Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:27 pm
First day in the 90s of the year very humid hit 90 by 10:00 am high 91 at 2:00 pm
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Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 5:27 am
The weather-guessers said on Tuesday that yesterday would be the hottest day of the year so far, and they were right. Weather Underground officially logged a high of 101F with a heat index of 115F here in town. This was at the local WU station. The local news low-balled it, of course. We had another gully-washer of a storm move in last night as well, with another inch or so of rain that we didn't need. The forecast for today calls for a high of 87F, which means that it will probably hit 95F again.
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 6:07 am
Four more gully washers like that and you will be up to Pahrump's average rainfall.
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 1:51 pm
It hit 95F again this afternoon, with an index of 100F. Just as I predicted. Looks like rain again over in the west.
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 8:46 pm
Finally - thunderstorms, squall lines and rain. It is monsoon season! My favorite for dramatic, gorgeous skies.
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:13 pm
:-\Cloudy humid about 70F fill like 77F. I haven see the Chipmunk lately.
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 6:06 am
It hasn't rained in a week, and the temp has dropped to almost below 90F.
Looking at projections, it seems that the remnants of Barry, when that storm makes its way inland, will come right up the Mississippi and go right over my head!
Crops that are planted aren't really growing much; just sitting there and looking sad.
I only have one good tomato plant going: a Cherokee Heirloom purple with a softball-sized fruit on it (and more smaller ones). I pruned it, and took off the suckers. The only reason it's going so well is that I got it early in May and it spent a month in a large pot in the middle of the kitchen table until the first of June. Winter tends to want to linger here until the middle of May, thus shortening the growing season. The rest of the tomatoes are a somewhat pathetic lot. They're healthy, but small, and many haven't even bloomed yet. If the heat index stays over 100F, there's not much chance that they'll do anything.
I'm not a fan of turnips, unless they're small and raw, but we sort of used them as groundcover, in hopes that they'd choke out the quickweed:
https://northernbushcraft.com/topic.php ... ble_plants
We didn't have this stuff around here, until it came in a bag of garden soil used to fill 'tomato holes', as the clay soil here isn't great for young plants to spread roots. Now it's everywhere. It literally grows up behind you as you pull it, much like wild garlic mustard:
http://www.invadingspecies.com/garlic-mustard/
I also have no hopes for the Big Bertha bell peppers. I have a variety of collected heirloom pepper seeds, and hybrids that I and the bees created, but I didn't start any this year. The plants are just sitting, and those that set fruit aren't going so well.
The large pots (5 gallon and larger) with sweet potatoes in them are doing great, though. Last year, one of the smaller pots for a late plant grew so well that it hid the pot. That fall, when I cleared the foliage, I found the plastic pot shattered and a mass of large potatoes just sitting in the soil on top of the ground. About 5 lbs. worth.
Looking at projections, it seems that the remnants of Barry, when that storm makes its way inland, will come right up the Mississippi and go right over my head!
Crops that are planted aren't really growing much; just sitting there and looking sad.
I only have one good tomato plant going: a Cherokee Heirloom purple with a softball-sized fruit on it (and more smaller ones). I pruned it, and took off the suckers. The only reason it's going so well is that I got it early in May and it spent a month in a large pot in the middle of the kitchen table until the first of June. Winter tends to want to linger here until the middle of May, thus shortening the growing season. The rest of the tomatoes are a somewhat pathetic lot. They're healthy, but small, and many haven't even bloomed yet. If the heat index stays over 100F, there's not much chance that they'll do anything.
I'm not a fan of turnips, unless they're small and raw, but we sort of used them as groundcover, in hopes that they'd choke out the quickweed:
https://northernbushcraft.com/topic.php ... ble_plants
We didn't have this stuff around here, until it came in a bag of garden soil used to fill 'tomato holes', as the clay soil here isn't great for young plants to spread roots. Now it's everywhere. It literally grows up behind you as you pull it, much like wild garlic mustard:
http://www.invadingspecies.com/garlic-mustard/
I also have no hopes for the Big Bertha bell peppers. I have a variety of collected heirloom pepper seeds, and hybrids that I and the bees created, but I didn't start any this year. The plants are just sitting, and those that set fruit aren't going so well.
The large pots (5 gallon and larger) with sweet potatoes in them are doing great, though. Last year, one of the smaller pots for a late plant grew so well that it hid the pot. That fall, when I cleared the foliage, I found the plastic pot shattered and a mass of large potatoes just sitting in the soil on top of the ground. About 5 lbs. worth.
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:55 pm
An unusual early AM for the sameness of it all.
A mild fog.
Did a double take, looked here and there and
There Be Light Fog.
It quickly cleared with a breeze, and amid the bright
morning sun, SUDDENLY
a "marine layer" moved in.
Hours later to release the bright and warming sun, again.
It is nice to be out of them drought years.
73F / 65F
Moi
A mild fog.
Did a double take, looked here and there and
There Be Light Fog.
It quickly cleared with a breeze, and amid the bright
morning sun, SUDDENLY
a "marine layer" moved in.
Hours later to release the bright and warming sun, again.
It is nice to be out of them drought years.
73F / 65F
Moi
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 2:06 pm
Scraps of Tropical Storm Barry arrived today, and we got a couple of localized downbursts. I finally got one here at the house, filled my rain barrel.
The weather guessers have finally gotten honest, I think, and admitted that we're looking at a week of 95F highs (not counting heat index) this week, through the weekend. After a month or so of outright lying, and then last night saying we'd only had 1 day of a H.I. over 100F...which isn't true. Almost every day this July, I've logged Weather Underground showing a heat index well over 100F for our town. What remains to be seen is whether they are lowballing this as well, and we're actually going to have temperatures of 100F or more.
The weather guessers have finally gotten honest, I think, and admitted that we're looking at a week of 95F highs (not counting heat index) this week, through the weekend. After a month or so of outright lying, and then last night saying we'd only had 1 day of a H.I. over 100F...which isn't true. Almost every day this July, I've logged Weather Underground showing a heat index well over 100F for our town. What remains to be seen is whether they are lowballing this as well, and we're actually going to have temperatures of 100F or more.
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 2:42 pm
73F / 65F
Moi
What a wuss-assed temperature range. Real eunuchs live on the Altiplano where the range can be 30 deg. and the sunny side of the street is hot while the shady side is cold or down on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon where you are alternatively baked or chilled, depending if the wind is coming off the river water or canyon walls.
Moi
What a wuss-assed temperature range. Real eunuchs live on the Altiplano where the range can be 30 deg. and the sunny side of the street is hot while the shady side is cold or down on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon where you are alternatively baked or chilled, depending if the wind is coming off the river water or canyon walls.