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Post by bluemingidiot on Nov 21, 2015 1:17:02 GMT
El Nino esta aqui.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 1:18:55 GMT
That El Nino bugger gets around fast!!! It was here on the east coast just yesterday!!!
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Post by here to stay on Nov 21, 2015 14:30:18 GMT
Ah- I had forgotten the tricks needed to live in constant damp. The knowledge of how soil gets a slick layer before enough rain has fallen to make it a deep quagmire. Or how it can create an algae layer on sidewalks and rubber mats that is like black ice. Or that gloves and jackets need to be brought in by the fire if they are to have any chance of drying out before the next trip out. That the beatiful emerald green of new grass starts earliest on the surface of what is essentually a bog. Damp is irritating but lack of damp is scary. Welcome fog, drizzle and clouds. I missed you.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Nov 24, 2015 6:20:33 GMT
And some prefer to live in Nome, Alaska.
To each her own.
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Post by oxankle on Nov 28, 2015 14:49:12 GMT
Spent the day before Thanksgiving in Tulsa buying some furniture for the cabin. Tarped it up in the back of the truck and went over to the son's place for turkey day. We had the Thanksgiving meal with the kinfolks and guests, did not even know when the rain began. Started home in the rain about 3:00 Pm. Drove about sixty miles E. and got out of the rain before the narrow, curving, hilly roads began. Waked the next morning to rain. Been raining a slow steady drizzle ever since. No idea how much, but the lake here is up several feet over the last week.
Backed up to the garage door and unloaded the furniture--had a bureau in the bed that was too high to back all the way in. I got a little damp, but nothing serious. Now when the boss decides where we are going to put the stuff I can bring it into the house.
Sometime while I was gone the dirtwork man came and completed the terrace across the back of our yard. Now no water can come down the hill toward the house. That which falls on the roof and about fifteen feet of back yard is all I have to deal with.
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Post by Skandi on Nov 28, 2015 17:23:48 GMT
It's funny in a way, you're struggling with dry and I'm swimming, really cool wet summer this year here, if you can call it summer. everything is soggy, nothing has dried out all year, we have mould places I didn't know we had places, couldn't paint the house as we never got even 1 week without rain (and there's some patches that need rerendering, so need to be really dry)The fields were all flooded, half the harvest was wasted in the fields as there were only three dry days the whole of the harvest season, we saw several tractors stuck in fields, and large areas of fields that were to wet to even get a tractor into and therefore were never harvested.
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Post by here to stay on Nov 29, 2015 15:53:24 GMT
Drove past some diked areas this week and saw the tide effected areas were at near flood level. Flooding in those areas was pretty common until the last few years. It will be interested to see if it continues this way.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Dec 1, 2015 5:57:50 GMT
No me gusta el lodo. Me hace sentir creepy de lodo.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Feb 1, 2016 12:10:32 GMT
El Nino lasted about five weeks here. A couple of floods and a couple of good rains and it was gone.
84° in Johnson City yesterday. We are in some kind of wildfire caution. Mason County already has a burn ban. If we don't get some rain soon it is not going to be a pretty spring.
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Post by aoconnor on Feb 3, 2016 13:44:19 GMT
Hold onto your hat bluemingidiot , it's gonna be a hot, hot, hot summer. Thankfully we have not had a very cold winter but did get quite a bit of rain. Good for filling all my tanks, bad for killing every thing that crawleth or flieth that is an annoyance to humans and critters alike. We already have flies back, usually that doesn't happen until March or April, depending on the cold. Oh well, it is what it is, and there's little time to waste on whining, it's gonna be what it gonna be.
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Post by here to stay on Feb 3, 2016 16:52:50 GMT
El Nino does not mean wet for all. It means more wet for some and consequently more dry for others. It has brought back the intense joy of seeing the sun. It has become rare here just as it was many years ago and is cause for celebration.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Feb 3, 2016 17:17:55 GMT
But the imitation meteorologists on TV said we would have a wetter winter because of El Nino. Sometimes I wonder if those guys know what they are talking about.
