Hows the Weather?

[zebraman]

Hey Guys;The weather here is unseasonably Cool and Breezy high 70's.The Garden is really shaping up.Picked several Large German Red Strawberry Tomatoes yesterday.Also Italian eggplant,Fava Beans which should have been dead by now.
Also the Confederate Gold crookneck squash has multiple growing tips (3-5) loaded with squash on each plant.I have never encountered this on bush squash plants.Might explain why they are no longer on the market.The Greasy beans and other southern beans are really putting on a show.

[redbrick]

Hot, hot, hot! That about sums it up here in PA Dutch Country. We pretty much have a heavy thunderstorm every two or three days, which is unusual for us. Not to mention the week-long Monsoon we had about two weeks ago. We got about 12 inches of rain at that point.

Right now, I'm getting cukes, pole beans, potatoes, gooseberries and alpine strawberries. There are peppers, tomatillos and a raft of tomatoes hanging green on the vine, but none are ripe.

[HillsideDigger]

Dry and fairly hot here at central NC foothills.

A few rains in the last 6 weeks totalling not much more than 4 inches, not enough after almost no rain the preceding 6 weeks. Spring peas, potatoes, onions, blackberries and strawberries did fine.

Fair production of green beans and a little corn, cukes and squash so far. Tomatoes, peppers, cabbage and okra soon, should have all been in abundance by now. I'm starting to irrigate whether I intended to or not.

Next rain expected by this weekend.

Pumpkins, the hard squashes, watermelons and cantalopes might still do fairly well if it rains enough.

[mrtomatoexpres]

hi after all that rain now we have a heatwave it ok iam building my new cage for the garden its 8 1/2 feet high 12 feet long and 10 feet wide that chickenwire gets hot i learned one thing do not leave your water outside in the sun it gets pretty dam hot :mad: :p :D

[bluelacedredhead]

Charlie, see if you can't find plastic hardware cloth. I just bought some for our chicken coops. The specs on it are excellent. Doesn't rust; doesn't catch on your clothes or poke holes in your fingertips (owie) and critters aren't supposed to be able to chew through it. Best of all?? I paid $18 for 48" high by 50' long. The metal hardware cloth (same profile) was around $1 a foot.

And yes, it's 88F here right now. Horribly humid. And I'm sitting here listening to the sound of 'what else'?? Thunder.
Went outside an hour ago to check on my mare and her new foal (born sometime around 3 am this morning) and the lightning show was just beginning..
I was so hoping to be able to weed the garden tomorrow. It's done nothing but rain every day off I've had in the past 3 weeks. It's been great for the height of the corn, but I honestly don't know where the cabbage or the onions are anymore??
If it rains again tomorrow, I might as well just give up on Garden 2006

[johno]

Sunny and 99 degrees. It's about time for the end of regular rains, so I'm wishing I had more mulch... I've had a few of the first ripe tomatoes starting maybe a week ago. Green beans are still producing, but slowing down. Okra for miles... melons are still small... It's so hot almost everything wilts by early afternoon, even with decent rain and supplemental watering. We're about 8 degrees above normal.

[werecat]

Were having heat advisory warnings daily here in central Illinois. My parents have their air conditioning set on 55 degrees, but it's so hot that even then it still is about 75 or 80 in their house. Neither my sister nor I have air conditioning so its pretty freaking hot and miserable. Green house effect or no, whoever it was that pissed off mother nature needs their a$$es kicked!

[flowerpower]

Went outside an hour ago to check on my mare and her new foal (born sometime around 3 am this morning) and the lightning show was just beginning..

How are they doing? Nothing cuter than a new baby! Congrats :)

It's hot and humid here. Garden is looking good. Picked one yellow pear tomato. Mmmm Lots of green ones on all the plants.

There has been way too much rain for the onions. I see too many of them with thick necks. These have to be used soon after harvesting. They don't store very long. Garlic looks really good and is producing secondary cloves on the "stem". Some are a really nice size.

[werecat]

How are they doing? Nothing cuter than a new baby! Congrats :)

It's hot and humid here. Garden is looking good. Picked one yellow pear tomato. Mmmm Lots of green ones on all the plants.

