Weather 2012

[Lis Allison]

Just a quick update: we have had some wonderful and most welcome rain here the last couple of days, with more in the forecast. What a huge relief! There will still be crop problems and serious effects of the drought, but just getting some moisture has made everyone in my area feel much better! I hope others who need rain get it soon.

[Hoy]

Well, here they have promised us the warmest weekend and hottest week this summer! (Hot, that is about 24C where I live ).

[Merlin]

Idaho has been hot with many days over 100F this summer. It did rain this morning, something most welcome but only made it humid. i notice that the plants in the  garden are mostly unaffected by the heat, even such seemingly sensitive species as Eritrichium nanum are seemingly unstressed. i have also noticed that even a slight drop in temperature for a few days and plant growth goes in to overdrive. The grasshoppers have come out with the heat and have been grazing on many of the alpines but i have held off on extreme measures since it seems that the grazing stops shortly after the first or second offense. perhaps the plants respond with their own countermeasures.

   

[cohan]

We continue with the up and down from day to day and even day to night- Last night was something like 7C, tuesday forecast for 15C as a high, and 28C again by the weekend; chance of showers or rain forecast for 4 out of 7 days... out now again for some more garden building and/or planting...

[cohan]

Coffee by the lake in Sylvan Lake Alberta, yesterday, while we waited for mom at the doctor... actually I only sat there long enough for the photo- yesterday was around -6C plus windchill, light snow over a couple of days and a little drifting.. Supposed to be above 0 by Monday, and 8 by Tues if they stick to that..

[McDonough]

Looks dramatic but cold there Cohan, I'm sure the coffee helped.  We've had three frosts here so far, to 29-30 F (-1 C), but daytime temperatures have been warm, up to 60 F (16 C).  Today it's gorgeous, 62 F sunny and with little wind.  I have two days "vacation" as I ended my previous job (a job I disliked very much) and on Monday I start a new (and hopefully better) job.  

But it coincides with the anniversary of the surprise pre-Halloween snowstorm of October 2011, where we got 14" of heavy snow with most trees still in full foliage, causing disastrous tree damage, and extensive power outages for up to a week; after 3 days of freezing in the house by candlelight, we finally stayed in a hotel for a couple more days until electricity was restored. And look what's predicted to hit us on the anniversary date, Hurricane Sandy!  Little ol' Massachusetts is just below the letter "N" in the phrase "Early Next Week" in the image below.

[Hoy]

Looks very wintriy, Cohan! I can have the coffee but not the snow - yet

Mark, hope this storm doesn't do such damage as the one last year! We usually get the low pressure systems a week later than you have them over there But they are much weaker here.
We had the first hailstorm of the fall today but nothing damaged and all the hail and snow melted at once here at the coast. Now the sky is clear and the temperature is 0C but the forecast says more rain and milder tomorrow and next week.

[cohan]

Trond- although it's not that cold out with a coat on- not hard to stay warm just below freezing- still at the beginning of the season it feels worse, and on a cloudy, windy day- I didn't stay out there long...lol Its very pretty and white here- it really does look like mid-winter with a few inches to nearly a foot of snow on the ground in various spots- and has just kept snowing (lightly) over the last few days.. And they took away our above 0 temps for Monday and Tues- now -1 to -4C and snow and clouds continuing right through! We still have plusses forecast, but only 5/6 Wed/Thurs instead of the 7/8 they had for Mon/Thurs.. looking more like this snow may last longterm!

Mark- congrats- hopefully- on the new job, and hope you don't get too much out of Sandy!

[Todd Boland]

This past September was the warmest on record for us in Newfoundland.  October is generally above normal too but yesterday and today were only 6 C and 70 km wind (gusts to 85 km last night)...who needs a hurricane!  This is just a typcial fall storm around my parts.  Meanwhile, no frost yet...dahlia and Impatiens still going strong.  I had to dig up tuberous begonia that were looking great because I don't want to postpone planting my spring bulbs....long range is days 8-10 C and nights 5 C so no frost up to November...that is also a record for us!

[cohan]

That's balmy alright, Todd! We were warm much of September, but that's warm daytime- we had regular frosts starting long ago-- which is a good thing here: if we don't have regular night frosts to tell the plants to get ready for winter, they can be caught out by sudden cold, as happened in 2009..

[McDonough]

Thought I'd post an update before we surely will lose power, Hurricane Sandy will be one for the record books, this thing is massive! Its raining but the super heavy rain hasn't reached us yet, although 50-60 mph gusts are here.

[deesen]

Keep safe all you East Coasters. No doubt we shall get the tail, and much diluted end, of it next week.

[stephenb]

Good luck from Norway, Mark!

[Hoy]

Hope you don't loose another tree, Mark! And I hope you all affected will be safe during the bad weather. This hurricane is top news here too. The weather here is calm and clear now after some rain this morning but more rain is expected tomorrow evening   - Nothing like what you are due to have though

[AmyO]

Thought I'd post an update before we surely will lose power, Hurricane Sandy will be one for the record books, this thing is massive! Its raining but the super heavy rain hasn't reached us yet, although 50-60 mph gusts are here.

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Vermont is right in the path but the forcasters aren't expecting as severe a storm as 'Irene' was last year. But we will get high winds! Not much happening yet, but tonight will be bad.