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Post by spiritstone on Aug 15, 2016 13:57:05 GMT -5
Farmer's Almanac Says Winter 2017 Will Be Extra Awful Because Life Can Be Cruel We know, we know. It's August and it's hot and humid and it seems like it will never be cold again. But: you better start preparing because according to the Long Range Weather Forecast released by The Old Farmer's Almanac, this one is going to be a real doozy. Every region of the U.S. will be hit with a different type of terrible. The Northeast and Midwest can expect "colder than normal" temperatures and precipitation is supposed to be "above normal." If you're in the Pacific Northwest, you can expect a lot of rain and chilly weather. And in the Intermountain and Appalachian regions, where ski enthusiasts would actually like cold temperatures and lots of snow, it's set to largely be warmer and less snowy than usual. Great. The only upside is that the South is supposed to experience a very mild winter, so it might be time to get that Florida timeshare you've been thinking about purchasing. Or go the other way and get a cozy cabin up in Vermont where you can watch the snow fall while curled up by the fireplace. There are also a lot of scientists who poo-poo the almanac, which is based on a secret formula that founder Robert B. Thomas designed using solar cycles, climatology, and meteorology, so you're free to take this information with a grain of salt. But given that it claims to have an 80 percent accuracy rate and that its predictions about last year's brutal winter were pretty much spot-on, we're not going to take our chances www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/news/a6842/farmers-almanac-winter-2017-awful/
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Post by spiritstone on Aug 24, 2016 19:52:01 GMT -5
Having our first warning, Autumn is close. A few overnight temps reported below 0 Celsius in the lower valley's this week.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 25, 2016 16:11:12 GMT -5
spiritstone , I'll be thinking of you in a month or two when we have our "real" summer! Hottest temps of the year here in SoCal! Has always been that way, long before they been thought about global warming, lol. Used to have a poster of penguins jumping off an ice flow affixed to the wall above my A/C. No warm thoughts here when it is 102 degrees outside!
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Post by spiritstone on Aug 25, 2016 20:23:23 GMT -5
spiritstone , I'll be thinking of you in a month or two when we have our "real" summer! Hottest temps of the year here in SoCal! Has always been that way, long before they been thought about global warming, lol. Used to have a poster of penguins jumping off an ice flow affixed to the wall above my A/C. No warm thoughts here when it is 102 degrees outside! When it turns -40 below on the opposite end of your thermometer" if they make them like that for you" Lmao, trust me, I'll be thinking of you to, wishing I was there. I keep a desktop pic on my computer at work that has sandy beaches and palm trees during the cold months. hahaha, doesnt help, its still cold outside.
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Post by bushmanbilly on Sept 4, 2016 11:17:00 GMT -5
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 15, 2017 18:32:40 GMT -5
No action on this thread since early September, time for an update. I have heard that the drought is officially over in 42% of the state. Judging by the amount of precipitation in the last couple weeks, and this forecast for next week, I think I'd have to agree! Six days of rain in a row! Hope AZ does not get as wet... We are cold, wet and soggy, mushrooms coming up everywhere. Feels like Seattle!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2017 18:48:34 GMT -5
No action on this thread since early September, time for an update. I have heard that the drought is officially over in 42% of the state. Judging by the amount of precipitation in the last couple weeks, and this forecast for next week, I think I'd have to agree! Six days of rain in a row! Hope AZ does not get as wet... We are cold, wet and soggy, mushrooms coming up everywhere. Feels like Seattle! I'll report massive puddle complex all over the southern Mojave. Too cold for frog breeding so no tadpole, yet. I'll see if I can get pics of blue cut fire greening up and above mentioned puddles. Amy shaggy mane mushrooms Jean?
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 15, 2017 19:18:48 GMT -5
IDK, is this one?
Not up on mycology much. I like to take photos of them, but not too good at IDing.
What is this one? Inky cap?
I'll have take more pics, different types out there. Years ago, had a morel come up in the yard!