There has been way too much rain for the onions. I see too many of them with thick necks. These have to be used soon after harvesting. They don't store very long. Garlic looks really good and is producing secondary cloves on the "stem". Some are a really nice size.
If the onions don't store well fresh, you could always dehydrate slices. They come back so nice when you re-hydrate them.

[mobi]

yep !!! HOT and HUMID here on the western edge of central Illinois UGH!!! temps. in the mid upper 90's have tomatoes on the vine but none ripe. parsley and potatoes are doing good also basil and dill are fine. Mobi. oh and werecat I can relate to the lack of air conditioner . We have a window unit in each of our bedrooms so guess where we spend most of our time ?

[winter_unfazed]

How's the weather? I only need one word to answer your question.

HOT. 99*F the other day.

[Nutter]

Hot 93

[HillsideDigger]

Not as dry today.

Last night an outlying band of rain from Beryl hit the Blue Ridge and dropped a steady downpour from 11:00 until 2:00 here in the foothills, somewhat more than an inch of rain.

So, today is steamy.

[JackiMac]

The weather...stinks :( About 98 deg. yesterday...got a lot of thunder without the rain and the heat index hitting 105. My tomato plants wilt daily - water,water,water - I'm losing my squash...the okra is just ok and my beans just love it! I've got maybe 20 beans off of it so far and a bunch more ready to go! :D I'm replanting more beans, squash and okra this week ;)

[tashak]

Hot here too (99-103plus).
Plants start wilting before 11 AM.
Last two days we have had New Mexico style late afternoon mini-monsoons for about 10-30 minutes here in northern Nevada, but still need to water.
Veggies in tires (new to garden this year) and cucumbers and eggplants and New Mexico style pumpkins and squash are doing better than others.
We basically skipped spring out here and went directly to summer. Early supposed-to-be-spring-planted crops like onions, leeks, brussels sprouts, parsnip, snow peas etc. just didn't make it, and other early stuff bolted so fast.
I've got two fans going in the trailer for cross-draft.
Can't figure out when to start stuff for fall garden. Unless seeds are presoaked indoors, they just won't come up as it is just too hot too long too much of the day, and there isn't much shade. Toying with idea of weaving a shade roof out of some of the dried stalks from the overwintered last year kale/chard. Problem then is how to anchor it against the wind.
Thanks to this season's previous fires locally, the wild horses have been changing their times and places--I've seen one band more often this month than all of the past few years. (They handclapped out of an unfenced garden a neighbor has, but some of the early morning work commuters really need to slow down to the speed limit or less when the horses are around.)

[mrtomatoexpres]

hi taskak my aunt lives in lv what is good to grow in the veggie family is it to late for her she loves star nursery when i went there in 2002 she got me a job at star and homedepot they and my cus mike and brenda want me to move down there my cus mike brought a house for 175,000 with 2 1/2 achers he works for the hardrock hotel blackjack dealer the place is called sandyvalley :)

[mrtomatoexpres]

iam happy its rainning we needed it my plants are all watered and it cooled off in nyc smells nice to :p :D :)

[bluelacedredhead]

Muggy.
Yahoo weather predicted mid80's and thunderstorms this afternoon..
Well the temperatures were probably realistic, but no rain to take the humidity away.
But Charlie, if you got rain, then maybe we'll see some tomorrow..

[mrtomatoexpres]

i will take all we can get it cleans nyc :)

[johno]

I remembered to cover my brush pile this time - they're callin' for rain! It's either too dry to burn safely, or too wet to burn. Who knows what it will do? They called for rain wed. and thu., then thu. through sun., then fri. only... so far we have had lots of clouds and no rain at all... Oh, well, at least it's hot.

[tashak]

Say, Mrtomato, there's a recent NV gardening book out but it mainly is oriented to the Las Vegas area & not much use to me up here in nw NV.
Congratulations on your cousin's acreage.
We don't have an abundance of water in this state (and Vegas keeps trying to grab it from the northern rural counties) but there's no state or city income tax here so we get a lot of in-migration from CA and other places which has been driving development the last few years. I understand rental housing can be a bit expensive in Vegas--best check out their newspaper classifieds, and also distance (gas commute or bus schedule & cost) --as Vegas is sort of like Los Angeles and really spread out now. I don't really know the area, and will have to find the state atlas to locate Sandy Valley.
Sent private email re aunt's garden.

