Walks, Seen the Forecast?

Started by Solar, November 15, 2011, 12:20:16 PM

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Quote from: walkstall on September 06, 2014, 07:16:57 AM
Looks like most of the U.S. will be starting Fall weather soon.  For the most part my area will be in the 80's and 90º.   :thumbsup:

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High temperatures may struggle to get out of the 40s and 50s in the Northern and Central Plains, as well as in parts of the Midwest by late week.



Coolest August I can ever remember, and I'm lovin it..
Oh, and we're not experiencing any so called drought hyped by the leftist media in a power grab for our water rights.
We're in a natural cycle of feast or famine where rain is concerned. We're a freakin desert for crying out loud! :biggrin:
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Yesterday was 95 in the shade (and 100 on the paved parking lots near any temperature signs at banks, which may or may not be a custom in your area but are inescapable here in lower Meeeshigoon). It was 65 this morning at 0530 EDT and 85 in the house, despite an air conditioner running.

Bring on the cold. Really cold. Bury us under six feet of ice and send 60-mile-an-hour winds blowing sideways, with hail the size of an Obama golf ball.

Then stop it, the day after Elections.

Shoot! Wrong forum.....   :rolleyes:

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We've been warm, 80's day, 70's night and a little humidity.

There have been some hurricanes off of Baja CA kicking up some rain in the inland areas, but none along the coast.

Just heard this A.M. that there is a low developing which might allow some rain to move down into our area.  Would love to see some rain, but it probably won't get down this far.

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Quote from: Dori on September 17, 2014, 07:56:46 AM
We've been warm, 80's day, 70's night and a little humidity.

There have been some hurricanes off of Baja CA kicking up some rain in the inland areas, but none along the coast.

Just heard this A.M. that there is a low developing which might allow some rain to move down into our area.  Would love to see some rain, but it probably won't get down this far.
I'd love some rain, we have the King fire at about 15 thousand acres about 5 miles from my home raging out of control.
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Well look like Fall is on us.  Today will be the last day above 80º this year for us so they say.  Someone need to tell the grass that, as I am cutting it three times a week yet.   We are starting to see 50º at night now off and on. 

So the leaves on the trees will start turning color for us soon.   This old body is sure going to miss all that G/W.   :lol:  I will have to start pulling out my Carhartt thermal gear next month sometime.  This old body can't take cutoffs year around any more.

I power washed the back deck and painted it two week ago.  I painted it when the shade hit the back deck, so the paint would not dry too fast. 
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Quote from: walkstall on October 13, 2014, 06:14:16 AM
Well look like Fall is on us.  Today will be the last day above 80º this year for us so they say.  Someone need to tell the grass that, as I am cutting it three times a week yet.   We are starting to see 50º at night now off and on. 

So the leaves on the trees will start turning color for us soon.   This old body is sure going to miss all that G/W.   :lol:  I will have to start pulling out my Carhartt thermal gear next month sometime.  This old body can't take cutoffs year around any more.

I power washed the back deck and painted it two week ago.  I painted it when the shade hit the back deck, so the paint would not dry too fast.
Same here, last real day of summer weather today as our High bubble breaks-down, though the coolest damn summer I can ever remember.3
This will be a summer to remember and hope returns, because the impending winter will be one only polar bears would like. Damn AGW. :rolleyes:
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Quote from: Solar on October 13, 2014, 06:35:02 AM
Same here, last real day of summer weather today as our High bubble breaks-down, though the coolest damn summer I can ever remember.3
This will be a summer to remember and hope returns, because the impending winter will be one only polar bears would like. Damn AGW. :rolleyes:

With luck it will kill off a lot the bugs this year. 
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Quote from: walkstall on October 13, 2014, 06:48:20 AM
With luck it will kill off a lot the bugs this year. 
This has been a bug free year for us so far. Though it did start out to be a wasp infestation, but that quickly died off,, for no reason.
In my area, we always have one or two bugs in a population explosion, whether it's hornets, carpenter ants, wasps, or stink bugs, one feeds on the other.
But this year didn't have one in abundance, anyway that came in the house....

Oh wait, we had a shitload of Preying Mantis.
Ya know, bugs are an excellent predictor of upcoming weather, so I wonder what an absence means.  :unsure:
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Quote from: Solar on October 13, 2014, 07:09:28 AM
This has been a bug free year for us so far. Though it did start out to be a wasp infestation, but that quickly died off,, for no reason.
In my area, we always have one or two bugs in a population explosion, whether it's hornets, carpenter ants, wasps, or stink bugs, one feeds on the other.
But this year didn't have one in abundance, anyway that came in the house....

