A Touch of Fall

[digitS']

We are skidding, almost out of control!

The days of record-high temperatures in the 90's just 2 weeks ago, seem distant. It didn't make it to 60f yesterday. The WS tells us that it is the first day with such a cool afternoon since June 21st. Honestly, that tells you more about our Junes than late September here in the inland NW.

The recent storm spun into western Montana and into Canada; where it came back south again. This morning, that storm is hitting the eastside of the Cascades. It is good, I suppose. Not terrible rain and it was the eastside where the terrible fires were this summer.

Tomorrow morning, the thermometer will drop to the 30's, we are told. Last time that happened: May 24th.

Steve

 

[digitS']

Ack!!!

!

It is 7:45am - There's ice on the top of my pickup!

Steve

 

[ninnymary]

Wow Steve, you sure have big temperature drops withing days.

Mary

 

[NwMtGardener]

Ach ya got the frost!! I havent seen it right here at my house yet, but could be any night now...been chilly in the daytime too.

 

[Smart Red]

So sorry for you digitS! It seem strange that two zone 5's can be so different. It is slowly getting cooler at night, but the days have been fantastic - the full glory of autumn. I am hoping frost here will keep closer to normal and not strike until mid October.

 

[thistlebloom]

Ack!!!

!

It is 7:45am - There's ice on the top of my pickup!

Steve

Yikes! You must have had a much clearer sky than we did over here. No frost yet . It's supposed to freeze tonight so we picked all the peppers. We got a 5 gallon bucket of 'em! :coolsun

 

[digitS']

It is just a mild-winter area, for the most part, Linn Bee.

And, just a mild frost! No ice on the lawn. And . . . no frost damage in the gardens!

Now, the prediction is for 34f tomorrow morning! Dang! A 4 drop from what the WS thought this morning. Well, I will be in one garden with a hand on the sprinkler valve and just hope for the best everywhere. Did NOT pick all the green tomatoes but got some things that would go down to the frost. Dahlias are hanging out there but "usually" that garden & the little veggie garden beside it, are fairly well protected. Only once in the dozen+ years I've been there, has it frosted there and not the more exposed big veggie garden(s).

Shoveling sand against the tide won't do it so I'm resigned. No prediction of any warmth anytime soon so the gardens will just go into a holding pattern whether frost kills some plants, or not.

Steve

 

[NwMtGardener]

Ahhh! The yard is covered in frost! Cant see the garden clearly, and i'm not going out there until i have to leave for work...but, it doesnt really matter anyway, i picked everything i was going to be getting 2 days ago! Still tough to see winter coming, blah.

 

[canesisters]

Wow, this is all just shocking and so terribly unfair.

Spring was late and it sounds like yall skipped Fall altogether and went right into winter.

Earlier this summer I had a couple of hens over in the quarentine pen. When I started picking tomatoes I would toss one in for them. They've longsince been back in the coop and I now have tomato plants nearly 4' high in there. Poor things are blooming too, but will never make it to tomatoes before the cold hits here (October-ish).

 

[NwMtGardener]

Actually, Steve can probably say more accurately, but it seems pretty normal to me...I really should keep track of my actual frost dates! I usually use Sept 30 as my average for counting days, so we're not that far off.