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Post by philagardener on Jan 26, 2017 6:48:35 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.  What, no snow plow attachment?  |
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Post by richardw on Jan 26, 2017 13:46:34 GMT -5
I'm amazed that Joseph can even find his letterbox after each time its covered over.
The gales here kept coming, just about none stop day in day out, at least they are warm dry winds though, great for hoeing weeds. On the other side of the island its rain, lots and lots of rain, not the third wettest place in the world for nothing.
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Post by raymondo on Jan 26, 2017 15:13:43 GMT -5
Stormy yesterday. Good bit of rain though, especially good as we had just planted about 30 tree seedlings.
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Post by steev on Jan 26, 2017 21:42:11 GMT -5
We're in the middle of a week of clear and chilly; a very welcome break in the rain, giving it a chance to drain and me a chance to work.
I had to mow a yard in the Berkeley hills; I'm not complaining, we need the water, but, really, it needs to sink in, not run off to the Bay; that yard was a marsh; literally, rivulets of water running; I'm surprised there weren't salmon going up it; this half a week since rain. There really is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
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Post by reed on Jan 27, 2017 4:36:15 GMT -5
Turned cold here almost below freezing, burrrr. Hard to adjust too when it's been warm for a long time. Ain't that a hoot, thinking 30 degrees is cold when by rights it should be much colder than that? Hopefully it will stay this way for awhile and dry out a little so I can finish putting my fence back up. I'll hold off on wishing for a little snow, don't want to end up like Joseph.
Here we are end of January and except for a few days winter never really came. Daffodils, crocus and the like are sprouting, peonies, lilac and rhubarb are waking up. I hope a couple days below zero in February or March doesn't burn it all down like often happens any more.
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Post by steev on Jan 29, 2017 20:22:39 GMT -5
It's 32F enough nightly that the morning ground is crunchy, but we're not getting the "pebbles on ice pedestals" of earlier years.
Grass is really starting to grow, which may be why the pastured horses were rearing and scampering; "horseplay", as it were.
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Post by richardw on Jan 30, 2017 12:51:37 GMT -5
Still getting heaps of wind, though Sunday just gone was wind free.
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Post by walt on Jan 31, 2017 11:50:35 GMT -5
January has been extremely warm for Kansas.
Sure we got 3 days of freezing rain that brought down tree branches, but temperatures weren't much below freezing even then.
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Post by richardw on Feb 2, 2017 23:41:07 GMT -5
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Post by William on Feb 3, 2017 1:18:13 GMT -5
Cold here tonight -10 F supposed to snow tomorrow.
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Post by toomanyirons on Feb 4, 2017 11:43:11 GMT -5
January here was rather mundane, which is fine with me. Above average temps, below average snowfall, lots of cloudy days. Haven't had to run the snowblower in three weeks. Since second half of December the Old Farmer's Almanac has been way off. Don't know which prognosticator to believe anymore, gave up on Punxsutawney Phil a long time ago. <grin> I will stick with my achy bones, they (unfortunately) have never let me down as weather predictors although they are only good for short range forecasts.
Big storm coming up next week, my area looks to be on the western edge so no big deal for me but it looks like folks east of the Mississippi all the way to the Atlantic are in for it.
Installed a few test taps into maple trees earlier this week, getting ready for the syruping season but long range temp forecast puts it out at least two weeks, in other words indefinitely.
Sowing first batch of seeds indoors this weekend. I have two flats of potatoes sprouting for pull sprout experiments, I have been learning about this method and had a bunch of early sprouting seed tubers with which to experiment, knowing it is way too early and they will eventually be tossed. No big deal, still neat to watch them grow.
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Post by rowan on Feb 9, 2017 23:06:42 GMT -5
With temperatures in some areas of Australia set to hit up to 48 degrees (118 F)for the next few days I am happy we are a little cooler here in the 30s. it is so hard to keep your plants alive at those temps, especially when it lasts for a few days or a week or more. Unfortunately it seems that the electricity grid will not keep up at times which makes it even harder. You can't even go anywhere as the roads melt.
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Post by steev on Feb 10, 2017 3:56:42 GMT -5
Bummer! I've seen that on the farm, although (fortunately?) not lately. On the other hand, Winter temps have also not been as low as expected, nor Summer temps as high; I'm not sure I'd not be as happy with previous temp-swings; at least they were predictable.
I would note that my earliest peach is opening bloom 4 weeks later than historically (in years of normally colder nights). Pretty sure I'm not pleased with how things are going. Could this get hard to deal with? Do I want hard to deal with?
Regarding my local weather: it's rained for days; flooding where prone to that; trees falling, hillsides slumping, WPTT.
Going through the pass to my farm, the road-cuts are all sloughing stone and mud like popcorn; not good to drive through at night; the county dozer-pick-up is very busy keeping things clear.
The back-road through Bear Valley has been closed to non-resident traffic for weeks; I can wait for the spring opening, it being a tad scary, slippy-slidey-wise, in the rainy season. California being so populous and developed, it's actually a treat that we have so much land that is really "out there".
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Post by reed on Feb 10, 2017 5:12:30 GMT -5
Mid teens F here last two mornings after a couple weeks of no temps below freezing. Supposed to be back to highs in 60s and lows in 40s by tomorrow. Last summer was the hottest in my memory, worried this one might be the same or worse. Could it get hard to deal with? It already is, in more ways than one.
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Post by galina on Feb 10, 2017 7:14:37 GMT -5
It's snowing - first snow of winter ............... after a lot of cold and frosty weather. Getting fed up with winter now.
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