Winter is REALLY here !!
It's 11.1°F outside right now
It's been in the minus's at night for the last couple of weeks. It seems to be warming up a little as it is clear up to +12 F now.-
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DoubleDogFarm
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The rain today ended a 12 day dry streak.
Eric
Looks like mid 40's through the weekend.SEATTLE â€â€
Wednesday's rain ended a 12-day dry stretch in Seattle, as recorded at Sea-Tac Airport.
National Weather Service meteorologist Mike McFarland says it was the second-longest dry streak in January on record. Only a 15-day dry spell in the city in January 1963 was longer.
McFarland says the normal pattern of lowland rain and mountain snow is likely to continue for a few days with another dry period possible next week.
He also says Seattle still has a chance of snow this winter, in the first couple of weeks of February.
Eric
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ElizabethB
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Roger - 
Eat your hearts out - blue bird skies and 65 degrees.
Yep - love the south.
Eat your hearts out - blue bird skies and 65 degrees.
Yep - love the south.
Elizabeth - or Your Majesty
Living and growing in Lafayette, La.
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown
Living and growing in Lafayette, La.
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown
That "dry steak" translated into days and days of freezing fog here. There was a small snow storm late yesterday and it was such a relief to get the poisonous air outta here!!DoubleDogFarm wrote:The rain today ended a 12 day dry streak. . . .
I think I've got the hoar frost thing kind of figured out . . . since there has been NO temperatures above freezing, the snow on the ground sublimates and is "captured" by the trees . . . where it forms ice crystals, which build up and then fall back to the ground under the trees! The air has been so stagnant that this was the "atmospheric condition" of any interest over the last 2 weeks.
Now, if I've got my quotation marks and italics all in the right places, this may be correct.
I did check the Snotel Weather Service sites nearby. All of them had a 90% or nearly so, normal "Snow Water Equivalent." And that, is darn-near official and should be very welcome information.
More snow in our forecast and we've "officially" had 6 daily winter lows in the single
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Jardin du Fort
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It's been rather chilly here in Indiana the last few days, highs around 7° with lows hovering just above or below 0°. The wind, though, has put the wind chill factor down around -15°. It's been cold enough that my wife has used her amusing cold comment "Chisel burr". I tell her that's about a tool, not cold, but she still says it anyway.
Well it warmed up down in the valley and where I live, I am burning less wood now. It still is a bit warm on the mountain, so it is getting a rain snow mix. We need wet snow to stick to the melted and refroze hard pack of the snow will just slide of. I hate getting pulled down the mountain in a snow slide, people sometimes get buried in them. I have set off some big slides before by being OB, very scary!