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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jan 3, 2013 20:20:06 GMT -5
What's the weather doing at your place today, or this month, or this growing season?
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I was living near Columbus Ohio a couple of decades ago when it reached the coldest temperature ever recorded for that location: -22F. To celebrate the occasion I went for a skyclad walk.
Around here, those types of temperatures are not unusual. Last night it went down to -11F. The high today was 12F. Its currently 8F and I expect the temperature to go lower tonight than it did last night.
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Post by DarJones on Jan 3, 2013 20:35:27 GMT -5
I spent some time in Iowa several years ago. A huge arctic blast moved in early in February and dropped temps to -33 degrees. The wind was blowing at 25 to 50 mph and I was up a telephone pole working on a phone line. It took less than 5 minutes to freeze my thumbs bad enough to cause the skin to peel. They were sensitive to cold for about 10 years afterward.
DarJones - who happily lives someplace that almost never goes below zero.
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Post by Penny on Jan 4, 2013 9:10:50 GMT -5
Cold and blustery here today.
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Post by richardw on Jan 4, 2013 12:17:31 GMT -5
Those sorts of temps ive never come close to experiencing,the lowest ive felt is -14C (6.8F) and that was bad enough.The other end of the scale here today with probably the hottest day of the summer so far,low of 3.5C but should get up near 40C later in the day,the garden grows like hell on days like these.
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Post by RpR on Jan 5, 2013 0:19:10 GMT -5
Where I am at right now, I have seen -40 F three times before the turn of the century, whereas; fifty miles south of here where I was raised and still live at times, I have never seen it even hit thirty below zero.
In the nineties I had a job in the winter driving sixty miles into the twin cities to shove snow so I had to drive in during the storm. Due to necessity one week I had to put a new starter in my car in the parking-lot when the daily high was -18. You learn to move quickly.
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Post by rowan on Jan 5, 2013 0:29:28 GMT -5
Veggies got fried yesterday in our 43 C temps (110 for you in the US). The poor melons and zucchinis look like they were hit with a nuclear device, well I suppose they were in a sense.
We are having a reprieve of only 30 degrees today before the temperature starts up again. I hate hot weather.
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Post by richardw on Jan 5, 2013 15:07:13 GMT -5
ive noticed it the melon is the first to show that it doesn't like hot weather to much,it wasn't as hot as your 43 rowan but even at 37deg yesterday they weren't to happy.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 5, 2013 18:59:07 GMT -5
I got sick over the holidays, so Leo took me up to our wee cabin for some much needed R&R, and to get our final inspection on our kitchen remodel. When we arrived at 10 pm., we discovered where the snow plow had piled all the snow. Here's Leo the next morning sledding the tools down the driveway. Note my narrow little shovel path! Hello Sierra Cement. It was a balmy 11 degrees. Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 5, 2013 19:04:52 GMT -5
The snow was so beautiful and so quiet. I loved every minute of it. For the record, the year my Grandmother died, I traveled to Grand Rapids, Minnesota, my family home and it was -40. At the funeral the flowers instantly froze and snapped off like glass. After about 10 minutes at the graveside, I began to have serious concerns about some of the elderly in attendance and herded them back into cars. Serious mind fuzziness begins at -40. Attachments:
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Post by Drahkk on Jan 6, 2013 2:58:05 GMT -5
It's just mud season here. Never dries up enough to run a tractor or any other equipment. And temps are hovering around 40°F average. Mom-in-law wants to plant spinach and lettuce, but it's just a little too cool to start them outside. Collards, mustards, turnips, cabbage and Chard already in the ground are doing fine, though.
I wish we could see some of that white stuff. I'd love to see 72 hours without coming above freezing, enough to freeze a few inches of soil and knock back some of the fireants, fleas, mosquitoes, etc. After that, bring on spring!
MB
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Post by steev on Jan 6, 2013 23:51:12 GMT -5
It's mud season on my farm, too. Cold enough at night that the surface freezes hard enough that I can walk on recently-tilled soil without leaving much trace, but by 10:30AM I'll sink in an inch. Came out of the pump-house Saturday ~7:45AM to find four eight-point elk 60 feet away, breakfasting.
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Post by steev on Jan 7, 2013 20:32:18 GMT -5
Here in California, we generally have a two-humped rainy season; first hump mostly has the real strong storms (this year in Oakland we're ~40% above normal-to-date, ~500% above last year-to-date). We're now enterring the break between "humps", which mostly lasts 4-6 weeks; clear nights giving our coldest temps (I expect mid-teensF on the farm). In Oakland, last frost is ~mid-February, so I'll be growing my transplants outside, for planting on the farm mostly late May, since hard frost is generally there until then (I've heard of tomato-killing frost there on June 20th!). Of course, I've seen as many as four days running that hit 119F in July, on the farm. It's a crapshoot, which may be why the locals are all ranchers, not farmers. To paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy: "If you're farming where everybody is a rancher, you might be a dumbass!"
In any event, when the Spring "hump" comes it's generally more gentle storms ~every three days through April. The upshot of all this is that it's now rush season to get weeds cleared, ground amended and worked up, cool-season crops planted, warm-season crops seeded for transplants, trees pruned, plants planted, seeds ordered, pant, pant! Tail-chasing season is what it is! I don't so much mind running in circles so fast that I can see my own butt; it's just that I've gotten older, and it's not as pretty as it used to be.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 7, 2013 20:57:35 GMT -5
Steev, you are not dumb, you just enjoy a challenge.
Zack would like to request some elk summer sausage, we had some for Christmas and he's still wanting more. Leo says he'd come and help dress it. (I'll even provide a dress....)
We can kick all the seeds out of the freezer and make room.
I'm thinking of joining the soggy bottom boys. So much mud, I took a nice butt plant on the way to feeding chickens this a.m. I looked around, but only the chickens were laughing at me. We are at 168% of our normal rain fall to date. 11.89 inches. of the 20.50 that we normally get in a whole season. Hence the standing water in my fields.
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Post by bunkie on Jan 8, 2013 10:31:23 GMT -5
we got another ten to eleven inches of the white stuff yesterday. nice and powdery till ten am, then we hit 32F and drizzle. ahhh, January thaw, finally! the snow got so heavy it kept sticking to my roof rake...got all cleared but a corner...the ducks thawed their pond out...again...
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Post by circumspice on Jan 9, 2013 10:01:00 GMT -5
We're getting some much needed rain, not the drizzly stuff... Buckets of rain. A nice side effect is that the clouds keep it from getting so cold. No radiational cooling. Yeah! ;D
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