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Post by davida on Jan 9, 2013 11:33:53 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 Circumspice, I was thinking about you while watching the weather forecast last night. Looks like you may get up to 3" to 5" of total rain. The system is moving south and east of us so we are only getting the drizzly stuff. We had high hopes a couple of days ago but ....... Glad you are getting the rain. Maybe it will fill the ponds and put some ground moisture in the soil for spring grasses where the ranchers can hang on. The water supply for the cattle has become a major concern in many of the drought areas. David
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Post by steev on Jan 9, 2013 21:32:38 GMT -5
It was very cold working today; they predict rain tonight, maybe a little snow on the highest peaks near the Bay (happens every 4-5 years).
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Post by circumspice on Jan 9, 2013 22:08:26 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 Circumspice, I was thinking about you while watching the weather forecast last night. Looks like you may get up to 3" to 5" of total rain. The system is moving south and east of us so we are only getting the drizzly stuff. We had high hopes a couple of days ago but ....... Glad you are getting the rain. Maybe it will fill the ponds and put some ground moisture in the soil for spring grasses where the ranchers can hang on. The water supply for the cattle has become a major concern in many of the drought areas. David Oh yeah... We need a good heavy rain to get the tanks filled. The drizzly stuff might trickle down to the aquifers, but it's the runoff that fills the tanks. The ranchers have been buying hay & feed for a couple of years now. They've been hit hard by that 2 year exceptional drought. A year or so ago, I went to the local feed store & asked for straw bales. They tried to sell me hay, saying they had no straw. I asked where I could get some straw bales & they laughed in my face & said: "Try Oklahoma!". I just wanted about 20 regular sized bales of straw to experiment with straw bale raised beds. They wanted $13 or $14 per bale for bermuda. (I think it was bermuda)
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Post by Drahkk on Jan 11, 2013 16:45:21 GMT -5
Partly cloudy, 72°F/63°F. Too many days like this would tempt me to start many things too early.
At the moment I'm trying to clear winter weeds to put in some sugar snap peas. And getting swarmed by mosquitoes. In the middle of January. What I wouldn't give for just one week of truly COLD weather...
MB
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jan 11, 2013 19:15:23 GMT -5
I love photos of Bunkie's weather, cause I often get the same conditions a couple days later. Today I think I'll work on digging a path to the mail box.
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Post by circumspice on Jan 11, 2013 19:46:12 GMT -5
I love photos of Bunkie's weather, cause I often get the same conditions a couple days later. Today I think I'll work on digging a path to the mail box. Wow
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Post by steev on Jan 12, 2013 0:40:39 GMT -5
Snowshoes.
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Post by wolfcub on Jan 12, 2013 10:58:39 GMT -5
Makes my -5 and no snow look pretty good!
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Post by bunkie on Jan 15, 2013 11:31:13 GMT -5
I love photos of Bunkie's weather, cause I often get the same conditions a couple days later. Today I think I'll work on digging a path to the mail box. LOL! yuppers joseph...that's exactly what it looks like here! brace yourself for the 'deep freeze' that's here now!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jan 15, 2013 11:50:26 GMT -5
LOL! yuppers joseph...that's exactly what it looks like here! brace yourself for the 'deep freeze' that's here now! The deep freeze already arrived here... Our high temperature yesterday was 2F. The low temperature was beyond the range of my digital thermometer. The local airport reported -18F. The day before that, the high was 15F. It felt like a heat wave, and the sun was shining, so just after mid-day I put on a pair of pants, boots, a hat, and gloves. Then worked shirtless on shoveling the driveway some more. That's the legacy from my viking progenitors. I need all the winter sun that I can get. Shoveling snow sure beats standing and shivering on the south side of the house. I used to live in a passive solar house with a solarium. I sure miss that for getting winter sun. Edit: And it is still super arid. The dew point is around -26F... I've been boiling a pot of water on the stove for humidity in the house, but that only raised relative humidity to around 25%.
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Post by bunkie on Jan 15, 2013 12:10:33 GMT -5
ha! i shovel in my t-shirt on sunny days...from being born in north Alaska! but, there has been little sunshine here for a long time. feels glorious when it appears!
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Post by RpR on Jan 15, 2013 14:06:25 GMT -5
Well we are back into winter weather after having two days in the thirties and low forties with light rain. That really sucked, as they used to say. The good thing is it did not eliminate the snow cover and now one can walk on the snow without fear of breaking through.
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Post by steev on Jan 15, 2013 20:31:09 GMT -5
It's been mid-fifties in Oakland this week, while freezing at night. That's cold around here; these things are all relative.
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Post by ferdzy on Jan 15, 2013 21:03:07 GMT -5
Got up to 11°C a few days back, with rain. Our foot of snow is now gone, but it has gotten cold again and the ground is frozen. We're having the occasional snow flurry, but no real accumulation at this point. It's a plant killin' winter. I hope it's a bug-killer too.
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Greetings from Utah -- James
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Post by James on Jan 16, 2013 10:34:38 GMT -5
Picture of my garden. Today the temp is 15 degrees F. Feels like a heat wave since it has been below zero for a week.
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