What is going on here?

gwstang · Mar 16, 2016

I live in central Alabama and it was 89F this afternoon. This is just crazy stuff. Lots of people planting gardens and I just know we will have another big cold snap as it usually happens in April. Anyone else having weather the opposite of what it should be? Sort of worries me a little as we move into April, we usually have a tornado season when the cold/hot start colliding. Another thing, it has been no where cold enough to kill off the ticks. Every time the pups go outside, they come back in with ticks. The red head uses the Vet Meds to kill them, but they are still trying to hang on. What is strange to me is that the dogs don't walk where the grass is more than a couple of inches high. I don't even see how the ticks are getting on them?

gene bender · Mar 16, 2016

Havent you ever had an early spring or just don't remnember. In 58 I left for Army 9 April plowing was done and oats sowed came home two yrs later in middle of March and snowbanks every where pregnant sows could walk over drifts if they wanted to so weather does change and always has.

sms · Mar 16, 2016

Very early spring here in NY but getting cold again this weekend with temps dropping into the teens at
night. Daffodils budding now, picture taken 3/15/15 for comparison.

sms · Mar 16, 2016

Sorry for double picture of snow something happened the first time I tried to post and screen went blank.

Bob Bancroft · Mar 16, 2016

Weather extremes just continue to rage on. Last winter- no major storms- but it was consistently brutal. And lots of south wind when it was cold, as opposed to the normal north/northwest wind when extra cold. Snow kept coming, and I kept plowing it. Spent a record amount of time and fuel pushing snow.

This winter has been a non event. But in Feb. we recorded a record cold temp! This was right after the heat quit in the old house we bought next door. I drained pipes. But I didn't drain the shallow well pump in the basement, thinking with the mild weather, it would be OK. Then came 29 below. Guess what?

Bruce from Can. · Mar 16, 2016

Mild spring , yes but , not much different then the spring of 83. No one planting
anything here, and not any time real soon.

Dick2 · Mar 16, 2016

The politicians will take credit after the elections.

WAYNE-N-TX · Mar 16, 2016

Just waiting on it to dry up a bit, I'll cut hay this or next week. It's rye grass, but it will be to tall soon. I'd Like to say, it's already sold to a neighbor that needs a few more bales.

gwstang · Mar 16, 2016

That busted a very old record when it hit 89.

I'll be 60 next month btw. Seasons come and season go.

gwstang · Mar 16, 2016

Yeow! That snow is something else. Brrrrr. :shock:

gwstang · Mar 16, 2016

Did the Texas folks get enough rain to finally break the drought from last year? I do remember it raining quite a bit for awhile there.

gwstang · Mar 16, 2016

I just went outside and it is still 69F this morning at 5 AM.

gwstang · Mar 16, 2016

(quoted from post at 03:18:09 03/16/16) Mild spring , yes but , not much different then the spring of 83. No one planting
anything here, and not any time real soon.

I bet a mild winter up there would just about kill us way down here...lol

gwstang · Mar 16, 2016

(quoted from post at 03:32:49 03/16/16) The politicians will take credit after the elections.

And find some way to tax us for it...lol :x

Pair-a-dice farm · Mar 16, 2016

It was like this in 2012, also an election year. It's all the hot air from the politicians :lol: . Seriously, people are always saying that the weather is getting worse every year for some reason or another. I've worked outside all my life and there have been several years when we have early springs and warmer winters. I enjoy it while we have it. When it changes for the worst be prepared to get somewhere safe.
I like the warmer weather because the last 3 winters were long and cold. We have had 3 good summers so I'm preparing for a drier summer. Weather goes in cycles and this is just another cycle.

GeneMO · Mar 16, 2016

Humans have been around just for just a blip on the ole earths timeline. And they have just recently started keeping weather records.

The climate change idiots are just chicken littles, thinking another tax would help things.

Climate has been changing since creation and will continue to do so.

Gene

w1ebb · Mar 16, 2016

Here in north Louisiana the heavy pine pollen is
already blowing around covering everything in
yellowish green mess.
We don't need anymore rain but maybe we will
get some to wash this crud away!

