2018 What's the weather like where you are?

[applestar]

I was so shocked to learn today’s high had been 217°F that I just HAD to take a screenshot


...getting some much needed rain atm...

[pepperhead212]

And I guess it couldn't have been a mistake, where someone actually meant to put 21.7°! lol

I got over 5" of rain here, with that front that came through. What did you get from that, Apple? The news said that Woodbury got 4.53", when they came on at 11 PM, but it was still raining a few min ago, when I went out back to turn the delays on my watering timers. Don't think I will need to water for a while, even with the SIPs, as the high temps will be in the 70s and 60s the next two days. And Sunday is supposed to be rain for much of the day.

[applestar]

The “anti-rain device” scattered the clouds yet again just before reaching my garden and the reported rain according to nearest wunderground station was 0.01” last night, but it’s raining this morning and we have had 0.23” so far.

I’ll have a better idea once I get out there and look around.

The difference even between our two gardens is astonishing....

[pepperhead212]

It is still pouring out here, and the radar shows no signs of stopping any time soon.

My rain guage is overflowing. It gows up to a 6" line, with about 1/4" above it.

[applestar]

3.3 inches in the last two days according to nearby weather station, that means we probably got a little more.

...that might sound contradictory to what I said before, but I’ve noticed this kind of discrepancy before when measuring actual amounts. I’ve always attributed it to localized dust-devil kind of mini-swirls that seem to occur.

Of course my containers are not the official rain gauge type, so it’s always possible it’s my own measuring error....

[Gary350]

We went camping 85 miles east of the hurricane zone we were out of range of the clouds & rain it was 95 degrees and hot. Nights only cooled down to 80 it was still humid & hot. Now we are home, dark gray over cast sky an 65 degrees all day and a bit windy. I had to put on my long sleeve flannel shirt to stay warm.

[imafan26]

You know I can never figure out the rain reports. Sometimes it seems like we got rain but the report is only .01".

Well, in other news, we have another storm coming. Not as big as Florence on the East coast, but with one coming almost every week it is nail biting. Olivia is has been downgraded to a tropical storm but the winds are about 70 mph or 5 mph less than a cat1. The track has it dropping down from the Northwest and landing around Hana, Maui. Hana and the Big Island will again get the strongest effects of both the wind and the rain. Lane produced lots of rain, but not a lot of wind. Those poor people have barely cleaned up from the last flood and they may flood again. It will be very hard for the farmers to recover from a third massive flood this year. The storm is predicted to land sometime Tuesday night to Wednesday. It may slow after interacting with the mountains and is predicted to again pass south of Oahu. This time since the passage is closer and the storm is only weakening slowly, we may get more wind as well as rain. I kept most of my supplies and I am washing out my water bottles. I drained my water barrels since they were already full. Oahu is in a storm watch while Maui and the Big Island have a storm warning. I am going to do my laundry early in the morning and I bought more bucket covers ( they finally came in. I hope they fit). I will put the plants back under cover and move what I can out of the way. Some are still under cover from Lane, but I need to move the orchids again and some potted plants into the garage. I don't have any plywood to cover the windows, but I cannot do that by myself. I did take pictures of everything when Lane approached so I do have that and I checked the hurricane kit again. I have brought up a bunch of towels and rags in case I need them if the rain comes through the windows. I need to reinforce my dam by the patio. It did not flood so it did not get tested last time. I do expect the power to go off. So, I have unplugged most of the things and the computer, table lamps and my radio are all that are left to unplug. When Lane came by, the electric company did a good job of sending crews to where the outages were. They came in 30 minutes or less and it took 1-2 hours to restore power. I don't actually need a storm to lose power. The utilities are underground and they often go out when it rains hard enough. I did plant some seedlings in the garden. If it rains hard, it might bruise them, but there is nothing I can do about it now.

[imafan26]

Still waiting for Olivia. I put as much of the pots I could into bags and brought my ohia into the house. I thought I lost my cat when I discovered I left the door partially open, and of course he refused to come when I called him. He has since made an appearance. Olivia has decoupled which is good news since it is breaking up faster and it has slightly shifted course so it may land on Maui or somewhere in the channel between Maui and the Big Island. The winds are down to 50 mph from 70 mph this morning. All of this in a low shear environment and warmer water. We are so lucky, and I am still holding my breath. We are still expecting a lot of rain, flooding, landslides, and the power going out. The storm has slowed to 15 mph so now it will not get near Maui until about 2 a.m. It very muggy now ahead of the storm and it is 80 degrees right now. If we are even luckier, the slowed speed and the rapidly weakening storm will further decrease the winds. The Big Island and Maui will again be hit for the third time this year with most of the wind and rain. Maui has a lot of bare earth from the brush fires that came at the same time as Lane. That will increase the risk of flooding since there is no vegetation to keep the ground from eroding. I am not expecting to see much of the rain or the wind unti some time tomorrow.

