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

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Still some snow on the ground in sheltered places... I guess winter is here.
 
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High in the mid 70's again today. I had to run the air conditioner yesterday. Supposed to start cooling off again tomorrow after a storm tonight.
 
Rain rain rain rain rain, our creek is a river. A moderate flow is normally about 30 cubic feet per second. This morning it was probably pushing 200 cfs. And it was roaring! Gets a little worrisome because I have foot bridge that badly needs replacing and new anchors set. If we lose the DTV signal, the first thing I'll do is look to see if the bridge is still there.
 
Ivan Seeking said:
Rain rain rain rain rain, our creek is a river. A moderate flow is normally about 30 cubic feet per second. This morning it was probably pushing 200 cfs. And it was roaring! Gets a little worrisome because I have foot bridge that badly needs replacing and new anchors set. If we lose the DTV signal, the first thing I'll do is look to see if the bridge is still there.
Yikes! And we need rain so bad.
 
Evo said:
Yikes! And we need rain so bad.

We started late but then the rain came on with a vengence. in fact this is the first time in over 20 years that we've seen the creek come back from just one rain storm. Usually it takes several. Sometimes it's back by mid september but this year it was late October I think... Trying to remember, I think about three weeks ago.

We had flooding in our area last night.
 
Ivan Seeking said:
We started late but then the rain came on with a vengence. in fact this is the first time in over 20 years that we've seen the creek come back from just one rain storm. Usually it takes several. Sometimes it's back by mid september but this year it was late October I think... Trying to remember, I think about three weeks ago.

We had flooding in our area last night.
I hope it stops. Or do they predict heavy snow this winter?

We get several years of flooding, then several years of drought. Last night on the news I looked up to see "16-20" of snow forecasted. Then before I fell over, the guy said "before the end of the year". Still, that's a lot of snow for us, maybe he meant end of winter, it came across as end of the year in the text.
 
Ivan Seeking said:
If we lose the DTV signal, the first thing I'll do is look to see if the bridge is still there.

Your DTV signal is brought to you by land? We use wireless.
 
Borek said:
Your DTV signal is brought to you by land? We use wireless.

In Oregon, the DTV signal is still carried by men on fast horses.

The antenna is out in the pasture on the other side of the creek.
 
Ivan Seeking said:
In Oregon, the DTV signal is still carried by men on fast horses.

The antenna is out in the pasture on the other side of the creek.
I can remember when my father would send me out with a bucket to fetch DTV signals.
 
Jimmy Snyder said:
I can remember when my father would send me out with a bucket to fetch DTV signals.

Yes, I remember those days. When I was a kid, I had to walk 25 miles through the snow in bare feet to fetch the signal. And it was uphill both ways.
 
Ivan Seeking said:
In Oregon, the DTV signal is still carried by men on fast horses.

The antenna is out in the pasture on the other side of the creek.
I thought you were done with satellite TV. DirecTV for cold days outside! :wink:
 
dlgoff said:
I thought you were done with satellite TV. DirecTV for cold days outside! :wink:

? I would like to cancel the directTV but the online options aren't quite up to speed yet.
 
Ivan Seeking said:
? I would like to cancel the directTV but ...
Just remembering your long cable signal attenuation problem.
 
Back on topic. It was near 70F today! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.
 
It's not really cold here, but it's snowing like crazy. It's coming down like the typical Nor'Easter - really heavy with big flakes.
 
Typical Maine winter weather today, swinging between snow and rain with temps in the high 30s. Once all this stuff comes down, it's a good bet that an arctic blast will come in and cement the saturated snow to everything.
 
I planned on doing some skiing here in Nova Scotia over the break, but all we've been getting recently is snow followed by rain. I should have stayed in Montreal :cry:
 
We have some very nice neighbors. Our closest neighbor just dropped in with his plow-truck and cleared the wet snow from our driveway. My wife takes him fresh-baked French bread about every weekend, so the plowing is not a surprise. He loves to pay it back.
 
PeteyCoco said:
I planned on doing some skiing here in Nova Scotia over the break, but all we've been getting recently is snow followed by rain. I should have stayed in Montreal :cry:

Lots of snow here in north-central BC. Sunday night, I went cross-country skiing with my six-year-old daughter. It was the first time either of us had been on skis of any kind.
 
George Jones said:
Lots of snow here in north-central BC. Sunday night, I went cross-country skiing with my six-year-old daughter. It was the first time either of us had been on skis of any kind.
In HS, all our school had to offer was WWII military-surplus skis. They were quite heavy and the bindings were pretty rigid and crappy. By the time our district could afford some light-weight alpine skis, a couple of us were so strong that we excelled and were top contenders.

Our school was very small, as were most of our competition, so when we had ski-meets, there was slalom, giant slalom, downhilll, cross-country skiing, showshoe races, etc, and almost every team member had to participate in all of the competitions. My graduating class was the largest ever, with 42 seniors.
 
turbo said:
Typical Maine winter weather today, swinging between snow and rain with temps in the high 30s. Once all this stuff comes down, it's a good bet that an arctic blast will come in and cement the saturated snow to everything.
I've been watching the Weather Channel and seeing your snow. I'll never forget the photograph of your home with snow up to the eves.
 
dlgoff said:
I've been watching the Weather Channel and seeing your snow. I'll never forget the photograph of your home with snow up to the eves.
We get what we get, When I was a kid, I remember shoveling well over a foot of "partially cloudy" out of our driveway. When I went away to school, my father somehow managed to buy a plow-truck. Fancy that!
 
Our temperature this morning, -13 C = 9 F, was about normal for this time of year. My six-year-old daughter and I walked for 30 minutes to a coffee shop, stopped and had stuff, and then walked another 10 minutes to her school.
 
WINTER POEM

It's winter in Canada !
And the gentle breezes blow
Seventy miles an hour
At thirty-five below.
Oh, how I love Canada
When the snow's up to your butt
You take a breath of winter
And your nose gets frozen shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful
So I guess I'll hang around
I could never leave Canada
I'm frozen to the friggin' ground!
 
Alfi said:
WINTER POEM

It's winter in Canada !
And the gentle breezes blow
Seventy miles an hour
At thirty-five below.
Oh, how I love Canada
When the snow's up to your butt
You take a breath of winter
And your nose gets frozen shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful
So I guess I'll hang around
I could never leave Canada
I'm frozen to the friggin' ground!
That's cute. It's was 10F when I got up, an hour later it was 9F.
 
'Tis the season to be shoveling,

Tra-la-la, tra-la-la, la-la-la

Don we now our work apparel

Tra-la-la, tra-la-la, la-la-la


Update: Snow, then sleet, then freezing rain makes for a heavy ground cover.
 
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