What is your weather like ... today

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my bubbler once again has a volcano look to it...also almost looks like ol faithful let alone this morning I swear the water bubbling up was steaming in our 3 degrees worth of heat! The de icer is working though as I can see a nice opening around it with our balmy 19 degrees this late afternoon. It is suppose to warm up in the 40's for the next 3 days then back into the teens...then back to the 20's then back to the 40's in the next couple weeks. I swear I do not remember having such a yo-yo winter ever here.
 
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Big Lou said:
Cold, cold. Landscape crew is here to do a mid winter cleanup, trim and heavy remulch. Replacing tree leaves with mulch for a neater, prettier look. Basic pond bottom and top stuff removal. Will not be a heavy clean. Yard crew here this coming Saturday for lawn pampering. Did I say it is cold. Overcast and cold. Light snow possible.
Always pleases me to see what a great job true landscape pro's can do. Everything likes so good, elegent. I think it's the little details. Btw, it's really cold. :)
 

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callingcolleen1 said:
Wow a little frost can throw a wrench into things down there Addy! As long as the oranges are fine I will be happy! Love oranges, they are my favorite fruit! :)
The fruit crops should be fine it was a quick dip in temperature, not a long hard freeze. They have things set up to save crops from freezing, some plants have freeze damage but will come back.

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Peeking in at your pond right now addy. All looks fine and sitting under a nice blanket of snow.Ice is covering most of your pond but bubblers are keeping a hole open. It looks to me...........hard to see but the net does not look embedded in the ice. Looks like it is raised up where it will keep that darn heron away. He can't get in anyways cuz of the ice.Don't see any critter prints near the pond either.

We are at a balmy 34f and will be rising to 50f later w/ sun. Oh just saw a bird fly through your net addy and get a drink from the open water. Neat how they can just fly right through and then out easily cuz of the big square weave.
I love that about the wide weave net, lets the birds fly in and out, they love drinking out of the pond after inhaling all of my seeds. The feeders just got refilled with nice plump sun flower seeds.

Our cold spell down here came and went, south fl, 45 this am, 67 today, out with the top down, people out in t shirts, shorts. 55 tonight, 70 something tomorrow

Home..............15 -3 this am, 7 tonight, burrrrrrrrrrrr
 

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Its been awhile since I have updated. Things are good with my pond. The main part of the pond is 100% ice covered but the bog still has open flowing water I went down last night and plugged in my heater. Noticed the cage on the mega pump was covered in leaves so today after work we went down there to add some water and clean off the cage to the pump. Wow that water is cold. Not sure how the fish deal with it, but my hand was frozen after just a few seconds in the water to get the leaves off. Topped off the pond with water while I was down there. One more day of the extreme cold then we start to warm up again. I heard on the news today at work that the frost in the ground goes down 21 inches and the ground is frozen to 40 inches. That's a deeper freeze then we have gotten the past few years. I know heating our house this winter has went up a little bit this winter, but it could be worse. Some friends of ours that have a huge house in the country have already went thru 2 cords of wood so far this winter. They just have their fireplace for the wood but they try to use it as much as possible. LP is crazy expensive this year. Have been hearing stories of people paying $800 for 300 gallons of LP. Glad we are on natural gas and we have a new efficient furnace.
 
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Ryan, the key is the "efficient furnace". I shut my heat down to 60 during the day when I'm gone, and in 30 minutes it goes up to 65 when I get home. Then seems to only turn on about every 20-30 minutes, even in this cold.
Mrs. Clem, I sure hope all is well with your pond. I think the temps are bouncing around for everyone, I agree, Rebel, never remember it doing soooo much up and down and over and over again. I have snow from the early arctic blast we got first week of Jan. We had 50's since then, several days of it, and a full day of rain, but all it did to that huge area that was about 3' deep of a snow drift was pack it down. I can walk on top of that whole area, it's about 30' x 40', and about a foot deep. That's not much to many of you northerners, but then we midwesterners are getting you northerner's weather, too! I see Colleen is at 37, and I'm at something like 7 right now, after a whopping high of 10. That is NOT fair! LOL Oh well, we will share our warmth with you, as long as you give it back, my Canadian friends.
Colleen, I look for sun dogs every morning when it's so cold, and saw another set this morning. Sun was really bright, so it was not as vibrant as the one I took the pic of, but it was there, double, too!
 

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Yes CE, it is really pleasent here right now, temp at 34 F (+1c), and I think maybe in the next two days the ice will melt on the walkway hopefully, and no ice in Top or middle ponds, and it is supposed to be very nice day tomorrow. We should get to the mid 40's' maybe even 50's (in the sun) this weekend! I see your at -1F right now, and it is so warm here that the koi all came out of hiding from under my big yellow flag, and are swimming all around the middle pond tonight, stretching their fins and tails, like they are waking up nicely and the horrid -40 below zero was all just a bad dream now.... :)
 
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Just went out and shut the light off on the pond. All fish in the pond except one are huddled in the front right side of the pond. Temp on bottom of pond is 41.4 F, so was kind of surprised to see them huddled together. When pond is that temp they usually are spread out more. Currently 30 degrees outside and looking forward to a high of 39 today :).
 

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It was 44F today and I went swimming at my gym. The swimming pool is covered by one of those temporary structures (Nissen huts). It is somewhat insulated and you have to walk outside a little to get to it, so when it's very cold I won't go swimming since I'd rather not walk outside wet in my swimming trunks. Which is too bad.
 

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7 again this morning. Should have plugged in the 1500w heaters again yesterday but too cold to go out! Got up to a warm 22 warm 22 yesterday and not supposed to get above freezing for a while. The 2 cords of wood we had are going fast but at least the heat pump is off. Power company is warning everybody to cut back. They are overloaded. I grew up in Ohio but that was a LONG time ago. Can't stand this cold!
 

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Schools closed again today. Not sure why as the roads are fine. They never closed the schools because of cold or a little snow when I went.
 
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Bear in mind that i am in the "deep" south of the US :)
Its below freezing today - with sleet and icy on the roads too.
checked on the fish before braving those un-gritted / un-salted roads today and they were just fine..hiding, but fine.
Yes, the local government in the 4th largest city in the US does not know how handle ice on the roads!
 

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