[applestar]

It’s 6am but pitch dark still. Days are getting shorter....

[digitS']

AppleStar,

can you tell us the internet service for your screen capture?

I like how concise it is ...

Steve

[applestar]

This screenshot is from WunderStation app for accessing Weather Underground stations. I have both Wunderground and WunderStation apps. I like WunderStation better for most use since it lets me rearrange the tiles for each type of report and also has a cool feature to minimize/summarize and maximize/detail the report. In the above, I maximized the “sky conditions”

There are a couple of features like animated past-future radar video and detailed air pollutant reports that are only available on Wunderground, but I might look at those on WeatherBug app. — the reporting sources are different so I might look at both and compare.

[gumbo2176]

Still stupid hot here in S.E. Louisiana. Throw in the humidity and heat index numbers climb into the 105-110 F feels like temperatures, and it's mid September for crying out loud.

I just got back inside from picking 86 pods of okra, several habanero peppers, a few bell peppers and a bit of weeding in areas and I was sweating bullets.

Plus the ground in the garden is still saturated from all the frequent rains we've been getting and not allowing me to pull my rows to get things in the ground for the fall garden. All I can do is wait and hope for about a weeks worth of dry weather and I can get that task done.

[applestar]

Autumnal Equinox. I suppose in some areas, the ratio is exactly 12 hrs/12 hrs.... or maybe it will be tomorrow?


...some Fall-ish temperatures in the near forecasts...

[digitS']

The garden plants, including cucumbers, squash, melon vines, tomatoes etc., are going down fast. I really wasn't checking the temperatures in the big veggie garden. The nearest weather underground station there had 3 mornings this week with temperatures below 40°, including a 34°! Kinda glad that I wasn't sitting here watching that thermometer drop at 2:30am on the 17th. Dang, would I have felt it necessary to stir my bones and drive out to turn the sprinklers on?!

No forecast for a below 40° low this week but all we need is a rain to relieve a little of this "moderate drought" and there will be a frost. Doubt if I will do anything about it other than make those preemptive runs to harvest green tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, etc. Better have a couple of days to fill carport ...

Steve
trying to think to check his horizons and not just his backyard

[Gary350]

It rained 4" yesterday, 2" the day before that and another 6" Sunday. 6" inches of rain expected Monday. The bridge is about 15 ft above the dry stream bed, I have seen 4 ft of water going over top the bridge several times. There was no water over the bridge yesterday but might be today.

Temperatures are finally in the normal range it has been 96 degrees most of the month 15 degrees above average. .

[imafan26]

It is a warm 76 degrees with very little wind and it is raining now.

[Gary350]

WOW LOOK its the SUN I have not seen the SUN in 9 days. LOL

[imafan26]

Nice to see the sky.
I can see some sky too. It has been raining almost every night for almost a week and raining off and on during the day. However, the rain is warm and when the sun comes out, it is steamy and muggy. There is barely any wind from the system that is pulling up moisture from the south and blocking the wind.

[Gary350]

I never got to walk in the rain this summer. I never got to ride my bicycle in the rain either. I never got to jump in the river or lay down in a stream all summer. Riding my bike in a warm July & August rain is fun especially riding through deep water. I did get rained on a little bit in the garden when it sprinkled a few times. We had a hot dry summer about 1 good hard rain per month for several months. It was 89 today no rain. Sky was loaded with large white clouds. OH wait.....I did go swimming in the lake several times while camping in Alabama in June.

[imafan26]

It has been cloudy with temps around 84 degrees. It does rain briefly but mostly it just steams off later. It is like being in a sauna all day. Night temperatures are around 70 although it still feels warmer with winds from 7-13 mph. Thanks for the blue skies Gary, it may be awhile before I see that again.

[rainbowgardener]

Wow... I never understand, how your weather could be so different, Gary, 100 miles away from me. September was very hot, but some of the time lots of rain and flash flood warnings. We got a bunch of rain from the very outskirts of Hurricane Florence. We broke the daily rainfall record for September 24 at Chattanooga with 3.41 inches of rain in one day. That added to our very high rainfall total already from having had a very mild wet summer.

(Per US National Weather Service) Chattanooga had average temp of 78 in September, second warmest ever. It has been 143 days since temperatures were in the 50s in Chattanooga. The previous record was 132 days in a row in 1921. Lows are forecast to remain above 60 over the next week, shattering the old record and extending the streak.

So far October has been hot and dry.