[kabuti]

Here in Central CA been 110 to 113 deg for couple weeks. We are all worn out! some veg. leaves (1 leaf or so on plant) just dry up & thats it, even on okra, no matter how much water. Only way to prevent is to sprinkle. We have soaker hose beneath 4 in of mulch been watering daily 15 min at both 11 AM & 7PM this has been adequate. Been unusually humid which has saved the plants, I think. Squash suffered, Peppers want it more hot & doing vey well, tomatoes aint doin well, tomatillos doing very well, aphids & heat about finished off cukes, melons doing good & of course okra likes this weather which has been cooler & below 100 by Sunday. Will cut water to 10 min. twice day today. Time to get fall garden ready!

[zebraman]

Hey Kabuti;I have seen on the News how your area and others have been getting triple digits but here in Venice it got up to low 90's a couple of days.Neighbors complain about humidity,but being from Dallas I haven't noticed any humidity at all.Weather says we will be going back to the 70's next week.Oh well such is life.This is the only thing I don't like about living so close to the beach is summer without the heat.-

[Nutter]

Awfully hot up here in the Great White North.. 90's these days.. YUK

[bluelacedredhead]

Z, are you saying that DFW is humid??

[zebraman]

Hey Blue;Yes compared to LA Dallas and Cow Town are both more humid.I did drive down to the Lucy Bayou near Houston in the late 70's to catch baby Aligators.The Humidity was Unbelievable.I am sure its more humid up where you are at.The only part of Canada that I've been was an Island in Saut Saint Marie.The "Sue" part might be spelled wrong.-

[Nutter]

Sault Ste. Marie is right.. nice area..

[zebraman]

Hey Guys;The Marine Layer is back for a week and is low 70's with a constant breeze blowing in from the Pacific.The Heat Wave that was affecting N.CA is moving east.With any luck August and Sept.and Oct will go back to Hot.-

[johno]

Happy to say we got some rain - a nice, good soaking. Looks like mid 90's by day and mid 70's by night for the next several days. It's another beatiful day in the Ozarks! :D

[redbrick]

90's and 100's for us the nest couple of days, oh joy! (Smell that? That's sarcasm!) They're expecting the heat index to be about 120 tomorrow. Ughhh!

[bluelacedredhead]

Z, I've never been to the Sault. It's actually closer for me to drive to DFW I think from here, lol.
Yes, this area is terribly humid. Forecast here for the next few days is 37 Celsius, which roughly translated means 106 Fahrenheit. Plus the Humidex reading, which is probably what Redbrick is referring to that makes it appear 120.

I have news that I have relatives just arrived in the area from CA. Come to escape the heat I suspect. Last time they did that it was hotter here than Palm Desert. Go figure.

UPDATE: I've just had 3 brownouts and one blackout. Trying to post and upload pics...I don't think it's going to happen til later. Electrical storm to the east so a friend tells me on Messenger. Must be the cause of all these outages? :mad:

[Kimipi]

Achtung!!

[johno]

Hi,
This weather report is from last Thursday...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b280/RealSuki/river.jpg

Coudy and cool - a welcome change in the Ozarks! My garden is happier now.

[johno]

This morning was hot and dry as a bone. Since then we're getting a good downpour every few hours, so it is soaking in. Just what the doctor ordered!

[chubbyduckie]

You should be getting some good ones, johno, the storms are mostly to the South of us moving your way. We are having a wonderful slow rain tho; much better than the ones that wash half the yard away, lol.

[bluelacedredhead]

It's gone from 106 with the humidex last week to an expected high of 68 today...I'm ffffffrrrreeeezzzzzin.
This oughta throw the garden & my livestock into a frenzy. They'll be going into wintermode.

[Nutter]

Warm days cooler nights lately.. hated that 104 business last week.. now its averaging 80 to 85.... 60 nights..

Woohooo

[HillsideDigger]

Best day in almost 2 years, that is since the remains of hurricane Ivan dropped about 10" of rain here followed by about 23 months of well below normal rainfall.

Slow steady rain from last evening until about noon today amounted to about 4", with the added bonus of the temps today being only in the mid-60's.

Rototillers might not work well in mud, but its great for hoes, at least on my raised planting rows. I have planted 5 fall crops today with a couple hours of daylight left.

