Very muddy here. We ended up with a bit less than 1 1/2 inches of rain plus the snow melt. I saw a small shrub I planted last fall almost completely above ground! Didn't get a chance to mulch it after planting. Hope it survives. I'll post a pic later.
Today's Weather in Your Garden - 14
Is "Yuck" an accepted meterological term?
BTW, Al, if a realtor were selling your house, it would be a Charming Riverfront Location.
A picture is worth a thousand words!!
I agree, so here's my picture of the downpour.
What the tree limbs look like.
A closer look at the ice build up, it's still raining and now the winds have picked up tremendously!
pixie, those are great pics! You brave soul ventured out side, I took mine from the front porch. I drove in it last night, that was enough for me!
Nice Celeste - love the last one.
I loved the last one best, too. Strange how it can be so beautiful and yet so deadly to so many limbs and trees, not to mention power lines.
You said it perfectly Pirl! (oooh..another name for those Iri's we were talking about!! Perfect Pirl, Perfectly Pirl??)
Thanks for the compliments, I do feel bad for the trees.
When I was out there shards of spear shaped ice where falling from the wires and tree's so I didn't stay out long to take pictures. I wish I would of captured it but I was too stunned!!
Glad you went back inside Celeste.
44 deg. here, dark and overcast, wind gusts to 20 mph. Muddy and squishy outside.
Very windy but warm it rained this morning/overnight. Now it's sunny very windy and you'd never know it rained. The wind practically dried everything up.
Woke up to sleet/ice pellets, now it's settled into just snow :(
Windy and cold too.
Very windy here too and it is evaporating a lot of the wet muck. Warm and partly cloudy now, 58 degrees. :)
windy and chilly now, but it's March!
Temp 37.9°, Wind WNW 5.5 mph, Wchill 34.1°
The last one is nice Pixie ☺
29 and sunny!
12 here, feel a little better seeing all the snow they are getting in Texas.
Sunny , breezy and 34 degrees.
37, 33 w/wc, light breezes, very sunny.
Sunny--yipee, 42 & drying up--no lake left in drive--MORE heavy rain coming--had to move the sprouts in cellar--water encroaching! Can see lots of crocus foliage--no crocus blooms, yet!
Upper 40's slight breeze makes it feel colder, but when it's not blowing the sun feels so warm, blue skies hardly any clouds, a
b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l day
Same here but almost no wind at all.
49 and sunny!! I went out for an hour, walked the dog and raked around my tulip bed. Wheeeeee!
Two days to daylight savings - yipeeeeeee!
:::::::::::clapping::::::::::::: YEAH!!!!!!!!!!
I can't wait.
Temp 32°, Wind S 0.0 mph. ☺
32.5, wind 1 MPH. Lots of frost out there.
Some very cool pics. I love the iced evergreens Celeste.
Al, what I want to know is which ditch was dug with the ditch witch?
Victor, I've seen that Sunset webpage before. I found it interesting too. I've added it to the Interesting Links thread. http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/819002/
Here's our upcoming weather.
Friday...Mostly sunny this morning...Then cloudy with rain this afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
Saturday...Rain heavy at Times...With a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Patchy fog. Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
Sunday...Sunny and brisk. Highs in the mid 40s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.
We are also expecting alot of rain...
FLOOD WATCH
Warning Issue Date: 345 AM EST THU MAR 06 2008
...FLOOD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE
SATURDAY NIGHT...
THE FLOOD WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR
* SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW
YORK...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...IN SOUTHERN
CONNECTICUT...FAIRFIELD...MIDDLESEX...NEW HAVEN AND NEW LONDON. IN
NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...BERGEN...ESSEX...HUDSON...PASSAIC AND UNION.
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...BRONX...KINGS (BROOKLYN)...NASSAU...NEW
YORK (MANHATTAN)...ORANGE...PUTNAM...QUEENS...RICHMOND (STATEN
ISLAND)...ROCKLAND...SUFFOLK AND WESTCHESTER.
* FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT.
* AN INITIAL WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT
WILL BRING 1 TO 1 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN TO NEW YORK CITY...LONG ISLAND
AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT TONIGHT...WITH SLIGHTLY LESSER AMOUNTS OF
3/4 TO 1 INCH EXPECTED NORTH AND WEST OF NEW YORK CITY. A SECOND
STRONGER LOW WILL BRING AN ADDITIONAL 1 1/2 TO 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN
AREAWIDE ON SATURDAY. STORM TOTAL RAINFALL SHOULD RANGE FROM 2 TO 4
INCHES...WITH SOME LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS...ESPECIALLY IF
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ON SATURDAY.
* MANY RIVERS AND STREAMS REMAIN AT OR NEAR BANK FULL DUE TO RECENT
HEAVY RAINFALL. SATURATED SOILS COMBINED WITH MODERATE TO HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WIDESPREAD FLOODING OF AREA RIVERS
AND STREAMS...AS WELL POOR DRAINAGE AND URBAN AREAS.
A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING BASED ON
CURRENT FORECASTS.
YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE
FLOOD WARNINGS. THOSE LIVING IN AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP.
$$
We have the same but not as many flood watches. We are getting a mix again instead of straight rain. More ice build ups on the tree's and wires, loss of power again im sure!
A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH
SUNDAY MORNING.
A PROLONGED WINTRY MIX OF SNOW...SLEET...AND FREEZING RAIN WILL
BE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE CENTRAL AND
SOUTHERN INTERIOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN MAINE. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS
FOR A MODERATE TO SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATION...WHICH COULD
CAUSE POWER OUTAGES AND TREE DAMAGE.
Here we go again! On the bright side.......I could get some more nice pictures of ice covered tree's and lines. Whoppee!!
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32 and mostly cloudy here. Yes - tons of rain coming! I have to get on the roof and clear some leaves.
That one Anita.
2 here. This month has been cold-nothing above freezing predicted until Tuesday.
Al - while searching for the ever elusive (to me) "eyes" on dahlias I took cuttings of the new green growth on several of them and it appears they're all growing!
We have the same warning in effect as do you South of me, but instead of rain, we're gonna get another 15 inches of snow :((
They root pretty easy Pirl. Spring should be a lot easier to find the eyes.
Today started with a moderate frost and sunny skies. The frozen tundra returned. Temp is now soaring to 33 degrees heading into the 40s. Tomorrow 2-4 inches of rain. We have flood warnings. Hope up north you don't get dumped on as much as they are saying. Winter seems to be putting up a fight but soon the climbing sun will bring spring I hope.
They are forecasting as much as 4" of rain for my area! There is a flood watch in efffect... it starts tonight.
I used the opportunity to spread all the perennial seeds I have left over from winter sowing in the "wild" areas of my property... my hope is that the rain will give them a good opportunity to get a foothold in the soil and enough moisture to get started.
Or wash them away and the house 2 miles downstream will have beautiful gardens this summer...
44 and starting to rain.