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Post by walt on Jan 17, 2017 13:31:55 GMT -5
Just had 3 days of rain, while temperatures cycled above and below freezing. Trees were covered in dripping ice.
Sun is out today and it is well above freezing. Many trees around town have skirts of fallen branches.
No damage to my place though.
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Post by richardw on Jan 18, 2017 0:40:32 GMT -5
160 kmph winds on the eastern side of NZ while close to half a metre of rain on the other side, this over night and into tomorrow, wow, summer time.
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Post by philagardener on Jan 18, 2017 6:37:57 GMT -5
Winds Off Whandanui or Wall O' Water!  I can't tell if being in the middle is good or bad . . . Watch Out Wanaka!  WOW, indeed! |
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Post by steev on Jan 18, 2017 12:15:03 GMT -5
Started rain at time to go to work, 9AM on the dot. Blustery wind with occasional hard rain all day and into the night.
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Post by richardw on Jan 21, 2017 17:02:43 GMT -5
Crazy summer continues, Cardrona ski field with more snow to come yet  |
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Post by philagardener on Jan 21, 2017 18:19:33 GMT -5
Looks like NH!
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Post by richardw on Jan 21, 2017 19:23:31 GMT -5
At least here at lower altitude its falling as rain, and good rain too.
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Post by philagardener on Jan 22, 2017 7:22:14 GMT -5
Glad your lettuce isn't under all that snow!
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Post by richardw on Jan 22, 2017 11:54:31 GMT -5
Glad your lettuce isn't under all that snow!
Yes imagine what sort of damage a snow like that could do to a summer garden.
The computer weather models now show normal summer weather for the next ten days |
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Post by reed on Jan 22, 2017 18:09:39 GMT -5
Mid to high 60s F with good amount of sun and a nice breeze last two days. Got lots of clean up and garden prep done, great spring weekend in January. Beautiful calm before an equally impressive storm I'm afraid.
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Post by steev on Jan 22, 2017 21:01:32 GMT -5
Had rained another 5" on the farm; added 0.5" last night, and there is a heavy storm coming in; the western peaks were much snowier; I was told that during the two weeks that I didn't go, we'd gotten 3" of snow (we're at less than 1200'); first snow on the farm since '08, I think; all the sky-ponds are full; all the creeks are high rushing cafe-au-lait.
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Post by richardw on Jan 22, 2017 23:32:42 GMT -5
Good news steev, so ya reckon the aquifers will be getting a top up?
Lovely summers day here today, but still cant get use to seeing the country side green as its normal to be a light terracotta colour.
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Post by steev on Jan 23, 2017 1:29:26 GMT -5
No question that there's water going into the soil, but there are considerations about the porous strata that have collapsed due to over-pumping in the Central Valley; those aren't going to re-inflate, so their storage capacity is permanently reduced. The relatively meager snow on the Coast peaks does not yet look well for later run-off, so far as my irrigation is concerned. If the rain doesn't just shut off, as it did last year, I'm prolly gonna be good. I'm cautiously optimistic.
So far it's looking like another uncommonly warm Winter, so I'm mulling planting Summer crops even earlier than last year.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jan 25, 2017 22:08:20 GMT -5
I keep digging the mailbox out of the snow. The bike is what I ride for the 14-18 mile round trip to my fields.  |
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Post by prairiegardens on Jan 26, 2017 0:31:02 GMT -5
That's a crazy amount of snow even if includes road clearance. In my part of east central Sask we might have had a total of 6-8 inches so far this winter. Isn't bike riding a bit adventurous in those conditions?
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