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Post by flowerweaver on Dec 24, 2014 22:17:35 GMT -5
That's odd philagardener it's 34 and dropping down here tonight. But it will be back up to t-shirt weather tomorrow.
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Post by jondear on Dec 27, 2014 18:50:53 GMT -5
It's been near or over 50 here in Maine for the last few days. Almost all the snow is gone. The high for Tuesday is forecast to be about 15. Hopefully the garlic has a good roothold, it's the first year I didn't mulch the bed.
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Post by steev on Dec 28, 2014 21:04:08 GMT -5
We're in the middle of a dry spell; still not colder than 32F on the farm; my earliest-flowering peach looks likely to bloom before mid-January.
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Post by steev on Dec 30, 2014 1:40:15 GMT -5
Here in the East Bay, it's typical New Year weather: dry, clear, and cold (for here), days in the low 50F's, nights in the low 30F's; decent work weather, great sleep weather.
Being early Winter, it's a tough time for skunks; they're out looking for love and having confrontations with cars; I don't think they ever win, poor guys. I admit to being on their side; there's too many cars throwing their weight around. When did you ever hear of anyone dying as a result of being "struck" by a skunk? Granted, they may have thought they'd rather be dead, but I'm sure they got over it; not so much, being run over by a car.
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Post by reed on Dec 30, 2014 4:28:37 GMT -5
W are having similar temperatures, a little cooler here in Indiana. Except for the clear part, we got our obligatory "sky won't snow and sun won't shine" syndrome for days or weeks at a time. Less than inspiring.
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Post by iva on Dec 30, 2014 9:40:36 GMT -5
30 centimeters of snow a few days ago and now a really freeezing temperature of -21 degrees Celsius! I'm staying inside!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 30, 2014 13:47:29 GMT -5
For the past 16 hours or so winds have been between 35 and 55 mph. Temperature now in late morning is 17F. I slept poorly with so many things outside going bang, Bang, BANG. Plus with winds like that the house was so drafty that I wore clothes to bed to try to stay warmer, thus adding one more layer of discomfort onto an already disturbed sleep. It's nights like this that I miss having a wood burning stove. So this morning I slept in till about 10 AM then got up to survey the damage... Sorry to the neighbors about the trash cans taking a journey. The greenhouse hadn't collapsed. Even though I didn't get all the reinforcing added that I wanted to, I added a lot, and it was still standing. When I installed the harbor freight greenhouse I read a review that the glazing panels blow off easily, so I screwed them to the frame. If it hadn't done that most of them would have blown away last night. As it was I only lost one panel. But because I only put one screw into each panel, the wind caught the bottom edge of the panels and popped the clips out, so all night long the panels were trying to blow off, but couldn't, so bang, Bang, BANG. This morning I added more screws to the panels that were banging the most. It was way too cold to be working outside, especially with the wind, so I did the minimum necessary to stop the banging. I'm planning on adding lots more screws before I start the tomatoes. I had also added silicone calk around some of the panels. That helped to retain the panels when the caulk was on the outside of the panels, but not when it was on the inside. Other reviews of the greenhouse mentioned that the doors blow off. Sure enough!!! I don't yet have a strategy of how to fix that, but it's another fix that needs doing before I start the tomatoes.
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Post by flowerweaver on Dec 30, 2014 17:14:06 GMT -5
Joseph Lofthouse good to know, once we get going on replacing ours. Fortunately our two harbor freight greenhouses were destroyed by the tornado BEFORE we had put them up! And I will have a few useable spare parts from the damaged kits for future repairs.
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Post by steev on Dec 31, 2014 1:49:57 GMT -5
Plenty of wind in The Bay Area today; drove up to St Helena today: driving back through Napa, there were 5 power poles blown over, 3 at ~45*, two supported by the sound-wall. We were impressed until we got near Vallejo to find the freeway closed; we knew a detour which got us around the blockage; HWY 80 North was blocked by eucalyptus trees blown down and blocked South by broken power lines from more poles down; miles of stranded cars in each direction.
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Post by reed on Dec 31, 2014 8:32:09 GMT -5
Some of Joseph's cold arrived last night. It was 9F when I got up. No wind and sky is clear, a few stars were still out although it was already getting light when I got up. Gonna be a beautiful day form the looks of it. Yea! got lots to do, don't care if it is cold as long as the sun is shinning and the wind isn't blowing.
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Post by steev on Jan 3, 2015 22:30:13 GMT -5
Friday AM on the farm hit a new low, 29F; well, that's cold to me.
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Post by reed on Jan 4, 2015 3:56:20 GMT -5
Our little cold snap was short lived, replaced with high 50s and rain. Weather man says our coldest so far is on the way for coming week, we'll see.
29 with blue sky is a beautiful day. 29 with gray chills the bone and spirit.
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Post by bunkie on Jan 4, 2015 11:52:34 GMT -5
Joseph, prepare yourself, we got an all out blizzard going on here... BTW, we also screwed our pannels to the frame, and caulked the "outside" of the seams.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 5, 2015 20:15:23 GMT -5
Yes, that chilly wind does blow. Good Grief, on New Year's Day, we had 50 mph winds! Lost part of the barn roof. What a Clishmaclatter! Roof of the chicken house has blown somewhere. Trees down, limbs down. Lost 2 pines (sob). As soon as the wind stopped, the temperature plummeted. You know those tomatoes that were still going? Well they've done froze over. Leo and I were out covering citrus. We picked all the blood oranges and tangerines. Heck it was 30 two nights in a row. We broke down and turned on the house heat. Since it's radiant heat, in the floor takes 24 hours to really feel it. I woke up hot and thirsty and no water came out of the sink.
Luckily I thought about that the night before and filled the tea kettle. You didn't think I was going to go without coffee do you? Steev, when you're in charge of the weather, please rethink those hurricane winds. Eucalyptus limbs everywhere....widow makers!
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Post by jondear on Jan 5, 2015 21:10:21 GMT -5
^^ I just filled the coffee maker "just in case"
Forecasting 10 to 15 below zero actual temps with high winds bringing the windchill much lower. We got about 5 inches of snow cover the other night. Everything looks clean again.
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