Will the Arctic Cold Front Cause Severe Weather and Damage to Crops?

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The discussion centers around varying winter weather experiences across different regions. An Arctic cold front is expected to bring severe conditions, including strong winds and potential blizzard-like conditions, leading to dangerously low wind chills in some areas. Participants share personal weather updates, with some experiencing significant snowfall while others report mild conditions. Notably, areas in the Midwest and parts of the UK are facing heavy snow, while regions like Western Washington and parts of Florida are seeing typical winter temperatures without snow. Concerns about the impact of cold weather on crops, infrastructure challenges in handling snow, and personal anecdotes about coping with the cold are prevalent. The conversation also touches on the contrasting experiences of those in warmer climates, highlighting the diverse impacts of winter weather across the globe.
  • #601
38 and damp here... no more winter please... PLEASE.

@Ivan: Are you sure that's not only in Pepé Le Pew?
 
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  • #602
dlgoff said:
Hell nismaratwork, you haven't seen/heard anything yet.

How many time did you break your arm in one year Evo?
Three times, twice in 10 days, same arm, two different places, ulna the first time, fell and broke my humerus 10 days later. Fell twice in the same spot in my yard 11 months apart, breaking the same piece. That's 4 times for one arm overall.
 
  • #603
nismaratwork said:
38 and damp here... no more winter please... PLEASE.

@Ivan: Are you sure that's not only in Pepé Le Pew?

Heh, positive, but I have to wonder if Pepe' [the cartoon] wasn't inspired by real events.

Once I caught one of our cats lying next to a skunk and sleeping under our truck. THAT was too much! But we go through this every year.
 
  • #604
Ivan Seeking said:
Heh, positive, but I have to wonder if Pepe' wasn't inspired by real events.

Once I caught one of our cats lying next to a skunk and sleeping under our truck.

Seriously... if skunks and cats ever could crossbreed... we'd be in dead trouble.

Dogs are no better; they just come back looking sad, and stinking. Poor things... they always have to learn that one the hard way.
 
  • #605
Evo said:
Three times, twice in 10 days, same arm, two different places, ulna the first time, fell and broke my humerus 10 days later. Fell twice in the same spot in my yard 11 months apart, breaking the same piece. That's 4 times for one arm overall.

No more rollerblading on crisco young lady!
 
  • #606
Ivan Seeking said:
Heh, positive, but I have to wonder if Pepe' [the cartoon] wasn't inspired by real events.

Once I caught one of our cats lying next to a skunk and sleeping under our truck. THAT was too much! But we go through this every year.
We need to resurrect your skunk and jumping goat threads! New members are so deprived of all of the good times.
 
  • #607
Mid-30s with occasionally-torrential rains today. I'm glad this is not coming down as snow, or we'd be looking at perhaps another 1-1/2 to 2'. Two nights ago, I slipped on the ice in the driveway and sprained my ankle badly. I can't walk without crutches, so if this was a typical March blizzard, my wife would have to deal with it. Not good!
 
  • #608
Lots of trees are still coated with ice, and this rain and sudden thaw is causing large chunks of ice to fall off trees and causing overloaded branches to fall, knocking out power to thousands of homes a bit north of here.
 
  • #609
Cats and skunks start hanging out in spring. It comes later here than in most of the US, but it's a fact of life. One of my co-workers had to be cautious not to startle the skunk(s) when he got back home after a night shift. His cat adopted skunks and brought them home to share the dry kibble that was left out on the covered porch for him.
 
  • #610
turbo-1 said:
Cats and skunks start hanging out in spring. It comes later here than in most of the US, but it's a fact of life. One of my co-workers had to be cautious not to startle the skunk(s) when he got back home after a night shift. His cat adopted skunks and brought them home to share the dry kibble that was left out on the covered porch for him.

That's... kind of adorable actually.
 
  • #611
turbo-1 said:
Mid-30s with occasionally-torrential rains today. I'm glad this is not coming down as snow, or we'd be looking at perhaps another 1-1/2 to 2'. Two nights ago, I slipped on the ice in the driveway and sprained my ankle badly. I can't walk without crutches, so if this was a typical March blizzard, my wife would have to deal with it. Not good!
I'm really sorry to hear about your ankle. May it heal soon.

I've watched the radar and have seen all the rain you are getting. I hope summer there doesn't end up like the one where it would have been better to grow rice in your garden.
 
  • #612
dlgoff said:
I'm really sorry to hear about your ankle. May it heal soon.

I've watched the radar and have seen all the rain you are getting. I hope summer there doesn't end up like the one where it would have been better to grow rice in your garden.
Thanks. I sprained this same ankle over 40 years ago while ski-racing in our state finals, and it is worse this time. I should be able to limp around in a couple of weeks, but I'll have to be very careful for months.

