How's your weather?

[svalli]

It has been below freezing here for the last five days and yesterday it started snowing and still does. We have got about 10 cm of new snow, but it will start warming up tomorrow, so the snow will be gone quickly. There is still one snow pile of the old stuff on our yard, which hopefully melts away soon, when the temperature finally stays above freezing also during nights.

[pepperhead212]

We need rain here, we'll take as much as south jersey can spare.

It's usually the opposite of that - those fronts would sizzle out when they hit the Delaware river, and nothing here! A lot of these worst ones, however, have been coming up from the south. Hopefully, you'll get something in your area.

[AKgardener]

snow is almost gone but the garden bed is ready to be worked..

[Tormato]

Possibly the next two nights at about 28-29 degrees. That's right at the danger zone for fruit tree blossoms already pollinated. I'm not overly worried, because my area of town is usually a degree or two warmer than advertised.

[Whwoz]

Overcast and misty here this ANZAC day. High teens to 20C, so mid to high 60sF.

Tallied up this month's rainfall, a good autumn break with just over 150 mm/6 inches so far.

[Christinajomd]

overcast and maybe severe storms this weekend!

[karstopography]

76°. High was 82°, breezy, looks like more of the same for the foreseeable future. Maybe a chance of rain Sunday into Monday.

[pepperhead212]

Today was only up to 60° here, and tonight they have switched my area into a freeze warning, instead of the freeze watch last night. Still nothing I have to worry about out there - not until May. And the next few days it will be getting warmer faster, up to maybe 86° Tuesday! As always, crazy weather.

[greenthumbomaha]

I live very close, as in less than a mile, but worlds away from the tornados which came thru the area late this afternoon (forecast was spot on!). Most tornados were relatively weak compared to what it could have been. There was a touchdown at the airport, but only the outlying hangers were damaged, not the passenger terminal areas. Sadly someone was hurt in a rural area.

Most reports of residential damage were from Elkhorn, which was annexed by Omaha in the last decade. It's going through a building boom. One older neighborhood had almost every tree down, big old Cottonwoods, some perched on roofs. One the news they interviewed a man who moved into his new home a month ago. What was really an eye opener were these new $800K homes which were partially or completely flattened! Our building codes do not favor longevity or life itself.

I'm having to replace a 70's heavy wood garage door at my remote garden (the place that flooded 5 years ago) because the door is just too heavy for me to lift. I searched to see what 'hurricane" rating was code here , but found nothing on the building site. I choose "6". seemed sturdy enough for ta height and exposure guideline. Well code is "1" or basically nothing. The garage company never sold anything but a 1 and no one asks. It's Nebraska, everyone here is right!

Downed trees have the road closed to my west. Hopefully I can get out and clean out the garage for the installers!
- Lisa

[Sue_CT]

Beautiful day, sunny and about 60 degrees. Suppose to 70s and up to 80 next week. Predictions for Connecticut are that we will have the hottest summer on record.

[karstopography]

Wind advisory for today. Gusts up to 35mph and more in the forecast. I can hear the wind out there, already blowing 33 mph at the nearby airport. Moist air from the Caribbean Sea is inbound and racing north to fuel some nasty storms, looks like Oklahoma City and Kansas City are in the bullseye today.

Probably need to add a few more bamboo stakes today for the tomatoes to reinforce the current ones. The tomato plants are becoming big sails at this point of the season. I need to add more masts in the form of bamboo. A doubling of wind speed quadruples the force exerted on the plants and bamboo stakes supporting the plants. A 10 mph wind has four times the force as a five mph wind. A 20 mph wind sixteen times the force of a five mph wind.

I got plenty of bamboo to work with and strong sisal baling line to bind the current stakes to the reinforcement. Good fun it is swinging the machete to harvest the bamboo. With all the trimming, sawing, cutting, hauling, lifting, burning I’ve been doing lately I might actually be getting into fine physical shape.

[karstopography]

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We heard a big cracking noise and crash outside and went out to investigate. Turns out it was the neighbor’s trees. A big water oak and a green ash with their super structure twisted off in the wind. No storms or rain, just gusty winds. Airport has the wind at 41mph.

[pepperhead212]

Thursday night it got down to 34° on my back thermometer, and last night it got down to 36°; one more below average day, around 62°, then it starts getting into the 80s, and staying in the 50s or 60s for the lows. Tomatoes will be hardening off soon! Good thing is, wind every day is forecast @ 5-10 mph.

[maxjohnson]

I dictate warm season is here. It's growing time.

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[wykvlvr]

snowing and no I am not bringing in the aloe I just set out 2 days ago... but glad I decided to harden off those greenhouse strawberry plants...

[Yak54]

Although not predicted it reached 80 deg. today with no sunshine and a few sprinkles. Tomorrow it says 75 and Monday 77 deg. we shall see what really happens.

[TomatoNut95]

Brutal storms coming for my area Sunday night. So if nobody hears from me after Sunday it means I was flattened in a tornado.

[AKgardener]

Hit 60 today loving it

[JRinPA]

I live very close, as in less than a mile, but worlds away from the tornados which came thru the area late this afternoon (forecast was spot on!). Most tornados were relatively weak compared to what it could have been. There was a touchdown at the airport, but only the outlying hangers were damaged, not the passenger terminal areas. Sadly someone was hurt in a rural area.

Most reports of residential damage were from Elkhorn, which was annexed by Omaha in the last decade. It's going through a building boom. One older neighborhood had almost every tree down, big old Cottonwoods, some perched on roofs. One the news they interviewed a man who moved into his new home a month ago. What was really an eye opener were these new $800K homes which were partially or completely flattened! Our building codes do not favor longevity or life itself.

I'm having to replace a 70's heavy wood garage door at my remote garden (the place that flooded 5 years ago) because the door is just too heavy for me to lift. I searched to see what 'hurricane" rating was code here , but found nothing on the building site. I choose "6". seemed sturdy enough for ta height and exposure guideline. Well code is "1" or basically nothing. The garage company never sold anything but a 1 and no one asks. It's Nebraska, everyone here is right!

Downed trees have the road closed to my west. Hopefully I can get out and clean out the garage for the installers!
- Lisa

If I lived in tornado country...might be an actual good reason not to block the cell phone alerts. First thing I do, seem to have redo every time it upgrades. But tornado alerts, actually useful.

You say it went through right where they said it would? If it had been forecast for your street/house, would you have bugged out or buttoned down and gone in the cellar?

Re-reading, did you mean forecast for the timing was spot on? I thought you meant location when I first read it.

[pepperhead212]

Another hot day, getting to 86°, several degrees hotter than originally forecast. And tomorrow is now forecast for 80° - warmer than originally expected, but not as bad as today or yesterday. And maybe no rain tomorrow morning now, in this area, so maybe I can get started earlier on the tomatoes.