright blue skies so far & 43 degrees! :)
Hi Folks, Working near Savannah, Ga. for a while. Was 83F here today! Beats the heck out of 25F at home. :)
27 and snow today. Was 76 two days ago. >:(
It's good enough. I have my bike and I'm riding after work. Watch out, turtleheads! Drew's passing on your left! ;D
Cummins diesel with no muffler and exhaust on the right, Drew . Watch out if I pass. No one fingered salute like the other guy gave me, please.
Started about 45F this am and climbed to near 60F when I finished working. Rained most of the day but hey "I'm inside now". It it wasn't for the mud I wouldn't have a care in the world. The NFS road has thawed out and it is like driving on a sponge.
Well it is still freezing here, zero againt his morning but it was sunny for awhile an the garden room got up to 102. I am trying to heat it up with a heater too because we have tomatoes now and my hortorculturist friend insists they have to be between 70 and 80 degrees. I tried telling her that there is no way any tomatoes in this town are ever sprouted between 70 and 80 we jsut don't get those kind of temps until late inthe summer and then not for very long, but as I said she insists and she is paying that electric bill too!!!
We got dumped on with snow yesterday. Today, the snow was up over the tops of the little decorative solar lights that DH has down the front walk... I think they're around 2' tall.
Well yesterday it started out at 23F and rose to 36F by afternoon. A bit nippy. Today is suppose to be about the same. Worked in the cabin but I finally got my windows and doors in so the wind wasn't a factor. Actually I shed my coat because I can't stand to work with gloves or coats. My toolbelt doesn't fit with a coat on. :)
Ug. I just looked at the forecast. I should quit doing that. Too depressing. The high Sunday is 8 degrees. c*
It's gonna be a beautiful day here....just a little cool...sunny and up to 52 today
Tomorrow is digging weather. The ground should be moist but not muddy. It's supposed to be 60 degrees and mostly sunny. Perfect.
Dave, Dan, and I will be at the farm and I think we can finish up the trench in one day. I'll be glad to lay the pipe and test the system. Once that's done we can go back to work on the straw bale lodge. I guess I need to call it the "field shed" for government purposes.
We've got some seasons of soil prep ahead of us. Not because the soil is weak. While I still want to get it tested it grows grasses and oaks like gangbusters. We just have 2 more years until we'll be there full time and feel we can put the time to good use. The geek in me wants to lay drip lines to spell out Yahoo! for the benefit of the Google Maps people.
Cool idea, Drew.
Clays tend to pack hard with foot traffic. Things stay alive but sometimes don't do much. Compost helps. Lime may help. You'll likely be growing cover crops etc to modify the soil? Check on horse manure sources also -- free straw - ruined hay -- ashes -- all good. Sounds like similar to here. The horse manure compost really changed things. Needs more work though.
That's good stuff, Glenn. I just posted a more verbose question in the Garden Thread about preparing the soil in our field.
DavetotheSouth has horses, a donkey and a mule he corrals, so the manure is easy to collect. RobertototheNorth pastures stocker cattle with no barn, so the manure is all over and harder to collect. MarytotheNorth also raises horses. I'm the only guy who's thinking of growing anything out there. My manure needs would certainly be met. I was thinking briefly of growing hay on the undeveloped parts of my field and selling to to my neighbors, but my early research indicated it would involve more capital and labor than I can afford at this point. One neighbor said he was driving out 30 miles to get hay at $9 a bale. That's got to hurt his margin on his stocker cattle.
Heh. Even if I could collect and bale my forage grass and put it into a hoop house until January...
I'll copy the above to the garden thread and reply there.
Drew if you have any sizeable acerage some farmers will bale it shares. The cost of the needed equipment in a small operation is not economical. Some will even fertilize the field one a year is they know they will get it for next 5-10 years. Even $1 a bale to you is better than letting it go.
When you use horse manure make sure where you are going to put it as there is a bunch of inert grasses that usually appear from it. If it is pasture then I wouldn't worry about it.
Today it is warm outside YEAH 30. IT feels so great and the sun is shinning and it is beautifu on all the snow. The snow is melting though and it will be spring soon and there are birds and chipmunks all over the place.
Cold, cold and cold with wind chill. I drove to Soldotna yesterday and it had "warmed" to -21. Today I went to Wasilla and it started at -12 and got to 3 above, add in 20-40 MPH winds and you understand why I still have the chills.
Was supposed to go verify a couple things on the lot tomorrow, but the weather is not cooperating. This is not ice fishing weather/land walking:
Tonight: Bitterly cold. Generally clear. Low -32F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow: Bitterly cold. Intervals of clouds and sunshine. High -11F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow night: Bitterly cold. Partly cloudy skies. Low -28F. Winds light and variable.
Sunday: Bitterly cold. Intervals of clouds and sunshine. High near -10F. Winds light and variable.
Maybe in 2 weeks.
I just couldn't live like that. Seems I recognize gold rush town names there though. Maybe...
It is so bitterly cold today. I don't think it ever got above 0, even though it was sunny. I heard earlier that the windchill was -30 degrees. I'm surprised it isn't colder than that...Even with the heater cranked up, it is cold in the house.
I know what cold weather feels like but I am real thankful it wasn't any -30 here. Today it was actually 40 here!!! Here is a secret keep a little electric heater in the bathroom then at least there is one room that is warm. If you have a hair dryer you can put it under the blankets and make a tent and heat upt he bed quick too I used to keep mine right by the bed so that if I got chilled I could warm up quick and a heating pad at the foot of the bed is good too but I burnt both those out in one winter. I used to have an electric blanket way long time ago now that is real living. I don't think you can use those when you are pregnant though but maybe there is an exception when it is -30?
Cold and Icy again. This has been the coldest winter in years. Must be global warming making it colder. :o
It says it's going to be 63 degrees today, bright and sunny. I've got the last of the bug and a late meeting today or I'd go for a ride after work. [yuk]
I kept busy yesterday by faxing over the RFQ for our irrigation pipe and fittings. Lake Oroville Ace is 8 miles from our place, has very owner/builder friendly people, and has the best prices around. For the cost of fuel they'll save me the hassle of going out and picking up the materials, all of which are too big for my shelled truck anyway.
Dan and I are going over the BCS tractor catalogs. Oooh, sweet ride....
Tanya, my solution is to take a shower in water as hot as I wash dishes in until I'm red as a lobster. Then I jump out, dry off, get dressed and run jump under the covers while I'm still warm... it's not so bad if I do that. My poor husband doesn't have an ounce of fat on his body though, and he has the darndest time keeping warm. He's been sleeping in a stocking hat and double layers of flannel PJs or sweats. (We look a little like that kids' nursery rhyme about Jack Sprat... you know, "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean, so between the two of them, they licked the platter clean..."
Scott, living up here really makes me question if there is ANY truth to "global warming" too! This is the coldest winter since we've moved to WI. It was especially cruel because the fall was actually nice and mild, with way more sunshine than we've seen since moving here. On my computer, I have the forecast for OKC and the forecast here, and every time I look at it and compare, I can't wait to get back. It's amazing how warm 40 degrees sounds after living here!!! My husband has been bellyaching about the difference in the two forecasts and how that ours here will show four days of clouds and cold, and the OK forecast is four days of sunshine with relatively warm temperatures.
Got home yesterday evening after a weekend at my parents only to find that the power went out at 2P. We had been gone all weekend so no woodstove going. Finally got it up to 65F in the stove area. Woke up with outside temps of 8F. Power company stated it would be 2P before restored. Well that didn't happen until 6P. So 26hrs w/o power. I know it is no big deal for Off grids but on grid it is a pia. Wife left early with the kids to MIL to shower and work. Wasn't sure about the power thing so felt it best to let them stay where there was heat. Now it is snowing 26F forecast fortomarrow is F/rain and more snow tomarrow. Welcome back home.
A cool thing about being off grid is coming home down a darkened street and seeing the warm glow of your own lights. :)
Don I don't really mind the dark it is just the heat. When you are gone all weekend and the stove has burned out long ago it just takes a while to get it back up to living conditions. Water is a little of a problem as well. You might know that once I got locks on the cabin that I left the generator there instead of carting it down the mountain. Bad mistake d*
Was yet another cold dank and frozen day. Never got above 30 and the north wind was howling all day. To make it worse I've been sick for a week. Starting to feel a little better but this weather is getting me down. They are promising sun tomorrow so I'll try and get out to work on the cabin a bit.
Here's your weird weather.
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It's another week of beautiful weather (low 60s). My internal optimist is saying we're having an early spring (To our northern and mountain friends, I am really not trying to be a jerk). My internal pessimist (You wouldn't think so, but it's pretty crowded here in Drew's brain) says the sun will shine until I drive my truck down the hill. Then it will rain 2 inches and I won't get my truck back up until August.
The irrigation trench is almost done and it's nearly time to resume work on the lodge. As the musicians say, it's back to the "Joe job" to support the art.
It's the sun!!! Been so long since I've seen it I almost forgot what it looks like. Just seeing it makes me feel a little warmer. But, it's still in the 20s for a high today. Better than the -30 windchills, though!
was probably in the warm 50's here today but tonight the wind was whippen -- maybe 20 - 25 -- charged the batteries good and was even pumping water.
Pouring down rain again. This is more like april weather than febuary. Figures I decide to build something and the weather goes all wacky. Soon as this clears out I'll be busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest.
Oh, busier than a cat covering up crap, eh?, Scott.
Since I'm not working today it's obvious that it's still RAINING! I'm getting sick of rain. >:(
We have a week of it coming with a chance of snow Friday.
Yep, we've had the last of our good weather for a while. It was good over the weekend but expected to rain through the next.
Catch as catch can.
95 here in NM today!
40 in the morning and 55 in the afternoon.
58 in the hills. 26F in the morning and 32 in the day. Had about 1/2-1" of snow overnight. Windy as all get out on the mountain. But my roof is still there. ;D
The good news: It's not raining
The bad news: It's snowing
The forcast for today: Sunshine
Do the weather guys ever look outside?
Scott that is usually how I do it here. Being there is so many mountain ranges surrounding me what forecast we get usually don't apply. They either stay to one side or the other. It is really amazing how they disperse the weather patterns when the fronts get close. So like you said I just look outside and cross my fingers. We did get 1/4" of freezing rain last night and early am with temps in upper 20's now. Have to wait until tomarrow to see what its going to be.
Rain. :-[
Nothing but rain until Monday.
We're so close to finishing the irrigation system. No, I am not amused by the irony of having my irrigation work rained out. I also have to move a neighbor's fence off my property by about 20'. I don't want to spend one of my workdays doing it, but like the old joke goes, "It looks like it's the bank that has the problem." Scheduling the neighbor to work on it is hard, but my dad and I came up with a plan over dinner to be able to move the fence without letting the neighbor's cows out.
Give 'em a chance before they end up at the CAFO, grumble grumble...
I don't act very nice when I have to stay in. I guess I can finish the bathroom and rearrange the living room so Dan and I aren't taking turns in the "good seat".
Stupid rain.
So far, we're having a heat wave today... it's up to 25 degrees, overcast and dreary. Gotta go put more salt down and try to chop the ice off as the movers are coming at 8 in the morning! c* I'll be so glad when we are on the road.
Rain again today. I predict a drought will start as soon as I get my roof finnished.
Sunny, slight breeze, 50 F , rained last night a little and snowed in the mountains
Rain.
Rain^3.
But I cut some PVC in the kitchen and made caps and a Nixon for the irrigation system.
The manifold has two elbows that stretch up and end in valves. My dad said it looked like Nixon. And lo they shall be called Nixons.
It is now in the 40's here and pretty much sunny weather every day for the past week. The snow is melting slowly but surely and that is what we like here. There is green grass under the snow and I love it!!!
25 to 35 mph wind gusting to 50 - rain -had a small amount of hail. Not too nice.
Only rained part of the day yesterday and we showed .79 in. before midnight. Wind has been steady so the batteries are charged well although we haven't seen the sun for a couple days. The Bergey XL1 (1000 watt rated) is the only thing putting out any significant amount of power,
Cloudy gloomy and chilly but no rain today. Expected high in the 40's.
Lots of wind, lots of rain. I had some construction detritus along side the house that I'm glad Dave and I broke down and stuffed in garbage cans. That way I didn't need to listen to thump, thump all night.
We have a tree down that has part of its trunk still attached. I should have cut it yesterday. Then it would be in someone else's yard this morning. Roll-outs forever! ;D
Don't know about your neck of the woods but this time of the year is really bad about trees falling. The freeze and thaw and add a couple days of rain and let the wind blow and "there they go". Pines are the worse because of the root system or should I say the lack thereof. Also makes dirt roads a complete mess. I got bored today and thought I would haul some more T&G flooring to the cabin. Well the truck sunk in about 1-2" all the way up and I had to make several attempts at backing up to the door. Yep "mud on the roof of the truck" . Plan on making my accent in the AM hours this week while it is still frozen. That is if I can find a loaner generator to use while waiting for parts. :(
I don't go anywhere in our neck of the woods without a chain saw anymore. Any time of the year. I got those smarts last year when I had to hack through a tree, smallish thank goodness, with a hatchet.
We took a drive up into the mountains today. Couldn't take the Jeep as it's crankshaft position sensor picked today to die and I didn't feel like wrestling with that today. So we took the Honda. It doesn't do too well on uphill hard-packed-snow-turned-into-ice. I had to back down the hill, doing an inadvertent 180, although I made it look like I planned it ::), and then take a run at. No mud to deal with at this time of year. That will come in a couple months.
Sunny and gorgeous for a Wisconsin February day... a great day for moving. We haven't left yet, unfortunately. Hopefully sometime tomorrow!!!! Packers were moving kinda slow today, which stunk because they asked to work on Sunday instead of Tuesday.
So...like ....let's get outa Dodge, Homegrown. [crz]
Rain finally quit. A week of mostly sunny coming. :)
Yeah, the sun's out down here, too. I'm in my home office with the door to the deck open. A nice sunset is threatening on the horizon.
I'm hoping the weather holds. We're going to celebrate my dad's 70th birthday this weekend. Then its back to digging the trench. ;D
I had my Monday 1:1 with my client boss today. "How are things going?" he asks.
"Things are going great. [Insert short status report on Project A], and [Insert short status report on Project B.]," I said.
"Good. Because we've had budget cuts and we need to end your contract early. Your last day is March 7," he said.
"So why did you ask how I was?"
"To see if you were in a good mood."
So I'm on the bench soon and with little notice, but that's fine. I'll turn on my resume and hope I get a few days at the farm before I have to go back to work. Dan doesn't like the uncertainty, but I'm okay with it. I only wish I had a helper to get some work done on the straw bale. I can do the post cross-braces but I'll probably need a hand to get the beams in place. Heeey, maybe my dad will be there... :D
Hope you get a good severance package, Drew. :)
I believe Drew's a contractor and his severance pay is the last paycheck. :( Maybe not. Would be nice if my theory is wrong.
I wonder - hopefully it is breach of contract on their part, but maybe month to month..
Hopefully Drew is in an area where jobs are more plentiful and can find something else in short order. Just the opposite here as jobs are hard to find (limited) and if you have one you had better stick with it. My hats off to people who change jobs more often than I do automobiles. I stayed at my job for 25-1/2 years. Partly because I liked the work ( At least the first 15 years) and after that because of the retirement I had vested in.
No severance package, but I've socked part of each paycheck away in what I call the "Bench Fund". The agent who got me this gig will want to get me another since they get a cut of what I make (It's like the mob but with American Standard accents). As long as I look marketable they'll keep trying.
There's no breach of contract since I'm "at will". In practice I can leave a contract with 2 weeks notice and they can let me go with whatever they want. If I leave things in a mess I won't be invited back. They can run out of money and "thank" me on the spot. The good news is that I don't have to worry about making Director or getting a corner office. Layoffs don't worry me, since they usually mean I have more work to cover for the employee they let go.
The downside is that I don't take vacations since work is work. When I'm off I don't spend money. Moving to the farm will help since I won't have to work year round to pay a Bay Area mortgage.
Dan is going off to graduate school for the next 4 summers, which will put her out of work for 2 months. She'd prefer that I was on the job through August like the contract said, but it is what it is. I'm good on the bench. I get all kinds of things done. And if it can keep from raining, maybe I can get some stuff done at the farm before I have to get back in the cube again.
Good attitude 8). But the problem about the farm is that almost everything that you do or plan to do will cost something. Thats the way with me. Have alot that I could do but the downside it cost to do those things.
That's the truth. If I have time, I have no money, and vise versa. There are some things I can do that won't cost much, and I set aside some for the next phase of the field shed. Soil prep is nearly free if you do it with minimal tools and are dumb enough to dig a trench by hand in the first place. :)
I think about all the work I'm doing so that I can produce the most intimate product on the planet: food. But the barriers along the way are innumerable: Low margins on raw food. USDA requirements that burden small producers. An apathetic market looking for the China price on everything. "I can't afford organic. Can I have a ride to my allergist appointment?".
I'll grow and I'll make a go of it. I know a few things that will help and at the end of the day I'll be doing what I want to do. I can invest the time in it now because I love it. It's what's called an "off balance sheet transaction."
And back on topic. It is mostly sunny and in the low 60s. My bike is on the back of my truck and I'm going riding on my way home.
And yes, I'm leaving early. :D
Drew everyone knows that the cash crops grown in Cali are not low margin. They might be marginaly legal though. Sunny here today in the low 50's.
Yeah, I thought about what goes into growing medicinal grass. The State might leave you alone, but the Fed won't. They'll even take your property, in essence preventing you from mounting a defense.
But my biggest trouble would be with the local kids.
"Dang, kid, leave my Stuff alone. 'Cause if you don't I'm gonna have to shoot ya. I don't have a problem with that. Its just that it's July and the ground is as hard as a clay pot and I already filled in the three ready graves I dug last spring. That reminds me. Are you Jeff? Yeah? Well Mark says "Hey." He also says, "Please, God, No, Don't shoot me! I'm Sorry! I'm Sorry! GAAAAH!" but I think the "Hey" part was for you."
Started off at 10F this morning and we are already at a balmy high of 23F. Didn't get all of the falling perciptation that was forecasted. My elbow is giving me fits today so a needed day off was in order.
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Started off at 10F this morning and we are already at a balmy high of 23F. Didn't get all of the falling perciptation that was forecasted. My elbow is giving me fits today so a needed day off was in order.
It started off at 30 degs this morning but up to 60 DEGS RIGHT NOW!! YA-HOOOO snows a melting won't be long till cabin building time!!! It will be in the high 50s all week they said. I just finished the 12 ft tall post for my staircase today in the shop. Mark H.
Sunny, warm, and windy. Boy am I glad to be back in Oklahoma! 'Bout late July and August we'll probably be dying because of the heat and we've gotten acclimated to wimpy northern summers, but I'd take 40 days of 100+ temps over six months of winter any day! When we crossed the border from Missouri into Oklahoma, the temperature jumped from the high 40s to 51 degrees, and we all got giddy as it continued to climb up to 65. Even the dogs were excited about it. I don't know what the temperature is today, but it is still comfortable in a t-shirt and jeans. Would be good enough to go barefoot if not for the wind.
Looks like 2 weeks or less till I can start the cabin. I am piling up tools near the garage door allready! Trailer is free of snow waiting to be loaded up with the tractor, readymix and wood posts. Water is forming around my lake with the ice melting and 60% of my land is free of snow now. If there is any in Chesaw when I go up it will be plowed off and I start anyway on the posts. The ground will not be frozen and I will be able(the hired kid will)dig the holes. Once this is are done nothing can realy stop me from working. I have long johns, carhartts, rain gear ect to wear. I have worked in the Pacific Northwest many years outside all year long. I just can't dig in frozen ground with a post hole digger and shovel!! Mark
Sunny and in the mid-50s. Dave and I are going to ride our bikes down the coast as soon as I get Robin's and my Dream Theater tickets on TicketMaster.
\m/ Rawk!
Started at 30F and has risen to 48F @ noon. Forecast is high today @50F and tommarrow @ 60F. Here comes the mud. Then rain or snow the rest of the week with Temp's in 20-mid 30s.
Red, you have some big fluctuations in your weather :o We've been sunny the past few days - was in the high 50's yesterday - still only 47 today but supposed to get into the 60's. I need to get out & plant the cabbage, broccoli etc that Glenn started. I bought a couple dwarf apricot trees & dwarf peach trees - he just planted them for me yesterday. We have a lot of winter veggies still - lots of huge rutabagas, onions, carrots, hopefully more broccoli (we ate all the heads of broccoli but usually they keep reproducing if you cut them right), haven't gotten any cabbage this year out of our 4 year old cabbage plant - last year we got 5 or 6! Lettuce is starting to grow... we are above average on rain & snow pack this year.
Glenn had to go down to the valley to deliver some big landscaping rocks to someone down there. He hates to go down there...
Yeah Sassy not real sure whether it is the elevation or the mountain range. Depends on which front is stronger on one side or the other. Don't blame Glenn for wanting to go there. I hardly go to our town either unless I have to. Have to hold off on the gardening awhile here. Ground is still frozen a couple inches from the top. Got to order some Everbearing strawberry plants. The one's I have don't seem to do very well anymore. Been the same plants for the past 6-8 years. Even transplanting the runners is no good anymore. The wife just said today that she wished the tomatoes were ripe. Ha.
The weather has really warmed up here lately and the sun is shining today no fire or heaters going right now. Early next week the forcast is for weather in high forties or low fifties. The snow is melting fast I have a lot of stuff up inthe hot house now and I think I may have jumped the gun on the tomatoes, they can't go out until early June so I am going to have to put them all in bigger pots. I am so glad it is spring finally. I had my grandbaby here too and if the ice were gone I could take her out for a walk. I almost fell on the ice feeding the horses though so I decided better wait on that. Another month or two and I will be able to start actually digging the garden beds.
I love, love, love Oklahoma weather! Today it got up to nearly 75 degrees. Then in the evening, it clouded up all the sudden and started thundering. Then came the tornadic storms, then the hail, and then the flash flooding, and then temps hovering around freezing, and then blowing snow! All in one day. Never a dull moment.
Wow, that's some weather, HG!
When it comes to less than perfect weather has anyone noticed that TV weather gets so carried away with the adjectives? Weather alerts, storm warnings, snow warnings, dire predictions of inclement weather abound. Then all too often a inch of snow falls and it's gone soon. They show multi colored map overlays of this front and that front, etc.
Methinks they get carried away in a perceived need to justify their expensive doppler radar installations.
OMMV
So.... very windy today, cloudy.... [except for when the bedraggled looking live, on-the-scene, weather repoter was on air... it was sunny then and she had to make excuses, "it was cloudy earlier" and showed some recorded earlier clouds and blowing snow... that lasted all of 5 minutes ::) ] Temps down to almost freezing so I guess it might snow.
Rain, sleet, snow. Yuck! :(
blue skies then chemtrails then cloudy then blue skies then chemtrails then cloudy ad infinitum.... >:(
QuoteWhen it comes to less than perfect weather has anyone noticed that TV weather gets so carried away with the adjectives? Weather alerts, storm warnings, snow warnings, dire predictions of inclement weather abound.
Station A says "A few showers, heavy at times and breezy".
Station B says "Possibility of record rain and localized damaging winds".
Who do people tune in to? And in all likelihood somebody will get the predicted conditions.
6:00 am foggy and cold (45) 8:00 clear warmer (55) 9:00 wind -70 mph (66) now 12:40 pm still wind - 50 mph clear and still (66)
By the way this is the 2nd day of Santa Ana winds here and everything is drying out. So probably see fire crews at work soon. :(
Wonderful day to work. Started at 26F and went up to mid 60's by afternoon. Just wish I had something to do on the outside rather than putting flooring down on the inside. No yard work could even be considered without muck-muck boots and a dozer with tall cleats.
