How's your weather?

[bower]

Glad to hear your toes are dry @Coastal but what a sad mess! I hope your move is short and uneventful!

[Dee]

20-30 cm of snow is forecast for this area. Looks like ~15cm is down so far. -16 degrees C at the moment.

[karstopography]

57 degrees this morning, 14 C. Beautiful. Heading for 78, 26 C. Brilliant sunshine. Planted about 100 onion sets yesterday, perfect weather for planting, cool and comfortable, high 60s. Sets $2.25/bunch probably 70-80 onions per bunch. Have leftovers slated for my son. Put in 1015 Legend and Texas Red, short day types. Planted touchon carrot seeds, also a Japanese red and a Cosmic purple type and batavian endive seeds, buttercrunch lettuce and lieutenant broccoli sets. Thinking I’m about done with any planting out in the garden until February.

[worth1]

Pouring down rain and cold.

[pepperhead212]

It's been very cool and windy here, for several days, with a little rain, but not much. The temps are about 10° cooler than average, though tomorrow it is supposed to get close to average for one day.

[bower]

It's been pretty rainy here, but warmer than average with highs even getting to 'double digits' that is over 10C/50F a number of days, and a stretch of days without frosty nights. If it wasn't so wet it might be nice to get out for those last minute neglected garden jobs.
We did not get the 'atmospheric river' here in Eastern NL, which washed out the highways in at least 4 places across western NL. It is a disaster, for sure, but not nearly as bad as what the west coast of Canada is facing.
Very ironic to see these 'rivers' on both sides of Canada in the same week.
From what I have read though, western North America is a lot more vulnerable to this weather pattern which is turning into disastrous extreme events.

[karstopography]

https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-w ... go/1056266

Not mine, but have y’all seen Alaska? Yikes, I have a bad feeling about this breaking loose and come our way at some point. All that cold gets bottled up for only so long until it busts out and heads right down the edge of the Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico. Anyway, this won’t stay contained in Alaska for the remainder of winter. Someone is going to get to share this.

[GoDawgs]

It's been unusually warm here. It hit 81 yesterday. And it's been very dry as the whole month of November through now we've only had 0.3" of rain. There's a slight possibility on Tuesday when a front comes through but I'll believe it when I see it.

[rxkeith]

temps in the low 20s to mid 30s lately have made the back roads icy making slow driving necessary.
snow showers every day. there is a front coming in tomorrow that is predicted to drop a foot or more
of snow by monday according to john dee that should make things interesting for a couple days.


keith

[bower]

That is nasty cold in Alaska @karstopography . Those stationary systems are the source of some awful havoc, when they block other systems from just flowing along and changing it up a bit for all concerned!
Well there's no blocking pattern in sight this week here in the northeast, with a roller coaster of changes. Yesterday we had a rain storm with very high winds from the south and around 30 mm of rain, temperatures went to 11 C. Today the wind is howling from the West and the temp must be freezing or close. Half hour of horizontal pelting snow this morning, like blizzard conditions, and left the ground covered but turned clear and sunny now - for the moment. Wind continues to howl and no sign the snow is ready to melt. I just hope that the aphids are getting the message - season is over! Windchills are going to -10 C today and the high won't crack zero tomorrow. Ah but on Wednesday another rainstorm is expected from the south, with highs in the double digits, followed by a string of days below freezing. We may even get some snow accumulating before the week is out....
I just hope the whole winter is not like it, with the yoyo of warm heavy rain and plummeting below freezing. Worst possible winters for garlic. I certainly love a few warm days to break up the cold, but when they're all extremely wet you don't get any of the benefits.

[slugworth]

Blizzard warnings in Hawaii,so don't feel bad.
https://www.newser.com/story/314115/bli ... orld_img_b

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

One thing's for sure, fall's behind us, in these here parts, leastways.

How can I tell? 1st measurable snowfall accumulation and, for the first time since last April, I had to wear footwear sturdier than flip-flops to get the paper and, this being a GAME DAY, set out our Badger Flags.

Glass half full?

Haven't moth-balled the WESconsin Athletics shorts...yet...

ON WISCONSIN!!

