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Post by philagardener on Aug 6, 2017 5:36:49 GMT -5
67F in Philadelphia this morning - amazingly cool week ahead for early August. We'll take it!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 7, 2017 18:35:58 GMT -5
The weather is sickening.
There are wildfires in the vicinity. My community is sick from inhaling the smoke. I spent the day in bed rather than irrigating and harvesting seeds. Mid-afternoon looks more like after-sunset. Bleck!
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Post by steev on Aug 7, 2017 20:52:37 GMT -5
No deep breathing, less lasting burden of ash on your lungs; those of us in the arid West-South/West will be subject to more of this as the climate heats up; I hear parts of Texas got catastrophic rain: Nature's little inequities, eh? Things will be different when I'm in charge, more equitable distribution of resources, for starters.
Well, we've had a long spell of routine predictability; this isn't the first time Humanity has faced the challenge of change (though prolly not ever so precipitous); the question is: have we matured enough to respond as a species, rather than a tribe, culture, or nationality? Oh, look! Is that the sun coming up or WWIII? Any who think long pig is abhorrent: what are you doing to prevent its becoming a viable alternative to perishing? Just asking for a bit of contemplation about the problem (not anthropophagy, but the conditions that could bring it to the fore).
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Post by mskrieger on Aug 8, 2017 10:44:37 GMT -5
The weather here is acting more like September than August; it doesn't clear 80F during the day and we've had quite a bit of rain. But the air quality is good and we're not sweating all night long, so I won't complain...
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Post by reed on Aug 14, 2017 4:56:21 GMT -5
We have had a couple week spell of temps under 90 f. It started with a couple days in low 80s and a small, I do mean small, amount of rain. I'd say we have had less than an inch of rain in the last month. Soil is too dry to work cause of the dust, yuck. It cools off nicely at night in to the 60s and there is virtually no humidity. Very different than how the Ohio valley use to be.
Satellite data shows a dip in the jet, it appears to be bringing us air off the pole. Very clean air, another thing we're not used to so I guess that's a plus. Sky is beautiful blue in the day, the afternoon sun is intense and brilliant stars at night. Some nights can even see the disk of the galaxy, that's pretty much unheard of here in summer.
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Post by prairiegardens on Aug 14, 2017 7:42:59 GMT -5
Feels as though fall is here already, temps dipping at night, was 10C here last night but still running in mid 20s during the day. Nice for sleeping. Hard to know how much rain,need to put up a rain gauge. The water barrel is full again but it seems not to take much to do that as everything is dry. The corn is racing to make cobs, some of them literally inches above ground level, it's not wasting any time trying to reach its normal height. Poor things usually we get quite a bit of wind, but lately not so much unless a storm. I don't know how much is needed, the corn is planted pretty close spacing so hoping a hardly noticeable early morning breeze will do it.
maybe I should go read through the corn thread and learn how to hand pollinate....
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Post by mskrieger on Aug 15, 2017 16:01:27 GMT -5
Yes, it feels autumn is closer than usual this time of year. Having a continued spate of cloudy cool weather. The occasional dry sunny day, but not enough .Powdery mildew is starting to take over the cucurbit patch a month too early. NOAA claims the weather will clear this week and next, interrupted only by a spate of thunderstorms this weekend. That would be good if true.
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Post by steev on Aug 16, 2017 1:53:17 GMT -5
Also been having overcast weather; if we get thunderstorms, it's generally in late August; always welcome, to settle the dust; mostly here in Norcal, outside the Bay Area, we get heat lightning in the Sierra foothills, which can spark wildfire, not so welcome.
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Post by richardw on Aug 16, 2017 4:26:10 GMT -5
About the start of Aug things started to warm which is about two weeks earlier than normal, that was after a very tame winter, never saw snow on the ground and the coldest frost was -4.9Cdeg. Weve had good rains over the last month, the wettest its been in three years, the frogs are happy there pond is fall.
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Post by RpR on Aug 16, 2017 8:57:51 GMT -5
63 F outside and drizzling on and off with forecast for real rain.
It has been raining a fair amount lately but as lakes and rivers were dropping we need it, and lots more.
Temps are approx five degrees below normal daytime.
I found baby toads on the hill which is not wet place.
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Post by walt on Aug 16, 2017 12:01:54 GMT -5
Got 0.8 inches of rain last night. I wasn't expecting it. We did need it.
This morning is cool. This time of year is often 105F or more. Today high of 85 is expected.
Monday my brother and I plan to drive about 100 miles to see the total eclipse. We have both seen 2 partials, but never a total.
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Post by steev on Aug 24, 2017 21:26:36 GMT -5
A client who went to observe the eclipse assured me that it was unenlightening, although stunning.
Last weekend, the air in the Central Valley was very white from fires; ditto in the farm's valley.
A good rain would be welcome, although wholly out of character with our climate.
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Post by walt on Aug 25, 2017 11:19:20 GMT -5
Weather forecast made us decide to skip the trip. Watched it on TV. No, no religious experience seeing the eclipse. At least not on TV.
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Post by reed on Aug 25, 2017 11:54:46 GMT -5
We just had 90% or so coverage for the eclipse. I enjoyed it though, I sat with my back to it and watched the shapes of the light change on the ground where it passed through the gaps in the leaves of the little pecan tree behind me. The sky to the north got a darker shade of blue and the birds got quiet. I had some of the goofy little glasses but didn't use them, since I don't normally stare at the sun I figured I would't know the difference anyway.
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Post by richardw on Aug 26, 2017 0:09:44 GMT -5
We had an eclipse way back in the 80's, i was shearing at the time up in the high country.
Well spring has well and truly sprung, the ground has dried enough that i can start getting some weeding done, dam chickweed does well in winter here. Sown radishes, parsnip and weeded the June sown carrots that were sown under plastic, now time to smack the scab off a can of beer.
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