[Helen Wong-Joe]

Weather here in Northern CA is not too bad - in the 80's. My tomatoes/tomatillos, eggplants and squashes are getting bigger. When we had that 100 degree thing, my plants did not like it at all.

[johno]

We had a gullywasher this evening. It was a good oppurtunity to see where to do landscaping to control rainwater. We also talked a bit about saving rainwater for the garden...

[bluelacedredhead]

Don't landscape the lawn downwards towards the foundation...That's what the people who used to own this house did....needless to say, we brought in a backhoe and changed that....
And what can I do friends to convince my DH that rainbarrels are a good thing for the garden?? He brought home two about 3 years ago...He won't hook them up??? They would have been a godsend in the dry spell this past month..the garden hose just doesn't quite go far enough into the garden..

[tashak]

Inching towards signs of season change: first few orange/yellow leaves on fruit trees, birds sampling Asian pears, apples, onion gone to seed, chickens laying again after the 100s heat earlier, more chukar babies running licketysplit across the garden, road and neighborhood (more actually than we had this spring), walking Egyptian onions are walking, or at least laying down the bulblets in the sand/soil....
And your areas?

[johno]

Lots of rain the past couple of weeks. Daytime temps sometimes dipping into the eighties. Dusty, dry conditions slowly reverting...

Looks like hurricane season has started. Bad for the Gulf, good for the Ozarks.

[mrtomatoexpres]

hi we have rain for 3 days and looks like its going to be day 4 tomatoe's some split so i gave alot away and eat some ok the veggies are watered for free :) :p :D

[flowerpower]

hi we have rain for 3 days and looks like its going to be day 4 tomatoe's some split so i gave alot away and eat some ok the veggies are watered for free :) :p :D


Yeah, now the maters are going split- just when they are ripening. I've been feeding some them to the pigs. It's rainy and foggy right now.

[bluelacedredhead]

FP, at least your splits aren't going to waste. I had several tomato plants come up in the manure pile this year, which is right beside the pig yard. Any small, misshapen fruits go to them, along with bushels of fallen apples this time of year.
And speaking of rain, we had some overnight the past two nights...Really brought the temperature down. I don't like this. I wasn't done with summer yet! :(

[Nutter]

Nice out today.. hope it holds up for my move tomorrow..

Nut

[mrtomatoexpres]

iam, drowning iam thinking of going to homedepot to get a plastic painters tarp to cover the cage wensday more rain and then ernesto next week :mad: :D :p :)

[johno]

Today felt like January in Miami - what a joy to work outside!

[Joan]

Today in Pa it is very cloudy but no rain at present! If it is rainy another day I'll scream! Last week was perfect and we needed the rain but one day is enough isn't it!

[zebraman]

Hey Guys;Today is Hot,Clear Blue and no breeze.Sept. will be the same.I love this time of year!Tomatoes are all ripening and so is everything else.Maybe by Oct.it will be cool enough to start thinking about fall garden.-

[bluelacedredhead]

It's ccccold here. Going down to around 40 tonight. It's too early for temps like that. Even here in the Great White North..
I went out and brought my houseplants into the back porch for the night just in case Jack Frost decides to make an unscheduled visit. And I also threw an old sheet over my cantaloupe plant. Yes, I know, I haven't had a chance to build the plastic hoop house for it yet..Long weekend is a coming...

[redbrick]

(Sigh) Wet and windy here! Ernesto is slowly dying over us, but not before knocking over my tomato and bean trellises! The bad part is, I don't think I'm going to be able to set them back up because now they're too heavy! Oh, well, I'll just keep picking what I can, and redesign for next year.

[Gary]

Amdy, I've been thinking about all you folks from the Carolinas and up the coast with this storm. Sorry for the damages it caused you! Who wouild have thought you were building a trellis to handle a hurricane!
All you folks stay warm and safe!
Temp here in Kentucky early this morning was 60. I spent two hours in my friends garden gathering tomatoes for seed saving. I shared plants with him I didn't have space or energy to grow.
Gary/Louisville

[boston]

Nights are getting cooler, days are getting shorter, the trees are starting to turn. Fall is definately in the air.

