What's the temperature where you are???

[EmmaDonovan]

I find my allergies are bad when the snow melts due to snow mold.

Snow mold! I had no idea there was such a thing. Makes sense, though.

Mold can be a problem even in the desert. Mold spores travel hundreds of miles and populations can explode after storms. Since there's no pasture here everyone feeds alfalfa hay and hay bales always have to be checked for mold. Swamp coolers (aka evaporative coolers) and humidifiers cause mold issues indoors, too.

Bleh. Mold.

 

[muddy75]

30* and sunny

 

[007Sean]

Sunday: 1:20pm, 80°F, dew point 58°F, humidity 48%, wind SE @ 23mph, clear.
Expected high today 81°F, almost there, most likely will be higher! Have i mentioned I hate wind!

 

[sourland]

Have i mentioned I hate wind!

Are you my long lost brother? 'Wind' the only 'weather' that I rant at.

 

[Pasha838]

I find my allergies are bad when the snow melts due to snow mold.

The damp cold weather is hard on all animals and people. My horses are good with this -20C weather, but when it rains they are miserable. Horses and cattle are Plains and Steppes animals, they are good with cold dry and hot dry weather.

But if it’s damp or rainy that’s when they have issues.

By tomorrow the temps are supposed to jump up to -1C!

And rain Tuesday and Wednesday (+5C both days) and rain on all that snow on roof tops is bad news - we have had so many roof collapses on houses barns and sheds this winter. I hope and
Pray my snow load and any rain won’t harm my roof.

As it is one section of my roof has an ice dam causing moisture to back up under the steel roofing and now it’s inside my wall, dripping water. I will have to rip that wall open and remove the insulation and repair the wall. But only after I can get the ice dam broke up and removed. Going to be a lot of chipping with the hammer chisel and hatchet.

By next winter I will have heat trace cable on the roof to melt any ice build up there.

Here, it is customary to make a high roof slope to protect from snow. And the snow constantly slides down, without the need to heat or clean anything there. However, as I understand it, our weather conditions are different - we have relatively weak winds, so the roofs can withstand it quite well. The last hurricane that was able to break the forest here, tearing out the fir trees by the roots, was in 2000, 25 years ago. Well, the roofs of the local houses were either not damaged at all, or were damaged only by fallen trees.

And I will not let animals like goats outside until mid-April or even early May. Because the ground will not thaw before this date and there will be no grass. What is the point of them walking in the mud without grass? I will not let them out. I will let them out only to walk, to stretch their legs. However, for the number of animals I have, I have fairly large barns, they can run around inside quite well, so I can take my time.

And in such weather, my birds walk in relatively large greenhouses. They are already warming up in the spring sun, it is warm and comfortable there.

But I use heating cables only in plumbing, so that my water pipe that goes into the barn to the goats does not freeze. Moreover, there is no heating cable in the room - the pipes go along the ceiling, where it is warmer, and I heat the wood stove, because the wood is free, and you would have to pay for electricity. It's just that my goats eat branches all summer in addition to grass, by winter a huge pile of gnawed dry branches without bark forms, I do not know what to do with them and use them as free firewood for the stove.

One of the neighbors heats the roof of his house with electric cables, but either his house is big or he heats it too much, but he spends so much on electricity that he could buy a whole truckload of hay and grain every month.
That's why we went the other way - we made the roof with a big slope. However, this is fraught with the fact that whole avalanches of snow and ice fall from there every time, and it is impossible to walk in this part of the street.

On topic: it's -7 C here now

 

[kikiruru]

Sunday 557p 60f56

 

[Ponypoor]

Here, it is customary to make a high roof slope to protect from snow. And the snow constantly slides down, without the need to heat or clean anything there. However, as I understand it, our weather conditions are different - we have relatively weak winds, so the roofs can withstand it quite well. The last hurricane that was able to break the forest here, tearing out the fir trees by the roots, was in 2000, 25 years ago. Well, the roofs of the local houses were either not damaged at all, or were damaged only by fallen trees.

And I will not let animals like goats outside until mid-April or even early May. Because the ground will not thaw before this date and there will be no grass. What is the point of them walking in the mud without grass? I will not let them out. I will let them out only to walk, to stretch their legs. However, for the number of animals I have, I have fairly large barns, they can run around inside quite well, so I can take my time.

And in such weather, my birds walk in relatively large greenhouses. They are already warming up in the spring sun, it is warm and comfortable there.

But I use heating cables only in plumbing, so that my water pipe that goes into the barn to the goats does not freeze. Moreover, there is no heating cable in the room - the pipes go along the ceiling, where it is warmer, and I heat the wood stove, because the wood is free, and you would have to pay for electricity. It's just that my goats eat branches all summer in addition to grass, by winter a huge pile of gnawed dry branches without bark forms, I do not know what to do with them and use them as free firewood for the stove.

