How's your weather?

[karstopography]

Really terrible, that’s how it is. 4 plus inches of rain overnight, yard flooded, still raining, power is out, yada yada. NSFW words. NSFW word these weather systems that love to park themselves over us and never leave.

[worth1]

Thunderstorms all night.
Love it.

[GoDawgs]

It has been so nice with temps in the low 80's accompanied by cool breezes. Perfect! But here comes summer, starting tomorrow. Good bye cool breezes, hello air conditioning.

[bower]

"Low 80's accompanied by cool breezes" - that's exactly what it's been like in my greenhouse for the past couple days, planting the tomatoes. Outdoor temperatures this week went to 50 F or just above with a fair bit of sunshine and light winds for a change although they sure are cool. Very nice all the same. Garden is really on the dry side now, and we expect high 60's F for two days this weekend before we get back to a chance of rain on Monday. It's planting madness time!

[pepperhead212]

Today is supposed to be the hottest day of the year, so far - 88°, so it will be the first day I turn on my AC. These other days I've put off turning it on, but it's staying hot well into the evenings, so I'm going to bite the bullet...and be comfortable! Good thing is that the humidity has been very low, due to the lack of rain, which we really need.

[rxkeith]

the weather here has been freaky good lately. plants were put outside to harden off about ten
days ago. highs in the 60s, and 70s, and lows have been in the mid 40s or 50s. the weather appears
to be about three weeks ahead of schedule. i am almost tempted to plant a few tomatoes early.
i say almost because i have lived here long enough to see frost into june. so, we will see.
along with the warmer weather, bug season starts. we have mosquitos, and black flies making their
presence known. i have to put the bug vest on while working in the garden in order to get anything
done without getting chunks taken out of me.


keith

[karstopography]

Foggy, 64 F, sort of on the cool side for these parts this late in May. Megatons of rainfall yesterday 5.5, 6 inches, IDK, I got tired of adding it all up, 1.5” two days prior. That’s how it is here. Two month’s worth of rain in two-three days. Thank goodness for the raised beds because the tomatoes haven’t split at all. Things look pretty good out in the garden in spite of the superabundance of precipitation. Tomatoes all seem extra late this year, I suppose all the extra water and the lack of heat and sun shine delay ripening. Big, massive green tomatoes out there just putting on weight, nothing to pressure them into growing up and leaving the nest! I’ve picked about 7lbs so far and even those were around 10 days plus days to maturity.

Doesn’t look like it will be too sunny or too hot today and that should help things adjust to the all the extra water. Nothing worse than a cloudless, sunny, blistering hot day after a days of deluge for destruction in the garden. Saw photos of gardens literally steamed to death in their own juices the last time this happened not too far away only a couple of weeks ago. Of course, these gardeners neglected adding any temperature moderating mulch layer to cover the exposed dark soil. Nothing worse than seeing photos of a garden with 5 foot tall tomato plants with wet feet all sun wilted beyond redemption. Relentless hot subtropical sun + exposed dark and water logged soil = boiled in their own juices tomato plants.

Possibly more rain Friday-Sunday. Bring it on.

[pondgardener]

[mention]GoDawgs[/mention] It's starting to heat up here too...87˚F expected starting today. But since this area has low humidity(usually), we use our whole house fan to cool things down and it stays comfortable the whole day. Time to get out and plant some corn circles!

[mention]karstopography[/mention] We just got finished with getting 3" of rain in a 24 hour period, over 20% of our yearly precipitation...and reading about how much rain other parts of the country get, I cannot imagine those amounts happening here. We have been in a severe drought situation anyway, so this sure alleviated a good part of it. It did get the garden ready to plant though...

[GoDawgs]

[mention]karstopography[/mention] ,. so that's why we're so dry here.... y'all have been hoarding rain in Texas!

Seriously though, that's too much rain at once for sure. At least the raised beds have helped.

[mention]pondgardner[/mention] , it's been dry air here too which is a blessed change from the usual high humidity. I'm afraid the usual will be coming back sooner than I'd like.

[bower]

The first blackflies were out here today too - just a few so far. Guess they're getting ready for the hot holiday weekend. This is the weekend the parks open for camping every year. If we don't have snow, it's blackflies. Gotta get those campers.
Two cabbage butterflies in the garden today, wow. They're earlier than cabbage. Two bumblebees yesterday. Dandelions are starting to bloom. First blooms on wild strawberries too.
The beautiful weather is deceptive - greenhouse roof was white with frost this morning! But inside low just 49 F. No worries, as long as the days are sunny.

[Whwoz]

Yesterday was borderline for frost, today was a good one by our standards, -3C or 27F.

[karstopography]

More rain. Had Another inch overnight, more rain slated for today, tomorrow and into Tuesday. The Gulf of Mexico is open for business.

[pepperhead212]

Supposed to get even hotter today, after the first day in the 90s yesterday - 94° forecast, and it was already into the 80s when I came down at 9 am. I went out there briefly, to make sure that all those emitters were operating properly, but that was all I had to do. Staying inside most of the day today!

[karstopography]

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What 10” + of rain looks like. Another 1.5” today, no end in sight.

[bower]

Well our forecast got revised to the more traditional holiday weekend. This is when the parks open and campers have to get out for the first weekend, so it snows. We hit 20 C (68 F) yesterday for the first time since early October, today got up to 14 C (57F), then it started to rain and the temperature is dropping to 1C (34F) tonight, and as much as 2 cm of snow on higher terrain in the mix with about 25 mm rain. Nothing like what you're getting in SE Texas! We need the rain, not so much the snow. High for the holiday monday will be just 4 C/ 39F and dropping to -1C in case there are any campers staying out for an extra night.

[rxkeith]

well the worm has turned as i was afraid it would.
yesterday, it reached 80 degrees, today it was in the 40s. we had a few days of
rain, gentle rain off and on one day, then a day with cloud bursts dumping rain over
short periods of time. no rain today, juist cool and breezy. upcoming week, we are looking
at temps in the 50s, and a couple days with lows in the high 30s that make me want to bring
the plants in doors over night. these big temperature drops are a bit difficult to handle.


keith

[MrBig46]

So far, no warming of the planet in our country. It's cold and it's raining every day. Not much, but there's nothing you can do in the garden. Tomatoes planted two weeks ago do not grow, the leaves play in all colors, yellow, light green, dark green, purple, ...)
Vladimrí

[bower]

47 F in the greenhouse this morning, with snow on the ground outside and flurries or graupel showers now and then. Little snow pellets that bounce. I'm hoping for a glimmer of sun at any point to day because that's all it takes to warm it a bit before tonight's frost. Tomatoes have been in their containers for almost a week so I'm not too worried about handling the stress, but with strong north and NW winds the temperature drop will be at its max.

[karstopography]

Thundering at the moment. Didn’t rain hardly at all overnight. Don’t think we’ll be that lucky today. Turtles, ducks, and frogs loving this weather. Mostly gloomy out there. Just need a mad scientist and a castle on a mountain and the picture would be complete.

[bower]

Arrr. The sun came peeking out from the clouds and I thought, this is my chance to get an hour in the garden. Not 5 minutes out there when suddenly pelted with graupel on that gusty wind 40--50 mph NW. Had to scarper back to the house. I mean, I was just going to transplant a few perennials for starters, but... they'll probably be happy to wait. I don't mind, I prefer working in the cold if it's hard enough work, but not to get drenched or worse pelted in the face with bouncy snow.