[bluelacedredhead]

Here too Boston. Every night I carry the 5 gallon tomatoes into the porch and cover them up...Every morning I carry them back out because it's still nice enough during the day for them to pollinated by bees and enjoy some sun.
But I mentioned last night that I'm going to have to start watching the weather for frost warnings and bring them and the few flowers that are still outside in for the winter..
Have you laid your garden to rest yet? Or are you like me; wait until the very last possible moment before giving in to old Man Winter??

[boston]

My potatoe bed is ready for winter got that cleaned up and a cover crop put in over the weekend. The rest still has some things in it and probably wont get done till the frost finishes it.

[Helen Wong-Joe]

Gosh, it's been very hot here in Northern CA, like almost 100 degree. My poor plants are not liking it too much.

[johno]

I'm already considering bringing the most tender plants indoors. Nighttime temps in the low 50's. The weather lately reminds me of the weather pattern when I was just a sprout. We had real winters back then... Maybe we will this year, too. Maybe it will get cold enough for long enough to kill the bloodsucking ticks?

[stonysoil]

weather has been great the last week here in upstate e central ny.. good enough where i was able to palnt some l leaf lettuce belend and cchiggia beets hoping for a fall crop.. today its ; pouring rain and will be for next couple days.. i never tried growing anything in the fall .. it will be an experiment... frost can ocur any day here .. as my elevzation is over 2100 feet up

[tashak]

We've got a change coming for the weekend, predicted low 40s and high 60s, a real cooldown from our mid90s.
A lot of my cool season fall plantings (spinach, radish, kale, various Asian greens, etc.) are coming up, lots more summer squash blossoms, etc.
Still have more cover cropping planting to do, aged horse manure to haul from neighbor's acre, and a little more fall planting to do, plus home repairs/preparation for winter, but it has been so smokey in the late afternoon/early evening for the last week/2 weeks from CA wildfires that I haven't gotten to it yet. Even watering with the hose then is enervating. And I have been joking that the stuff in my outside hanging dehydrator is smoke-dehydrated.
But the cooldown will be pleasant this weekend.

[johno]

Lightning storms that sound like airstrikes... Unstable airmass like none seen since the night if a hundred tornados... Funnel clouds and lots of rain...

[bluelacedredhead]

Johno, Stay Safe!

[Gary]

That same front has arrived in Kentucky with lots of rain -- 8 inches here since yesterday with lots of flooding. There has been one death. Folks have been moved to shelters from low lying areas. Suggestion for people stay home unless necessary to be out. Warnings are up for more severe storms/possible tornado conditions.
Hope all is well with others in the storms.
Gary/Louisville

[bluelacedredhead]

And I was just bemoaning a bit of rain here.
To All..Be SAfe and heed all warning.

[johno]

It has passed. I know of only one death so far, but there are some missing and rescue operations were underway this morning. We are fine at my place...

[bluelacedredhead]

Thanks for posting to let us know. My thoughts are with all in the path of the storms..

[dirtundernails]

It passed through here, too. We actually left the house to avoid the airstrike sounding clouds and lightning and hail, as we have no storm shelter. Came back when we ended up driving right back into it. Everything is fine.
Our friends' 6 miles away were not so lucky. Tennis ball size hail killed a lot of their chickens and covered their yard. One cat is missing. All people are fine, but rattled.

[TastyofHasty]

Passed through here, too. AWESOME lightning, what DH calls "cloud to cloud," totally silent & a cloud just lighting up here ... then there ... then a streak of lightning down the side (and NO THUNDER!) ... weird and beautiful, this "cloud to cloud lightning" was all around us, all night ... just awesome.

[chubbyduckie]

We had just a little rain here, did see some awesome lightning to tthe South. I thought of you who were likely getting the storms; I hope everyone is doing ok.
Very scary - they showed a lot of the damage on local news tonight.