Scott

fixerupper · Mar 16, 2016

If I would have had my ducks in a row I could have seeded oats a few days ago. Here in Northwest Iowa we seldom have the chance to seed oats during the last of March. The lilac north of the house is budding and the rhubarb is peeking up. Red winged blackbirds are here too.

cool hand · Mar 16, 2016

Interesting! I went to the Army in 1958 also--3 June.

1206SWMO · Mar 16, 2016

I've kept track of the weather since 1963 and this is one of the warmest winters that I have ever seen.....Also
we've only had 2" of snow for the least snow that I have ever seen......There is no cold weather or snow in sight
for the next 15 days.....However,on May 3,2013 we had 4" of snow so anything is possible..

If I were still farming I would have been tempted to have planted 1 bag of corn on Feb 29th just to see if it
would have made it without getting froze....Its looking now like it would have..

Brown Swiss · Mar 16, 2016

I don't think the cold will kill a Tick, would have to look it up!

T in NE · Mar 16, 2016

Climate is being defined as the average of the
previous 30 years of weather. I might be wrong but
that seems like a pretty narrow window.

Climatologists have yet to make a climate model with
a whole lot of accuracy (they all say we should be
boiling water on bare dirt at the equator, or close
to it).

Solar scientists have a model that predicts solar
activity with 97% accuracy. They say the solar
cycles are at the same point as just before the last
2 mini ice ages. But solar activity doesn't drive
climate, only the weather......

D beatty · Mar 16, 2016

Cold doesn't kill them but they are not active in cold weather. I think it has get in around 40 degrees before they get real active (any way that's what vet says).

old · Mar 16, 2016

Yesterday here in Missouri there was a number of records broken due to how warm it was. Crazt warm weather this year and rains like never seen before.
By the way can you tell me about where Gadsten AL is since I was born there but have no ideamuch about ti other then the A/C G was made there

1948CaseVAI · Mar 16, 2016

I recall mowing actively growing fescue in January in central Kansas 20 years ago. Nothing but the usual random patterns as far as I can see. I am enjoy the heck out of it and *wish* it would become the norm.

howdy1960 · Mar 16, 2016

I went through over a 100 gallons of gas winter of 14/15 moving snow and this season less than 10.
I just hope this summer isn't too dry.

RN · Mar 16, 2016

What is going on? (TEASING ALERT!) Obvious, the politicians are putting out a LOT of hot air now and will do so until November. There will be a lot of EAR pollution about the start of fall harvest as well. Might have a real hard freeze toward end of January yet. Make sure you have some muck boots handy, might need some extra ammunition for varmints, might have some felons running loose yet. Have some rotten veggies ready to through. RN.

gwstang · Mar 16, 2016

(quoted from post at 07:14:00 03/16/16) Yesterday here in Missouri there was a number of records broken due to how warm it was. Crazt warm weather this year and rains like never seen before.
By the way can you tell me about where Gadsten AL is since I was born there but have no ideamuch about ti other then the A/C G was made there

Gadsden is above Birmingham and to the right toward east Alabama.

DWF · Mar 16, 2016

Here in NE Minnesota on Saturday it was near 60, much above normal. Today we had 7" of snow and temp started in the 30's and now in the 20's, a bit below normal. Yesterday we had a little over an inch of rain. South and west of here they had between 3 and 4 inches of rain. Glad all of that wasn't snow.
DWF

Bret4207 · Mar 17, 2016

(quoted from post at 09:01:50 03/16/16) I've kept track of the weather since 1963 and this is one of the warmest winters that I have ever seen.....Also
we've only had 2" of snow for the least snow that I have ever seen......There is no cold weather or snow in sight
for the next 15 days.....However,on May 3,2013 we had 4" of snow so anything is possible..

If I were still farming I would have been tempted to have planted 1 bag of corn on Feb 29th just to see if it
would have made it without getting froze....Its looking now like it would have..

You started in '63, you should have started 10 years earlier.

http://realclimatescience.com/2016/03/noaa-radiosonde-data-shows-no-warming-for-58-years/

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