How's The Weather By You?

This week is completely different from last week. High today was a balmy 52 and we will be climbing toward 70 by Saturday. Lows are in the 40's, which were barely the highs last week.

Thennnn, depending how far south the Polar Jet Stream dips, they are telling us we may see single digit temps later next week! We are only an hour from the AL border. I'm hoping they mean at night and not during the day; actually I hope "they" are way off the mark on that one:bi_polo:

The weather gets more fickle with each passing year.
 

We've been having breezy and mild temps here in Colorado (40s + 50s), but they say cold and snow again starting Friday (20s). Still have snow in the backyard that hasn't melted yet.

Good luck TWHRider, hope they're off too! Single digit temps are bad enough at night, hope your horses are able to stay warm enough in that kind of weather. I always worry about our four-legged friends. :love_heart:
 
SeaBreeze said:
Good luck TWHRider, hope they're off too! Single digit temps are bad enough at night, hope your horses are able to stay warm enough in that kind of weather. I always worry about our four-legged friends. :love_heart:
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Thanks Seabreeze:) The horses <sigh>, I was never someone to blanket my horses but, they now all have waterproof winter coats for turnout:eek:

They all come in at night. My barn is small and the hay is also stored in there. Between the hay, closing the barn up, clean shavings to bed down in and 4, 000 pounds of horse flesh, there's plenty of heat for them stay warm. If the daytime weather is raw and blustery, I will send them out with their coats on. Three of the four can't afford to be burning extra calories to stay warm. The fourth one doesn't need a coat but I caught a lot of flack from Mr. TWHRider because "everyone else has a coat" so I bought a lightweight coat for the guy that doesn't need it.

They all have heated stall buckets and the stock tanks outside have heaters in them. I cut back what goes in their feed pans and stuff them full of hay on the colder nights, so they can eat their way thru the night. Horses are forage animals so quality hay is a lot more important for survival than what goes in the feed pan.

My biggest worry is the wide temperature swings - many horses will colic over that. 70 degrees Saturday then possibly single digits by the next Saturday? Those wide swings are really hard on the digestive system of any type of livestock. I keep prescription belly ache medicine in refrigerator just case someone goes down.
 

I'm happy you know how to take such good care of your horses, and kudos to the Mr., I think the same way and wouldn't want the 4th to feel neglected. :love_heart:
 
No doubt about the weather extremes in the U.S. today; they're were part of the intro on the "Today" show this AM.

The low in my area for January 10-11 was 63 degrees (17.2C). That set every record going back to 1890 when Nashville, TN first started keeping weather records.

The first of the coming week, night time temps will plummet to high 20's - low 30's. There was a tornado somewhere in Louisiana but no reported injuries.

I have mats in my barn and I have never seen them get anything more than damp, but with all the rain coupled with really high humidity, there are moisture puddles in the food prep area. We actually gave mud and for the first time since I left the OH/PA border, I have seen the driveway "roll over" in one spot.

Hope nobody's too soggy and keeping yourselves entertained:)
 
Just started snowing here around 10:30 AM, they say tomorrow's high will be 18 F degrees. Don't like driving on that mud TWH, can be so slippery just like ice. :eek: May take the dog for a quick walk at the park, then call it a day, nice thing about being retired, don't have to dread the drive home on the highway during rush-hour, when roads are slick and visibility is poor (and jerks are plentiful). :rolleyes:
 
It has been raining for the past 3 days non stop..
Along with the rain, we have temperatures during the day at +7c and at night +4c..
It gets extremely foggy at night.. I mean very, very very foggy..

Most of the snow has gone.. Everything looks dirty !!!!!

WE NEED SNOW AND VERY BADLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
The fog makes everything look so spooky, and it's a nightmare to drive in! :eek: Three days of rain bring a lot of mud for sure! We have a clean new blanket of snow, and temps very cold, only 9 F degrees now.
 
We are having the coldest weather in Arizona in the past 20 years it is suppose go down to 28 degrees tonight. I feel like I am back in N.Y.C. They are actually having the same weather tonight according to some of my family that are still there. The weather is very weird here in the U.S.A.
 
Hope there a change in weather there for you soon Knight, sounds awful! I remember hearing a long time ago that in Germany, the rains were so heavy and often, that the bark was stripping off the trees. There is very unusal weather worldwide, really.
 
Around 4:00 PM there were tornado warnings for the NW edge of my county, heading toward Nashville and places NE. I haven't played back the news & weather yet because I've been at the barn most of the time.

We were a sultry 67 degrees when that warning came across the barn radio. It is now 7:00 PM, the back side of that storm train is doing just what they said and temps have dropped close to 30 degrees. The rain was pelting down and the wind was blowing - just unbelievable; if all that were snow, I would have to put the tractor in 4-wheel drive and hope I could back over the snow to start plowing:bi_polo:

Ozarkgal, how are you? You got all this rotten stuff ahead of me. How high's the creek by now??:cower:
 
Our January thaw seems to be over...
It is very pleasant with the temp around the -15c mark and sunny with NO wind..
They are calling for a few cms of snow which we need extremely badly.. Hope the few cms ends up being almost a foot ...

Like I said, we rely on snow for the survival of our small village.. No snow, no village..
 