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 15, 2017 19:30:57 GMT -5
Been weepy with sprinkles here in Texas for days but have a good storm rolling in about thirty minutes Not a lot of shrooms here but we do have a weird algae that looks like sea lettuce except lumpier that grows all over the yard when it's wet. I miss all the cool mushrooms we had at our ranch in Commiefornia. Really spectacular there after a rain. My favorites were the Jack O Lantern shrooms....Mel
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Post by vegasjames on Jan 15, 2017 21:26:29 GMT -5
IDK, is this one?
Looks like maybe a puffball. There are various types.
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Post by parfive on Jan 15, 2017 22:47:04 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2017 23:57:20 GMT -5
Awesome link Rich!! Thanks!!
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 16, 2017 9:12:07 GMT -5
Wow, Incredible article. When we had our Gold Country ranch I heard some tales about that " great flood" but had no idea of the magnitude. Wow! Thanks for posting that link Rich.....Mel
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 16, 2017 10:21:40 GMT -5
You think they would have collected all that rain water that fell these past few months,instead of letting it go to sea....!!! Millions of cubic gallons..
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 16, 2017 11:49:57 GMT -5
Greenies in Commiefornia won't let them build new dams. In Ventura County where I used to work, millions and millions of gallons of water flows down the creeks and rivers with practically no containment. Only thing it does is flood the surrounding ag lands. Same holds true for much of Commiefornia. At least the existing reservoirs are filling up pretty good this year....Mel
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Post by parfive on Jan 16, 2017 15:37:01 GMT -5
Favorite bit from the article . . . kinda like how animals get spooked before an earthquake or tsunami or whatever, they know somethin’s up . . . It appears that the Native American populations, who had lived in the region for thousands of years, had deeper insights to the weather and hydrology, and recognized the patterns that result in devastating floods. A piece in the Nevada City Democrat described the Native American response on January 11, 1862:
We are informed that the Indians living in the vicinity of Marysville left their abodes a week or more ago for the foothills predicting an unprecedented overflow. They told the whites that the water would be higher than it has been for thirty years, and pointed high up on the trees and houses where it would come. The valley Indians have traditions that the water occasionally rises 15 or 20 feet higher than it has been at any time since the country was settled by whites, and as they live in the open air and watch closely all the weather indications, it is not improbable that they may have better means than the whites of anticipating a great storm.
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 16, 2017 15:47:16 GMT -5
Rich that totally makes sense as Amerinds, not having a native written language, have an oral tradition by which history is remembered via oft repeated stories.....Mel
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 24, 2017 15:24:30 GMT -5
No action on this thread since early September, time for an update. I have heard that the drought is officially over in 42% of the state. Judging by the amount of precipitation in the last couple weeks, and this forecast for next week, I think I'd have to agree! Six days of rain in a row! Hope AZ does not get as wet... We are cold, wet and soggy, mushrooms coming up everywhere. Feels like Seattle!
A huge improvement over the last forecast I posted
About ready for some warming up and drying out around here.
Last I heard, only 2% of California is still considered to be in a drought. Jean
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Post by gemfeller on Jan 24, 2017 16:12:16 GMT -5
The past several weeks here in Ventura County have been wet - not a deluge but steady gentle intermittent rains.
My mantra has been: "I will NOT complain about the rain...I will NOT complain about the rain" over and over. I had a huge crop of mushrooms in my front yard. They looked edible but....
There have been intervals of bright sunshine, rainbows, sometimes both while it was still raining. Very dramatic. Also some memorable thunderboomers at night with close lightning strikes -- much less common here on the coast than in the Rockies where I grew up.
Sadly, as Mel noted, the ground is now saturated and all new moisture is draining into the ocean. There have been proposals to use runoff to recharge our diminishing aquifer but they're overwhelmed in bureaucratic snarl. I find it ironic the Sahara Club Greenies who run the state won't allow any new reservoirs, yet elite San Franciscans somehow don't feel guilty about their water supply from Hetch-Hetchy reservoir. It inundated a valley comparable in size and beauty to Yosemite Valley.
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 24, 2017 23:05:53 GMT -5
Yup, here in Texas, we never complain about the rain. Now the freaking tennis ball sized hail, well that's another matter *L*. That's why I keep my jeep in the shop.....Mel
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