[deb65802]

chubbyduckie

I live in SW mo as well the wind was so highg that it knocked dwon a wooden ladder I was using as a trellis for some pole beans. Lots of limbs down and the neighbor had a window broken out by a large tree limb. some hail but not bad.

cool gloomy and misty today, supposed to be sunny for a few days. then rainy on Thursday. but the weather man has not been right any day this week. Should I suggest refresher courses??? or maybe checking the farmer's almanac? LOLOL

[Gary]

Water is receding here; there are still some catch basins with plenty of water. Seven deaths attributed to the rains and flooding in Kentucky as of today. The Ohio River is to rise considerbly with all the rain in the Ohio Valley. It has been a bright and beautiful day with clear skies and marshmellow clouds floating by.
Gary/Louisville

[bluelacedredhead]

Gary, I'm so relieved to hear from you.
It seems to me that Kentucky has experienced a lot of flooding in recent years? I remember once about 4 years ago, that my Aunt & Uncle were detoured around Kentucky on their way here from California?? But that would have been attributed to spring rains and the Mighty Ohio...
I'm also relieved to hear from many of the members in the Southern MO, NW Arkansas corridor..
But I haven't heard from FAwnmeadow yet. I'll email her and await her reply...

[bluelacedredhead]

I just spoke with Fawnmeadow. It seems that they escaped the worst of the storm. Hydro outage/ a few downed trees/ Blown computer monitor....No wonder I hadn't seen her online since Thursday!!!
But Mountain View got hit bad she told me.. :(

[johno]

I talked to my sister-in-law last night. It turns out they had a close call a couple of hours before I got home last Friday afternoon (they live right next door, about a quarter mile away.) Lightning struck an ash tree and blew pieces of it a hundred feet away; at the same time the lightning travelled through the barbed wire fence to the power pole and up to the transformer and blew it up. The worst part is that from there it travelled into their house and shot electricity all though the whole place, like sideways lightning indoors. It fried their computer modem, garbage disposal, new television, all the lightbulbs, and so on... No one was hurt, but my sis-in-law wet herself...

[boston]

:eek: That must have have been quite an experience. Good to hear nobody was hurt.

[bluelacedredhead]

Johno, Our house was hit by lightning this past spring, and I can certainly relate to your SIL's reaction..it is quite the experience to go through..Although our place has a Surge Protector for the Phone Line, Computer Modem and Satellite system, so the only thing that actually fried was an electric fence charger out by the pump house.
I'm relieved to hear that your family is safe, but tell them to look into purchasing a whole house protector. Most reputable ones carry insurance if the unit fails to protect your appliances...

[Cliff Timmons]

Anytime I can get an inlaw to wet themselves, I chalk it up as a good day. <grin>

No really, I'm glad you folks are alright. It passed South and West of us. I could see the thunderheads and could tell your guys were getting hammered.

Prayers went up.

[fawnmeadow]

What a lightning show we had Fri nite, I've never seen the sky light up so but none that was near us.
Glad to hear everyone is OK. Sorry to hear about your sister's house Johno. Our Elec Coop rents a surge protector that goes on at the meter, but doubt that would've helped a lightning strike like she got.
Lots of trees down 9 miles north of us on Sat morning, no harm here, except for a tree I've been harping on DH to cut down cause it's in my way.
My monitor wasn't a casualty of storms, just old age. Wow, can I ever see with this new one!
Phyllis

[TastyofHasty]

I THINK one thing important to protect against lightning is make sure your house is well GROUNDED. We have at least one nice 8' big old copper ground rod pounded all the way into the ground ... but DH says ... you never know what Mother Nature's going to do.

[bluelacedredhead]

Tasty, that's how our electric fence charger got zapped back in the spring. It wasn't even plugged in, but it was still wired to the grounding rod...BaWhammmmmmm :(

[johno]

Hi in the lower 90s, low in the lower 60s the next couple of days! Clear and sunny all week! Perfect for working outdoors.

[bluelacedredhead]

I can't believe that your weather can be so different from West Plains? You ain't that far apart?? I just got my yahoo weather email and I keep tabs on the weather at Jeannine's (OK) and Phyl's (West Plains)..Let's hope they made a mistake on Phyl's behalf!!
Here's what it says for today's weather.
Oklahoma City/Tinker AFB, OK at 4:55 am CDT Clear , 48ºF
Hi: 85 Lo: 58

West Plains, MO at 4:53 am CDT Fair , 40ºF
Hi: 69 Lo: 50

Now as far as the weather here. It's calling for a high of 51F today...A cool, crisp, autumn day. Just like those one's that I PM'd you about last night ;) At least it isn't raining...

[Helen Wong-Joe]

Really, johno? Our normal weather for this time of the year is usually around the mid 80's for our Indian Summer. Our forcast for today is high 69 and I am sure that it's not going be that high. Outside looks very cloudy and cool just like a Fall day should be.