I've been checking the radar, too, and there are waves of intense rain poised to sweep over us, as well as some precipitation over eastern NY and western NE that could easily intensify on its way here. I hope and pray that we can get some moderate weather this growing season. Last year was either cold and wet or drought for weeks and weeks at a time. I had to install a pump and piping to tap my back-yard pond to water the garden - the two wells (one dug, one drilled) couldn't keep up during the drought.
 
  • #613
turbo-1 said:
Thanks. I sprained this same ankle over 40 years ago while ski-racing in our state finals, and it is worse this time. I should be able to limp around in a couple of weeks, but I'll have to be very careful for months.

I've been checking the radar, too, and there are waves of intense rain poised to sweep over us, as well as some precipitation over eastern NY and western NE that could easily intensify on its way here. I hope and pray that we can get some moderate weather this growing season. Last year was either cold and wet or drought for weeks and weeks at a time. I had to install a pump and piping to tap my back-yard pond to water the garden - the two wells (one dug, one drilled) couldn't keep up during the drought.

R.I.C.E. until you can't stand it anymore... and sorry man. Maybe Duke can give it a big slobbery kiss and make it better? :wink:
 
  • #614
nismaratwork said:
R.I.C.E. until you can't stand it anymore... and sorry man. Maybe Duke can give it a big slobbery kiss and make it better? :wink:
Duke is a good boy, but he's not much of a healer. He's pretty rambunctious, and when a neighbor showed up to take him for a walk yesterday, he got really excited, started charging around, and accidentally rammed my foot as it was raised with an ice-pack on my ankle. I screamed. It was that bad.
 
  • #615
turbo-1 said:
Duke is a good boy, but he's not much of a healer. He's pretty rambunctious, and when a neighbor showed up to take him for a walk yesterday, he got really excited, started charging around, and accidentally rammed my foot as it was raised with an ice-pack on my ankle. I screamed. It was that bad.

My initial reaction was a hissing intake of break through the teeth. Oh MAN. That has to have been a truly awful moment... take care of yourself OK? Heh... Duke must have been surprised by your reaction though, eh?
 
  • #616
It's supposed to be 86F tomorrow and then 32F monday night, a drop of 54 degrees! It just snowed the other day, and tomorrow will be air conditioner weather. :bugeye:
 
  • #617
We got a foot of very heavy wet snow yesterday and went all night without power. Not good. I can't walk without a crutch, so my wife had to deal the the snow by herself. Some neighbors helped her clear the end of the driveway and dig out the mailbox - she's baking them some bread right now.
 
  • #618
turbo-1 said:
We got a foot of very heavy wet snow yesterday and went all night without power. Not good. I can't walk without a crutch, so my wife had to deal the the snow by herself. Some neighbors helped her clear the end of the driveway and dig out the mailbox - she's baking them some bread right now.

I was wondering how you were going to take care of the snow clearing with that ankle. Surly that it's the last snow storm before summer.
 
  • #619
dlgoff said:
I was wondering how you were going to take care of the snow clearing with that ankle. Surly that it's the last snow storm before summer.
Nothing sure about that. I remember getting over a foot of wet snow on my birthday (April 18) when I was a kid. Not such a fun birthday shoveling all that heavy slush.
 
  • #620
We got snow again today, which changed to rain later. Tomorrow, we're in line for more rain and temps in the 50's, so maybe some of this snow will melt off. In general, the frost has come out of the ground, lawns, etc, so mechanical snow removal (tractor, plowing, etc) would result in some pretty heavy damage. People with unpaved drives are trying to do as little damage as possible, though moving a foot of snow on Saturday posed some challenges. It was so wet and heavy that hand-shoveling much of it would result in some really sore, lame backs. Mud season is here.
 
  • #621
Nasty weather forecast for tonight and tomorrow. Could be very heavy wet snow tonight, followed up by gusty winds in the 50+mph range and heavy rains. If it happens, we'll lose power and I'll be sitting here in the dark missing chat. Outages on very sparsely populated roads are the last to be resolved because they bring the least revenue to the power company. We already have a lot of heavily damaged trees from previous storms, and many of them will fail with wet snow and wind. Hope to see you all tomorrow!
 
  • #622
turbo-1 said:
Nasty weather forecast for tonight and tomorrow. Could be very heavy wet snow tonight, followed up by gusty winds in the 50+mph range and heavy rains. If it happens, we'll lose power and I'll be sitting here in the dark missing chat. Outages on very sparsely populated roads are the last to be resolved because they bring the least revenue to the power company. We already have a lot of heavily damaged trees from previous storms, and many of them will fail with wet snow and wind. Hope to see you all tomorrow!
You need to buy one of those little generators that will run tv and internet. They're the size of a large briefcase.
 
