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Post by reed on Mar 16, 2019 15:28:35 GMT -5
It was a great wind. I didn't get to see the trees fall or even hear the crashes, horizontal hail had me pinned down inside under a metal roof.
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Post by steev on Mar 18, 2019 19:15:37 GMT -5
Metal roof, right. Once in Guatemala I was crashing a couple months with a friend; his house had corrugated metal roofing; there was a 75' avocado tree over one end (the end where I slept); any time a 'cado came down, it would nearly lift me out of bed from a sound sleep.
Made 80F OTF this weekend; gloriously clear, with morning frost; the weeds snicker when I pass; brome is already setting seed; saw the first tick and lizard of the season.
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Post by walt on Mar 19, 2019 15:04:56 GMT -5
Highs around 60F and lows just above freezing for the rest of the week. Life is good.
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Post by mskrieger on Mar 26, 2019 12:57:18 GMT -5
Days are pleasant--gets as high as 60F in early afternoon, but nights still hitting 19F. Snow is almost all melted. Daffodils up, crocus and snowdrops blooming. Very seasonable weather for late March around here. How rare!
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Post by philagardener on Mar 30, 2019 19:01:37 GMT -5
Hit 73F today outside of Philly! Monday's low is predicted to be 30F for us. Another roller-coaster!
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Post by reed on Mar 30, 2019 20:00:08 GMT -5
High 60sF here yesterday, 7+ inches rain today and still coming down, roughly an inch per hour since it started, currently 39F. Rain supposed to change to wet snow overnight, high in low 40s tomorrow.
Won't be doing much in the garden for awhile.
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Post by richardw on Mar 31, 2019 13:17:48 GMT -5
High 60sF here yesterday, 7+ inches rain today and still coming down, roughly an inch per hour since it started, currently 39F. Rain supposed to change to wet snow overnight, high in low 40s tomorrow. Won't be doing much in the garden for awhile. It would be many years ago since that amount of rain fell in one fall |
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Post by reed on Apr 1, 2019 8:33:46 GMT -5
This was a bit more extreme than usual I thought but this kind of rain is getting more common around here. It is generally very localized where one spot practically gets washed away and a few miles away they get very little. Our road is gravel and ended up with some pretty good trenches across it but they will fix it pretty quick. Someone built a house just a little way off the black top and they have kids, but the school bus can't turn around there, it has to come all the way to our house so the county has been on top of keeping the road in good shape.
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Post by mskrieger on Apr 1, 2019 13:31:52 GMT -5
We had a gorgeous spring weekend, sunny 60F Saturday. Dug the holes for the new plum trees. Then it started to rain. Now the sun's out. The whole week is supposed to be 40-50F daytime, dipping into the 20s at night...pretty average late March/early April weather for around here. Yay spring!
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Post by steev on Apr 1, 2019 19:40:53 GMT -5
Another 1.15" rain OTF this week; Sunday was a stunning Spring day; today was scattered showers.
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Post by steev on Apr 3, 2019 0:07:18 GMT -5
Sprinkly today; s'posed to be dry tomorrow; sprinkly Thursday, and rainy Friday; life was easier when I didn't have to work outdoors, income-wise, but it's all good, my clients know I'll do what I can, I admit, at my age, I'm more sensitive to heat and cold than I was.
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Post by reed on Apr 4, 2019 10:01:41 GMT -5
Well after the rain, rain, rain on Saturday it fell to 22F by Sunday morning. Cold and cloudy on Sunday and 18F on Monday morning, stayed just below freezing most the day Monday. 50s or so on Tuesday and mid 70s on Wednesday with hot sunshine and warm dry breeze. Can hardly believe it but the ground has dried enough to work when I get home today. Almost six weeks before our so called last frost date but I am going to plant a LOT of stuff over next two or three days. Lettuce, radishes, carrots and onions already sewn. My favorite new to me crop, salsify also in the ground but not sprouted yet.
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Post by mskrieger on Apr 4, 2019 13:24:05 GMT -5
Well after the rain, rain, rain on Saturday it fell to 22F by Sunday morning. Cold and cloudy on Sunday and 18F on Monday morning, stayed just below freezing most the day Monday. 50s or so on Tuesday and mid 70s on Wednesday with hot sunshine and warm dry breeze. We had that same warm dry breeze all the way up here, reed. It was so unusual, everyone was remarking on it...breezes are almost always cold/refreshing in New England. I actually sat outside and ate ice cream in 55F weather, the breeze was so warm. |
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Post by steev on Apr 8, 2019 22:54:59 GMT -5
Rained 1/4" this week, and it's looking sunny all the future week; really gonna supercharge the weeds (and my plantings, one hopes).
Got to prioritize soil prep, as I'm now toying with seeding corn, squash, melons, etc before the Ides of May; if the climate is warming, as it clearly seems to be, one must adapt, and I can only hope to profit from a longer growing season.
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Post by reed on Apr 9, 2019 4:55:55 GMT -5
Rained 1/4" this week, and it's looking sunny all the future week; really gonna supercharge the weeds (and my plantings, one hopes). Got to prioritize soil prep, as I'm now toying with seeding corn, squash, melons, etc before the Ides of May; if the climate is warming, as it clearly seems to be, one must adapt, and I can only hope to profit from a longer growing season. Problem is at least here we don't necessarily get a longer growing season. Sure it is plenty warm enough right now to plant all kinds of things that used to be planted in May and I might go ahead and do it, knowing that just because it was nearly 80 yesterday it might still go below zero for a night or two in a couple weeks. It's a gamble, plant now and risk a late previously timely freeze or wait till the old normal planting time and face the heat. I have been risking the later freezes in recent years and getting by with in maybe one in three but since I don't buy seeds anymore and have plenty of my own I can just start over. Season is more reliably getting longer in fall rather than spring. Frost in October is more and more rare now, two years ago it was in the 90s for first half of November. |
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