Officially at the airport station in town, 37F. Dew point got down to 28F at times, hovered around freezing for a few hours.
On the table on our back deck, where the sending unit is sitting about 4' off ground level and close to the house: 38F
Here's the kicker though. I went out to feed the chickens, noticed one of the waterers was empty and as it's supposed to go to 90F today figured I better fill it for the day. Went and turned on the hose that goes to the compost piles, which has a shut off valve on the end. Get the waterer, go over to the hose, turn the shut off, just a little stream of water coming out? Waited to see if the hose cleared any air that might have gotten in it. Nope, no hissing of air, just a tine spritzer of water. Let it run for a few minutes and it started slowly increasing in flow.
Damn hose had ice in it, on Aug 11. It runs across the lowest, therefor coldest, spot in the yard, where cold air coming off the ridge behind us settles.
I checked that garden beds, a foot and a half higher in elevation than the low spot, and even the tomatoes and peppers looked OK. The hoops are up over the bed with those in it, I've got more hoops in the shed to go over that tater bed, and the greenhouse plastic will be going up this evening.
Frozen hose before mid August. That's only about 2 months since our last frost.
59° this morning, which is about average this time of year here. We may tickle the upper 40s tomorrow morning, which would be the first time since May.
Officially at the airport station in town, 37F. Dew point got down to 28F at times, hovered around freezing for a few hours.
On the table on our back deck, where the sending unit is sitting about 4' off ground level and close to the house: 38F
Here's the kicker though. I went out to feed the chickens, noticed one of the waterers was empty and as it's supposed to go to 90F today figured I better fill it for the day. Went and turned on the hose that goes to the compost piles, which has a shut off valve on the end. Get the waterer, go over to the hose, turn the shut off, just a little stream of water coming out? Waited to see if the hose cleared any air that might have gotten in it. Nope, no hissing of air, just a tine spritzer of water. Let it run for a few minutes and it started slowly increasing in flow.
Damn hose had ice in it, on Aug 11. It runs across the lowest, therefor coldest, spot in the yard, where cold air coming off the ridge behind us settles.
I checked that garden beds, a foot and a half higher in elevation than the low spot, and even the tomatoes and peppers looked OK. The hoops are up over the bed with those in it, I've got more hoops in the shed to go over that tater bed, and the greenhouse plastic will be going up this evening.
Frozen hose before mid August. That's only about 2 months since our last frost.
Any of you folks up north get cold this morning?
WTF
do you live under Mt Rainier ?? Where is all this cold air from?
Snow cover on the highway about 120 miles north of us early this week. 39 yesterday morning. Fall is here. Ferns dying. Leaves turning a bit and falling. Fall smells. Termination dust. when not raining rivers are low and glaciers have stopped melting. Geese and cranes moving south already.
Officially at the airport station in town, 37F. Dew point got down to 28F at times, hovered around freezing for a few hours.
On the table on our back deck, where the sending unit is sitting about 4' off ground level and close to the house: 38F
Here's the kicker though. I went out to feed the chickens, noticed one of the waterers was empty and as it's supposed to go to 90F today figured I better fill it for the day. Went and turned on the hose that goes to the compost piles, which has a shut off valve on the end. Get the waterer, go over to the hose, turn the shut off, just a little stream of water coming out? Waited to see if the hose cleared any air that might have gotten in it. Nope, no hissing of air, just a tine spritzer of water. Let it run for a few minutes and it started slowly increasing in flow.
Damn hose had ice in it, on Aug 11. It runs across the lowest, therefor coldest, spot in the yard, where cold air coming off the ridge behind us settles.
I checked that garden beds, a foot and a half higher in elevation than the low spot, and even the tomatoes and peppers looked OK. The hoops are up over the bed with those in it, I've got more hoops in the shed to go over that tater bed, and the greenhouse plastic will be going up this evening.
Frozen hose before mid August. That's only about 2 months since our last frost.
Any of you folks up north get cold this morning?
WTF
do you live under Mt Rainier ?? Where is all this cold air from?
It's the Intermountain "Out West" dude.
Lakeview OR, an hour or so up the road got down to 34F officially.
Beautiful cloudless sky last night, big ol' moon. Nothing to keep any heat in.
The ridge behind out place is 5700'+ in elevation. Lakeview is at the base of the Warner Mountains, which up there near the town are over 6000'. Cold air settles off these ridges and hills and we get cold here. Remember that pic I sent you a couple of weeks ago, the blue barrel which the wind had blown into our seasonal creek? I can walk down in that creek in the evening and feel the cold air draining off the hills.
