How's your weather?

[karstopography]

Very dark out there for 3:45 pm. Lots of thundering. Rain just started.

[TomatoNut95]

It's about to rain again. Anybody got blueprints for a mini-Ark?

[karstopography]

That was an intense thunderstorm. Unreal wind was the main feature. An inch of rain fell in a very brief period. Fixing to take a walk up the driveway to see what all in the way of limbs or trees fell. Plenty of branches down around the house.

[SpookyShoe]

Just lost power.

[Tormato]

Blueberry size hail falling from the sky right now.

[svalli]

Last week we had couple of minus degree (Celcius) nights and daytime highs blow 5°C, but now it is finally warming up. Next ten days forecast is just sunshine and nighttime temperature should be above 5°C. I was digging my raised beds last night and the uncovered ones were still frozen in the middle, so no planting in them yet, but soon I hope.

It was so great yesterday to go outside without a jacket and still feel comfortable. I love spring!

[karstopography]

Got down to 61° last night after the intense storm blew through and stayed in the low 60s all night. The crazy strong wind coming out of the storm itself was cold, I went in and put a jacket on to avoid being chilled. Most all my storm observations were done from the relative safety of the garage with the large door open. I could see the lake to the north and also the garden. We have overhanging eaves that are not standard but have soffits measured in feet rather than inches. Still, the wind at several points blew in rain and leafy debris to the point I was soaked and I held tightly onto the door jamb and tucked around the wall a bit to prevent being sucked out into the maelstrom. I was ready to leap behind the wall for safety, but still was too fascinated by the storm not to look at it.

We drove around the neighborhood yesterday evening after everything calmed and saw three or four trees blown down. Our neighbor has an Ash tree blown onto the power and cable utility lines, but only barely and not enough to take out the service. We got one brief power disruption some time after the storm blew through. The airport to our NNE by three miles or so got 1.84” in the hour, they record rainfall in hour increments. We did not get nearly that amount. The airport recorded winds over 40 mph, but I’d say our winds were more than that at times. I don’t know if the airport simply measures the wind at the time stamp of the hour increment or if the maximum wind is anything that occurs anytime during the recording hour period.

My tomato plants mostly all, more or less, are big sails at this point of the season and most faired pretty well. Brandywine Cowlick’s got tilted over a little and blown into Pruden’s purple, the bamboo support failed at the ground level. I had all the stakes linked together by sisal twine near the top so that kept the tilting rather controlled and inward and not catastrophic and outward.

Another advantage, as far as growing tomatoes In windy areas, of Pruden’s Purple is it is a low amount of foliage for a potato leafed type, therefore, less prone to wind damage or wind pressures. Black from Tula and Creamsicle Grape got tilted out of the vertical by a few degrees. Both are tall plants with lots of foliage.

[bower]

Glad to hear your tomato plants were spared the worst @karstopography .

[oldwelder]

Rain, Rain and more Rain

[Tormato]

Yesterday was the first really nice day of the year, sunny, and about 80.

[AKgardener]

Gonna be 60 today

[karstopography]

This might turn out to be the hottest day to date for 2024. 87° currently, but there’s no cloud cover and little wind. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 90° mark gets hit. 61° was the low this morning. A 50/50 shot at some rain and storms tomorrow then lots of sun for the weekend and all next week and very warm.

[Wildcat82]

Spring is over and now the summer heat wave is here. If you had planted your Rodeo tomatoes the last week of March like the horticulture PhD's around here recommend, you're probably going to get shut out the 3rd time in 4 years.

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[JRinPA]

The book said it should work....it was written in black and white!

[maxjohnson]

Too much rain.

[TomatoNut95]

Too much rain.

I'll say!!! After 2 beautiful summer days, its going to rain/storm again tomorrow. My poor rotting garden!

[habitat-gardener]

Over 90F last week and today, 77F next Wednesday, but the rainy season is over. Dry from now until October.

[bower]

We're definitely getting our share of 'too much rain' this season.
Today, it's just foggy. Dry enough for me!

[GoDawgs]

We got 1" of needed rain in an hour yesterday afternoon from a pop-up t-storm. Today will be pretty so it's laundry day because the next few days should have some rain. "Solar" clothes dryer, ya know.

The next ten days should see temps in the mid 80's with a breeze each day. A nice May we're having. Some years it gets hot early but not this year it seems.

[Tormato]

The weather blob ain't leavin'.

So, it looks like this will be the second day, of two days of 60 degrees with rain.