Oh wait, we had a shitload of Preying Mantis.
Ya know, bugs are an excellent predictor of upcoming weather, so I wonder what an absence means.  :unsure:

Here too, I've been relatively free of many insects, especially wasps and yellow-jackets. Ants? Very few. Last winter was brutally cold here, and I'm sure that had an effect. Oh, and carpenter bees -- I usually have a sizable flock, but not this year.

But there is one exception -- mosquitoes. This has been by far the worst year for mosquitoes since I've been here. There's a pump-spray bottle of 40% DEET on top of the fridge by the kitchen door, another on a shelf just inside the shop door, and yet another one in the toolbox on the utility trailer I pull behind the yard tractor. I hate the crappy smell and feel, but you just can't stand to be outside without it.

The reason is simple -- ideal breeding conditions. It's been a plentifully wet year in my neck of the Ohio woods, and more importantly, the rains have been almost perfectly spaced out over time. It was an incredibly sloppy spring -- which of course jump-started the skeeters, though it kept me from getting my vegetable garden planted -- and then the rains came along steady as clockwork about once or twice a week, all summer and now even into the fall. Every year I've been here until this year, my grass has gone dormant by late July or early August, just turning yellow and then brown for lack of rain. Not this year! In fact, I plan to mow this weekend, though I'm hoping it's the last time for this year.

That (usually) dependable dry/hot spell in July/August really cuts back on the mosquitoes, but we just didn't have one this year. No yellow grass, and I mowed at least once a week all summer, down from 2-3 times a week back in May and June.

Of course, as Al Gore or John Kerry will be quick to point out, it's all because of global warming.  :tounge:
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Quote from: TboneAgain on October 13, 2014, 04:43:45 PM
Here too, I've been relatively free of many insects, especially wasps and yellow-jackets. Ants? Very few. Last winter was brutally cold here, and I'm sure that had an effect. Oh, and carpenter bees -- I usually have a sizable flock, but not this year.

But there is one exception -- mosquitoes. This has been by far the worst year for mosquitoes since I've been here. There's a pump-spray bottle of 40% DEET on top of the fridge by the kitchen door, another on a shelf just inside the shop door, and yet another one in the toolbox on the utility trailer I pull behind the yard tractor. I hate the crappy smell and feel, but you just can't stand to be outside without it.

The reason is simple -- ideal breeding conditions. It's been a plentifully wet year in my neck of the Ohio woods, and more importantly, the rains have been almost perfectly spaced out over time. It was an incredibly sloppy spring -- which of course jump-started the skeeters, though it kept me from getting my vegetable garden planted -- and then the rains came along steady as clockwork about once or twice a week, all summer and now even into the fall. Every year I've been here until this year, my grass has gone dormant by late July or early August, just turning yellow and then brown for lack of rain. Not this year! In fact, I plan to mow this weekend, though I'm hoping it's the last time for this year.

That (usually) dependable dry/hot spell in July/August really cuts back on the mosquitoes, but we just didn't have one this year. No yellow grass, and I mowed at least once a week all summer, down from 2-3 times a week back in May and June.

Of course, as Al Gore or John Kerry will be quick to point out, it's all because of global warming.  :tounge:
I hear ya, skeeters are one of the plagues we live with in the mountains, but not this year, don't even remember one bite and never even pulled out the Deet.
There are upsides to drought. :biggrin:
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Quote from: Solar on October 13, 2014, 06:58:56 PM
I hear ya, skeeters are one of the plagues we live with in the mountains, but not this year, don't even remember one bite and never even pulled out the Deet.
There are upsides to drought. :biggrin:

One other factor I neglected to mention... Thanks, I'm sure, to global warming, we had only six 90-degree days in the entire warm-weather season, a remarkably low total. I don't recall a July EVER when there were NO 90-degree days, but that's what the record shows here.
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Quote from: TboneAgain on October 13, 2014, 07:57:41 PM
One other factor I neglected to mention... Thanks, I'm sure, to global warming, we had only six 90-degree days in the entire warm-weather season, a remarkably low total. I don't recall a July EVER when there were NO 90-degree days, but that's what the record shows here.
A blessed thing, considering all the rain you got. Humidity is my nemesis.  :glare:
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Quote from: Solar on October 15, 2014, 08:30:21 AM
Same here, and a nice soaker.




Heavy Rain To Soak the Pacific Northwest into the Weekend...

A heavy rain maker has set up in the Pacific Northwest, bringing much needed rain and mountain snow through the weekend.


:thumbsup:  I love it, more G/W.   
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