I'm guessing, if they get the forecast right today, we'll have a 55 degree swing from this morning's low to the afternoon high. Not unusual this time of year, other than that ice in the hose!
Officially at the airport station in town, 37F. Dew point got down to 28F at times, hovered around freezing for a few hours.
On the table on our back deck, where the sending unit is sitting about 4' off ground level and close to the house: 38F
Here's the kicker though. I went out to feed the chickens, noticed one of the waterers was empty and as it's supposed to go to 90F today figured I better fill it for the day. Went and turned on the hose that goes to the compost piles, which has a shut off valve on the end. Get the waterer, go over to the hose, turn the shut off, just a little stream of water coming out? Waited to see if the hose cleared any air that might have gotten in it. Nope, no hissing of air, just a tine spritzer of water. Let it run for a few minutes and it started slowly increasing in flow.
Damn hose had ice in it, on Aug 11. It runs across the lowest, therefor coldest, spot in the yard, where cold air coming off the ridge behind us settles.
I checked that garden beds, a foot and a half higher in elevation than the low spot, and even the tomatoes and peppers looked OK. The hoops are up over the bed with those in it, I've got more hoops in the shed to go over that tater bed, and the greenhouse plastic will be going up this evening.
Frozen hose before mid August. That's only about 2 months since our last frost.
Any of you folks up north get cold this morning?
Screw that. 62 here last night, but headed to the low 50's this weekend. The transition from summer to fall has begun.
Remind me in a few months that I was bitching about the heat.
Did you ever find the one snowblower?
No. Gave up thinking we need one. What could possibly go wrong?
Blizzards this winter for sure!
For some reason I think we're gonna get slammed with one big snowstorm for this area. Maybe it's just wishful thinking. The drought will probably last 7 more years.
I came off a workout at 6:30 and it was 74 deg and 90% humidity. It was like I had stepped out of the shower in my clothes.
Not sure where you're at, but that's one reason we didn't enjoy living back east.
I hate getting out of the shower and it being so humid you can't dry off and you don't know if it's just because the towels are always damp or you've already started sweating again.
I came off a workout at 6:30 and it was 74 deg and 90% humidity. It was like I had stepped out of the shower in my clothes.
Not sure where you're at, but that's one reason we didn't enjoy living back east.
I hate getting out of the shower and it being so humid you can't dry off and you don't know if it's just because the towels are always damp or you've already started sweating again.
Went out in the mountains yesterday with the family with intent to camp out. In the bestest shadiest campiest place for miles at almost 8pm it was still 82-85ish, clouded over, muggy and ugly calm. Made some dinner, sweating the whole time, then said screw it and came home to the fans!
Valsdad asks "Officially at the airport station in town, 37F." That is damn cruel to post. It was 75F here this morning, and we won't see temps below 70 until probably mid October!
Valsdad asks "Officially at the airport station in town, 37F." That is damn cruel to post. It was 75F here this morning, and we won't see temps below 70 until probably mid October!
Yeah, but you folks can almost grow maters year round.
I'm lucky to get a few every summer, which was frost free for 82 days last season.
I have lived where it was 120+ in the summer and rarely froze hard enough to kill peppers and tomatoes. I had a serrano pepper plant that lived over 3 seasons.
Hot in the morning? I awoke once at 0200 and it was still 113F. I don't recall it dropping below 100F that morning by sunrise.
I came off a workout at 6:30 and it was 74 deg and 90% humidity. It was like I had stepped out of the shower in my clothes.
Not sure where you're at, but that's one reason we didn't enjoy living back east.
I hate getting out of the shower and it being so humid you can't dry off and you don't know if it's just because the towels are always damp or you've already started sweating again.
Went out in the mountains yesterday with the family with intent to camp out. In the bestest shadiest campiest place for miles at almost 8pm it was still 82-85ish, clouded over, muggy and ugly calm. Made some dinner, sweating the whole time, then said screw it and came home to the fans!
We had an evening similar just recently.
A few drizzles, town got 0.03", but the cloud cover kept the heat in all night. Stayed warm all night, only dropped to 65F or so by daylight. Hardly cooled the house down with all the windows and the two fans going along with the window A/C in the master bdrm.
Valsdad; Good evening Geno, I hope that the day warmed up a wee bit for you and you're well.
