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triceratops


Joined: 15 Nov 2006
Posts: 7864
Location: The other Nevada

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 3:07 pm     Reply with quote

It's late May isn't it? It's the start of the Memorial Day weekend, right? And we're in the northern hemisphere aren't we?

Then why did I have to use 4WD to get home, through my subdivision and around town at noon today? And why do the passes on I-80, I-50 and all other passes in the area have chain controls and are forecast not to get above freezing today?

And just to confound everything, it's supposed to reach 80 by Sunday (day after tomorrow) and in the 90's by next weekend.
digigandalf


Joined: 11 Jun 2005
Posts: 5416
Location: Twinsburg, OH

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 6:30 pm     Reply with quote

Here in NE Ohio we're baking already. Memorial Day weekend is traditionally when I plant all our flowers for the season (or at least most of them), but I don't know this time around. I'm gonna have to get out there at 4 a.m. to beat the heat, it looks like!
semmickphoto


Joined: 12 Feb 2012
Posts: 6510
Location: Stuck between a shutter and a hard place

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 7:43 pm     Reply with quote

I am in Chicago now, 80F, going to the Indy 500 on Sunday.

Celebrating Memorial Day in Indianapolis as well.
ruxpriencdiam


Joined: 07 May 2009
Posts: 26272
Location: Third Stone from the Sun

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 8:06 pm     Reply with quote

Oh come on now.

It's supposed to be Hazy, Hot and Humid down where with temps in the nineties yet we still have to break the eighties yet, but the rain is here with a tropical storm already and another possible one forming and it's not even Hurricane season yet!

I'm expecting snow any day.
jeffbanke


Joined: 18 Dec 2005
Posts: 17467
Location: www.xlr8photo.com, The real California

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:02 pm     Reply with quote

Well I am just over the hill from you Rus and was mowing the grass around the house in West Point when suddenly it started HAILING! Then turned to rain and was like that for an hour or two, then cleared up enough for me to finish mowing the two acres plus.
okiepony


Joined: 06 Apr 2010
Posts: 15407
Location: Finally There! :)

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:07 pm     Reply with quote

Send any excess rain my way, please!

We're in the 90s with pretty good winds that dry everything out, and no serious rain in sight. :(
I just don't want to see another drought like last summer.
triceratops


Joined: 15 Nov 2006
Posts: 7864
Location: The other Nevada

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:11 pm     Reply with quote

jeffbanke wrote:
Well I am just over the hill from you Rus and was mowing the grass around the house in West Point when suddenly it started HAILING! Then turned to rain and was like that for an hour or two, then cleared up enough for me to finish mowing the two acres plus.


Started snowing around 10:30am and continued until 2:00pm or so. Sometimes quite heavy. Never got out of the 40's at my house. Supposed to get close to freezing overnight (so much for my peach crop) and all the way up to the low 50's tomorrow (average right now is supposed to be 75). I actually had to turn the heat back on this morning.
canalenes


Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Posts: 2205
Location: Orygun

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:19 pm     Reply with quote

okiepony wrote:
Send any excess rain my way, please!

We're in the 90s with pretty good winds that dry everything out, and no serious rain in sight. :(
I just don't want to see another drought like last summer.


I'm blowing it your way as hard as I can. Getting a little dizzy (or dizzier than normal, according to hubby and kids).

We are being drenched, wind blowing, thunder, lightening and rain, rain, rain. And it's been rainier than normal for yet another spring (rolls eyes to heaven). The past three springs and summers here have been cooler and wetter than what they should be and what we'd like! Plus it gives the farmers here a hard time! And we're all tired of being pasty white---LOL. Not attractive for those two days a summer when we can wear a tank top!

Send your heat and sunshine our way, Sari, puh-leeeze!! ;-) Let's swap weather!
canalenes


Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Posts: 2205
Location: Orygun

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:21 pm     Reply with quote

triceratops wrote:
jeffbanke wrote:
Well I am just over the hill from you Rus and was mowing the grass around the house in West Point when suddenly it started HAILING! Then turned to rain and was like that for an hour or two, then cleared up enough for me to finish mowing the two acres plus.


Started snowing around 10:30am and continued until 2:00pm or so. Sometimes quite heavy. Never got out of the 40's at my house. Supposed to get close to freezing overnight (so much for my peach crop) and all the way up to the low 50's tomorrow (average right now is supposed to be 75). I actually had to turn the heat back on this morning.


Jeeezzzzz, that's crazy!! But I think I remmeber my brother saying that there wasn't much snow at the ski slopes this winter??? It's all backwards! Oh well, make the best of it and hit the slopes now ;-)
apotterdd


Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 7003
Location: Trying to get my latinum back from Quark

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:27 pm     Reply with quote

Most of the ski resorts had to close early because it got too warm too fast here.
canalenes


Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Posts: 2205
Location: Orygun

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 10:05 pm     Reply with quote

apotterdd wrote:
Most of the ski resorts had to close early because it got too warm too fast here.


Where are you located, Anita? I assumed in the Mississippi Delta part of Louisiana! LOL---no ski slopes there! ;-)
apotterdd


Joined: 10 Apr 2009
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Location: Trying to get my latinum back from Quark

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 10:37 pm     Reply with quote

Nah up here in Colorado ;) I can't remember if they closed a couple of weeks early or a month or so early. No snow and heat makes for no skiing.
canalenes


Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Posts: 2205
Location: Orygun

Post Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 10:48 pm     Reply with quote

apotterdd wrote:
Nah up here in Colorado ;) I can't remember if they closed a couple of weeks early or a month or so early. No snow and heat makes for no skiing.


How nice to be in Colorado!! We were at Denver airport for a few hours last week....so close. No snow for you all is really bad for local economy! All those Colorado and Tahoe skiiers had a boring winter---LOL.
jeffbanke


Joined: 18 Dec 2005
Posts: 17467
Location: www.xlr8photo.com, The real California

Post Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 12:19 am     Reply with quote

apotterdd wrote:
Nah up here in Colorado ;) I can't remember if they closed a couple of weeks early or a month or so early. No snow and heat makes for no skiing.


Where abouts' in Co Anita?
I lived in Littleton, worked in Wheatridge for years, als we had a factory in Colorado Springs. I hunted all over, and still own a couple of acreas out in South Park, at Indian Mountain.
apotterdd


Joined: 10 Apr 2009
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Location: Trying to get my latinum back from Quark

Post Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 12:30 am     Reply with quote

We're out in Falcon just east of Colorado Springs. We've been in the area for over 11 years now and out here for nearly 7.

We're supposed to get hella winds tomorrow and I'm not looking forward to it. I'm gonna be on idiot watch tomorrow. We're still pretty dry and the rain we've gotten hasn't amounted to much. The grass is still really crunchy.
 
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