whats the weather where you are?

max.patch · Nov 11th 2019, 11:04am

time to get the bread and milk!

cold front moving in overnight -- looks like the north georgia mountains are gonna get some of that white stuff.

luckily just cold rain here in beautiful marietta.

Trillium · Nov 11th 2019, 11:17am

started snowing around midnight; supposed to get 6 inches today; tomorrow is supposed to be a wind chill around 0°.

Astro · Nov 11th 2019, 3:06pm

Heading to the teens tonight/tomorrow morning. Way too stinking cold for this Florida boy. :thumbdown:

rhjanes · Nov 11th 2019, 6:15pm

11/11/2019, bottom dropped out here in DFW. It was 64 degrees at 8 AM this morning. Still 64 when I got to my 9 AM appointment. I walked out at 10 AM in my T-shirt and it was 54, misting and a howling north wind. It's now 5:15 PM CST and it is 33 with a wind chill of 21. And still spitting moisture outside. But, it's Texas. By the weekend, it is in the 60's.

LIhikers · Nov 12th 2019, 8:43am

Here on Long Island it's gonna rain in the daytime then turn to snow tonight

Astro · Nov 12th 2019, 8:50am

Astro wrote:

Heading to the teens tonight/tomorrow morning. Way too stinking cold for this Florida boy.

Still in the teens, but at least yesterday's rain didn't freeze before the temps dropped below 32.

rhjanes · Nov 12th 2019, 9:27am

something like 22 degrees here in DFW this Tuesday morning. Windchill is 8. Clear skies today after mist and howling winds yesterday. It will moderate and be 60 by Saturday.

I saw one of our "This is Texas, Hold my Beer" memes yesterday. It was something like 10 in the Texas panhandle with a windchill of zero, meanwhile in Brownsville (Southern tip) it was 86 degrees with a THI of 94.

IMScotty · Nov 12th 2019, 4:05pm

Saw my first snowflakes here today, nothing stuck. Suppose to go to 19 F tomorrow night. Bring it on!

odd man out · Nov 13th 2019, 9:14am

We had a lake effect snow event in our area. Our home got a couple inches, just enough to cover the grass. About 10 miles to the west they got two feet of snow.

max.patch · Nov 13th 2019, 10:59am

this thread is starting to make me cold...

rhjanes · Nov 14th 2019, 10:09am

max.patch wrote:

this thread is starting to make me cold...

That's one of the reasons we invented booze.

jimmyjam · Nov 14th 2019, 11:12am

We had about 5 months of summer, 3 days of fall, straight to winter.

StalkingTortoise · Nov 14th 2019, 1:53pm

I'm moving to Cincinnati in a few weeks. Looking at the new homes posted on Zillow, I saw snow on the ground.

My first thought was "this place must have been on the market since last winter." Then I checked and saw that they got 2" last Tuesday.

Traffic Jam · Nov 17th 2019, 9:32pm

jimmyjam wrote:

We had about 5 months of summer, 3 days of fall, straight to winter.

Very accurate description.

LIhikers · Nov 18th 2019, 7:30am

39 degrees and a light rain, right now

CoachLou · Nov 18th 2019, 8:45am

So much for our Nor'easter..........sliding right on by!

rhjanes · Nov 18th 2019, 4:38pm

It's Texas. A week ago we were in the middle of a freezing spell after a strong cold front. Today it is 72 degrees and sunny. Tomorrow 11/19, it will be 76 degrees. I had planned on raking leaves but that didn't happen.....

Astro · Nov 18th 2019, 8:15pm

rhjanes wrote:

It's Texas. A week ago we were in the middle of a freezing spell after a strong cold front. Today it is 72 degrees and sunny. Tomorrow 11/19, it will be 76 degrees. I had planned on raking leaves but that didn't happen.....

Spent a couple of hours raking leaves with my youngest son today. Lot more enjoyable when you have someone working with you.

