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[Sally PB]

We just got a few dry hours and our rain starts again tomorrow. Not going to complain after last years drought.

After the drought of 1988, I have never complained about rain. I might hope it doesn't fall on a certain day. We have had some dry-to-drought periods in the past few years, so my opinion of rain has not changed.

Even when we got 5" in 2 hours last April and this happened:

This was taken from my front porch. The long skinny islands are my raised beds, being flooded by rain washing downhill through my garden.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hey

 

[LaurenRitz]

Snowing here. Shoveled 3 inches of "1 inch maximum accumulation" off my porch, and it's still falling.

 

[Nomadicus]

Good morning Old Folks

 

[ronott1]

Northern West Coast keeps getting one "rain event" after another! Our local weather service actually posted, "The hits just keep on coming!" as a chain of rainstorms rolls through. We had another 1.32" the past 2 days, but it didn't even drizz today (temps in the mid-50s) so the dogs & I were out in the gardens - me pulling weeds & very belatedly pruning the raspberry patch, them snuffing for mole & gopher activity; and the pullets had a huge pile of fresh weed clumps to climb & scratch & nibble through. So a good day all 'round!

One of the storms had a good amount of rain for us. The one tomorrow is a quick blip but we do have a low going down to the low 30s. Next week there are a couple of storms coming through with cold morning again.

We might see frost in the morning. Will the north coast have some snow with the colder storms?

 

[ronott1]

After the drought of 1988, I have never complained about rain. I might hope it doesn't fall on a certain day. We have had some dry-to-drought periods in the past few years, so my opinion of rain has not changed.

Even when we got 5" in 2 hours last April and this happened:
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This was taken from my front porch. The long skinny islands are my raised beds, being flooded by rain washing downhill through my garden.

I do not complain about the rain here either! We did have bad enough storms to be declared a disaster area last year though. That was not a fun time.

 

[Alaskan]

Snow....snow....snow!


There are threatening us with warmer weather... as in ice... that we don't get above 30F

 

[Nomadicus]

As I was closing up the last coop tonight I heard the first of the dark sky rumbles... Now I can here some in the distance from inside the house.

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

We might see frost in the morning. Will the north coast have some snow with the colder storms?

Not on the coast, but inland in the highest ranges & passes, looks like they'll get some. We rarely get snow, but best chance is usually Feb-March, maybe an inch or two that melts away fast. Frost, we do get -- looks like a chance of it over the weekend as the colder system moves in. Time to cover my two "teenage" citrus trees!

I'll be curious to see how the pullets react to frozen ground in their outer run, the 1st time that happens!

 

[Nomadicus]

Just as I got the incubator turned on the power went out. That's why I power them with an UPS. Have a big inverter generator but no gas for it. I'm winning the battle for the Dunce Cap....