Up here across the medicine line in the frozen north it was about 71°F when we left the house at 5:15AM on our daily walk. It's just under 95°F at present with a howling wind from the north, which might be okay for one side of the wildfire just north of us, but won't be so good for the other side.
Strange days that you got frost in August though, no?
All the best with keeping your garden frost free Geno.
Officially at the airport station in town, 37F. Dew point got down to 28F at times, hovered around freezing for a few hours.
On the table on our back deck, where the sending unit is sitting about 4' off ground level and close to the house: 38F
Here's the kicker though. I went out to feed the chickens, noticed one of the waterers was empty and as it's supposed to go to 90F today figured I better fill it for the day. Went and turned on the hose that goes to the compost piles, which has a shut off valve on the end. Get the waterer, go over to the hose, turn the shut off, just a little stream of water coming out? Waited to see if the hose cleared any air that might have gotten in it. Nope, no hissing of air, just a tine spritzer of water. Let it run for a few minutes and it started slowly increasing in flow.
Damn hose had ice in it, on Aug 11. It runs across the lowest, therefor coldest, spot in the yard, where cold air coming off the ridge behind us settles.
I checked that garden beds, a foot and a half higher in elevation than the low spot, and even the tomatoes and peppers looked OK. The hoops are up over the bed with those in it, I've got more hoops in the shed to go over that tater bed, and the greenhouse plastic will be going up this evening.
Frozen hose before mid August. That's only about 2 months since our last frost.
Any of you folks up north get cold this morning?
Nowhere near icy, but remarked to number two son last night that it actually felt cool. First time since May. Back to nearly 90 again during the day though.
Valsdad; Good evening Geno, I hope that the day warmed up a wee bit for you and you're well.
Up here across the medicine line in the frozen north it was about 71°F when we left the house at 5:15AM on our daily walk. It's just under 95°F at present with a howling wind from the north, which might be okay for one side of the wildfire just north of us, but won't be so good for the other side.
Strange days that you got frost in August though, no?
All the best with keeping your garden frost free Geno.
Dwayne
Hey there northern neighbor of sorts. Well, at least we're both on the East side of the more coastal mountains and west of the Rockies. Hope you're having a great evening.
Honestly, there was no frost, just that frozen hose that runs through the low spot in the yard. Which, I'll take a guess at, means the garden was probably at about 35F, somewhere between the 37-38 on the porch and the ice in the hose. No frost even on what passes for a lawn here. I may have gotten lucky? The hose didn't freeze solid, just enough to slow flow down to a trickle until the flow when I turned it on thawed it.
Officially a 54F degree swing from low this morning to this afternoon's high temp. That doesn't include the ice in the hose. I've seen 60 or close to it few times, but that's usually been a 40F night to a near 100F day. We've got a few little microclimate areas around here. Some folks regularly are 3-4 degrees warmer in the morning than right here.
High desert living is strange compared to many places, that's for sure. I was just across the seasonal creek where I put in a new garden and by the looks of things I just may get a good crop of potatoes, maybe a decent few heads of cabbage and broccoli, perhaps a few peppers and tomatoes, and probably no squash as I was late getting them in and they just may freeze out before producing.
Enjoy the rest of that BC summer while it lasts. I know it'll change soon enough.
Woke up to take a leak at about 6am and heard rain hitting the tin roof of our Lake Chelan house and thunder rolling through. After 30 minutes it let up and then it sounded like the evacuation of Saigon with all the helicopters flying low over the orchards in order to blow the rain off the still ripening fruit. I went back to bed and slept like a baby. 😁
When I did go outside it was 93* and muggy as hell. Back home on the island now and it’s about 75* currently.
Heck Sam, we're only about 4400' elev and it was a total surprise it even got down to 37. I think the NWS was calling for a low of only 42 or so, and as was said on the home weather station thread they are usually pretty close.
Nothing near that low forecast for the next week or so, and we're going back up to 95 again. Bad thing about that, the electrical Co-op will be doing some work out here Tuesday and shutting us down from 0830-1330. And it will be hard to cool the place down that morning as it's only supposed to go down to 54F overnight.
Might have to break out a non-Yeti ice chest for some of the stuff in the fridge. The chest freezer should be OK, it's stuffed with frozen stuff and has some moving blankets on it.
Good luck with your corn. And yep, first frost last year here was in early Sept.
Some sort of swallow in the distant one and bats in the closer one. The Selkirks are in the distance, the Cabinets behind me. We have had twelve acres here since 2005 and look forward arriving every year.
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