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Garden Master
I thought I could report some record warmth but the records are so wild this time of year. There have been some record warm low temperatures set out in the depths of the Columbia Basin.
There will be more, this morning. The weather will have to be a little more wild for there to be much more than those few.
How are things for you? Wild, mid-December weather?
It is 40°f this morning! Our temperatures are 20° above normal and that might be good enough for records during some months, not December.
I wonder what it is about this month ... maybe that we are nearing that extreme on the sun's yearly path. The Winter Solstice will occur during the evening of the 21st. The Sun has gone about as far away as it can go!
There will also be a New Moon on the 21st ... not that I've seen much of it the last few mornings. Living in a valley, the fog has moved in when the sky might have been clear. Mountains around are getting snow this morning but that may change to rain by Sunday. There won't be a lot of rain; there seldom is.
I drove out to the treeline a few days ago. I like to do that during these dark weeks. Get up on a hill out there and there is a sense of returning to the light. Notice, I didn't say driving up to the treeline. It would take a snowmobile but would likely give that same sense of emerging from down in, and under.
Anyway, the roots of the little pines out there at the edge of the Columbia Basin sure must appreciate the December rain. The soil has thawed of ice and is soaking up this moisture. This is how it should be here and many blades of wheat will be soaking up that moisture in the spring. Normal will return, maybe as early as Christmas. The moisture will soon enough be frozen in place and covered with snow.
NASA says our communities are much brighter from space at this time of year ... there! That can be my theme for a Christmas letter! From under the rain clouds ...
Steve
There will be more, this morning. The weather will have to be a little more wild for there to be much more than those few.
How are things for you? Wild, mid-December weather?
It is 40°f this morning! Our temperatures are 20° above normal and that might be good enough for records during some months, not December.
I wonder what it is about this month ... maybe that we are nearing that extreme on the sun's yearly path. The Winter Solstice will occur during the evening of the 21st. The Sun has gone about as far away as it can go!
There will also be a New Moon on the 21st ... not that I've seen much of it the last few mornings. Living in a valley, the fog has moved in when the sky might have been clear. Mountains around are getting snow this morning but that may change to rain by Sunday. There won't be a lot of rain; there seldom is.
I drove out to the treeline a few days ago. I like to do that during these dark weeks. Get up on a hill out there and there is a sense of returning to the light. Notice, I didn't say driving up to the treeline. It would take a snowmobile but would likely give that same sense of emerging from down in, and under.
Anyway, the roots of the little pines out there at the edge of the Columbia Basin sure must appreciate the December rain. The soil has thawed of ice and is soaking up this moisture. This is how it should be here and many blades of wheat will be soaking up that moisture in the spring. Normal will return, maybe as early as Christmas. The moisture will soon enough be frozen in place and covered with snow.
NASA says our communities are much brighter from space at this time of year ... there! That can be my theme for a Christmas letter! From under the rain clouds ...
Steve