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Post by countrymom22 on Feb 4, 2016 2:11:44 GMT
Those weather guys called it right, here. We've already had an entire season worth of snow from one storm, and lots of rain. And surprise! it's raining again right now. We had about an inch so far today and it's still falling in buckets. At least we won't have to worry about a drought this summer.
I'm getting pretty tired of the rain, but I'm thankful it's not snow. At least when it's raining, it's warmer than usual. Hit almost 60 today, although damp and raw. That's still better than 15 degrees and dry though. I'll take it!
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Post by aoconnor on Feb 4, 2016 3:09:52 GMT
But the imitation meteorologists on TV said we would have a wetter winter because of El Nino. Sometimes I wonder if those guys know what they are talking about. We are in North Central Texas and had MORE than they said we would be getting...record amounts of rain...LOTS and LOTS of rain! The last big storm we had put down 10 inches in a day. Holy smokes, that's enough to drown a duck! I dreaded going out in it each morning for chores...emptying hanging feed buckets and having half the water splash down in my mud boots...mmmm fun. I loved (not!) slipping and sliding in 5 to 6 inch deep muck, trying to lead horses that were slipping and sliding along right next to me, most of them being 16 hands or bigger. Crunch time! It has been quite dry now though, I think we actually need moisture for good pasture coming in soon...might be coming sometime next week. Warm here still though, I do love warm:-)
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Post by here to stay on Feb 4, 2016 6:37:27 GMT
But the imitation meteorologists on TV said we would have a wetter winter because of El Nino. Sometimes I wonder if those guys know what they are talking about. We are in North Central Texas and had MORE than they said we would be getting...record amounts of rain...LOTS and LOTS of rain! The last big storm we had put down 10 inches in a day. Holy smokes, that's enough to drown a duck! I dreaded going out in it each morning for chores...emptying hanging feed buckets and having half the water splash down in my mud boots...mmmm fun. I loved (not!) slipping and sliding in 5 to 6 inch deep muck, trying to lead horses that were slipping and sliding along right next to me, most of them being 16 hands or bigger. Crunch time! It has been quite dry now though, I think we actually need moisture for good pasture coming in soon...might be coming sometime next week. Warm here still though, I do love warm:-) My horses have learned to let me "lead" them by my reaching an arm over their back and grabbing a hunk of mane. They basically carry me along. I trust them to keep their feet better than I can as they have twice as many.... But I admit if I am really insecure they are also trained to follow me at some distance behind if I wave my hand that holding the lead behind my back. Ah the necessities of a wet climate.
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Post by aoconnor on Feb 4, 2016 13:28:10 GMT
here to stay, Mine generally trail behind me a couple or three feet as well, none are allowed to be too close or otherwise in my space. When it is that muddy out, or if we have had an ice storm, I do hold on to them at times if I get a boot stuck in deep mud...they are all very quiet and wait for me to get unstuck, but sometimes the youngsters aren't as patient:-) They quickly learn to be more patient.
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Post by countrymom22 on Feb 5, 2016 1:10:05 GMT
Or boy was the yard wet today! My chickens look like ducks and I'm collecting muddy eggs. The rain stopped late last night, but now they are calling for snow towards dawn then again on Tuesday.
I knew we were going to have to pay for the warmer than normal temps!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 7:43:15 GMT
The meteorologists called it right for my location (Pacific northwest) more warm rain than usual during winter, no snow, much warmer temperatures overall except for one week in early January when we had fog freezing on the trees for 3 days, and best of all ..... a very early spring.
They were certainly right about the early spring as the crocuses and snowdrops started coming up around mid-January, the primroses and heather bushes are all blooming and the new daffodil and tulip leaves are about 5 inches above the ground. The evergreen perennial snapdragons have started putting out new flowers and all the bluebells and hyacinths are just budding out and have been seeing bees buzzing about the flowering plants.
It should be interesting to see what late spring and all of summer is like.
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Post by here to stay on Feb 7, 2016 17:25:56 GMT
I've stopped assuming as much in the last few years. "Junuary", where it is rather warm, has been followed by "Jane", where the January that was missed shows up in June.
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