Your Weather, 2024

[ducks4you]

We are, too, ironically, getting 40MPH wind gusts. I opted to leave the ponies out, but I have water drawn and stalls ready to put them in tonight.

 

[SPedigrees]

I'm betting that these bitter winds will be wending their way eastward. Right now Spring has sprung, sap is running, and birds are singing. But I know winter is not done with us yet.

I had plans to spend this winter reading, watching movies & recorded shows, and working on sewing projects. Instead I spent it dealing with computer woes. Not a nerd by nature, it was a struggle for me. I learned a lot, but hard to say if the info I gained will be useful down the line, since technology changes faster than the weather.

 

[Branching Out]

We woke up to 2" of lovely pure white snow blanketing the garden, the heavy kind of snow that coats all of the tree branches and weighs them down. I am half hoping that it sticks around for a few days, because they are forecasting unusually frigid night time lows of -6C(21F) later this week, and my ranunculas are not going to like that. Some snow would go a long way toward insulating the roots, and protecting the top growth. I did a quick search, and it has been over 50 years since we had a similar low recorded during the month of March. On the flip side they are forecasting daytime highs of 18-20C(64-68F) for ten days from now, which is completely bizarre for mid-March. That would be record breaking warmth, and almost tomato weather. 🍅

 

[Dahlia]

We woke up to 2" of lovely pure white snow blanketing the garden, the heavy kind of snow that coats all of the tree branches and weighs them down. I am half hoping that it sticks around for a few days, because they are forecasting unusually frigid night time lows of -6C(21F) later this week, and my ranunculas are not going to like that. Some snow would go a long way toward insulating the roots, and protecting the top growth. I did a quick search, and it has been over 50 years since we had a similar low recorded during the month of March. On the flip side they are forecasting daytime highs of 18-20C(64-68F) for ten days from now, which is completely bizarre for mid-March. That would be record breaking warmth, and almost tomato weather. 🍅

We also have been experiencing record cold temps for March and snow flurries. We have friends who live by Lake Tahoe in CA and they just had a wild snow storm - wind gusts up to 190 at one point! The gusts were mostly around 100 mph! They got 6 feet of snow and had to dig their cars out the next day!

 

[heirloomgal]

I would love to get some of that warmth over here @Branching Out. It's going to warm up to just under 10C./46F which is nice though. Lots of record cold temps this year all over the place, BC and Alberta re: Canada in particular it seems.

 

[digitS']

under 10C./46F

"...under" I was just becoming comfortable that 10⁰C equals 50⁰f ! Yes 46 is under 50 — I understand .

Of course, we know 0⁰C = 32⁰f. And, lucky 21⁰C = 70⁰ ... or, close enuf.

Good Gravy. Why can't the US make the change to metric instead of this  colonial Imperial ?

 

[heirloomgal]

Nearly 3 years on this forum and I still get all boggled up when I try to convert from C to F or vice versa. DH thinks I'm utterly pathetic in conversion skills. And he's right, my brain seems to repel it.

 

[SPedigrees]

"...under" I was just becoming comfortable that 10⁰C equals 50⁰f ! Yes 46 is under 50 — I understand .

Of course, we know 0⁰C = 32⁰f. And, lucky 21⁰C = 70⁰ ... or, close enuf.

Good Gravy. Why can't the US make the change to metric instead of this  colonial Imperial ?

They passed legislation to do so in the 1970s, but never allocated funding for the switch so it never got off the ground. Too late now for my old math-challenged brain. Back in the day it could have become second nature

 

[flowerbug]

to convert C to F:
9.0/5.0 * (tempc + 40.0)) - 40.0

to convert F to C:
5.0/9.0 * (tempf + 40.0)) - 40.0

 

[flowerbug]

a lot of rain today and even thunder and lightnin!