What's the temperature where you are???

[Ponypoor]

We are now under a freezing rain and then heavy rainfall warning. Oh joy.

We still have thousands without power from the weekend, the company I work for deals with insurance companies assessing damage and getting repairs done. It’s been none stop since Saturday with claims.

And we are still working through all the snow related damage like collapsed roofs on sheds barns and homes. Leaked in roofs from ice dams and falling snow and ice from roofs onto decks, and equipment from the winter. We figure we will be busy rebuilding and repairing well into next year.

Now this next round will cause more mayhem.

 

[Nym]

It's overcast and windy and in the mid-80s. Chicken delights today are frozen peas, sprouted wheat grass seeds, and Greek yogurt.

We've been granted a reprieve of six days from the hell temps. After that they go right back up and will stay up until November.

I'm working like a madwoman to get as much done over the next six days as humanly possible (please, God, do not let my back go out ).

I asked craiyon to draw a picture of a crazy blonde woman running through the desert (me) to represent the next six days and it made this. Check out those funky leggings!

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Emma, this is brilliant! You talented thing!

 

[Nym]

When will this rain ever stop?

Hey, good to hear from you. I was thinking of you during the Cyclone Alfred deluge. How did you and the chickens go? We aren't getting nearly as much as other areas, thankfully - I can't deal with extended rain periods.

 

[SkyAJK]

I feel for you, we have had nothing but miserable weather since last November.

Hopefully both of us can get some nicer weather soon!

Yes, better weather soon...just warm sunshine and blue sky, that isn't too much to ask. Is it?

 

[SkyAJK]

I wish you could send it to us! We probably won't see any rain for another four or five months. The "rainy season" here keeps getting shorter and shorter. When I moved here 25+ years ago beginning in late June or early July we'd get big storms every afternoon around 3:00 or 4:00 P.M. all the way through September. Hard rain that temporarily flooded out everything, with lots of lightning and thunder.

This underpass in downtown Tucson used to be famous for filling up and draining nearly every day during monsoon season.

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Now we're lucky to get just a few storms between August and September.

That is extreme. Mother nature!!!

Mother nature needs to have a review on her work, too extreme one way or the other, nothing else in between.

We have been having prolong rain since last year and the report is that we will be having more rain and ........I think this is the new normal now.

I hope that you get some rain there and we get some sunshine here.

 

[SkyAJK]

Hey, good to hear from you. I was thinking of you during the Cyclone Alfred deluge. How did you and the chickens go? We aren't getting nearly as much as other areas, thankfully - I can't deal with extended rain periods.

How are you and your chickens during the excessive rain of Alfred?

Lucky Alfred did not arrive, and we were ok with the excessive rain.
We queued up in for 6 hours to get 15 sandbags, that was from 2.3am in the morning and the queue have been 24 hours for a few days when we got there. The sandbags saved my garage from being flood with the excessive rain.

I prepared single cardboard boxes with cut out for all my chickens to be housed in the garage & the shed when Alfred arrived.
Good preparation lucky we did not end up needed it.
My garage smelled terrible big time as my 2 dogs poops and pees in it for the day that was heavy rain and strong wind.

After cleared out Alfred prep, about a week of sunshine and it was back to a 10 long days of rain, then 2 days of no rain and today is raining again, now it is raining heavily.

 

[chrissynemetz]

33°F snowing and windy
7:43 p.m.

 

[AdaliaStark]

According to the hourly forecast, that rain and thunderstorms are supposed to start around midnight and be on and off till 4pm.

Currently on my break at work, a couple towns over from where I live, it is 45° with 63% humidity but feels like it is 37°

 

[DancesWithRoosters]

Currently 43°F and rainy i just want it to be waaarm

 

[Nomadicus]

68° and cloudy