Week coming up about 34 nights to 60- 65 days -- feels warmer.
It's sunny and reasonably warm, around 30 I woulg guess, the wind blew the thermometer backwards and I can't see it fromt he window until I go put it right. But it is sunny!!! and it is supposed to stay sunny for almost all week!!! there is still snow everywhere though. It's melting slowly but surely.
Rain, Rain, Rain most of the day. Temp about 53F. Small flooding from the warm rain and the snow melt. Ran out of prefinished flooring so I used this time to finish what I hope will be the last to finish up the loft.
sunny, 61 high, very light winds, 43 right now and dark ::)
a good day all in all... sold the Chrysler LHS at last, put the new crankshaft sensor in the Jeep, and found a quarter in the parking lot at Sam's Club. :)
Lucky you, Don. :) You found a quarter and I put $81 worth of diesel in my truck and it wasn't even empty.
We have been running around 50 at night because we are in the banana belt. Nice in the daytime -- maybe high 60's
it is sunny here!!!
Sunny and a bit breezy. It feels warmer than 50 degrees if you can get in the sun and out of the wind at the same time.
It's been nice here today but the wind has changed to the north and more cold and yuck on the way they say.
I wish it would make up it's mind. Sunny one day temp 60, rain the next, snow the next temp 20-35F. It sort of makes me not want to get up in the morning unless the sun hits my face in bed.
We're looking at near 60 for a week. Tonight currently 51.8 here but in the nearby valleys -- many within sight, 33 to 40. gotta love our banana belt.
Kinda chilly and grey this morning, but still decent enough I could run down the street chasing the stupid dog in my PJs. d* d* This darn dog is determined to make life difficult wherever we live, I guess... he can do so just by sitting in the snow in WI, and since that doesn't work here, he digs out of the fence and goes around annoying the neighbors. Thankfully everyone was still asleep then. I was mad and put him in his crate for a while... hopefully he'll learn that every single time he digs out, he has to go in the crate and he'll stop doing it!
It is sunny here again. I got my power bill yesterday and YIKES it is high. So no more electric heaters. I had to run four heaters for the past month but now i have firewood again so no more being lazy and just turning on the heaters. I have to be more motivated and build a fire. OK I am happy that it is sunny and I don't need a fire during the day, BUT I will still be very very happy when it is summer and I don't have to build a fire at all, unless it is a camp fire for pleasure not heat.
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Quotedecent enough I could run down the street chasing the stupid dog in my PJs
I'm trying to imagine that. Any pictures?
[cool]
:P I certainly hope not. I don't know. Those cell phone cameras are pretty stealthy, and there were a couple of early birds headed to work. Pregnant woman with stringy hair in flannel PJs... not a pretty sight! Guess we'll know if it shows up on the internet somewhere.
Cold grey and yuck again. Snow in the forcast for the rest of today and tomorrow.
Another great day. Not as they predicted. Temp close to 60F and sunny. But I still inside working. Just about finished this phase then onto something else. Calling for rain or snow next couple of days. Hope they are wrong again.
Just heard an interesting tid-bit on the snow this year. Someone "official" said that the last time there was this much land area covered by snow in a year was in 1966. Some old timmers used to say that weather runs on a 40 year cycle. Haven't been around that long to see if it true for two cycles.
As far as here today it is 43F with light rain. Rained most of the day yesterday. Suppose to drop to the high teens - lower twenties tonight. But It is getting close as the robins have returned.
It was gorgeous today. T-shirt weather and sunny. We took kids to the lake and goofed off for a while after church. Came home with our tennis shoes all covered in red clay.
It is sunny and warm here but it is supposed to rain later. The snow really is almost gone.
(http://www.brightok.net/~cyscott1-ss/pics/32.gif) High 57. Some nice weather for a change. Glen how bout loading some weather smilies?
I was down in the valley, north of Fresno where my dad's home is at - it got to 78-80 degrees today! But supposed to cool off again & rain on Friday. All the nut & fruit trees are in bloom, everything is really green - its so beautiful this time of year.
Only thing, I had a TICK on me the other day :o [scared] I hate em, haven't had one since I was 4 y/o in Ohio! Glenn was teasing me & when he took a shower, he had one on him too! So, I'll watch to see if I get flu like symptoms or a bullseye patch... & get me some doxycyline (antibiotic) Lyme disease can have devastating effects - this year is worse than any year we've been up here, but even in the valley at the end of our property there's a reservoir & the dogs have come back full of ticks... yuck :P
Ticks can be pretty bad critters, Sassy. I'll never forget one summer I worked at the University of Oklahoma's Biological Station down at Lake Texoma (actually I worked three or four summers there, but this one was especially memorable.) We had a bunch of kids who were all pretty citified at the Field Biology camp that year, and in the middle of the night I was awakened by screams coming from the girls' dorm. Two of the girls came beating on my door and telling me that there was a major emergency. I went to their room where one of their roommates was absolutely in hysterics because a she had a tick that had bitten her in the waistband of her underwear. She wouldn't let any of the other girls help her get it off, and she was knocking stuff over she was so freaked out by it. It was really really hard not to laugh out loud, and I don't remember anywhere in my job description that said I was the official tick puller (I was the botany TA.) So, I finally got her calmed down enough to get the tick off... it wasn't even attached good yet. The rest of the girls in that room were just about as hysterical as she was, and they were going around doing tick checks on each other and wanted me to take them to Wal-Mart to buy an arsenal of deep woods off the next day. One girl from Tulsa stood on the edge of a marsh the next day with her arms folded across her chest and absolutely refused to wade out into the marsh to collect plants because she was so scared of getting a tick or a leach, or of coming across a snake. We took that bunch canoeing down the mountain fork river one weekend, and I shared a canoe with one of the students from Taipei, Taiwan, and when the canoe bumped into some cyprus roots and scared a little copperhead curled up there, she nearly beat me to death with the paddle before I could steer us away from the poor scared snake. After that, she wouldn't even get out and help if we got stuck, and she even sat in the canoe while the rest of us took a break to swim because she was so scared of everything (ticks, snakes, dragonflies, the woods themselves...) Kids are way too sheltered these days.
Oh, yeah, the weather. Gorgeous again. Sunny, warm, very nice. Kids are out back looking for bugs and little one insisted it was tank top weather. S'posed to be a high of around 69 or 70 today.
It is sunny here again I love the sun!!! I have been raking the hillside full of nasty old dead weeds once I get the old ones raked off it should all be grass because they sprayed for weeds last year. the weather report keeps saying it is going to rain and be cold but right here it is warm and sunny, sometimes I love it when they are wrong.
I know we will have a bad tick year this year too. There is a lot of moisture in the ground, trees, etc. and it will get warm and they will come out. Sooo that means I have to put at the top of my list tick collars for the dogs they get ticks pretty bad and the collars ar ethe only thing that works. Luckily we don't have fleas here so as soon as tick season is over I take them off, but I sure do hate putting them on in the first place. The horses get their worm medicine and the ticks still get on them but they die as soon as they feed. Luckily I still have repellant for us humans left over from last year. The ticks we get here carry rocky mountain fever which can be deadly so everyone has to be aware of ticks and look for them all the time. The wasps are coming out too. I have to get all the repellants and allergy meds restocked. Plus get the animals their stuff too. I hope work starts up soon.
We have a 3' snow base left. No chance of seeing grass anytime soon! More snow predicted for Friday. d*
Spent last week in Mexico, first vacation in 10 years. We hoped the snow would melt while we were gone. It didn't. :-[
We had a severe tick problem too, so we got bantam chickens. It took a while, but they solved that problem. Our chickens haven't been outside since early November.
After a week of pretty nice weather the rain is back. Temps in the 40's.
Quote from: MaineRhino on March 12, 2008, 06:14:24 PM
We have a 3' snow base left. No chance of seeing grass anytime soon! More snow predicted for Friday. d*
Spent last week in Mexico, first vacation in 10 years. We hoped the snow would melt while we were gone. It didn't. :-[
We had a severe tick problem too, so we got bantam chickens. It took a while, but they solved that problem. Our chickens haven't been outside since early November.
How many months do you actually have of warm weather? ???
Weather sucks bigtime! Woke up to 12+ new inches of snow on the ground and more coming out of the sky! Forcast said more on the way tonight and tomorrow. I just got done plowing the driveway off and not happy. The whole place was allmost free of snow till this morning now it is all white again. This will put a damper on the cabin site I will have to wait till this last stuff melts again. Mark
We are storming up. expecting Thunderstorms / snow to 3500'.
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We are storming up. expecting Thunderstorms / snow to 3500'.
Now it is 45 degs outside and it is melting fast. The ground was warm since it was bare for a week in the sun and warm temps. Mark
Spring must be on its way... windy as all get out today... cloudy too.
We had about 30 minutes of snow or ice pellets coming down hard, some gigantic thunder and a bit of lightning. Seems to have lightened up pretty well now-- 38.8f out.
The temperature's not bad, about 64 F. But we just recorded as matching, yep 64 MPH wind gust.
Good day for being inside. The sky looks like dirt.
Just a tad nippy with 45F but with a light jacket it was nice. Light wind but clear blue skies. Warmed up in a hurry as my son and I just drove (12) 6' #8 rebar in the property line dividing our land from the neighbors on the mountain side. Wasn't long shedding the coat after hoofing and driving. Florscent orange tops so there was no mistake where "he" was. I knew exactly where "I" was. Some people just like to push upon others. I am sure you know people like that.
(http://www.brightok.net/~cyscott1-ss/pics/4.gif)Heavy rain and thunderstorms. Temps in the 50's.
It's sunny and warm here. I have actually got some raking done and moved the horses round pen. There are af ew clouds but if it doesn't rain much I am going to get the posts out of the ground that I want to use for garden fence and put them in. It is still way to soon to start any outside vegies but I have to fence first and build the beds afterthe ground can be worked. My soil here is so heavy that even though it will be half horse manure I have to wait a long time for it to dry out but not too long or it turns to concrete. This year though it is going to be great. My garden last year got plowed under during the excavation of the new driveway and lawn. This year everything is all nice and ready to go. It is going to be a busy spring here. Easter next week, babtisim, weddings, and other family obligations are coming up pretty fast. I think I better just write in BEACH on a few weekends just to be on the safe side.
Clear today, morning frost due to clear sky. About 50 now.
Tanya..it is nicce to hear from other horse people on the list.
(http://www.brightok.net/~cyscott1-ss/pics/4.gif) More rain. 46 degrees :P
Sun - currently 60.4 outside.
No rain in site for a week.
From one extreme to the other. Last night was the warmest night this year. 55F @ 11PM then this morning it was 32F and snow flurries. Suppose to get into the teens tonight so I will hold off on the chink mortar for fear of freezing today.
We've had a couple of cooler rainy days, and now it is gorgeous, albeit a bit windy. It is supposed to get up to around 73 today. I hope the wind lets up because the turbine-thingy on our neighbor's roof is squeaking and squawking in the wind and driving me nuts.... it is like listening to a non-stop alarm clock. But it is sunny and all the pears, peaches and redbuds are blooming around here. The willows have gone from having tiny green mist covering them to full-blown little leaves in just a few days. I love spring.
HG, you probably couldn't stand the wind generator, then... I hardly notice it - sometimes it sounds like a distant foghorn, which is actually kinda pleasant. Everytime I hear the generator I think of "power" - we're making free power & I smile :)
It really sounds like a high-pitched alarm clock...eeek-eeek-eeek-eeek! It seems like it's let up a bit now.
HT if you have access to the attic and can get DH to spray a little WD-40 or graphite in the pivot point it might make it quieter to live with.
Perfect first day of spring. Sunny and warm. Tad windy though.
snowy and damp chilly weather today. Brrrr
;D My neighbors might call the police if they caught me going into their attic! It seems like it has quit squeaking today... I don't know what the deal was with it yesterday.... all day screeching.
It is gorgeous today. In the upper sixties, windy and sunny... DH got an email from one of his WI co-workers who told him that they are expecting 5-10" of snow up there today. Do I miss it? Not a bit!!!
It's sunny - about 65 degrees - not very breezy today - beautiful - clear skies - and can you believe it - they've only sprayed chemtrails couple days this week - otherwise it's been clear since Sunday! The jets that make the contrails, make them but they dissipate within a few seconds. Guess with the economy like it is, they don't have all that "extra" $$$ to spray :) c* one good outcome heh heh
It has been a really pretty morning... a few clouds and it seems to be getting cloudier, but the wind has died down for a while. It's supposed to be cool and rainy tomorrow. It seems like it always is on Easter. Anyway, right now it is t-shirt weather out. Lot of kids out playing basketball and riding bikes.
" It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood". Temp hit 62F, light wind good working outside weather. Trying to clean up last year's flower beds, cutting the grass back along the walks. Kid's making the best of it. One went trout fishing @ 0730 and the other is content on riding her bicycle. Just took the training wells off this week. She hasn't put it down since. Mom's not very happy with her son. Seems his bicycle had a flat tire so he rode her's this week. Tried to mountain bike in the pasture and picked up two thorns. Took the plow off the tractor so I guess it will snow again now.
Nice -- 68 out -- think I'll go prospecting.
Better Hurry Glenn. I say on the news that gold had dropped to $920 it had been at 1K before that.
Hmm -- I think it may bounce around a bit but in general should continue up. We'll see.
Weather was nice into the night-- made a road to a seasonal creek on a friends place and set up the trommel, and found a tiny bit of gold.
The early flowers are taking a beating this week. 60+F in the days and 22-24F in the nights and mornings. Getting a little frost bit. Peternap it looks as if you are getting a little rain. They had forecasted us to get that with some snow mix. I am glad your magnet pulled it your way.
Starting out pretty, albeit windy. Each day for the past two weeks, the color of the landscape has been gradually changing. The bradford pears were some of the first to bloom, and then the willow trees got misty green, and then the elms, and then the redbuds bloomed and by then the bradford pears had leaves with the blooms. The daffodils and hyacinths are going crazy, and there are pansies everywhere bloomed out really pretty. I love spring in Oklahoma. I'm so glad to be back home.
It was 54.9f when I got up at 6 this morning.
Chances of rain mid week on - nights in the mid 40's.
sunny warm near 70 but very windy.
At 18F this morning. Rose to 45F by afternoon. My buckets of water that I collected to mix mortar with was frozen over about 1/2" from yesterday. The sand which has been covered all winter still picked up moisture and was frozen on top. I think that plastic just retains water when it comes to sand. But summer is closer than it has been.
It snowed a bunch here today but now the sun is out and it is all melting. I actuallyt hought I might have to shovel the driveway again. I got one fence post for the garden dug yesterday too but today nothing. I am not about to go out in the snow again this year. I am pretty much on strike unless it is dry and sunny out.
King5 News tells me its gonna snow to night!
Starting off beautiful, but windy again. Yesterday had to have been in the low 80s, but I never did check the exact temperature. The house was sure hot as all get out, but so few of the windows have screens that I didn't open too many. It was just right in here by the time we went to bed, though. It's time to dig out the scary maternity shorts (goodness knows they're ugly, but it sure beats melting.)
Sounds cool, Homey.
Our chance of rain moved up to Tuesday, lows in the 40's highs in the high 50's currently 43.5 - there has ben quite a bit of wind - batteries are up good.
Well mother nature let us know who is actually in control. Temps dropped last night to 32F and this morning there was a mix of snow/freezing rain. The forecast predicts a high of 35 and low's in the mid 20's for tonight. So I guess we willhave to wait for spring a while longer.
I don't believe it. >:( We put the winter coats away on Friday. It's now sleeting >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Quote from: Redoverfarm on March 30, 2008, 08:19:36 AM
Well mother nature let us know who is actually in control. Temps dropped last night to 32F and this morning there was a mix of snow/freezing rain. The forecast predicts a high of 35 and low's in the mid 20's for tonight. So I guess we willhave to wait for spring a while longer.
Mother nature and government weather manipulation.
China admits it manipulates weather. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/06/05/china.rain/index.html
Anybody believe we're not more advanced? We have chemtrails covering the sky every day before a storm. We have more days the jet con-trails spread and cover the entire sky than not (chemical enhanced con-trails are chemtrails and spread rather than disipate.) There are still jets that go over and the trail goes away at the same time the sprayers are up there.
Look deeper than mother nature if you want to know what is happening. The government commissioned a report stating that the military wanted to own the weather by 2025. The Pentagon lost 3 trillion ? dollars they can't account for. It costs a lot to fly that many jets in precision grids nearly every day. The American people would not tolerate unknown tons of unknown substances being sprayed overhead if asked. So the only thing to do is experiment on the citizens with them believing that anybody who sees the grids and x's sprayed overhead are conspiracy theorists and continue on full speed ahead as it becomes a common everyday occurrence. This will not be the first time they have done military experiments on the citizens, nor the last.
Just my -- and quite a few others take on it.
Today
Mar 30
Details AM Rain
Hi: 58° Lo: 44°
Day: Slight chance of light rain showers. High 58F, humidity 45%. Winds SSE at 15 to 20 mph.
40%
Night: Patchy fog. Low 44F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph.
5%
Overcast and currently 51*
It is really cold here this morning. The online weather report said 5 degrees. BRRRR I didn't think it was that cold but it is pretty cold. At least it is getting warm inthe daytime and we didn't get all that snow that all the surrounding areas had the past couple of days. After today it is supposed to warm up a bit. Hopefully it wont get this cold again.
It is starting off warm and pretty right now. Had tornadic thunderstorms and 1" hail last night, but I guess I slept through a lot of it. I did get up to see the hail because I was afraid the way it sounded it was going to break right through the bedroom window. Guess it was worse than I realized because some of the big new castles they're building less than a mile from here had their roofs ripped off or damaged.
Cooling down. Now 38* and foggy.
It is cold here and the clouds are looking pretty dark over the mountains, it is snowing a bit here but just flurries. The temp outside is about 28 degrees.
(http://www.brightok.net/~cyscott1-ss/pics/4.gif)Heavy rain yet again today. First it's windy then it's rainy. Seems the gods don't want me to finnish my roof anytime soon.
Yeah, we had some pretty good storms yesterday. Today is starting off gray, but warmer than yesterday (though yesterday still felt good compared to Wisconsin). It was in the 50s yesterday and is supposed to be in the 70s today. There is a mourning dove in the tree out front singing away. It's supposed to be nice on Saturday, so we're going to take the kids to the zoo.
Forecast for rain. Hey they were right for a change. Started mid morning and has been most of the day. 36F has been pretty steady all day. Amazing that the cabin has no insulation but is sealed up and the temps are usually 5-7 deg warmer than the outside. The lofts are about 10-15 deg warmer just the natural heat rise.
Our chance of rain missed us -- currently 55.5 out.
Still 53.8 this morning, and no chance of rain for a week shown.
It's going to rain and it is quite chilly this morning.
48* fog begining to lift. looks like the sun will get it's chance to shine today. c*
Looks as if we will be getting the rain (3-4" pred) coming up the coast from the south. Not suppose to clear out some until Sunday.
Cleared up today. Got alot done on the roof. Shingles will be finnished tomorrow. Yeah! :)
Chilly start to the day but the sun is shining. Expecting 70 today. Soon as is warms up a bit I can finnish the shingles.
It is gorgeous today. Low-mid 70s, breezy. Took the kids to the zoo. Was the perfect day for it, and it wasn't even crowded. Too bad I have to stay in the rest of the day to get some work done. :-\
Warmer, about 60 yesterday and.......rain,rain,rain. :(
Stayed dry most of the day yesterday with temps in mid 60's. Rain didn't start until evening and then pretty much steady all night. Peter I was watching the weather map and it seemed that it moved up the coast closer to you than me. Sorry for shoving that over on you. :D
62 F down here in the Twin Cities. Spring has sprung. :D
We were going to go to our property by Lake Vermillion. Luckily, we looked at the weather report before we left. They woke up to a foot of snow this morning. 18" will have fallen by tonight. :(
We have 600 trees due here in 4 weeks to go in up there. Hope a lot of melting goes on between now and then.
Quote from: Redoverfarm on April 06, 2008, 07:40:14 AM
Stayed dry most of the day yesterday with temps in mid 60's. Rain didn't start until evening and then pretty much steady all night. Peter I was watching the weather map and it seemed that it moved up the coast closer to you than me. Sorry for shoving that over on you. :D
No problem John. I have work piling up at the farm and the road has a big mud hole in it. Next week I'm putting 20 tons of #3's in it so I can get something done. ;D
Great for work - mid 60's -- I'm off working on the road I have been hammering rocks out of for a week.
I know alot of the readers will think it is foolish to pave a driveway. Some may think it is even a waste of money. But as it turns out it was one of the best investments in the property I had made. For several years I had a gravel driveway and was constantly putting stone on it and raking it out of the yard after the snow. Now it takes about 1/2 hour to plow the snow and within a short period of time it is melted and dry. So Peter amnd Glenn been there and done that and don't want to return to it anyways soon. The Forrest Service uses a landscape rake to maintain what little gravel then put down but it seams very effective.
It's kinda fun for myself -- BIG 963 Bobcat and hammer, but it's more fun for customers at a buck and a half an hour. :)
Todays job got put off until the phone Co arrives to mark the phone line. Yesterday we took out one they failed to mark but -- we asked so were covered.
Hello "Can you hear me now". Sure high on the rate. Going rate for dozer or hoe in this area is $65. Went up $10 since last year to offset the fuel.
Out here, Big Bobcat and hammer rents for about $2000 per week by the time you get all of their add on charges.
The smaller Bobcats in the valley are at $125 (contractor rate per Bobcat Dealer.) per hour without the hammer. This one is 105 hp - 12000 lbs and drinks quite a bit of fuel. This project is way up in the mountains. For the Bobcat alone with a bucket I get $80. The hammer actually rents for more than the Bobcat - per the rental company - so I just keep my prices comparable to them. Out here, if you don't charge enough, you just end up with a little money and a pile of broken down junk that you cant afford to fix. Note that this Bobcat hs about twice the weight and horsepower of the small ones. The Cat operator said the small ones wouldn't do the job and waited to order the Cat until he saw I could do it. Note that my Bobcat has about 5 more horsepower than the Case 850K they rebuilt the road with.
Expensive -- yes , but not near what I think I'm worth. The operator who doubted me said he had never seen anybody move so much rock so fast with a Bobcat and Jackhammer. The extra size did it and really impressed him -- as well as my professional attitude and skills. ::)
Maintenance is a real killer and big rocks give it a pretty good workout. Rock damage to tires is pretty well unavoidable and tires are 375 each average.
This is for a project with state funding and requires a million liab.
It was a great day for work --(pretending I'm on topic) [noidea'
Here is a couple pix of the rocks and dozer.
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The larger rocks in these pix are around 4 feet long and were stuck in the massive rock formation endways. Some were easier to take the whole fractured rock than to break.
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Glenn are they using the rock on site or is it hauled off? Looks like limestone.
It's Diorite - like granite without quartz-very hard.--and was only used for fill to widen the road for fire trucks where we had a lot of broken rock on the corners--all used on site, but I took out so much the operator had a hard time finding room for the rocks and associated dirt in that area. I'd guess a few hundred yards combined.
The road was sloped the wrong way -- all mountain runoff went down the road due to the rocks -- ruts were so deep on a corner I high centered my 1 ton dually. We supered the corner the proper way -put in ditches- took out around 30 to 50 yards of broken rock - put in 4 culverts packed - graded and road base rock coming in a couple days. (One of 4 culverts to go).