LIhikers · Nov 20th 2019, 7:35am

41 degrees and overcast when I climbed on my bicycle to ride to work this morning.

rhjanes · Nov 20th 2019, 9:32am

Astro wrote:

rhjanes wrote:

It's Texas. A week ago we were in the middle of a freezing spell after a strong cold front. Today it is 72 degrees and sunny. Tomorrow 11/19, it will be 76 degrees. I had planned on raking leaves but that didn't happen.....

Spent a couple of hours raking leaves with my youngest son today. Lot more enjoyable when you have someone working with you.

I got out Tuesday afternoon....it was 79 degrees. I filled 15 of our "Grass/Kraft Paper / Recycling" bags. I'm half done raking. We have a half acre, several trees including two 150 year old oaks, whose leaves are probably only half down. Today is still warm but overcast. I'm going out to fill another 10 or so bags before the rain moves in Thursday and Friday.

So, 15 bags filled on Tuesday. 11 more on Wednesday. Including getting up on the roof to use the leaf blower to blow down all those leaves. We still have at least 4 to 6 bags worth hanging on the trees and floating down.

Astro · Nov 21st 2019, 11:43pm

We have 1.5 acres so I appreciate the help. Fortunately don't have to bag, just get it to the side of road for pickup. So my son blows into piles and I rake into extra large trash can and roll down to the road.

rhjanes · Nov 22nd 2019, 9:25am

Astro wrote:

We have 1.5 acres so I appreciate the help. Fortunately don't have to bag, just get it to the side of road for pickup. So my son blows into piles and I rake into extra large trash can and roll down to the road.

Glad you got help! I got a contraption that fits into these bags and holds them open. Rake a pile, get the bag ready, tip over, shovel in. Stand up and pack it down, repeat.

I've got 28 bags sitting around the house (lean up to the bricks under the eves, keeps the rain out). I just read that the leaf & Brush pickup day (Monday), they only pick up 20 bags at a time. I have more to rake but it rained 2 inches over Thursday and today so can't rake them up. Maybe by the weekend.

IMScotty · Nov 22nd 2019, 1:39pm

I find it much easier to just leave the leaves there and let the winter winds blow them into my neighbor's yard

Only kidding, I live in the woods. No-one cares what I do. I actually just leave the leaves and mulch them in place with my lawnmower with the first cutting in the spring.

PS: I think this is the first time in my life I have written the term 'leave the leaves' in a sentence. I had to stare at that for a bit to convince myself I spelled it correctly. The English language is a funny thing.

rhjanes · Nov 22nd 2019, 6:57pm

For 2 years, I tried leaving the leaves. I'd mulched them twice once they were on the ground. After 2 years, I had dead spots on the yard where the grass just couldn't take the volume of leaves.

Traffic Jam · Nov 22nd 2019, 7:00pm

I only have one tree that produces a few leaves so haven’t raked in years. While I regret not planting more trees (and one of my must haves for my next home is property with lots of trees), it sure is nice to not deal with the leaves.

Astro · Nov 22nd 2019, 7:57pm

rhjanes wrote:

For 2 years, I tried leaving the leaves. I'd mulched them twice once they were on the ground. After 2 years, I had dead spots on the yard where the grass just couldn't take the volume of leaves.

Wife had me try it also a few years ago, but it did not work out like she expected, so back to blowing and raking.
Perhaps it is different in the southwest than the northeast with IMScotty.

odd man out · Nov 22nd 2019, 9:23pm

Perhaps it is regional. I know the Michigan State Univ turf grass research center has a long term study (20 years now) where two identical plots of grass treated the same all year, but every fall, one plot gets a thick layer of dead leaves that are mulched and the other is kept raked clean. Year after year, thw mulched grass is just as good as the raked and has fewer weeds..

jimmyjam · Nov 22nd 2019, 10:08pm

If you have mulching blades and a blocked off chute, mulching works well if you do it often enough.

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