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Weather check

9 years ago

Good Morning from ND
Temp 0, was below last night, still some snow on the ground. Expect cold temp thru Thanksgiving
Wind chill in some areas last night around 20 below
Have a great day
Marie from Minot ND
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alisande
9 years ago
Two inches of snow overnight in NE PA. Temp unknown, but cold enough to freeze water. Definitely not zero though, and thank heavens for that. I don't think I'd do well in ND, Marie.
Marilyn Sue McClintock
9 years ago
It is up to 30 now. This morning I think the low may have been 19. It is sunny but cold out here in central Indiana.

Sue
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Paula, I worry about you and Ken and all that high water. Y'all be extra careful! After all these years of fearing that wildfire would burn us all out of our homes, now we are at the other end of the spectrum. It hasn't even taken hail to knock fruit off our plum trees. Every time we have had really high wind and heavy rain together, the ground is covered with fruit. I still hope to get enough plums to make some jelly, but that looks more and more iffy every day. My garden is the same as yours---without raised beds, there simply would be no garden left to produce anything. This week I yanked out the snap peas----the plants, though heavily loaded with peas and still in bloom, were rotting off at the ground, and they are in raised beds. I harvested all I could find as I pulled out each plant and put it on the compost pile. I'm not going to plant anything else in the ground where they were growing until we have had a few days of sunshine to dry out the waterlogged soil in those raised beds. I fear that any seed sowed there now would just rot or wash away anyhow. Robert, What is a sunny day? (grin) I feel like we have become obsessed with mowing and edging the property, precisely because we cannot do it. On the first sunny, dry-ish day we get, Tim will be mowing, and I'll be out there with the string trimmer tidying up the edges, and along fence lines and such. Tim did mow the other day, so at least the grass in the area closest to the house, garden and outbuildings is low, but the roadside and the pastures are high. You know, that snakey sort of high. I can't wait for us to at least be able to mow pathways through the fields. After Tim mowed the other day, he had just parked the riding mower in the garage when gas became pouring out from underneath it. As he was pushing it back out of the garage, I was running to the house to grab cat litter to absorb the spilled gasoline. He eventually found a hose loose and then two parts on the ground that surely must have had something to do with the loose hose, which I assume was a fuel line. So, before he can mow again, he'll have to fix the mower again. It is always something, isn't it? We've never had to work so hard just to mow the grass. Larry, Thanks for the laugh! You always say something that puts a smile on my face. I like the idea of a boat delivered by a drone. Yesterday when I heard the UPS truck coming down the road (you can hear it from a long way off once you are used to what it sounds like) I went down the driveway to meet the driver down at the road. I wouldn't have wanted for him to bring that big old truck up our flooded driveway as he might have gotten stuck in the mud. Has anyone here been counting days and nights of rain? Is anyone approaching 40 days and 40 nights? It might be time to start building an ark, and if I was building that ark, it would have two sections---one for two of each kind of animal and the other for two of each kind of plant. Oh, who am I kidding? It would have a third section for 100 tomato plants. Dawn
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North of Chicago along Lake Michigan. We may have already *had* our winter -- lots of snow. (Kidding.) Today's high may break a record of 55F, but then we go back to the twenties tonight. Happy to see our driveway again (dark gravel, but north-facing). Blue skies here, decorated with FAST-moving clouds out of the west. DIL's sister and family were delayed coming in from SLC yesterday. Hard to get TO the airport in a storm, then two hours on a plane that cancelled, then more time waiting in the airport for an eventual flight to ORD. (Well, I *think* they got here; saw flights moving later in the day. To those living in the Dakotas: Didn't the native Americans *go south* in winter? Something to think about? LOL
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Lake County, Illinois. We had 5 - 7 inches of rain overnight and into the morning, with another three predicted tonight. Highways flooded. Commuter rail halted. It's been a wet year, so the ground was already saturated. Lake Michigan has had high levels all year. This was a chain of fast-moving downpours. We live along a 'creek' that was dug deeper to drain fields in the late 1800's. The banks are at least 12 feet high. Right now the water is a couple feet over the banks and almost touching the bottom of the bridge. It's like a flume today. The low corner of our back yard has more water than we've seen in 16 years. That will eventually clear. I'm concerned with a small 'pond' that forms on the higher side of our house, between us and our neighbor. (This only became a problem after a new home was built there, with a deep basement.) We have power and a working sump in our unfinished basement. I hope it doesn't overheat! Wisconsin also had downpours, and that water will be moving downstream in the major rivers like the Des Plaines and the Fox.
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houstonmom_gw
9 years ago
It's 38ÃÂº here in Houston, and currently 61ÃÂº in my family room. Waiting for our new furnaces to be installed. Brrr!!! Both the upstairs and downstairs units quit working.
chisue
9 years ago
Today's high is predicted to be 31F in Chicagoland, but at least we have SUN! I'm north of the city and about three miles inland of Lake Michigan. It's to continue below normal for another week. This looks a lot like a repeat of last year's extra cold winter. Maybe we won't have as much *snow*; an inch expected Saturday night.
nicole__
9 years ago
Manitou Springs Colorado