Note that the diorite has the highest tensile strength on the list and it got harder as I got deeper.
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LUCKY I HAD NICE WEATHER TO WORK IN, EH? ;D
Well Glenn I guess we have completely demolished this thread so I guess a little more wouldn't hurt. Sure would have been nice to have the stone on the road before you get some more rain. In this area we have a shale based product(but harder than convientional shale) that is referred to as "Churt". It is only to this region. It will break up some but is ideal for road bases. Sharp on the tires until it gets packed down. Then some smaller on top makes for a solid road. Well at least until the freze thaw comes. Then everything goes.
We will likely get very little rain until next September or so. Nothing in sight for the coming week and with each day the chance is less. Sometimes we will get one or two last little storms but mostly done. They are bringing in limestone I think from Sonora area. We got one transfer load already in case we needed it for culverts..
Quote from: glenn kangiser on April 06, 2008, 03:37:42 PM
We will likely get very little rain until next September or so. Nothing in sight for the coming week and with each day the chance is less. Sometimes we will get one or two last little storms but mostly done. They are bringing in limestone I think from Sonora area. We got one transfer load already in case we needed it for culverts..
Very little if any spring rain yet at the cabin site or my home. The cabin road is allmost dry enought to do some grading on but still has a little snow on the edges melting into it. I was hoping to grade it with my tractor last time but it would freeze solid over night so every moring it was hard as a rock again. I gave up with that program and just dealing with building the cabin for now. In a week or two I can try agin if my land is ready for a driveway also. It still is droping into the low 20s at night! Mark
It is dry enough here that we had to use a water truck to dampen the road to roll the dirt.
Crazy lady -- meth cooker? didn't want the roller working today - has been yelling at the grader operator. Today she decided to stop the roller ( think steam roller) -- She rammed it with her car..on purpose. The operator was fixing her road fer crimoney sakes.
CHP was called and they hauled her off to jail.
Does that really surprize you? Some people are not satisfied no matter what you do for them. At least she will now have time to reflect.
Seen it before..a lady chewed us out for remodeling a shopping center to make it nice-- ruined her shopping experience.
Quote from: glenn kangiser on April 06, 2008, 11:04:23 PM
Seen it before..a lady chewed us out for remodeling a shopping center to make it nice-- ruined her shopping experience.
I have been yelled at for takeing water out of a stream for filling my water tender to fight a fire near there home! They would say things like your messing up salmon beds and I had to yell back that ain't nothing compaired to what is going to go in this stream when the trees all burn along the edge!! Mark
Well off to Chesaw in the morning. I might get a little snow or rain according to the weather forcast at the 3500 ft level?? Mark
WAZ038-071830-
OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...REPUBLIC...INCHELIUM
822 PM PDT SUN APR 6 2008
REST OF TONIGHT: MOSTLY CLOUDY. SCATTERED RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS
IN THE EVENING...THEN ISOLATED SNOW SHOWERS OVERNIGHT. SNOW LEVEL
2500 FEET IN THE EVENING. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S.
CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
MONDAY: MOSTLY CLOUDY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS IN THE
MORNING...THEN A CHANCE OF RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON.
SNOW LEVEL 3500 FEET IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S TO
LOWER 50S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 40 PERCENT.
MONDAY NIGHT: MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS
IN THE EVENING...THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS OVERNIGHT.
SNOW LEVEL 3500 FEET IN THE EVENING. LOWS IN THE MID 20S TO LOWER
30S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
TUESDAY: A CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS IN THE MORNING...THEN RAIN OR
SNOW SHOWERS LIKELY IN THE AFTERNOON. SNOW LEVEL 3500 FEET IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE MID TO UPPER 40S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
60 PERCENT.
Have a good trip, Mark. By next Sunday it's supposed to be 76 here.
45F today :); rain tomorrow :o; and winter storm watch Friday d*. Where is spring when you need it?
Another foot of snow forecast for our up-north land. That will make for almost 4 feet of snow in a week up there.
Quote from: glenn kangiser on April 06, 2008, 11:42:26 PM
Have a good trip, Mark. By next Sunday it's supposed to be 76 here.
Got it framed anyway even if it was still cold the first 2 days. On the third day it was NICE and probley got allmost 60 degs and I was sweating twords the end of the day. We got hit with snow on the first day but we were done for the day. It snowed a few inches over night and we had to sweep the floor off before it melted. The sun came out and 99% of what fell melted away. We go hit a few times with hail but we kept working and it would stop and clear up. Sure does suck tring to measure and draw lines in the snow & hail! Mark
Crayons work for marking wet wood. Seriously.
Quote from: MountainDon on April 09, 2008, 08:55:23 PM
Crayons work for marking wet wood. Seriously.
I will have to bring some small ones next time and try them out. Maybe it won't get wet and the roof goes on the next time I go up. Mark
Good grief. We had 5+ inches of rain the other day here, and there's flooding all around where we live (thankfully we didn't have any problem with it) and then turned around and had a dust storm yesterday evening. I think the dust must've blown all the way from Texas, seeing as we were so soaking wet I don't know how there was any dust to be had! Dust bowl and flood from the days of Noah, all in one week. Now, the forecast is predicting that we're going to be down to 34 degrees in the morning, the coldest since we moved! The day time high tomorrow isn't supposed to be too bad, and it's supposed to be sunny, but chilly for sure. Went to the grocery store yesterday, and it was all I could do to keep my groceries from blowing off in the cart while I was trying to unload them and the kids into the truck! (And it's not exactly like I'm a little bitty thing...) Sunny and a little calmer, clear blue sky this morinng...kind of coolish. Kids are wearing sweats today because they were cold. Feels good to me.
Windy as all get out today. I was going to wrap the exterior walls but blew that off, literaly. I'm framing sofits outside instead. 6+ inches of rain yesterday and not one drop inside the cabin. Temps not too bad but a slight chill so I'm in long sleeves today.
freaky weather spawned tornatoes (10-12) through Ala, Tenn And Ky. High winds blowing through the GAP in to Nicholas county W. Va. Heavy hail and winds in Michigan. :(
gandalfthegrey it didn't stop in Nicholas county. High winds, rain, alot of tree damage in just a few minutes some 75 miles from there. Prediction is snow flurries tonight and then down to mid 20's for next couple of nights. I can't believe it was 74F today.
We are getting winds now. 50 -60 mph (Santa Anas) 94 yesterday. 90 today. That means there is a high pressure system sitting on top of MD in New Mexico. Predicting same for next few days.
Your cold front is moving east from Minnesota. They got 7" snow yesterday.
It hit 81 F although it is windy, 20-25 with gusts to 35 or so. Couple that with 4% humidity and the fire warning are out in full force over all the state.
The weather last night an yesterday put the frogs back in their mud. It was 21F this morning. Made it all the way to 50F today and lows tonight about the same. I debated on chink since the cold temps at night but when I got to the cabin it was 33F. Just 2 miles apart. I had water which I had caught off the roof to mix the mortar and there was no ice. The early flowers took a beating though. No I didn't plant they are bulbed that come up every year.
Alright, now I know something wierd is happening. Three ays of near triple digit, today just about 65. They claim that by next monday nights below freezing and days in 50s. ???
What the #$@% is going on ???
OK my brother said it was only global warming. Seems to be his answer to everything. ???
I've said it quite a few times -- to where most think I'm crazy. Here are pictures I take every so often showing what is happening. I may take them one day out of 50 when this is being done -- It happens at least weekly.
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The two jets above zoomed over as I watched, to cover this last hole in the artificial cloud cover the day I took this picture.
The official government response --- normal vapor trails. BS I say.
Normal vapor trails are caused by moisture from the burning fuel which dissipates like normal ice from a planes wings --- by sublimation or dispersing through the atmosphere. It does not spread and cover the sky.
Historically until the last 10 years or so, vapor trails have disappeared within a short distance behind the plane. They only started spreading and covering the sky around the time the government announced that the Air Force would own the weather by 2025. Shortly after their study group announced their study, someone figured out that it was probably not a good idea to let the US citizens get the idea that they were being experimented on for military purposes. The stuff being sprayed up there comes down to earth.
Is it totally safe? Not likely.
Fooling with the weather is like throwing a rock in a pond. The ripples spread everywhere.
Here's an article that doesn't seem too crazy. Study up on it then expand from there for answers. The common name for the persistent contrails is Chemtrails, which study of will take you into the realm of places that many say are crazy.
Not me.
http://onlinejournal.org/Commentary/102205Mazza/102205mazza.html
HAARP has the ability to heat portions of the ionosphere and alter the jetstream. Wonder if that could change the weather?
If it is not chemtrails, then we have a major jet fuel pollution problem that needs to be addressed.
Glenn, while it does seem far-fetched, I have to say that the weather men here are predicting stormy weather tomorrow and this morning I noticed tons of chemtrails all over the sky. Granted, we don't live too far from either OKC airport, and not too far from Tinker AFB, either, but it just seemed like they were everywhere and weren't going away as quickly as they should, especially considering the wind is blowing 90 to nothing out of the south and has been all day. It was nearly 80 earlier, albeit extremely windy, and now they're saying the high tomorrow will only be around 60 and with a chance for "severe weather".... Anyway, when I saw the chemtrails, I thought of you. And honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the government is trying to modify the weather.
Here in NM today we have another sunny and windy day. 75 F and 5% hunidity, winds 30, gusts to 45 mph.
Bad for the fire that started in the Manzano mountains south and east of us a bit. Fire started there yesterday. It was 200 acres last night, 600 by noon. It's in a remote area; good and bad. Good = no houses to burn, bad = it's mostly steep terrain, hard for crews to get into and most of the time too windy for helicopters and planes to be used.
NM fire season has started.
Quote from: Homegrown Tomatoes on April 16, 2008, 04:41:41 PM
Glenn, while it does seem far-fetched, I have to say that the weather men here are predicting stormy weather tomorrow and this morning I noticed tons of chemtrails all over the sky. Granted, we don't live too far from either OKC airport, and not too far from Tinker AFB, either, but it just seemed like they were everywhere and weren't going away as quickly as they should, especially considering the wind is blowing 90 to nothing out of the south and has been all day. It was nearly 80 earlier, albeit extremely windy, and now they're saying the high tomorrow will only be around 60 and with a chance for "severe weather".... Anyway, when I saw the chemtrails, I thought of you. And honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the government is trying to modify the weather.
Thanks for thinking of me and knowing that they are there too. Funny -- today I was noticing that there was not one in our sky -- doesn't happen often.
Just checked our weather -- predicting mostly clear and sunny -- lets see if the trails come back at the end of the week when part cloudy is predicted. They wouldn't have too. Depends if they want to do it or not.
I have also observed normal jets at the same time as the chemtrail jets are up there. Their contrails disappear as they should - a short distance behind the plane with no residual spreading cloud cover.
I was just noticing today that our grass and stuff is drying fast in some areas, and fires will soon be here.
Looks as if spring has finally made it to my neck of the woods. Temps today made it into the mid 70's with an afternoon thunderstorm. The trees are finally budding out. No great amount of leafs yet and everything in the woods looks sort of reddish because of the buds. It will not be long before the green shows up. Mowed for the second time this year. Boy I hate to look forward to another year of yard as it is a weekly chore. Any longer and I have to rake. No way. So I mow every 7-9 days.
23" of new snow. More to follow. So much for my freight hauling trip this weekend.
today's high 98*. A week from Tuesday it will be 63* crazy weather. I am blaming it on MD because the high pressure system is sitting on his hill in NM. ;D
Found some older Chemtrail info -- spraying every few days around here.
http://www.willthomas.net/chemtrails/Articles/Concerned_over_Chemtrails.htm
I've been working out under this stuff and have had some sinus problems along with a major sore throat last week when spraying was heavy.
Weather here is perfect. :)
Yes sir it is! Not a thing to complain about. The kids are living outdoors these days and are hard to drag back in when it starts getting dark. I remember those days when I was a kid. I never wanted to go to bed because there was still a bit of light in the western sky. I've had a hard time staying indoors enough to get my own chores done.
Oh! OH! [scared] Thise twisty things are tearing up Virginia... Tornado struct Suffolk, VA. I hope all are alright.
gandalfthegrey I guess we are getting a little from the storm in Va as our temps are suppose to drop to 20-30F next two nights. Calling for 1-2" of snow but no accum. tonight. Not real sure where Bigkid or Peternap are exactly but I think they are farther south.
Is everyone OK in VA? Looks pretty rough in the news! Here it's windy but clear and warm and cool at nights. Love this weather.
We're having one of those days that looks like it could keep raining all day... it is coming down pretty steady and has been all morning. Don't think there's much risk of a storm, but definitely wet. We had 0.7 inch night before last and then yesterday was pretty, and then it started overnight again last night, but looks like it'll stick around today. I hope the panhandle is getting some... the wheat crop out there is going to fail miserably if they don't get some rain; it might anyway, even with the rain.
The sprayers managed to get a few drops to fall the other day when we weren't supposed to have any. Other than that -- Sun.
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Above is the same area over an hour or two from different points as I was working..
Well, the tornado sirens went off twice just a little while ago.... it's lightened up a bit since then after the tornadic part passed just south east of us (barely). Streets are still pretty flooded, though. I think this is the fourth time since we moved home that they've sounded the sirens, and we've had hail at least five times, but there wasn't any hail today. Of course, the day ain't over yet. ;) Good day to go into labor, I reckon.
Great tits enjoying the warmer weather – so far
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn13857-great-tits-enjoying-the-warmer-weather--so-far.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news9_head_dn13857
Quote from: glenn kangiser on May 11, 2008, 09:09:42 AM
Great tits enjoying the warmer weather – so far
Good article glenn but I had to read the article first to make sure what we were talking about. Thought you had changed the rating of the board. :D
[rofl2]
I wonder if those little suckers are out in the sun over here too? ???
Methinks some dare not read. :)
I get the BBQ grill out and starts raining...figures. Now I have to BBQ in the rain. d*
If you cancel it or get finished the rain will stop.
Wow! Over 100* 2 days ago and now snow in So. California. Ain't life great?
Scott you should have put the grilling off until today. I bet it's not raining there now.
It's been cloudy and windy, a little rain today. Look out to the east...
Been real nice here today. Windy but temp's in late 50 to early 60's. Forecast predicts good weather until the first of the week. A little cooler but no rain or snow.
We had snow in local mountians (near big Bear lake) rain and thunderstorms in deserts (between los Angeles and Palm Springs).
I just read that there were 2 Cat 5 tornados between Denver and Greeley Colorado. They had several smaller ones also. And a couple in Wyoming. What's this world coming to? Yea I know "Global Warming" I am not sure we're not getting ready for the next polar shift.
Yestrday's weather.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95335585@N00/2515615843/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/95335585@N00/2515615843/)
Scarry [scared]
Close, gandalf.
I used to work around that area quite a bit installing roll bars and slopers for Saf-T-Cab - /Johnson tractor.
Welcome to the world of weather modification.
I am used to the high winds... just blowing straight they knock down trees and blow over tractor trailers. Haven't been this close to an actual tornado since my military days at Fort Leonard Wood, MO.
I lost a couple of trees last year, nothing so far this year.
Last night I dreamed we had a few minute downpour... when I drove back from the valley this evening, we'd had a thunderstorm a little bit earlier... was glad to get the rain - really weird weather - last week in the 100's, this week in the 60's... go figure ??? and more rain predicted :) we certainly need the rain...
Midwest having swarms of tornados. I looked at the storm report in Google Earth andfound several days of heavy winds and hail. They have posted a warning for the next couple of days..... Lots of tornados predicted from Colorado through the mid Atlantic region.
Keep your heads down...
Warmest day we have had so far this year. Temp's 87F. Had a good downpouring last night with high winds and hail the size of peas. Needed the rain. Not only for the ground water but I needed water to mix mortar at the cabin. Rather than haul it I just placed about 4-5 buckets at the valleys and now I am good to go for another 2-3 days.
It just stopped raining. Its about 53 F. Feels like a terrarium. Missed my "working on the cabin" window. Maybe this evening before it gets dark.
At 2:00 P.M. it is miserable. At least in my opinion we normally do not get this warm this early in the year. 94F now. At least there is no rain and good time to get in the 1st cutting of hay. Where is the snow when you need it. ;)
Its still raining. We had a reasonable but cool day yesterday, maybe 55F tops, but no rain in the PM. Now it's 9:30AM the furnace just came on again and its about 50F. If the rain stops, it will be good working weather.
This constant drippy sky is very unusual for June here. It's been 6 degrees cooler than normal.
The garden is tentatively attempting to make a show. The only thing really flourishing are the strawberries and the onions and the WEEDS.
Hot as He!!. It's been over 100 the last 3 days!
George Bush must have his window open again! >:(
Its STILL raining. This is June for pity's sake. No, it's pouring! Sideways. This is November weather, March weather. Ergh :(
Just reasonably nice - 80's - 90's.
Finally some releif insite. Out of the 100's and back into the high 80's tomorrow they tell me. [cool] Its about time its not normally this hot here. & the heat just zaps my will to live. :( Not to mention it makes for short tempers.
Larry
Had a thunderstorm pass through this evening and it dropped from 88F to 68F in just a hour or so. Now it is steady at 68F. Might be able to work the full day tomarrow in the loft area for a change. Waiting on Generator parts. I don't like to use a chainsaw and axe for something a circular saw would work for. But Glenn is used to it. ;D
I barely break a sweat.
Ok.....so...... I sweat like a $2 whore sometimes..... I'll admit it, but I do have A/C in the vehicles -- when I can afford gas or diesel.
[crz]
Temperatures in excess of 451 degrees in my neighborhood today. The Orphir fire in Palermo is just west of our place. 25 - 40 mph winds from the northwest are causing perimeter control problems. The folks on the fire information line don't know yet what the day holds except for more wind.
Here's a map of the area.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=114588530322698785804.00044f54f04ff20ad9bb3&ll=39.427177,-121.541061&spn=0.096265,0.150375&z=13 (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=114588530322698785804.00044f54f04ff20ad9bb3&ll=39.427177,-121.541061&spn=0.096265,0.150375&z=13)
We're all in the Bay Area right now, 3 hours away. We don't have any animals at our place. Everything we value up there has roots or posts. It's a whole lot of wait and see.
The damage report in the news paper listed the number of homes, outbuildings, acres, and vehicles lost. It also mentioned, "White [Butte County Fire] didn't know how many of the cars were operational."
What? You mean we rednecks are supposed to keep our vehicles operational? What's fun about that? Where else are we supposed to make out at family reunions?
I am not going to watch the tube about this all day. I'm going for a bike ride.
That's good Drew --- do the cars have back seats, or just make do with what you can?
One of our city police in Kerman locked himself in the back seat of his cruiser in a farmers field with a girl he'd picked up the night before.
No door handles in the inside of the back seat area on a police car. d* d* d*
Farmer found them in the morning. Called the other police and the newspaper I think.
Bet he's glad that field wasn't on fire.
His wife was.
Quote from: glenn kangiser on June 11, 2008, 10:41:31 AM
That's good Drew --- do the cars have back seats, or just make do with what you can?
One of our city police in Kerman locked himself in the back seat of his cruiser in a farmers field with a girl he'd picked up the night before.
No door handles in the inside of the back seat area on a police car. d* d* d*
Farmer found them in the morning. Called the other police and the newspaper I think.
Bet he's glad that field wasn't on fire.
His wife was.
rofl rofl rofl Now THAT'S funny. What a moron!
It was really hot a few days ago here, but it's been nice and cool the ppast couple of days... yesterday was only 92. ;)
Rainy cool day today. I worked in Tulsa till noon then went by the cabin and ponded a few nails on the deck till the rain finaly ran me and Felix off. Hoping for a drier day tomorrow so I can get some work done on the cabin.
The forecast is for upper 90's, maybe 100 on Sunday. Can't wait to get back to the mountains. :)
We had to come back to town to get new springs for the trailer. After 28 and untold overloads a main leaf gave up and broke. Good thing it was on the trailing end. That and some folks here wanted to celebrate my birthday as well as father's day.
Huge storm rolled in around 10pm last night and it's still going. High winds, lightning and hail. So much lightning it sounded like a war zone all night. We hardly got any sleep. Our power was out for 14 hours. No idea how much rain but the lake is already full, it's still raining and there's more rain comming. I hope we don't end up like Iowa.
More rain and storms today. I guess it's officialy the rainy season.
Really enjoyable working weather. After a couple weeks ago during the heat wave of 94-96F it is enjoyable to be in the 70-74F range. Nights dropped down to 40-42F. Really need to work in side but I am taking advantage of the nice weather to get things done outside and hopefully I can hit the inside work while it is raining. The cold weather also took away the haze that lingers with it. Visibility from the top of the mountain is great.
113 here in the desert today. Global Warming is working well here.
98 degrees here... supposed to be low 90's for rest of week - hopefully
just looked outside - it is suddenly overcast, windy & temp down to 94... maybe we'll get a thunderstorm - would be nice to get some rain again :)
dropped 12 degrees within the hour to 86 - lots of thunder & wind, no rain yet....
send some my way Sassy
I've been where you are, desdawg. Way too hot for me.
It's only 84 degrees at 1pm - very unusual for this time of year. The thunderstorm caused several fires here & there's 100's throughout California. Yesterday it only got up to 91. I'm not complaining, I love it - the cooler weather, that is, not the fires...
Another soggy wet day here in the Oklahoma rain forest. Sun is out now and it feels like a suna.
108 in the shade and no shade in sight. The AZ desert is a great place in the wintertime when most others are dealing with snow and freezing weather. Right about now we wonder why we are here. Northern AZ would be great now if I could disentangle myself from my responsibilities and just go there and stay for a while. My mind would enjoy it as well as my body.
It could be worse, des. It could be 110 and raining there -- I have fond memories of Tucson.
Little cold front coming through the desert
Today: Partly cloudy. High 103F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight: Mainly clear. Low 74F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: Mainly sunny. High 107F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow night: Clear skies. Low 74F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday: Abundant sunshine. Highs 107 to 111F and lows in the upper 70s.
Sunday: Mostly sunny. Highs 110 to 114F and lows in the upper 70s.
Monday: Sunshine. Highs 109 to 113F and lows in the upper 70s
Then in the mountains where I would prefer to be:
Today: Sunny. High 91F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight: Generally clear. Low 49F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: A mainly sunny sky. High 92F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow night: Clear. Low around 50F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday: More sun than clouds. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the low 50s.
Sunday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the mid 50s.
Monday: Plenty of sun. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the low 50s
Still getting into the 90's there but way better when it can cool down at night.
Here in the high desert (5500 feet) today...
currently 91, partly cloudy
overnight low in mid 60's
forecast for the next couple days, 92 - 94
then cloudy, high 80's low 90's with 30% chance of rain
The Mountains (8800 feet and 36 miles north) where we'll be back about Sunday or so...
currently 78 and partly cloudy
overnight low probably low to mid 50's
the mountains usually run 15 - 20 degrees cooler and cool off faster than here
Your desert is cooler than mine Don. We are back to 107 for a high today. 92 up north where I would like to be.
I believe the key there is the altitude. The driveway here is a tad under 5500 feet.
It seems to get anything done here it has to be in the AM hours for hard work. For the past couple of days sunrise was at 43-46F then by afternoon it was in the early 80's. Almost 40 degree change in 6 hours.
Fires are getting better around here - not so much smoke... 1459 fires in California now.
http://www.goldrushcam.com/2008/mariposa%20news/mariposa_news%20235.htm
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Two days ago the temp was in the 70's, today it's supposed to get to 97, by Thursday, 107 :o
Hot humid and yuck here. We had rain this morning but now it's just steamy hot.
