Numbhead (imported) wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2017 10:31 am About 10" of snow on the ground and still falling. Wind is picking up causing whiteout conditions. Of course snow has to be the light fluffy kind just what the wind likes.

Is that the big snow flake light fluffy kind or

the iddy biddy snow flake powdery, fluffy sort?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Oh the small fine flakes.

We just got dump on snow 6+"wind driven now 7"F wind chill -4"F. We have this a train of storms coming. Oh well this is Maine.

About 70, sunny with some high cirrus in St. George / Cedar City, Utah today. Really a nice day.

Mid 40s here in Minneapolis. Saw a number of folks out in short pants and sleeves. Most still wore jackets. I did drive all day with the window down half way

kristoff wrote: Sat Feb 11, 2017 4:13 pm Mid 40s here in Minneapolis. Saw a number of folks out in short pants and sleeves. Most still wore jackets. I did drive all day with the window down half way

Tomorrow western PA is supposed to get to 50 Deg F. That's the length of time it takes for weather to move across the USA.

BTW - that length of time is how Punxsutawney Phil predicts and early winter of another 6 weeks.

People watched storms move across the USA in approximately ten days. The belief is that if Punxsutawney is cloudy (having a winter storm) that there will be an odd number of winter storms and a late winter. If that storm has passed and Punxsutawney is sunny, then there will be an even number of winter storms left in that particular winter cycle. That isn't particularly true since Phil the Groundhog has only a 39% success rate. These variations were the way that the Olde Farmer's Almanac was compiled. Why was it called "the olde farmer's almanac" because farmers used it to plant seed after the first frost and harvest the second crop of certain plants before the first frost of the next winter.

Farm Extension Bureaus (whatever they are called) is every state have better weather forecasting models nowadays for farmers to use.

Last Friday's rain was barely a wetting while it flooded Oroville dam to the breaking point.

Another series of storms is due Friday and for a good 23, no not 24, 23 hours of 100% rain predicted.

With showers and rain for another day or two.

This is better than the El Ninozilla season, fershur

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moi621 (imported) wrote: Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:43 pm on fruiting pear trees that line my n'hood streets are

white balls of blossoms on trunks.

Shelling peas are about 3" now and receiving their first tie. The spouted lettuce never produced a leaf after the initial 2. Is it dead or in a holding pattern?

Moi

Lettuce doesn't like hot weather. The cooler, the better for it.

Paolo wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:06 am Lettuce doesn't like hot weather. The cooler, the better for it.

Thank you

That's why I planted my lettuce and sweet shelling peas early.

No threat of frost. Most days just below 70F.

Rain and clouds are driving away the sun this weekend.