What's the temperature where you are???

[muddy75]

54 and sunny…..high of 74

 

[kikiruru]

Wednesday
I will be walking to the bus stop to ride the bus today
I did a trial yesterday to see how long 15 minute walk and then I walked another 10 minute to the nail shop and Winn Dixie
I have not walked or road the bus since June 20
I hibernated during the summer months
I plan to be home before it gets too hot
The morning are cool enough but the afternoon are not

 

[sourland]

61F with a high of 70 predicted - slightly cloudy

 

[Nomadicus]

88° with mixed sun and clouds

 

[EmmaDonovan]

1:30 PM
104F
7% humidity
sunny

 

[Nym]

Thursday 3rd of September 7.46a.m. Patchy and cold. Light showers overnite again. 9.3 / 13kph SW, Hg 61%, 15.8C / 60.4F top of 20C / 66F. Morning shower or two.

NSW farmers assess frost damaged crops, some needing to be cut for hay​

43 mins ago​

By Emily Doak and Lara Webster​

Ariah Park farmer Terry Walker with his frost-damaged canola crop. (ABC News: Emily Doak)

This year's canola crop had promised to be Terry Walker's best in 40 years of farming in southern New South Wales, but an unseasonably late frost means he will be lucky to harvest anything at all.

"To be that cold, minus fives and sixes, that's out of the box," he said of the frosty mornings that struck the region in mid-September.

Mr Walker said the conditions at Ariah Park affected the oilseeds' development in the plant pods.

"You peel the pods back and look to see what vital seeds are left, and you can see all of those … are completely dead little brown seeds that have shrivelled up," he said.

Mr Walker planted 1,200 hectares of canola this year and said the damage was variable.

"We were probably three weeks away from windrowing into grain when the frost came through, and the extent [of the damage] we're still weighing that up," he said.

"But we've had some paddocks that are up to 90 to 100 per cent loss."

Salvaging some financial return​

Mr Walker has already cut the worst affected paddocks of canola for hay but is hoping that 20mm of rain will mean that he can harvest a small amount of oilseed from other areas.

"It won't be a lot, we'd still be 50 per cent [cut in production], but the hay market I think it might get flooded with canola hay and it's a risk," he said.

Coolamon farmer Scott Bradley has decided making hay is the best way to salvage something from his 200 hectares of frost-damaged canola.

"I don't think it's enough to really warrant going in windrowing and harvesting," he said.

"We've got our own haymaking gear, so we'll just knock it down and wrap it up for hay.

"We've got a heap of cattle on, so if we can put it through them and try and make some money out of them while they're good for the moment, why not?"

However, Mr Bradley said this would still hurt the bottom line.

"It's a real big financial hit, that's the worst part and going ahead, we'll have to have a few little yarns with bank managers," he said.

"I think the droughts were the easier years to get through than something like this where you could see the potential to be there but [now] it's gone."

 

[Jenbirdee]

 

[Debbie292d]

59F, partly cloudy. It was horribly windy today, but down to 12 mph now.

Low: 39F (this should be the last of it for a week at least.)

 

[chrissynemetz]

52°F mostly clear and breezy
12:01 a.m.

 

[Nym]

Mostly clear here. The frogs and crickets sound excited.

The wind is playing along with the forecast today.