106 with smoke today and muggy.
I got up this morning and the AC wasn't running. It rained last night and cooled things off. I guess the desert monsoon season has arrived.
Cooling down to 103 today with a cold snap of 98 coming tomorrow. d*
Not bad today in mid 70's. Slight rain shower. Here is what I have to look forward to the rest of the week.
http://weather.weatherbug.com/WV/Marlinton-weather/local-forecast/7-day-forecast.html?zcode=z6286
A chilly 94 today with a near frosty 64 coming in tonight. Brrrrrr.
I cannot do that kind of heat. I'm running for cover at 80F. It would t ake a period of acclimating I'm sure. I lived in the LA area for about 3 years, and when I came back to Oregon, 'bout froze to death.
That being said, after 30+ consecutive years in the NW I would not willingly go back to that kind of heat.
High today will be about 65F High over cast. Great working weather for me!
...but depressing for me.
It's a dry heat --- yeah right. It does sap your energy. I always look forward to finishing what I am doing and jumping into the truck and turning on the A/C.
To explain the weather here today, I really wanted to take a picture, but I missed the Kodak moment by a few seconds. When I got the camera all ready, Grover stood up and came to the back door to greet me, all dripping wet. Seconds before, he'd been laying sprawled out in the girls' wading pool with his head hanging back over the side... all he needed was sunglasses for it to be the perfect greeting card shot. His black fur absorbs the heat like crazy, and so he spent most of the day lounging around in the pool, which he loves. It was really hot and sticky, to say the least.
Looks like there is some rain headed our direction. It is NAFTA rain coming up from the south. I hope it doesn't get interecepted at the border.
Border Patrol is afraid to do their job - fearful of a Bush cabal prison sentence. It'll get through.
When it rains here this time of the year with a little breeze it gets to be like a giant evap cooler. Nice relief from the heat. I actually feel like going out and doing things.
Yesterday was an odd day - forecasted to be 99 degrees, the high was 82... we even had a little rain, so most of the day it was in the 70's - nice change - it is only 78 degrees right now - some cloud cover still - not much wind - when that happens we don't get a lot of solar or wind power - but I like the coolness. I'm going to pickup another four L16 batteries when I go back to the valley so we can store more power.
100 degrees here today.. muggy.... just freaking wonderful
I need to get out of this inferno
We are well into our rainy season. Both here in the high desert and in the mountains. We've been spending 95.9 percent of our time up there. It's 15 to 20 degrees cooler than the home base desert. The humidity routinely runs above 30-40%. As the rain rolls in we can watch it roll up to near 100%. We also get to watch the temperature plummet 10 degrees or more in less than a half hour, then rise again as the clouds blow past.
Beautiful working day. Temp high was 72F. Presently 60F with a overnight low predicted to be 46F. Just a early touch of fall. My kind of weather.
Weather word for today- Brutal
Been hot like hell for the last 2 weeks and getting hotter every day. Oh and humid. Did I mention humid? Gotta love Oklahoma in August.
113 yesterday, down to 106 today according to the prophets.
Supposed to be in the miid to low 90's through Friday - that's my kind of weather in the summer around here - forget those 100+ days - we've actually had a very nice summer (except for how dry it is & the fires :-\ )
We bake out here in the desert but we seem immune to hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and a lot of the major disasters that happen elsewhere. If we have winter rains and the grasses grow we get in on some fires once in a while.
Dittos on the desert; add having to watch where you step or how careful you are if you go to move a rock when hiking or 4-wheeling. Rattlesnakes are known to live here too.
In the mountains, where we're returning to in a couple hours, I have only bears and lightning to be concerned about. I can scare bears away, but haven't had much luck with the lightning. I've some pictures of another recent near by strike, but not as close as last years. This last one blew the bark of about 20 feet of Ponderosa, plus it blew the top off. Pictures are not too great... maybe try for some better ones and post later.
Posted a picture of it HERE (http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=2335.msg61961#msg61961).
Hot as all get out today. I think it was about 107-108. In the shade. And the AC at church went out. Pastor cut it short today (he tends to be a bit long winded, and usually we don't get out of there until around 2 o'clock in the afternoon.) Today we were out by 1:30. ;D Glad we all dressed for a hot day, but there is nothing more disgusting than sweat dripping down your legs and down into your eyes.
Trying to scare lightening is right up there with trying to store electricity in a bucket. It just doesn't work. Those snakes were here first and they buzz insistently when being trespassed upon. They don't scare much either.
HGT I can relate to 107-108 in the shade and no shade. Day after day.
Around 97 here today - we had an impromptu barbecue today wth 2 neighbor families. Great to get together after not getting burned out.
I took care of Rhonda' garden and she said yesterday I think when she went to water the squash - the deer net was supposed to lift right up so she could water - it didn't. She looked down and there was a 13 button rattler. She called her son who dispatched it. Yesterday I was checking to see if my dog was up by Jeannes and a nice big tarantula crossed the path in front of me. That time already? hmm
glen,
i am going to assume that you know that tarantula's are harmless. i had one as a pet. if they do bite you it is akin to a bee sting.
Yes - I had a Mexican red leg. Walked all over me, although they say you have to be careful as it is not safe for the tarantula if they fall and split their little abdomen. Life with an exoskeleton has to be a bit rough. d*
The blistering heat continues here in OK. I'm starting work at 6:00 am now to try and beat it a little. But by 11:00am it's already miserable. d*
I had a friend when I was a kid who had a black tarantula - we'd let it walk on us... I was kinda nervous at 1st but it never bit any of us. I hate spiders (except daddy long legs) but tarantulas are kinda cute :)
Since the spell of hot weather started, we've had an absolute infestation of fiddle back spiders (brown recluses). I have killed over 15 that I could positively ID, and another few that I killed before turning the light on. One was in the pajama drawer on the clean pajamas I was about to put on. One was on the leg of the baby's cradle. Another one DH luckily killed as he rolled over to get out of bed in the morning. Last night I killed one in our closet on a shelf with my clothes. They are everywhere!!!
I went to a funeral yesterday for one of my cousins. It was 109 degrees when we came out of the church. My truck was about a mile away (she was a much loved person, obviously, as there wasn't a place left to park anywhere near the church.) The baby was with me and we both got a good tan before we got back to the truck. We didn't go to the cemetary... who the heck plans graveside services at 2 PM in August in Oklahoma???? Mom said it was 111 at the cemetary when they left.
It's going to be another hot one today. I know this not because I listened to the forecast, but because at 6 AM, the dog was already hanging out in the swimming pool! I am just about thawed out from our three years in WI....
Cool(50*) with clouds shrouding the mountains, and some mist. Probably "burn" off and get up to about 65* today. I'll keep this, you guys can have all that heat and humidity.
Funny how Don mentioned bears. I took the time to do the initial staking for the cabin yesterday, and after that took a walk around the 9 acres. The horses graze through most of the high grass this time of year, and low and behold I find fresh bear scat. Not unusual through these parts, along with all the stray dogs, I mean moose. ;D
There are plenty of trees on the property(making for some poor line of sight issues), so I rarely walk around without my 12 ga and some slugs, just in case. ;)
A baumy 75F today. Intermittent showers most of the day. Tomarrow is about the same. Felt like about 90 in the loft working with the quartz light to help me see.
80 in the shade, and there isn't any when I'm cutting the wood. Stuck OSB up on the ceiling joists so I could walk around and survey the new view....Wahoo.
Then a cold shower, I was melting.
Thunderstorms in mountian and deserts. High humidity here (Inland valley, Riverside county CA) Suppose to rain for 3 days but not a drop. Temp near 100*.
We have been showing rain on the prophets charts here too but haven't had any. I think we will tonight. Might see Muldoon flying past. Nope looks like it is coming from the NE instead of the SE.
Was 97 here and ashing -- I think the ash fell last week but was in the trees at my workplace - maybe 5 miles from the fire.
Fog.
Fog yesterday.
Fog the day before that.
Fog on Sunday.
Fog tomorrow.
Welcome to Summer in Pacifica.
Very Profound, Drew. :)
You probably threw him off with ashing. Left him speechless..
We've cooled down to the high 90s... after last week, I almost need a parka.
Yup, pretty darned nice after the meltdown of the past few days.
Quote from: desdawg on August 07, 2008, 07:49:10 AM
You probably threw him off with ashing. Left him speechless..
Fortunately the fire missed our place so I didn't make an ash out of myself. d*
Cold here today - about 94 predicted.
We have been showing rain for the last several days and show it again for the next three. Haven't seen a drop. I think our prophet is an optomist. No ash though. If the fire was in LA it might come whistling down I-10.
Quote from: desdawg on August 07, 2008, 01:24:49 PM
We have been showing rain for the last several days and show it again for the next three. Haven't seen a drop. I think our prophet is an optomist. No ash though. If the fire was in LA it might come whistling down I-10.
I always wondered what it would be like to have a job where you could be wrong more than 50% of the time, and still get paid. ::)
Weather here partly sunny and 63*, chance of showers tonight.
I spoke too soon. We had a shower yesterday afternoon before I made it home.
My ash isn't falling anymore. d*
Maybe it is being absorbed by humidity. You could have ashid rain.
Not sure about the ashid rain, desdawg. It usually falls in light shattered scours. [crz]
Cool 42*, partly sunny this morning, and fresh termination dust on the mountains. :)
It poured all night. Everything is soaked, except the first floor of the cabin, which I tarped. 50 degrees.
Too bad on the rain. We spent time nearly every day sweeping off the water on the tarp and checking underneath for leakage. Then air drying, recovering and repeating. It's a drag. Hope it goes well for you and that the floor doesn't get too wet.
Forecast 106 again today. Wish we could get to some of that chili weather I read about in the other thread.
We're pretty good now. 91 today predicted to highs of 96 in about a week.
We had about 3 days 79-83 - very unusual for this time of year - but very nice! So you say there's global warming going on?
I'll take it. Just hope we don't have the coldest winter in history this year.
Presently 78F. But it seems 100F in the loft area while I am hanging insulation and building walls. Rain possibly by Tue or Wed which is way overdue. Everything is drying up, Yard looks like a waste land and the streams are getting real low. Heard today on a local station that we have only had 1" of rain in 30 days. Shoot we usually get 1/2-1" everytime it rains. But they also commented that when you have low temps that thunderstorms don't happen to deliver any perciptation.
Thunder, lightening, rain, power was off when I woke up 75 degrees. A nice change. I am headed up north this morning. I have a rental coming empty.
Have a good day des. Darn grid is so unreliable.
46 degrees and raining here. Bet we have some fresh snow on the mountains when this all clears up in a day or two. c*
Quote from: desdawg on August 28, 2008, 06:24:18 AM
I have a rental coming empty.
Nothing worse than an empty rental. :(
Well, maybe a rental full of someone you'd like to get rid of and can't without jumping through all the legal hoops. >:(
I know I didn't complete the term of my lease. But that shouldn't cost me anything should it.I need to get my deposit back.
rofl rofl
>:(
It's a beautiful 68 degrees here in Pacifica. I can see out to the top of San Bruno Mountain from here, a hike I took on Wednesday. If I went out down the block, I might see the Marin Headlands where I rode my bike yesterday.
But today I'll relax and enjoy the weather. Why? Because I'm SORE from hiking up San Bruno Mountain and Biking from Crissy Field to Marin City and back!
Somebody get me a Jamba Juice.
I just couldn't live like that, Drew. I did a white knuckled ride on a bike a couple weeks ago - 1/4 mile down my gravel/dirt driveway to get my tractor at the renters- threw the bike in the bucket so I didn't have to walk back for my truck.
It's back to feeling like a hot sticky August now... and yesterday the girls wanted to make "hippopotamus" rolls for dinner (long story, but they're basically just dinner rolls that look like hippos and have marshmallow teeth). I'd promised, so we cranked the oven up and made them even though it was sweltering in here afterward. The AC didn't kick off until the wee hours this morning, and the thermostat was set at nearly 80 degrees.
Really a nice day today. Temp probably hit a high of 75. The rain cleared things up the last couple of days. The sky is blue again with white clouds instead of grey ones. Really needed the two day rain. Now I guess the grass will start greening up again as it hasn't been for over a month. Shame I spent this day inside doing insulation. :(
Supposed to be 105 here today - probably made it a couple miles away in the valley - currently 100.4 in the shade here
NH is cooler than that Glenn.
Would I be allowed over there?
The weather is definitely changing mode here. On thursday it was 32F with a heavy frost. Every morning since it has been 32-35F. I guess it just comes with the seasons. Better start looking for the snow shovel.
.63 inches rain measured here in our first good rain of the season. Fire danger is down.
1.12 inches of rain in the mountains Saturday through Sunday. Snow above 9500 feet. Low 32 F High 65 F over the weekend. Deer and Elk crossing the property as if they owned the place. Wood stove working well.
The cold and wet yuck of early winter has arrived here in OK. It was nice while it lasted.
Since my last post the temps have changed to 22-26F in the mornings with heavy frost. Good bye to the flowers and plants. There is a cold front coming with some moisture so they are predicting a little snow by the weekend.
It looks like it's going to be a cold night up in the mountains. At 8:08 PM it's already down to 26 degrees. The high up there today was 44.
Just think Don that new stove is up there all by itself wanting warm company. If it stayed like that you will have to heat up the place before any mudding can take place. Maybe by early afternoon on Saturday if you got there on Friday eve.
Yep. My plan is to get up there Friday night by 7:30 - 8:00 PM and get a fire going. :) So far I've been able to start a fire Friday night and carry a fire overnight from the last stoking at 11:00 PM and find it at a toasty warm 69 degrees at the east end (stove at the west end) with no problem.
I have an infrared thermometer I use to track the warming up of the walls. Once warmed it's pretty even, though warmer towards the stove end of course. 69 at the bed end, 72 at the stove end last weekend; those are wall temps; I don't have an air temp thermometer in the cabin yet... I keep forgetting to take one. .
Don to speed things up a bit on the cold end you could use a small fan from the stove end toward the colder end. I've done that when curing the mud out before.
I've thought of that, but since my AC power comes from either the generator or a 400 watt inverter at present I haven't bothered.
It'll be nice when I get the 24 VDC ceiling fan installed and more batteries plus the solar. :)
An overnight burn will get it up okay I'm sure. If it's a tad cool in the AM opening the air flap on the Aspen will raise the temp pretty quickly. That's one thing nice about the infrared thermometer; it's easy to get the actual wall, floor, ceiling surface temperature.
Harbor Freight has a decent on for $30 to 40 depending on sales (or not). Glenn has one too and has posted a picture someplace here.
My wood stove starting up...
(https://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q75/djmillerbucket/oddsnends2/P1000150.jpg)
:)
It's now 22 degrees up there (@23:08). I'm going out on a limb and predicting an overnight low of 13 degrees up there. (need a shiver emoticon) I'll check back in the AM.
I was way off. :( The weather played a trick. After falling steadily up to where I went to bed, it only dropped to 20 at midnight. Then it started up, reaching 25 at 4 AM. Then dropped to the overnight low of 19 at 6 & 7 AM. Still the coldest night so far this fall. It's now up to 22
Depending on where you are and microclimates that could be common.
View air like water - the cold settling and displacing the warm daytime air that was in the valley below. As the valley fills with the very cold air it settles to the bottom absent wind to mix things up. It is heavier than the warm air so the warm air rises to where you are - warming things up. After a bit the cold overpowers the warm and in comes your coldest temp. It seems common around here to get that drop before daylight - not sure on the total cause of it.
The above part from pilot training and part from my observations here on the mountain in the banana belt.
It's common here/there to see the lowest temp just before/at dawn, but unusual to see the significant rise in between. ??? Much warmer tonight; 36 right now
We are still cruising in the 90 degree range during the day with the low in the mid 50's. During my last trip up north I pulled my pump and blew out my water lines. It was hitting 25 for a low and I was running electric heaters in the crawlspace to keep the plumbing and pump intact. The low there last night was reported at 33 degrees. What a difference a couple hundred miles makes.
We have the rise nearly every night and it is common for us to be 10 to 20 degrees warmer in the morning than the little town in the valley below us - line of sight - maybe 2 miles away.
Today is the first time in a week that the morning temps were at 41. Been in the mid 20's. But strangely enough it seems colder. I got chilled to the bone at the cabin. Different kind of cold. Been up there all week in the 20's in the morning and never really felt as cold as today. I should have taken note this morning when I added wood to the fire that it was not drawing the same. Probably something to do with the barometric pressure or something as they are calling for a front to move in and start snowing.
Currently 69.8 degree outside.
Quote from: glenn kangiser on October 24, 2008, 10:14:42 AM
We have the rise nearly every night and it is common for us to be 10 to 20 degrees warmer in the morning than the little town in the valley below us - line of sight - maybe 2 miles away.
You are getting their heat. Now to harnass it in the wintertime.
We do use some of it - in the form of a winter garden. Plants - food - winter vegetables are a form of solar storage. :)
I know. des...I need to do better than that...
Gotta get it into your ductwork. I don't think cabbage is a good option for that.
Cabbage will certainly come out of my ductwork. [crz]
Homegrown, you'll be happy to know that it is 70 degrees at 0900 & Glenn's eating bare :o right now.
BTW, Desdawg, we do have Glenn's "passive/agressive" heater for the bedroom, harnessing the heat from the greenhouse with solar panels that kick on a fan from an old car that blows the hot air through pvc pipes into the closet & out into the room.
Technically that is incorrect, Homie. She's pulling your leg a bit. I do have a pair of her flip flops on, but yeah - it is nice and warm here now. [crz]
Arggh! I can't get away from the flashbacks!!! They're everywhere!!!
Easy girl, it will get better. :)
Today I had to send DH a "TGWIO" email at work. I'd checked the weather in our town in Wisconsin, and it was a high of 34 (which I don't think they ever made because in the middle of the afternoon it was only 26 and drizzly/snowy). Thank God we're in OKLAHOMA. It was about 70 degrees here today, clear blue sky, DD wore shorts because she said the house was "hot" from me turning on the teakettle in the morning to make tea. ;D
82 here today and 74 tomorrow - then about a week of 66 forecast.
25F here this morning. Pouring down the snow. Forecast is 8-10". No School so it looks like I will be Mr. Mom today.
Please keep the snow there, John. Raised our forecast temp today to 78 - currently 68.7 in the shade.
This is what they said
MARLINTON... ELKINS 940 AM EST TUE NOV 18 2008 HERE IS A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...
SNOW ACCUMULATIONS DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS RANGED FROM 2 INCHES OVER WESTERN SLOPES AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS... AND 6 TO 18 INCHES OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS.
MOISTURE COMING FROM LAKE ERIE UNDER NORTH TO NORTHWEST FLOW WILL KEEP UPSLOPE SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS THROUGH TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT... HIGHEST IN POCAHONTAS AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES.
But as of now probably 2-3" and starting to melt off some.Temp up to 31F. Maybe they were wrong or at least part of it.
Pretty nice here. Chilly in the morning but otherwise not too bad. Good weather for cutting firewood. Which I've been doing for the past few days.
Well I guess they were right. Elevation of additional 1500 feet some 22 miles to the west they got 15" overnight. Elevation does make a difference when determining snowfall amounts I guess. But I already knew that but hadn't talked to anyone until the afternoon to see exactly what they got on the mountain tops. I guess that is why they put the ski resort on top d*
Temp here now is a balmy 17F. Windchill tonight is -8F. 2" of snow today.
32F now and freezing rain. Expected to change over to snow this evening and throughout the night. Rather have the snow than this freezing rain.
69 degrees in the shade right now... :) it got up to 72 yesterday
Tomorrow night rain predicted - possibly through Sunday - we need it, although Thanksgiving day supposed to be sunny (won't matter to me I'll be down in the dungeon working ER - the unit is in the basement - no windows like in the Underground Cabin)
Pretty cold here in Pittsburgh Pa. Will be in the 30's and snow all week. 15" of snow where my camp is in the NorthCentral Mountains of Pa. Happy early Thanksgiving to all. Pete
Quote from: Sassy on November 24, 2008, 02:50:23 PM
69 degrees in the shade right now... :) it got up to 72 yesterday
- the unit is in the basement - no windows like in the Underground Cabin)
Make you feel right at home ;D Sorry you have to work on the Holiday. For 25 years I never had a holiday or weekend off unless it fell on my days off or I was on vacation. Now I get them all off. ;)
Thanksgiving here will be rainy or snowy depending on altitude more or less. Here in the burbs it's looking like rain. My mountains look to be getting some snow Thursday; 50% chance. We'll be seeing how much. The winch is mounted. :D
Well, the forecast has changed a bit - just rain tonight, tomorrow & tomorrow night - otherwise partly sunny to sunny & in the 60's for Thanksgiving into next week - it's only barely sprinkled so far tonight...
Well, Red, someone has to do it... since I work part-time, I figure it give the full time workers a little break... usually holidays are pretty nice to work - people seem to be in better spirits even if they have to be at work or are sick & have to come into the ER. I've worked quite a bit of the holidays for going on 19 yrs...
Besides, it does pay well ::) c*
A light dusting of snow fell early this morning with temp's at the freezing point. 1-2" expected this afternoon and tonight. Weekly forecast is more of the same for the remainder of the week with the high of 32-34F.
About the same here in N GA.
Of course my water pump chose yesterday to quit. I just finished installing a new pressure switch. Sometimes the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" frame of mind will bite you. I've known for some time that the 12 yr old switch was on short time. Being too stupid, lazy, cheap to fix it when the weather was good I got to do it in the cold & wet. At least I'm back in the 20th century... indoor plumbing.
When you're dumb you gotta be tough. d*
Foggy, drippy, rainy, drippy, foggy 40 - 50 degrees. Ships moaning out in the Straits. Squadrons of Canadian Geese bursting through the fog then disappearing again. Honking to illustrate the Doppler effect. Love it.
Sort of makes you glad you got your roof on when you did doesn't it. ;D
Low to mid 60's for the next week. d*
It has actually warmed up overnight. At 11PM it was 10F and this morning it went to 16F. The rest of the week forecast doesn't look to good with snow predicted the rest of the week and temps not to get above 30F. I can handle the temps but any freezing rain or snow I could do without.
Cold snap here....
Currently 46f out. [cold]
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Generally we are a bit warmer than this at our elevation of 2910 feet, and the lows are usually about 5 to 10 degrees warmer here due to rising valley heat influence in our micro-climate.
Shoot Glenn that is almost springtime weather. I started a fire at 8:30 A in the cabin which was 23F inside. By 3:00 Pm it had raised to 41F. That was as good as I got it in that period of time.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Marlinton&state=WV&site=RLX&textField1=38.2201&textField2=-80.0871&e=0
I don't think I've ever seen some of those scary forecast pictures, John. Brr.......
Here we go... it was trying to snow when we left the mountains at 2:30 this afternoon. The red patch on the map is where our cabin is.
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I guess we'll find out this coming weekend what actually happened. :-\
That looks verrrrry nipply, Don. Brrr....
It only dropped to 15 last night in the mountains; warmer than the foretasted low of 11. ;D Tonights low is forecast to be a balmy 20 with a daytime high of 41.
Down here on the mesa it dropped to 23 with a high yesterday of 49. 31 right now.
It's a freezeing cold 45 here 8)
Dang Mariposens don't know what cold is d*
36 here and high is suppose to be 37. Cold front came down from the north. Good thing we have lots of firewood. There was a little snow this morning
Cold. It's been in the 20's all day. I'm near froze.
cold. just started snowing. in houston, snowing!
global warming muldoon. ;D
Heatwave here. High of around 52. Yes I don't know where it came from. But it is short lived as they are calling for temp's to drop and freezing rain. Guess what I did today?
