Weather in your area?

[Pearl]

It's coming all the way down the pike!! 20's for the high here Friday! Not too bad here until then (yes it is, for me anyway), 50's!

 

[Cabin Fever]

The glacier on my pole barn is calving.....

 

[Magus]

Cold but pretty.

 

[Bacpacker]

Cool and sunny. 30s/40s today. Expecting teens by next Friday, possibly a little snow. Just in time for our road trip

 

[Wingnut]

19* F in Alamo right now, forecast high of 48* F, otherwise clear & sunny. Looks like this cold snap is gonna last through next week... hope my young fruit trees survive, I've put a lot of effort into maintaining them & protecting them.

 

[Bacpacker]

19* F in Alamo right now, forecast high of 48* F, otherwise clear & sunny. Looks like this cold snap is gonna last through next week... hope my young fruit trees survive, I've put a lot of effort into maintaining them & protecting them.

Your fruit trees should be dormant by now. If you've had leaf drop and cool to cold temps, they are ready for winter.

 

[Pearl]

Cool and sunny. 30s/40s today. Expecting teens by next Friday, possibly a little snow. Just in time for our road trip

Soooo, you are the reason the artic air is coming. Hope you have a fun and SAFE trip!!

 

[Wingnut]

Your fruit trees should be dormant by now. If you've had leaf drop and cool to cold temps, they are ready for winter.

Don't I still need to cover them during hard freezes? They're only saplings, 5' or 6' high...

I don't wanna lose 'em, as they've established themselves and are otherwise doing pretty well...

They have lost all their leaves, but look to be in fairly good condition...

I paid good money for 'em, so I want them to last as long as I do... and longer still for my niece and/or nephew.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

It will depend upon which climate zones they are rated for. Look up your variety and their rootstock if you know it. Protecting them from wind never hurts, but don't do anything that will cause them to warm up. If nothing else, go gung-ho protecting the bottom and 6-10" just above the graft. That way if the top is killed, the tree can still come back with the variety you planted for.

I buy trees suited to at least one zone lower than my situation dictates. Even then, it's a crap shoot every year.

For me, it's the freeze thaw cycles that are the problem and create a lot of work and worry.

 

[Bacpacker]

Don't I still need to cover them during hard freezes? They're only saplings, 5' or 6' high...

I don't wanna lose 'em, as they've established themselves and are otherwise doing pretty well...

They have lost all their leaves, but look to be in fairly good condition...

I paid good money for 'em, so I want them to last as long as I do... and longer still for my niece and/or nephew.

Clem makes a great point. Always go for your zone, or 1 further north.
Your climate is different from ours for sure and I have no idea what zone you are. I'm zone 7. I planted mine in the fall and left them alone. All leafed out next spring. At most I would wrap the trunks in burlap maybe. Definitely not plastic. If the trunks warm too much the sap will start flowing and that is hard on them if too early in the year. Around here I used to see people white wash the bottom 2 or 3 feet of the trunk to reflect sunlight to keep trunks cool longer.
Best bet for you is to call your county extension agent and ask questions. They are generally very helpful

 

[Heartbroken]

We've got one of those nice, gentle snowfalls happening. It's quiet, traffic has died down, and the snow mercifully blunts the view of the ugly mcmansion that my neighbors built down the road. The birds are clustered around the feeders, flitting back and forth from the evergreens in my west fence row. I think it would be sad to live where the snow does not come.

 

[Pearl]

ICE STORM!! YEP, be ready Patch!! Thursday! Light icy mess!! Horribly cold!

 

[Patchouli]

@Pearl hope the really cold doesn't come this way, just a few degrees above freezy valley. I've been so cold, what a sissy i am.

 

[Pearl]

@Pearl hope the really cold doesn't come this way, just a few degrees above freezy valley. I've been so cold, what a sissy i am.

They are talking single digits Thursday night!! 50mph wind gusts! YUCK!

 

[Mountain trapper]

We've been getting some snow most every day, usually 1 to 6 inches since since our last big storm. We were snowed in for about a week or so. I got the road in pretty good shape right now, only got stuck once when we drove out the other day. We're supposed to start getting some heavy snow beginning tomorrow through next Friday. Most of our storms drop between 1 to 3 feet of snow along with a lot of drifting. We've got about 3 feet on the ground right now. I've got 3 miles of road to keep cleared between the house and the county road, and it drops 800 feet in elevation.

