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Post by walt on Aug 25, 2018 14:27:39 GMT -5
I've had about a week of unusually cool, wet weather. I enjoyed it while it lasted. I was sleeping with the fan off and 2 sleeping bags over me. Usually August night I have a fan on me and nothing else.
Back to the usual now, but September will be here soon. Sometimes September is cool, other times un-airconditioned schools are let out afternoons so children don't get heat stroke.
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Post by walt on Aug 30, 2018 10:23:48 GMT -5
Another cold day in August? Was global warming canceled due to lack of interest? I wish.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 30, 2018 22:22:24 GMT -5
A cold day at the end of August is typical for me. My first fall frost typically occurs during the first week of September.
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Post by richardw on Aug 31, 2018 0:30:51 GMT -5
Last day of winter here and for the third year in a row, no snow. The lack of hard frost now means knee some high Fava beans survive winter, I'll be taking seed from these. Kale grew flowers all winter but no bees around to pollinate them though. What was a hard climate to grow stuff has now become a gardeners paradise.
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Post by reed on Aug 31, 2018 4:45:16 GMT -5
We had a period of rather pleasant weather for a while, last several day's its back in the low to mid 90s. Wouldn't be so bad but the humidity is extreme. Couple days ago the sky puckered up, flashed a couple times and spit 1/4 inch of rain in about 90 seconds. Then the sun came back and immediately vaporized it again, it was awful.
Not near as easy to grow garden here as it used to be. Lots of people who would always have a few beans, tomatoes and sweet corn have just stopped messing with it, easier to just go to walmart.
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Post by walt on Aug 31, 2018 11:25:58 GMT -5
OK. August is back. Yesterday was cold, but today is forecast 100F. Seems like that would be about 38C. Not sure. Don't have my brain with me I guess.
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Post by bunkie on Sept 2, 2018 12:40:24 GMT -5
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Post by RpR on Sept 2, 2018 21:53:32 GMT -5
Last day of winter here and for the third year in a row, no snow. The lack of hard frost now means knee some high Fava beans survive winter, I'll be taking seed from these. Kale grew flowers all winter but no bees around to pollinate them though. What was a hard climate to grow stuff has now become a gardeners paradise. That is odd as Antarctica is said to be have some nasty winters, you get your cold from there. What has changed? |
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Post by richardw on Sept 2, 2018 23:45:36 GMT -5
The weather patterns lately mean no bitter cold air masses have been directed up this way, yet Australia have had more cold than us. Our ski season saw fields some of the lowest snow base depth for many years.
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Post by richardw on Sept 3, 2018 14:13:19 GMT -5
And i though snow was just cold, not sure what's meant by 'mild snow' and 'cold snow'
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 3, 2018 16:03:57 GMT -5
Yesterday when I visited one of my fields, the squash leaves had been frozen. Tomatoes were still OK.
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Post by reed on Sept 4, 2018 4:17:16 GMT -5
Yesterday was our hottest day of the season at 98 F. Although hotter it didn't feel as unpleasant as last several days cause humidity was down. Went out last evening and watered late beans and corn, both are looking pretty good.
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Post by walt on Sept 4, 2018 11:44:30 GMT -5
Got 4 inches of rain over the weekend. 10 cm., for those with a sane set of units.
I've seen pictures in local news of floods in Manhattan, KS, the "Little Apple" as it calls itself. I am almost 100 miles from there, some of it uphill. I used to live there though and have friends there.
For non-Americans who didn't understand the joke. Manhattan, New York, is part of New York City, which is commonly called the "Big Apple". The flood is no joke though.
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Post by mskrieger on Sept 4, 2018 14:02:50 GMT -5
Yesterday when I visited one of my fields, the squash leaves had been frozen. Tomatoes were still OK. So you just answered my question about the maturity times of your squash. Obviously, you select hard for earliness! It is in the 90s F and punishingly humid here again. We had a brief respite the week before Labor Day but now the heat is back. Schools here let out early every day last week (the first week of school) to protect the school kids, much as Walt said they used to do in Kansas...that's never happened here before except in June. Very rare to have 90 degree days in September. New normal, yuck. |
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Post by RpR on Sept 4, 2018 14:07:45 GMT -5
74 F with light rain right now; it is supposed to get down into the forties tomorrow night which contrasts with the near ten degrees above normal night time temperatures we have had near all summer.
Last I checked our rain total is now just above average for the year.
For most of the year it was an inch or so below.
I finally bought paint and have time to paint my garage but as I use long time (to dry) oil primer and top coat, not sure how much I will get done if the weather changes.
Our record low for this time of year is mid forties.
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