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Ummmmm, uhhh .... delivered the Christmas toys and got stuck in the chimney? hmm
I don't see you.... [waiting]
The self timer on the camera kept going off before I made it up to the ladder.
[rofl2]
It's gone from the teens over the weekend to the 70's yesterday....and today, 60's and rain, with more rain tomorrow >:(
Yesterday I got up and decided to let the fire die down since it was predicted to be in the mid 40's-50. I needed to clean the ashes out of the stove and clean the flue. That's the first time in 1-1/2 months that the stove hasn't been fired 24 hours. All I had was a 40' wooden extension ladder (heavy) to use as the other one was on the mountain. So I elicited the assistance from the Duetz. I had already installed the snowplow so I had to take it off and low and behold the front tire was flat. Well what started out to be a 30 minute job turned out to be 2-3 hours. But it is now done. Anyway they are predicting 100% snow tonight with temps around 25F
57F out this morning, but snow is on the way... I told you guys to keep it back east. d*
I try to reason with Mother Nature but you know women they have a mind of their own.
55 on Wednesday, now an ice storm.... Expected to freeze solid tonight.
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... sometimes it makes for pretty, but also a PITA if you lose trees, power, etc.
I've been somewhat nervously watching the weather in my mountain area the past several days. I know that since last weekend there's been maybe 3 to 5 inches of snow. There's more to come tonight and Saturday; or at least pretty good chances of more. Weather.gov says maybe an inch or two. They are not always right; could be less, could be more. ??? It's not all that cold, lows about 25 forecast, except for Sunday night when they say a dip to 10 is possible. :o
I have a small load of trim lumber I want to take up to the cabin, and I'd like to do a little more interior work. So I'm crossing my fingers for a break. The snowmobile won't handle it, or the miter saw, etc.
I have to wait until Sunday because of other stuff. We'll see what Mother Nature has delivered up there. We'll give it a shot and file a later report.
I also just took delivery of a pair of new heavy duty tire chains. :) tirechains.com (http://tirechains.com) And I'm taking my snowshoes.
I remember years ago when I rode snow mobiles we had a cabbose that we pulled behind for extra passengers. Couldn't haul anything real bulky but it would certainly take the saw and some other stuff.
We ended up with about 1" last night. I needed some drywall but when I was at the big city I was afraid to haul becuse of the chance of rain or snow. Maybe next week if we get a couple clear days.
I had to break down and get new tires for the truck the other day. :o. 10ply are not cheap. Have always run Steeltex by Fireston but they quit making them. Got the replacement. Run into new chains with ice cleats deals for $82 a set. Ordered two sets. Other than the extra time per day to install I should make it on the mountain when it turns to ice. We will see.
As of 8:30am it's 34 deg. and trying to snow.
If it snows to much all my projects will be coverd :-\ Then I will be stuck doing things in doors until it melts [waiting]
hmmm that's odd..... Same here. [crz]
Snow!! :( I don't think there's much chance of making it uo to the cabin right now, even with 4x4 and chains. From NM Roads Info...
Difficult Driving Conditions
Description: Difficult driving conditions on NM 4, mile marker 19 to 46. Roads are snow packed. Reports of about 8-10 inches of snowfall in that area. :o Crews are plowing the roadway.
My turn off Hwy 4 is at mile marker 33; approx 2 miles of that might be plowed, but the last two would not be.
My neighbor up there is going to see what it's like and call me later today.
MTL it's snowmobile time.
9PM December 13, 26 F and 3 inches of snow, with more coming.
We're going into a little cold snap here in the U.P... The high tomorrow is 3. Tomorrow night will be 12 below, with wind chills down to 30 below zero. A bit nippy for this time of year...
You are a better man than I, Andrew. I could not live like that. [cold]
Andrew, dude, please remember to bring the Brass Monkey in and set him by the rocket stove.
He is rather, shall we say....cold sensitive. [crz]
Well here is some pictures of the ordeal that transpired on Novemeber 26th and described in my cabin post.
" But I have 4 wheel drive"
Unless you have chains this don't mean squat when there is ice involved.
If you look just behind the ambulance you will see the blazer on it's top. The wrecker just lacked inches of going backwards on top of it.
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This was the fatality truck that the ambulance was trying to reach about a mile beyond where it slid off the road.
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With the ambulance in the road, forrest service, and wrecker this individual thought since " I have 4 wheel drive" I can make it. NOT
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We had a sander slide off the road in Oregon one year -
We were expecting thunderstorms today but only got maybe a quarter or half inch of rain. I applied a simple fix to the problem we were having with water coming in on the tops of the sliding glass doors and I'm hoping for a real storm to test it out. We had a similar rain like this back in October before the fix and rain came in. No rain came in today.
I would really like this fix to work. Aside from the awesome feeling of doing something really clever, the next step would be a lot tougher.
No snow here at the coast, but people still plow into each other with the first rain. Yes, the street -is- oily. Just like last year...
I think I'll just stay in until January 5. :P
Well, I'm back. Snow but not as much as I thought there would be. :)
I made it to within a quarter mile of the cabin. :( Which actually pretty good.
Details, pictures on my cabin thread
http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=2335.msg75274#msg75274
Quote from: glenn kangiser on December 14, 2008, 12:50:47 PM
Andrew, dude, please remember to bring the Brass Monkey in and set him by the rocket stove.
He is rather, shall we say....cold sensitive. [crz]
Brass Monkey? Ya' got me on that one... ??? :)
This is said to not be a true story but it is a cute explanation of the ancient saying.
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Every sailing ship had to have cannon for protection. Cannon of the times required round iron cannonballs. The master wanted to store the cannonballs such that they could be of instant use when needed, yet not roll around the gun deck. The solution was to stack them up in a square-based pyramid next to the cannon. The top level of the stack had one ball, the next level down had four, the next had nine, the next had sixteen, and so on. Four levels would provide a stack of 30 cannonballs. The only real problem was how to keep the bottom level from sliding out from under the weight of the higher levels. To do this, they devised a small brass plate ("brass monkey") with one rounded indentation for each cannonball in the bottom layer. Brass was used because the cannonballs wouldn't rust to the "brass monkey", but would rust to an iron one.
When temperature falls, brass contracts in size faster than iron. As it got cold on the gun decks, the indentations in the brass monkey would get smaller than the iron cannonballs they were holding. If the temperature got cold enough, the bottom layer would pop out of the indentations spilling the entire pyramid over the deck. Thus it was, quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
Ahh... Makes perfect sense now. :)
5 inches of snow this morning. Wake up Glenn we have work to do [slap]
[cool] rofl rofl rofl
It feels about like Wisconsin here this morning, but I have the joy of knowing it will change within a few days as opposed to a few months here! :) I haven't gotten far from the fire all morning except to take care of the dogs. I'm recharging their "heaters" in the oven as I type and will have to take them back out in a little while. It was 71 yesterday when we got out of church. By about 5 o'clock yesterday, it had dropped 30 or 40 degrees and the wind was howling. I saw this poor gal in Braums when I stopped to get milk and she was wearing shorts because she'd gone out when it was still warm. At that time, it was right at the freezing point, and she didn't have even a windbreaker. The wind chill here was holding steady at 0 degrees when I checked earlier. The high is only 23. Brrrr! Wish I had some beef to make chili!
22 and freezing rain. Suppose to get worse as day goes on
18 and snowing here in NE Ok.
Currently 28 in the high mesa desert at home, with light snow melting as soon as it hits the roads, but sticking to grassed areas.
24 in the mountains, heavy clouds, probably snowing there. (Probably as the weather station doesn't have a heater to melt the snow and record the water.)
I test fired the snowmobile and all seems well. :)
High today of 21. My propane furnace died about 5AM. I woke up to the cat trying to climb in with me. I was going to let him until I realized I wasn't hearing the furnace blower come on like usual. I have no idea what croaked. Did the layman's check, replaced fuses in the dc box, checked the batteries, etc. Rotten. Stared at the inner workings of the thermostat, hmmmm. Did the same with the gobbledygook of wires under the outside door of the furnace....more hmmmm. Read the trouble shooting manual, hmmmmmmm. Guess we all cant be geniuses in every department.
Leaving for town in a few minutes to seek a safe alternate form of heat. Really wish that wood stove was installed and working in the cabin. I'd move 75 feet east real sudden like and this would not be an issue.
Thank heavens the horse blankets are rated for super cold weather. The "hand" check confirms they are quite warm under them. Hay, now that's an idea!
RV furnace? Ours has a faulty gas control or solenoid. When it gets real cold (40 degrees or colder it seems) it will sometimes stick and not allow the propane to flow. I can get it going with a series of swift thunks to the case when I hear the ignition click. Once it's warm it's okay.
G/L. It's not nice to wake up to no heat. >:(
-15F tonight at our warm and toasty suburban home.
-29F forecast at our up-north retreat. We are staying down here in the (relative) warmth.
I went up a week ago, planning on spending the night. I bailed after the dogs were worn out. Glad I did as it got down to -18Fthat night.
:o I don't like those negative signs in front of the numbers.
It was so cold here today I had to close the door. ;D
I really, really like California.
That's right Drew, rub it in. This is the coldest for the longest in 20 years. I'm so close to bailing out of the 5th wheel and into the new cabin, I can tough it out. Bought a little radiant heater, cranked up the little Honda gen, put on a pot of beans, wool socks and longjohns...should be ok in a little while. Everything and everybody else is warm. Now it's my turn.
Tommorrow in the daylight I start studying the thermostat, its 20 years old and it's next on the list. It should have made a "thunk" after each reset, because it's getting power. No thunk. So I'm thinking that may be the culprit.
The adventure continues...
The cold weather is really not bad if you're prepared for it.. Nice excuse to wind down and stay indoors....plan the next building project. ;) The only real bummer is frozen pipes. Right now we've got a surface pump in a small well house, and if the power went out tonight we'd be in a real fix..
Quote from: considerations on December 15, 2008, 09:17:53 PM
Tommorrow in the daylight I start studying the thermostat, its 20 years old and it's next on the list.
RV thermostats are usually very simple on-off affairs operated by a bimetal coiled strip. If you remove the 2 wires from the thermostat and connect one wire to the other the furnace should fire up, if the thermostat is at fault.
Do not short across the thermostat with the wires connected. It's bad for the thermostat. Remove the wires first.
If that doesn't make the furnace kick to life try connecting jumping the connection points at the furnace.
Had always heard that when the temp drops low that propane will actually gel and not flow as it should. This can be attributed by a low capacity in the tank. Once had a 500 gal and the weather was bad and they couldn't fill when I needed. The distributor gave that explanation. Well with the furnace not working the water sensor froze and it kept shutting down. Woke up to 32F in the house (rental) . Ended up with 8 frozen water pipes and alot of dead flowers.
True, the liquid propane does not change to a gas as well at low temperatures. However, in years of RV'ing in cold weather I've never run into that problem. At the BTU rate that a typical RV furnace uses propane there should not be a problem until somewhere below zero or maybe with a supply tank that is less than 25% full.
Do your propane fired range flames appear normal? Does the water heater operate okay?
In cold weather bigger tanks are better than smaller ones; same as fuller tanks supply more pressure than near empty tanks.
I interpret the problem as one of the furnace motor not coming on, the blower not working. If the thermostat tests okay (bypassing as above) it could be many things. With any RV furnace I've seen when the thermostat completes it's circuit the furnace blower should come on. After about 15 seconds then the gas valve solenoid should activate to allow propane to flow. Then the igniter fires and the burner lights.
If the fan doesn't work it could be the fan motor gave up, or the circuit board has a problem.
From your description of waking in the cold I assumed the fan did not work at all. This could require mork than thunking the case the right way. :(
Have you ever replaced the fan motor? The orignal in ours lasted about 20 years. When we replaced it with a new motor I was amazed at how much more air it blew.
Mark's RV has info and he sells parts to DIY'ers.
http://www.marksrv.com/furnace_trouble_shooting.htm (http://www.marksrv.com/furnace_trouble_shooting.htm)
"From your description of waking in the cold I assumed the fan did not work at all. This could require mork than thunking the case the right way."
The usual sequence from a "user" standpoint is that when it gets too cold in here, the thermostat knows it, "thunks" (all by itself), then the blower comes on, and soon after that you can hear a change in the furnace sound and the hot air starts coming out the vents.
"Have you ever replaced the fan motor?" About 2 years ago. I really hope that is not the problem. They don't make this model anymore, I just got lucky with finding a replacement motor.
If the motor is that new it could very well be the igniter board; I truly hope not. I did have the board go bad a few years back... the furnace didn't do a thing when the thermostat called for heat. I replaced it with of the fan control dinosaur boards from Mark's RV.
We had freezing rain/sleet, so now everything is shut down. Arkansas does'nt have the equipment to clean the road. Most businesses in my area shut down early yesterday.
c* It's cold here but we lucked out so far and didn't get any freezing rain, sleet or snow.
38 degrees here at the coast.
I'm off to the Goodwill store to see about some flannel shirts. I love that place!
Heat wave today, all the way up to 23.
We got up to 21 today, it got warmer just after dark, go figure. I think it is because more snow is coming. And......drumroll.........it was the THERMOSTAT! Wahoo! Yippeee! $20 bucks and I was back in business! Thanks for all the coaching on how to test the thermostat. It worked!
Better yet, my next door neighbor works at an RV repair business, I called her, she grabbed the replacement off the shelf, let me buy it with her employee discount and delivered it to me after work.
I was up and running shortly thereafter. There was a moment.....the instructions said to connect the red wire to the terminal marked R and the White wire to the terminal marked W. I'm standing on a stool looking at a grey wire and a yellow wire sticking out of the wall...hmmmmm. No gentlemen, I did NOT make note of which was attached to what when I disconnected. Hindsight, not foresight, is 20/20. Figured my chances of success were about 50/50....wired it up, plugged the RV back into the power board, and ran inside to put out any fire I might have started. The furnace was running...it was getting warm. Whew. What a relief. Its hard work wearing so many clothes both indoors and out that you feel like the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
The gods were smiling today while granting me the small favor of not having to replace my furnace and concurrently freezing up the water hookup. I left it dripping, really. Fortunately, I'm hooked to a yard hydrant by a very short hose, so after digging through and trashing the really thick insulation that USED TO WORK, I detached the hose and brought it inside to thaw, now that it will...because the furnace is working again.
Pioneering at it's finest.
Needless to say I didn't get much done on the cabin today. I have a half-baked set of stairs and a wood stove with no chimney. The stairs dictate where the stove goes, then the money dictates when the chimney arrives. I want to move in so badly sometimes my eyes bulge [shocked].
However, it was a beautiful day, the sun was making the snow sparkle, and I'm really tickled that the furnace is still ok.
Glad to hear that you got it worked out. No heat is not fun. CF you might want to check some of the recent threads on the stove placement. It's late or I would go back myself and post them. Stay warm.
What a happy ending! Superb! Delivered at a discount no less.
BTW, for something like the 2 wire RV thermostat it doesn't really matter which wire goes where. It's not a case of a positive and a negative wire. It's a positive lead with a switch (thermostat) in the run.
"BTW, for something like the 2 wire RV thermostat it doesn't really matter which wire goes where. It's not a case of a positive and a negative wire. It's a positive lead with a switch (thermostat) in the run."
That is a fortunate thing for me. I was just hoping for the best and expecting the worst.
It's 6AM, the temp is 32, its raining, but it freezes when it hits the ground. Gonna be a skating rink out there. So its warmer.
Quotebuy it with her employee discount and delivered it to me
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It got up to 50 today - still a lot of snow, but melting fast. The sun was shining & I actually sat outside on our deck for about an hour reading it was so nice! :)
The other night our bedroom was 37 degrees - didn't get around to making a fire in the wood stove over there - just piled on the down comforters & quilts...
Quote from: Sassy on December 18, 2008, 12:10:12 AM
... 37 degrees - ....
:o :o was the window open? Crimoney that's cold!
We have a separate stove in that part of the house and since it is across the bridge from the main part if we don't start a fire in there it gets cold. It is the part of the house with the most exposed above ground also.
The three boat docks above the bathroom only have about 6 inches of dirt over them. hmm
I have a 25 foot boat that would really look cool moored there.
You could make a room out of a 25 foot boat heh Then you would have a boatroom heh
I don't yet have a boat room but we have 2 batrooms.
Currently getting clobbered by freezing rain and sleet.
Worst we've seen in a very long time.
Just moved my truck, in case the trees start coming down.
There's some thunder associated with this storm.
Weird.
sparks
Government weather tampering - they have been spraying constantly before the storms.
Yeh, we had lightening & thunder the other day along with the snow & icy rain...
Quote from: Redoverfarm on December 17, 2007, 11:09:58 AM
I don't know if this would be a good subject matter but it would interest me in knowing what the weather is like throughout the US. Maybe how it has affected your individual projects. As for me I think we came out pretty easy on this last storm as compared to some others north and west of me. Got about 1/2 of ice on Friday night and then Saturday afternoon it started snowing and overnight I guess the total snowfall was 3-4". The boy is enjoying his duties as there is no school and the 4 wheeler/Blade is getting it's workout this morning.
As for my building project it has almost slowed to a stop. I am in the chinking stage and with the dips in temp I am afraid to try to do any. The day temps would be OK but with a drop at night I am afraid it will freeze the mortar before it has sufficent cure time.
Thought I'd retrieve Redovers' post.
My home is frozen solid.
The dog needs to go outside.........
sparks
We are currently 38.5 looking for 47 and rain but sun tomorrow. Still some leftover snow and ice around.
Talk about a roller coaster ride.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Marlinton&state=WV&site=RLX&textField1=38.2201&textField2=-80.0871&e=0
21 in Arkansas. Expected low 5 with windchill in the minus area. Suppose to be same tomorrow with freezing rain coming towards night. Strange weather.
I can't remember the last time the weather has been like this. Usually it is UP or DOWN for weeks at a time but not every other day.
6F this morning. Talk about giving the powerstroke a work out getting it started. After about 3 tries the blue smoke filled the air.
10˚ this morning..... What's with that, this is supposed to be the deep south >:(
Well the creek is finally flowing and the ponds are filling lots of rain last night it even melted most of the snow more rain though out the week hopefully no more snow 8)
It's been really cold the past few days. 9 this morning and in the low 20's now. Chance of snow on christmas eve.
about 15 and clear, breezy. Supposed to be back up to 50's and rainy for Christmas and eve.
Snow tonight - a bit - then Sun tomorrow 36f out now
Snow is moving across northern NM. We'll see how much falls on the cabin soon, I hope.
The thawing has started here, we are up to about 35 in the daytime and high 20's at night. I'm ok with that, there is still almost 2' of snow outside. Had to dig down to get the outhouse door open.
Cold and windy again today. No snow though. I'm trying to get up the courage to go over to deer run and do some work. d*
Somewhat of a change from the last two days of single digits. Freezing rain this morning but I see the temps have made it up to 35. Maybe by this evening the ice will be gone. Didn't want to chance going to the cabin and ruining my Christmas by rolling the truck over the bank like a repeat of a few weeks ago. Anyway I have to start playing Santa. Still haven't got one thing wrapped.
Snow, snow, snow.
I have never seen so much snow here. Had to go take all the snow off the roof of the shed, so it would not collapse.
Got the driveway plowed yesterday. 20 at night 35 during the day, things are finally starting to melt.
The 12/12 pitch on the cabin sloughes snow beautifully. There are snow banks all around it, directly below the drip line.
That's a bit of improvement, considerations. I like the steep roof. Rain here like crazy - supposed to turn to snow -- and enough wind that it charged up my batteries pretty good.
70% chance snow today 40 tonight 44-33 expected but mostly sun tomorrow w/ near same temps.
State of Emergency called for our state
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stor...LJ.af5ce4.html
11:03 PM PST on Wednesday, December 24, 2008
By KING5.com Staff and Associated Press
SEATTLE - Gov. Chris Gregoire proclaimed a state of emergency in Washington due Wednesday to ongoing series of winter weather and storms across the state
Be careful and stay warn, Stinky.
The snow is just now starting to stick here. Rain all night earlier.
I spoke with my sister this morning, she lives near Portland, OR. It was snowing again and there are drifts over 4 ft high. She also said in between the snows, there was freezing rain. She can't get out and she is running out of everything, including pellets for her stove. She is also afraid that her carport is going to cave in and crush her car. She is unable to get it cleaned off. She already hurt herself when she slid out her back door on the ice and cut herself up with the ice. I am so far away that I can't help her. Not that it helps her now, but I told her that as soon as travel gets safer, I was coming to get her and bring her back here to live. She said she is ready to leave there. She left eastern Oregon to get away from the bad weather and now they are having one of the freak storms that hit once in awhile. I don't think she is having a very good Christmas. :(
Lost power for about 4 hours, not too bad. Considering we have lost it for a week before.
Everybody cringes when we tell them about the harsh winters up here, but I think we have it better than all the unprepared people with inadequately built homes, little heat and crummy road maintenance that get flattened by an unexpected ice storm every few years.. :) Up here, we get nothing but nice fluffy snow, our driveway gets plowed by the county every day if need be, and we have tons of utility-independent firewood. We're having a blast! :)
The only thing we don't have is off-the-grid water, save our two creeks which come in handy for toilet flushing when the power is out...
It wasn't too bad here at the coast. We had rain, hail, and some thunder. We didn't get to go to the zoo like we usually do on Christmas, but it was okay.
I caught a cold from someone and was pretty wiped out. My family put me to bed after we opened presents and I woke up again at 4:30.
I have to do some work tomorrow, but Dan and the kids will go see Dan's mom in Santa Cruz. We'll go to the farm this weekend and do some more soil prep. It'll be about 48 degrees and the soil will be moist. I have to say that I am grateful we live in California and below the snow line. It makes building and growing seasons good and long.
Have a great season, friends. Here's to plenty of rain in the right places.
D
The weather is doing its thing today. We went from cold with freezing rain, to last night it hit 67. This mornig it is very warm 65, wind blowing very strong and a Tornado warning has been issued till 2 pm. One minute you are bundled up and can't get warm, then I have to open the windows because it is so warm. Wonder what tomorrow has in store for the country.
I guess you get our leftovers -- looks like better weather on it's way soon - cold but not as stormy would be my guess, Sis... but what do I know? d*
It didn't get too bad here after all. A lot of wind and rain. Just makes it hard to get much done outside. The storm is past us and it has finally stopped raining. The west has had worse weather than here. It is finally melting at my sisters place. She said nothing caved in and her home is high enough so she will not flood. Perhaps the worst of the winter weather is over with. I need to get some outside things done.
The last few weeks have given us here in the midwest everything from snow to freezing rain to more snow. The river out front of our home froze over after a few days of below zero temps. It's now thawing.
After all the recent rains the river has risen to the top of our seawall...and the ice is creeping by making a lot of creepy noises..
sparks
Cold and more cold predicted. I had to change a water pump last night. -17F Even after 2 hours in the garage the Jeep was cold.
It is going to ruin my snowmachining trip this weekend.... :(
Looks like another possible storm here by the end of the week...global cooling? hmm
lonelytree just keep it up there will you. Today started about 34F but the power was out for about 5 hours first thing this morning. Luckily the wife set the coffee maker on auto and it had just finished when it went off. ;D I hate to break out the coleman stove for coffee but got to have my java in the AM . Alot of 30-40MPH wind apparently fell a tree across the line. Since this morning we got about 1-2" of the predicted 2-4" accumulation. Temp's are falling down to 18F now with a predicted drop to 10-12F tonight. Winter is here again ;)
Believe it or not this winter is the first time that I had ever used the AC heater in the Powerstroke. One morning it was 6F and barely got it started. Made a real difference the next couple mornings. Started like summer time until I had to get out of it. :(
New Years Eve. Odd weather again
At 6:00 AM, it was almost hot, nearly 70.