I'm having a hard time finding year to date rainfall totals. Anyone know a good site, where you can get weather history observations (not just typical/averages)?

[applestar]

Do you use weather underground and weather bug apps? Although these are basically amateur weather hobbyists uploading data from their multi-weather condition readings from their varied gadgets, I find them more reliable than local weather news from any single station because I can see what they are reporting all around me.

Unfortunately nobody has a station in my immediate neighborhood, but I’ve “pinned” the ones are located in nearby communities all around. They jive with the radar map tracking of storm systems that I watch on weatherbug when the storm systems often split as they pass over my house (pinned on the map). So I don’t seem to get as much rainfall as the stations reporting from just a few miles north or south, etc. it’s kind of interesting to note that sometimes, their rain gauges are stuck or maybe haven’t been cleaned/maintained and aren’t reporting, and I guess the gadgets have different capabilities because I noticed one station had a “footnote” that some of their data comes from the local airfield, which then means it’s even further away from my garden.

There is a default “local” setting/station based on name of town or zip code that appears if you don’t specify a specific station. This seems to match the reported “official” weather for my town, and the “current” weather data reported by this setting is sometimes different from the other stations’. Also, at the local TV weather news uses one or the other of these app reports.

And all this is happening in this “flat” NJ within maybe 25 miles of each other. According to a little lecture series I attended concerning the NJ Pine Barrens, Pine Barrens Weather is affected by the ocean to the east and south and the Delaware River to the west, and the massive deep sandy region of the Pine Barrens which alters the surface thermal layer ... and Urban pockets have similar weather changing effect for the same reason.

[digitS']

I wasn't sure if the thermometer would make it to 50° f yesterday. There was morning overcast which kept the temperature from falling to freezing temperatures again. A few sunbreaks in the early afternoon brought the thermometer up to a high of 54° for the day.

If I look at my local forecast from
https://forecast.weather.gov

Check at the top for current conditions there is a heading for "More Information" and "More Local WX" off to the side. Clicking "More Local WX" gives me a list of NOAA stations, some not all that far away. Clicking one of those, I see the current conditions at that station, there near the top of the page:
Current Time: Oct 8 4:19 am PDT
Get Yearly Precip Total (non QA/QC'd data)
Get Water Year Precip Total (non QA/QC'd data)

There is the precipitation for that Weather Service station.

Steve

[applestar]

Thanks for the link digiS. Adding it to my obsessive weather scanning sources....



40°F low this morning. Looking at 37°F low on Thursday morning which I think may bring first frost, considering the 29°F dewpoint....

[gumbo2176]

Well, that was short lived. Just when the weather turned cool with low humidity for a couple days, it simply turned out to be a teaser. It is now 85 degrees with 79% humidity for a "feels like" temperature of 97 with 100% chance of rain--------------for even more humidity when it ends. Middle of October and this is STILL going on.

I could only pull 2 rows in my garden before the heat got to me. I had first cleaned out my large storage shed and organized it and thought it a good idea to try to get my rows pulled before it rained and I'd have to wait days for the soil to dry. The heat just beat me down. Guess at pushing 66 in a couple more weeks, I'm just not as tough as I use to be. Taking a break beats a heart attack in the garden every day.

[rainbowgardener]

Highs mostly in the 60's, lows in the 40's. Brought the house plants in:





The big one in the middle is last year's Christmas poinsettia. It was tiny then!!

[applestar]

Suffering serious Aches and pains after hauling in all the potted plants in prep for expected frost overnight.

[applestar]

It’s been hovering between 33 and 32°F since 2am. Currently 32°F. I hope I got everything yesterday.....

[!potatoes!]

only 42 this morning (was expecting lower)...I need to bring the indoor plants back in too.

[gumbo2176]

Suffering serious Aches and pains after hauling in all the potted plants in prep for expected frost overnight.

I have a large shed right where my plants are on a slab in front of the double doors. When it looks like we're getting freezing weather, which is rare but does happen, I carry the small plants into the shed and use a dolly to roll the big heavy ones in. Then I turn on my work lights on stands with 500 watt halogen bulbs in them and that keeps the temperature warm enough to keep them from harm.

The ones on the 2nd story back porch get toted into the house and placed on a plastic tarp in the dining room. Again, toting the small and rolling the large. Sure saves the back not picking up those 10-20 gallon pots some of my plants are in.

[digitS']

It freezes every morning. The other day, we arrived at the big veggie garden at 10am and there was still ice in the neighbor's birdbath. Still, it has been sunny days with little wind - above 60° on 5 of the last 7 days and continuing thru the weekend, according to the WS ..!

