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Post by steev on Jan 10, 2017 13:01:53 GMT -5
That might explain our local forecasts of non-rainy days.
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 10, 2017 16:56:21 GMT -5
Oh, yes definately. grin
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Post by steev on Jan 11, 2017 2:50:27 GMT -5
Rain all day, then a pause ~an hour; now back heavy and a bit of lightning (uncommon here). The good news is we're well above NTD; the bad news is it's warm, so not so much snowing in the mountains, even melting a good portion off; the reservoirs are filling, but much water is running out to sea, the ground being saturated; trees are falling; flooding and slides are happening. Oh, well.
SoCal is still not getting much rain, so there will be more pressure to build new facilities to ship more water south.
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Post by steev on Jan 11, 2017 20:18:39 GMT -5
It's now reported that thanks to latest storms, snowpack is 154% NTD; last year TD it was 5%.
Passing Children's Hospital in Oakland saw an old black acacia that had fallen onto a couple vehicles, 3' diameter trunk.
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Post by reed on Jan 12, 2017 5:08:44 GMT -5
It's 64 F this morning and very windy. Supposed to be getting cold again with maybe a little snow and freezing rain. Got lots I'd like to do outside but it is also raining and has rained a lot last couple days. Don't know how much but I'd guess 4 inches or more cause I can still hear the creek running down at the bottom of the hill.
The woods here are full of dead and downed trees and that's just the ones of all species that have died in last few years. When all the dead ash start falling power outages and car squashings will be very common for awhile.
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Post by toomanyirons on Jan 12, 2017 11:40:51 GMT -5
After the heaviest mid summer frosts a few days ago tropical air is due over the next few days with 23C - 73F over night lows expected. What a roller coaster summer this has been. I don't know how you folks do it where you live. If I had to contend with the potential for mid summer frosts here I probably would have given up gardening a long time ago. Are mid summer frosts a common occurrence/threat from year to year or is it extremely unusual? |
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Post by richardw on Jan 12, 2017 14:11:01 GMT -5
Thats the first time ive had damage from a summer frost, we do get very light ones that dont. That Antarctic air mass that brought the cold air was coldest since 1987, so, quite rare, whither back 1987 that cold air event brought a frost with it is unknown, it may have stayed cloudy at night. The frost damaged pumpkins have sprung back well, before and after   |
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Post by walt on Jan 13, 2017 12:34:27 GMT -5
An inch of freezing rain is expected here over the next 3 days. I grew up on a dairy, so the prospect of staying inside a couple days seems like real luxury to me.
My kids claim I haven't grown up anywhere. They have a point.
Stay warm.
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Post by steev on Jan 13, 2017 20:50:46 GMT -5
Maturity is the last stage preceding senescence; stay immature as long as possible.
Now that the rain is giving us a break, I'm itching to get to the farm tomorrow, expecting to find the rain gauge overflowing and the Coastal peaks very snowy.
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Post by caledonian on Jan 14, 2017 14:04:30 GMT -5
Three days ago we had temperatures in the single digits. Two days ago we had temps in the 60s, with torrential rain. Then it went back to low 30s. Now it's snowing heavily.
I've lived in a lot of places, including many places that technically had more 'severe' winters than my current home, but no place I've ever been as a winter that's as miserable as Happy Valley.
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Post by reed on Jan 14, 2017 15:25:51 GMT -5
Sounds very similar to here. Currently about 35 with drizzle and fog. Got a nice fire going in the wood stove and went for a walk. I kinda like the world in weather that other people hate but nice to be back inside drying out by the stove.
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Post by richardw on Jan 14, 2017 16:32:31 GMT -5
Lets us know how much your gauge showed steev Had a rather warm windy night here 18Cdeg the overnight low, when the nights are this warm is when the corn and pumpkins put on there most growth. |
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Post by steev on Jan 15, 2017 20:26:53 GMT -5
The west peaks were snowier, but not even close to what I'd expected; rain gauge showed 0.2" (two weeks); later I noticed what had been an empty 5 gal bucket 4/5ths full! I figure ~10" had fallen; found a crack in the rain gauge. Guess it was just too warm for much snow. I worked in a T-shirt this midday.
There must have been brutal south wind; ~200' of deer-fence had blown down and ~100' of wire bean trellis.
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Post by richardw on Jan 15, 2017 23:14:00 GMT -5
That should go a long way to help replenish subsoil's steev, would have to go back 4-5 years to the last time we had anywhere that much in a single rain event, in fact the most i can remember would have to be around the 130mm (5") mark.
Bloody weather has gone mental here, the last week has seen day after day of warm gale force winds that really drying the place out.
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Post by steev on Jan 16, 2017 0:23:01 GMT -5
This was actually a series of storms with few non-rain/sprinkle days.
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