The wind kicked up hard all day as a cold front blew in and now at 5:44, it's 30 degrees.
I am not to worried about the weather this week. I live in So. Cal. And it never rains on the Rose parade. Temps up to the low 70's 8) Last week we had freezing every night.
Quote from: Redoverfarm on December 31, 2008, 04:20:54 PM
lonelytree just keep it up there will you. Today started about 34F but the power was out for about 5 hours first thing this morning. Luckily the wife set the coffee maker on auto and it had just finished when it went off. ;D I hate to break out the coleman stove for coffee but got to have my java in the AM . Alot of 30-40MPH wind apparently fell a tree across the line. Since this morning we got about 1-2" of the predicted 2-4" accumulation. Temp's are falling down to 18F now with a predicted drop to 10-12F tonight. Winter is here again ;)
Believe it or not this winter is the first time that I had ever used the AC heater in the Powerstroke. One morning it was 6F and barely got it started. Made a real difference the next couple mornings. Started like summer time until I had to get out of it. :(
That's a good point John. I don't even know if the AC heater works in mine. Something else to test this weekend after I get back from the farm. Glad I loaded the tractor up on antifreeze last month. I'm looking for the low teens tonight.
Woke up this morning to a blazing 6F with the remnants of the 2" of snow as the winds have blown clear the meadows and stacked it into the corners.
It's been High 20's at night here and up to low 40's in the daytime. My accumulated 2' of snow has compacted to about 10" of slush. We are supposed to get another snowstorm tonight. It's just been weird.
I got an inch of snow last night when the prediction was for rain. So far all of the w--d that has been warned of has missed me. That is the one thing I really do not care for. We had a real blower hit about two years ago, and it was pretty awe inspiring. 100'+ trees going down like exploding dominoes. A pleasure I'm willing to forego.
So far, my on grid neighbors have reported only transitory power outages. It's the short day time of the year, so I'm running the little gen occasionally to supplement the solar.
It's OK, considerations....you can say "weed" here. We'll still tolerate you. heh
Small dusting of snow 2-3" last night. Temp 27F this morning. Better than the alternative predicted of freezing rain earlier. Suppose to get another 1-2" tonight. No school ???. Well when I was growing up............ We won't go there.
Weather finally broke here, after almost 3 weeks of a cold snap. Got up to -3 below where I am, but it's been anywhere from -25 to -40 below the last couple weeks. ;D
That is terrible... I know --- it's a dry cold d*
It got up to 70 today - I got sunburned sitting outside reading ::)
Chilly 12 degrees this morning but the sun is out. I think I'll let it warm up a bit before I go to work. :P
Currently 59f and going for 68f but it will likely get hotter - did yesterday Sassy said. :)
It's 66 degrees right now :) need to get off my new computer & get outside!
Started the day off at `13F then by afternoon it has risen to 39F. Just enough to make it sloppy. But I guess the next couple of days will take care of hat. Thursday & Friday the high is suppose to be some where in the neighborhood of 0-5F.
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Quote from: glenn kangiser on January 13, 2009, 02:19:03 AM
That is terrible... I know --- it's a dry cold d*
It actually is very dry, although that's probably no consolation to those who can't stand it that cold. ::) On the bright side, it's up to 10* with snow on it's way. Horses are loving this "warm" weather. 8)
After a couple weeks of below 0, we got 3 inches of snow yesterday. THis AM I actually got called and told to stay home. Ice rain and very warm. There are over 20 accidents in one stretch of the highway and many more all over town. The radio says "Brutal" and at 5 MPH it takes 1/4 mile to stop. Wife just called and she made it to work OK. Boy and daughter made it too. Now to retexture the ceiling in the back bedroom.
Temp is heading down to -13 tonight, with a high of -2 tomorrow.
Minus 18 in the following night.
Wonderful
Sparks
14f this morning and just started snowing. c*
Wow, You guy make me fell like a wuss. It's in the mid 20˚'s here. I've got to go outside and build some trusses. The good news is that I'm building them on my porch, so I'll be out of the wind and close to the wood burning stove.
Still I'm having motivational problems. I do not live in the deep south for sub freezing temp's.
12 this morning, may be 25 for a high. Good thing I got my outside work done yesterday, 52 then.
High today is 15F and tomarrow 5-8F. Lows the next couple of nights is -3 to -5F. Another day w/o school so it looks like my job discription has changed somewhat. Still have some ceiling boards to finish in the basement though.
You know the weather is affecting your work when the first thing you do is nail your glove to the first gusset. d*
Juust one reason I hate wearing gloves. You have no feeling. Some outside jobs are ok wearing them but for me most jobs aren't.
Sometimes working alone is a good thing. I'm not providing entertainment for the group. :)
Occupation Foole
Never got above 14 today. Going down to 5 or so tonight.
9:22 pm ...... cold outside.... 59.7f ::) Only got up to 75 outside today... [waiting]
high was 63, still felt a lil chilly out. burr.
[cold] Maybe a light jacket, muldoon? hmm
You guys.... oh never mind. d*
yeah, feels a lil like sweater weather
c*
edit: My wife said it was cold out.... not what I said.....[shocked]
What happened to the killer chain saw masacre smiley. ???
Check the more smileys option now --- it magically appeared, I think.
[chainsaw]
hmm a bit hot out to be running a chainsaw, don't you think, Scott.... [waiting]
38 degrees. My driveway is a ice ramp and I am POed that the snow up north is gone. I REALLY need a weekend getaway. Work is a trainwreck and my son is ready to tell then to shove it. Neither is good for monetary purposes. If they are going to make us move on, wait until May. Bastages.... sorry to rant.... poor leadership/management is tough when you have years of training and practice of it. I spent an hour on the hone talking my boy out of packing up and moving to a company with financial problems from before the big slide into oblivion.
Minus 5 at 0600. Better put on the longjohns. :D
We somehow warmed up to 18. I'll take it.
A brisk -21F this am in Minnesota. Considering that it is -38F at our land up north this morning, I don't feel so bad.
Anyone want to buy a freezer? We don't need it much this winter!
Government weather tampering... alteration of the jet stream by HAARP and various weather modification techniques.
http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usaf/2025/v3c15/v3c15-1.htm
Cool disclaimer added to it. Had to do that since they couldn't keep it off the net.
You think they will own it if they don't play with it now? Check out the chemtrails they paint overhead everyday. Contrails dissipate - I see them too. Chemtrails spread and cover the sky stealing our solar power if nothing else, but the weather is like a pond. Things done here can not be done without affecting the whole pond. The waves can tear down dikes.
Yeah -- I'm crazy.............. or am I? hmm [crz]
Glenn, they've been spraying here in the past week or two more than I've ever seen it before. I mean tons.
It's cold here.
Here also before you got the last storms. Big time. Much of it was done well over the Sierras like they were sending it your way.
Thanks for letting me know that you are looking - even though you know I am crazy --- you can see them. rofl
The weather reporter that was reporting them posted a disclaimer a while back as if he had been intimidated but has moved his website and is once again reporting. Looks like you got a good heavy dose.
http://www.socalweather.org/ct.html
Ice storm today. No fun. Looks like it's going to get very nasty.
Scott it looks as if we will be catching your storm on Tued & Wed. 2-4" of snow and freezing rain.
Ice storm hit today, more tonight and tomorrow. It is already nasty and dangerous out. We are all expecting the power to go out. Good thing we have lots of firewood and an old propane cooking range.
Your ice was our rain - Suns out - the birds are singing - spring peepers are peepering... and it froze a bit last night 28 tonight - sun for a week - calling for 60f
Well, we are having to stay indoors, the ice storm hit yesterday and is still going strong. Haven't lost power yet, went out a few time, but came back on. Just lost a large limb on one of my oldest dogwood trees. I am very glad that all of the pines near the house were taken down last year. [chainsaw] The cedars are bowing quite a bit, but they don't seem to break like the pines.
The weather is expected to continue till about noon tomorrow.
I think I will make a pot of ham and bean soup today. Have to go out an feed the birds. Have to keep them happy. There are about 20 cardinals out by the feeders, plus chickadees, and others. It is a zoo out there.
Sleeting here. All the trees have a crust of ice. Messy. We still have power but our water and internet was out for a while. It's back on now.
Got a couple inches of snow last night. About 28 Degrees. Today it rained and the snow me melted. Now its just blowing out there and I've heard we may get a few more inches of snow tonight.
Night before last it got down to 18. I like the sound of snow that falls when it is really cold, it squeaks under my boots.
Wet snow doesn't and it's harder to walk in.
Even the really shy birds are coming to the feeders.
About 60 degress in the day 41 at night for the next week.
Sassy was a bit cold so I stoked up the Round Oak wood stove -- currently 80.4 in the Underground Command Center.... d*
Not very promising for the rest of the week. Then Monday it is suppose to start all over again.
Today: Rain, mainly before 3pm. High near 36. South wind 6 to 14 mph becoming west. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight: A chance of snow showers, mainly before 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 12. Northwest wind between 10 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.
Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 32. West wind between 7 and 10 mph.
Thursday Night: A slight chance of snow showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 16. Northwest wind between 6 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Friday: A chance of snow showers, mainly after 9am. Cloudy, with a high near 27. West wind between 7 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Friday Night: A chance of snow showers, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 8. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Go Figure. This morning it was 15F and this afternoon it went to 55F. I even broke down and washed the salt off of DW car. But Tuesday & Wednesdays forecast says it will turn nasty again and do something.
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TUESDAY TO 6 AM EST
THURSDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM
TUESDAY TO 6 AM EST THURSDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER
IN EFFECT.
AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE OHIO VALLEY
TUESDAY. COLD AND MOIST NORTHWEST FLOW WILL DEVELOP BY MIDDAY...
CREATING AN IDEAL SETUP FOR UPSLOPE SNOW SHOWER ACTIVITY INTO
WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 TO 10 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE
WARNING AREA. THE HIGHEST SNOWFALL TOTALS WILL OCCUR ALONG THE
WEST-FACING RIDGES.
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I guess they were off by about a day or so. It started snowing at 2PM and has been steady since then, So far it has averaged at least an inch and hour. 3" and counting. I hope this is part of what we are suppose to get tomarrow afternoon. If not this could be the biggest snow of this year.
I think I'm not the only one who could say this has been an unusual winter. :-\
8th warmest January in over 100 years here in NM.
Yes very unusual. But the last couple have been also. Normally we would get 100"+ for the winter. I don't think we have had 100" in the combination of the last couple years. Global Warming? ;D
Government weather tampering.
None today as shown -the 4th we're in for it - I would like to see if he's correct.
http://www.socalweather.org/ct.html
This is not exactly how I wanted to awake this morning. Shortly after 6AM a knock at the door summoned help with an accident near the house. The driver was still inside the vehicle. To make matters worse it was a T&T with a full load of gasoline that had overturned. By the time I had made it to the scene most of the fire personel were there and the ambulance had just left with the driver enroute to the hospital. Due to the explosive nature of the cargo which was already seeping into the ground the HAZ-MAT was called. Given the ruralness of the area and the response time the road was shut down. I would say we will be lucky to resume regular trafic by late in the night. Here are a few pictures.
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Here are a few pictures of the road near the site
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Never a dull moment. I would say that the property assessment on this house just went down. Yes they do have a water well. In fact I do too. I pray that it will not find it's way to an underground stream and make it way to my house. Fortuneately the house is empty as the lady had died a couple years ago.
This is going to be an all day affair. HAZ-MAT 's response time is 3 hours from 9AM. So that means they will be working way into the night before this major north-south route is opened back up. I am sure that Snowhoe Resort will feel the affects of thi. Problem with living in the mountains is there are rarely any alternative routes without a several hour drive. Closest alternative would be 1-1/2 detour to reach town of about 12 miles away. Well the wife gets a snow day off work. I am going to try to plow to the cabin. Forecast is another (depending who you listen to 4-6" or 6-8" more this afternoon and tonight.
Just got back form a weekend camping in the snow... We were last up the beginning of December.
Checking our electronic thermometer, sometime in that stretch we hit a low of -42.9 F.
This guy didn't seem to mind much:
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I guess you have to have that extra layer of fat to survive. BTW after 2 hrs of plowing the road is open to the cabin. Really took a chance in using the tractor as the turns were nothing but Ice. After the second one I kicked the boy off the 4 wheeler and plowed the remaining with it. Also the road is still closed. I told you so. Talked to a Department of Highways truck driver stuck on my end. He had to drive 1-1/2 hours out of his way to plow and cinder 5 miles below the house to the county line.
Closest alternative would be 1-1/2 detour to reach town of about 12 miles away.
I use to say all roads lead to Greenbank, when i was driving from White Sulphur, to bad each are at least 1 hour from each other on a clear day.
I don't want to hijack this but, the house is in the picture with the wreck has 3-4" logs? standing and it has always looked so nice. We had thought about doing it but I couldn't for the life of me figure where I could get all of those stick like trees.
Hope the road opens soon and no problem with the leaks.
Mo I think it may be cleared up. I called at 6A and they said they opened it at 4AM. Not real sure whether they got the truck and trailer out or whether they just removed the fuel. Wife will check on her way to work.
And yes it is a verticle log houe. I am sure you had passed it many times.
As far as the detour. Most Snowshoe bound would go to Mt. Grove and hit 600 past the dam and Rt 84 to Frost then to Cass and over the CCC road.
Hope you faired well with the recent storms.
Chilly morning here 12f but the sun is out. That's a good sign. :)
Quote from: glenn kangiser on February 02, 2009, 10:13:01 PM
Government weather tampering.
None today as shown -the 4th we're in for it - I would like to see if he's correct.
http://www.socalweather.org/ct.html
He was dead on the money on his forecast --- we were covered with chemtrails 100% by this afternoon - they were putting up so many it interfered with my solar tracker at 7:30 AM.
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-1F just before daybreak. Snow covered ground. Pred highs of 20F today and then back to single digits again tonight. But on the bright side. The next 4-5 days up to the 40's they say.
I am still without power since Tuesday January 27. Got a generator is the only reason I am on line. Have a few minutes before shutting down. Finally got water last night after FEMA brought a generator to put on the area water source. It may be another week before they have power up again here. There are 1000's of power poles snapped off. We came close to losing our home. Trees fell from the ice buildup on both sides. We had 1 tree resting on our roof. We lost about 15 trees, another 14 that are damaged and will have to be checked out. Nothing excaped without some damage. A man near us lost his home when a very large oak tree fell on it. Got to go and refuel the generator.
I would put a picture of some of the damage but don't know how to do it on here. Help please. I have a MAC
Photos have to be hosted somewhere else, like photobucket.com. Once there you copy the IMG tag and paste that in the message you are writing on the forum.
Help on this under Forum News.
Glenn what are chemtrails and why do you believe the gov it tampering with the weather?
"He was dead on the money on his forecast --- we were covered with chemtrails 100% by this afternoon"
Non-dissipating vapor trails laid out in x's and grids kind of like tic-tac-toe in the sky but instead of dissipating like a normal contrail they begin spreading until the entire sky is covered with clouds. The 4th I took a lot of pix but on the road now in a motel without my cord to download them.
There was a study done about the Air Force owning the weather by 2025. They put a disclaimer on it saying it was fictional apparently after they could no longer keep it off the net.
They start putting them up before storms come in - - exact answer - I'm not sure what all the purpose is. After the skys are covered they seem to get lower - yesterday x's were above the breaks in the low clouds. Especially heavy above our mountain area it seems but all over as per the maps.
http://www.socalweather.org/ct.html
HAARP in Alaska has the ability to heat the Ionosphere and cause a bubble steering the jet stream - there are many of these facilities around the world. Like throwing a rock into a pond, the effects are far reaching. There are theories the trails may have to do with HAARP.
http://www.rense.com/politics6/chemdatapage.html Check this out for info - some may be questionable - weigh it with what you see. Ignore the way out there stuff - study the rest.
The fact is that they are there and the guy who makes the maps above seems to know where they will appear. He said he has inside information from a military source but has since been forced to change his site and has dropped a lot of his information about what is going on. He is a meteorologist and started researching it when he kept getting sick on days they were spraying. I get light bleeding sinuses on heavy spray days when they are especially low.
The fact is they are there - spreading and covering - not dissipating as they should.
Tampering -- I say that but likely they are experimenting here to see what they can do in war scenarios as they stated in their study -- hide from and make unfavorable conditions for the enemy - beat them with the weather - Ice? Snow? Cloud Cover? Who knows? They won't own the weather by 2025 if they don't practice now.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=22352 Not endorsing it - just info.
More tornados in Oklahoma. Hope all our friends are doing well. Keep your heads down.
John
Snow again last night... 36 degrees outside right now.
Yes, be safe all you'all Okies - is it normal to have tornadoes in the middle of winter?
We actually had 2 minor tornadoes here in the last week - that nearly never happens here but with the weather modification or whatever the unnatural cloud cover is, anything is possible. The link I posted earlier leads to a link that tells how they do it, shading certain areas getting the spiral low pressure spin going. Likely all part of Military owning the weather by 2025. We are the guinea pigs. There is a long history of US military experimenting here on civilians.
Even likely an A bomb going off in Concord, CA area around WWII - likely an accident but still there. We are still producing hermaphrodites in the farm labor population there from that and the Dow chemical plant there.
http://www.rense.com/general36/history.htm
Not to bad here. We had some storms but nothing terrible just alot of wind and rain. I did discover that my french door at deer run leaks a little. There was a little puddle by the corner of the door. I'll have to try and figure out how to fix it. I heard there was a twister in OKC. I hope not near HT.
Scott, it hit at two major intersections nearest our house... one just a little south and one just a little northeast and did a considerable amount of damage. They sounded the sirens here a total of four times. We got hail thick enough to cover the whole yard like snow, and the stones ranged from pea-sized all the way up to about golf ball. Was really glad I moved the truck into the garage! Everyone and his dog was calling, most of them during the hailstorm, to see if we were alright, so I felt loved. :) It rained sideways for about a minute and a half. The last part of the hailstorm was the worst. It sounded like a tornado sounds, but remarkably, there weren't sirens wailing at that time. As soon as it stopped hailing, the kids and I ran out in the yard barefoot on the hailstones before they melted, but the lightening was crazy so we came back in pretty quick. I took my oldest to violin lessons and we couldn't get through Edmond, hardly, so many roads were blocked off. We finally got there, and her teacher wasn't home... she was having the same trouble and was trapped by downed power lines herself. Anyway, on the way back home, I decided to avoid the crowded highway by taking our normal backroads route. Never seen so many emergency vehicles in my life... we tooK 45 minutes to go less that 15 miles. Through some of the fancy subdivisions in Edmond, there were trees snapped off and uprooted and privacy fences looked like a box of giant toothpicks someone had dumped all over the ground... we apparently took the route directly through the tornado's path. But for us, it seemed to skip just over our block and hit all over the place besides.
It's good to hear from you and that y'all :) were missed, Homey and Scott. We thought of you guys when we first heard about the twister.
I also thought about you guys last night. Glad to hear you're both are ok.
Great Weather in the East. But that is soon to change. Day temp's in 60's nightime around 30+. Forecast is 50MPH winds tonight through Thursday. Then possibility of Snow. AGAIN. Oh Well it has been a mild winter so you have to take the good with the bad. Hope everyone is OK in the midwest.
Homegrown, glad you and yours are okay. We had tornado watches, but no warnings last night. Heard it hit Ok and thought about you and hoped you were safe.
Like a lot of Oklahomans, as the rain blew straight sideways and hail pounded the house like it was going to reduce it to rubble, and sirens were going off everywhere, I watched Gary England jumping around and fidgeting on the weather alerts on TV, and when the hail would stop for a minute, walked out in the street to look up at the sky. I watched our dogs. They didn't like it, but if a tornado will hit us, they freak out....they just seem to know. When the strongest part of the storm blew over, the dogs hunkered down next to a wall, but then it was over in a second. Watching Gary England during a tornado outbreak is high-quality entertainment... I'd say it is nearly as good as watching bugs fry in the bug-zapper. He fidgets and is nervous and excited. I don't know if Scott can watch him in the eastern part of the state, but around the central part, he is probably the best-known weather man, and if you ever watch the documentaries about the May 3, 2000 tornado outbreak, you'll hear his voice throughout, and you'll see him in there quite a bit. I even had a friend email me the "Gary England Drinking Game". I don't drink, but it was hilarious... you take so many drinks for everytime he says one of his catchphrases, and if he says, "Pottowatomie County take shelter immediately" everyone takes a drink. I grew up in Pott Co. and seems like that is where every tornado warning seems to center.
6 inches of snow here in about 4 hours this morning - I fixed the snow plow on the Bush Hog so it will never break again - I may go through the windshield but it won't break.
I next proceeded to plow a mile and a quarter of road, our renters driveway and the neighbors driveway so we can get out if necessary.
We got about four inches of snow last night. WE still have a lot of snow and could use more but I have the flu today so far I have about a third of the driveway shoveled, I shovel five minutes come back in and pass out for a couple hours. I don't know how any of you live around tornados, that kind of storm would freak me out.
16F this morning with 1-2" of snow. Prediction is more snow likely today and nightime temp to be 7F. But on the bright side it is suppose to warm up to the mid 30's the rest of the week
Cold. Had to scrape ice off my car so I could go to work this morning. I'm so ready for spring. [waiting]
Light dusting of snow (1") in the Mountain State this morning. Flurries predicted to Monday then temps to fall to overnight high of 4F. But all in all we have had a really mild winter in comparison to our past. Looks like it went elsewhere this year. I guess that since March came in like a lion it will go out like a lamb. ;D
Had a cold front come in yesterday. Got about an inch of snow. Now, when it melts, it will be a mucky mess. Oh well, its better than ice storms and tornados.
Yesterday - Rain
Last Night - Rain
This Morning - Rain
Forecast - Rain
But that is nothing unusual is it?
Right, not unusual. Plus the plants love it. That's why its so green around here. Need a dry spell to tear up the sod and reseed the pasture. Next week I think.
My pasture looks like a brown paperbag. Be awhile before the grass comes in here. Still some cold weather to contest with so it slows the process up some. Just as well as I have some fence and water gaps to mend and spread some fertilyzer.
"My pasture looks like a brown paperbag." rofl Good one!
The pastures are actually my neighbor's, but he begged me to fence it for the horses so he wouldn't have to mow it any more. Problem is, its some sort of "native" grass, and doesn't have the bounce back qualities of "pasture" grass. So, I've cross fenced it, and am reseeding it in sections. Now is the time to tear up some more of it and get it reseeded, but when it rains like this the tiller just is not effective. Waiting for the next window of opportunity.
Eventually, I get the alder forest section of my own place cleared and "pasturized" ::). Then I'll have enough for a cow as well. At that point, I can quit worrying about fertilizer, because cows do a perfect job of it. Then it is just all about rotating the stock.
Snowed yesterday and last night. Just about all melted off, more predicted.
Sun w/ a few clouds. 57f
Sunny and 72F. d* Not suppose to last that long as rain or snow is in the forecast next couple of days. Mother Nature can be a tease.
80 couple.
Snowing rice pellets. ???
Hailing white peas.
We got about 2 inches of snow overnight but the sun is shining now. the snow is still about 10 inches deep in the shaded areas. Usually the snow is melted by now and by St Patricks day we have green grass everywhere but this year I think we will still have snow.
