The frost is on the pumpkin

[Monty]

I got up at 5:00 AM this morning as usual and noticed that over night the heat had kicked on. So I pulled on a jacket and went outside to get the newspaper and it felt pretty darn cold. I took my wife to the doctor a little while later and could hardly see out of the windshield. So I turned on the wipers to clear off the mist and it was ice! The weather report on TV said it was 42 degrees but that was at the airport weather station. This is the first time I can remember ice being on the "pumpkin" this early in the fall. In this locale we usually don't get cold enough to freeze before around Haloween. Danged global warming is at it again! My son is now living just outside Casper, Wyoming (just moved there) and he told me they had some light snow flurries one day not long ago. Monty

 

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[WindHarvester]

Monty,

The last few morning here in Southeastern Ohio have been in the mid 40's and mid 50's during the day although it is supposed to get up into the 70's this weekend.

We have been bringing in many of our plants like the lemon and palm trees over the last few days and tonight we are bringing in some more before We get the frost. We lost a beautiful braided ficus tree a few years back that We had since High School because I said it wouldn't frost that night, it took a long while for my Wife to forgive me on that one.

Our garden is shot except for hot peppers, and greens we've been feeding to the rabbits. The garden really didn't do that well this year anyways due to too much rain in the spring and too little in the summer.

Take care and stay warm!

 

[The Beep Goes On]

Russia, anyone? (don't know about the reliability of this article)

http://rt.com/prime-time/2010-10-04/coldest-winter-emergency-measures.html

Coldest winter in 1,000 years on its way
Published 04 October, 2010, 22:20
Edited 05 October, 2010, 23:29

After the record heat wave this summer, Russia's weather seems to have acquired a taste for the extreme.

Forecasters say this winter could be the coldest Europe has seen in the last 1,000 years.

The change is reportedly connected with the speed of the Gulf Stream, which has shrunk in half in just the last couple of years. Polish scientists say that it means the stream will not be able to compensate for the cold from the Arctic winds. According to them, when the stream is completely stopped, a new Ice Age will begin in Europe.

So far, the results have been lower temperatures: for example, in Central Russia, they are a couple of degrees below the norm.

“Although the forecast for the next month is only 70 percent accurate, I find the cold winter scenario quite likely,” Vadim Zavodchenkov, a leading specialist at the Fobos weather center, told RT. “We will be able to judge with more certainty come November. As for last summer's heat, the statistical models that meteorologists use to draw up long-term forecasts aren't able to predict an anomaly like that.”

In order to meet the harsh winter head on, Moscow authorities are drawing up measures to help Muscovites survive the extreme cold.

Most of all, the government is concerned with homeless people who risk freezing to death if the forecast of the meteorologists come true. Social services and police are being ordered to take the situation under control even if they have to force the homeless to take help.

Moscow authorities have also started checking air conditioning systems in all socially important buildings. All the conditioners are being carefully cleaned from the remains of summer smog.

 

[Monty]

Luckily I didn't put in a garden this year and really the local growers have so much relatively inexpensive produce it really doesn't pay in this area. I really enjoyed the fresh tomatos but they are all gone now I am afraid. All I have been able to find is some California tomatos that are shipped half green and are awfully pithy and have no taste at all. But I do enjoy the sweet yellow onions that I am finding on the grocery shelves. The old yellow onions were so dang hot you could hardly eat them and were used mostly for cooking. Okra was good this year and if you live up north and don't grow okra you are missing one of the south's best kept secrets. My daughter lives just north or Austin. TX and they have fresh produce year around from the south Texas farm lands. It rarely freezes there and they grow produce year around. I fell in love with the HEB supermarkets when I was there last. I have thought about moving to south Texas just for the weather, but alas I am a Sooner fan and I don't know if I could bear it! Monty

 

[Ray S S]

We have been having temps in the low 60's during the last couple weeks or so and Monday morning I left about
sun-up and the thermometer said 42 degrees but there was ice on the windshield of my truck. The following
6 or 7 days are supposed to be back up in the high 60's and low 70's, which sounds good. LOL. This too early
for the cold weather to start. The trees are changing color but they are not getting the bright colors like they
usually do. Probably because of the long dry summer we had this year. This was the hottest and driest summer
that we have had for several years.

Ray

 

[fossis]

Luckily I didn't put in a garden this year and really the local growers have so much relatively inexpensive produce it really doesn't pay in this area. I really enjoyed the fresh tomatos but they are all gone now I am afraid. All I have been able to find is some California tomatos that are shipped half green and are awfully pithy and have no taste at all. But I do enjoy the sweet yellow onions that I am finding on the grocery shelves. The old yellow onions were so dang hot you could hardly eat them and were used mostly for cooking. Okra was good this year and if you live up north and don't grow okra you are missing one of the south's best kept secrets. My daughter lives just north or Austin. TX and they have fresh produce year around from the south Texas farm lands. It rarely freezes there and they grow produce year around. I fell in love with the HEB supermarkets when I was there last. I have thought about moving to south Texas just for the weather, but alas I am a Sooner fan and I don't know if I could bear it! Monty

Amen on the Okra, couldn't do without it. :P

Fossis...........

 

[Monty]

I 've been to Minnesota in the winter once and it was a different kind of cold than we have here. It was in the teens and everyone was in jackets and caps. When it gets below 40 here everyone wears parkas and gloves and long undies! It just penetrates right through you here for some reason. We had a late colder than normal Spring this year, a very wet early summer and now the temps are setting record lows for this time of year but it has been dry. I remember as a kid we had lots of sleet and snow in the winters and temps in the below zeros. We've only had one really hard winter in the last decade that I can remember however. They are forecasting a colder than normal winter this year also, but "they" often miss it. Oklahoma weather is so very unpredictable and always has been. Monty