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Post by jocelyn on Jan 4, 2018 10:42:59 GMT -5
Yah, plus 5 just toasty, huge grin. They interviewed some international students last night on the news...told them all about the coming storm and watched their eyes get bigger and bigger......
They did give tips on how to cope after, but it was a bit of theatre as well as news.
Poor guy from Bangladesh had been here for 4 days to go to school...then this !
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Post by steev on Jan 4, 2018 10:43:03 GMT -5
4.5 temblor at 2:40AM; does that count as weather?
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Post by reed on Jan 4, 2018 11:00:27 GMT -5
Did the thermometer stay on the wall? If so then, no.
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Post by walt on Jan 4, 2018 14:38:04 GMT -5
Supposed to get above freezing tomorrow. First time this year. Not an unusual winter here. But I'm a year older and crankier this year.
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Post by richardw on Jan 4, 2018 14:54:56 GMT -5
Raining here this morning, a lovely warm summer rain, first decent fall since the end of September.
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Post by philagardener on Jan 4, 2018 18:59:13 GMT -5
4.5 temblor at 2:40AM; does that count as weather? We could start a thread entitled What's Shakin' in Your Garden  |
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Post by steev on Jan 4, 2018 21:34:47 GMT -5
Would that involve "watering"?
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Post by philagardener on Jan 5, 2018 7:49:17 GMT -5
Would that involve "watering"? Depends on how strong the shaking is . . . |
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Post by philagardener on Jan 5, 2018 7:54:06 GMT -5
6F (-14C) near Philly this morning. Winds died down last night - super cold now, wind chills in the minus teens. This winter is going to be tough on my figs.  Boston and parts of New England got 12-18 inches of powder snow. Tidal surge from the bomb cyclone seems to have been a big problem along the coast. Just huddled up under the seed catalogs here . . . |
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Post by reed on Jan 5, 2018 10:22:48 GMT -5
-4 F, -20 C, here this morning, not so bad. Continued cold spell finally froze my little garden pond to where birds and dog couldn't drink. It was still running underneath the ice but had to go out with hatchet and pots of boiling water to get it open again. I think maybe from now on I should reconfigure it in winter, bypass the waterfall, run directly into the stream and eliminate water falling through air. I imagine if I had done that it wouldn't have frozen so bad. It was kind of neat though, moving water froze crystal clear over the face of the little falls so you could see the water behind it, when the rising sun caught it, it was quite pretty. If not for the critters needing to drink I would have left it that way. Supposed to thaw out some in a couple days anyway.
Yea the storm surge up there in New England looked a little rough. As far as cold and snow goes I don't see what the big deal is. It's New England, it's winter. My sister recently moved from the coast of Maine, I'm sure she is happy not to have been there but I bet the view from her old house was beautiful.
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Post by farmermike on Jan 5, 2018 11:45:33 GMT -5
4.5 temblor at 2:40AM; does that count as weather? , we need to have a broad definition of "weather": earthquakes, wildfires, light frost...traffic jams. |
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Post by Day on Jan 5, 2018 12:04:00 GMT -5
4.5 temblor at 2:40AM; does that count as weather? , we need to have a broad definition of "weather": earthquakes, wildfires, light frost...traffic jams. Actually, according to wiki, our latest Thomas Fire down here technically was weather: |
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Post by walt on Jan 5, 2018 12:39:05 GMT -5
-4 F, -20 C, here this morning, not so bad. Continued cold spell finally froze my little garden pond to where birds and dog couldn't drink. It was still running underneath the ice but had to go out with hatchet and pots of boiling water to get it open again. I think maybe from now on I should reconfigure it in winter, bypass the waterfall, run directly into the stream and eliminate water falling through air. I imagine if I had done that it wouldn't have frozen so bad. It was kind of neat though, moving water froze crystal clear over the face of the little falls so you could see the water behind it, when the rising sun caught it, it was quite pretty. If not for the critters needing to drink I would have left it that way. Supposed to thaw out some in a couple days anyway. Yea the storm surge up there in New England looked a little rough. As far as cold and snow goes I don't see what the big deal is. It's New England, it's winter. My sister recently moved from the coast of Maine, I'm sure she is happy not to have been there but I bet the view from her old house was beautiful. Frozen waterfall. Reminds me of a cave I toured in Missouri. Of course that was limestone, not ice but it looked like a waterfall. Also reminds my of an old friend in western KS. Winters he would put up a framework of pipes in his yard and turn on the water when a really hard freeze was expected. By morning he would have an ice Christmas tree. Last week didn't get above freezing. This week cycling freeze thaw freeze thaw. Next week won't freeze at all most nights. This weather is hard on trees. |
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Post by RpR on Jan 5, 2018 12:53:36 GMT -5
-4 F here now, I would not mind except some illness that was coming on for awhile has hit in full fury. I had to go outside yesterday and the cold air just burned my throat.
Odd thing is, twenty years ago I fought sinus headaches often and would go out side in this kind of weather to numb the headache.
I had a streak of fifteen years when my illnesses were always minor, guess that is over now and they are taking revenge with a passion.
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Post by reed on Jan 7, 2018 6:43:20 GMT -5
+7 F this morning! Warmest it's been in several days and supposed to go above freezing later today. YEA! I can let the stove go out and clean it good. My firewood stack on the porch, usually enough for the whole season, is 2/3 gone. Gonna have to go out and replenish it. Should take awhile for the ground to thaw so I can just drive to the various stacks to pick it up instead of using the hand cart.
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