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What's your Weather like today

Jacob Petersheim said:
Just after 8 AM here and now at 16 F. Might not get much warmer despite clear skies. Supposed to snow more here later on.

I'd left wet grass clippings in black bags on the South side of the house one year. Turned into quite a mess of bacterial foam, much like mayonnaise.

I'll have to experiment if things warm up here. I can always use a lawn topper that doesn't mat down into grass-choking thatch. It might be too late to try to get a heap up to any kind of composting core temperature now. If it came to it I'm not averse to peeing in bottles for a while to get nitrogen as long as I could expect results. 😜
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Grass clippings are different from leaves as the leaves are mostly carbon and grass has a significant nitrogenous content that will feed bacteria. The leaves are supposed to feed fungi. I admit I have not done the bag thing, as I just mulch leaves and grass and leave it in place through the winter.
 
Don Alaska said:
I just mulch leaves and grass and leave it in place through the winter.
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That was my routine until the trees (mostly around me and out of my control) got so large a dumped so much that a mulching mower ended up leaving a choking layer that threatened the grass.

The foamy grass in bags I had was at a previous home, where trees were smaller and sparser and the grass got very lush.

Just went out at late dusk and more leaves have dropped. Half the back yard is white, and another a solid bright amber from newly-fallen Maple leaves. Weird "milk and cornflakes" effect, maybe come daylight I'll try a photo. Unusual here.
 
-4 F./-20 C. this morning. The sun is bright and the trees and the ground are covered with snow, so it is shiny out there. Our first below zero F. of the season. Heat lamp is on in the chicken house and I will plug in the ol' truck in a bit in case I need it.
 
We are still chilly here with highs around 20 F./-7 C. but it is predicted to get colder over the weekend. The entire interior will be staying below 0f./-18 C. by the end of the weekend even for the daily highs. The ice mass is increasing dramatically and much of the north and west coast of Alaska will be iced in by early next week with the ice bridge to Russia complete by Sunday. As I said before, parts of Siberia are experiencing record cold for the time of year, with lows below -40 F/-40 C. and we might be getting a taste of that if the jet stream moves north just a little. Greenland reportedly is gaining ice at a high rate although I don't know if it is a record. Several gigatons of ice are reportedly forming every day there now as cold and snow are coming together over the northern part of the island.
 
Thought maybe things had warmed up and was about to go out and start grinding away at more leaves before the snowy rain comes this evening. Nope. Sunny now but still only 25F so I'll wait a little. Hopefully not as breezy today.
 
Don Alaska said:
We are still chilly here with highs around 20 F./-7 C. but it is predicted to get colder over the weekend. The entire interior will be staying below 0f./-18 C. by the end of the weekend even for the daily highs. The ice mass is increasing dramatically and much of the north and west coast of Alaska will be iced in by early next week with the ice bridge to Russia complete by Sunday. As I said before, parts of Siberia are experiencing record cold for the time of year, with lows below -40 F/-40 C. and we might be getting a taste of that if the jet stream moves north just a little. Greenland reportedly is gaining ice at a high rate although I don't know if it is a record. Several gigatons of ice are reportedly forming every day there now as cold and snow are coming together over the northern part of the island.
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Don, I had look up Ice Bridge to Russia, lol, I didn't realize how close the two nations were either.

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Cheshire UK Weather Today: Sunny Intervals and Cold Temperatures
For the rest of Monday, November 17, 2025, Cheshire will see sunny intervals and cold temperatures.
There is a low chance of rain throughout the day, rising slightly to a 40% chance of light rain overnight.

Afternoon and Evening
  • Temperature: Temperatures will stay cold, reaching a high of around 7°C in the afternoon. The "feels like" temperature is colder, at about 3°C.
  • Wind: Expect a light northwesterly wind with a max speed of 7 mph.
  • Conditions: Sunny intervals will persist through the afternoon, becoming mostly clear by the evening.
  • Sunrise/Sunset: The sun rose at 7:39 am and will set at 4:11 pm.
Overnight
  • Conditions: The skies will be clear overnight, though there's a 40% chance of some light rain developing towards dawn.
  • Temperature: The temperature will drop to a low of 2°C.
 
