Community Chat

[Moonchilde]

@september, I saw quite a few women & kids today in shorts, skimpy tees and flip-flops. I’m thinkin’ the ice cream shops did a good biz today.

The heat is fine, but it’s the ‘no rain in sight’ that bothers me.

[september]

@Moonchilde. Oh yes...it's too dry. I worry about the next summer season, especially after seeing what happened in Santa Rosa and Santa Barbara, this year. 

We need rain!

[Mz iMac]

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Extremely jealous. LOL. Pittsburgh weather has been like a roller coaster. 21 degrees one day, 45 the next. Then we dip into single digits. Snow, then rain. Plays havoc on the body. Can't wait for spring. If we have one.

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@NEvans2

Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter.

[Spurt]

Here in South Texas it looks like we are going in the opposite direction--- we finally had a "winter"....well a winter for Texas anyway...Why we even had snow!!!! And in January a bad ice storm.Our temperatures have been in the upper 20's to 30's to 40's in December/January and 50s and recenty shot up to 60's and 70's....we did have one day of 80, but it quickly cooled down back into the 60's and back into upper 50's which is below normal for us......

But we are in a drought but this weeks forecast looks good with Wednesday being given an 80% chance of rain....and I hope we get more days like that 

[Spurt]

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It's been very warm all season where I live, too.  It was never close to even 40 degrees in February when I was a kid.  Now it's been in the 60's and 70's in December and January as well.  I read an article that stated that by 2030, what we consider a heatwave in comparison to normal temperatures will kill thousands of people.  

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I remember back in the 80's when we had a record 13.5 inches of snow and they said that this would soon be the norm, and the temperatures were going to be getting cooler, and snow would be common place even as far south as south Texas.....That certainly didnt come to pass.........and in 2017 a dusting of 2 inches makes national headline certainly NOT the weather climate the national and local forecasters were predicting.......In a recent news story they talked about climatic cycles that rotate every few years going back 100 years.......

[SilleeMee]

It's been very dry here along the front range in Colorado. It's officially a drought and it's been warm enough to pull out the garden hose and do some watering for the thirsty trees on my property. The fire danger is exceptionally on high alert. Today firemen had to put out two big grass fires in two separate homeless camps. That's just the beginning of what may follow.

[Moonchilde]

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It's been very dry here along the front range in Colorado. It's officially a drought and it's been warm enough to pull out the garden hose and do some watering for the thirsty trees on my property. The fire danger is exceptionally on high alert. Today firemen had to put out two big grass fires in two separate homeless camps. That's just the beginning of what may follow.

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In our rural area, homeowners get burn permits in the winter. This year they issued them but wouldn’t allow anyone to use them until we’d had a multi-day soaking rain. We got that - but now have no rain at all in sight for the foreseeable future and are also back into drought territory. We may not be able to use our permit.

[viva923]

Just listened to weather here. 

We had a rain-snow-sleet storm yesterday, got 1 inch of rain.  Temps are going to fall to 20's tonight Tuesday is the change day to cold air filtering in once again to single didget temps and snow (3 inch),sleet, rain (we could get up to 2 inches of rain) into Wednesday.  Another messy commute once again. 

So looking for some warm weather to filter in. It has been a miserable cold winter this year for us (East Coast)

[LTT1]

@Moonchilde@SilleeMee

Why is it important in your area to use your burn permit?

Pardon my not knowing these things.

[Moonchilde]

@LTT1, I’m not sure “important” is really the word.

We live in a rural area that could go up in smoke. Many people clear all or part of their own brush on their property.  There are all kinds of awkward things that don’t easily go in a trash can or to the dump, and it can be a pain to get rid of.  Most of the homes and properties here start at an acre and go up to ten acres or more, so there’s plenty of space for people to burn. There are lists of does and donts so it doesn’t get out of hand. Fire has to be out/embers by a certain time of day.

It’s not a crucial thing as to need, but it saves time and money for those who choose to do it.