Month: December 2015

Okay, it got cold again. As in yesterday it was in the 70’s. Today mid afternoon, after 4 and it’s only 39 degrees. Oh, and we just had rain and hail. At least it was short lived. This morning around 8am we had one of those cold fronts come through, and we got rain. Then again around 11 we got more rain. Between the two we got just over an inch of rain. The wind has been blowing since last night. The strongest wind gust was 29 mph. But we’re not done with the cold yet. We have cold weather for the next week.  He ten day forecast shows nights around, just above and just below freezing.

At least we’re better off than the Dallas area.  They got tornados. About 8 people are dead from those tornados. I guess we’ll just take the rain and cold. Though the east coast has had unseasonably warm weather.  Not much you can do about the weather. And our current weather patterns attest to that.

Funny note.  Christmas Day Las Vegas got a smattering of snow. Wonder what the odds were on that?

Go figure. We’ve had a couple of cool nights, down to 33 last night, but now we are back to warm weather. Warm as in the 10 day forecast says highs in the 70’s, with a possible 80 thrown in for good measure. That means the nights will be in the low 50’s. Maybe rain on Christmas day, but we’ll see.

Getting sorry we picked all the tomatoes. Though some of the plants I left look great. The bok choy never looked better.

Ever wonder what they mean when they talk about a cold front moving in. Well hopefully this will help explain it.

This happened last night. Yes we had temperatures in the 70’s most of the day, actually pretty much all day, then the temperature just dropped. Yes as the temperature dropped we got rain. About two inches of rain. What is interesting it we had a few cold days a couple of weeks ago, but mostly the weather has been nice. So far its been overall a fairly nice autumn. And that’s not always good.
 We did have a previous cold front come thru a couple of weeks ago, but the cold didn’t last. The concern is the almanac said it would be a cold winter. So far it looks like we might have nice weather for Christmas.

After the rain last night the skies have cleared up.

The garden took a beating from our previous cold front. The watermelon and other squash plants are pretty much died and gone. They got pulled out of the ground. Some of the tomato plants have been pulled too. But the broccoli and leaf greens (collards) seem to be doing okay. The pak choy looks great. Its gotten big and green with the weather change. We even took the time and planted more seeds – more collards, swiss chard, and lettuce.

We’ll see how everything goes. And we’ll see how the weather shapes up this winter.