[johno]

It was sunny and hot - felt like close to 90F.We drank as much water as we do in the summer... Also, I heard from my #1 carpenter that the farm report is predicting 90 days of above average temps and unusually dry. If so, this blows my hard winter prediction out of the water.

[johno]

Just checked the forecast: low 90s/low 60s for the next two days.

[fawnmeadow]

This Weather is Beautiful! Blue, your report must have had a mistake in it cause it was 65 this morning and at least 85 this afternoon. Even the sunset was pretty with lots of pink and blue clouds swirling around.
My son is here from Ct, and mowed 15 acres of hay for us today. :D Was too hot to cut our firewood LOL!

[mrtomatoexpres]

tuesday in th 70's nite 60's wendsday 80's nite 60's ya :) :D :p but then the rest of the week in the 60's :( :(

[tashak]

Days high 60s, nights low 40s. Last night into this morning we had our first real rain in months--had forgotten what it sounded like on the metal roof on little porch area behind kitchen, thought something was wrong, lol, and ran around checking stuff before I thought to look outside.

[tashak]

Johno, mild temps sound good for the winter utility bills.
Does your #1 carpenter have a website for the farm report? I'd like to check one for my area.

[Sandbar]

We were supposed to have sunny and 77 today.

Got rain and 71 instead. :(

[TastyofHasty]

Here's a webpage called "drought monitor" with pretty interesting "animation" ... I watched the "12-week animation" showing where there was drought across the U.S. for the past 12 weeks up to Sept. 26.
It's about top-middle of the page ... click on 12-week animation ... has to load about 3-4 minutes on MY 'puter ...

http://drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

[johno]

We had cloudy and mid 70s today, after three days in a row of sunburn city. It was pleasant to wear long sleeves for a change... (On top of that, I had an easy day driving a tractor - made the weather that much more enjoyable!)

[boston]

.........SNOW!!!!!!

[bluelacedredhead]

B-B-B-B-RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Boston..
But the biggest shock here this morning was reading my Yahoo Weather alerts. OMG, the forecasts for South Central Mizzourah and Oklahoma City ain't much different than here..Me..High 57 Low 36 ....West Plains, MO High 52 Low 30...OKC High 59 Low 41... :eek: Try and stay warm y'all

[johno]

We are supposed to have a low of 32F tonight. First frost... I'm gonna wrap my peppers in plastic and hope for the best... better put some hot water bottles in with them...

[Sandbar]

Yesterday: 67, thunderstorms and two tornados. :eek:

Today: 45 with a wind chill in the low to mid-20s. Low of 27 tonight. flurries right now. :mad:

If you don't like Ohio's weather, just wait, it'll be different tomorrow. :cool:

[tashak]

Low 70s, night low 30s in Carson City NV, which means maybe we'll be mid30s in my valley tonight. Then again, maybe not. But as long as no windchill and no killing frost, I have hope for the hundreds of tomatillos that aren't large enough yet to pick.
Slightly offtopic: late afternoon today, I picked the largest of my 3-5 little watermelons by the thump test (no visible tendrils, stem still green). Yup, little red is ripe. Have to save those seeds, as these melons now have had some three weeks of nighttime low 30s-low 40s, veritable gems in our fall climate.
Front yard probably looks really silly, as I've had most of the plots under frost netting or nighttime sheets since early Sept., our first hard frost averaging 9/15, but fortunately not this year. Spinach and greens are loving the cooler weather.
Yikes,
Sandbar,
are you sure you want to stay in Ohio? That's damp cold I bet. Brr.

[Joan]

Buffalo! Now there is weather to get excited about! Are we sure it is only October or is it a sign of a lovely winter?

[bluelacedredhead]

Joan, having spent many years within "spitting distance" of Buffalo (now close to Syracuse, NY)...I actually wonder why anyone would want to live there?? In the 60's and 70's, if Buffalo wasn't burning (from arson), it was buried under snow..and then there was the Love Canal fiasco. Did you know that they've cleaned up the contamination and that people actually live in that area again?? Some people will believe anything..
But they do have 'The Bills' , the Sabres and amazing Chicken Wings...so it can't be all bad. :p