We have incredible rains in our city. Although most of the summer there was no rain or wind. I hope the rains will not end before the end of summer.
How’s the weather?
- Thread starter The Masked Shadow
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I'm biking to school now, and It is always 75 in the morning, and creeps up to 80-85 in the late afternoon. I've been keeping track of a city in Iraq called Basra. It's been consistently 122 degrees.
It’s 81 at 7am and raining. Yes, raining. We get on average less than .2” of precipitation in September. It’s going to rain heavily today. Tropical storms from Mexico. .65” of rain, and reaching 90+ degrees.
Here it is two years later from this.
This picture was taken at noon. Fire smoke so thick you could barely see the sun.
Well today we are getting alerts on our phone telling us that the power may be cut of due to the Red flag fire conditions. High winds, high heat, no humidity. If a power line goes down due to wind they will shut off the juice before a fire can start is the theory.
This picture was taken at noon. Fire smoke so thick you could barely see the sun.
Well today we are getting alerts on our phone telling us that the power may be cut of due to the Red flag fire conditions. High winds, high heat, no humidity. If a power line goes down due to wind they will shut off the juice before a fire can start is the theory.
Wow! I couldn't figure out why hot dry weather would cause power interruptions...never realized they were turning it off intentionally to minimize fire risk. Very interesting; do you know if this is an automated system, or is it manually disconnected? I'm thinking it must be automated in order for it to be at all effective.
Here in my region of Canuckistan temps are cooling rapidly. Nighttime lows are around 5C, daytime only 15C some days but still plenty of 25+ days as well. There are frost warnings just to the west of us now.
I have been emptying my outdoor stock tanks and dragging the fish indoors for the past couple days; lots of work but rewarding as well. The drainage ditch alongside the country road on which I live is large, probably 5 feet deep and easily 15 feet wide, and the extensive flooding this year kept it well full until the past week or so. As the water levels finally dropped, I went down to the end of my driveway to clear the cattails and other plant debris away from the upstream side of the big culvert under my driveway. As I worked, I was noticing some splashing and activity in the shallow and now-muddy water; I thought it might be Sticklebacks, which have managed to make it this far upstream in the ditch several times in wetter years before; this ditch drains directly into Lake Winnipeg, roughly 20km away.
Naturally, I had to check it out. I found Sticklebacks...as well as Fat-head Minnows, at least two other unidentified species of dace or chub, several Central Mudminnows, at least a dozen common Carp ranging in size from about 4 to over 6 inches...and a single Pike, over a foot long!
I'm sure that at least some of these fish made it into that location by going overland during the floods...based largely upon the fact that I captured a couple of Sticklebacks in the middle of my yard earlier this summer...
Here in my region of Canuckistan temps are cooling rapidly. Nighttime lows are around 5C, daytime only 15C some days but still plenty of 25+ days as well. There are frost warnings just to the west of us now.
I have been emptying my outdoor stock tanks and dragging the fish indoors for the past couple days; lots of work but rewarding as well. The drainage ditch alongside the country road on which I live is large, probably 5 feet deep and easily 15 feet wide, and the extensive flooding this year kept it well full until the past week or so. As the water levels finally dropped, I went down to the end of my driveway to clear the cattails and other plant debris away from the upstream side of the big culvert under my driveway. As I worked, I was noticing some splashing and activity in the shallow and now-muddy water; I thought it might be Sticklebacks, which have managed to make it this far upstream in the ditch several times in wetter years before; this ditch drains directly into Lake Winnipeg, roughly 20km away.
Naturally, I had to check it out. I found Sticklebacks...as well as Fat-head Minnows, at least two other unidentified species of dace or chub, several Central Mudminnows, at least a dozen common Carp ranging in size from about 4 to over 6 inches...and a single Pike, over a foot long!
I'm sure that at least some of these fish made it into that location by going overland during the floods...based largely upon the fact that I captured a couple of Sticklebacks in the middle of my yard earlier this summer...
First day of autumn was officially a few days ago now in blighty. The weather is turning autumnal too, and night time temps, for the first time in a long while, are creeping down to single figures.
A far cry from the balmy record temps of 40°C we had to endure only a few weeks ago.
A far cry from the balmy record temps of 40°C we had to endure only a few weeks ago.
Lol, I really don't think Cali-surfer-dudes really know what "winter" is...
We had our first hard frost last night, temps hit freezing for the first time this fall. Another couple days and all the water lily leaves will be dead; then I can bring the bulbs indoors to winter in the basement. Also have a dozen or so small spruce trees marked in the back fourty, another couple weeks and they will be transplanted to waiting holes in the yard.
Oh, hey...how's the pond coming?
