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Post by steev on May 18, 2017 20:30:00 GMT -5
On a heating surge; June has been our hottest month several years now, though September was "normally" our hottest until recently.
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Post by reed on May 20, 2017 6:27:33 GMT -5
AHHH. A little storm came through last night and cooled things off, feels wonderful this morning. Only 1/2 inch or less of rain but enough to soften the ground a little so I can work without making a dust cloud. Maybe my replanted corn will come up.
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Post by toomanyirons on May 20, 2017 8:12:35 GMT -5
Raining here, temp is 40F. Typical late May rainy cold snap, stalled mid-continental low pressure system. This is why I have not planted things like tomatoes and peppers in May in many years (all my neighbors have their plants in the ground already). There is just no point, the plants just sit there and droop, stress, and shiver while mine are all warm and happy in pots inside under lights during these cold, wet, cloudy days.
This time of year I pretty much follow the jet stream maps and jet stream location forecasts exclusively, they tell me all I need to know about the strength of the hot gulf air and when it will finally win the battle and push the cold air into Canada for the duration. Ain't happening yet...
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Post by walt on May 20, 2017 13:07:49 GMT -5
Rain and cold here too. Not cold enough to hurt anything, but cold enough to stop growth in the garden and keep me inside.
Hail again yesterday, but 3/4 inch or less. Not like the golf ball hail of a week ago.
My wife bought a 50 gallon aquarium some time back at a garage sale. I spent some time setting it up. I haven't had an aquarium in years. I used to breed guppies, mollies, swords, gouramis and kribinsis. Fun.
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Post by RpR on May 21, 2017 17:32:43 GMT -5
46 F and humid.
Eighties last week now highs in the forties.
Cover the tomatoes at night and some of the chiles.
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Post by steev on May 21, 2017 19:43:10 GMT -5
~90F on the farm and trending upward.
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Post by walt on May 23, 2017 20:14:50 GMT -5
Rain gauge had 4.5" this morning. It has been a few days since I've been able to plant corn. Some of my corn sprouts are getting long. But this isn't the first time this has happened. In 1993, remember the widespread floods that year in the USA? That year my main crop of corn was 6' to 10" tall the day I planted it. And it did OK.
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Post by steev on May 23, 2017 21:02:39 GMT -5
If you don't want that rain, send it to me.
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Post by mskrieger on May 24, 2017 16:24:02 GMT -5
It was unusually hot here the middle of last week (broke 90 degrees, maybe?) but then it cooled off and rained some and now we've been having extremely pleasant May weather. Which is good, because it was cool during April and frigid in March, so the peas, spinach etc. are only just getting their groove on.
I'm confident we won't have any more temps below 45 degrees for a while so I planted the sweet potato slips last week. (Maybe I shouldn'ta typed that out....just watch the mercury fall now...)
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Post by steev on May 31, 2017 2:07:51 GMT -5
OMG, the heat has come; sweat-city on the farm; so good that the grape-arbor is well shaded; hammock-time is obligatory; I'm not really that eager to stroke out in the sun at mid-day.
Temps below 45F, so sweet; doesn't drop much lower than 50F now, really kick-starts the day's high. Oh, well, won't much need the sleeping-bag, maybe not even the secondary quilt, maybe just a sheet, if that (gotta have something to keep the tree-frogs from landing on me, so annoying; I like the little buggers, but not in the middle of the night so much).
I need an actual house on the farm, real bad; this "homeless-camping" thing is starting to chafe pretty much.
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Post by richardw on Jun 4, 2017 14:43:31 GMT -5
Bloody winter has kicked in well and truly now, only got as high as 6degC yesterday with light rain, today is not looking much better. Wouldn't mind doing a swoop steev, dont need anymore tree frogs though, got plenty of Australian tree frogs thanks to having water in my quarry.
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Post by steev on Jun 4, 2017 20:00:07 GMT -5
I'm SO down with our being able to average-out our temps; how can we manage that? Will it involve large shipping costs?
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Post by richardw on Jun 6, 2017 14:52:57 GMT -5
...then youve gota think about the carbon footprint...bugger that!!
A very icy frost this morning thanks to some drizzle just as it was getting dark, opening the doors on the car a real mission.
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Post by mskrieger on Jun 6, 2017 15:05:04 GMT -5
Weather the past two weeks has been mostly cool and rainy. The spinach has still noticed the (dim) daylength and decided to bolt, oh well. Harvest and make room for something else. Would like some summer weather soon please (hope I don't regret saying that!)
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Post by William on Jun 6, 2017 21:35:04 GMT -5
Highs in the 80's F next couple days then dropping down into the 50's and 60's for awhile...
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