Snow still on the ground...maybe 3" left
Temp is rising, now up to 29...heat wave....
Overcast, light cloud covering
gadgets
9 years ago
It's just about 30 here in my part of Ohio. It's been overcast for last 2 days, so the sunshine today is a welcome sight. They're predicting some snow on Monday, but rest of the time is to be cold... approx 20 degrees colder than normal for this time of year.

Shirley
blfenton
9 years ago
South western British Columbia near the Washington border and it is currently -4C (25F) and it will warm up to about 6C (42F) this afternoon. Those are below normal temps for us but it is gorgeous and sunny out. It's been like this since Monday and will continue for a while.
nanny98
9 years ago
We drove our Winnebago up to Salem, Or late yesterday....lots of rain on the way. This morning it is 34 at 8:30 going up to 44 if we are lucky. Apparently many of our Winnebago friends were/are not able to come to our Thanksgiving dinner since there has been an ice warning in place for nearby areas. Hope we can get home Sunday....many mountain passes between here and home.
sjerin
9 years ago
Take care, Nanny! My family and I drove from the Bay Area to Portland one Thanksgiving and were surprised, (as was everyone,) by an early snow fall in the Siskiyous. We lost a chain on the way down and I was a wee bit scared... We made it safely and I could have kissed the ground in Ashland!
sheilajoyce_gw
9 years ago
Chilly here in southern Orange County, California. We are 4 miles from the beach. Rained a little last night, but I don't know the current temperature. Going up to the mid 70s today.
Elmer J Fudd
9 years ago
sheilajoyce, I wasn't sure if any of my fellow Californians were going to join in this thread. I'm a native coastal Californian, right now several hundred miles north of you. The week is supposed to be around 70 here. We've had summer-like weather the past few weeks, excepting one light rain episode a few days ago.

I don't do snow or below freezing temperatures. I also don't do summer humidity. My best wishes to those who have to deal with these.
littlebug5
9 years ago
From the beautiful rolling hills of north Missouri - we had bright sunshine earlier today, but it's gone now. About 28 degrees with clouds moving in. Two inches of snow (a nasty four-letter word) expected tomorrow.

WAAAY too cold this early in the season. Our high temperature today didn't even get up to our normal low temperature.
joann_fl
9 years ago
its going down to 35 degrees tonight in sunny Fla.
jemdandy
9 years ago
Marie:

Northern Wisconsin got plastered with more than a foot of snow. One spot got 4 feet. The heavy snow line came down to the middle of the state. The south part got a few flakes in the air and no ground cover. However, we had a hard freeze last night that put an ice cover on ponds and small lakes. We are scheduled for a 1 inch snow on Sunday and that will not melt with frozen ground - winter has begun! Time to garage the Honda and get out the Jeep.
mamatoad
9 years ago
I think our final high was 80 and it has been slightly overcast all day. Then I was out and about this morning it was a very comfortable 74. I've been picking lemons and getting ready to juice them. We have a bumper crop this year!

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