Truthfully, I am not worried about any damage a tropical storm passing nearby will do, but we are getting rain forecasted starting tomorrow and non-stop till sometime next week.
The problem is that it has been raining almost all of October and the ground is already saturated. This was the backyard about a week ago. and yes, that is the infamous Comcast cable/internet box that has issues every time it rains. And yes, Comcast knows and has known for 20 years which is why I use AT&T.
I’ll try to get a picture of the fishes swimming in my lawn and post them here. Incidentally, how cold is getting up North? I saw a bunch of coots yesterday enjoying the rays in the lake.
We’re supposed to bump up to 73F/23C midweek here in Northern Virginia. I imagine it’s cold enough for em to come down.
In my area, it is currently 12 degrees.
Then again, I am a bit further north than Northern VA.
By the way, Jusuchin, where in NOVA are you? I used to live in Alexandria. Still have a townhome there that I rent out. (No specifics, county is good enough.)
Up by the border we just got our first real snow, about 8 inches over two different nights (but it’s mostly settled or melted away by now). It’s kind of unusual to get more than a dusting so early in the season, usually snow like this doesn’t come until later in Nov or early December, but I gather it used to be common enough 40 years ago. There was several years we barely got any by Christmas, which is distressing for those who are used to Christmases being cold and white. And then there was a couple years where we got more rain than snow. The last couple have been a little more decent, closer to what I remember winters being like as a kid.
Anyway, it’s supposed to be back up to 70 or so during the day by the end of the week, so the snow won’t last this time. Which is good, because I haven’t even raked the leaves out of the yard yet or put the boats away or anything. The oak tree just barely dropped the rest of its leaves the day before it snowed; it likes to hold them a lot later than most other trees, but this time it was like it was napping on duty, and suddenly sensed that it was about to snow, and panic dropped them all overnight to avoid the embarrassing spectacle of a tree still holding its leaves with half a foot of snow on the ground. I came out in the morning, and there was literally a drift of oak leaves on the windshield of the truck, pretty much covering the whole windshield, and piled on the roof of the cab and the hood. And of course 6 inches deep in the bed. Earlier this fall the acorns dropped, and I’ve never seen such a bumper crop. They were literally raining down nonstop for two weeks, all day long (the squirrels shake them out of the branches climbing around in the tree), and a bit less at night. There was an almost solid layer of acorns all over the lawn and driveway by the time it was over. The deer and the squirrels seem to have taken care of them; for a week or so, there was a small herd of does and some older fawns grazing on them every morning around 7 AM. And this is right in the middle of town.
Here in Boyds Creek, TN (between Knoxville and Sevierville), it’s currently 38°F; the past few days had been around freezing, give or take a couple of degrees, before dawn. Supposed to get into the upper 60s this afternoon, up considerably from a high of 50ish on Monday.
The lawn appears to be going dormant for the winter (yay!), and ’tis time to wind down the gardening and start working on long-term preparations for spring.
… This being my first full year in a place with actual seasons, I have a lot to learn. Upside: I’m not trying to learn about this “winter” thing in North Dakota.
We had 24 degrees here in Maine. Tuesday morning we had about an inch of snow Its all gone now. 45 degrees now. Supposed to hit 60s next couple days.
Up north where? In southern NH, right now, it’s 67 degrees. A week ago at the same time it was 25 or so.
New England is fairly mild. North Central USA is quite another matter. I remember a day some years ago when the nightly weather report mentioned this little tidbit: on that day, a location in North Dakota (forgot where precisely) had set both a new all time record low and a new all time record high in the same 24 hour period. Yowza.