Today's Weather in Your Garden - 7

This is what they are predicting for the rest of the week....not happy about the "S" word every day!

Tomorrow: PM snow showers
Sat. : AM Snow showers
Sun.: Few Snow showers
Mon.: Snow showers

17 when I got up. About 19 now and a little breezy. In other words - COLD!!

Always a few degree's higher than what we get. I live across the street from a lake so it is always colder than what they say it is. The weatherman needs to come live by a lake for a winter to get it right!

Same here for us, pixie. I agree. It must be the 'lake effect' temperature.

It's colder, sooner than I ever remember. In my working days I'd only start wearing a coat around Dec. 19 - 20.

I remember shopping for the holidays last year. It was just chilly enough to be wearing a heavy sweater.

I don't remember digging out my high top boots until Feb. last year. I wore my ankle high ones most of the winter as there wasn't enough snow to go over the tops. I have already had to wear my Columbia 3-in-1 jacket, tall boots and long johns!!!!

I remember that the only 'good' snowstorms we got last year were on Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day. There was one other, but I can't remember the date.

I hope it doesn't snow while I am away for the hollidays. Could we just not have snow from the 21st to New Year's Day, please?

No! DD is flying in from Florida on the 22nd. It can snow anytime after 3pm on the 22nd and that would be fine.

I just meant in Bridgeport. It can (and does) snow in Maine any time it wants. Pixie - your Romeo looks alot like my Wallingford! Does he have spots on his belly?

Oh, Dear, Candyce.......gulp! So much for those glass jars of grape jelly we left in our house. Messy, messy!!! Hope you all stay warm and safe!

I have no memory of what the weather was like last year at this time. I don't even remember Christmas shopping last year but I do remember going out this morning at 7:00 and it was cold!!! Don't know exactly what the temp. was but it was in the single digits and set a new low record for this date (so i guess it must have been colder than last year) Eleanor

You have a way of making me giggle, Eleanor. I would say for certain that if a record for low temps was set yesterday, then it follows that it is colder than last year. LOL!

I got up REALLY early this morning feeling chillier than usual. Of course! The oil furnace went out! So I stoked up the wood furnace and then pushed the red reset button on the oil furnace. I guess there was a bubble in the line or something. Hooray! Heat!

Anyway, as I write this now the outside temp is a brisk 5°. Inside, where I made sure that all the little kiddos were covered, it's a brisk 55°. Hurry up furnace! My fingers are chilly.

Louise, I'm really sorry about your jelly. If I thought I could get there, I'd go down and make some toast.

That's bad when a furnace goes on the blink!! I have electric heat - I know and I don't want to hear it. Everybody and their brother (and sister) tells me to change but I like it - it's clean to go along with my allergies and I can contol every room and put it at the temp I want and it's warm!!!!! When i was a kid the heat in my parents house was not good especially when they changed from coal to natural gas. My bedroom had no heat except for a space heater than never worked (pilot light always blew out). When I got my own house I swore I'd never be cold again - it's one thing I will spend money on but I can always turn the heat down in rooms I'm not in and close the door!! A few years ago when i was visiting my father and brother in that old house, i had trouble sleeping one night cause I was so cold. I finally heard voices at 4:00 in the a.m. and went down stairs to see what was going on. My father was shouting to my brother in the basement to guide him in checking the furnace - it wasn't running. They had the burners on and oven open to warm the kitchen (gas stove). I turned off all of the carbon monoxide producing equipment and got the electric heater out of the bathroom, plugged it in, and went back to Glens Falls at 5:00 in the morning. Don't worry I didn't leave them destitute - my older brother just lives up the road and he's very good at fixing things. They just didn't want to call him so early in the morning. (My father and brother were quite a pair when they were alive - my father was handicapped and couldn't walk and my brother had learning disabilities and they were always hollering at each other. My father would holler louder to try and make him understand something and my brother would shout back that he didn't know what he was talking about!!!) Miss them both terribly - most of the time they just slept in their recliners with the TV on. Eleanor
p.s. - I do get cold when the electricity goes out!! WOW - I really rambled on and on!

That's such a great story. Don't worry about rambling. It was worth the read. I'll bet there are lots of us with great stories like this.

PS ~ I did turn on the kitchen oven, if only to warm my hands and my nose.

Fair but cold
9°
Barometer: 30.33 in and steady
Humidity: 91%
Visibility: 10 mi
Dewpoint: 7°
Wind: Calm
Sunrise: 7:01 am
Sunset: 3:59 pm

Pixie - your sunset time slays me. Not that we're that much later but getting into the three o'clock hour just sounds so early.

We're a balmy 24 with no winds! Hurray! It's a good beach day!

I thought the same thing when I saw it Pirl...just way to early. I can't wait for Dec.21st.... days start becoming longer!

18 and cloudy. Yes, seeing a 3 in sunset time is something. I regularly ask kiska from the Photos forum, who lives in Alaska, to post her times. Sunrise these days is around 9:30 AM!! Can you imagine?!

No!

Sounds good, I won't have to wait long for lunchtime.

Of course you could rake leaves and get a good appetite going for lunchtime. No winds today. Southern California is getting hit with three inches of rain, mudslides, evacuations, etc., so it's not true that "It never rains in California".

California and 'disaster' seem to go together. You pay (actually all of us ultimately pay) for paradise.

Yes, nothing in life is free... if only they didn't tax it over and over again.

Temp 34.8°

They even tax tacks!

Tax on toilet paper is the worst!

Yes, but one square at a time isn't so much.

"We'll always have Paris".

Mid 20's with some sun after some snow - good enough to take the dog for a walk.

He looks good wearing a little snow.

Downright balmy, Al, after your recent weather.

I just love that pretty dog of yours, Al. He has such character in his snowy face.

Candyce - OMG - you had a rough morning! I'm so glad your furnace responded to being reset. Good thing to have a wood furnace too! Those temps are making me pretty nervous....it sure is early to have temps like that!

I liked reading your "rambling", Eleanor! I'm sure you miss your Dad and Brother!

Victor - tax on tacks! LOL

Pixie - are you sure your clock is set on the right time? Just kidding but that is early for a sunset. I'm not even sure what time it sets around here but I don't think it is until after 4:00. I just don't pay that much attention to the clock these days. Beautiful dog Al and such a good shot of him (or her)! Thanks Candyce and Louise - I'm definitely good at ramblin' and those run-on sentences! Eleanor

Sunrise and sunset vary according to location so where you have a sunrise of 7:12 and sunset of 4:18 if you lived in Eastport, Maine you'd have a sunrise of 6:51 and sunset of 3:46.

Higher latitudes equal shorter days. So you must decide - adjust your latitude or your attitude!

That's why(that and the weather) the percentage of seasonal depression is so much higher in the Northern States.

We had snow showers again last night and today it is:
18°
Barometer: 30.04 in and falling
Humidity: 91%
Visibility: 7 mi
Dewpoint: 16°
Wind: S 3 mph
Sunrise: 7:02 am
Sunset: 3:59 pm
High: 33°
Low: 11°

35, no winds, sunrise was 7:01 and sunset will be 4:21.