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I’m about a mile inside the north San Diego County line, and this “winter” has been so warm that two of my low‑chill peach trees actually flowered on February 4th. Several other varieties are trying to push blooms too. I’m already watering the trees and the ground cover on a large graded slope as if it were early summer.
It’ll be interesting to see whether any fruit actually matures this year. The critters—who usually get far more of the harvest than I do—might be in for a disappointment. The avocado trees are loving the temperatures, but they’re gulping water. A rat even pulled off an avocado the other day and set it on top of a chippings pile to ripen.
The rats, squirrels, and chipmunks have their apartment complexes set up, and they compete with the deer in the chaparral around the grove. Meanwhile, the foxes, coyotes, bobcats, and even the occasional cougar have their kitchens arranged to keep the rodent population in check. It can be quite a show.
I’ve been here 10 years, and things usually stay in balance, but a year like this might stress the norm.

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Here in KY, we are below average for temperatures so far this year and above average on snowfall. It seems that cold air keeps coming down from Canada and keeping the eastern US cold, while the west is stayer warmer. It was in 12 this morning here in KY, but in the 70's today in Montana, I noticed.

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It's been brutal in Ct. this winter. Single digits to below zero most mornings where I live. Last snow storm dropped 20" on us. Coldest weather of the season coming this weekend with wind chills at 25 below zero. 45 mph winds and 3 more inches of snow.

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I’m not doing maple syrup this year . One the temps are just to cold and two I can’t get to the trees we got 30 inches last storm on top of the 12 inches already on the ground . No melting so far


I have to go get 50 gallons of diesel for my daughter her fuel oil company called and said they suspended deliveries because they can’t get fuel
Oil . Their depot gets its oil from a barge shipping. Hudson is froze over and the ice breakers are only cutting a channel in the center . So no deliveries of oil she called several other companies most aren’t taking any new customers and the one that said they would can’t get there until end of the month. I’m going to use the 54 gallon tank I bought for the 68 . I haven’t mounted it as of yet so I’ll put it in the Dodge

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Native Californian here. I did a 2 year project in St. Louis/New York giving me some basic idea of cold weather. Weather was a constant wonder to me at the time but towards the end I was already frusterated with the cold and summer humidity. I know all the retirees I've said goodbye to, moving to places like Kentucky, must be questioning things a bit.

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I went through 250 gallons of oil in 3 weeks. Thermostat upstairs on 63 and downstairs on 66. Fancy thermostat downstairs shows that it was calling for heat 14.5 hours of the day. With a total of 3 zones including the hot water it seems that the boiler just runs constantly.

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Holly **** guys. I've not heard of any of this on the news. How is this not on Natinal TV. Too busy covering protests i guess. Stay safe!

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She has a pellet stove so she’s not using much fuel oil well relatively.

We’ve been below zero multiple times this month and November and December were very cold too. This is the first time in years I’m going to need to bring in more wood . I usually burn 5-6 cords I’ve gone through 7 already . But my electric heat doesn’t come on . Tonight it’s suppose to be around -10 .

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Only one that makes any mention of our cold is the Weather Channel . We’re under and extreme cold weather alert till Monday

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Here in central MN the temp yesterday was 38 degrees. First time we were above 32 degrees in 20+ days.
Per the weather man the days are getting longer by 3 minutes each day. Yippee!

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Our weather in southern Idaho has been warmer this year than the last 14 years since moving here I believe we usually have some snow by now and this coming week we may get some.. my irrigation water for my lawn comes from a big pond off the Boise River named Lucky Peak and if it doesn't fill up then myself with all the newcomers to the state in the 10's of thousands needing water for their yard could be a big problem..maybe have to fill the lawn with cement and paint it Green like I seen many years ago in Calfornia

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For the most part the green concrete did not stay, and replaced with astro turf. If done in relationship with the rest of the landscape it can be an acceptable look. Or I'm just getting use to it. I looked into sinking a well 10 years ago. It was 30k and no garentee, if needed to go deeper for additional cost. I'd of been money ahead had I done it. Hind sight is 20 20.

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So just a weather update from MN.
Along the north shore (Duluth and north) 2 feet of new snow.
Here in west central kind of warm 37 degrees this morning.
Now about 2 inches of new snow. Yeah!

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I saw that. We are supposed to get a couple of inches of snow tonight. Went from 60º Tuesday to snow tonight and below 0º for Saturday night. Crazy weather for sure....

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So north of Duluth near the CAN border 38.5 inches of snow over the last two days. Look up Hovland MN.
Here we only got maybe 2 inches.