One of the neighbors heats the roof of his house with electric cables, but either his house is big or he heats it too much, but he spends so much on electricity that he could buy a whole truckload of hay and grain every month.
That's why we went the other way - we made the roof with a big slope. However, this is fraught with the fact that whole avalanches of snow and ice fall from there every time, and it is impossible to walk in this part of the street.

On topic: it's -7 C here now

It’s a great idea to heat your barns with a wood stove, in rural areas here many do that also, or I should say used to. Most farmers here have sold their livestock and now only grow crops - corn and soybean - which are mostly made into ethanol.

I know that problem with the avalanche of snow off the roof

A few yrs ago I put snow stops (cups that attach to the roof to hold the snow in place) on the roof so we wouldn’t get clobbered by the icy snow skidding off the roof.

My barn though has no snow stops - last week the whole roof of snow came off in one huge sheet! I can only imagine the noise it made inside the barn!

I am glad the horses weren’t standing there.

Currently at 20:30hrs it is -12c (11F) and clear. Low tonight is going to be around -17C.

Another month and we should be warmer.

Have a lovely evening everyone!

 

[Ponypoor]

Snow mold! I had no idea there was such a thing. Makes sense, though.

Mold can be a problem even in the desert. Mold spores travel hundreds of miles and populations can explode after storms. Since there's no pasture here everyone feeds alfalfa hay and hay bales always have to be checked for mold. Swamp coolers (aka evaporative coolers) and humidifiers cause mold issues indoors, too.

Bleh. Mold.

I know right?’ Who knew - but it’s a huge allergy issue.

Hahaha moldy snow…

 

[EmmaDonovan]

It’s a great idea to heat your barns with a wood stove, in rural areas here many do that also, or I should say used to. Most farmers here have sold their livestock and now only grow crops - corn and soybean - which are mostly made into ethanol.

I know that problem with the avalanche of snow off the roof

A few yrs ago I put snow stops (cups that attach to the roof to hold the snow in place) on the roof so we wouldn’t get clobbered by the icy snow skidding off the roof.

My barn though has no snow stops - last week the whole roof of snow came off in one huge sheet! I can only imagine the noise it made inside the barn!

I am glad the horses weren’t standing there.

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Currently at 20:30hrs it is -12c (11F) and clear. Low tonight is going to be around -17C.

Another month and we should be warmer.

Have a lovely evening everyone!

I want to jump in that.

 

[Pasha838]

It’s a great idea to heat your barns with a wood stove, in rural areas here many do that also, or I should say used to. Most farmers here have sold their livestock and now only grow crops - corn and soybean - which are mostly made into ethanol.

I know that problem with the avalanche of snow off the roof

A few yrs ago I put snow stops (cups that attach to the roof to hold the snow in place) on the roof so we wouldn’t get clobbered by the icy snow skidding off the roof.

My barn though has no snow stops - last week the whole roof of snow came off in one huge sheet! I can only imagine the noise it made inside the barn!

I am glad the horses weren’t standing there.

View attachment 4062999

Currently at 20:30hrs it is -12c (11F) and clear. Low tonight is going to be around -17C.

Another month and we should be warmer.

Have a lovely evening everyone!

This roof, 45 degrees slope, or even a little higher. The stove there is small, it is in the corridor, separated from the goats by a fence. In this corridor there is no bedding, and there are no wooden floors laid on top of the concrete, here the floor is bare concrete, the walls are made of blocks, so it is quite safe to heat the wood stove. The only thing. I had to bring the pipe around the roof, because hay (bales) is often stored in the attic. Of course, I put them away from the stove and stove pipe. But still - I was afraid to run the stove pipe directly and had to run it around. The pipe is welded from fairly heavy and thick metal (about 10 mm thick), in addition, it has a number of additional supports and struts going down, so the snow does not break it. Regarding the animals - I lead a "semi-parasitic" lifestyle. The thing is that there are quite long power lines here, and the state always cuts down the trees under them so that they don't fall on these wires. As a result, I always have whole piles of free branches with leaves. Well, and I got goats of the Russian breed, who really like these branches.

On topic - the temperature hasn't changed. It's still -7C. I'll go to bed soon, because it's 5am here. I just lit the stove first, and then for some reason sat down at the computer to play games, and now I need to go to bed urgently. I light the stove at night because the coldest temperature here is usually at 4am. For some reason, the cold always sets in towards morning. That's why I need to light the stove just before that.

I didn't nail the boards on the front attic sheathing, it was two workers from Tajikistan, they are not carpenters, so they nailed them a little crooked. I just trusted them with this sheathing, because I was busy with other work. Although I personally erected the roof. It is built partly from timber bought with money, partly from some fir trees and even maples growing on my property.