  • #623
Evo said:
You need to buy one of those little generators that will run tv and internet. They're the size of a large briefcase.
I have a generator that will run most of the house. It's for emergencies only. Loss of TV-Internet is not really an emergency. With wood heat, propane cook-stove, etc, we're pretty much set. Unfortunately, we have 2 electrically driven well-pumps (one for the drilled well, one for the dug well) and I'm not really into drinking water drawn from the pond in the back yard.

I also have a power-pack that is intended to jump-start cars, etc, but the inverter only provides about an hour's worth of juice to the TV/satellite system.
 
  • #624
turbo-1 said:
Loss of TV-Internet is not really an emergency.

You must be joking. Missing a chat is not an emergency?
 
  • #625
April 17 and it's snowing.

Time to crawl back into bed with another book... this sucks.
 
  • #626
Tomorrow is my birthday, and I remember as a child having to go out and shovel about a foot of heavy wet snow on my birthday so my dad could get his car into the driveway.
 
  • #627
Happy B-day

may you not have to shovel. :)
 
  • #628
It's freezing here, temps in the 30's (fahrenheit).
 
  • #629
30 deg with freezing rain. At least the hail and thunder has stopped, though my garden is all white from the hail.
 
  • #630
turbo-1 said:
30 deg with freezing rain. At least the hail and thunder has stopped, though my garden is all white from the hail.
Good thing you don't have warm weather crops planted. I've had gardens destroyed by early summer hail storms and winds. It's heartbreaking.
 
  • #631
Evo said:
Good thing you don't have warm weather crops planted. I've had gardens destroyed by early summer hail storms and winds. It's heartbreaking.
All of my wife's flower-bulbs are in except the ones that don't over-winter well, and they are mostly sprouted. Hope they're tough. My garlic is up, too, but that stuff can take a lot of cold.

My father just stopped into look at my new truck, and he said that he had 1/2" to 3/4" hail up at his place and it blanketed his back yard. Luckily, there are some decorative cedars on the back border of his place, so the juncos and chickadees had safe places to ride out the hail.
 
  • #632
Baby, it's not cold outside right now. It's very humid and the day-time temps got up unto the upper 80's this afternoon. The severe thunderstorm warning has been lifted for my county, but the severe thunderstorm watch is still on. Last night, we lost electricity for several hours due to high winds, but at least we didn't get ~5" of rain like the northern tier of Vermont!

Earlier, I was cursing my neighbors' daughter's suitor because he has a massive subwoofer system that probably cost as much as that POS car that he drives. Then I stepped outside, and found out that those frequent thumps were distant thunder. I'll call my father soon because the thunder came from his direction and my old home town gets tornadoes every decade or two.
 
  • #633
My father said "Thank God that the weeping willow you planted as a child fell away from the house during the last tornado." Apparently the torrential rain and the gusting wins there have been quite destructive, but no tornadoes. Those apparently need a N-S storm that runs down the river valley and that 15 mile long hydro impoundment to form. There have been 4 destructive ones in the last 50 years, which is kind of high when you consider that central Maine is not exactly in tornado alley, and we are talking about two small towns.
 
  • #634
We have temps in the 50's and 60's, and it's raining, and more very severe weather in the forecast.
 
  • #635
Evo said:
We have temps in the 50's and 60's, and it's raining, and more very severe weather in the forecast.
Best wishes for you. We are still under a severe thunderstorm watch for tonight. My wife is at her mother's house (senile dementia) caring for her, so if we lose power, I won't have her to talk to, like last night. Just me and Duke.

Watch this while you can, before your power goes out.

 
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  • #636
turbo-1 said:
Best wishes for you. We are still under a severe thunderstorm watch for tonight. My wife is at her mother's house (senile dementia) caring for her, so if we lose power, I won't have her to talk to, like last night. Just me and Duke.

Watch this while you can, before your power goes out.

Get your wife a cell phone.

I love that video!
 
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  • #637
Evo said:
Get your wife a cell phone.
We both have cells, and we never leave them on. Old-school.
 
  • #638
We lost power for a couple of hours last night due to high winds, just like Thursday night, and we're under a thunderstorm watch again tonight. I'm sick of this weather pattern. At least the rain held off this afternoon, so we could get more plants into the garden.
 
  • #639
Once again about an hour ago, we were visited by a very active storm-system with lots of pyrotechnics. This time (we can win one out of three!) the wind didn't down enough trees and branches to take out our power and phone. I'd hoped to have the lawn dry enough to get a good-looking mowing job done tomorrow. Nope! Everything is saturated and is unlikely to dry, so the mowing job will be another hack.
 