 

[The Lazy L]

20 degrees F with snow cover.

 

[montanabill]

Up here 200 miles north of yellowstone park on the east front of the rockies It is forecast for -32F this wendsday then warming to +40 by the weekend. Around 0 with as slight Wind right now. I am going to put a heat lamp on my chickens in their little hen house tonight and monitor it with my remote greenhouse thermometer.
Time to throw some cups of hot water in the air to make clouds and sculpt my frozen hair in the hot tub.

 

[Bacpacker]

just below freezing overnight. Low 40s for the high. VERY sunny

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

It's 5:30 am and temperature is -27 F. Tonight it drops to -32 F and possibly -36 F tomorrow night..

Will hang another heat lamp in the coop. It's insulated and with 30 chickens, stays much warmer than outside.

 

[Supervisor42]

44° at noon, 20mph wind, and raining, the trifecta of miserable .
My little buddy is burning me some kilowatts making my room a toasty 79°.

 

[Pearl]

44° at noon, 20mph wind, and raining, the trifecta of miserable .
My little buddy is burning me some kilowatts making my room a toasty 79°.

Same here today but no rain, just cloudy! Gonna get a lot worse!!

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

44° at noon, 20mph wind, and raining, the trifecta of miserable .
My little buddy is burning me some kilowatts making my room a toasty 79°.

When the lows are in the -20 to - 40 F you don't want to keep your place that warm. It's like walking into 100 °+. The temperature differential from outdoor to indoor is too extreme and neither one feels good.

We keep the house at 60° a T shirt and long sleeved shirt makes it comfortable and we just need to put on a coat and we are good to go without a lot of hassle. We did breakout the winter boots, mitts and toqes. The dogs still want their walks even though they were out barking at coyotes half the night. (doggy door)

 

[Wingnut]

It's actually pretty nice here today, the sky cleared after the rain and temps aren't too bad, NOAA Weather says 52* F right now, which seems to also be the high for the day. Thursday is looking better for a bike ride, sunny with a forecast high of 60* F, so they must have revised the forecast and upped the high temp from 57* F (last time I checked). That's good news: while y'all are dealing with heller snow & ice, I'll be riding the monster thumper up that huge canyon, lol... I wanna pull a recon of that canyon, it might offer a good venue for riding right near my home! We shall see on Thursday! If I do ride, I'll be sure to take pics so y'all can see this magnificent canyon, it is BIG!

 

[Tirediron]

It is a chilly fall day here, about 15 f below, and should get a bunch cooler over night,

 

[Supervisor42]

When the lows are in the -20 to - 40 F you don't want to keep your place that warm. It's like walking into 100 °+. The temperature differential from outdoor to indoor is too extreme and neither one feels good.

I understand. Acclimate.
We do that every summer. Imagine walking out and it is 95° at 9am and only going up from there until sunset.
We dance in it like it is nothingand watch the 'snowflakes' melt.
I also understand why some animals hibernate.
If I could, I would see you again in April .
On topic: The 'real rain' finally showed up....
1.15" so far, and it ain't done yet!

 

[Bacpacker]

21/46 and cloudy. Things gonna get dicey Thursday night/Friday morning. Overnight Thursday temps are expected to drop over 40 degrees in a 6 hour window, combined with rain, sleet, snow. Single digits Saturday and Sunday. Wont be above freezing till Monday

 

[Mountain trapper]

When the lows are in the -20 to - 40 F you don't want to keep your place that warm. It's like walking into 100 °+. The temperature differential from outdoor to indoor is too extreme and neither one feels good.

We keep the house at 60° a T shirt and long sleeved shirt makes it comfortable and we just need to put on a coat and we are good to go without a lot of hassle. We did breakout the winter boots, mitts and toqes. The dogs still want their walks even though they were out barking at coyotes half the night. (doggy door)

When I worked in Antarctica they had a 300 club at the south pole. That's when the outside temp was -100f and the sauna was +200 degs. Then the fools would run naked around the world. Yes, there is actually a pole at the south pole.

 

[Tirediron]

we hit the -40 c 40 below line early this morning, little to no wind

 

[Wingnut]

Currently 32* F, this would feel like Tahiti to some of y'all, lol... forecast high is 54* F, it's not a bad day, clear & sunny, but Thursday will be even better for riding, and at least six degrees warmer.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

we hit the -40 c 40 below line early this morning, little to no wind

Same here.