The Gotch

[karstopography]

Record heat the last couple of days, low 80s. Nearby Houston was in the upper 80s, two days of record temperatures. Now 62 and won’t get any warmer today with a frontal passage earlier this morning. Got a little rain with the front, but the sun is poking out now. Lots of wind.

Overall, a very warm fall here. Should have set out some tomatoes back in September.

[bower]

No shorts being worn here. Windchills of -15 C after snow-ice pellet-rain-snow event and temp down to -10 C last night. Flurries drifting down on the layer of hard crust that I "shoveled" or rather chipped out somewhat yesterday. Not too deep, luckily. Ice below but well bonded to the upper layer.
This week is nuts. Gale force winds from south with rain. Gale force winds from north with snow and ice. And on Sunday, gales from Southwest this time, more rain and double digits C (50 F+) forecast.
I cleverly stood up my downed trellis after the southerly gale and before the northerly, adding braces to the north. Figure it is better off standing than crushed under snow for the winter. It held up to the wind gusting 105 + kph from the north, but next it's going SW and IDK if those braces will hold er up.
Either way, enough with the scary wind speeds, hoping we will fill our 2021 quota with this third one.

[worth1]

The other day the guys didn't look at the weather and came to work in tee shirts.
Then around 9 or so in the morning a vertical wall of ice cold air hit like a runaway train coming out of the north.
Earlier they had looked at me crazy because I wore a hooded sweater to work in 70F degree weather.
Seems as though Tik Tok Instagram or none of the other various social media they look at every day mentioned the weather on their smartphones.
I literally had to show them how to instantly find the weather on their phones.
It's a little temperature reading up on the left when you open Google.
Touch it and the weather forecast comes up for the day tomorrow and the next ten days.
Humidity.
Wind and direction.
Precipitation.
Temperature.
Barometric pressure.
Phase of the moon.
Cloud cover.
Price of pork belly.
And so on.
Well I'll be one of them exclaimed.
I never knew that another replied.

[Spike]

So much wind! But the temps were up to 64° today and we were able to slightly open the windows and get some wonderful fresh air. Totally not normal for mid December.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Jeepers @Bower, you's live in a wind tunnel? We have a marvelous array of wind chimes, which are intoxicatingly melodious in 15-20 mph/24.14-36.21 kph breezes.

We get anything like what you's report? They'd end up in Lake Michigan, the Mississippi or WESconsin River, or (God Forbid!) ELLinois.

One of the reasons we bought a south facing domicile is that El Sol would melt meager early-n-late season snow accumulations on the driveway and sidewalk; that delivered today.

It was slipperier that HALE during my a.m. run, tall neighborhood trees inhibit sun on east-west streets, which is most of my course.

Watching/measuring my steps more carefully (heightened for degree of difficulty) or shoveling? I'll go with the former every time, if there's a choice; there usually isn't.

FUN FACT: Hurley, WI received 16.5 inches/41.9 cms of snow last week, they're just over three (3) feet/~one (1) meter for the season; that's considered a slow start....

Glass half full?

At least the Garlic's in, am I right?

The Gotch

[Growing Coastal]

Poor Kentucky! How often does this happen? It doesn't seem survivable. Horrific!

[rxkeith]

no tornadoes here thank God, just snow.
we have had three storms dump at least 6 inches each time over the past week.
somewhere between 6 and 8 inches fell from early morning until about 11am today.
then the snow stopped, and it became sunny with blue sky not a cloud to be seen
for several hours. it was like two different days in one. side roads are a mess because
the county plow hasn't been by yet. it is supposed to get in the upper 30s to low 40s this coming
week. this latest snow puts us at about 3 feet for the season. it has been a slow start snow wise
here in the keweenaw, but we can make that up in bunches, and probably will.


keith

[bower]

The tornado "swarm" came up in the news as I was going to bed last night. Just awful! Hoping all our gardening peeps are safe. I saw a map of the 'swarm' and there was a lot of action in Illinois as well, and neighboring states, by oh my Kentucky. So sad to see that. The same system knocked out power in southern Ontario with lines and trees downed. It has reached us and is starting to blow here but no worries as the forecast has scaled back to a mere 100 kph tops, we don't expect to see damage. Leftovers of the ferocious thing.
@Gotch we are one of the windiest inhabited places on earth here, but even for us the past week was excessive.
However we do not get tornadoes, ever.
I am so grateful for that!