OK.. Let me explain..
We live in a very small village of just under 1000 people.. We don't have any industry or major employer in our area..
Snow and lots of it keeps the snowmobile trails open which brings tons and tons of tourists both on machines and by road.. They stay in our motels and spend money in our village..

Ice fishing is another great tourist attraction.. Again it draws tons of tourists that spend hoards of money in the village..
They need gas..
They need a place to sleep..
They must eat..
They shop !!!

We have a HUGE winter carnival in February which draws thousands of visitors.. No snow, not a very good carnival.. We have dog sled rides, sleigh rides, ice hockey, snow sculptures, snow fort, just to name a few items..

Without snow and extreme cold, all this won't happen !!!!!!

Hope this answers your question ...........
 
Exactly, except Colorado is a known ski area while we are generally on the passing track..
One more very important thing snow does is give moisture to our forests.. This moisture prevents the forest from becoming very dry and thus reducing the risk of forest fires come spring and summer......

The extreme cold will freeze the lakes around here which will save lives by snowmobilers not falling through the thin ice.. It will also allow for ice fishing which is a HUGE sport around here.. Every lake is like a village with their ice huts....
 
Snow and rain are very important for all plant life, wildlife, etc. We've experienced some devastating wildfires here in the past several years, as precipitation has been very low...not much rain in summer, and not enough snow in winter. We have a big reservoir near us that has a few folks out there ice fishing, seems like they have to hug the shoreline though, as it isn't solid ice throughout.

What kind of fish are they catching by you?
 
Not too be funny, but ice fishing (like summer fishing) catches almost anything one fishes for..
In winter, they fish for Walleye, Pike, Lake Trout (steel-heads), and Rainbow Trout...

Summer is another thing.. I like fishing for Musky mostly.. I also fish for Bass, Catfish, and Rainbows....

Salmon are all over the place..
Sturgeon are plentiful as well....

We have thousands of lakes and rivers in the north that specialize in different species.. Some Walleye, some Rainbow, some Speckled Trout, some Pike etc......

Lake Huron has absolutely everything !!!!!
 
When I was a kid (as in 16 and just got my driver's license), we used to drive up to Lake Nippissing just outside North Bay, Ontario a few times in late Spring. The male members of the family went fishing while us gals sat on the porch at Freedman's Lodge and enjoyed the Beavers repairing their dam on the other side of the Lake.

The RULE was if you didn't fish, you didn't eat but that never happened - lol lol

You're about 3 hours west of North Bay if I did Mapquest correctly and Mercy you're right on the Lake so you really do get "Lake Effect" weather all year long. I can see why catering to the tourist and outdoor sporting industries would make your weather critical.

It's been Butt-Ugly here. The temps have been hovering barely above the freezing mark, so we have been going back and forth between rain and freezing rain. I would have been a lot happier to see snow because I could have turned my horses out. As it were, they were shut in the barn 22 hours straight on Wednesday.

They range in age from 17 to coming 27 and believe me, NOBODY wanted to go out the door. They have turnout blankets for inclement weather but that didn't matter, they wanted to stay in their stalls and watch that muddy yuk from afar - lol lol Finally at 2:30 PM there was a break in the rain and I threw them all out so I could clean stalls without them re-cycyling hay the minute I was done.

We are in the same weather pattern today but the weathermen are promising sunshine for Friday. It is no joke to say we have not seen any sun whatsoever for nearly a week. I am generally ok with that but when the near-freezing rain is thrown in, all day, and I can't get my outside chores properly done, I am not a happy camper:p

Even my dogs wait until the 99th second to go outside and spin up mud quickly running back inside --- where they need dried off with a towel:eek:nthego: They are both in the 75 lb - 90 lb category so not as fragile as the Little Tykes and don't need coats. Plus our temps, in spite of my whining, are balmy compared to yours, Steve:cool:
 
You are 100% correct with us being about 2 1/2 hours west of North Bay..
As I post this, it is cool outside which is a HUGE blessing.. It is -29c at present and very welcomed.. Now, if this weather can only continue for another 10 days or more, it would be great.. A life savour actually..
Snow would be welcomed here as well.. They are calling for 15 cms on the week-end.. Hooray !!!!!!!!
 
We just had about 10 cms of the white stuff.. Very well welcomed but we all would like more..

They are forecasting a bitterly cold spell coming up for the next few days.. Also very welcomed..............
Days will be around the -15 to -20c mark while the nights will cool off slightly to around the -30c mark...............
Wind chills will be around the -45c mark with a brisk wind.....

Like I said, VERY WELCOMED !!!!!!!!! Its about time !!!!!
 
Glad you got some snow!:D

Cold Spell - I wish that would stay up north. Our warm-up is short lived. Next week is going to be ugly in that regard.

No rain or snow, we will have plenty of sun but part of the week will be right at freezing during the day and down in the teens at night. I left the OH/PA border to get away from this stuff:winter1:
 
It was warm and sunny today by me, high 50's. They say it will be in the 60's mid-week. These spring-like temps are great, but it is January and we need some moisture either with snow or rain. It was back in 1983 when I remember getting some good rains throughout the summer, and everything was nice and green instead of brown. Not sure what's happening nowadays with this weather, doesn't always look like the global warming curse. :confused:
 

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