Since the corn and sunflowers are already down, if I can get the stakes out and cut down any taller plants ... nah, no reason to knock ourselves out.

What a blessing to have nice weather at this time of year!

Steve

[applestar]

We have 2nd round of frost advisory overnight for tonight until tomorrow morning, and the forecasted temperature is slightly lower than the last time, which might mean sustained freezing temperatures rather than merely hovering just above and at 32°F.

Last time, it was all I could do to bring in most of the container plants, but I should make decisions about and, take care of all freeze susceptible plants and other concerns. I did pull the 1/4 inch waterline from the cement turtle pond spitter last time and turned it over to drain, but this time, I should check all the garden hose connections, check for any glass or ceramic containers, and other freeze susceptible decorative objects including unglazed clay pots that might still be out there.

...it’s REALLY windy today too,

[applestar]

...yep. They’ve revised to FREEZE WARNING. This it IT!

[dylansova96]

I live in Arizona so it is pretty hot over here. Our grass are super dry (at least mine) and I need to continuously use some kind of fertilizer to help to retain the water

[digitS']

I'm always interested in our weather, especially when I have outdoor things to do and have to be out in it. Today, I am a little excited.

Rain is coming!

There hasn't been any rain in 2 weeks after a very welcome 1/2" fell over about 48 hours. During the entire month of September, we saw only 1/8" of rain. And, I gotta tell you -- how the WS even measures sprinkles that amount to a 10th of a 10th, I don't understand. But, they do measure these events, when the Earth's surface isn't even uniformly damp ...

August had 1/3" with 1/4" falling on one day. July's total rainfall was 3/100". Yeah, .03 of an inch of rain ... it has been such a dry summer again this year! Tonight! there should be rain ... and, over the next 4 or 5 days, I'm guessing that nearly an inch may fall! Clear skies should be back by Halloween ... for the kids to be out.

Hopefully, more rain is in prospect or a snow season while some benefit can be gained for the nearby evergreen forests.

Steve

[gumbo2176]

Well Steve, may not be getting much rain, but we're getting deluged right now. It's been steadily raining for a few hours now and water has accumulated between my rows in significant volume. It is so overcast that at almost 8:30 a.m. it looks to be closing in on nightfall. We've been getting almost daily rain to some degree for over a week now, some light sprinkles to raining cats and dogs as the saying goes.

Can't say the garden needs it either, but it is what it is and it just has to be dealt with.

[imafan26]

It is 71 degrees right now and it was down to 69 degrees around 3 a.m. The high is going to be around 84 with 90% humidity. With mostly cloudy conditions, it will he hot outside with a chance of an occasional sprinkle of rain. The trades turned on to about 3-6 mph. So, it means that it is a typical day in Hawaii. It is going to be another green Christmas and if the weather follows tradition, there will be some rain on Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year. It is the rainy season after all.

I am still waiting for the shiso to bloom and the plumeria leaves to drop.
Sunrise is 6:31 a.m. and sunset will be 5:59 p.m. So I have 11 hours 28 min and 10 seconds of daylight today.

If you are going to the beach, it is a nice day for surfing. The big surf usually arrives in January.

HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES

Surf along south facing shores will be 8 to 12 feet through Friday.

Surf along north facing shores will be 5 to 8 feet through Friday.

Surf along west facing shores will be 6 to 10 feet through Friday.

Surf along east facing shores will be 2 to 4 feet through Friday.

[digitS']

We picked up 2/3" of rain, then had a blue sky Saturday.

Since late last night, the other 1/3" inch of rain has fallen. Yay! There may be a little more and the WS is suggesting a showery week. I like how the WS meteorologist puts it in the forecast discussion: "This will keep the region under a persistent northwest jet aloft which will transport a corridor of rich atmospheric moisture into the region and sling a pair of shortwaves through."

Plant life may not immediately benefit. At the highest elevations, this precipitation is likely all snow. Note that - travelers driving over the Rockies and Cascades. The soil is very dry but perennials must be dormant even at lower elevations because of continuous nighttime freezing. Don't know tho, I have seen a gnats, flies and mosquitoes this last week after so many afternoons in the 60's. Wildlife!

Steve

[imafan26]

It is 73 degrees now and it rained hard a little while ago. It has slowed to a drizzle. More rain is on its way. The humidity is 99% and no wind so the rain is relatively warm. The air conditioner at work is broken, so a lot of people are taking their breaks in their cars so they can turn the air conditioning on. That is the one thing in Hawaii that is cheap. Heat is free.

[Gary350]

Nov 1 no frost & no freeze. 2 weeks ago it was 33 for 2 nights. Rain & 60s & low 70s this week. More 70 weather Sun & Mon.