Warmed up last ight and snowed about an inch. Much more snow just a few miles north though. It is sitting at 23 F./-5 C. at the moment. More snow is predicted for tonight but only another inch or so.
 
Looks like we are having nice weather for most of the week, but getting colder as we get to Thanksgiving on Thursday, and down below freezing at night then, but warming back up.
I am still reading the rumors about a cold spell happening in the first two weeks of December, but that prediction remains to be seen.

Last year, we put up curtains and closed off the kitchen and the hallways, shut all the bedroom doors, and just tried to heat the living room in the daytime, and will probably do that agin this year.
We have a little heater in the bedroom for at night, plus the electric blanket on the bed; so we usually sleep okay, it is just the getting out of bed that is freezing cold.

Now, we have Rusty moved into the living room, so we do not need to worry about him being cold at night like we did when he slept by the back door in the kitchen.
Still, all things considered, I hope for a mild winter.
 
Back below zero F. this morning. We have had a spell in the upper 20s and low 30s, but it is colder this morning. Having been in all kinds of cold, there is definitely a difference in the types of cold and the intensity. Miserable cold, such as is found is parts of the U.S. East and South and probably in the UK can make you feel as indicated miserable. The coldest I have ever been was years ago in Kotzebue, Alaska, which is on the northwest coast of this state. It was ~-40 F./C. with a 40 mph wind. The wind chill was -84 F./-65 C., and I thought I was dressed well. As I left a building and walked across the parking lot, I was flagged down by a man in a pickup truck who told me he could see my cheeks freezing as I walked across the tarmac. I immediately reversed course and returned to get a face covering. I was warmly-dressed but had now balaclava. I cannot recall if I had a hood with a good ruff but probably not, as the ruff would have protected my face. Cold temperatures when the humidity is high and with wind can truly make your life miserable.

I have found that -30 F./-35 C. (real temp, not wind chill) is when it gets hard to breathe and the mouth and face should be covered. As I get older, I find my extremities get colder faster. I have heated gloves now and my wife has heated socks, although we don't spend time outside for expended periods as we once did. Exposure in miserable cold is terrible if you are not adequately clothed which is fairly common in areas not accustomed to cold temperatures, but I think you will find people who live in these climes like Scotland and the Hebrides possess clothing and temperaments that accommodate the weather. Still and dry cold gets much lower on the thermometer, but is not as miserable but can be more dangerous such as is experienced in Siberia, Northern Canada and Northern Alaska and Antarctica, although those places do experience wind storms also.

By the way, the sun set on northern Alaska a couple days ago and won't breach the horizon again until January 19th. essentially total darkness until then and only a few minutes of daylight for a while after that.
 
Days are getting short here, but nothing like up there.

Warm spell actually, we're almost nudging 50F today with consistent though cloud-filtered low Sun. Grabbing a little solar power though, but that'll quickly end now as the Sun falls lower and lower over the next hour. Yesterday I filled a large and a small "power bucket" to about 50%, and today I have them to nearly 85%

Now that I can't get enough solar to run full cycles I need to work a little more at battery management to preserve their life. Avoiding discharge under 20% though I don't have them set to alarm until 15%. Avoiding charging to over the 80 to 90% range. Never fast-charging them from AC now. I won't go into it further here, but battery management is the key to extended life.
 
Solar doesn't work well here at all in the winter, as our days are just too short and the intensity is too low. People off the grid here use solar and wind together, but I am in a valley with little or no wind. On a hill top or mountainside, wind picks up where solar leaves off and keeps the batteries charged. Diesel is the backup where wind is not available.
 
Not miserably cold here yet, but sunny days are probably gone for a while at least. At least I got my "leaf harvesting" done and took care of most pre-winter chores outside.

Started out around 45F, drizzley and slowly dropping temperatures. More tomorrow until it turns to snow and by all guesses the Lake Effect Machine may turn on and bury us. We'll see. I'm inland quite a way, so it takes a lot for it to blow over this far. All bets are off right now though as far as that. The heavy snow band might stop short of here by 80 miles or overtake and sweep over us just as many.

I remember many a Thanksgiving when the boys were young and we had it made until we left family to our West to head home... only to be overtaken, drive home in white-out conditions, and "beach" the car trying to get home and up the driveway. Late November is always a bit of a crapshoot here.
 
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