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12-18 inches of snow here Sunday into Monday . Time to put the plow back on the truck what really sucks it’s going to be in the 30s so it’s going to be a heavy wet snow

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Been in the 30's this last week at night here in ca for us. Weather has not changed much as I see in my 61+ years on this earth. Sometimes slightly warmer or a bit cooler. Nature at work, not really predictable. Been in socal for over 40 years. Worked in hvac almost 40 years. So I noticed the heat or cold as it influenced business.

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Been pretty cold these past few days here in SoCal. Down in the 40's at night with some wind after that storm making it feel even colder, brrrrrr!

Some relief is on the way though.

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So the storm must have moved further out to sea . We got about 5 inches but south of us are getting hammered

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Ya it slammed us pretty hard once again. We got about 14" wet and heavy. I'm still recovering, we moved a lot of it by hand. My quad was a bit over matched. Thank god my Wife likes to shovel. She's a big help.

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This is looking lke we are not getting anymore snow this year and what we did get was a powdering if that much ,, what this means to us here in the southern part of Idaho is that all of us that have irrigation water piped to our homes ,MIGHT get our lawn water and garden water turned off in the hottest month of July and into August ,, because snow up in the Sawtooth Mountains will not have enough to melt and fill our Lucky Peak Reservoir for the storage we get our water from..for our lawns and gardens AND some farmers Crops

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Thanks to all the California migrants from the past 20 years. Nwo you have a water problem, just like us. :)

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Spoke to a friend of mine yesterday in Mesa AZ. He said its going to hit 90 degrees.
But its a dry heat. LOL.

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90 here today in SoCal…about a week ago it was in the 40’s and raining :lol:

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Earthquake weather

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Send some of that weather to CO, right now we stand at just 47% of our normal snowpack. This is the driest year I have ever seen and I have lived here my whole life. I just looked it up and news sources say it is the driest year ever. Crosses my fingers for a spring blizzard.

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Northern Nevada. I've lived here since 1961 and don't recall weeds growing throughout the winter like this year. Extremely warm really. Two weeks ago winter finally hit, and hit big, blizzard for days. Perhaps not even a week later a POWERFUL high pressure system chased the cold away, and it's been very calm and warm since.

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What the...?
First time getting snow this year around here, had to show off the view from my picture window. :)

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This was just yesterday I will not be headed to my un-heated garage to work on the Bug today.

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Here in west central MN they are predicting 4-6 inches of new snow tonight. Yeah.

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92 here today…supposed to be 102 next Friday :crazy:

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Had the furnace replaced a few months ago, and the guys commented that the condensate pans are corroded. Nothing otherwise wrong with the system. I was going to wait for a day where I needed neither heat nor AC to open the box and take a look. Should have done it last week. Well, we're not using the AC yet, so maybe it'll get opened tomorrow. I'd swear I saw plastic drip pans. If not, I can bend and solder some galvanized pans to put in there. That's a lot less than $11k. Wife just wants a new system installed. Yeah, go pick some money off that money tree out back.

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Snowed here nearly all day, but it was pretty wet so not a lot of accumulation

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We received 2 dustings this winter in the high desert, maby 1/8" both times and that was in early March. It is La Ninas fault. Never seen anything like it. Hay is going to be expensive next winter. We will get 1 or 2 cuttings this year before the water is turned off. Some of the runs are open on the mountian with 160" total for the winter and a 42" base. I have to say I have enjoyed the warmer winter, but the best ones are rain down low and heavy snow in the Cascades.

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We had a warm winter here in Socal last year, and the summer wasn't so bad. Hoping for that again.

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I've lived in the same area all my life. Until a few years ago, like clockwork I'd turn the irrigation on during the last weekend of April. Earlier than that be sure it will freeze.

The last few years I've turned it on a week or so earlier, but this year it will be nearly a month and a half earlier.

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Been in the upper 90's the last few days, 95 yesterday here in Cent Cal, San Joaquin Valley. :devil:

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So I'm going to jinx all of the upper mid west snow wise by taking the snow plow off the Jeep tomorrow. LOL.

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I did a road trip out to Blyth Thursday and Friday. Palm Springs showed 108. Going up the grade just east was 111 and 102 to 105 the rest of the way. 3.5 hours. The Chevy Volt, a plug in hybrid, does not have good gauge monitoring for the gas engine side. My senses were a bit elevated but with AC blasting we power on with the cruise set at 80. A testament to modern engineering.