Now it's snowing hard. This has been a weird winter. ???
I just got back from walking Jim the Puppy. I had my jean jacket on, but only barely wanted it. It's a clear sky with 45 degrees.
45 degrees? No way. It has to be warmer than that...
got up to 28F today....sun was out. ???
It has been pretty nice for the past week but it's snowing today. It was 80 two days ago. d*
-3F this morning. -33F at the up-north place. I chose to be cold, rather than frozen and stayed home.
40's forecast for Monday though. Spring is in the air. At least I hope so.
Warm and getting ready to rain again. I've been waiting for it to dry out enough plow for three weeks >:(
The farmers creed:
Too hot
Too cold
Too wet
Too Dry
Well I guess that "Old Man Winter" is not done with us yet. This is what I woke up to this morning. Temp 32F and 2" of the white stuff.
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Beauty day here.
Mid to high 60's through next Friday - lows in the 40s. Garden time. :)
It was a burn day and I was torching everything. I had piles of brush pushed up with the Bobcat - some since last summer - some finishing off piles I started before. Better now then during fire season when I don't want them to burn.
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We had thunderstorms, pouring rain, then snow - grandkids Angelina & Amaya spent the night & woke up to a winter wonderland after 72 degrees yesterday!
Its 60F! Haven't seen that in months. The sun is shining the Swallows, Eagles and Hummingbirds are back.....What a relief! I was tired of wearing so many clothes I felt like the Pilsbury DoughBoy.
Wicked windy today and still so far this evening. Temperature's not bad, still 58 at present.
For my mountains they're calling for more chances of snow over the next coupe of days. ??? Maybe we'll flip a coinn Friday night to see of we try to get up there on the weekend. The weekend is supposed to be sunny up there.
A bit below freezing last night - -maybe tonight - hope our tomatoes make it.
More snow! I glanced out the office window this AM and was greeted with a view of white stuff blowing through the air! By tonight there's another 6 inches up in the mountains according to my spy. I have to laugh though, Denver is supposed to get 20".
Stay home and do chores I guess tomorrow. And get to know the new laser printer.
Denver reports 36" I- 70 closed between Vail and Golden. National Guard delivering supplies to the Red Cross shelters. Welcome to spring in the Rockies.
It's 60 degrees at 0900... supposed to be in the 80's today & 61 by this next Friday - ???
Wierd weather. ???
Last thur - fri 101 high 70 low
sat - Sun 65 high 40 low
And yesterday Sunday a small tornado hit the property behind me. Took out a horse shelter and corral. Missed us by about 50 feet. :o
It got real dark then IDW and I heard a loud bang, we checked out the back door in time to see the shelter drop back down on the edge of he one next to it. Luckly the horses were at a show for the day and no one was hurt. ???
Thats not the first time a twister has came close is it? I think I would consider a safer location. But then again if you are determined then do the most to make it withstand.
Close one, glad you are alright.
61 up in the mountains right now. A couple hours ago it was 57 when we left. Wonderful sunshine too; it hit over 1000 watts/square meter for 2+ hours (noonish to after 2 PM); over 900 for 4+ hours. :)
The onlt snow left is on north facing slopes here and there and in heavily wooded areas. 8500 + elevations.
The past couple of years have seen more tornados in California.
I have seen a couple but none this close up. I wasn't very big and it did not do exceptional damage.
The last one was about 5 miles away, and that was close enough for me.
90's all weekend and today! >:(
We missed spring!
About the same here Peter. It is suppose to turn colder by Wednesday. Maybe it is spring time coming back for awhile. I am about ready to move back outside and work. Leave the inside for rainy days.
Cloudy and warm here in the Big Easy. Still signs of Katrina here. What a mess.
Flying home (Illinois) tomorrow.
sparks
Our forecast is mid 60's for the next week - might get up to 70-72. Last week when I was at Stanford Univ hosp. it got up to 96 degrees - the Bay area is usually pretty cool - when I left, it was in the 50's... go figure.
We got woken up early this morning by a big storm. We've had heavy rain and flooding for the past few hours and it's still pouring. The power was out for a while and we had water comming in under the back door. No fun trying to clean up and build a dam before coffee in the dark.
Scott anything before Coffee is not acceptable.
Cloudy and muggy. I am watching the wind forcast just in case we have a replay of last week. :o
River nearby Scott? Being on the mountain it is hard to imagine how that much water can come up to the door.
What a mess, Scott!
We've had rain since yesterday - has poured down pretty good, in fact!
What a mess. That's the most rain I've ever seen in one day. After I made that post we got hit again and it took out the phone and internet. Just got it back this morning. We got hit a third time around 3 in the afternoon. It was raining so hard my driveway turned into a river. My best friend lost his road completly. My son had to help mom build a damn out of feed sacks to keep the water out of her house. I had made a dam out of boards which kept the water out of the house mostly. The lake went from normal to flood stage in less than 4 hours. Deer run survived just fine.
High water is no fun Scott. My in-laws have been flooded 4-5 times in the last 20 years. Each time it was 5-6 feet in the house. But at their age they don't want to relocate. The Corp of Eng has been studing flood walls and levees for about 1/2 century now in town near the Greenbrier River. Finally they have got the ball on the roll and are just waiting for Congress to allocate the remainder of the money.
The subsequent floods, 1996 & 1997 were just about as bad as the 85 flood . 96 was freezing temps which made a completely different mess. When you build a town between the mountains along a river then I guess you can't expect anything less.
http://cu.theintermountain.com/pages/photo_page.php?mm=1497855&gallery=296259
Our lake is a flood control project John. That doesn't help much when the rain is so heavy that it floods the yard before it can get to the lake. Also seems the water plant was knocked out by the flood. We have no water now. Looks like a replay of last spring when the water was out for a week.
Scott you must be having a time of it. There was a singer "Dennis Jerrigan" (from OK) who was suppose to sing at our church this morning and he couldn't catch the flight from OK on time because of the weather. He is now on a later flight to show up tonight.
currently 86 F on way to upper 90 F Santa Barbara is burning down still. Early fire season.
Low 40's High 30's at night, upper 50's during the day. Last weekend we had at least 2 inches of rain. Things are growing like crazy. Buckwheat is up, apples and pears are blooming. Slugs just hatched (whoopee). Spring has arrived, better late than never.
CF things are finally turning green here as well. At least the cows now have some thing other than brown to eat. Really needed to fertilize my fields but at $800 a ton they will just have to eat left over recession grass.
The temps at night over the last couple days have been 50-55F with a high of about 60 -65 at daytime. The trees are about half out with the hardwoods a little later. I think we have had about one afternoon break in the rain in the last 7-10 days. I'm tired of the rain but it's good for everything so I can't complain too much. Finally got the yard mowed (6-8") in that window of oppurtunity. Had to rake alot so the cows got a little extra treat. They devired the new cut grass.
Green here and hot, 92 today, steaming because everything is wet from a weeks storms and stormy this evening.
Peter I was wondering if you got any of the wicked weather that hit the Chesapeake area the other night?
The weather took a U turn the last couple of nights. The temperature last night and the one before were 28-30F. Heavy frost both mornings. I was luck in that I went to a greenhouse and bought some plants for the decorative porch boxes Sunday. There was a billboard at one of the drug stores that said there was a freeze warning for those two nights so rather than take a chance I put them in the garage to plant a little later. Good thing I did. I just feel for those who put plants in the garden and didn't cover them.
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Woke up to 57 degrees and thunder. A few sprinkles and it is now raining. I heard that the lightning strikes has set about 6 different fires.
So much for the dry southern California desert.
It's 56 degrees outside right now - at almost 1pm on June 5 - pretty much unheard of for this time of year - usually it is at least in high 80's to over 100 degrees. We've also had another thunderstorm early this am that lasted around 3 hrs - another anomaly for this time of year - more thunderstorms expected this afternoon & night... hmmmm - lots of weather modification going on :-\ I like the rain but I don't like how they produce it... not normal at all...
check out the new cloud formations - they even want to give them a new name! http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/jun/01/2?picture=348217732
Channel 10 weather report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Gw5Wmtu-8&feature=related
and another weather report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc0TWVtozio&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0CTB61F6Qo&feature=fvw
OK - I realize a lot of you don't want to look up at the persistent vapor trails (chemtrails to you who will), but, they have been spraying them here everyday to make low pressure and bring up clouds or T-storms.
This is the biggest increase I have seen over the past- every day this month so far. We have never had a June with clouds everyday - May is usually the end of our rainy season.
Because of this increase this year, if it continues, I look for destructive storms to happen in many places where they normally do not.
Note that the obscured skies over land cool the land, lowering pressure while the un-obscured skies heat the ground creating higher pressure and unstable air, which then rushes in -usually from sea areas bringing moisture and unstable air with heat and moisture causes T-stms. Several fires were started in the last couple weeks from these induced storms.
Not in your area? Changing the weather here will change the weather around the world.
I am not a pro at weather but studied it extensively for my pilot private, instrument and commercial ratings.
Air Force wants to own the weather by 2025. You can't tell me it doesn't require practice for that to happen on schedule.
Up around 100 every day this week. Nice not to need so many clothes. No it's not global warming it's always this hot in OK in the summer. d*
I try to take a few clothes off in the summer and all I hear are protests... [waiting]
Southwestern Idaho is going through one of the wettest, coolest Junes on record.
We all think it is California's fault. Of course if anything happens anywhere in Idaho, California is suspect!!!
After all 'they' came up here and 'they' bought up all the cheap land.
rlr ;)
Quote from: glenn kangiser on June 19, 2009, 01:26:38 AM
I try to take a few clothes off in the summer and all I hear are protests... [waiting]
OK! But if you take off your socks, please shave your toes. Woldn't want anyon e mistaking you for a Hobbit even though you live in a Hobbit hole. :)
Glenn I just ignore the protests and take them off anyway. All you need is shorts and sandles in this heat,
It's so hot here, I was thinking all I needed was boots and a hat... [waiting]
Rain on the 4th of July. Sitting in the house and throwing firecrackers off the porch. So much for our plans. d*
Haven't got the rain but they are forcasting TS for the next 3-4 days. Went to a friends on top of the mountain above the cabin last night. Windy and temps 58F. Felt like Sept-Oct instead of July. Oh Yeah we did set off about 30 mortars then the wind really picked up so we quit before we set Va & WV on fire. ;D
OOOOOOh Ick!...it hit 90 here today.....close to that yesterday and its supposed to be hotter tomorrow. It was so hot this morning that the only chore I could do and enjoy was pressure washing the 5th wheel... :P Got myself good and soaked on purpose before coming in to work. A little breeze would be nice to end the day...please? [crz]
Coolest July on record here in Northern IL
hasn't been over 87
58 here this morning
it is sure saving on the air conditioning bill
should be good for EAA airventure (Oshkosh) tomorrow and Friday ;D
It's coming again. Winter I mean. Not really that far off. I can't believe that the summer has came and is on it's way out. This morning it was 42F. Heck that is only 10 degrees above freezing. [waiting]
The months fly by, don't they?
Probably more for you Don rather than me. Seeing that you are gainfully employed. ;D
Yeah, well the months of June, July and August go by quicker than the months in the rest of the year. July does not last nearly as long as January. >:(
Tons of rain here today. More in the forcast for tomorrow. It was almost chilly this morning.
We've already hit the 40's here close to St. Louis for lows. Seems to me this has been one of the coolest summers in a long time. Never saw it break 100. Hopefully I'll be all snug in my new cabin by the time a brutally cold winter comes in.
Well I guess it is offical. Temp this morning was 30F and the first heavy frost. I guess it will be down hill from here until March. [yuk]
Here near Boise, Idaho it is 30 this morning. According to the Snotel site close to the ranch it is 20. I guess I best get back up there and shut off the well and drain the pressure tank and bring the fifth wheel out. I went up yesterday gave our fruit trees one last very good drink of water and pulled the irrigation pump and rolled up the hoses and stored them in the shed. Sure hate to see summer go.
:(
We're at that time of year when you don't know what to expect. Chilly in the AM and then it can go anywhere. A ew days the days were cool enough to need a sweater or overshirt even in the afternoon. Yesterday is was short sleeve weather until evening.
Can't believe that this morning there was frost (32F) and this afternoon it is 70F. A little indian summer I guess but Mother Nature can't fool me into believing it is summer with no leaves left on the trees. I will take it anyway even if the wrath of winter is right around the corner. Just a great day.
We've been getting down to the high to mid 40's but the last 3 days have been really sunny & in the 60's. Sat out on the deck at the picnic table today & read for awhile, then went downstairs to the "great room" & sat on the deck around the perimeter of the room where I could see my roses & all the way down to the valley. Then sat in front of the wood stove down there in a recliner & read some more (the wood stove wasn't lit, but it was plenty warm enough down there to be comfortable). Still pinching myself that we've gotten the majority of that area completed now! :)
A snow storm blew through the mountains this weekend. Saturday the high was 25. Saturday night it dropped to 18. Sunday the high was 22 and it dropped to 13 that night. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Possibility of snow this morning in NE OK. Those 500 buck utility bills won't be long now. I've got to get this place sold and start on the cabin by spring, God willing. This big old white elephant is killin' me.
[cool] What a bunch of wusses! It was -22 yesterday at my cabin 90 miles north of Anchorage. In the coming weeks it will hit -40 for sure.
rwanders, what are your utility bills like???? :o
Quote from: Sassy on November 17, 2009, 03:06:09 PM
rwanders, what are your utility bills like???? :o
Last year I burned a little over 300 gallons of fuel oil---cabin is used almost every weekend with heat turned down to 54 when gone. At current prices it will average $50/month this year. Electricity runs about $15/month. Cabin is 1 1/2 story of 850 sq ft heated area with lots of big windows. Used 100lbs of propane for cooking & water heating over the year at cost of $82. Have R-60 roof and R-21 walls and floor insulation---cabin not yet skirted---should help out a little when I get that completed.
That's pretty good! Especially since you said you're not finished & in those cold temps...
-5 this morning. At noon it is about 5 above now. Out where our cabin is this morning was minus 28 and has now warmed up to -21 at noon. It is nice to get that ice thickness up on the lakes for safety.
Ken
It's sunny, 69.4 right now - 20% chance of rain tonight & tomorrow...
Terrible! Raining here at home. 44 degrees.
32 at the cabin, no recorded rainfall.
Tonight up there the weather guy says: Snow. Low around 19. Southeast wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible.
Its snowing in Houston TX. And its even sticking.
This doesnt happen very often here.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl//6750042.html
Is this the global warming I was warned of???
:o
Yeah, it screwed up a subpoena being served for me.
Well I guess it has started. Actually at about 6AM. So far it has been snowing about 1" per hour. Temp 34F. Here is a view from the front door.
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we got between an inch and half inch here in Knoxville TN this morning. Was very nice. All gone now though.
Like abbynrml says above it was snowing in Houston yesterday, I left town at noon headed for muldoon in the snow. Very cold last night, the orange crush thermometer said 18 when I saw it at 5:30 this morning. I staid mostly warm and ok, did put a nice buck in the cooler so you gotta take the good with the bad I guess.
High 30's during the day, low 20's at night. The horse troughs are freezing up and the grass has been frozen for 3 days. The daylight hours are getting pretty short this time of year, so there's no real time for the sun to thaw things.
(As the Alaskans giggle)
Weather Trend - Last 7 Days
Actual Temperatures
High 36°F 39°F 48°F 36°F 17°F 13°F 29°F
Low 18°F 20°F 15°F -3°F -12°F -13°F -3°F
Precip 0 in. 0 in. 0 in. 0 in. 0 in. 0 in. 0 in.
Date 28 29 30 1 2 3 4
:)
It snowed here in Round Rock Texas on Friday. I sneezed and missed it. :(
First snow (at this elevation) of the year is supposed to hit tonight. I have enough wood in for the winter I think. We will see... [waiting]
Big storm building here too! Heavy overcast, cold. My dog is refusing to to back outside. Some light snow already on the Sandias.
3:00AM .... I woke up --- remembered I forgot to put antifreeze in the Hino truck that we overhauled last summer. I had antifreeze. Checked the weather 36.6f - snow flakes occasionally .... not sticking yet. Probably OK. Tried to sleep more... 3:30 AM...still awake..... 35.4f what if it gets a lot colder... d*
Why am I laying here awake... hmm
Got up - got dressed- did the deed.... went back to bed.......[waiting]
On the cold side here. I need to get some heat in my office. Here I am sitting at my desk with an electric heater blowing on me and also wrapped up in an electric blanket throw. Need to get one of those 2 burner propane heaters.
We are waiting to get the first snow this year. Our pup has never seen snow and she is going to go nuts. Hope we don't get any freezing rain. After the disaster last year, the surviving trees can't take it.
Gray and wet oustide, here in Round Rock Texas. It's just like Seattle!
I think it's around 47. Feels odd. No mountains, no snow in the mountains. No smell of woodstoves or mildew.
Homesick Stink? Here it was 16F this morning and rose to nearly 33F now. Freezing rain, snow or sleet by morning and through Thursday from the west. Hope you keep it in the West.
On a related note I drove to the Cabin on the 4-Wheeler today to clean up what I had plowed on Saturday. The temp in the cabin was the same as it was outside when I got there around noon 33F. I hadn't had any heat in there since Thursday.
They're calling for 3 degrees in the southwest part of Washington state tonight, and below zero over on the east side of the Cascades... [cool] ....And people wonder why I like to spend time in Tucson this time of year!
It is ~4:30 at my mountain retreat. It's been bright and sunny all day, though the sun is in the process of just finished setting behind the ridge to the west, and we're sitting pretty at a balmy -10. d*
Tonight: Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 19. South wind around 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.
Tuesday: Snow before 11am, then areas of blowing snow and a chance of snow after 11am. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 26. Wind chill values as low as -3. Windy, with a west wind between 20 and 30 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.
Right now: Difficult driving conditions NM 4 MM25-46 (La Cueva to Los Alamos County Line). Road is snowpacked and icy. Visibility is fair. Please drive with extreme caution and reduce your speed. Watch for crews in the area.
Sunny with a high of 35 today, then rain forever... [waiting]
No snow. Wind gusts to about 60 though.
Freezy before the rain - going to 21 tonight. Broke stuff already last night at about 26f.
Wretched, 5-8 more inches tonight, with winds at 35 - 35 mph, then another 1-2" tomorrow with winds gusting to 50, then into the deep freeze with -9 below tomorrow night with wind chills of -30. Sure does put a damper on construction. Guess there'll be no roofing this weekend.
Currently 23F and windy gust from the WNW at 40 MPH. Tonight will be around 7F with a high tomarrow of 28F. Today it was 27F at Dogtrot with about the same winds the only difference is I was outside the majority of the day installing the gas line and setting the propane tank :) The power is back on so life is good. ;D
"I was outside the majority of the day installing the gas line and setting the propane tank. The power is back on so life is good."
Wha Hoo! No fun being a Redovercicle.
It's ya'll's turn now. We're starting to warm up. It's 36 right now and the low will only be 29. Whew, that was a long cold one.
Highs are supposed to be 40-42 in the next few days with lows in the mid 20's....nobody's mentioned snow for here, but this transition time is when we usually get some.
When I get done with it I'm sending it back.
Nooooooooo! We have a steady stream of these from the North and the West all winter, no mulligans! [shocked]
Well it was 9F yesterday morning and 30F this morning. Go figure. But this morning it started raining and FREEZING. [yuk]
Rain, rain, rain, rain, after the snow. Currently 40f and looking like the barometer is going up but still 80% for showers - then better tomorrow. One more storm Wednesday they are calling for.
It has been so unseasonably cold here. Several nights dipped below zero. Here near Boise we just don't get that cold especially this early. Dang good thing we are having Al Gore's global warming or this would be bad. But it is starting to brake up now as the wind has shifted and the warm California air flows are starting to make their way into the Great Basin.
Glenn looks like you are sending some rain / snow up this way. Thanks the ski resorts and ski areas really need it. Up where our ranch is at it has been below zero at night and warming to a balmy mid twenties. Really not a lot of difference there and the valley that is strange. ???
Yes we can blame all that we have had on Glenn as well. It started there and swept eastward. When I get done with it I will send it back. ;D
Well, put on your galoshes because I think I am sending you a bunch of rain next... [waiting]
No guarantee that it won't freeze before you get it though. Nearly 4 inches since the tenth I think - maybe more here on the mountain.
More snow in the mountains, maybe 5 - 6 inches around our place and double that up by NM_Shooters.
Snow, then rain last night. This AM there is a sheet of slushy ice frozen on the ground.
I sure hope they are wrong about the weather this weekend. Prediction is 12-18" of snow starting tonight. I have to make a little trip this morning to Elkins and I plan to pick up 4 new tires for the 4-wheeler while I am there. But with that much snow I willl probably end up using the tractor.
I guess the forecast was correct and it has begun. It started at about 3PM and now we have 2" on the ground. I picked up the new 4-wheeler tires and we are ready. It's starting to look alot like Christmas.
Without the flash
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With the flash. The snow flurries show up a lot better. The winter causes a reduction in sunlight hours but with a weather front it really starts getting dark earlier.
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:D In Valdez, Alaska where I lived for nine years before returning to Anchorage, they just got 69" in 36 hours and 4.8" in one hour-----neither is a record. The snow there has to experienced to believe it but they have the world's greatest snow removal staff and methods. Average snowfall is 330" per year---record year was 1989 when 47 feet came down.
rwanders this is nothing compaired to Alaska but for here it is not that often. Woke up to 12-15" of snow this morning. The worst part is that it is continued snowing all night. Without going outside (later) this is what we woke up to looking from the house. Notice the accumulation on the truck tailgate (down) in comparison to the top of the bed.
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Basement entrance. There with the small drift under the 2nd story eve it is close to 17"
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And yes there is a 500 gallon propane tank someplace under there.
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Should have the makings of some nice pictures once day break happens.
We have a little better than a foot here in the flatlands now. I expect about what John has at the farm.
It's still snowing and I need to get out and remove some from the shop roof. I also have to plug in the heat tape if I can find it.
I'll get pictures but showing them may be an issue until I figure out why my photo album is acting up.
We're expecting wind later so power will go out and I can watch the soccer moms panic. I have plenty of backup generation and split enough wood yesterday to last a week.
Once it got daylight this is what we saw. It was 20" then.
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Digging out
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By the time we got finished which was about 1:30 we had already accumulated an additional 4 " which put the total to 24". As of the time of this post it is finally slacking up and very light flurries.
Pictures around the farm
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Here is a picture of the State Route (92) that runs in front of the house.
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Beautiful! great pics Redover
Somehow the snow always looks prettier when it's on someone else, vehicles/roads/sidewalks. ;D
Great pictures! Snowfalls like that are difficult when your area is not used to handling them---I always really look forward to the first big snow fall of the year-----and even more so to the last one! :)
Quote from: MountainDon on December 19, 2009, 03:39:58 PM
Somehow the snow always looks prettier when it's on someone else, vehicles/roads/sidewalks. ;D
Mountain Don probably no truer words ever penned
There is just so much you can do with a blade. The rest is via shovel. Now when I walk up to a door I know what a mole must feel like. ;D
Don't know if you can see them, but a couple of early pictures.
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Peter the pictures didn't show up for me.
nada :(
and when I copy the url, I get.....
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I can see the pics ok Redover. Here it is just wet wet wet. Warm (45F) :D and raining, ok with me.
It was almost freezing last night. Now it has warmed up to 60 degrees.
I just finished mowing my front yard. Its still green but not growing. Mainly needed to get the leaves off. Outta look good for Christmas.
