What is your weather today?

JWFilips

JWFilips

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Weather has finally turned to where it should be ! But it is sad! Now I have to rush to get the citrus trees in the house and and the Kitty quarters set up for the winter! Hate to have to buy bedding straw before Halloween...The prices are so inflated for the city folk and their decorations!
Going to try to set up my portable greenhouse over a raised bed...Should be able to get some Arugula Leaf lettuce and spinach growing & maybe some Kale
 
462

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Finally got some measurable rain, all of 3/16". Not much, but it rained. The really big news is, overnight Sunday and into Monday morning almost 2" is scheduled.

The irony: regardless the amount of rain we get, and because of the local and state's never ending water politics*, we could get rain greater than what Noah endured and it would not add one more drop to our water supply. The only thing the rain does locally is help the vegetation survive.

*Washington D. C. is child's play compared to California's water politics.
 
Kevin Stenberg

Kevin Stenberg

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Tonight on stand. There wasn't a hint of a breeze. The closest Poplar that i could see and was taller than the surrounding pines never moved, even the leaves were still.
 
L Ross

L Ross

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I suppose this is directly related to weather. Just a couple of days ago we had what many folks call the Harvest Moon. Could be correct, there is indeed a lot of harvesting occurring. I have an alternate description. In my studies of phenology, I ran across Ojibwa/Anishinabi words for various moons. In particular I liked the broken snow shoe month, March. I think I'll call the October full moon the unspreadable butter Moon. Yes my friends, the season of being able to pull the butter dish from the cupboard and spread butter on your food are over until the middle of next May. Five short months of spreadable butter here in the Midwest.

29 degrees this morning I'm glad I have the boats Winterized.
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Fall rains are here, at last! Most of the fires are out in the forests with .40" here on the valley floor in the last two days. May get another .50" on Sunday and there is fresh snow on the mountain ridges this morning. Come on "Bomb Cyclone"!
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Fifty seven degrees at 5 AM. High of 80, today. Deer weren't moving, compared to yesterday (mid 40's)..........seen two small does and a spike buck. Took video of the spike. Muzzle loading ends tomorrow. Heard one distant gun shot, very early this AM. None, yesterday. Suppose to only go down to 68 degrees, overnight, with high winds. PM showers. Probably, won't bother to go out bow hunting tomorrow. Cooling down, next week, with highs in the 60's.
 
Matt_G

Matt_G

Curmudgeon in training
L Ross said:
I suppose this is directly related to weather. Just a couple of days ago we had what many folks call the Harvest Moon. Could be correct, there is indeed a lot of harvesting occurring.
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I always called the September full moon the Harvest Moon and the October full moon the Hunter's Moon. <shrug>
Unspreadable butter moon...that's funny right there.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
I don't know about that but I do know an awful lot of people dress up like gouls and walk the streets under the pending full moon and it seems to be getting harder to tell the gouls from the zombies during the rites of All Hallows and Nocha de Morte . (Its probably misspelled but you know what I meant , in hind sight this probably looks like a political wise crack but it was just a Mel Brooksish quip about about the little goblins and fairy princesses) .
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
It's time to lay in a supply of good candy for the neighborhood waifs and miscreants that come to the door on All Hallows Eve/Samhain. I get GOOD CANDY for my trick-or-treat personnel, not some sorry-looking abbreviated version of The GOOD Stuff. My usual issue is one each of a full-sized 3 Musketeers, Snickers, and Milky Way bar per customer. Their eyes light up, the THANK YOUs are enthusiastic, and the cars and boat remain unmolested. There are about a dozen little kids in the neighborhood, and a like number of 10-14 year olds. They and we all get a kick out of Hallowe'en.

Ghouls and zombies are a year-round fixture in Kalifornistan, their trick-or-treating gets dissuaded with an 870.

Cloudy and gloomy today, no precip though. My thoughts are that if the area is going to the trouble to cloud up like this, then bring some rain with it to justify the gloominess and cooler days. Just sayin'.
 
smokeywolf

smokeywolf

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It's 60 degrees here right now with dark clouds and heavy rain. Had lightning/thunder and wind and rain last night about 2AM (.65" last night). I'm seeing a fair amount of lightning flashes off to the North right now. Likely out a little east of Gainesville, MO.
 
dannyd

dannyd

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smokeywolf said:
It's 60 degrees here right now with dark clouds and heavy rain. Had lightning/thunder and wind and rain last night about 2AM (.65" last night). I'm seeing a fair amount of lightning flashes off to the North right now. Likely out a little east of Gainesville, MO.
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Got married in St Louis in December of 1978; you would think the next state over is Alaska. ;)
 
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Rick

Rick

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smokeywolf said:
It's 60 degrees here right now with dark clouds and heavy rain. Had lightning/thunder and wind and rain last night about 2AM (.65" last night). I'm seeing a fair amount of lightning flashes off to the North right now. Likely out a little east of Gainesville, MO.
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And here's Rick a 20 minute drive away and not a drop to be found. Today or last night. Just checked the Doppler and there is a nasty storm skimming right along the state line. Smokey is pretty close to the state line.
 
Cadillac Jeff

Cadillac Jeff

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L Ross
Mrs. G & I have had the same conversation---YUP 8 month's of unspreadable butter!!

Fall is gona turn to winter very soon here, We are ready now I guess??
 
L Ross

L Ross

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JWG said:
L Ross
Mrs. G & I have had the same conversation---YUP 8 month's of unspreadable butter!!

Fall is gona turn to winter very soon here, We are ready now I guess??
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Fall is both a wonderful and a terrible time. So much to do, chores, prepping for Winter, hunting, fishing, Holidays, and so few days.

Then it serves as a reminder, a metaphor, for the brief time we spend on this earth. Glorious and melancholy all at the same time.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
Then it serves as a reminder, a metaphor, for the brief time we spend on this earth. Glorious and melancholy all at the same time.

We are coming upon the season of giving thanks and selfless giving .
The changing of the seasons when nature gives up the last of it's annual bounty to sustain the able through the season of the weak dieing to feed the strong . With the winter solstice the rebirth begins as the days grow longer and the fowl begin to pair up far south ......... So goes the cycle , so goes our faith .

We have partly cloudy with light winds from the ESE 10-15 high of 80 currently 76° .
 
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