Weather

[WhistlingBadger]

-7c this morning, with a wind chill on top. Refreshing, and invigorating. I had to haul out the winter coat and boots, and bring the shovels out of the garage.

There is no predicting what will come. It could be snowing next week - it could be just a few dustings until February. Last year was a brown Christmas. either way, we have a predicted warm period for 2 days at the end of the week, and then I figure it'll be cold til March.

The temperature in the Bay was up this summer, and had more Great White sharks and dolphins than usual. So what that reflects - maybe it'll snow dolphins next week. Or antelopes. I've still never seen one of those.

Drive through Wyoming sometime. You will see antelope. Unless you're asleep the whole way.

 

[Colin_T]

Last week we had temperatures around the mid to low 20s (21-24) Celsius. This week it's up to the mid to high 30s (35-37) Celsius. It's spring and we don't normally get 30+ C temps at this time of year.

The really weird part is we are getting southerly winds, which come from the Antarctic and are normally cold, and we have high temperatures with a southerly wind. That doesn't happen. We normally get high temperatures with easterly winds that come in off the desert.

 

[Oldspartan]

Another monsoon durig the night .... started about 6 PM and ended sometime after 9 PM. Big warming today and tomorrow ... perhaps 80 degrees on Thursday. Snow is in our future but hopefully it will be a distant future!

 

[GaryE]

I spent a week in Saskatchewan (it felt like much longer) and saw 456747372 deer, and not one antelope. Apparently, I was surrounded by them at all time, but they never appeared where I was. Snakes and deer galore. My sister will see a hundred in a week, she says. I probably would have had better luck if the grasses and crops hadn't been so high.

I saw quite a few antelopes in Gabon though - little ones like a mid sized dog.

 

[Back in the fold]

It’s finally cooling off to seasonal temperatures here in Crow Country . The nights are almost cold and we got our first frost a couple days ago . Snowed in the Beartooth Mountains yesterday but not here . It’s a great fall this year and not like the one Humpty Dumpty took .

 

[WhistlingBadger]

When I am online and not over here discussing fishy things with fishy people, I can often be found at the Primitive Archery forum, talking about wooden bows and arrows and the people who do interesting things with them. Most of the people over there are not extremely young, and the culture of the forum tends to involve a certain rustically poetic mindset, so one encounters some evocative language.

Today, I came across an expression I plan to start using at every possible opportunity: "Windy enough to suck a fart out of a dead chicken."

 

[Back in the fold]

"Windy enough to suck a fart out of a dead chicken."

Now that is some wind !

 

[Colin_T]

Today, I came across an expression I plan to start using at every possible opportunity: "Windy enough to suck a fart out of a dead chicken."

Now that is some wind !

Not really when you consider the bacteria chicken have in them that multiplies rapidly when the bird is dead. They blow up like a balloon and when someone is silly enough to touch them they let rip. OMG it fuplie stinks.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Not really when you consider the bacteria chicken have in them that multiplies rapidly when the bird is dead. They blow up like a balloon and when someone is silly enough to touch them they let rip. OMG it fuplie stinks.

You might be giving this a bit more thought than it really merits...

Also, why do you know this...nevermind, I don't want to know.

 

[jaylach]

Got our first snow of the year last night but it was just a dusting. REALLY late for a first snow as we usually get one in September.

The monthly projections on my weather app call for an even milder winter than last year which was very mild. If correct we will have fires again next summer/fall.

Supposed to be back up in the upper 40's F to low 60's F again starting tomorrow through at least the middle of the month.

 

[Magnum Man]

Weather seems to be messing with the animals as well… on the local White Tail Deer population, the bucks retained their antlers, until the end of March, last winter ( they normally shed them around the end of January, around here )

And we got our earliest spring lambs already, before we got any snow that would stay ( they traditionally have lambed at the worst times in late winter )

Never mind the ugly old dude… ( this little girl was born about 12 hours before this picture )…

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Weather seems to be messing with the animals as well… on the local White Tail Deer population, the bucks retained their antlers, until the end of March, last winter ( they normally shed them around the end of January, around here )

And we got our earliest spring lambs already, before we got any snow that would stay ( they traditionally have lambed at the worst times in late winter )

Never mind the ugly old dude… ( this little girl was born about 12 hours before this picture )…
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I love lambs when they belong to other people.

 

[Oldspartan]

Smokey here. Brush fires about 75 miles south and west. Sunday and Monday were like heavy fog. Tuesday not as bad but today they declared a red flag day. Should call it a grey flag day. We can taste the smoke outdoors. Told Linda we should hang a steak on a hook outside.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

Snow in the forecast for Friday! Yippee!!! Hopefully it will put out these forest fires. I can only imagine how happy the firefighters must be to see that in the forecast. Hopefully it won't change.

Snow is a four letter word.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Snow is a four letter word.

Not when you've been choking on forest fire smoke for weeks. Other than that, I might agree with you. My dad used to say that, when he retired, he was going to tie a snow shovel onto the top of his car, drive south until someone asked him what it was for, and live there. But he lied. He's still in Wyoming.