What is your weather like ... today

[sissy]

I have fairy logs .The fairies built doors in the logs to get in and out but when a person looks in it is just a solid log ,they are sneaky .

 

[Big Lou]

Early in the morning if you are very quiet and still you may be lucky enough to see a wee fairy seeping a drink of water from the pond.

 

[mtpond]

Low right now 17 F with a high of 23 F today with 60 percent chance of snow.

 

[sissy]

62 degrees an now raining at 1:30

 

[j.w]

I think I've seen a few of those tiny fairies riding on the backs of the dragonflies

Cloudy, 32* and all is still and peaceful out there.........nice fairy flying weather

 

[sissy]

wow the rain has been coming down in buckets the last 3 hours .We need it but not that fast it just runs off

 

[brandonsdad02]

Sissy, I'm starting to think you live in a rain forest. I think you get more rain than the whole entire west coast.

Woke up to a balmy 4F this morning. Pond was a bit low on water so I tried to add some but my garden hose was frozen so I just took out some of the floats on the skimmer weir door. Added more water when I got home. Figured out where my leak was. It's on the water fall. The ice was changing the flow of the water. Just have to live with it now til spring comes and I can change some things and fix the liner.

 

[Fishylove]

Oh no!!! Lol. What other garden site colleen?

 

[Big Lou]

30, snow / wintry mix, 40 high / 24 low, 40% chance of continued wintry mix. Received snow droplets around 3 am. Learned that snow droplets are small balls of mixed snow and frozen water. Wow

 

[brandonsdad02]

Big Lou

That's what is known as sleet. It where the air is warmer above and as the rain falls it hits colder air and freezes. That stuff sucks to drive on.

 

[Mmathis]

Was driving home from the vet's office this morning and noticed that the windshield wipers were making a funny noise. My Highlander is brand, spanking new -- what could be going wrong? It took me about 5 minutes to realize it, but there was ice forming on the glass, cause of the "funny noise."

It's around 32 degrees and raining here in NW Louisiana. Some ice on bridges & overpasses, so all the major ones are closed. Right now, no real issues, but if it stays cold through the night, we'll have some problems, though is supposed to warm up during the week. One saving grace is that we've not had really cold temps, so the roads are starting out warmer than usual.

 

[Big Lou]

Big Lou

That's what is known as sleet. It where the air is warmer above and as the rain falls it hits colder air and freezes. That stuff sucks to drive on.

Snow droplets was incorrect. I meant snow pellets. Here is the definition for those like me who are not familiar with this type of snow. I agree with you brandonsdad, snow pellets does seem like sleet with one exception. The snow pellets in our yard were frozen white spheres. :-/

GRAUPE (also called soft hail or SNOW PELLETS)[1] refers to precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water are collected and freeze on a falling snowflake, forming a 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) ball of rime. Strictly speaking, graupel is not the same as hail or ice pellets, although it is sometimes referred to as small hail. However, the World Meteorological Organization defines small hail as snow pellets encapsulated by ice, a precipitation halfway between graupel and hail.[2]
The term graupel is the German word for the described meteorological phenomenon.[3] Its METAR code is GS.

SLEET refers to two distinct forms of precipitation:
Rain and snow mixed, snow that partially melts as it falls (UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada).
Ice pellets, one of three forms of precipitation in a US-style "wintry mix", the other two being snow and freezing rain (US).

 

[Big Lou]

Sunny meowed all morning as she wanted me to let her go outside even though she could see the snow. I even partially opened the door so she could feel the very cold air. The meowing coninued so I let her out knowing she would quickly come back inside. Once there she turned around and gave me a sarrowful glance. Nevertheless Sunny carefully walked through the snow to the pond. Being a good grandpa I stood outside to watch over this silly girl. When Sunny discovered it was too difficult to walk around the pond on the border stones she turned towards me as if to say "okay grandpa, you're right". Moments later she was back in the house and is now in my lap.

 

[brandonsdad02]

Big Lou

Now that you mention the graupe I do remember hearing about it before. During our last blizzard we got something like that right before the heavy snow.

 

[sissy]

Sissy, I'm starting to think you live in a rain forest. I think you get more rain than the whole entire west coast.

Woke up to a balmy 4F this morning. Pond was a bit low on water so I tried to add some but my garden hose was frozen so I just took out some of the floats on the skimmer weir door. Added more water when I got home. Figured out where my leak was. It's on the water fall. The ice was changing the flow of the water. Just have to live with it now til spring comes and I can change some things and fix the liner.

Actually we need the rain bad and we need it bad as we were in a bad drought and so far news said as of this morning 3 inches and supposed to rain until thursday YEH RAIN.FISHY THEY STARTED THE GARDEN FORUM SIGHT THIS PAST SPRING