What's the weather like where you are?

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Feb 25 - 06:20 PM

A lot of thawing, a lot of mud, where I am staying.
It's supposed to freeze again in a few days, though.
For now we are blessedly free of ice.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Mar 25 - 02:49 PM

March is beginning with a snowstorm, which sneaked in on little cat feet.
And the temperature is plunging downward. where it will stay for a while.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Mar 25 - 04:46 PM

Clear skies and frigid temperatures.
I'm dressed in multiple layers for walking between buildings.
Cold dry air, makes me cough.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 12:01 AM

Here in east coast Oz, I am happy to report that somehow the weather gods have worked together and we finally - after 25 years - had a good sized crop of avocados on the tree I grew from seed.

We've had some years with no avocados and some with a few, but this time there have been at least 25. Unfortunately most of them are too high to pick because the tree is taller than our two storey house, but I have picked some from the top verandah with an extendable picking tool. We just have to keep checking the ground for the ripe ones when they fall off the tree.

I know that the avocado tree is either a Shepard or a Hass variety because they are my two favourite varieties. What’s the difference? It is probably a Shepard because the skin is green. It might not be the best tree for our area but they have a good flavour, colour and texture so that's why I did the avocado seed sprouting trick. It took a few months at least for the seed to sprout and a few years in a pot to be big enough to plant in the ground.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 12:37 AM

I just had a rethink. I started growing the avocado from seed maybe 18-20 years ago. I was wrong about the 25 years. Feels like 25 years, though. LOL

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 03:09 PM

75 today, light breeze, clear blue skies in SWFL. About as close to perfect as a day can get.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 03:22 PM

Oh the guacamole. You're a lucky girl,Helen.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 03:59 PM

Oh yes! Avocados: the best food on the planet.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 04:46 PM

Amen, sister. I've got a thing for avocado toast. Real easy to make.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Helen
Date: 03 Mar 25 - 05:05 PM

I know you're a vego, gilly, but my fave breakfast is fried bacon bits on wholegrain toast covered in a thick layer of avocado. Maybe feta or fried cubes of halloumi or tofu might do the trick for you.

Another fave is chicken breast, avocado, sun dried tomatoes and flash-fried-then-steamed asparagus - or even tinned which I usually prefer not to eat because the flavour is nothing like the fresh asparagus.

Maybe I should take this to the recipe thread instead.

The birds have been eating the avocados on the tree, too.

I know what is going to happen next avocado season. The tree will be totally bereft of a crop. My expectations will be sky high and the result will be abysmal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 25 - 06:28 AM

Red sky in the morning...

Avocados are so high in protein and fat that cats like them too.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 04 Mar 25 - 06:55 AM

Actually I'm now a lapsed vego, Helen. I got my gut situation straightened out and partake of turkey and chicken now and then so I'll give your recipe a go. My favorite sammich is turkey on whole wheat toast with avocado slices and a little bit of garlic mayo. I find it's best to keep things simple with avocados because they're so easily overpowered.
Looks like another beautiful day here in SWFL.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 25 - 12:36 PM

ahh garlic, the poor man's natural antibiotic.
I suppose weather and diet change with the seasons.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Mar 25 - 09:59 AM

Spring temperatures and rainstorms rather than freezing rain today.
It's supposed to get cold later in the week,
but first some more of the old ice may melt == hope so, anyhow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Mar 25 - 06:13 PM

The extended forecast shows two distinct trends:
stormy weather patterns,
and nights that are warmer than January or February nights.
It is promising that there are warmer nights to come.
It's been a bitterly cold winter,
and a gradual thaw by night is a welcome thing, mud notwithstanding.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Mar 25 - 06:56 PM

The wind is dying down and
we may have some temperate, sunny days --
that means mud, but we'll take it.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Mar 25 - 03:16 PM

Bright,sunny, 47° F.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: gillymor
Date: 11 Mar 25 - 05:35 AM

After a couple of days in the 80's and then a rainy afternoon I heard the sharp thrumming of a gator in the cypress strand out back for the first time this year. Love is in the air.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Mar 25 - 05:53 AM

East of the Rockies, much of the country is 30 degrees above normal.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: robomatic
Date: 14 Mar 25 - 03:30 PM

Well, we just had a February and early March with many days above freezing and no precipitation. Not good because much of Alaska dries out in Summer and wildfires are common. But in our part of Alaska we were down to lawns and unraked leaves.

A couple days ago all at once it looked like one of our volcanoes was acting up. Anchorage has been dusted by ash three times since I've moved here. We were told that it was likely it would happen but not soon and really no way to tell how likely on any particularly near future day. Just that it was sort of likely.
Yesterday morning, 6 inches of snow.

At least my unraked leaves are covered.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Mar 25 - 07:27 AM

There is an active volcano 80 miles from Anchorage. DOGE has shut down the AK volcano assessment office, but it might be re-funded after a big eruption like in 1992.

There were 52 tornados and 153 hail storms in the South to Indiana yesterday.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 16 Mar 25 - 09:55 AM

I'm moving my reply to the Felons thread.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 25 - 06:50 AM

This weekend the daffodils bloomed.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 11:56 AM

Another storm is making its way across the continent.
In the Northeast we have been fairly lucky,
as the storms tend to blow themselves out before they get to us.
But in other places there have been tornadoes and much loss of property.
Until then we have March winds and the sun is shining.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Mar 25 - 05:05 AM

Its the spring equinox today, darkness equals the light.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Mar 25 - 07:20 PM

Threatening an even mixture of rain and snow tomorrow.

Subject: RE: What's the weather like where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Mar 25 - 07:13 PM

We just experienced a snow squall here, following a full day of bright sunshine.
It was disorienting even if you were just watching from indoors.
Luckily I was not driving on the roads when the squall hit.
THe snow coated all the branches on all the trees, so they are all outlined in white.
But at these mild temperatures, it won't last long.