Winter?

***88Racing*** · #1 Sat, October 10th, 2009, 11:27 PM

Well last night Old Man Winter came knockn' on eastern South Dakota's door. Left about 2-4" snow accumalation overnight and the snow was almost gone by noon exposing the green grass again.
Monday we are in for another shot of the white stuff.

Brrrr!

Not ready for the cold temps this early. Low tonight of 20 and the high today was 36.

Lars

429 boss mustang · #2 Sun, October 11th, 2009, 12:10 AM

dude winter hitting early up their

fordkindaguy · #3 Sun, October 11th, 2009, 10:08 AM

Yep gotta love south carolina low country weather, 75 and sunny right now should hit mid 80's

***88Racing*** · #4 Sun, October 11th, 2009, 11:21 PM

Yep, Another shot of the white stuff this afternoon and this evening.
Funny thing I mowed just after lunch!

Oh well, Monday and Tuesday we are in for some more but it's not going to stick around long?

Lars

ROB281 · #5 Mon, October 12th, 2009, 12:18 AM

I wish it would get that cold here

***Longshot270*** · #6 Mon, October 12th, 2009, 08:32 AM

I dont know, snow is fun but I still like my short sleeve shirts more. I think its funny that a cold front in the north means snow, here it a means a drop to the 50's and 60's

***cleatus12r*** · #7 Mon, October 12th, 2009, 10:06 AM

We went from 85 degrees a week ago to single digit lows and 20s for highs in about 3 days....

Straight from summer to winter. Heck, the leaves on the trees are still green. I guess they weren't ready either.

***Longshot270*** · #8 Mon, October 12th, 2009, 10:52 AM

Yeah we've been in draught so long in central texas we were wondering what all that wet stuff was that kept falling on our heads.

lol I'm kinda hoping it doesn't freeze like last year. Had LOTS of wrecks because people who moved down here thought that they could still drive in it.

***88Racing*** · #9 Mon, October 12th, 2009, 11:05 AM

We had the coolest summer on record this year with only 2 or 3 days in the 90's.
Hopefully that won't translate into the coldest winter on record either.
That would bite the big one! Really bad!

The way my grandpa would tell if we were in for a long winter was the middle band length on a wooly bear catipillar. If the band was long the winter was long if the band was short so was the winter. The darker the brown the colder the winter and the lighter the brown the warmer it would be.
Of course they spray so much around here you hardly see them anymore.

Lars

***Longshot270*** · #10 Mon, October 12th, 2009, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by 88Racing

We had the coolest summer on record this year with only 2 or 3 days in the 90's.

I think that is really strange, we've had one of the hottest driest summers for the last few years and it sounds like your at the opposite. I think we had over 60 days IN A ROW over 90, or 100 but either way it was kinda warm this summer.

Quote:

Originally Posted by 88Racing

Hopefully that won't translate into the coldest winter on record either.
That would bite the big one! Really bad!

We can usually tell if its going to be a warm winter if it was a wet summer, and a dry summer turns into a cold winter. In texas we can only look at the long term weather. Thats where our quote for "Dont like the weather? Give it a minute, it'll change." Either that is texas' natural weather or our weathermen are really bad. I think its both