  • #640
turbo-1 said:
Once again about an hour ago, we were visited by a very active storm-system with lots of pyrotechnics. This time (we can win one out of three!) the wind didn't down enough trees and branches to take out our power and phone. I'd hoped to have the lawn dry enough to get a good-looking mowing job done tomorrow. Nope! Everything is saturated and is unlikely to dry, so the mowing job will be another hack.
Buy some sheep or goats! :biggrin:

We just had a passing rain storm with lightning and thunder. Good thing I mowed yesterday.
 
  • #641
Wow! Wild weather this evening! We had some severe thunderstorms this morning, and tonight, it's much worse. There are twisters, 3" hail, torrential rains and very heavy winds. We have lost power several times, though the auto-resets managed to restore it. The rain was so heavy that we lost all signal to our Dish satellite TV receiver. We are under tornado watch until maybe 8pm or so. Springfield Mass got a pretty big one. Luckily, Maine is far more rural, and most of the touch-downs are likely to result in twisted trees in large swaths of wood-lots. When that happens, the wood can't be safely harvested because all of those twisted, springy trees are widow-makers that will let go with a vengeance if you cut them and release the tension.
 
  • #642
One of my best friends just called for reassurance after watching the weather. He lives on the coast and he found out that we were in the path of tornadoes/severe storms. Nice to get such a call.

BTW, he is a fellow musician and was my 1-year younger sister's first husband. I don't speak to her, really (not important why), but he and I get together with our wives and have BBQs, share labor on home-improvement projects, winter maintenance, and other fun stuff. He is the reason that I have an L2800 Kubota tractor, since he uses on on his job, and bought one for home use. Good stuff.
 
  • #643
Turbo,

Here you go, Springfield, Mass http://bcove.me/r7hv8dry" .

Compared to what those poor souls down in the deep south have been experiencing, this is a freak occurrence that gets the locals and media stirred up good, the weatherman says the jet stream could be in a pattern that will bring more our way in the near future. There are some fast moving, fast rising cumulus clouds moving our way, but no big deal here in Rhody... the front is moving to the north west at about 45 - 50 mph.

Rhody... reporting from well, Rhody... hehe
 
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  • #644
Back in the severe thunderstorm pattern right now, but hopefully no tornadoes. The lightning strikes have been abating, though the rain is heavy and the sky has a strange yellow color.
 
  • #645
Hang in there turbo! I saw the same video Rhody di!

Hope your garden escapes damage.
 
  • #646
Evo said:
Hang in there turbo! I saw the same video Rhody di!

Hope your garden escapes damage.
It's early, and we can replant and hope. When I was a kid we had hard frosts in early June, and managed to get usable amounts of vegetables after replanting. I hate late string beans, though. They get really tough and stringy by the time they are mature, so you have to pick them when they are small. The heavy rain has resumed, and everything outdoors looks like I am viewing it through an old pair of amber Ray-Ban shooting glasses (yes, I have them).
 
  • #647
turbo-1 said:
It's early, and we can replant and hope. When I was a kid we had hard frosts in early June, and managed to get usable amounts of vegetables after replanting. I hate late string beans, though. They get really tough and stringy by the time they are mature, so you have to pick them when they are small. The heavy rain has resumed, and everything outdoors looks like I am viewing it through an old pair of amber Ray-Ban shooting glasses (yes, I have them).

We dodged a bullet here, a little wind, thunder, a small amount of rain, the front just missed us. What are your concerns Turbo, crops damaged due to hail and or wind,l just too much rain ?

Rhody...
 
  • #648
rhody said:
We dodged a bullet here, a little wind, thunder, a small amount of rain, the front just missed us. What are your concerns Turbo, crops damaged due to hail and or wind,l just too much rain ?

Rhody...
Hail and too much (HEAVY) rain are my main concerns. The petals of the blossoms of my apple, plum, and peach trees have been decimated. Petals are the visual cue for pollinators, so I fear that we will lose a lot of yield this year.
 
  • #649
turbo-1 said:
Hail and too much (HEAVY) rain are my main concerns. The petals of the blossoms of my apple, plum, and peach trees have been decimated. Petals are the visual cue for pollinators, so I fear that we will lose a lot of yield this year.

I don't know if I want to go there, but a little birdie in my head just spoke, "Try Evo's vibrator technique", to artificially pollinate what flowers remain.

Is Evo listening, shhh... Rhody crawls under a rock.

Rhody... :redface:
 
  • #650
turbo-1 said:
Wow! Wild weather this evening! We had some severe thunderstorms this morning, and tonight, it's much worse. There are twisters, 3" hail, torrential rains and very heavy winds. We have lost power several times, though the auto-resets managed to restore it. The rain was so heavy that we lost all signal to our Dish satellite TV receiver. We are under tornado watch until maybe 8pm or so.

You're not in Kansas anymore. Oh wait. Maybe you are.
 

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