Snow again. Currently 22F with a 90% chance of 1-2" of snow today and 70% of 1-3" tomarrow with a high of 23F for the next two days. I am so ready for spring but it is a long way off.
I am so missing snow :(
Sorry about sending that snow again, John.
I'll try to have the military stop seeding the clouds here daily... [waiting]
Whitlock told me the days are getting longer now.
That is great. :)
I could sure use 25 hour days. [ouch]
Glenn I thought you said you were going to send some moisture up this way. Must have turned right at Reno. One little old rain and snow squall just don't cut it. We need snow in the hills real bad. I was up to the ranch and it had about a foot. We need at least two to three feet right now for normal. Please send no more than four feet however. It is a little warmer than it was.
hmm Hmm, Sorry Rick. The boys seem to be directed toward blanketing the south lately. I'll have to see what I can do about it... the north has been a bit harder to keep covered. [waiting]
Not much building happening here in upstate NY lately...16" of powder (where it hasn't drifted) on top of really thick ice, with lots more on the way. We're holding steady at 8 degrees (which is warmer than the forecasters promised) with a -14 wind chill. The deer chomped down all my baby hemlocks last night.
Really missing the northwest, and giant fir trees, and 2" frost lines...
So much for global warming... poor Al should be made homeless soon.. [waiting]
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/27/877-new-snowfall-records-set-or-tied-in-the-usa-in-the-last-week/
Still don't believe they are modifying the weather? [noidea'
***WARNING POSSIBLE THREAD HIJACK***
Anyone else concerned about this crazy weather and our food supply?
Cold here and possible snow this evening. Need some warm weather.
Quote from: StinkerBell on December 29, 2009, 04:01:18 PM
***WARNING POSSIBLE THREAD HIJACK***
Anyone else concerned about this crazy weather and our food supply?
I think we are good for a few years. They won't get us this year anyway... :)
The artificial droughts out here are going to mess with the food too - take the water from the farmers - give it to the fish... people are expendable.... [waiting]
Mother Nature payed us another visit last night. She left us with an additional 2-3" of white powder and a temperature of 23F.
Just what you needed. d*
Thanks Glenn: The moisture you last sent arrived. The snotel site near the ranch is showing another inch of moisture in the last 24 hours. That is an actual one inch of moisture! It however does not report how it arrived i.e. snow, rain sleet or hail nor do we much care. But one inch of moisture here in this area is a lot of moisture.
Glenn you are at it again I see.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Marlinton&state=WV&site=RLX&textField1=38.2201&textField2=-80.0871&e=0
Not a problem, guys. I have the spray team up there nearly every day. Seems they can cover the sky with trails in a very short time changing what would otherwise be blue sky and solar power in to clouds and snow for you. I watch it everyday as too much of it and I have to run the generator.
For the last few weeks they have been making artificial thunder storms.
In this one the trails shading the ground cooled it and caused a low pressure area as the warm air rushed in to fill the pressure void. The trails started from the left and ran the length of the storm to the right. You can see them above the wispy extent of the artifical thunder storm.
Normal thunder storms are caused by unstable warm air rising quickly and losing its ability to carry moisture. It starts stable but it can be set off by ground obstacles such as foot hills starting it to tumble and rise. The difference is that the horizontal cloud at the top would not be there as the energy is dissipated by the time the thunder head is completely formed. Air a short distance above the head is smooth normally.
They did it again day before yesterday I think. Unnatural thunder storm in the Merced area with blue skies here.
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Another thing that is interesting about this fake storm.. How low and spread out it is. It didn't have enough energy to get high like a normal T-stm, yet it was raining violently at the bottom.
Note that I studied weather for 3 pilots license examinations. Private, instrument and commercial. I was also head of the class... officially "My Best Student". [waiting] :)
The forecast wasn't as severe as anticipated. In reality the accumulation didn't materialize in the east (1"). Just cold temps (6F in AM) with a lot of WIND. Now I am sure that came from you Glenn. ;)
Darn Glenntrails 8)
I thought glenntrails was something that sassy washed away from his underpants.....rofl
Very sick, Stinky, very sick..... [waiting]
You don't even want to get me started on toilet humor....
Wind, John, that is entirely possible... I had some of the best beans at Whitlock's the other day , then his wife thoughtfully sent me three more meals of them to share with Sassy.... :)
Quote from: StinkerBell on January 03, 2010, 07:29:40 PM
I thought glenntrails was something that sassy washed away from his underpants.....rofl
Poor Sassy
I think those would be Glennswindtrails heh
I'm feeling vulnerable right now.... [waiting]
17 degrees at noon today. I wish global warming would hurry up and start. d*
It is a freezing 41 here. Yes yes I know, 41 is not freezing...IT FEELS FREEZING!
My uncle used to say that it was so cold in the winter in Wisconsin that they had to wet the bed just to stay warm.
Have you tried that, Stinky? .... [waiting]
::)
It's only 65.5 outside right now - it's noon - and sunny although they're busy with those glenntrails trying to cover the blue sky >:(
I see its a problem that runs in your family, glenn....... heh
21 up at the cabin this AM. It was 19 overnight. Clear cold sky.
The highest it's been up there for weeks now is 38.
It's warming up here. Summer is right around the corner. NOT. It did reach 20F today and 15F yesterday for a high. Mornings was 8F & 12F .
I jus' can't get no respect, Stinky.... [waiting]
Currently 67.3 out and sunny.
I have to go to work in the Bay area tomorrow and likely won't get back for the week - probably should be able to steal some broadband there though.
Currently 18F and snowing. Overnight accumulation of 2-3". Forecast predicted less than 1" ???. Tomarrow it is suppose to deminish up to 60% chance and then tomarrow night back to 80% chance of snow.
...and yet, they do not believe... :)
Single digits forecast for the next three nights. We could sure use some of that global warming about now. Barely January.
About 16 with wind chill of about 3. It is snowing and the wind is blowing about 25 mph. Roads are ice covered. People here are not prepared for this kind of weather. It is suppose to be colder with below zero temps. Not suppose to change till Tuesday of next week. We are burning wood like mad. Our dogs are happy, but we are not. I love this global warming.
Mother Nature is at it again. Started snowing about 5:00 P.M.. Already there is about 2-3 more inches of new white stuff. The so called experts say maybe 8" by the am. Funny that it has to warm up to snow. ;D Currently 24F now. I just got the road plowed to the cabin yesterday from the 3" we got the other day. I am tired of this stuff but it looks like I will have to put up with it awhile longer.
Sorry to hear about your bad weather to all of our friends back east. Military weather modification continues here on the West coast non-stop as they continue their goal of "Owning the Weather by 2025"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO409F.html
Currently in the 60's to 40's at night here.
It's a balmy 3 degees this A.M. c*
8F here Scott but the sun is shinning. First time in a while.
21F here. I have no idea what it is in with the windchill factor. It's just darn cold!
It has been one beautiful week here highs in the low 70's and lows in the high 40's 8)
Sorry to here it is so cold elsewere :o
ONE sorry, solitary degree.
rain rain rain rain rain rain 40 something rain rain
You know it is bad when you have to spend fifteen minutes just psyching yourself up to go get firewood off the front porch.
too cold for the country trip I was hoping to make this weekend. teens tomorrow, cooler at night. yipes.
I cant even make beer its too damn cold outside. cant fish. gonna try to do oil changes and car work... I hate sitting still.
Government is seeding the clouds?? ??? Have they been reading Glenn's blogs? :o
http://www.parade.com/news/intelligence-report/archive/100110-officials-try-to-make-it-rain.html (http://www.parade.com/news/intelligence-report/archive/100110-officials-try-to-make-it-rain.html)
-3F this morning. High of 23F today. But no snow. Glenn needs to talk to his buddies in the air.
Seems to be a communication lapse here, John.... I thought you wanted less snow... [waiting]
My bad... I'll see what I can do... [ouch]
Went out this morning; 11 0 F. The frost was unusually heavy and my camera was on the end table. d*
A little bit better than yesterday. This morning it was 0F. I think it did get up to 28F (in the sun). I ran to the cabin to take some measurments for cabinets and it was 22F inside and 28F outside ???
"Red in the morning sailors take warning"
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They are predicting 2-6" of snow tonight. So I guess we will just wait and see if it holds true.
We got up to 41 here today. I was working in a tee shirt all afternoon. It's wierd how 41 feels warm after 2 weeks of sub freezing weather.
Can't believe that it was not in the teens or below this morning. Almost above freezing at 32F. Rain predicted. Maybe it will get into the 40's today. Nice change.
I believe we may be getting ready to send you a bunch more of that snow you wanted, John. The boys are working it hard.... give us a few days to a week or so...
Low 50's during the day, high 40's at night...caught myself wearing a tee-shirt rather than a sweater. :D
Rain last night and today. Maybe snow here at home in the next few days. Snow for certain up in the mountains, maybe 6 inches or more in the next 24 hours.
Glenn you sent us too much. The perfect combination for flooding. With the snowfall accumulation, rising temperatures and heavy raining in the last day when are getting more than our fair share. Parts of Marlinton are flooding as we speak. There is no access to town from the only route traveling east-to-west which is now flooded. Several areas have been evacuated already with additional areas every minute.
It is nice to have a quaint town nestled along a major river between mountains but only when it does not flood. Transportation going in all directions through the majority of the county is intersected in town. So you can guess what kind of a mess we are expecting.
John, I was afraid this would happen. [noidea'
It's not nice to fool mother nature.... and I can't get the fly boys to stop spraying. I assume you will get more. [waiting]
Maybe a break by the end of the week for you.... [ouch]
Weird day. Flood, sunshine, and snow all in one day. The only thing we lack is a quake. NO THANK YOU.
Temps are dropping fast. Prediction is 2-4" of snow by morning.
We're supposed to have rain tonite & tomorrow... I think we are well over our average rainfall - woke up to the sound of jets flying overhead...
Sassy have Glenn send more snow up this way. It is bad but hardly a drought. We do get some good rains but need snow for storage in the hills and high mountains. I think he and the air force need to do a little more fine tuning. I agree with John please don't send any earthquakes. Yellowstone is still showing some activity in the western part of the caldera.
Sorry Rick... seems to be some sort of communication failure between me and the spray team. I'll see what I can do.
We have a nice caldera just over the hill also. That would make some nice fireworks, and it grumbles every once in a while.
Mammoth?
Lot of joking about earthquakes, volcanoes and disasters of that type here in the USA. What a perfect opportunity to declare marshal law. Washington then sends out for help. They invite thugs, (Excuse me, I'm out of line there - police forces) from other countries to police the unruly population. (Us).
Yeah - Long Valley Caldera, just over the mountain from us.
I feel so safe... the plans are already in the works to take care of us...
Thought I found a shackle train the other day rick, but looks like it was just for cars - a three decker. :)
Well "It's back". Currently 15F and snowing. Accumulation thusfar is about 2". But no ice ;D
Pretty bad ice storm and plenty snow, down in the teens here in NE OK. I'm not exactly sure what ScottA's lookin' at up where he is, but it's so close that I doubt things are much different.
I anticipate losing telephone, power, or both at any time from falling limbs. They're scattered all over the place in my yard.
Seventeen and about 4 " on the ground and still falling so the weather folks got the 4-6" right. Now let's see how they do on the back side !
Another 4-5" last night. Temp is 32F. Getting ready for yet another one due to arrive on Friday. Yuck.
Well it did arrive just as predicted. Currently temp at 29F and it has been snowing since yesterday morning and hasn't stopped. So far I guess the accumulation is around 12". Tonights low is suppose to be 4F and not much better the rest of the wekend until about tuesday and then another front moving in for some more. From what I gather the majority of the snowfall is north and east picking up moisture from the coast. I guess we will just have to wait and see what we end up with.
Wow you guys are getting burried John. We have another 4-8" forcast for Sunday and Monday.
Sad thing about it Scott is that what you get we will have in about 2 days. Keep me posted. ;D
Still have snow from the last storm. Raining now, but there has been a winter storm warning issued. There may be up to 6 inches of snow. Horrible weather for the south. I wonder if Obama is looking out the window at the White House and talking about global warming.
Quote from: southernsis on February 06, 2010, 11:19:28 AM
I wonder if Obama is looking out the window at the White House and talking about global warming.
He's thinking of a way he can "Blame Bush" for the storm. ::)
We all know he did it, PEG. ::)
Wet here for me --- likely more snow there for you.
Quote from: glenn kangiser on February 06, 2010, 11:59:44 AM
We all know he did it, PEG. ::)
Wet here for me --- likely more snow there for you.
Nicest winter in years , warmest Jan since they've been keeping records.
If this keeps up, and I can find the time, the early garden plants will be in the ground the first weekend in March.
:)
That's great, PEG.
I should get after ours but jobs keep coming in so they get first priority. d*
A picture is worth a thousand words ;D
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Peter I don't think the link was inserted corectly as the site is showing and the IMG is there but no picture. If you look at the begining of the link the {IMG} is not seperated. ???
Quote from: Redoverfarm on February 06, 2010, 04:01:45 PM
Peter I don't think the link was inserted corectly as the site is showing and the IMG is there but no picture. If you look at the begining of the link the {IMG} is not seperated. ???
Error 16 (loose nut behind the keyboard) ;D
(http://www.photos.oldva.org/albums/userpics/high-jump.jpg)
Wow, that picture gives such a perspective on how tall that dog is!
Quote from: StinkerBell on February 06, 2010, 05:47:09 PM
Wow, that picture gives such a perspective on how tall that dog is!
That or the person is wee small. ;)
Snowing with about 4 inches now and more to come.
It's been snowing here all day.
Quote from: ScottA on February 08, 2010, 01:18:22 PM
It's been snowing here all day.
Thanks Scott. Just got a weather alert from the county officals. 7-14" possible. Was 0 F this morning. Getting sort of cramped to find a place to push it all. I guess "June" will take care of it. ;)
I was just getting use to not having snow for two days in a row and this comes up on a weather alert.
"AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CROSSING THE AREA WILL BRING
ACCUMULATING SNOW TODAY...WITH UPSLOPE SNOW SHOWERS PERSISTING
THROUGH TONIGHT. AMOUNTS WILL RANGE FROM 3 TO 7 INCHES...MAINLY
ACROSS THE HIGHER WINDWARD...OR WEST TO NORTHWEST FACING...TERRAIN.
BECAUSE THE SNOW WILL BE OF A DRY AND FLUFFY NATURE...GUSTY WINDS
AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT WILL BE
CAPABLE OF CAUSING SOME BLOWING AND DRIFTING."
Another 4" of snow today. Maybe just a few flurries tonight of 1-2" by morning. But then they are calling for snow flurries with some accumulation until at least Friday. No school today because of Teachers Conference and no school tomorrow because of snow.
Enjoy your time out of school, John. All work and no play makes John a dull boy.... :)
Actually Glenn I was referring to the kids but sometimes I feel that I should go back to school to pick up on all the things that I goofed off at when I was there. But then again I don't think I could survive with this modern age of education as it is now.
Nor would we likely learn more than they taught in the old days. :)
Just a different way I guess. 2 + 2 is still 4 isn't it. But my children are learning a completely different way than we did. I hope they learn the important stuff at home and they will be good to go in life.
I hope it is -- for a while they were teaching my sister new math- in the 60's - and 2+2 could equal any number of a bunch of convoluted answers. I hope they got over that. :)
First time in a couple of weeks that it's hasn't flurried all day. About 1" overnight but that is managable. Thought I had better start Spring cleaning a little early before the ice took off my gutters.
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The snow in front of the hot tub room is pushed as far as we can with the 4-wheeler. It is about 10' closer than we first started.
Wow talk about up side down weather. We decided to get away and get some sun as the Boise Valley had been socked in forever or so it seemed to us. So we started looking for some place within a days drive from the Boise area. Seattle of all places was the best option. Drove up there and spent a couple days it was spectacular!!! Both going and coming and while we were there. Mount Rainer and Mount Adams were both clear of clouds. The Olympic Mountains were so beautiful. I think I could have just rode the ferry back and forth all day between Seattle and Bremerton. I never remember Seattle being so clear and nice in February. Got back here and it is clear and chilly now.
It's snowing right now :)
Just wait for your 100F summer...it'll melt :)
It's here again. Currently 24F and snowing. Winter Blizzard Warning in effect until Sunday AM with accumulation of 12-18" and winds 35-50 MPH.
I think WV should have put their name in the hat for the 2014 Winter Olympics. ;)
I was wondering if that storm would turn to rain or snow for you, John. Looks like it may continue as we have a bit more coming.
....and yet few can see the weather modification games that are being played... they are up there daily. :)
http://www.weatherwars.info/ (http://www.weatherwars.info/)
QuoteScott Stevens - Is there any Natural Weather Left?
February 5, 2010 - Friday evening
Scott Stevens discovered global weather modifications while looking into reasons for his diminishing forecast accuracy as a former television weatherman. This global weather modification effort appears to have its roots in the political urgency behind global warming. The Climategate scandal underscored these revelations.
I spent some time watching the vids from Scott Stevens. A great short video showing a bit of what's up with the weather.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtOHJ8oqa1o&feature=player_embedded
Scott Stevens is a published meteorologist and does a pretty good explanation here.
BTW, heckofa storm here today - look for more snow or precip of your choice east :)
No change from Yesterday. Still 24F and hasn't stopped snowing since Thursday evening. Although the hourly rate of accumulation is not great it is adding up. On a similar note Snowshoe Ski resort reported yesterday that this season has had over 210" of natural snow. As the crow flies it is probably 20 miles from the house.
Yes Glenn I am watching (for what good that does) of that weather front expected to hit here Mon/Tue this week.
John, it is still raining here. I think it is going to go for 24 hours.
It'll probably bring you a couple more feet, eh?
Lets hope ScottA uses it up before it gets to me. Actually I looked at the National radar and it showed a "little" bit of rain over you and the rest of the country between us was pretty good shape. I am waiting for the weekend. Suppose to get in the 40's. Don't want a real fast warm up for two reasons 1. It will spoil me and 2nd it will wash away our County Seat. There is a lot of moisture in these mountains just lying and waiting to join the water supply that runs south through town. 85 there was 8' of water in the stores and in 96 there was 6'. :(
Here's hoping for a sloooooow thaw.
10" of snow on the ground for the first day of spring and still snowing hard. Expecting up to 6" more. d*
You can keep it Scott. Although the Farmers Almanac predicts 48" before the 28th for this area. I hope they got their wires crossed when they wrote it up. But if there is a silver lining it would be that it will not last long. I am still looking at a very small pile of snow left along the driveway from the 5' pile. It probably has been there since Christmas.
Almost a perfect spring day!. The sun is shining. It's now 79 degrees, shirt sleeve weather for sure, but not too hot. And the night's are still cool enough, the cold water is still cold out of the tap! Just a tad on the windy side, but not too bad to complain much.
Really a beautiful day, sun shinning, a little wind. Blue birds are building nests. Red Buds blooming and dogwoods are getting ready. Nice temp about 72.
70's for the second day in a row here in Minnesota. Those lakes are melting fast!
Just a couple weeks ago I called my uncle in Wisc. and he was standing on 30 inches of ice with about 120 cars out there on the lake fishing.
Another storm here - probably sending you guys some snow. I'm off to work. Have a good day.
I guess Mother Nature is not finished her winters work. Temp was 28F with a heavy frost. I hope that not too many tried rush the season with early planting.
Our tomatoes are growing tomatoes in the greenhouse still in the original pots I bought them in. The two I planted in the garden look OK though.
Mucho Caliente! I think I'm scorched. :P
Southern Caifornia prsently 104. Yep! it is hot.
hit about 99 today.
HOT!
Didn't actually look today. It was comfortable for a change. Presently 62F. While I was at the outer banks and communicating with family and friends it dipped to 46F a couple of nights back home. Darn seems like summer keeps getting shorter and shorter each year.
HOT & DRY. Year before last was about the same at the same time of the year. It has been so dry that a yard that I normally mow out of necessity ever week has just been mowed for the first time in 30 days. Only about half green and the rest is brown. Well the experts would say dormant but it looks dead to me. The small stream still has intermitent pools of water. The water level drops to below the creek base and continued to run only surfacing at the lower pools. But I can't complain as it still has water for the cows. Speaking of which the grass is really getting short for them as well.
Only 116 F today...a bit warm but not uncomfortable.
On One day it was 105 in the burbs and 109 at the farm. That's real unusual here. Dry as a bone and I need to buy a couple hundred bales of straw. I haven't checked the prices but I'll bet they're up.
Had a thunder storm roll through last evening. Coming from the north-wets (where you can sit and wait ten minutes to see a 'strike' in the middle of a 'storm') it was quite the show. Strikes ever 3-5 seconds... the closest about 1/4 mile away. Being up near the top of the mountain range made it even more exciting as the thunderheads rolled by at a mere 20-30 feet above my trailer. :o
The best part though was the sunset through the falling rain over the valley. Perhaps the brightest orange in a sunset I've ever seen... and clear skies with stars after the front passed. [cool]
Go ahead, call me a weeny!....its been in the 90's for 3 days and this frog is cooking. Wandered around the ho use last night until about 1AM. Too hot to sleep. I look a fright, but the extra horse trough has been my friend. I do not know how you all in the "heatwave every year" states do it. Ick.
This past week we had temps up to 106, in the valley 109... today it's 65! Lots of suspicious clouds in the sky, last night while I was swimming the sky was clear - this AM there were lines & lines of ripply clouds & now it's a complete whiteout! ???
Whoever took my summer would you please return it as I wasn't finished with it yet. ;) 41F this morning. The locust trees and ferns are turning brown . I hate to say it but winter is not too far off. :(
Currently 71 - calling for 89
Yesterday a sissling 108. Today 96. Colling trend rest of week. [cool] ???
It's been very cold out here -- in fact often 20-30 degrees cooler then average at night.
At the cabin it's been well below the norm and presently is hitting 32-34 at night and only about 68 during the day. All summer it didn't seem to get above 45 at night which is 10 degrees below normal.
My neighbor (up the hill about a mile) tells me the weather is much like it was 11 years ago and he expects heavy snow fall this winter....11 years is the solar cycle...I hope we don't get the 4-5 feet of snow he thinks we might get -- he tells me that is normal in the cooler cycle.
We slept with the A/C off and the windows closed 2 nights last week. It's back up in the lower 90's today but the forcast is for cooler weather by mid-week. It's pretty early for it to be cooling off this much.
Quote from: ScottA on September 06, 2010, 05:42:20 PM
We slept with the A/C off and the windows closed 2 nights last week. It's back up in the lower 90's today but the forcast is for cooler weather by mid-week. It's pretty early for it to be cooling off this much.
It was 68 today at 1:30! Amazes me how cool it is but I've read that La Nina is causing a strong cooling trend in the Northwest.
Feels like fall already!
Yes, it is definitely fall up in the mountains. Grass here and there is starting to yellow. Cool (55 F) nights.
We've been having snow since Saturday... yesterday we got some sun & most of it melted but woke up this am to huge snowflakes!
COLD and Snowy.
Cabin temp today is predicted to be -27 now.....hmmmmm wonder if the little stove would get it UP TO freezing after all, it's only about 1/4 insulated at this point....YIKES
Wow! That is cold, brrrrr! We only got down to 34 degrees but it's supposed to get down in the 20's tonight - don't know if our place will get that cold since we are on the ridge & never get as cold as the rest of the area. There is actually some blue sky visible right now.
I'm sitting in front of the warm woodstove typing on my computer - what a life!
Gotta head down the hill for work over the Thanksgiving holiday so taking advantage while I can c*